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No, it wasn't the case. Jude Wanniski claimed, in 2000, that it was, but a look at the sec state and co board web sites shows that it wasn't. Also, any almanac will show the philly vote at about 600k in 2000, and 650k in 2004. Still vastly short of the 1,000,000 registered voters and possibly eligible voters. You are right--it is impossible -- it's just that some people keep repeating it without looking at the facts!

Agin, this is not to say that some fraud doesn't happen -- but you can't prove it by inventing phantom 98% turnout figures.

No, it was in the 70% range.

In 2000, there were about 101 million votes for President. In 2004, it's 117 million and still rising.

Now, in 4 years, there's about a 4% increase in total population. That gets you to 105 million. Plus about 3 million GOTV Republican and 2 million Demonrat. Plus Bush got about 2 million votes from the Dems. So, honest count:
R: 50 + .5 * 4 + 3 + 2 = 57 million
D: 51 + .5 * 4 + 2 - 2 = 53 million

There's something very fishy about the totals, although the margin is about right.

In Ohio, Nader was not on the ballot, and yet the official count for Cobb (Green) is about 35. Bull. He got more than that in Columbus alone. Badnarik is listed as having about 50-100 votes per small county. Except Medina, where the official number is - zero. I could find people whose votes were *certainly* stolen.

In Nashua, New Hampshire, the population was up by about 1% 2000-2004. Yet the vote total was up 39%! Explanation: look at a map. Nashua, NH is on the Massachusetts border, and many *thousands* of Kerry voters crossed over into New Hampshire 2 Nov to do a same-day registration and vote. Bush lost New Hampshire by about 10,000. Someone could also check the New Hampshire towns bordering Vermont for similar data.

Note that Badnarik has also asked for a recount in New Hampshire. I don't think Cobb has followed there.