Letters to the Editor
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Not one to normally say "I told you so" but
I do remember last week pointing out that in HBO's documentary "Hacking Democracy" the poll worker's admitted that the random recount wasn't random.
That and other letters of course prompted some Republicans (Clockwork Smurf) to yell and scream that the documentary was "a Hack Job" and that there were no voting irregularities in Ohio (or Florida), and that Democrats were just sore losers, blah blah blah.
Despite what Republicans may think, Democrats don't take pleasure in being proven right over and over and over. I for one would rather be happy than right.
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I'm guessing there's no provision for an election re-do in America is there?
I mean unlike the Ukraine or Kenya or Serbia or places like that where obvious election fraud normally invokes a provisional re-do process? To bad. I guess in the US you can get away with stealing an election, openly and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Well at least we should take that lesson to heart and learn from it.
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Gee, you mean there was something fishy in 2004..?
Is this news..? Where have you been??
The election was stolen and no one seems to care. What a shame. This used to be such a nice country, too. It's a pity.
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"Politics didn't matter"???!!!
It is claimed that the election employees did not break the law in order to... say... expedite... the 're-election' of George W. bush...but that is exactly what happened. And a war criminal was placed into office for a second time by means other then the voters.
Those that shaped the investigation, and the pinning of a national election to a few scapegoats should be applauded (that is if you believe in strong armed politics void of democratic process). They have managed to change a national scandal and disgrace into an astrix, that will point out that the election in Ohio was decided for George Bush, because election officials didn't want to work late and miss the latest episode of "24".
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we should be more clear here...
As much as I wanted to read stories about this and find that we'd finally have some hard proof the election was stolen it should be noted that left-leaning publications (which I prefer to read, but still fact-check against) are leaving something out:
Cuyahoga County was still won by about a 2:1 margin for Kerry over Bush.
Had Bush won Cuyahoga, a traditionally very democratic county in Ohio, this would be a much bigger story. But everyone's leaving out the fact that Kerry won 66% of the vote there.
I read War Room religiously and normally respect it for its willingness to admit shortcomings on the left side of things despite obviously favoring it, but this time it's not being as forthright as it should with the facts.
I don't mean to trivialize what these people did - it was wrong. However, this is a story about lazy and immoral poll workers, it is not a story about a stolen election. I do hope that story surfaces -- this one just has nothing to do with it.
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OHIO 2004: 6.15% Kerry-Bush vote-switch found in probability study
Of course, the great concern remains counting votes wrong in the first instance. No recount fixes wrong-precint voting or the schuffling of ballots to precincts that switch votes.
Defining the vote outcome probabilities of wrong-precinct voting has revealed, in a sample of 166,953 votes (1 of every 34 Ohio votes), the Kerry-Bush margin changes 6.15% when the population is sorted by probable outcomes of wrong-precinct voting.
The Kerry to Bush 6.15% vote-switch differential is seen when the large sample is sorted by probability a Kerry wrong-precinct vote counts for Bush. When the same large voter sample is sorted by the probability Kerry votes count for third-party candidates, Kerry votes are instead equal in both subsets.
Read the article with graphs of new findings:
The 2004 Ohio Presidential Election: Cuyahoga County Analysis
How Kerry Votes Were Switched to Bush Votes
http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html
When will there be an accounting for the vote-switching?