Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked by Thom Hartmann
Shouldn't the media look into this?
While Mark Elsis makes an interesting point about statistical error showing how unlikely the official tabulation is compared to the exit polls in light of the statistical error. Yet I was wondering why the pre-election polls differed so widely, when the same statistical error methodolgy showed two different polls' results could not both be right.
In any case, I thought you might appreciate the additional websites for those interested in the possibility of voter fraud.
Stolen Election
by Mark R. Elsis | http://StolenElection.net | November 5, 2004"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." December 18, 2000 http://GeorgeWalkerBush.net
Florida and Ohio were the two most important swing states in the 2004 United States presidential election.
The margin of error for a 95% confidence interval is +/- 3% for the national exit poll and +/- 4% for the 50 state exit polls (1). On November 2, 2004, the exit polls showed John Kerry with a lead over George W. Bush of three percentage points in Florida and four percentage points in Ohio (2)(3). As it stands today, November 5, 2004, John Kerry has ended up losing Florida to George W, Bush by five percentage points (4) and in Ohio he has ended up losing by two percentage points (5).
The difference between the Florida exit poll and the final results are eight percentage points. This is double the +/- 4% error rate for this exit poll. A 100% increase in the error rate is statistically next to impossible to happen.
The difference between the Ohio exit poll and the final results are six percentage points. This is a 50% increase in the +/- 4% error rate for this exit poll. A 50% increase in the error rate is statistically very unlikely to occur.
Together, the likelihood of Florida and Ohio both seeing such differences from their exit polls to the final results are statistically impossible. Therefore the only conclusion one could possibly derive from this statistic impossibility is that this was a stolen election. The new electronic voting machines with no paper receipts are suspect (6).
About The National Election Pool Exit Poll
Edison Media Research (7) and Mitofsky International (8) conducted exit polls in each state and nationally for the National Election Pool, a cooperative agreement among the Associated Press, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC news (9). There are 31 current subscribers to their service (10).
The Election Day survey was based on 11,027 interviews with voters who cast their votes at 1,480 precincts selected to be a representative sample of states and the nation as a whole. Telephone interviews were used to supplement results in states that allow early voting through absentee ballots or other options. The exit polls surveyed 2,846 voters in Florida and 1,963 in Ohio (11).
The polling places were selected as a stratified probability sample of each state. The purpose of stratification is to group together precincts with similar vote characteristics. A recent past election was used to identify all the precincts, as they existed for that election. The total vote in each precinct and the partisan division of the vote from this past race are used for the stratification. In addition, counties are used for stratifying the precincts. The total vote also is used to determine the probability of selection. Each voter in a state has approximately the same chance of being selected in the sample (1).
CNN.com Changes Ohio Exit Poll Numbers
Why did CNN.com change their Ohio exit poll numbers after 1:05am? The first graphic was taken from CNN.com at 1:05am on November 3, 2004. The exit poll chart shows John Kerry leading George W. Bush by two percentage points. The second graphic was taken from CNN.com at 6:41am on November 3, 2004. This new exit poll chart shows George W. Bush leading John Kerry by five percentage points.
Ohio Exit Polls
1:05 am
Male 47% Female 53%
Kerry 51% Kerry 53%
Bush 49% Bush 47%
6:41 am
Bush 52% Bush 50%
Kerry 47% Kerry 50%
I also very much enjoyed Senator John McCain (the Bush administration’s supposed non-partisan heaviest hitter) going on the Tonight Show on Thursday, November 4, 2004 (the perfect day), to try to quell any talk of mischief in the Florida and Ohio exit polls vs. the final results. Bringing out McCain coupled with the perfect timing to try to cover up this stolen election is a dead give away of what truly happened.
1) http://www.exit-poll.net/faq.html#a15
2) http://tinyurl.com/4yx5g
3) http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2519038
4) http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/FL
5) http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/OH
6) http://blackboxvoting.org 7) http://www.edisonresearch.com
8) http://www.mitofskyinternational.com9) http://www.exit-poll.net/pool.html
10) http://www.exit-poll.net/election-night/subscribers.html
11) http://tinyurl.com/4ongn
American Democracy Hangs by a Thread in Ohio
by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
Published on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 by The Free Press (Columbus, Ohio)
Election Fraud or Just Suspicions?
by Theodore D. Graves, San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, December 9, 2004
If the United States were a Third World country, our Nov. 2 election would not pass certification by international monitors. As former President Carter has explained on National Public Radio, we lack a central, nonpartisan election commission to guarantee fair and equal treatment of all voters nationwide, our candidates do not receive free and equal access to the media to deliver their message, voting procedures are not uniform throughout the county, and there is not a "paper trail" available in all cases to guarantee an honest recount where called for.
