Actually, you shouldn't have that much of a hard time buying into a conspiracy. Remember, vote fraud was concentrated in urban areas where Democrats had a tradition of such things. The last Republican political machine died a long, long time ago.
Donna Brazile organized the get out the vote effort on the part of the Democrats. That's fine. But it would not take too much effort to organize a national effort at vote fraud. All one would have to do is to communicate through internet newsgroups or encrypted communications to make sure that all the critical machine operators are on the same page.
And you had Zogby for cover. His was the only one that had Gore ahead by the margin. Everyone else was off. EVERYONE! Why?
And it almost worked. Except some party hack screwed up in Florida. Common Tator posted a description of what probably happened. It has to do with duplicate voter registration lists. And someone screwed up when the first exit polls came out showing Gore up two in Florida. They didn't pad the polls because they didn't think they needed to pad the polls.
Oh, one last thing. Down here in Florida, those of us who thought about it long enough figured out that there's only one way to get a dimpled chand in a ballot card. A dimpled chad is from a card that was on the bottom of a stack of blank ballots that the Goron stooge didn't punch all the way through.
That's how it happened.
Be Seeing You,
Chris