More voter fraud evidence that put der furher back into power

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Russian observer Aleksei Ostrovsky declared that he was shocked by what he saw. 'It is enough to say 'I am Mr. Smith' and (the person) is allowed to vote. The same person can exit one polling station and vote again using the same procedure'.

Spoilage

These votes belong principally to African Americans, Hispanics or ethnic minorities, who have not been properly instructed how to vote and more interestingly, would be more inclined to vote for the Democratic Party. On average, these votes account for 3% of the total and can be excluded from the count arbitrarily, or included, depending on the whim of the Secretary of State in the State concerned.

For example, in 2000, Secretary of State Kate Harris in Florida decided to arbitrarily exclude the counting of 179,855 votes, the so-called hanging chads. It was worthwhile: Ms. Harris got a seat in Congress and Bush won the state.

In Ohio, 2000 the spoiled vote accounted for 1,96% of the total, 110.000 votes. Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell stated shortly before the 2004 election, 'the possibility of a close election with punch cards as the state's primary voting device invites a Florida-like calamity'. The Ultra-right Blackwell would therefore have been well prepared for what was going to ensue.

In New Mexico, uncounted spoiled votes in 2000 accounted for 2,68% of the total, translated into 18.000 votes. Bush won the state by 11.620.

The Challenge

In some states, including Ohio, the Republicans adopted the Challenge, in which Republican watchdogs manned the doors of the polling stations and challenged those they thought might be ineligible to vote - mostly African Americans and Hispanics, who would be more likely to vote Democrat. The idea is to block the line, forcing people to lose patience and go away.

Provisional votes

Provisional ballots are often handed to African Americans and Hispanics, rather than the type of vote that will be counted. Provisional and absentee ballots are not always counted and it is the decision of the Secretary of State of the State concerned to decide whether to count them or not. Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. There were between 175,000 and 250,000 uncounted votes.

Turning away voters

Santiago Juarez, of the 'Faithful Citizens' Program' in New Mexico, stated that voters were turned away from some polling stations. In Ohio, at the Glenwood Elementary station in Toledo, over 200 people left the station because it opened late and then ran out of pencils - this being in a primarily Democratic district.

Voter Suppression

Before the election, the Baltimore Chronicle reported, 'Through a combination of sophisticated vote rustling, ethnic cleansing of voter rolls, absentee ballots gone AWOL, machines that 'spoil' votes, John Kerry begins with a nationwide deficit that could easily reach one million votes'.

In Ohio, Ken Blackwell tried to force through legislation requiring that registration applications not posted on the correct weight of paper should be discounted, then he sought to suppress the provisional ballots, challenging the validity of 35.000 new voter applications.

Manipulation of votes and results

In Florida, 13 counties reported more votes than voters, these accounting for 39.4% of the vote. In Ohio, at the Gahana 1 Precinct, Bush received 6,253 votes, Kerry 1,916 votes, and the others, 23. This totals 8,192 votes, which is strange, since only 4,346 people voted.

At another Precinct in Gahana, Ohio, 4,258 votes were cast for Bush and only 260 for Kerry, while only 638 people were registered as having voted.

Electronic vote and rigged machines

Hernando Country recorded 0 votes. In Ohio, 14,6% of votes cast were by e-voting machines, which are susceptible to hacking and fraudulent manipulation and the Republicans had worked hard to exclude the possibility of there being a paper trail to provide any proof.

In Florida, electronic scan machines registered a gain of 128.45% for Bush and a decrease of 21% for Kerry, whereas in some places a gain of 400% was recorded for the Republicans and in Liverty County, 700%. Strange.

Ohio purchased e-voting machines from the Diebold Corporation, whose CEO Wally O'Dell is a Bush fundraiser, who promised 'to help Ohio deliver its votes to the President'. What a good professional he appears to have been.

Fewer machines were placed in Democrat areas in many Precincts, causing long queues to form and people to turn away, frustrated. In Ohio, Blackwell held back the distribution of 2000 machines.

Electoral fraud

In Franklin County, Ohio, Ron O'Brien, County prosecutor declared to 10TV that 'people are being paid to register new voters'. One man who died in February was registered to vote and in another case, 25 applications belonged to the same person.