Attack on Election Board Whistleblower and Leaked Blackwell Threats Re-fire Ohio's Election Theft Scandal
Something Rotten in Ohio
by Gore Vidal
“I urge would-be reformers of our politics as well as of such anachronisms as the Electoral College to read Conyers’s valuable guide on how to steal an election once you have in place the supervisor of the state’s electoral process: In this case, Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, who orchestrated a famous victory for those who hate democracy (a permanent but passionate minority). The Conyers Report states categorically, “With regard to our factual findings, in brief, we find that there were massive and unprecedented voter irregularities and anomalies in Ohio. In many cases these irregularities were caused by intentional misconduct and illegal behavior, much of it involving Secretary of State Kenneth J. Blackwell, the co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio.” In other words, the Florida 2000 scenario redux, when the chair for Bush/Cheney was also the Secretary of State. Lesson? Always plan ahead for at least four more years.”
Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio
Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff
- The 9-1/2 page executive summary provides an excellent synopsis of how the Republican party stole the election in Ohio. A very quick and disturbing read.
Did 308,000 Cancelled Ohio Voter Registrations Put Bush Back In the White House?
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
Published on Thursday, March 2, 2006 by the Columbus Free Press (Ohio)
….In our 2005 compendium How the GOP Stole Ohio's 2004 Election & Is Rigging 2008, we list more than a hundred different ways the Republican Party denied the democratic process in the Buckeye State. For a book of documents to be published September 11 by the New Press entitled What Happened In Ohio?, we are continuing to dig.
It turns out, we missed more than a few of the dirty tricks Karl Rove, Ken Blackwell, and their GOP used to get themselves four more years. In an election won with death by a thousand cuts, some that are still hidden go very deep. Over the next few weeks we will list them as they are verified.
One of them has just surfaced to the staggering tune of 175,000 purged voters in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), the traditional stronghold of the Ohio Democratic Party. An additional 10,000 that registered to vote there for the 2004 election were lost due to "clerical error."
As we reported more than a year ago, some 133,000 voters were purged from the registration rolls in Hamilton County (Cincinnati) and Lucas County (Toledo) between 2000 and 2004. The 105,000 from Cincinnati and 28,000 from Toledo exceeded Bush's official alleged margin of victory---just under 119,000 votes out of some 5.6 million the Republican Secretary of State. J. Kenneth Blackwell deemed worth counting.
Exit polls flashed worldwide on CNN at 12:20 am Wednesday morning, November 3, showed John Kerry winning Ohio by 4.2% of the popular vote, probably about 250,000 votes. We believe this is an accurate reflection of what really happened here.
by Robert Steinback
Published on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by the Miami Herald
“….the anomalies were real. Many have been documented. They kept thousands in swing states from voting, and prevented thousands of ballots from being counted.
Not incidentally, most of the 2004 anomalies benefited one party.
What stands out in the analysis of 2004 voting practices in the critical state of Ohio, says Columbus State Community College professor Bob Fitrakis, ``is the asymmetrical nature of the anomalies. Virtually every single anomaly tends to favor Bush, just overwhelmingly.''
Fitrakis, a lawyer who holds a Ph.D in political science, has done considerable research into the critical Ohio election, which Bush officially won by 118,599 votes to recapture the presidency. Fitrakis will present his evidence in a book, What happened in Ohio: A documentary record of theft and fraud in the 2004 election, coauthored by Harvey Wasserman and Steve Rosenfeld, to be released in September.
Among their findings:
• Four percent of the 5.6 million votes cast in Ohio -- some 224,000 ballots -- were not counted for various reasons. Nearly two-thirds of those disallowed votes came from urban, heavily Democratic districts.
• In certain heavily Republican counties, John Kerry received fewer votes than obscure Democrats running in statewide elections. In Butler County, for example, a retired black judge from Cleveland in a long-shot race for state Supreme Court got 61,000 votes. Kerry got 54,000.
''The drop-off [in votes] was at the top of the ticket, which is abnormal,'' Fitrakis said.
• Voter turnout in two precincts exceeded 100 percent of the voters registered. In one precinct, 679 out of 689 voters reportedly cast ballots -- yet, ''In a couple of hours, we were able to find 25 people who said they didn't vote or were out of town,'' Fitrakis said.”
Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House
by Larry Margasak
Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by the Associated Press
“Repeated hang-up calls that jammed telephone lines at a Democratic get-out-the-vote center occurred in [the New Hampshire] Senate race in which Republican John Sununu defeated Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, 51 percent to 46 percent, on Nov. 5, 2002.”
“The Justice Department has secured three convictions in the case but hasn't accused any White House or national Republican officials of wrongdoing, nor made any allegations suggesting party officials outside New Hampshire were involved. The phone records of calls to the White House were exhibits in Tobin's trial but prosecutors did not make them part of their case.”
Still “the records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 — as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down.”
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
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.
