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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."
In June Rolling Stone ran an article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Yep, there's two bastions of unbiased opinion.
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Seriously, Let it go
Bush won the election. Get over it. I don't care how much you don't like him or how much you don't agree with him; that doesn't matter, but he won the election. Move on. Just because the person you voted for didn't win doesn't mean the whole thing is a sham.
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Sad, but I think that it will happen again.
To me, it seems inconceivable that very wealthy republicans would conspire to do such a thing - I can not even relate to that much greed.
And greed is what this is about: the super rich and multi-national corporations save so much money with Bush tax cuts - that is their motivation.
I call Bush's fiscal policies "cut and run economics" - give tax cuts to the super rich, run up the deficits, and run away like cowards letting future generations suffer (I am a grandpa of two young kids - this is something I really care about).
Snivelling cut and run fiscal cowards.
There's nothing wrong with ohio...except the snow, rain, and fraudulent voting of course.
Oh goodie, another opportunity for "rape victims" to bitch about being raped and blame anyone but themselves. Don't were a short dress and you get better results.
Lars T.
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Wake up sheeple...
and you just lost the argument. I didn't bother reading the rest of your post but i assume you called Bush Hitler yadda yadda.
Democrats need to learn to lose and learn from it or maybe they like the loser role.
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If you believe that Clinton was moving towards the center, all that tells us is that you are far left of the US version of center. Every man's center is different - I think that the US went too far left and is merely correcting.
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+1, The Truth Hurts, Doesn't It, Dave?
- Bush supporters are ashamed of voting for Bush?
- Bush supporters aren't smart enough to fill in the poll information?
- Bush supporters don't waste their time filling out information for the liberal mainstream media?
- Bush supporters don't carry writing utensils because they're carrying too many handguns?
I think that statement is interesting. "Kerry supporters were more likely to participate and complete an exit poll." Now how did they figure that out? They ask 100 people, "Who did you vote for?" 49 said "Kerry", 25 said "Bush" and, and 26 said "Fuck you" which means they voted for Bush?I'm just being silly. Never mind...
If there was something wrong with the election, the NY Times would have found it. Just read the editorials, There is no love for George Bush. They expose the NSA wiretapping and they would love to expose this. Rolling Stones breaking this has the same value as Playboy or Vanity Fair doing it. I am democrat and I absolutely loathe the current administration. But, the past is the past and I am looking forward to 2006. If Republicans take both Houses, the illegals can have this country because I am moving to China. One of two facts will be apparent- Americans are truly idiotic or someone has a stranglehold on power and it ain't I.
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If someone was to post a comment like this, it would be marked as flamebait. This story has nothing to do with science, technology, or any of the other things slashdot talks about. You might be able to argue relevance with electronic voting hacking or something. Truthfully, people need to stop pulling stories that are two years old out of the trash and trying to rehash them.
This is just like the Democrats in every other aspect in life - someone cheated them, they never fail. Its like they do to kids these days - every one of 100 contestants gets a trophy even though 99 lost.
How does an editorial hitpiece and a link to a poorly-written Wikipedia entry wind up on the front page of Slashdot? I wish Pudge were around to put out the smackdown.
Funny you say that. The US is one of the only countries in the world where you can loose the right to vote if you are convicted of a crime and happen to be black.
What exactly is it Bush is supposed to have lied about? You are aware, I hope, that the original "Bush lie", the Nigerian uranium, turned out to be 100% true.
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
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One of their agenda items is to remove any means for an individual to defend or arm themselves.
Don't mean to troll but since I've read that article a few monthes ago, seeing that on the front page of Slashdot gives it a Digg-esque feel.
You just got troll'd!