Stolen

We try very hard not to become outlandish conspiracy theorists. It's very rare that I will ever use the word "fraud" in relation to the last election. I have no proof - but believe in my heart that a software engineer changed the result of the 2000 election, and the 2004 election.

One such engineer has already gone public as having coded a "proto-type" vote flipping mechanism.

The polling was incredible. Zogby had Kerry winning easily. The evidence is piled miles high.

As a professional software engineer myself - I will tell you that I could do the very same thing quite easily. I could code an untraceable vote flipper, and any number of ways to control it. I could have it feed real time results of the entire nation of electronic voting machines right into my study at home, and massage it any way that I wanted. It would be a simple thing to do.

The Republicans insisted on no paper trail. The Republicans insisted that the source code not be audited or compiled under supervision. The Republicans owned the two companies that provided the voting machines.


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At 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Election Day, I checked the sportsbook odds in Las Vegas and via the offshore bookmakers to see the odds as of that moment on the Presidential election. John Kerry was a two-to-one favorite. You can look it up.

People who have lived in the sports world as I have, bettors in particular, have a feel for what I am about to say about this: these people are extremely scientific in their assessments. These people understand which information to trust and which indicators to consult in determining where to place a dividing line to influence bets, and they are not in the business of being completely wrong. Oddsmakers consulted exit polling and knew what it meant and acknowledged in their oddsmaking at that moment that John Kerry was winning the election.

And he most certainly was, at least if the votes had been fairly and legally counted. What happened instead was the biggest crime in the history of the nation, and the collective media silence which has followed is the greatest fourth-estate failure ever on our soil.

Many of the participants in this blog have graduate school educations. It is damned near impossible to go to graduate school in any but the most artistic disciplines without having to learn about the basics of social research and its uncanny accuracy and validity. We know that professionally conceived samples simply do not yield results which vary six, eight, ten points from eventual data returns, thaty's why there are identifiable margins for error. We know that margins for error are valid, and that results have fallen within the error range for every Presidential election for the past fifty years prior to last fall. NEVER have exit polls varied by beyond-error margins in a single state, not since 1948 when this kind of polling began. In this past election it happened in ten states, all of them swing states, all of them in Bush's favor. Coincidence? Of course not.