coming down the pipeline? 2004 voting scandal...

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http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002891.htm

[UPDATED] EXCLUSIVE: BOBBY KENNEDY JR. TO QUESTION 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN MAJOR ROLLING STONE FEATURE ARTICLE!
Tells BRAD BLOG: 'Evidence Shows High-Level Republicans Succeeded in Scheme to Steal Election in Ohio'!
Mag to Hit Stands Friday, Internet on Thursday, Publicity Push to Accompany



Tells BRAD BLOG: 'Evidence Shows High-Level Republicans Succeeded in Scheme to Steal Election in Ohio'!
Mag to Hit Stands Friday, Internet on Thursday, Publicity Push to Accompany

A damning and detailed feature article, written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for Rolling Stone and documenting evidence of the theft of the 2004 Presidential Election is set to hit...

A damning and detailed feature article, written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for Rolling Stone and documenting evidence of the theft of the 2004 Presidential Election is set to hit newstands this Friday, The BRAD BLOG can now confirm. The online version of the article will be posted tomorrow (Thursday) morning.

The article -- headlined on the cover as "Did Bush Steal the 2004 Election?: How 350,000 Votes Disappeared in Ohio" -- has been several months in development and will contend that a concerted effort was undertaken by high-level Republican officials to steal the Election in Ohio -- and thus the country -- in 2004!

Kennedy told The BRAD BLOG this morning that "the best evidence says the Republicans succeeded" in their plan.

He writes in the 10-page long article, and confirmed to us today, that evidence shows Ohio Sec. of State J. Kenneth Blackwell was "certainly in on" the scheme, and there are indications that the effort went all the way up to the White House.

Kennedy, who is co-host of Ring of Fire, a weekend show on Air America Radio, is an environmental attorney and the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy. This is his first public foray into the realm of Election Fraud, Election Integrity, Electronic Voting and, in particular, the questionable results of Election 2004.

A major publicity push is currently in the works to accompany the feature story which is sure to get the attention of more than a few D.C. and Buckeye State pols in addition to the mainstream media who have, of late, begun reporting more frequently on the litany of concerns and now-documented evidence that new electronic voting machines are hackable through a number of means.

Several public appearances are currently being scheduled for Kennedy in the coming weeks, including an appearance on The Colbert Report currently scheduled for Monday, June 12.


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Sources have told The BRAD BLOG that Kennedy "does not hold back in this article."

One of the election integrity advocates involved in research and development with Kennedy on the story told us a number of weeks ago that "[Kennedy] essentially says everything that those of us who have been contending there was massive chicanery in the '04 election were right, and the media and politicians who ignored it at the time were wrong."

We'll have more details and information shortly from the story which includes quotes from Democrats such as Howard Dean and John Kerry, as well as pollster Lou Harris who also questions the validity of the 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio according to the article...


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A sidebar included with the article calls for an investigation into Electronic Voting machines prior to upcoming elections...More soon...


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Keeping in mind that a mere 6 votes registered for Kerry instead of Bush at each precint in Ohio in 2004 would have given the state, and the Presidency, to Kerry, here's a few quotes from the article...

Howard Dean: "I'm not confident that the election in Ohio was fairly decided."

U.S. Congressman from Ohio, Rep. Dennis Kucinich: "The secretary of state is supposed to administer elections – not throw them."

Pollster Lou Harris of the Harris Poll -- described in the piece as "the father of modern day political polling" -- says: "Ohio was as dirty an election as America has ever seen."

Despite Harris' comments, which may be amongst the most explosive in the article, Kerry himself brings up the rear...

John Kerry: "Can I draw a conclusion that they played tough games and clearly had intent to reduce the level of our vote? Yes, absolutely. Can I tell you to a certainty that it made the difference in the election? I can't. There's no way for me to do that. If I could have done that, then obviously I would have found some legal recourse."


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see if this pans out or is just a candle on the wind...

[Documad]

There has been a lot of coverage of this stuff on radio. There are a lot of amazing stories. It's one reason why the democrats are putting a lot of emphasis on secretary of state races in all the states -- it really matters who is charge of voting laws within each state. We didn't have a tight race here in 2004, but our republican secretary of state has been taken to court regularly for discouraging particular kinds of voters. In our current election, the democratic candidates keep bringing up Ohio to explain the importance of this job.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

[yeahwho]

I'm not surprised by any of this. What's surprising is I'm not surprised by any of this.

Guilty as charged. Bush has been giving me the creeps since I first heard his name. Something is always off bubble with this guy.....

BTW, great article!

[DroppinScience]

So if 350,000 votes were lost and if we're to assume that the majority of them went to Kerry, would they still be enough to sway the election in his favor?

[Schmeltz]

Wait a minute... don't you mean the Bradd Blog?

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Wait a minute... don't you mean the Bradd Blog?

it's not my blog, wise ass.

[QueenAdrock]

So if 350,000 votes were lost and if we're to assume that the majority of them went to Kerry, would they still be enough to sway the election in his favor?

At this point, I don't even care if it swayed the election. It's a sad day in the electoral process if your vote doesn't count for shit. My friend Katie tried to register on University of Maryland's campus and they conveniently lost her registration card. She was registering as Republican (because she's conservative) but was planning to vote for Kerry. I wouldn't doubt it if they threw it away. She found out she couldn't vote only days before the election.

It made me really, really mad.

[Echewta]

Sad that this country cant even get voting right.

[abcdefz]

I read most of that article yesterday, and it looked pretty sound.

Yes, we would've had a President Kerry.

But, yeah -- the tactics were very disconcerting, and the piles of evidence -- each aspect pretty damning -- is pretty large.

[abcdefz]

Read the article (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen)

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The Washington Post immediately dismissed allegations of fraud as ''conspiracy theories,''(1) and The New York Times declared that ''there is no evidence of vote theft or errors on a large scale.''(2)

But despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004. Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad(3) never received their ballots -- or received them too late to vote(4) -- after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations.(5) A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states,(6) was discovered shredding Democratic registrations.(7) In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes,(8) malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots.(9) Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment -- roughly one for every 100 cast.(10)

The reports were especially disturbing in Ohio, the critical battleground state that clinched Bush's victory in the electoral college. Officials there purged tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls, neglected to process registration cards generated by Democratic voter drives, shortchanged Democratic precincts when they allocated voting machines and illegally derailed a recount that could have given Kerry the presidency. A precinct in an evangelical church in Miami County recorded an impossibly high turnout of ninety-eight percent, while a polling place in inner-city Cleveland recorded an equally impossible turnout of only seven percent. In Warren County, GOP election officials even invented a nonexistent terrorist threat to bar the media from monitoring the official vote count.(11)

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[D_Raay]

on a large scale.

No just in several hundred smaller scales...