In Chaves County, New Mexico, which has an enormous Hispanic, African American and Native American population (who traditionally vote Democrat), Bush won by 68% to 31%. ??

Lost votes

In a county in North Carolina, 4.500 votes went missing due to software problems - the computer had run out of memory.

Not very impressive, especially for a country that likes to stick its unwanted nose into the electoral affairs of other nations and then to make snide remarks. On the basis of this evidence, the USA had better not ever again make any statement whatsoever about fair voting procedures, anywhere.

In conclusion, does this surprise anyone? Not really, since Bush and his regime have spent four long years telling lies and cooking up tall stories. The question remains, why did John Kerry throw in the towel so soon, since all this was taking place. Didn't he know? Wasn't he informed? Or did something more sinister happen?

Or, could something else be behind both Messrs. Bush and Kerry, such as the neo-conservative clique orchestrated by Cheney, a form of supra-political party eminence grise which really pulls the strings in the USA and dictates Washington's foreign and domestic policy?

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yep, you hit the nail on the head. I can't believe we were so foolish as to believe that this election wasn't fixed. That stuff is so bs I'll bet Bush isn't even real, he's just some figurehead run by a cult like following devoted to turning america into an evil oligarchy. Bastards, soon they will start gassing their own people and sending slaughter squads into the streets.

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Piot we totally get the point, You can stop cutting and pasting from your anti-american propaganda websites. We understand you don't like America or Bush but your persistantness is annoying. Your not changing a single persons mind. Relax and take a deep breath. If we wanted to read that bullshit we would goto www.nationalenquirer.com

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^Exactly what he said. besides kerry CONCEEDED the election. Which means he gave up, hes not contesting it. Honestly stop copying and pasting stupid shit.

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this is just what i was learning today on air america! i knew it!

but, how did the omnipresent, omnipotent, yet ever nebulus in definition, 'republicans' get their grubby, e-vil hands on these electronic machines to rig them? thats the part im still a bit confused about, i mean, the premise of the election is obviously true, and clear as day. any sane individual can see that! i mean, clearly this article is the gospel truth. no question about that. none at all. but, how did this far reaching right wing conspiracy, (if i may, ever so humbly borrow hillerys phraseology for a sec) get in the electoral process? didnt someone see them rigging the voting machines? surely they did.

and those pictures that graves posted in the other identical thread to this one, obvious photoshop jobs, and distortions of the truth! the vast right wing conspiracy would never have let it stand! so clearly it is a machination of the e-vil republican adgenda!

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i know he conceeded. and that should be of greater concern then your fucked election

fuck i hope 52% of america gets shot in the face for this.

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but then the beloved true north, stong and free will collapse. you wouldnt want that would you?

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When she places them in front of you

Nothing holds a roman candle to

The solemn warmth you feel inside

 
FINALLY someone in your fucken jew run media has the balls to ask some questions

LAZY AMERICANS CANT BE THE EXCUSE FOR THIS

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and theartistformellyknownaswhatthefuck please try to contest some of the points ive made

that is if you think you can handel a discussion with me...if not i understand you are after all a lowly american.

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Internet buzz on vote fraud is dismissed

By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | November 10, 2004

WASHINGTON -- As they ricochet around the country on the Internet, the details seem aligned to raise the eyebrows of suspicious Democrats.

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President Bush recorded 4,258 votes to Senator John F. Kerry's 260 in one suburb of Columbus, Ohio -- where only 638 ballots were cast. Across Ohio, some 76,000 punch-card ballots did not register votes for president, and officials have only begun to comb through 155,428 provisional ballots.

In Holmes County, Florida, though nearly three-quarters of registered voters are Democrats, Bush wiped out Kerry, 6,410 to 1,810, in results that mirrored those in several other counties where optical-scan paper ballots were used. And in Florida's Broward County, after the first 32,000 absentee ballots were fed into the computer system, a software glitch caused additional ballots to be subtracted from vote totals, rather than added.

A week after Kerry conceded and Bush declared victory, those assertions and scores of others from New Mexico to North Carolina have kept alive fierce speculation that Bush's victory either wasn't real or wasn't as decisive as it seemed. With memories fresh from the 2000 irregularities, e-mails and Web postings accuse Republicans of stealing an election.

