2004 presidential election demands an investigation - By Joe Baker

[helderheid]

Editor’s note: Quite a few of our readers contacted us about an article in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Thank you. As many of those readers know, Joe Baker has been covering the issue of electronic voting machines since November 2002. Now, Robert Kennedy Jr. has come to the same conclusions we reached four years ago—electronic voting is stealing our elections. We offer our praise to him and Rolling Stone for being the only mainstream media to address this critical fraud. All quoted material in the following article is from the Rolling Stone piece. We wonder when the rest of the mainstream media and the Democratic Party will finally grow backbones and address what is probably the biggest crime in the history of this nation. They know. They are afraid.

— F.S.

The election of 2004 was one of the strangest and most confusing on record. In an article in the June 15, 2006, issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Robert Kennedy Jr. remembers how he could not figure out how John Kerry could be leading by a wide margin in the exit polls and the early vote count—and then vote totals abruptly switched to George W. Bush.

Kerry, the next day, could not compile enough legal evidence to challenge the outcome and conceded the election. The Republicans immediately adopted a “firestorm” defense of the suspicious voting patterns, calling skeptics conspiracy theorists in “tinfoil hats.” The Washington Post said allegations of vote fraud were just “conspiracy theories.” The New York Times flatly declared: “there is no evidence of vote theft or errors on a large scale.”

Now, these many months later, those claims cannot withstand the light of day. As time went on after the election, according to Kennedy’s Rolling Stone magazine piece, more and more irregularities with that election surfaced.

Robert Kennedy Jr.

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Moreover, exit polls in 30 states deviated to an extent that cannot be explained by their margin of error. In all but four of those states, the discrepancy favored Bush. Statisticians and pollsters consider exit polls the most reliable. Such polls in Germany, for example, have never been off by more than three-tenths of 1 percent. Political consultant Dick Morris, who has served both Republicans and Democrats, said: “Exit polls are almost never wrong.” He said such checks are “so reliable that they are used as guides to the relative honesty of elections in Third World countries.” In November 2004, exit polling in the Ukraine—paid for by the Bush administration, by the way—revealed election fraud and cost Viktor Yushchenko the presidency.

But when exit polls revealed disturbing flaws in the U.S. election that month, the six media operations that commissioned the polls seemed to be embarrassed by the results. Rather than viewing the discrepancies as a story to be pursued, the networks removed the offending data from their Web sites and substituted “corrected” numbers, which had been adjusted to match the official vote count.

Former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw told Kennedy: “The people who ran the exit polling, and all those of us who were their clients, recognized that it was deeply flawed. They were really screwed up—the old models just don’t work anymore. I would not go on the air with them again.”

On election night, reporters at each of the six networks, from CBS to Fox News, were told by pollsters early in the evening that Kerry had an insurmountable lead and would easily rout Bush—at least 309 electoral votes to Bush’s 174, with 55 too close to call. In London, British Prime Minister Tony Blair turned in for the night, expecting to greet President-elect Kerry in the morning.

Even Fox News declared: “Either the exit polls, by and large, are completely wrong, or George Bush loses.” Kerry continued his strong lead during most of the evening, but gradually there were shifts as the tallied margins veered away from the polls’ prediction. In each case, the shift favored Bush.

[Sadie5]

2. Rove doesn't care what we know

Bush had to get back into office. There was still evil work on the part of PNACers to be done. After 2000 I thought something would be done about it.

[malaise]

4. It's coming out

drip by drip. Can't wait for the flood.

[helderheid]

6. After the Rolling Stone piece, I feel somewhat hopeful.

[IndyOp]

3. Nice piece! K&R. Thanks to Helderheid ! :-) (nt)

[helderheid]

5. thanks for the recommend!!