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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:31 AM
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39. Thanks so much for this work! KICK!
What strikes me about this is that here we have yet another set of election data that just doesn't add up, and that, wherever the data is skewed, it always skews in Bush's favor.

Whether its Exit Polls vs. "official results" in 10 of 11 states (Freeman), or the national Exit Poll (a separate data set) vs. "official results" (Baiman), or traditional voting methods vs. electronic voting in the big Dem counties in Florida (UC Berkeley), or the east coast vs. west coast Exit Poll skew ('TruthIsAll'), or absentee ballot (30% of the vote) vs. electronic voting in North Carolina ('ignatzmouse'), or all (or virtually all) voting difficulties and vote suppression occurring against Dem and minority voters, or this, Triad vs. non-Triad/ Gore vs. Kerry in Ohio--it always favors Bush and hurts Kerry.

TruthIsAll is always emphasizing this, and I think he's very right to. The odds against human or machine error ALWAYS favoring Bush are astronomical. The statisticians are saying that it's as close to "impossible" as they can ever get.

And 'Time for change' is right to emphasize this as well--seeing this in the context of the overall Exit Poll "redshift," and I would add all the other information, too--blatant violations of the Voting Rights Act, the meanness and pettiness of some of these actions (telling former prisoners they would be arrested if they tried to vote; requiring 80 lb paper for registration), and all the resistance to providing information and to conducting an honest recount.

It's such an overwhelming picture, all in all. If it were NOT for this overwhelming picture of election fraud--that, wherever we look, we find more anomalous numbers favoring Bush, or more Republican election officials bullying Democratic voters--you might think something weird and unusual happened re: Triad vs. non-Triad, or in the Exit Polls. But, taken together, it clearly says (in fact, it screams): Fraud was intended; fraud was accomplished. There is no other explanation for this long list of impossible numbers coupled with intense vote suppression.

I think the Bush 2004 Election Fraud Plan was well thought out, as to its basics (what was needed and how to get it, to secure a bottom-line win in the Electoral College and the popular vote), and was also opportunistic. It took advantage of circumstances to further pad Bush's popular majority. The main part of the fraud occurred on a broad basis, grabbing %'s here and there, all over the map, using access to the Republican-owned secret source code in the central electronic vote tabulators, and in individual machines (all of it extremely insecure and hackable). This was the least detectable way of doing it. The Triad vote may have been EXTRA--and that greediness for yet more votes may well be their undoing.

The vote suppression may also have been "extra"--born of a particular hatred for black voters--or as a hedge against failures in the electronic plan. (I can imagine political hacks distrusting the promises of tech hacks about how easy it would be, and creating some contingency plans--including instructions to Blackwell. )
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