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Originally Posted by Fleet
I sure hope this ridiculous myth would finally die out.
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Myth? (About Bush not being elected fairly, twice)
These ultimately resulted in a December 12 7-2 United States Supreme Court decision stating that the Florida Supreme Court's plan for recounting ballots was unconstitutional, as well as a 5-4 decision that ended the Florida recounts and allowed Florida to certify its vote. The vote was certified according to Florida state election law by Katherine Harris, the Republican Secretary of State who had been the Florida co-chair of Bush's campaign.[36] Because Bush's younger brother, Jeb Bush, was the governor of Florida, there were allegations that Harris and Jeb Bush had manipulated the election to favor the governor's brother.
According to the claims of the 2002 book Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose The Myth of a Free Press (Kristina Borjesson) which tells the stories of 15 investigative journalists, 58,000 names had been taken off the voters list by governor Jeb Bush and Secretary Harris. They explained this by saying that these were people with criminal records and they were not entitled to their right to vote. According to the journalist Greg Palast this only applied to a small minority of these people. Of these people who were taken away their right to vote in November 2000, always according to the claim of Palast, 54% of them were Black and many were White or Hispanic Democrat supporters.[37][38]
From 2000 election wiki
* There is no individual federal agency with direct regulatory authority of the U.S. voting machine industry.[40] However the Election Assistance Commission has full regulatory authority over federal testing and certification processes, as well as an influential advisory role in certain voting industry matters.[41] Further oversight authority belongs to the Government Accountability Office, regularly investigating voting system related issues.[42]
* The former president of Diebold Election Systems (Bob Urosevich) and the vice president of customer support at ES&S (Todd Urosevich)[43] are brothers.[44]
* Walden O'Dell the former CEO of Diebold (the parent company of voting machine manufacturer Diebold Election Systems) was an active fundraiser for George W. Bush's re-election campaign and wrote in a fund-raising letter dated August 13, 2003, that he was committed "to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President."[45]
* Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates,[46][47] served as the chairman of ES&S in the early 1990s when it operated under the name American Information Systems Inc. (AIS).[48] ES&S voting machines tabulated 85 percent of the votes cast in Hagel’s 2002 and 1996 election races. In 2003 Hagel disclosed a financial stake in McCarthy Group Inc., the holding company of ES&S.[48]
* Global Election Systems, which was purchased by Diebold Election Systems and developed the core technology behind the company's voting machines and voter registration system, employed five convicted felons as consultants and developers.[49]
* Jeff Dean, a former Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold, had previously been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree. Bev Harris reports Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold Election Systems,[50] though Diebold has disputed the consulting relationship.[49] Dean was convicted of theft via "alteration of records in the computerized accounting system" using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.[50]
* International election observers were barred from the polls in Ohio[51][52] by then Republican Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. Blackwell's office argues this was the correct interpretation of Ohio law.[52]
* California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley decertified all Diebold Election Systems touch-screen voting machines due to computer-science reports released detailing design and security concerns.[53][54]
* 30% of all U.S. votes cast in the 2004 election were cast on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machine, which do not print individual paper records of each vote.[55]
* Numerous statistical analysis showed "discrepancy in the number of votes Bush received in counties that used the touch-screen machines and counties that used other types of voting equipment" as well as discrepancies with exit polls, favoring President George W. Bush.[56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]
From 2004 election wiki
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