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Monday, 08 November 2004

I'm now personally convinced that multiple states were rigged.

Truthout has a good overview. There are now over 1100 reports of major voting machine malfunctions, including extra Bush votes coming from thin air, machines in Democratic precincts subtracting thousands of votes, and Kerry voters even helplessly watching their votes registered as Bush votes.

This Thom Hartmann article points out the increasing evidence that the theft was done not with the notorious touch-screen machines, but with the optical scanners -- in fact, there's a direct correlation between their use and sudden careening of the vote toward Bush.

If you'd like some serious convincing, take a look at this chart, a county-by-county breakdown of Florida's votes. In the touchscreen counties, we see high turnout distributed fairly evenly for both parties. But in the optical scan counties, the numbers suddenly skew almost laughably toward the GOP, which receives roughly twice as many votes as you'd expect, while the Democrats get about half as many.

The numbers are huge, consistent, and absurd.

Florida (at the very least) was stolen. I'm convinced.

It turns out the exit polls, which are normally extremely accurate, since they eliminate all questions about who's a likely voter and whether they'll change their mind, were rejiggered as well, as in Ohio, for example:

At 7:32 p.m., there were 1,963 respondents; at 1:41 a.m. on November 3, there was a final total of 2,020 respondents. These fifty-seven additional respondents must all have voted very powerfully for Bush—for while representing only a 2.8 percent increase in the number of respondents, they managed to produce a swing from Kerry to Bush of fully 6.5 percent.

Believing that George W. Bush won the election in the manner we are told requires an absolute faith in mathematical impossibilities. It didn't happen.

BlackBoxVoting.org claims to have FOIA documents proving that basic security certification for electronic voting systems simply was never done. Thus, the vote was not secure and was easily accessible for tampering.

For more as this develops -- and I'm gonna keep on this until somebody convinces me that basic math doesn't apply here -- here's an attempt at a comprehensive list of links over at BOP. (Credit: first saw it in a Kos diary.)

Go. Read. And TELL PEOPLE. Fast.

PS -- Ralph Nader, as much as many of us have been pissed at him, has requested a hand recount of ballots in New Hampshire, where optical scanners gave Bush up to 15% more of the vote than exit polls predicted. With luck, we might get actual proof of a bogus election. It's a longshot, but maybe the guy can redeem himself after all...