the following article really does a great job pulling together all the loose ends surrounding the stolen election ... it's a long article and a definite MUST READ ...
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http://valleyadvocate.com/gbase/News/indexthen click on the "did bush get lucky" story
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Expressed fears about a possibly stolen election aren't coming exclusively from defeated Democrats this time around. The Wall Street Journal -- hardly a Democrat's paper -- recently revealed that "Verified Voting, a group formed by a Stanford University professor to assess electronic voting, has collected 31,000 reports of election fraud and other problems."
University of Pennsylvania researcher Dr. Steven Freeman, in his November 2004 paper "The Unexplained Election Poll Discrepancy," concludes: "The odds that the discrepancies between predicted
results and actual vote counts in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania could have been due to chance or random error are 250 million to 1." The unavoidable hypothesis: they were caused by "systematic fraud or manipulation."
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This election is not the first with results widely seen as surprising if not suspicious. In November 2002, Georgia Democratic Governor Roy Barnes led by 11 percent and Democratic Senator Max Cleland was in front by 5 percent just before the election -- the first ever conducted entirely on touch-screen electronic machines, and counted entirely by company employees rather than public officials -- but mysterious election-day swings of 16 percent and 12 percent defeated both these popular incumbents. In Minnesota, Democrat Walter Mondale (replacing highly regarded Senator Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash) lost in an amazing last-minute 11-percent vote swing recorded on electronic machines. Convenient glitches in Florida aided Jeb Bush and defeated Janet Reno in their primary elections.
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Four major companies control the U.S. vote count: Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia and SAIC. All of them are hard-wired into the Bush campaign and power structure. The Bush government gave them millions to roll out computerized voting machines. Diebold chief Walden O'Dell is a top Bush fundraiser. Diebold's election division is headed by Bob Urosevich, whose brother Todd is a top exec at "rival" ES&S. The brothers were originally staked by Howard Ahmanson, bagman for the extremist Christian Reconstruction Movement, which advocates the theocratic takeover of American government. Sequoia is owned by a partner member of the Carlyle Group, which has dictated foreign policy in both Bush administrations and which employed former President Bush for quite a while.