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In reply to the discussion: Would Donald Trump really be that easy to beat? [View all]Cliff Arnebeck
(305 posts)2004 was done professionally -- both the crime and its cover-up and both the Electoral College vote and the popular vote. Its architect was Karl Rove, this time working covertly out of the White House.
Exit polls -- the international gold standard for detecting election fraud -- indicated shifting of votes from Kerry to Bush in both swing states necessary to "win" their electoral college votes and the blue state of California where it dramatically affected the reported national popular vote count but not California's electoral college vote. The U.S. Exit poll discrepancy as greater than in the 2004 Ukrainian election which the U.S. Government was calling fraudulent. See Steve Freeman's book and Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s Rolling Stone and Common Dreams article on the 2004 election. Kennedy was able to get Lou Harris to review the election. Harris described it as obviously stolen and the dirtiest election ever.
The electronic programming was coordinated out of SmarTech in Chattanooga, TN.
There is a long thread on this, starting with Rove's fixing the FBI criminal investigation of this by transferring his protege Stanley Borgia to take over as SAC for Cincinnati, Ohio at: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022560634
The "winning" margin in Ohio was achieved by switching the votes in the Ohio Republican counties surrounding Cincinnati: Butler, Clermont, and Warren. This is documented in Robert Kennedy's June 2006 article, Bob Fitrakis' book on What Happened in Ohio and Richard Hayes Phillips' book Witness to a Crime. Phillips' book includes a CD of digital photographs of actual Ohio ballots.