Much of the traffic is little more than Internet-fueled conspiracy theories, and none of the vote-counting problems and anomalies that have emerged are sufficiently widespread to have affected the election's ultimate result.

Kerry campaign officials and a range of election-law specialists agree that while machines made errors and long lines in Democratic precincts kept many voters away, there's no realistic chance that Kerry actually beat Bush.

''No one would be more interested than me in finding out that we really won, but that ain't the case,' said Jack Corrigan, a veteran Kerry adviser who led the Democrats' team of 3,600 attorneys who fanned out across the country on Election Day to address voting irregularities.

''I get why people are frustrated, but they did not steal this election,' Corrigan said. ''There were a few problems here and there in the election. But unlike 2000, there is no doubt that they actually got more votes than we did, and they got them in the states that mattered.'

Still, with reports swirling on the Internet, six Democratic members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate. Leading academics have joined the fray as well, saying that the integrity and future of the nation's voting system demand a vetting of all claims.

''The kind of thing that has to happen is a full-scale investigation,' said Troy Duster, a New York University professor who is president of the American Sociological Association. ''It sounds like a paranoid fantasy, but I think the data suggests that even if Bush won, he didn't win by the kind of margins that are out there. We have a crisis here of potential legitimacy with all the stuff going on on the Web, and the way to deal with this is to do the research.'

Most of the focus has been on results in Ohio and Florida, since if either of those states had gone for Kerry instead of Bush, the Massachusetts senator would be president-elect. Early exit polls in both states indicated that Kerry was track to win, and in each state voting and counting irregularities in numerous places have been reported. ''Fraud took place in the 2004 election,' declares the team at BlackBoxVoting.org, one popular website that is compiling reports of election problems.

''Kerry won. Here are the facts,' reads the headline on a widely circulated article written by the author of a scathing book on the Bush family.

Another site suggests Kerry is refusing to contest the election because fellow members of the Yale secret society Skull and Bones forbade him to do so.

After one e-mailer erroneously suggested that Kerry's brother, Cameron, was compiling reports of voting problems, Cameron Kerry's e-mail inbox was inundated with hundreds of messages, received at the pace of several per minute through yesterday. He sent out a stock response saying ''we are not ignoring' the reports, asking that they be forwarded to the Democratic National Committee instead of his e-mail address at his Boston law firm.

Though Corrigan said all allegations will be investigated by the Democratic legal team, he added that it has become clear that 2004 was no repeat of 2000. That year, an abbreviated Florida recount resulted in a 537-vote margin of victory for Bush, and many Democrats believe a full and impartial recount would have handed the election to Democrat Al Gore.

This year, the race wasn't nearly as close in the states that hung in the balance. According to preliminary results from last week's election, Bush carried Florida by 380,000 votes, and Ohio by 136,000. Corrigan said Democrats won't push for hand recounts this year, because they wouldn't change the results, a point backed by election specialists.

''I think it's safe to say that on the votes that were cast in Ohio, Bush won,' said Dan Tokaji, a law professor at Ohio State University who is working with the ACLU to challenge Ohio's use of punch-card ballots. ''If the margin had been 36,000 rather than 136,000, we would have seen another post-election meltdown.'

The apparent computer glitch that awarded Bush an extra 3,893 votes in Gahanna, Ohio, was quickly caught and won't be in the final certified numbers. The 76,000 punch cards across the state where no vote for president was recorded include ballots cast by people who chose not to vote for the top office, as well as those who mistakenly chose more than one candidate. That group, of course, includes voters who intended to support Bush as well as those who meant to support Kerry.

As a percentage of the total, the number of ballots recording no vote for president was actually lower than it's been in recent elections in the state, Corrigan noted. Democrats are making sure provisional ballots are counted, but almost all of those votes would have to be for Kerry to swing the election, and many are expected to be ruled invalid.

In Florida, the Democratic-leaning counties that went for Bush are in the culturally conservative Panhandle, where the president beat Gore in 2000 and where he made particularly intense appeals this year. The software error that started subtracting votes rather than adding them affected only a few ballot measures, and was caught and corrected.

