Damning report shows that Republicans STOLE the 2004 election. That report was written by ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR!
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or
having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election watching the returns on television and wondering how the
exit polls, which predicted an overwhelming victory for John Kerry, had gotten it so wrong. By midnight, the official tallies
showed a decisive lead for George Bush -- and the next day, lacking enough legal evidence to contest the results, Kerry
conceded. Republicans derided anyone who expressed doubts about Bush's victory as nut cases in ''tinfoil hats,'' while the
national media, with few exceptions, did little to question the validity of the election.
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But despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004.
Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad never received their ballots -- or received them too late to
vote -- after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations. A
consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six
battleground states, was discovered shredding Democratic registrations. In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988
votes, malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000
ballots. Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1
million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment -- roughly one for every 100 cast. The reports were especially disturbing
in Ohio, the critical battleground state that clinched Bush
The reports were especially disturbing in Ohio, the critical battleground state that clinched Bush's victory in the electoral
college. Officials there purged tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls, neglected to process registration cards
generated by Democratic voter drives, shortchanged Democratic precincts when they allocated voting machines and
illegally derailed a recount that could have given Kerry the presidency. A precinct in an evangelical church in Miami
County recorded an impossibly high turnout of ninety-eight percent, while a polling place in inner-city Cleveland recorded
an equally impossible turnout of only seven percent. In Warren County, GOP election officials even invented a nonexistent
terrorist threat to bar the media from monitoring the official vote count.
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But what is most anomalous about the irregularities in 2004 was their decidedly partisan bent: Almost without exception
they hurt John Kerry and benefited George Bush. After carefully examining the evidence, I've become convinced that the
president's party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004. Across the country,
Republican election officials and party stalwarts employed a wide range of illegal and unethical tactics to fix the election.
A review of the available data reveals that in Ohio alone, at least 357,000 voters, the overwhelming majority of them
Democratic, were prevented from casting ballots or did not have their votes counted in 2004 -- more than enough to
shift the results of an election decided by 118,601 votes. In what may be the single most astounding fact from the election,
one in every four Ohio citizens who registered to vote in 2004 showed up at the polls only to discover that they were not listed
on the rolls, thanks to GOP efforts to stem the unprecedented flood of Democrats eager to cast ballots. And that doesn?t even
take into account the troubling evidence of outright fraud, which indicates that upwards of 80,000 votes for Kerry were counted
instead for Bush. That alone is a swing of more than 160,000 votes -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.
More here:
https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/voting/press/WasThe2004ElectionStolen.pdf
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why would anyone think, they stopped and are suddenly gonna play by the rules????
