Vote Count "Glitches" Haunt Bush's Supposed Mandate

Digesting the results from a Diebold voting count is like holding your breath while drowning in a pool of your own blood. You hope the statistics will provide optimism, while you know that you are expiring from the loss of your own vital fluid. Pundits are quick on the draw to report rumors and dispense disinformation from exit polls. Party operatives talk the game, while the hacks work the counting machines. The red areas spread as the blues befall the loss from a fickle suitor.

Rejection for progressives, lament for multiculuralists, despair for the Cafè Latte set; how can it get any better! Wait a New York minute, all that seems to be right for the realm, has a world of hurt yet to come. You know the States will certify this election, yet does the process provide a legitimate reflection of the public will? Before you accept the fairness, ask what is righteous or desirable about the voice of a befuddled electorate?

Voting between obscene options is deranged. You should already know the delusion of supporting the lessor of two evils, never reverses the descent into subjugation. Slowing down the operation, doesn’t cure the cause of the suffering. The sick only get another hit of drugs to keep the dopes jovial, until the euphoria subsides and reality returns. Pain doesn’t seem to impact the spectators. Only the fans of rival standard bearers rationalize that a real difference will emerge from the selection scam.

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suspicions are growing that the U.S. presidential election results were manipulated to some degree. Voting analyses of some precincts in Florida and Ohio have found surprisingly high percentages for Bush. Others have noted that the large turnout among young voters and the obvious enthusiasm of John Kerry’s voters would have suggested a better showing for the Democrat.

Exit Polls

But the most perplexing fact is that exit polls into the evening of Nov. 2 showed Kerry rolling to a clear victory nationally and carrying most of the battleground states, including Florida and Ohio, whose totals would have ensured Kerry’s victory in the Electoral College.

Significantly, polls also showed Republicans carrying the bulk of the tight Senate races. However, when the official results were tallied, the presidential exit polls proved wrong while the Senate polls proved right.

Explanations from the architects of the exit-poll sampling system also sound specious. Their report said Kerry voters were simply more willing than Bush voters to answer the exit pollsters’ questions. But this “chattiness thesis” seems more like a post-facto excuse than a serious argument.

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...is the "vast conspiracy" nature of the question. so many people would have to be involved, that it would be very hard to keep secret.... particularly in the environment that existed immediately prior to the vote, when every possible angle was being looked at exhaustively by reporters hungry for scoop.

that does make the case for funny stuff a lot less probable, prima facie. not necessarily in reality, but then, how much of reality is perception?

They only need to keep it "secrete" or at least relatively quiet long enough to re-install Bush in the Whitehouse.

that's an awful lot of baggage to hide under the rug of a presidency, just to abuse metaphors for a moment.

why on earth would the bushies leave themselves vulnerable to that many uncontrollable people, "trusting" them with such a "secret" as would be necessary to pull this thing off?

Undermines them? Of course it does. They've been caught in their lies repeatedly during this last year. They squander their credibility both at home and abroad, and inevitably there's going to come a day of reckoning. But they don't seem to care. Some of those Neocons may be very smart, but they lack wisdom.

no one's explained why they'd do such a persistently risky thing, especially if they didnt have to. they would have to assume they'd be creamed if caught, and that there were many chances to get caught.

are not the simpler explanations more effective, i.e. there are an effing lot of reactionaries out there, and also, this was a great chance to snub the "cultural elite"? and the demos are natural born losers, &c &c...

Not being a psychologist, I can't explain why the Bush crowd do what they do. But we see them doing it, time after time. They're destroying our country, they're destroying the planet, and ultimately they're destroying themselves.