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Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Posted By avi
Was the 2004 Election Stolen? (Rolling Stone)
There’s not much I can add to this, except to say, to those who say "It’s over. Move on." What if we said the same thing about the missing white girl of the week preoccupying the Fox audience on any given day? "She’s dead. Move on." I mean, it’s not like a series of organized crimes were committed, was it? By the way, didn’t we use to call that Racketeering?
And poor maligned Mr. Blackwell may very well be elected to the Ohio Governorship by same the corrupt machinery he put in place to slide Bush into office. Got to love it.
Jun 1st, 2006
I found that article so disturbing, I had to stop reading halfway through it. As someone who volunteered for the Kerry campaign and traveled to Florida on my own dime to poll-watch, it’s disheartening to read that we can’t hold an honest election in the USA. I wonder whether the various anomalies mentioned in the article were present in every other election that’s ever taken place–but that it’s only become relevant when the contest is decided by a razor-thin margin as in the Bush/Gore and Bush/Kerry campaigns.
A few hundred thousand votes out of a few million is close, but not razor thin. But to answer your question, it looks like small-time dirty tricks are customary, which is maybe why we don’t fight them as much as we should.
On a small scale, the’re disorganized, not always effective, and they might tend to wash on the whole (though not the the individuals who were disenfranchised). As with anything else, if you let a crime go unchecked, eventually someone will test the limits of the system. The problem with Ohio is that the results don’t wash. The scale of the crime is extremely large and the perpetrators are still running for office, rather than hiding in the shadows.
Outside of Chicago elections, I’m not aware of the Dems doing anything of this magnitude, ever. I’m afraid that 2004 was a small-scale test for a voting machine-based take over of the election process. It worked so well then, why not repeat with more? And since exit polls were discredited (unfairly), why wouldln’t it work to overturn a landslide too?