[Peace-discuss] "There is little doubt key Democrats know "

[Chuck Minne]

Published on Saturday, August 13,2005 by CommonDreams.org
Election Fraud Continues in the US
New Data Shows Widespread Vote Manipulations in 2004
By Peter Phillips

In the fall of 2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida ballots 
never counted in the 2000 election, an analysis by the National Opinion 
Research Center confirmed that Al Gore actually won Florida and should have 
been President. However, coverage of this report was only a small blip in 
the corporate media as a much bigger story dominated the news after 
September 11, 2001.

New research compiled by Dr. Dennis Loo with the University of Cal Poly 
Pomona now shows that extensive manipulation of non-paper-trail voting 
machines occurred in several states during the 2004 election.

The facts are as follows:

In 2004 Bush far exceeded the 85% of registered Florida Republican votes 
that he got in 2000, receiving more than 100% of the registered Republican 
votes in 47 out of 67 Florida counties, 200% of registered Republicans in 15 
counties, and over 300% of registered Republicans in 4 counties. Bush 
managed these remarkable outcomes despite the fact that his share of the 
crossover votes by registered Democrats in Florida did not increase over 
2000, and he lost ground among registered Independents, dropping 15 points. 
We also know that Bush "won" Ohio by 51-48%, but statewide results were not 
matched by the court-supervised hand count of the 147,400 absentee and 
provisional ballots in which Kerry received 54.46% of the vote. In Cuyahoga 
County, Ohio the number of recorded votes was more than 93,000 greater than 
the number of registered voters.

More importantly national exit polls showed Kerry winning in 2004. However, 
It was only in precincts where there were no paper trails on the voting 
machines that the exit polls ended up being different from the final count. 
According to Dr. Steve Freeman, a statistician at the University of 
Pennsylvania, the odds are 250 million to one that the exit polls were wrong 
by chance. In fact, where the exit polls disagreed with the computerized 
outcomes the results always favored Bush - another statistical 
impossibility. .

Dennis Loo writes, "A team at the University of California at Berkeley, 
headed by sociology professor Michael Hout, found a highly suspicious 
pattern in which Bush received 260,000 more votes in those Florida precincts 
that used electronic voting machines than past voting patterns would 
indicate compared to those precincts that used optical scan read votes where 
past voting patterns held."

There is now strong statistical evidence of widespread voting machine 
manipulation occurring in US elections since 2000. Coverage of the fraud has 
been reported in independent media and various websites. The information is 
not secret. But it certainly seems to be a taboo subject for the US 
corporate media.

Black Box Voting reported on March 9, 2005 that voting machines used by over 
30 million voters were easily hacked by relatively unsophisticated programs 
and audits of the computers would not show the changes. It is very possible 
that a small team of hackers could have manipulated the 2004 and earlier 
elections in various locations throughout the United States. Irregularities 
in the vote counts certainly indicate that something beyond chance 
occurrences has been happening in recent elections.

That a special interest group might try to cheat on an election in the 
United States is nothing new. Historians tell us how local political 
machines from both major parties have in the past used methods of double 
counting, ballot box stuffing, poll taxes and registration manipulation to 
affect elections. In the computer age, however, election fraud can occur 
externally without local precinct administrators having any awareness of the 
manipulations - and the fraud can be extensive enough to change the outcome 
of an entire national election.

There is little doubt key Democrats know that votes in 2004 and earlier 
elections were stolen. The fact that few in Congress are complaining about 
fraud is an indication of the totality to which both parties accept the 
status quo of a money based elections system. Neither party wants to further 
undermine public confidence in the American "democratic" process (over 80 
millions eligible voters refused to vote in 2004). Instead we will likely 
see the quiet passing of legislation that will correct the most blatant 
problems. Future elections in the US will continue as an equal opportunity 
for both parties to maintain a national democratic charade in which money 
counts more than truth.



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