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Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?: Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count By Steve FreemanJoel Bleifuss ( Seven Stories Press )
Release Date: 2006-06-19
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On the afternoon of Election Day 2004, the world was abuzz with the news: Exit polls indicated that John Kerry would win the election and become the next president of the United States. That proved not to be the case. According to the official count-that is the number of votes tallied, not necessarily the number of votes cast-George W. Bush beat Kerry by a margin of three million votes. The exit polls however had predicted a margin of victory for Kerry of five million votes. In every "battleground" state across the nation the final tally swung clearly beyond the exit poll's margin of error to favor the president. How can one explain this eight-million-vote discrepancy between the Election Day exit polls and the official count? Either the exit poll data was wrong or the official count was wrong. Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? analyzes the exit poll data and looks at documented examples of conventional vote suppression and outright vote fraud. It investigates the possibility that enough election fraud occurred to determine the outcome of the presidential race. And it asks the question why neither the government, nor the Democratic Party, nor any major media organization did their own investigation. Steve Freeman has a PhD in organization studies from MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Organizational Dynamics, where he teaches research methods and survey design (a domain that includes polling). He has received four national awards for best research paper of the year-on four different topics in three different fields. Joel Bleifuss, a journalist of 23 years, is the editor of In These Times. In his 18 years there, he has had more articles cited as one of the Top Censored Stories of the Year by Project Censored than any other journalist.
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 I'm tired of being told I'm crazy. ( wkrapek )
You know, George Bush lost the popular vote in 2000. We had 20 million new voters in 2004: 55-60% of whom voted for John Kerry. So we're left with MILLIONS of Gore/Nader voters from 2000 voting for George Bush in 2004.
Does that sound at all plausible? Of course not. It never happened. This election was stolen. It probably ended up pretty much like the one Obama won this week over John McCain.
I'd like to point out in this review that the #1 reason fraud-doubters blow off the exit polls from this election is because such polls have been "trending" Democratic for years. That is to say they've been pulling away from the final tally all that time; and that these final tallies have been increasingly skewed to the Republicans. So they're a worthless tool for sniffing out election fraud, and millions of formerly rational Americans must have gotten kicked in the head between 2000 and 2004.
Of course, that argument is based on the assumption that THOSE TALLIES HAVE NOT ALSO BEEN RIGGED. Rome wasn't built in a day my friends. If you're going to steal a national election you have to work up to that, and previous exit polls may have been picking up on that budding network of psychopathology.
Dr. Freeman... If you're reading this you might want to look over that trend. ESPECIALLY when Karl Rove's involved. It's the next logical step.
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Further Reading ( alexkrem )
I have not read this book yet, and may not. However, I am obliged to put in a rating. Five stars seems fair, as the topic is important and the intelligent reviewers so far have given it five stars.
From the reviews, I know what the book will say and do not need any more such shocking proof that our democracy is being stolen by professional cheats. However, I urge anyone interested in this vital topic to read Greg Palast's "Armed Madhouse" http://www.amazon.com/Armed-Madhouse-Afraid-Floats-Dispatches/dp/0525949682 or his earlier "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b_0_11?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+best+democracy+money+can+buy&x=0&y=0&sprefix=the+best+de -- both highly rated by reviewers and both offering plenty of evidence to support the same claim -- that the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen by the GOP. Both books are highly recommended, if you want to be even more discouraged.
Vote stealing is a blend of two old and familiar issues: (1) Political power has economic value, so people cheat to achieve it. Chicago Dems mastered this long ago. (2) There have always been "Americans" who do not believe in democracy. The classic Federalist-Jeffersonian debate centered around whether the common man should be trusted with the vote. More recently, literacy tests and poll taxes were used to keep "others" from voting. Now, we see more modern (equally sleazy, but no more clever nor just) techniques at play. To me, the only puzzle is why we allow it, when the fix is so obvious: Paper ballots, supervised by non-partisan or bi-partisan groups and counted (and if necessary recounted) in public. Palast explains why this is now so difficult to achieve.
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This book is absolutely true! ( autumnwolf1 )
I counted votes in Ohio for the Green party during the recount in 2004. I know for certain that votes were stolen and I know how it was done. This book describes how the votes were stolen in myriad ways across the state by miscounting and by not counting certain votes at all. In my county they had what is called a "rolling ballot" where the names at different precincts were in a different order on the ballot. It was incumbent upon the programmer to change the program for counting each deck of cards for each precinct. All he had to do was fail to change the program and a Kerry vote became a Bush vote. I watched it happen during the recount. Only in favor of the Republicans, of course. This was only one incident in an otherwise scrupulously honest County in southern Ohio. The book lists many more outrageous incidences such as the notorious Clermont County FBI lockdown. It reads like a spy novel. Every voter should read it.
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Why isn't this masterpiece of research and analysis better known? ( mogulmeister )
This is a phenomenal book in every way. It was also very difficult to read--not because it is written badly (it's not), but because the book makes it abundantly clear that the 2004 election was stolen--and our democracy failed us, badly. Why didn't this book get a lot of attention from the press? Why was it not reviewed in the New York Times? Why are so few people aware of this book and its first-rate scholarship?
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A service to our country, a tribute to science and reason ( lu222 )
This book uses the science of statistics to destroy any notion that the 2004 election was accurately and honestly recorded. Every excuse for the exit polls is refuted. It may take a Ph.D in statistics to write this book but the facts are so clear, anyone with a grasp of arithmetic and open to reality can understand the book and appreciate its warning to us.
Look at the other reviews. See which ones are reasoned and supported by details. See which ones are fact free dismissals.
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