There was an Electoral Uprising at the Ballot Box on
November 2nd. And yet, the Bush Cabal and its wholly-owned-subsidiary-formerly-known-as-the-Republican-Party, with the full support of their sponsors in the US regimestream news media, are on the verge of stealing
it AGAIN...The exit polls were never wrong before
2000, they were not wrong then and they are not wrong
now...Both Fraudida and Ohio used electronic voting
extensively...It is Deibolic...Either fight or wave goodbye to the Republic...
Daily Kos: The technology of exit polling has not
changed. There has been a change in voting technology,
however -- namely, electronic voting machines. Neither
electronic voting machines nor exit polls leave a
paper trail. (Actually, exit polls do leave a paper
trail, but it has no legal import.) So why should we
believe electronic voting machines more than exit
polls?
Thwart the Theft of a Second Presidential Election
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/3/04741/7055
Which is more credible: exit polls or Diebold?
by Alexander
Wed Nov 3rd, 2004 at 04:47:41 GMT
What is puzzling everyone at the moment is the
discrepancy between the exit polls and the votes that
are being reported. The way the pundits are framing
this issue is: what went wrong with the exit polls?
But what reasons do we actually have for thinking the
exit polls were wrong? Previously, exit polls have
reflected fairly closely the finally recorded vote.
(On MSNBC, I heard Matthews suggesting that
Republicans not liking to talk to pollsters explained
the discrepancy: that's a new one to me.)
The technology of exit polling has not changed. There
has been a change in voting technology, however --
namely, electronic voting machines. Neither electronic
voting machines nor exit polls leave a paper trail.
(Actually, exit polls do leave a paper trail, but it
has no legal import.) So why should we believe
electronic voting machines more than exit polls?
Diaries :: Alexander's diary ::
I remember reading already at the time of the 2002
election that if electronic voting machines were used
to defraud an election, the way you would be able to
tell is that there would be a mismatch between the
exit polls and the reported vote.
Two states are critical now: Florida and Ohio. Both
states make significant use of electronic voting
machines. Both states have Bush ahead, even though
exit polls indicated a definite Kerry victory.
Because electronic voting machines do not leave a
paper trail, we simply have to take the word of the
people and corporations that program the machines that
they accurately register votes. But why should we take
their word for it? Elections are based on
transparency, and there is nothing less transparent
than a computer running proprietary software.
Kerry must not pull a Gore. Until it can be shown that
counties that use electronic voting machines produce
comparable results to counties that don't, he should
concede neither Florida nor Ohio.