Richard Hasen, an election law specialist at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, noted that with the election overseen by 13,000 different local jurisdictions -- many of which were employing new technologies on Election Day -- scattered problems were inevitable.

''I would be surprised if there wouldn't be glitches like this,' Hasen said.

As for the exit polls, they remain subject to sampling errors and limitations in data gathering. The polls sponsored by a consortium of media companies had margins of error of roughly 3 percent, and in closely contested states shown to be leaning toward Kerry, narrow Bush wins were actually within the expected range. Florida's margin was larger than expected, but poll takers reported problems getting close enough to voting places to collect adequate samples, and said they feared they were not getting Bush voters to be as forthcoming with their choice as Kerry voters.

Heather Gerken, a professor at Harvard Law School, said the fact that this year's election went smoothly compared to 2000 shouldn't blind policy makers to problems still inherent in the system. Many jurisdictions continue to use outdated equipment, states are behind in compiling reliable voter lists, and elections are still run by partisan officials, she said.

''I have not yet seen anything that convinces me that the election was stolen, but I certainly think that we should treat these allegations seriously and do them justice,' she said. ''There's clearly problems with the elections system. It's crucial to the health of this country that we have an election system that we can trust.'

 
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idk man, i thing that simply Americans are fucked up enough toi vote for Bush. 52% of them atleast.

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Sorry but even top notch Democrats are debunking the voter fraud conspiracy check out this article.

ABC News

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By JAKE TAPPER and AVERY MILLER

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2004 -- There were minor voting irregularities on Election Day — long lines, voting machine breakdowns, shortages of provisional ballots — but some people are now leveling charges of voter fraud.

Doug Chapin, a nonpartisan election analyst, finds the claims to be baseless. 'There were no problems that would lead me to believe that there were stolen elections or widespread fraud,' he said.

'There was no overwhelming reason to cast doubt on the outcome of this election,' seconded Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, the campaign manager for Al Gore's 2000 campaign. 'George Bush got more votes this time.'

Nevertheless, many people have devised various theories, including stories of voters in largely Democratic counties in Florida whose votes were changed for Bush, phantom voters in Ohio and exit polls showing John Kerry in the lead that were truer than the final tally. Off the record, many Democratic strategists dismiss such allegations, but they also know such resentment can be channeled for political use in the future.

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In short Democratic strategists are saying there was no significant fraud.

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Seriously? why al the hate towards Piot? He's just sending out information. You're just pissed cuz of that bible stuck in your asses.

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Its true. This bible has been stuck for over a week now. I think its growing an infection.

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I'm jealous cuz i dont have 6 wives like people from Utah. 'GO BUSH! GO WAR! GO America! GO GOD!'

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since your probably all too lazy to read. watch this
http://home.comcast.net/~hugh.moore/countdown_on_voting_irregs.wmv

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thats a funny little movie but didnt bush win without ohio anyway? Its just sour democrats trying to stir up a buzz to make people hate bush even more. Pretty childish if you ask me

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i dont think people can hate buch more at this point..

just watch the fucken video and maybe just MAYBE think for yourself and you may have a different outlook.

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watch the movie and maybe think for myself? Isnt that a little contradicting? Saying watch this baised clip, absorb its point of view and thats your new opinion. Thats not really thinking for myself thats letting media think for me. I love how liberals are always accusing conservatives of not thinking for themselves when they are just as bad at buying up bullshit from biased media.

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Its true. Everyone in Utah has at least 18 wives. You really should be jealous. Dumb fuck.

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'and maybe just MAYBE think for yourself and you may have a different outlook.

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piot ... you should be forbade from ever using this phrase or any similar ones. Just from the obvious fact that all you do is copy and paste links to liberal extremeist propoganda machines.

I don't think I've ever seen you make a single post with something intelligible that you've thought out and written.

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i just post information and then debate it...

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debate it?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6368819/

FINALLY someone in your fucken jew run media has the balls to ask some questions

LAZY AMERICANS CANT BE THE EXCUSE FOR THIS

and theartistformellyknownaswhatthefuck please try to contest some of the points ive made

that is if you think you can handel a discussion with me...if not i understand you are after all a lowly american.

since your probably all too lazy to read. watch this
http://home.comcast.net/~hugh.moore/countdown_on_voting_irregs.wmv

i dont think people can hate buch more at this point..

just watch the fucken video and maybe just MAYBE think for yourself and you may have a different outlook.

not too much debating going on in those posts

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Debate it lord piot? Im pretty sure you just got shot down by ice-is-scary judging by you totally ignoring his comments know after he humiliated you. Good job debating though jackass...

