Have the people really spoken at the polls?

November 6, 2004

Think the people have spoken? Think again. Not only were there major voter irregularities in Ohio and Florida but the winners were based on results of computerized voting machines without a paper trail.

Anyone who has any experience programming knows how just changing one word in a line code can completely change the output.

Most of the manufacturers of these black box voting machine will not reveal the programs that run them.

Bush supporters have been vehement against forcing the manufacturers to provide a paper trail. They said it is too difficult. This is nonsense -- they manufacture ATMs. Could you imagine going to a bank and not getting a receipt?

In addition, after two other courts said it was illegal, a Republican judge said it was OK to challenge voters' registrations at Ohio polls. That meant that anyone could say they didn't trust the person's credentials and force them into filing a provisional ballot. Then many precincts ran out of these ballots and thousands did not get to vote at all. Some stood in lines until 2 a.m. and did not get to vote. This was almost entirely in very Democratic areas.

All the exit polls revealed that Sen. John Kerry was winning handily in both Florida and Ohio. These surveys may be off by a point or two, but in aggregate, never that wrong. Is there any wonder that the Ohio Secretary of State did everything to stop exit polling. The answer is obvious. Welcome to George W. Bush's America, where stolen elections are not the exception, but the norm.

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