Proof of Republican Election Fraud

In a fantastic article in the new Rolling Stone, Bobby Kennedy Jr. lays out in rather scathing detail, how the 2004 Presidential Election was no more honest or reliable than the deeply fraudulent 2000 Presidential Selection.

A few choice facts that should make your blood boil (if you actually believe in Democracy, that is):

• Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad never received their ballots, or received them too late to vote after the Pentagon mysteriously SHUT DOWN a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations.
• A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states, was discovered shredding Democratic registrations.
• In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes, malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots.
• Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment, roughly one for every 100 cast.
• In Ohio alone election officials (who also worked for the GOP):


• Purged tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls,


• Neglected to process registration cards generated by Democratic voter drives,


• Shortchanged Democratic precincts when they allocated voting machines,


• Prevented 357,000 voters, the overwhelming majority of them Democratic from casting ballots or prevented them from being counted,


• Neglected to list 1 in every 4 Ohio citizens who registered to vote in 2004 on the actual voter rolls,


• Credited 80,000 votes to Bush when they were intended for Kerry,


• Invented a nonexistent terrorist threat to bar the media from monitoring the official vote count and,


• Illegally derailed a recount.


• Exit polls took samples six times larger than normal, reducing the margin of error to +/- 1%. Against these numbers, the statistical likelihood of Bush winning was less than one in 450,000. Yet despite this, the votes supposedly tallied were reversed, and favored Bush. The odds against this reversal occurring in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio simultaneously are one in 660,000.

"What is most anomalous about the irregularities in 2004 was their decidedly partisan bent: Almost without exception they hurt John Kerry and benefited George Bush", and this is indicitive of "a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people," Bobby writes.

If you'll recall, the 2004 election was decided by a mere "mandate" of 118,601 votes.

If something isn't done NOW to address and ELIMINATE this rampant corruption, our Democracy is GONE, because it is basically a guarantee that this wretched behavior will continue in 2006, and 2008, and on, and on -- to the detriment of the Republic.