Doubts Persist About Election Results

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[frog_jerk_2004]

By RACHEL KONRAD, Associated Press Writer

As the Electoral College (news - web sites) prepares to certify President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election on Monday, concerns persist about the integrity of the nation's voting system — particularly in Ohio, where details continue to emerge of technology failures, voter confusion and overcrowded polling stations in minority and poor neighborhoods.

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Few mainstream politicians dispute Bush's victory, and the incumbent's 3.5 million-vote margin nationwide was wider than any of the reported problems, which included insufficient or incomplete provisional ballots and, in some places, brazen partisan shenanigans.

[frog_jerk_2004]

Let's recount every vote and enjoy BUSH'S victory again!

[frog_jerk_2004]

voter confusion

Isn't this how the DIMS get their inflated number of votes in the first place?

[Bikers4Bush]

The only doubts about Ohio are not coming from people who actually live and vote in Ohio.

They're coming from people who aren't even involved in our election process and those people can kiss my butt.

[Brilliant]

Yup. We all know that Bush was elected by the President of Diebold. I have it on good authority that Diebold put all those Bush bumper stickers you've seen on those vehicles without the owners' permission, too.

[gop_gene]

Few mainstream politicians dispute Bush's victory . . .

And that's the keyword here . . . only left-wing activists and looney-tunes politicians on the fringe (Conyers, Kaptur, etc) are trying to make hay with this. The rest want no part of it.

[clintonh8r]

Somebody was on FNC the other night talking about how flyers were distributed in black neighborhoods saying the Democrat election would be on Nov 3. Of course, he couldn't produce a single flyer, and I'm not sure there's anything illegal about it anyway.

[Fruitbat]

Doubts Persist About Election Results

Only in the minds of the whining losers!

[Santana]

As The Eagles would say, "Get over it, get over it..."

[traderrob6]

This election had no more problems than any other and considering the record turnout that's saying something. AP puts a story out like this every day, same ole crap with a bit of wording change. I'm sick of it. There were some minor gliches, long lines were do to a record turnout, that's it, enough already. They pulled this same crap in Florida 2000, and out of the 100s of supposed instances of voter disenfranchisememt, only 3 people wound up testifying and those three were debunked. Demagouges are just bullsh!^ artist slaesman looking for a customer and I aint buyin

[frog_jerk_2004]

The citizens' lobby group Common Cause received 210,000 phone calls to a hot line that logged complaints.

My ASS!!! A quick look at their web site:

In its early years, Common Cause was a leader in passing landmark campaign finance reforms, including a 1974 law establishing public financing for presidential campaigns, setting limits on contributions to all federal candidates and requiring disclosure of campaign contributions and expenditures. Common Cause has also led efforts to end secrecy in government through passage of freedom of information, open meetings, and other "sunshine laws;" establish tough ethics standards for elected officials; enact strict lobbyist disclosure requirements and limit the practice of elected officials accepting lavish gifts from special interests. Common Cause worked with other advocates in Congress to end funding for the Vietnam War, cut funding for expensive weapons systems, and shape outcomes on important civil rights issues.

1987 - Works with civil rights groups to successfully oppose the nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1995 - Works with civil rights and voting rights groups to pass the Motor Voter Act, easing registration barriers for voters.

2002 - Leads successful multi-year campaign to enact the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, banning soft money in federal campaigns. In 2003, in a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law

I'd be embarassed by this record of fraud and deceit...

[gop_gene]

I don't buy it. Even if such flyers HAD been distributed, everyone has a tv, radio, newspapers and/or internet, etc.--there's lots of other sources for them to know when the election is being held, why would they just believe a flyer? Unless a person didn't watch any tv, listen to the radio, read any papers, doesn't go on the web at all, AND doesn't talk to anybody, they'd know when the election was.

[Sthitch]

I for one doubt the results. I think that there was an active attempt to steal this election, and for the most part the evil doers succeeded, they stole PA, and WI for sure, and I have little doubt that they also stole Minnesota. Thankfully, their attempts in Ohio failed and we still won.

[tx_eggman]

As The Eagles would say, "Get over it, get over it..."

Don't leave out "I'd like to find your inner child and kick it's little ass."

[FreedomAvatar]

...and overcrowded polling stations in minority and poor neighborhoods

Clear, irrefutable evidence of institutional racism and deliberate disenfanchisement of minorities.

As we all know, in suburban polling areas there was valet service, latte, no waiting in line and free hors d'oeuvres.

[frog_jerk_2004]

Here are more great (Ughh!) accomplishments from their awful Anti-American website:

# 1985 - After leading a major grassroots campaign against the MX missile, Common Cause plays a lead role in convincing Congress to cap at 50 the number of MX missiles, after coming close to nearly killing the program outright.

# 1988 - Calls for the congressional ethics investigation of House Speaker James Wright (D-TX) that leads to his resignation.

# 1995 - Calls for outside counsel to investigate House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), prompting an ethics investigation that ended in his resignation and a $300,000 fine.

Common Cause worked with other advocates in Congress to end funding for the Vietnam War, cut funding for expensive weapons systems, and shape outcomes on important civil rights issues.

This is the enemy of America!

[eleni121]

Talk about blaming the victim...the Dims have the unmitigated gall to question the 2004 results?

How about questioning the results evey single election since the rise of Andy Jackson? It's the Dims who have corrupted fully the electoral process in this country.

What a shameless bunch!

[jalisco555]

Yeah, I doubt Kerry got as many votes as reported. No way, no how.

[airborne]

voter confusion = dumb Dems

[dawn53]

In six states, including Florida and Texas, about three dozen voters complained that they selected Kerry on touch-screen machines but were shown as having voted for Bush until they revised their electronic ballot

This happened to me, but just the opposite. I touched Bush on the screen and the final tally showed I voted for Kerry.

So I followed the instructions to cancel out that vote, and went back and changed my vote to Bush.

What exactly is the problem, if they noticed the machine got it wrong and changed it, their vote was not cast for Bush.

And with touch screens, they give you lots of notice of an undervote and you can't overvote on them.

This, to me, is a non-issue, unless you're saying that people are dumb enough to look at the final vote tally shown on a screen and not believe they can change it to whom they want to vote for.

[Malleus Dei]

The only people still clinging to this delusion are Left-wing fanatics.