willzhead: Doubt About 2004 Election— Will wrote:

Doubt About 2004 ElectionThose of you who know me well know (at least) two things:

1. I am not given to wild speculation, especially in regard to the outcome of elections. I have managed or consulted on 28 political campaigns and am surprised by little that happens anymore.

2. I believe that the 2004 election was stolen by George Bush, notably in Ohio. The statistical likelihood of Bush winning Ohio in 2004 was highly improbable. The most likely assumption about the election, given the evidence (Ockham’s Razor), is that something illegal occurred in order to accomplish that outcome.

Now, it appears that at least one other person thinks the same thing. In an article which should come out tomorrow, Robert Kennedy, Jr. will be making the same claim. The implications for this are potentially huge.

The article link : Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen?.

The long lines in Ohio EXCLUSIVELY in Democratic strongholds is the most damning evidence for me. And I have deep suspicions about Deybold’s Voting Machines, also run by a rabidly-partisan Bush backer. I would not be at all surprised if someone spilled the beans sometime in the future (hopefully not so long that these criminals wouldn’t be villified by the news)

I, like Will, don’t speak of this much. But it is a deep-seated sickening suspicion (and also enraging). Someone needs to have a conversion experience and see the need for truth in this matter, and come clean, or else be exposed by some new “Woodward and Bernstein” exposure of deep corruption.

Also , stuff like this would seem to be reasonable grounds for deep suspicion:

In Warren County, GOP election officials even invented a nonexistent terrorist threat to bar the media from monitoring the official vote count.(11)

The list goes on and on, I’m highlighting just a very few. The article is LONG and cause for alarm. Another:

A review of the available data reveals that in Ohio alone, at least 357,000 voters, the overwhelming majority of them Democratic, were prevented from casting ballots or did not have their votes counted in 2004(12) — more than enough to shift the results of an election decided by 118,601 votes.(13)

And the hits just keep on coming:

And that doesn?t even take into account the troubling evidence of outright fraud, which indicates that upwards of 80,000 votes for Kerry were counted instead for Bush. That alone is a swing of more than 160,000 votes — enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.(15) ”It was terrible,” says Sen. Christopher Dodd

Think I’m cherry picking here? Go read the laundry list of suspicious and damning evidence …..another:

The top elections official in Toledo was a partisan in the Blackwell mold: Bernadette Noe, who chaired both the county board of elections and the county Republican Party.(99) The GOP post was previously held by her husband, Tom Noe,(100) who currently faces felony charges for embezzling state funds and illegally laundering $45,400 of his own money through intermediaries to the Bush campaign.(101)

Vote Flipping Machines:

In heavily Democratic areas around Youngstown, where nearly 100 voters reported entering ”Kerry” on the touch screen and watching ”Bush” light up, at least twenty machines had to be recalibrated in the middle of the voting process for chronically flipping Kerry votes to Bush.(165)

The vote “generating” machine:

In the state’s most notorious incident, an electronic machine at a fundamentalist church in the town of Gahanna recorded a total of 4,258 votes for Bush and 260 votes for Kerry.(168) In that precinct, however, there were only 800 registered voters, of whom 638 showed up.(169) (The error, which was later blamed on a glitchy memory card, was corrected before the certified vote count.)

On the above: how many undetected versions of this happened, and how many less-egeregiously “recalculated” results add up to a number who knows how inaccurate?

Here’s a large chunk that outlines the strategic voter machine distribution scheme:

In Columbus, which had registered 125,000 new voters(141) — more than half of them black(142) — the board of elections estimated that it would need 5,000 machines to handle the huge surge.(143) ”On Election Day, the county experienced an unprecedented turnout that could only be compared to a 500-year flood,” says Matt Damschroder,(144) chairman of the Franklin County Board of Elections and the former head of the Republican Party in Columbus.(145) But instead of buying more equipment, the Conyers investigation found, Damschroder decided to ”make do” with 2,741 machines.(146) And to make matters worse, he favored his own party in distributing the equipment. According to The Columbus Dispatch, precincts that had gone seventy percent or more for Al Gore in 2000 were allocated seventeen fewer machines in 2004, while strong GOP precincts received eight additional machines.(147) An analysis by voter advocates found that all but three of the thirty wards with the best voter-to-machine ratios were in Bush strongholds; all but one of the seven with the worst ratios were in Kerry country.(148)

The result was utterly predictable. According to an investigation by the Columbus Free Press, white Republican suburbanites, blessed with a surplus of machines, averaged waits of only twenty-two minutes; black urban Democrats averaged three hours and fifteen minutes.(149) ”The allocation of voting machines in Franklin County was clearly biased against voters in precincts with high proportions of African-Americans,” concluded Walter Mebane Jr., a government professor at Cornell University who conducted a statistical analysis of the vote in and around Columbus.(150)

By midmorning, when it became clear that voters were dropping out of line rather than braving the wait, precincts appealed for the right to distribute paper ballots to speed the process. Blackwell denied the request, saying it was an invitation to fraud.(151) A lawsuit ensued, and the handwritten affidavits submitted by voters and election officials offer a heart-rending snapshot of an electoral catastrophe in the offing:(152)

I really gotta stop reading these things. Raises the blood pressure.