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , June 1, 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine
…”The most transparently crooked incident took place in Warren County. In the leadup to the election, Blackwell had illegally sought to keep reporters and election observers at least 100 feet away from the polls. (190) The Sixth Circuit, ruling that the decree represented an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment, noted ominously that ''democracies die behind closed doors.'' But the decision didn't stop officials in Warren County from devising a way to count the vote in secret. Immediately after the polls closed on Election Day, GOP officials -- citing the FBI -- declared that the county was facing a terrorist threat that ranked ten on a scale of one to ten. The county administration building was hastily locked down, allowing election officials to tabulate the results without any reporters present.
In fact, there was no terrorist threat. The FBI declared that it had issued no such warning, and an investigation by The Cincinnati Enquirer unearthed e-mails showing that the Republican plan to declare a terrorist alert had been in the works for eight days prior to the election. Officials had even refined the plot down to the language they used on signs notifying the public of a lockdown. (When ROLLING STONE requested copies of the same e-mails from the county, officials responded that the documents have been destroyed.) (191)”
Hampering The Vote
By Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe, October 28, 2006
An exhaustive report, "Voting in 2006: Have We Solved the Problems of 2004?" by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the Century Foundation, and Common Cause, catalogs new, sickening assaults on our democracy
Hurdles to voter registration. Several states, led predictably by Florida and Ohio, have added criminal penalties for voter-registration efforts that violate deliberately complicated rules . In Florida, the Legislature added fines for nonpartisan groups that turn in registration materials late. This put League of Women Voters volunteer efforts in many minority areas out of business.
In Ohio, where the notorious secretary of state, Ken Blackwell, is also the Republican candidate for governor, technical violations of complex voter-registration laws are now felonies. Republicans even tried to disqualify Blackwell's opponent, Ted Strickland, from running, on the ground that he had voted in past years from two different Ohio addresses (where he lived).
Excessive ID requirements. In states that require voter ID, common-sense documentation such as a utility bill or tax receipt has long been accepted. Other states have accepted a signed affidavit or signature match, and experienced no fraud problems. But in several Republican-controlled states, such as Florida, Georgia, and Missouri, photo-ID requirements have been added, disqualifying people -- mostly poor, elderly, minority (and likely to vote for Democrats) -- who lack driver's licenses or passports or special voter cards. In Florida, the requirement could disqualify 300,000 voters.
Impediments to voting. In Arizona, an anti-immigrant ballot initiative passed in 2004 requires voters to bring proof of citizenship. In the first two months after the initiative passed, 70 percent of voter-registration applications in Maricopa County (Phoenix) were rejected for lack of adequate documentation. In Ohio, where voters in heavily Democratic and minority precincts waited for as long as 10 hours and countless gave up because of mysterious shortages of voting machines, the state belatedly required roughly equal allocation of voting machines. This remedy takes effect in 2013!
Polls have Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown leading Republican incumbent Mike DeWine by about eight points. But one Ohio activist told me, "We put the margin of theft at about seven points."
Mechanical manipulation. Immense problems remain with voting machines, most notoriously "touch-screen" machines that leave no paper trail . If you want to be really terrified, check out a nine-minute video produced by three computer scientists at Princeton, which shows how to hack into a Diebold machine to change the recorded vote (See itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting).
"The difference between the Florida exit poll and the final results are eight percentage points. This is double the +/- 4% error rate for this exit poll. A 100% increase in the error rate is statistically next to impossible to happen."
, falsely conflates two issues. +/- 4% represents the likely variation of a small sample group differing from the whole. However, this completely fails to account for the fact that people may tell the pollster one thing, but have voted a different way. Just as people may say that they will vote for a black candidate, but actually vote white. The final 8% difference thus has a completely explainable cause. It also ignores the fact that biased people can be running the polls, that the published 4% may not be correct. (It might be statistically correct, but the sample may be unevenly dispersed)
The problem with any secret voting system is the inability of individuals to check how their vote was counted. That's why an electronic system that allows post vote verification is needed.
Recipe for a Cooked Election
by Greg Palast, Yes! Magazine, Saturday, October 21, 2006
A nasty little secret of American democracy is that, in every national election, ballots cast are simply thrown in the garbage. Most are called "spoiled," supposedly unreadable, damaged, invalid. They just don’t get counted. This “spoilage” has occurred for decades, but it reached unprecedented heights in the last two presidential elections. In the 2004 election, for example, more than three million ballots were never counted.
Almost as deep a secret is that people are doing something about it. In New Mexico, citizen activists, disgusted by systematic vote disappearance, demanded change — and got it.
Republicans caught red-handed in voter fraud in Florida again!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/coulter.voting.ap/index.html
“Anderson's office received a complaint in February that Coulter voted in the wrong precinct during a February 7 Palm Beach town council election.”
Shocking!
“[WEST PALM BEACH, Florida Elections Supervisor]Anderson said a letter was sent to Coulter on March 27 requesting that she clarify her address for the voting records "or face the possibility of her voter registration being rescinded." Three more letters were sent to Coulter and her attorney, but she has yet to respond with the information requested, Anderson said.“
Stone-walling!
“Knowingly voting in the wrong precinct is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.“
Lock her up and throw away the key!