Was the 2004 Election Stolen? - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

June 21st, 2006 by Andy in Elections & Electronic Black Box Voting

Still wondering what all the talk about electronic voting fraud and political suppression of voting is about, and why these ‘rumors’ just won’t go away? Then this is a must read.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes about how in the 2004 election 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)

This really is an excellent piece of investigative legal work and journalistic reporting by RFK, Jr. here, and why this isn’t front page news on every newspaper and the lead story on every evening newscast is in itself an indictment of the nearly total corruption of our corporate media system today.

Read the full report in Rolling Stone Here

Mark Crispin Miller weighs in as well by taking Salon to task for its pooh-pooing of the whole issue, and weak and illogical attack on RFK’s well-researched piece.

And Here is a follow up interview in PRWeek with RFK, Jr. with more details and explanation regarding his recent bombshell report.

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