How George W. Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election

[OneBlueSky]

not necessarily predictive, but a pretty good summary of BBV and other problems inherent in the US voting system as currently constituted . . . links to Bev Harris and blackboxvoting.com as a footnote . . .

How George W. Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election

Purging voter lists is just the beginning: the U.S. has embraced a form of electronic voting that is unreliable, unverifiable and funded by the radical Christian right.

http://www.infernalpress.com/Columns/election.html

ES&S, Diebold and Sequoia may not be household names like Enron or Arthur Andersen, but these three companies will decide America's next president. In the 2004 presidential election, the full effect of electronic voting will be felt for the first time and these are the companies that will report the majority of the results.

Despite assurances from the corporations that own these machines, the reliability of electronic voting is under intense criticism. One of the most comprehensive examinations of electronic voting fraud came from brothers James and Kenneth Collier. In their 1992 book Votescam: The Stealing of America, the brothers detailed the long history of voting fraud over the past twenty-five years with a special focus on voting machines. American politicians and large media outlets have ignored their book, and their charges remain unanswered.

Now, their concerns are being echoed by a new group of writers, journalists and activists who have raised alarming and explosive details about electronic voting in America. While academics such as Professors Rebecca Mercuri and David Dill and organizations like the Association for Computing Machinery have carefully documented how voting systems are vulnerable to fraudulent manipulation, journalists Lynn Landes, Jerry Bowles and Bev Harris are alerting Americans to an electronic coup d'etat in the making. If their charges are true, and there is little evidence to contradict their claims, George W. Bush has already won the 2004 election.

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"The Christian worldview is the answer. We need Christian statesmen who press for the Crown Rights of Jesus Christ in all areas of life. This isn't political salvation or an overnight fix. It will take decades of mobilization and confrontation to undo a century of godless socialism. It must be a grassroots movement that starts in individual families and churches and then moves outward to take dominion. It must encompass every area of life and not just the political arena. Finally, it must start soon, for there isn't much time left. The Florida elections have taught us that the Democrats with their liberal/socialistic worldview will stop at nothing to seize control of the government."
-- Dr. Val Finnell, published by the Chalcedon Institute

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http://www.infernalpress.com/Columns/election.html

[cheshire]

1. Even here in CA I'm voting absentee.

[CornField]

2. Still haven't decided about the absentee voting

Some days I think I might, other days I want to go to the polls. (Do I trust the postal service or the machines more?)

I guess if I become a poll volunteer, I'll have to vote absentee.

[RevCheesehead]

3. When I was in college, I voted absentee in the city office.

Got the form, filled it out, and had two office workers there verify my signature. Did this while home on vacation, about 3 weeks before the election.

You can also hand-deliver your ballot, if you don't trust the post office.

[agincourt]

4. Chips that favor republicans,

back up Gallop polls. I've said this all along, that the polls are rigged to accomodate the voting machines.