Posted on 06/11/2006 6:50:07 AM PDT by Military family member
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.
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)
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Rolling Stone is respected by the young and stupid. It hasn't changed in my lifetime.
They have to believe that...otherwise they would have to see that enough people just don't want what they have to offer.
Hey, Dims! They're just not that into you!
Are they still on this?
Hey, Dems, despite all of your valiant efforts, you just weren't clever enough to steal the 2000 and the 2004 elections.
Get over it, already.
Bwaahaahahaaaa! Good one!
Speaking as a musician: No. ;)
Doomed, Doomed, doomed I tell you... If the Republicans keep stealing elections soon we will all be republicans...
Hahhahahaha
The Rats really need to get over themselves..
I dunnooo ... looks like Gauthier when he was on "Get Smart"! :)
He is just pissed that the mob was not involved in this one.
I've always believed that the Democrats made this an issue to cover their own massive vote fraud efforts. I remember an early Drudge headline from election day 2000 about allegations of large-scale Democrat vote fraud in Broward and Dade counties, Florida, and other locations. Of course, this was all quickly forgotten when the Dem attempts to overturn the results started less than 24 hours later. What really steamed the Dem leadership was that their well-orchestrated vote fraud campaigns didn't work in 2000, and also in 2004.
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An article that will appeal to the tinfoil hat, space aliens are living among us and Walt Disney is in a freezer at Disneyland crowd.
O.K. Just how does "evil" Republicans prevent 350,000 people from voting???
How does this asshat know the 350,000 people would have voted for Kerry.
STFU, already.
What I remember from an instructor somewhere in the past who taught about propaganda:
Lie. The bigger the lie, the more likely it is to be believed.
Keep repeating the lie. The bigger it is, and the more often it's repeated, the more likely it is to be believed.
Keep on lie. Get outrageous with the lie. Outrageous lies cover up other lies, and create the likelihood that the first lies will be believed.
ROTFLMAO
"What I remember from an instructor somewhere in the past who taught about propaganda:
Lie. The bigger the lie, the more likely it is to be believed.
Keep repeating the lie. The bigger it is, and the more often it's repeated, the more likely it is to be believed.
Keep on lie. Get outrageous with the lie. Outrageous lies cover up other lies, and create the likelihood that the first lies will be believed."
Correct! It's called "The Big Lie" and was perfected by Stalin and Hitler. The Dems adopted it from them.
These people are never going to stop with this BS until another Dummycrap is put into the Whitehouse.
While I oppose stealing elections, I sometimes with the Republicans were this competent. Unfortunately, the folks who have U.S. Patents on election stealing machinery, plus patents on all the improvements are...(drum roll)...Democrats!
Fine. We stole it. We're not giving it back.
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