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its too late anyway so stfu,

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Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked

by Thom Hartmann / Common Dreams <

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm>

When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06,

2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives

from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show

up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election

was hacked, but of who hacked it and how. And not just this year, he

said, but that these same people had previously hacked the Democratic

primary race in 2002 so that Jeb Bush would not have to run against

Janet Reno, who presented a real threat to Jeb, but instead against

Bill McBride, who Jeb beat.

'It was practice for a national effort,' Fisher told me.

And evidence is accumulating that the national effort happened on

November 2, 2004.

The State of Florida, for example, publishes a county-by-county record

of votes cast and people registered to vote by party affiliation. Net

denizen Kathy Dopp compiled the official state information into a

table, available athttp://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm, and

noticed something startling.

While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to

produce results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios

matched the Kerry/Bush vote, and so did the optically-scanned paper

ballots in the larger counties, in Florida's smaller counties the

results from the optically scanned paper ballots - fed into a central

tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking - seem to have been

reversed.

In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of

them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180

for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere

else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.

In Dixie County, with 4,988 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats

and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for

Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush.

The pattern repeats over and over again - but only in the smaller

counties where, it was probably assumed, the small voter numbers

wouldn't be much noticed. Franklin County, 77.3% registered Democrats,

went 58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered Democrats, went

77.25% for Bush.

Yet in the larger counties, where such anomalies would be more obvious

to the news media, high percentages of registered Democrats equaled

high percentages of votes for Kerry.

More visual analysis of the results can be seen at

http://ustogether.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm, and

www.rubberbug.com/temp/Florida2004chart.htm <

http://www.rubberbug.com/temp/Florida2004chart.htm> .

And, although elections officials didn't notice these anomalies, in

aggregate they were enough to swing Florida from Kerry to Bush. If you

simply go through the analysis of these counties and reverse the

'anomalous' numbers in those counties that appear to have been hacked,

suddenly the Florida election results resemble the Florida exit poll

results: Kerry won, and won big.

Those exit poll results have been a problem for reporters ever since

Election Day.

Election night, I'd been doing live election coverage for WDEV, one of

the radio stations that carries my syndicated show, and, just after

midnight, during the 12:20 a.m. Associated Press Radio News feed, I was

startled to hear the reporter detail how Karen Hughes had earlier sat

George W. Bush down to inform him that he'd lost the election. The exit

polls were clear: Kerry was winning in a landslide. 'Bush took the news

stoically,' noted the AP report.

But then the computers reported something different. In several pivotal

states.

Conservatives see a conspiracy here: They think the exit polls were

rigged.

Dick Morris, the infamous political consultant to the first Clinton

campaign who became a Republican consultant and Fox News regular, wrote

an article for The Hill ,

the publication read by every political junkie in Washington, DC, in

which he made a couple of brilliant points.

'Exit Polls are almost never wrong,' Morris wrote. 'They eliminate the

two major potential fallacies in survey research by correctly

separating actual voters from those who pretend they will cast ballots

but never do and by substituting actual observation for guesswork in

judging the relative turnout of different parts of the state.'

He added: 'So, according to ABC-TVs exit polls, for example, Kerry was

slated to carry Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, and Iowa,

all of which Bush carried. The only swing state the network had going

to Bush was West Virginia, which the president won by 10 points.'

Yet a few hours after the exit polls were showing a clear Kerry sweep,

as the computerized vote numbers began to come in from the various

states the election was called for Bush.

How could this happen?

On the CNBC TV show 'Topic A With Tina Brown,' several months ago,

Howard Dean had filled in for Tina Brown as guest host. His guest was

Bev Harris, the Seattle grandmother who started www.blackboxvoting.org

from her living room. Bev pointed out

that regardless of how votes were tabulated (other than hand counts,

only done in odd places like small towns in Vermont), the real

'counting' is done by computers. Be they Diebold Opti-Scan machines,

which read paper ballots filled in by pencil or ink in the voter's

hand, or the scanners that read punch cards, or the machines that

simply record a touch of the screen, in all cases the final tally is

sent to a 'central tabulator' machine.

