Democracy on a Silver Platter

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Deus ex Machina

BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast has laid the facts out on the table, and I'll take the liberty of posting the article on my LJ.

Kerry Won...
Greg Palast
November 04, 2004
Excerpted from TomPaine.com

---Kerry won. Here are the facts.---I know you don't want to hear it. You can't face one more hung chad. But I don't have a

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Gripping the Base

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There are very real possibilities of foul play. The hard facts are as follows:

1.) The likelihood of partisan operatives exploiting e-vote hacks was understood before the election. The notion was becoming so widely disseminated that "Diebold" was a household name before any of this happened.

2.) Many steps were taken, on behalf of activists, to ensure that these machines were fully auditable. However, there is evidence that in some counties (consisting of a peculiarly left-leaning demographic), those machines were allowed - loopholes and all.

3.) Exit-polling in Ohio showed Kerry in a 6% overall lead. After the state was called by all of the networks, the "official" count had Bush in a 2-3% lead. Considering the actuality of statement #1, tell me which is easier to believe: the exit-polls were inaccurate, or that the final vote count was inaccurate?

4.) Neither you nor I have the connections to investigate, per se, but there are some groups who are taking up the burden of exposing this fraud. These things take time, and there is an enormous FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request underway.

5.) Maybe we'll see it on 60 Minutes in 20 years - who knows? However, I doubt such issues of volatile political nature will be widely broadcast, until they have been blown wide open. Unless the media is onboard, the idea would immediately be construed as partisanship.