Another Stolen Election: By JAMES K. SAYRE
COMMENTARY (11-09-04) reprinted without permission
The exit polls that showed a sweeping victory for Sen. Kerry on Nov. 2 were right. Unfortunately, the 2004 presidential election was cleanly stolen by Bush & Co. How, you say? With the help of Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia and SAIC, four interlocked secretive right-wing electronic voting machine manufacturers. We have entrusted the most important election task, that of actually counting and tabulating the vote totals to extremist organizations with secret proprietary vote-counting computer software with no auditable paper trail for hand recounts. How very convenient, how very clean, how very slick and with all the evidence of election rigging is buried deep on their computer hard drives
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A central source of info has been made available in Wikipdeia for inquiring bloggers to reference. Thanks to whoever made this info available. It is long overdue
It has been alleged by statisticians, computer scientists, voters, voting rights organizations and others that the US Presidential Election of November 2004 was fraught with significant data irregularities and systematic flaws, both real and potential, which taken together indicate potential vote fraud. This article summarizes the raw evidence and information available from all sources upon which any such discussion must be based.
"[E]ven if the election were viewed as "successful," it would not alleviate the vast majority of my concerns with the machines. Voting machines that are vulnerable to wholesale rigging can still perform perfectly normally. It is possible that nobody exploited the vulnerabilities this time around, and it is also possible that there was fraud or serious error, but that they went undetected. Electronic voting will be judged on the noticeable failures, and the unnoticeable ones are the most serious." - Aviel D. Rubin [1] (http://www.avirubin.com/judge2.html)
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