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John Zogby, president of the polling firm Zogby International, told IPS he has been calling it "the Armageddon election" for about a year. Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader believes the Republican Party was able to "steal it before election day."
STOCKHOLM, Nov 18 (IPS) - John Zogby, president of the polling firm Zogby International, told IPS he has been calling it "the Armageddon election" for about a year. Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader believes the Republican Party was able to "steal it before election day."
Facts suggest something went very wrong on Nov. 2.
Speculation focuses upon a number of questions — purposeful miscounts, anomalies surrounding electronic voting (e-voting) machines, particularly the optical scan types; and numerous reports of voting "irregularities" in heavily Democratic areas.
"What they ’do’ is minorities," Nader said, highlighting the thrust of Republican efforts, "and make sure that there aren’t enough voting machines for the minority areas. They have to wait in line ... for hours, and most of them don’t. There are all kinds of ways, and that’s why I was quoted as saying, "this election was hijacked from A to Z," Nader told IPS.
Zogby was concerned about the difference between some of the exit polls (surveys of individuals who have just cast ballots) and the official vote counts. "We’re talking about the Free World here," he pointedly noted.
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25 November 2004, 18:24
I am simply disgusted by this news...
John Kerry already had $52 million
He has done NOTHING to help with election recount efforts....
NOW HE WANTS MORE MONEY FOR RECOUNTS!
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This from his website!
Contributing to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 General Election Legal and Accounting Compliance Fund (GELAC) provides important support for our campaign. The Federal Election Commission has just granted our request to raise funds now to cover recount expenses. Your contribution to Kerry-Edwards 2004 GELAC will provide the resources to make sure we are prepared to win the post election day battles.
In addition to recount costs, GELAC helps pay for legal and accounting expenses incurred by the campaign. By paying for these expenses with GELAC funds, the campaign is able to spend more of its limited public funds on critical campaign expenses such as media, candidate travel and direct contact with voters.
https://contribute.johnkerry.com/gelac.html?team=4617
I think after we throw W out with this fradulent election-John Kerry should be impeached for throwing the election to Bush. Actually instead of impeaching the bastard- we should throw him in prison for treason. Heck put them in the same prison cell, at least they can have some fun that way.
I CANNOT BELIEVE HE HAS THE NERVE TO ASK FOR MORE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
26 November 2004, 02:56
Yes, lots of this efforts can be questioned! Somebody makes big money there.
Solution don’t donate to this web based organizations!
The work of Michael Moore is more entertaining then critiziscm.
26 November 2004, 14:35
just read this about Kerry, admitting they didn’t help in Ohio, but they want to ’monitor’. I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t trust him any more than Bush at this point.
"The Kerry campaign said it intends to monitor the proceedings for irregularities. "We didn’t ask for it," said Dan Hoffheimer, the campaign’s legal counsel. "But since it’s apparently going to happen, we want to make sure it gets done right."
The Kerry campaign is going to make sure it stays fixed for Bush- doesn’t want to give back the payoff money
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8580-2004Nov23.html