Was the 2004 Election Stolen? (by RFKjr)

Rolling Stone ^ | 6/1/06 | ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.

[finnman69]

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. The Washington Post immediately dismissed allegations of fraud as ''conspiracy theories,''(1) and The New York Times declared that ''there is no evidence of vote theft or errors on a large scale.''(2)

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(3) never received their ballots -- or received them too late to vote(4) -- after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations.(5) A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states,(6) was discovered shredding Democratic registrations.(7) In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes,(8) malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots.(9) 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.(10)

[CFC__VRWC]

This year the Unions will be back in the drivers seat of registering new voters in Ohio. They won't get ripped off. They won't register many new voters either.

If nothing else, the unions will be too busy with that to have much time left over to shoot at GOP offices, vandalize homes and vehicles of Republican voters, and assault candidates and campaign volunteers.

The democrats will just leave that kind of work for the La Raza types.

[ShandaLear]

Hey Junior...you still riding in around in that private jet?

[AmericanMade1776]

As you read the article, You can almost tell that Robert Kennedy Jr, has just finished a fifth of whiskey.

[ladyinred]

This is what Al Gore did to this nation. I will never forgive that piece of cold bologna for pretending the votes weren't counted. In every election since, the rats pretend this again, and will as long as they don't win. If and when they win, voting will finally have been done right and fair.