2002 election night. All the polls had reported in and Siegelman won by over 6,000 votes.

[kpete]

Deeper into the Don Siegelman affair
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/12/deeper-into-don-siegelman-affair.html
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(A) In late 1998 Karl Rove and William Canary arranged money laundering operations with Ralph Reed and Glover Norquist, and worked a deal with Bush's campaign financier and Rove's good friend lobbyist Jack Abramoff to finance Alabama campaign financing of GOP candidates in return for political favors. Canary and Rove were working closely with Republican Attorney General William Pryor who began at that time and continued profiling Alabama Democrats as part of their payback for running his election campaign. Don Siegelman's FBI file was flagged at this time by Pryor since Siegelman was a Democrat paving the way for other Democrats to Follow.

(B) In 1999 Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon funneled millions of dollars from the Mississippi Choctaw Indians to be laundered by Ralph Reed's Christian Coalition to defeat Siegelman's state education lottery. Representative Bob Riley endorsed Reed’s letters that was mailed to all Alabama residents along with prime time radio and TV ads trying to defeat Siegelman's effort to fund education in a state that ranked last in the number of illiterate adults.


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(G) 2002 election night. All the polls had reported in and Siegelman won by over 6,000 votes. Dan Gans, who had programming, computer system administration training and trained to work on the Diebold Election Systems Inc and the ES&S central voting tabulator was about to be fired by Bob Riley when he decide to get online with Bay Minette located in Baldwin County, Al. He made several attempts to take votes from Siegelman’s total vote count and switch them to Riley’s; however, there was a third candidate that was running for governor that he forgot about. Gans had trouble making the total votes equal the number of voters that had voted. There was a count of the paper ballots which still showed Siegelman as the winner. So as a cover up, all the votes was sealed by AL AG William Pryor who issued a warning that he would prosecute anyone who attempted to break the seals. Siegelman tried to get a court order to have a recount but the Republican Judges wouldn’t issue one. Siegelman filed charges with the attorney general’s office attorney Troy King and talked with the FBI to no avail.

this is just part of an interesting read at:
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/12/deeper-into-don-siegelman-affair.html

[kansasblue]

1. There was a lot of screwing around that night. Check the national exit polls here

ooops.... hmmmm no exit polls at all!

VNS cites problems with exit polls

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Voter News Service, a vote-counting group used by major news organizations, cited dissatisfaction with its exit poll analysis Tuesday and said it would not release any "national surveys of voter attitudes" on election night.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/elec02.exit.polls/index.html

[kansasblue]

2. Wait there's more. unlikely gain by the Republican party

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/11/06/elec02.main.day/



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In a historic night for the GOP and President Bush, Republicans seized control of the Senate, held onto their majority in the House and savored wins in two hot gubernatorial races, CNN projected early Wednesday.
No matter what the margin, Republicans were poised to control both the House and the Senate for the remainder of Bush's first term.

If Republicans gain seats in the House, it would be the first time since 1934 that the president's party gained in the off-year elections of his first term

[blm]

5. The DNC's refusal to notice the theft at all set up the RNC's further theft of 2004.

I have no doubt that Terry McAuliffe let all this theft go uncountered because his aim was to protect 2008 for Hillary and the establishment powerstructure that depends on players like Bushes and Clintons in the oval office.

Douglas Brinkley in April 2004 observed:
http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13354


Woodward observed Carvilles on election night:
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/oct/07/did_carville_tip_bush_off_to_kerry_strategy_woodward


Maybe Hillary2008 shows the backscratching hasn't been so one-sided as believed:
http://consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html

[flashl]

3. This speaks to my curiosity about selective outrage

of suspicious election outcomes since 2000. And, the silence about the absolute dismantling of exit polls.

[blm]

4. RNC was ALLOWED to get away with 2002 so they could increase the theft for 2004. DNC let them

do it in 2000...let it get worse in 2002....and let RNC steal as much as they wanted for 2004.

Terry McAuliffe was never tapped to work for the Democratic party from 2002 and 2004. He was tapped to protect Hillary2008.