Was the 2004 Electon Stolen? Rolling Stone article

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Was the 2004 Election Stolen?, this week's cover story in Rolling Stone magazine, written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Excerpt:

But what is most anomalous about the irregularities in 2004 was their decidedly partisan bent: Almost without exception they hurt John Kerry and benefited George Bush. After carefully examining the evidence, I've become convinced that the president's party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004. Across the country, Republican election officials and party stalwarts employed a wide range of illegal and unethical tactics to fix the election. A review of the available data reveals that in Ohio alone, at least 357,000 voters, the overwhelming majority of them Democratic, were prevented from casting ballots or did not have their votes counted in 2004(12) -- more than enough to shift the results of an election decided by 118,601 votes.(13) (See Ohio's Missing Votes) In what may be the single most astounding fact from the election, one in every four Ohio citizens who registered to vote in 2004 showed up at the polls only to discover that they were not listed on the rolls, thanks to GOP efforts to stem the unprecedented flood of Democrats eager to cast ballots.(14) And that doesn?t even take into account the troubling evidence of outright fraud, which indicates that upwards of 80,000 votes for Kerry were counted instead for Bush. That alone is a swing of more than 160,000 votes -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.(15)

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[invader-tak-1.livejournal.com]

I used to be a Republican. Voted Regan and Dole, but skipped voting for Bush senior, wasn't about to vote for Bush Junior.

I was a Repubican for about two weeks after the election. I was watching tv when I heard the Shrub call the economy the "Bush Economic Miracle" he had been in office less than a month. That struck me speechless.

The call to end partisanship later was funnier still, even then I thought, wow, you guys were in no hurry to end patisanship for a "war president" when Clinton had a war.

I used to hate "Liberal spin" then I got to find out that Liberal spin is a mild hit or miss thing, aimed at relativly few targets compared to the Neocon spin machine, where inside is out, up is down and black is white.

Thanks to being heavily into the consiracy loop early, I saw the evidence for what was done the first year, but no one would listen to me, they were all to busy hanging flags........

That the elections were stolen is obvious, that there isn't much we can do till hes gone, "assuming we don't get President Jeb" is obvious as well.

Those of us who used to be conservatives were sold down the river for the religious extremists. Bush violated everything I ever thought was good about being a conservative. Its going to mean religious maniac zealot for another hundred years.

All I've gotten from it is a profound distrust of anybody with a strong case of the "isms"

Happy Hereditary Presidency. Feh

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I used to hate "Liberal spin" then I got to find out that Liberal spin is a mild hit or miss thing, aimed at relativly few targets compared to the Neocon spin machine, where inside is out, up is down and black is white.

Yes, that sums it up pretty clearly: sad but true. It seems to me that the neocons assume that liberals spin in the same way as they (the neocons) do. This helps explain why the neocons so often react so vehemently to liberal viewpoints.

As for election fraud, I've just assumed that it's always been there to some degree: we just haven't gone digging (or perhaps heard about the results of any digging). Corruption is part of the human condition. It just sucks that the Republicans became so good at it, and used it so much, in the past elections.