Stolen Election
In 2004, John Kerry got more votes than any Democratic presidential candidate in history. Kerry dramatically increased the number of Democratic votes over the number Al Gore received in 2000.
A Rolling Stones article entitled: "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" by Robert Kennedy Jr. made a convincing argument that a Kerry victory in the 2004 presidential election was subverted by a far-reaching Republican strategy of fraud, vote suppression and other crimes against the democratic process. Kerry would have won Ohio if all of his votes had been counted, and if all of the eligible voters who tried to vote for him had been allowed to cast their ballots.
The efforts to disenfranchise Democratic voters in 2004, were headed by Ohio secretary of state J. Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican, who was both the chief election official in the state and co-chairman of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in Ohio.
Every foul-up and arbitrary new regulation, that occurred in Ohio in the election favored Bush. Proving that Republicans hijacked the Ohio election was not possible at the time, but a range of problems and dirty tricks have come to light. For example, the shortages of voting machines and the long lines with waits of seven hours or more occurred in urban areas and discouraged mostly Kerry voters.
Walter Mebane Jr. a professor of government at Cornell University, did a statistical analysis of the vote in Franklin County, which includes the city of Columbus. "The allocation of voting machines in Franklin County was clearly biased against voters in precincts with high proportions of African-Americans."
Mr. Mebane compared the distribution of voting machines in Ohio's 2004 presidential election with the distribution of machines for a primary election held the previous spring. For the primary election, he found that there was no sign of racial bias in the distribution of the machines. However, for the general election in November, there was substantial bias, with fewer voting machines per voter in areas, which were heavily African-American.
The integrity of our election process has been compromised in two consecutive presidential elections, while Congress continues to allow the states to subvert the will of the voters.
A Rolling Stones article entitled: "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" by Robert Kennedy Jr. made a convincing argument that a Kerry victory in the 2004 presidential election was subverted by a far-reaching Republican strategy of fraud, vote suppression and other crimes against the democratic process. Kerry would have won Ohio if all of his votes had been counted, and if all of the eligible voters who tried to vote for him had been allowed to cast their ballots.
The efforts to disenfranchise Democratic voters in 2004, were headed by Ohio secretary of state J. Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican, who was both the chief election official in the state and co-chairman of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in Ohio.
Every foul-up and arbitrary new regulation, that occurred in Ohio in the election favored Bush. Proving that Republicans hijacked the Ohio election was not possible at the time, but a range of problems and dirty tricks have come to light. For example, the shortages of voting machines and the long lines with waits of seven hours or more occurred in urban areas and discouraged mostly Kerry voters.
Walter Mebane Jr. a professor of government at Cornell University, did a statistical analysis of the vote in Franklin County, which includes the city of Columbus. "The allocation of voting machines in Franklin County was clearly biased against voters in precincts with high proportions of African-Americans."
Mr. Mebane compared the distribution of voting machines in Ohio's 2004 presidential election with the distribution of machines for a primary election held the previous spring. For the primary election, he found that there was no sign of racial bias in the distribution of the machines. However, for the general election in November, there was substantial bias, with fewer voting machines per voter in areas, which were heavily African-American.
The integrity of our election process has been compromised in two consecutive presidential elections, while Congress continues to allow the states to subvert the will of the voters.
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