How George W. Bush won the 2004 presidential election

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ES&S, Diebold and Sequoia may not be household names like Enron or Arthur Andersen, but these three companies will decide America’s next president. In the 2004 presidential election, the full effect of electronic voting will be felt for the first time and these are the companies that will report the majority of the results.

Despite assurances from the corporations that own these machines, the reliability of electronic voting is under intense criticism. One of the most comprehensive examinations of electronic voting fraud came from brothers James and Kenneth Collier. In their 1992 book Votescam: The Stealing of America, the brothers detailed the long history of voting fraud over the past twenty-five years with a special focus on voting machines. American politicians and large media outlets have ignored their book, and their charges remain unanswered.

Now, their concerns are being echoed by a new group of writers, journalists and activists who have raised alarming and explosive details about electronic voting in America. While academics such as Professors Rebecca Mercuri and David Dill and organizations like the Association for Computing Machinery have carefully documented how voting systems are vulnerable to fraudulent manipulation, journalists Lynn Landes, Jerry Bowles and Bev Harris are alerting Americans to an electronic coup d’etat in the making. If their charges are true, and there is little evidence to contradict their claims, George W. Bush has already won the 2004 election.

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[trailrunners]

1. Hence the need for exit polls as well...

First, we must either get rid of these damn machines or ensure that there is a paper trail. Also, it is absolutely essential that there be extensive exit polling in 2004. In locales where the exit polls are very divergent from actual results, a thorough investigation of the election results should take place. After all, exit polls showed Gore taking Florida in 2000. Those polls were right! If all the votes had been counted there, we know Gore would have won. Alas, they were not counted.....

[PATRICK]

2. Appallingly

As for now it remionds me of Watergate, how things were happening, many touched upon and reported, some voices raised-- but absolutely no traction, no investigation, no media legs. I see this still as crawling to one conclusion:

Most of the planned states WILL have Diebold monstrously deficient and illegally implemented, poorly certified, machines deciding 2004. Then, despite the clear and detailed and reasoned calls to stop this sucker deal from going through it will happen that way. Then IF things hit the fan like Watergate? AFTER the "victory"? That is unlikelier than the opportunity we are losing now.

Watching in horror as intelliegnt(and otherwise) lemmings are herded over the abyss.

We need to get MORE computer enginers, more noise, more vocal. We need the WHOLE DNC not some suddenly alarmed single state chair trying to secure the silverware from the looters. We need DA's and lawyers. It has to be Watergate reverse play because Watergate impeachment(after the crime) is very unlikely to recur.

The main weaknessess. Fraud is unaddressed, the GOP partisans control the forum and most of the election apparatus. The media is dumb and cowed. Scientists and citizenry are only vaguely concerned and powerless.. The salemanship circle of the vendors, the pols, the election officials, the suckered advocacy groups, is a closed successful buzzsaw. The majority don't have to be "in on it" so removed are they from harm or knowledge concerning the main issues.

The saw has to hit a rock. the support of the advocacy groups, the honest pols has to be pried away. Democracy has to be rescued.