That central tabulator computer is a Windows-based PC.

'In a voting system,' Harris explained to Dean on national television,

'you have all the different voting machines at all the different

polling places, sometimes, as in a county like mine, there's a thousand

polling places in a single county. All those machines feed into the one

machine so it can add up all the votes. So, of course, if you were

going to do something you shouldn't to a voting machine, would it be

more convenient to do it to each of the 4000 machines, or just come in

here and deal with all of them at once?'

Dean nodded in rhetorical agreement, and Harris continued. 'What

surprises people is that the central tabulator is just a PC, like what

you and I use. It's just a regular computer.'

'So,' Dean said, 'anybody who can hack into a PC can hack into a

central tabulator?'

Harris nodded affirmation, and pointed out how Diebold uses a program

called GEMS, which fills the screen of the PC and effectively turns it

into the central tabulator system. 'This is the official program that

the County Supervisor sees,' she said, pointing to a PC that was

sitting between them loaded with Diebold's software.

Bev then had Dean open the GEMS program to see the results of a test

election. They went to the screen titled 'Election Summary Report' and

waited a moment while the PC 'adds up all the votes from all the

various precincts,' and then saw that in this faux election Howard Dean

had 1000 votes, Lex Luthor had 500, and Tiger Woods had none. Dean was

winning.

'Of course, you can't tamper with this software,' Harris noted. Diebold

wrote a pretty good program.

But, it's running on a Windows PC.

So Harris had Dean close the Diebold GEMS software, go back to the

normal Windows PC desktop, click on the 'My Computer' icon, choose

'Local Disk C:,' open the folder titled GEMS, and open the sub-folder

'LocalDB' which, Harris noted, 'stands for local database, that's where

they keep the votes.' Harris then had Dean double-click on a file in

that folder titled 'Central Tabulator Votes,' which caused the PC to

open the vote count in a database program like Excel.

In the 'Sum of the Candidates' row of numbers, she found that in one

precinct Dean had received 800 votes and Lex Luthor had gotten 400.

'Let's just flip those,' Harris said, as Dean cut and pasted the

numbers from one cell into the other. 'And,' she added magnanimously,

'let's give 100 votes to Tiger.'

They closed the database, went back into the official GEMS software

'the legitimate way, you're the county supervisor and you're checking

on the progress of your election.'

As the screen displayed the official voter tabulation, Harris said,

'And you can see now that Howard Dean has only 500 votes, Lex Luthor

has 900, and Tiger Woods has 100.' Dean, the winner, was now the loser.

Harris sat up a bit straighter, smiled, and said, 'We just edited an

election, and it took us 90 seconds.'

On live national television. (You can see the clip on www.votergate.tv

)

Which brings us back to Morris and those pesky exit polls that had

Karen Hughes telling George W. Bush that he'd lost the election in a

landslide.

Morris's conspiracy theory is that the exit polls 'were sabotage' to

cause people in the western states to not bother voting for Bush, since

the networks would call the election based on the exit polls for Kerry.

But the networks didn't do that, and had never intended to. It makes

far more sense that the exit polls were right - they weren't done on

Diebold PCs - and that the vote itself was hacked.

And not only for the presidential candidate - Jeff Fisher thinks this

hit him and pretty much every other Democratic candidate for national

office in the most-hacked swing states.

So far, the only national 'mainstream' media to come close to this

story was Keith Olbermann on his show Friday night, November 5th, when

he noted that it was curious that all the voting machine irregularities

so far uncovered seem to favor Bush. In the meantime, the Washington

Post and other media are now going through single-bullet-theory-like

contortions to explain how the exit polls had failed.

But I agree with Fox's Dick Morris on this one, at least in large part.

Wrapping up his story for The Hill, Morris wrote in his final

paragraph, 'This was no mere mistake. Exit polls cannot be as wrong

across the board as they were on election night. I suspect foul play.'

no snow..

no girls..

no future..

Snowfall dictates the days activities if its snowing do it another day...
 
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