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Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

jZnat writes, "In June Rolling Stone ran an article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delving into the statistical improbability that Bush won the 2004 election based on massive amounts of evidence that support a Republican-sponsored election fraud across the country, particularly in Ohio. The GOP used a number of tactics in its fraudulent campaign including ballot-stuffing, denying newly registered voters (particularly in urban and minority precincts) their voting privileges via illegal mailings known as caging lists, inane voter registration requirements, preventing thousands of voters from receiving provisional ballots, under-providing Democrat-majority precincts with voting machines thus creating enormous queues of voters, faulty machines (particularly from Diebold) that skewed results in the GOP's favor, mostly unnoticed ballot-stuffing and fraud in rural areas, and a fixed recount that was paid for by the Green and Libertarian parties that essentially supported the initial fraudulent numbers." From the article: "'Ohio was as dirty an election as America has ever seen,' Lou Harris, the father of modern political polling, told me."

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  1. there is a bias, you're right! by User+956 · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's indisputable that reality has a well-known liberal bias.

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  2. All I need to see...the dead voting. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Show me any human on this planet who is not biased."

    Check the cemeterys.

  3. Re:Plagiarism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Too bad Slashdot, in its ridiculous slanting..."

    If it weren't for the slanting it would be |. instead of /.

  4. Re:No one will believe the it's unthinkable by thule · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe Gore should have setup a parallel government. I think that is the plan for the looser in Mexico.

  5. Re:Moo by catalina · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I don't vote and thereby lose my US citizenship, can I stop paying taxes too?
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    You can actually stop paying taxes now, and retain your US citizenship. You'll even get room and board for some number of years, and never have to worry about voting again, since felons lose their right to vote...

  6. Re:Yes/No/Maybe by jazman_777 · · Score: 3, Funny
    "No one is thinking of postponing the elections."


    As Bismarck once said, "Nothing is confirmed until officially denied."

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  7. Re:How about you RTFA by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'd still find the evidence disturbing if it were published in Penthorse

    I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't need to read about evidence of electoral tampering to find Penthorse disturbing...

  8. It was a real magazine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://www.cambridgenow.ca/spps/sitepage.cfm?catID =119

    The same guy created Penthorse, Cowsmopolitan, Playboar and Vague. He, of course, was not intending to be taken seriously.

  9. Re:Moo by soft_guy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unless you are rich. In that case, you probably aren't paying any taxes anyway.

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  10. Re:democracy (is quaint and old-fashioned) by Capsaicin · · Score: 1, Funny

    In a democracy, accurate polls are essential ...

    Ah but you see we've managed to spin that one too. The US "is not a democracy," no, no, it is "a Republic founded on democratic principles." Being non-core, these democratic principles can (and should) be overridden if it is necessary to keep the government in safe hands during times like these when the US is threatened with imminent destruction from the likes of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

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  11. Re:KIcking up an ant's nest by Quantam · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a left-leaning site. I have NEVER seen a right-leaning article approved here. Ever.

    I think the reason for that should be pretty self-evident. Just look at the left's policies from the perspective of the average Slashdot geek:
    Welfare: Because working takes time away from completing my tier 17 class set
    No war: Because I can only hit stuff in Counterstrike
    No warrant-less surveillance: Because not everyone in my private collection is 18
    Anti-trust legislation: Because Microsoft needs to die
    Abortion: Because if I ever manage to find a girl that'll sleep with me, I sure don't want to have to worry about multiplication errors
    Gay marriage: Because I'll probably never find that girl anyway

    Need I go on?

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  12. Re:Plagiarism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So tar any opposition as loonytoons.

    > How about some articles about World Trade Center demolition conspiracies!

    The only people with WTC demolition theories are UFO nuts, conspiracy lifers and and few guys working for Karl Rove pumping it up so you can obscure discussions of Diebold.

  13. Re:Moo by m1ddle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn, I thought he said he wasn't a crook!! Well, at least he's a head in a jar now....

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  14. Re:Moo by demonbug · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where I live, that would be counted as a clear vote for the Republican candidate(s).