"Kerry Won. . .:

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Mike O'Dell <mo () ccr org>
Date: November 4, 2004 8:29:36 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: fyi

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php


> Kerry Won. . .
>
> Greg Palast
>
> November 04, 2004
>
> Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. In the United States, about 3 percent 
> of votes cast are voided—known as “spoilage” in election 
> jargon—because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Drawing on what 
> happened in Florida and studies of elections past, Palast argues 
> that if Ohio’s discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won 
> the state. Today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports there are a total 
> of 247,672 votes not counted in Ohio, if you add the 92,672 discarded 
> votes plus the 155,000 provisional ballots. So far there's no 
> indication that Palast's hypothesis will be tested because only the 
> provisional ballots are being counted.
>
> Greg Palast, contributing editor to Harper's magazine, investigated 
> the manipulation of the vote for BBC Television's Newsnight. The 
> documentary, "Bush Family Fortunes," based on his New York Times 
> bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, has been released this 
> month on DVD .
>
> Kerry won. Here are  the facts.
>
> I know you don't want to hear it. You can't face one more hung chad.  
> But I don't have a choice. As a journalist examining that messy 
> sausage called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the 
> most votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it 
> was John Kerry.

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