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Title: Election Fraud Continues in the US . New Data Shows Widespread Vote Manipulations in 2004
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URL Source: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0813-29.htm
Published: Aug 15, 2005
Author: Peter Phillips
Post Date: 2005-08-15 09:03:48 by Grumble Jones
Keywords: Manipulations, Widespread, Continues
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Comments: 11
Election Fraud Continues in the US New Data Shows Widespread Vote Manipulations in 2004 By Peter Phillips In the fall of 2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida ballots never counted in the 2000 election, an analysis by the National Opinion Research Center confirmed that Al Gore actually won Florida and should have been President. However, coverage of this report was only a small blip in the corporate media as a much bigger story dominated the news after September 11, 2001. New research compiled by Dr. Dennis Loo with the University of Cal Poly Pomona now shows that extensive manipulation of non-paper-trail voting machines occurred in several states during the 2004 election. The facts are as follows: In 2004 Bush far exceeded the 85% of registered Florida Republican votes that he got in 2000, receiving more than 100% of the registered Republican votes in 47 out of 67 Florida counties, 200% of registered Republicans in 15 counties, and over 300% of registered Republicans in 4 counties. Bush managed these remarkable outcomes despite the fact that his share of the crossover votes by registered Democrats in Florida did not increase over 2000, and he lost ground among registered Independents, dropping 15 points. We also know that Bush "won" Ohio by 51-48%, but statewide results were not matched by the court-supervised hand count of the 147,400 absentee and provisional ballots in which Kerry received 54.46% of the vote. In Cuyahoga County, Ohio the number of recorded votes was more than 93,000 greater than the number of registered voters. More importantly national exit polls showed Kerry winning in 2004. However, It was only in precincts where there were no paper trails on the voting machines that the exit polls ended up being different from the final count. According to Dr. Steve Freeman, a statistician at the University of Pennsylvania, the odds are 250 million to one that the exit polls were wrong by chance. In fact, where the exit polls disagreed with the computerized outcomes the results always favored Bush - another statistical impossibility. . Dennis Loo writes, "A team at the University of California at Berkeley, headed by sociology professor Michael Hout, found a highly suspicious pattern in which Bush received 260,000 more votes in those Florida precincts that used electronic voting machines than past voting patterns would indicate compared to those precincts that used optical scan read votes where past voting patterns held." There is now strong statistical evidence of widespread voting machine manipulation occurring in US elections since 2000. Coverage of the fraud has been reported in independent media and various websites. The information is not secret. But it certainly seems to be a taboo subject for the US corporate media. Black Box Voting reported on March 9, 2005 that voting machines used by over 30 million voters were easily hacked by relatively unsophisticated programs and audits of the computers would not show the changes. It is very possible that a small team of hackers could have manipulated the 2004 and earlier elections in various locations throughout the United States. Irregularities in the vote counts certainly indicate that something beyond chance occurrences has been happening in recent elections. That a special interest group might try to cheat on an election in the United States is nothing new. Historians tell us how local political machines from both major parties have in the past used methods of double counting, ballot box stuffing, poll taxes and registration manipulation to affect elections. In the computer age, however, election fraud can occur externally without local precinct administrators having any awareness of the manipulations - and the fraud can be extensive enough to change the outcome of an entire national election. There is little doubt key Democrats know that votes in 2004 and earlier elections were stolen. The fact that few in Congress are complaining about fraud is an indication of the totality to which both parties accept the status quo of a money based elections system. Neither party wants to further undermine public confidence in the American "democratic" process (over 80 millions eligible voters refused to vote in 2004). Instead we will likely see the quiet passing of legislation that will correct the most blatant problems. Future elections in the US will continue as an equal opportunity for both parties to maintain a national democratic charade in which money counts more than truth. Peter Phillips is a Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and Director of Project Censored. Dennis Loo's report "No Paper Trail Left Behind: the Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election," can be viewed at http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/voter_fraud.html
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#1. To: Grumble Jones (#0)
As it always had with governments everywhere.
Correcto-mundo! Does anyone really believe that the best choices to run our country were Bush- Gore, or Bush-Kerry? Or Clinton-Bush? We've been screwed hard and long.
"You know, when you're on parole and you been on death row, it's hard to find a date." Kenneth Allen McDuff
Fraud occurs on both sides of the fence. The only solution is paper ballots, but that will NEVER happen. (Don't blame me; I voted for Peroutka.)
That's what happened in '96 when Buchanan ran against Dole in the primaries. Buchanan won the states that had paper ballots. When the elections hit the states with electronic voting he lost. Same in Florida with Perot in '92. We're screwed. We'll never get an alternative candidate because the two major parties have total control and the fraud on both sides will never end.
New research compiled by Dr. Dennis Loo with the University of Cal Poly Pomona now shows that extensive manipulation of non-paper-trail voting machines occurred in several states during the 2004 election. Problem is, once elected, the actual results carry no weight. Worse, it means more fraud for the next time around, due to the raging previous success.
Yep....from what I've read and heard, Janet Reno was the master of rigging local elections in Florida too. It's always gone on but it just keeps getting worse.
Look for the Left to get their own version of the Right's Diebold.
That's what happened in '96 when Buchanan ran against Dole in the primaries. I was unaware of that. I voted for Buchanan in the '96 Maine primary, and I still feel good about casting that vote. Dole? Clinton? No, thanks.
Heh-heh..yep...they certainly won't 'share' such a successful product. Of course it really doesn't matter anymore. There's not much of a difference between the two.
Yep! I forget which MSM talk show he was on and someone brought that up. He said something to the effect that he knew it was going on but he dropped the subject like a hot potato.
True enough. It will take a military coup or another revolution to purge this mess.
Future elections in the US will continue as an equal opportunity for both parties to maintain a national democratic charade in which money counts more than truth.
#2. To: lodwick (#1)
money counts more than truth. As it always had with governments everywhere.
#3. To: Grumble Jones (#0)
#4. To: who knows what evil (#3)
The only solution is paper ballots,
#5. To: Grumble Jones (#0)
In the fall of 2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida ballots never counted in the 2000 election, an analysis by the National Opinion Research Center confirmed that Al Gore actually won Florida and should have been President. However, coverage of this report was only a small blip in the corporate media as a much bigger story dominated the news after September 11, 2001.
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
#6. To: robin (#5)
#7. To: Grumble Jones (#6)
from what I've read and heard, Janet Reno was the master of rigging local elections in Florida too. It's always gone on but it just keeps getting worse.
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
#8. To: Grumble Jones (#4)
#9. To: robin (#7)
#10. To: who knows what evil (#8)
I was unaware of that.
#11. To: Grumble Jones (#9)
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
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