Reply #55: Of course they stole the 2004 election [View All]

[Tactical Progressive]

They stole the 2000 election flat-out, straight in front of everybody, on every level they could, from street thugs to lawyers to election officials like Katherine Harris and right up into the Supreme Court. When the Supreme Court is corrupt, the last place on earth that should be corrupt, then every single Republican down to the guy that takes your change at the toll booth is corrupt by nature. How much benefit of the doubt do they get after 2000? None in my book.

Plus the nastiness and self-righteousness of Republicans got worse over the four years of Bush, not better for winning. There is zero percent chance that they didn't do everything they could get away with to rig the 2004 election. Proving it though, is another story.

What convinces me completely, as regards the 2004 election - besides the exit poll aberrations, the planned disenfranchised voting machine distributions, the wierd victory margin numbers, etc - is just how defiant the Republican voting-machine owners are about maintining no paper trails or auditability on their operations, and how Republicans in Congress support that. That means they are all knowingly complicit, if not in the specifics, then in what it means for the big picture as regards fair elections. It couldn't be any clearer, or more corrupt, or harder to prove.

If we had a Democratic Congress, investigations would stop that game dead. Catch-22, and little way to prove it from outside the box with Congress and right-wing judges protecting their treachery.