Ive got plenty more-- please cite one legal thing Bush did to cheat? Oh wait if it was legal.. it wouldnt be cheating.... would it
From WIll Pitt at Truthout:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml Everyone remembers Florida's 2000 election debacle, and all of the new terms it introduced to our political lexicon: Hanging chads, dimpled chads, pregnant chads, overvotes, undervotes, Sore Losermans, Jews for Buchanan and so forth. It took several weeks, battalions of lawyers and a questionable decision from the U.S. Supreme Court to show the nation and the world how messy democracy can be. By any standard, what happened in Florida during the 2000 Presidential election was a disaster.
What happened during the Presidential election of 2004, in Florida, in Ohio, and in a number of other states as well, was worse.
Some of the problems with this past Tuesday's election will sound all too familiar. Despite having four years to look into and deal with the problems that cropped up in Florida in 2000, the 'spoiled vote' chad issue reared its ugly head again. Investigative journalist Greg Palast, the man almost singularly responsible for exposing the more egregious examples of illegitimate deletions of voters from the rolls, described the continued problems in an article published just before the election, and again in an article published just after the election.
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A poster named 'TruthIsAll' on the DemocraticUnderground.com forums laid out the questionable results of Tuesday's election in succinct fashion: "To believe that Bush won the election, you must also believe: That the exit polls were wrong; that Zogby's 5pm election day calls for Kerry winning Ohio and Florida were wrong (he was exactly right in his 2000 final poll); that Harris' last-minute polling for Kerry was wrong (he was exactly right in his 2000 final poll); that incumbent rule #1 - undecideds break for the challenger - was wrong; That the 50% rule - an incumbent doesn't do better than his final polling - was wrong; That the approval rating rule - an incumbent with less than 50% approval will most likely lose the election - was wrong; that it was just a coincidence that the exit polls were correct where there was a paper trail and incorrect (+5% for Bush) where there was no paper trail; that the surge in new young voters had no positive effect for Kerry; that Kerry did worse than Gore against an opponent who lost the support of scores of Republican newspapers who were for Bush in 2000; that voting machines made by Republicans with no paper trail and with no software publication, which have been proven by thousands of computer scientists to be vulnerable in scores of ways, were not tampered with in this election."
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From TIA:
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ELECTION 2004 BY THE NUMBERS
62.03mm Recorded Bush votes
59.03mm Recorded Kerry votes
122.3mm Total votes
16 states exceeded the MoE in favor of Bush
0 states exceeded the MoE in favor of Kerry
1 in 40:Probability a given state would exceed MoE for Bush
1 in 19 Trillion: Prob. at least 16 states exceed MoE for
Bush
22 Eastern Time Zone states
22 EST states deviated to Bush
1 in 4.2 million: Probability 22 EST states deviate to Bush
42 states deviated from exit poll to vote in favor of Bush
1 in 1.7 million:Probability at least 42 states deviate to
Bush
86 touchscreen incidents where Kerry votes switched to Bush
2 touchscreen incidents where Bush votes switched to Kerry
1 in 79,000,000,000,000,000,000,000: probability 86 to
Bush
OHIO
Recorded Vote
2.740mm (48.71%) Kerry
2.859mm (50.82%) Bush
Exit Poll
2.871 (51.03%) Kerry
2.711 (48.19%) Bush
1 in 106:Probability exit poll deviation to recorded vote
FLORIDA
40.89% Dem registration: Touchscreen counties
36.77% Repub. registration
51.30% Kerry%
41.92% Dem. registration: Optiscan counties
38.98% Repub. registration
42.27% Kerry%
National Exit Poll: Kerry % at 12:22am
50.84% Regional weights (13047 respondents)
50.90% State exit polls weighted by vote share
0.87% Nat Exit Poll MoE (13047 respondents)
National Exit Poll Timeline of Kerry Vote %:
50.75% 3:39pm (8349 respondents)
50.77% 7:33pm (11027 respondents)
50.80% 12:22am (13047 respondents)
47.94% 1:25pm (13660 respondents)
Kerry vote share
57% New Voters(13047 respondents)
65% Percent of Nader 2000 voters for Kerry
54% New Voters(13660 respondents)
71% Percent of Nader 2000 voters for Kerry
Kerry share of Female Vote
Pct Respondents
58% 8349
53% 11027
54% 13047
51% 13660
Party ID (Dem/ Rep / Ind)
Pct Respondents
38/35/27 13047
37/37/26 13660
How Voted in 2000:
0.87% U.S. Annual death rate
3.50% approx. percent of 2000 voters who died
50.456mm:Bush 2000 vote
48.7mm:Approximate Bush 2000 voters still alive
39.82%:Maximum % Bush 2000 voters who could vote in 2004
51.999mm:Gore 2000 vote
49.2mm:Approximate Gore 2000 voters still alive
40.25%:Maximum % Gore 2000 voters who could vote in 2004
13047 Respondents
41% Bush 2000 voters as a percentage of total vote
39% Gore 2000 voters as a percentage of total vote
13660 Respondents
43% Bush 2000 voters as a percentage of total vote
37% Gore 2000 voters as a percentage of total vote
National Census
125.7mm:Estimate of total 2004 vote
122.3mm:Recorded vote
3.4mm: Difference
0.30%: Census MoE
Exit Poll WPE Analysis by Precinct Partisanship
6.77%:Aggregate WPE (within precinct error-1250)
1.155:Minimum alpha (57.75 Kerry/ 50 Bush) required to
satisfy WPE
53%: Aggregate exit poll response rate
51.24%: Bush 2-party recorded vote
52.15%: Kerry 2-party exit poll
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NOVEMBER 3, 2004
12:23 AM
LONG AFTER THE POLLS CLOSED.
