American Elections

American Elections

Evidence Bush Stole the 2004 Election

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
~ Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884), abolitionist, orator and columnist for The Liberator, in a speech before the Massachusetts Antislavery Society in 1852

Bush stole the 2004 election, presidential, senate and house by using crooked voting machines. Here is the evidence:

* Exit polls are normally bang on. They showed Kerry with a landslide, but the voting machines showed Bush won. Exit Polls are almost never wrong. They eliminate the two major potential fallacies in survey research by correctly separating actual voters from those who pretend they will cast ballots but never do and by substituting actual observation for guesswork in judging the relative turnout of different parts of the state. According to ABC-TVs exit polls, Kerry was slated to carry Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, and Iowa, all of which Bush carried. The only swing state the network had going to Bush was West Virginia, which the president won by 10 points. ABC has been biased toward Bush all through the election. Why would they suddenly betray him at the last minute?
* The voting machines were designed to be fraud friendly. There was no paper trial, no open source software, no sealing of software, no audits. The software could be changed at any time. The machines were appallingly fraud-friendly. Republican jurisdictions purchased these openly-crooked machines in preference to properly designed ones. It was like a casino buying a roulette wheel with a brake visibly mounted. It is like a gambler buying crooked dice. It is prima facie evidence he intends to cheat. If catch him with crooked dice, it is up to him to prove he was playing fairly, not the reverse. At the very least, it was criminal negligence to buy machines so easy to tamper.
* 80% of voting machines are manufactured by two brothers. They are Christian Reconstructionists, a cult whose avowed aim is the destruction of democracy and replacing it with a strictly literal biblical theocracy -- e.g. stoning adulterers to death.
* The voting machines have been compromised dozens of times in demonstrations. One group even trained a chimpanzee to do it. An real election in Georgia was stolen, and the fraud was detected, even before the federal election. Watch how easy it is to fudge the election the central accumulating computer, running Windows, the most insecure operating system on the planet.
* The CEO of Diebold voting machines said that he would do "anything" to ensure a Bush victory -- which clearly included fudging the results.
* In 2000, pre election polls underestimated Gore's strength by five points. In 2004 they overestimated Kerry's strength by five points if you trust the voting machine results. This underestimate is inconsistent both history and logic. The voters not covered by polls are overwhelmingly Kerry voters.
* We still have not seen a breakdown by paper ballot vs voting machine. If such figures are ever released you will undoubtedly see a huge discrepancy with the voting machines preposterously high relative to the ballots. You need to compare the distribution of paper ballot vs machines with historical differences for the two regions.
* Bush prevailed only where there were such voting machines.
* Republicans refused to post intermediate tallies during the day of voting machines. This allowed them to wait to the last minute to decide the appropriate fudge factor to win without being too obvious. They could even decide at the last minute not to cheat at all.
* One third of the vote was counted by such machines. That third is meaningless since it was made up by the Bush team and is large enough to totally swamp the rest of the vote.
* The vote accumulating computers use the Windows OS which is notoriously easy to hack. Its security system is made of Swiss cheese, an after thought Microsoft tacked on with bailing wire to a standalone single-user system. Further, only one set of accumulating computers is used. Whomever has access to those computers can easily substitute a phony set of results. There needs to be open access to the voting machines so any authorised organisation can do its own tallies, as a cross-check. The military never use Windows for this reason. They use Unix or Mac which is much more secure.
* FOX news did a piece on how the voting machines are infallible, comparing them to ATM machines. They knew this was a complete lie. They covered for Bush. ATM machine have a paper trail, and a statement to check up on them. The bank has a vested interest in making them accurate. The Republican owners of the voting machines had a vested interest in fraud.
* When reporters asked Bush about Kerry's landslide in the exit polls in Florida he gave a wicked little smile and said he was not concerned.
* If anyone such as the FBI wiretapped any of the voting machines, likely they will be able to prove tampering, unless the only tampering was done in advance or if there are witnesses who recorded the precise timing of their votes.
* According to the Washington Dispatch election oddities occurred throughout Florida with some counties registering a 400% increase in expected voter turnout among Republicans while Democrats supposedly experienced a -60% decline in expected support in certain counties.
* According to the Washington Dispatch Palm Beach County logged 88,000 more votes than voters. According to the official election results posted on the Palm Beach County election website, 542,835 ballots were cast for a presidential candidate while only 454,427 voters turned out for the election (including absentee).
* In Baker County Florida, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry. In Dixie County Florida, with 4,988 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush.
* In a precinct Gahanna, Franklin county Ohio, 4258 votes for Bush 260 for Kerry. Records show only 638 voters casted ballots in that precinct.
* Cheney supporters are denouncing anyone who questions the election as kooks, conspiracy theorists and black helicopter crowd. Yet they know ballot stuffing is as American as apple pie. They desperately do not want an investigation. They know they cheated.
* Blackboxvoting.org says Bush cheated. They have the biggest freedom of information request in history in progress to prove it conclusively.

"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."
~ Edmund Burke