Was the 2004 election stolen? No. (Salon Thoroughly Debunks RFK Jr?)

Salon ^ | June 2, 2006 | Farhad Manjoo

[FlingWingFlyer]

Another psycho Kennedy cashing in on the Kennedy name. When are people going to wake up. It's time to get over "Camelot."

[hsalaw]

interviewers assigned to talk to voters as they left the polls appeared to be slightly more inclined to seek out Kerry voters than Bush voters

This characteristic of polling hasn't changed.

[Our man in washington]

I'm sure some folks at Democratic Underground are now saying that Salon Magazine has been paid off by the Bush administration and is a part of the neocon network. DU is like the Three Stooges: amusing, but very predictable.

[JennysCool]

interviewers assigned to talk to voters as they left the polls appeared to be slightly more inclined to seek out Kerry voters than Bush voters

That's also because they had to interview early to get the footage back and edited for the evening newscasts.

The Bush voters were still AT WORK.

[jveritas]

That is really pathetic. Sometimes I feel sympathy to those delusional morons.

[alnick]

Kennedy contends that Kerry's vote totals in the presidential race should have exceeded Connally's in the Supreme Court race in these rural counties; you wouldn't expect a relatively unknown liberal to win more votes than a well-known moderate in a rural area.

Who the hell is the "well-known moderate"? Certainly not Kerry.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Kennedy...counts 30,000 voter registrations that were deleted from voter rolls, in keeping with state law, as mostly Kerry voters, though it's impossible to know if those were even real people.

In all fairness, if they weren't real people, then they were definately Kerry voters.

[Christian4Bush]

bttt

[Kenny Bunkport]

But the exit polls showed that Kerry won!

[TChad]

Get over it and stop whining willya?

I disagree. I think it is very important for the left to devote as much money and as many other resources as possible to carefully examine previous elections.

[Skip Ripley]

I was a presiding precinct judge in Toledo, Ohio in 2004. Yes, there were some very long lines at the polling stations. They were caused in part by the new optical scan voting machines that HAD to be used in the wake of the 2000 Florida debacle. The county had been using the same old manual "flick the lever next to your guy" machines for decades without incident, but because a few numbskulls iun FL couldn't correctly match a name to it's corresponding circle, we had to change to brand new technology that simply wound up confusing a number of people including those of us who were charged with manning the polling places.

Add in the surge of newly registered voters who went to the wrong polling place and random dumb dumbs who were trying to vote even though they weren't registered (they got a nifty provisional ballot anyway) and you have a recipe for chaos.

I will say this about my little corner of the world, Democrats and Republicans worked their butts off alongside each other to get the job done. Given the fact that all we had to work with was a 2 hour training class and 12 or so page manual (along with a cell phone to call the board of elections) we did a pretty damn good job.

[river rat]

Grow Up?

Most of the ones remaining are certainly the runts or dumb asses of the litter....

Several of which I certainly regard as wasters of oxygen and dangerous to the Republic...

You can worship the bastards, I won't...

Deal with it...

Semper Fi

[skr]

RJK has stature?

[maine-iac7]

This jimoko actually stood in front of people and claimed that Bush actually CAUSED the hurricanes...because he didn't sign into Kyoto.

These Kennedy's took their schooling in communism real seriously. "To be believed, make it a BIG lire and tell it often."

[karnage]

I'm witchoo!

[JennysCool]

antioasis

Since Apr 6, 2006

Sigh. Just another disruptor.

[Lancey Howard]

A report by the Democratic Party released last year found "evidence of voter confusion, voter suppression, and negligence and incompetence of election officials."

Curiously, these were all Democrat voters and Democrat election officials in Democrat strongholds.

[frankensnake]

There's a method to the DemocRAT's madness. This is about creating an issue to trash Kenneth Blackwell. They can't let a conservative black Republican win the Governor's race in Ohio. The DemocRATs can't have any of those "uppity coloreds" thinking they can get off the plantation.