THIS IS THE SMOKING GUN.
EASY TO UNDERSTAND.
CLEAR.
UNAMBIGUOUS.
THIS WILL BECOME THE MOST FAMOUS EXIT POLL IN HISTORY.
IT WILL EDUCATE MILLIONS WHO NEVER KNEW ABOUT EXIT POLLS.
IT WILL ASTOUND MILLIONS WHO KNEW ALL ABOUT THEM.
IT IS THE TRUTH.
13,047 RANDOMLY-SELECTED VOTERS
1.0% MARGIN OF ERROR
KERRY WON THE FEMALE VOTE BY A HIGHER PERCENTAGE THAN BUSH WON THE MALE VOTE.
******* AND MORE WOMEN (54%) VOTED THAN MEN (46%) *********
Kerry = .54*.54+ .47*.46 = 50.78%
Bush = .45*.54+ .52*.46 = 48.22%
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A ROCKET SCIENTIST.
IT'S SIMPLE ARITHMETIC.
IT'S 1 IN 547 MILLION ODDS THAT BUSH WOULD GET 51.23% OF THE VOTE.
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Excerpts from the Conyers report:
We have found numerous serious election irregularities in the Ohio presidential election…Cumulatively, these irregularities, which affected hundreds of thousands of voters…raise grave doubts about whiter it can e said that the Ohio electors…were chosen in a manner conforming to Ohio law, let alone Federal requirements and constitutional standards.
PRE ELECTION
I …the following actions by Mr. Blackwell (Ohio Republican Secretary of State), the Republican Party, and elections officials disenfranchised HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Ohio citizens, predominantly Minority and Democratic voters.
A. …misallocation of voting machines led to unprecedented long lines that disenfranchised scores, if not hundreds of thousands, of predominantly Minority and Democratic Voters.
B. Mr. Blackwell’s decision to restrict provisional ballots resulted in the disenfranchisement of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of voters, predominantly Minority and Democratic voters.
C. Mr. Blackwell’s widely reviled decision to reject voter registration applications…may have resulted in thousands of new voters not being registered in timer for the 2004 election.
D. “caging: tactics” (voter intimidation through threatening letters, etc.) targeted 35,000 predominantly minority voters for intimidation, had a negative impact on voter turnout.
E. The Ohio Republican Party’s decision to utilize thousands of partisan challengers contradicted concentrated in minority and Democratic areas probably disenfranchised tens of thousands of legal voters…
F. Mr. Blackwell’s decision to prevent voters who requested absentee ballots, but did not receive them on a timely basis, from being able to receive provisional ballots probably disenfranchised thousands, if not tens of thousands of voters, particularly seniors.
II. On Election Day
A. …widespread instances of intimidation and misinformation in violation of the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the Equal Protection Due Process and Ohio right to vote.
B. …improper purging and other registration errors by election officials that probably disenfranchised tens of thousands of voters statewide.
C. There were 93,000 spoiled ballots where no vote was cast for president, the vast majority of which (were not inspected at the time of his report).
D. …numerous significant unexplained irregularities.
1. Mahonig county…at least twenty-five electronic machines transferred an unknown number of Kerry votes to the Bush column;
2. Warren County locked out public observers from vote counting citing a FBI warning about terrorist threat…(no FBI threat issues);
3. Perry County...significantly more votes than voters in some precincts…
4. Butler County, down ballot…Democratic Supreme Court candidate (out polls) Kerry;
III. …post election period…numerous irregularities in tallying provisional ballots and conducting and completing the recount that disenfranchised thousands of voters and called the entire recount procedure into question:
A. …failure to articulate clear and consistent standards for counting of provisional ballots.
B…failure to issue specific standards for the recount contributed to a lack of uniformity in violating of both the Due Process clause and the Equal Protection clause…including:
1. Counties that did not randomly select precinct samples;
2. Counties which did not conduct a full hand count after the 3% hand and machine count did not match;
3. Counties which allowed irregular marking of ballots and failed to secure and store allots and machinery; and
4. Counties which prevented witnesses for candidates from observing various aspects of the recount.
C. The voting computer company Triad has essentially admitted that it engaged in a course of behavior during the recount in numerous counties to provide “cheat sheets” to those counting the ballot. …how many votes they should find for each candidate, and how many over and under-votes they should calculate to match the machine count. In that way, they could avoid doing a full county-wide recount mandated by law
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