Another Stolen Election?

This post is back by popular demand, having received several emails requesting it's return. It was deleted because Future Hi strives to remain as apolitical as possible, but right now seems to be the exception.

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Are we in the midst of a theocratic coup with rigged electronic voting machines?

Decide for yourself:

The News Target Network has a rundown on Bush's "mysterious '5% advantage' " in states that use electronic voting here. The site Democratic Underground, which as of 4:20 p.m. PT Nov. 3 has closed its forums to non-registered users, argued that hanky panky could have happened in states that don't have paper receipts. "EVERY STATE that has EVoting but no paper trails has an unexplained advantage for Bush of around +5% when comparing exit polls to actual results." On the other hand, "In EVERY STATE that has paper audit trails on their EVoting, the exit poll results match the actual results reported within the margin of error."

Joseph Cannon, who runs the blog CANNONFIRE, makes a similar argument: The states that "offered the best, safest opportunity for manipulation of the final count" were Ohio, Florida, and New Mexico. "In other states, the exit polling matched the final results rather well. In Nevada, Illinois, and New Hampshire, computer votes do have paper trails-and in those instances, the exit polls tracked the final totals. To recap: In three states with no paper trails, we have exit poll/final tally disagreement. In three states with paper trails, we have exit poll/final tally congruence."

Black Box Voting, a nonprofit organization that promises "consumer protection for elections," announced that they would undertake "the largest Freedom of Information action in history" to "obtain internal computer logs and other documents from 3,000 individual counties and townships." On Monday, the group had sounded a warning that "hackers may be targeting the central computers counting our votes tomorrow." The group claims that a Sept. 15 FOIA request filed in King County, Washington, revealed "modem 'trouble slips' consistent with hacker activity.

Here are some additional links:

Screenshots of CNN changing exit poll data.

Kerry Won: Here are the Facts

How They Could Steal The Election This Time.

Are You Sure The Election Was Real?

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