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[[Category:Issues]]There have been repeated claims in the past two United States Presidential elections (2004 and 2000) of vote-rigging via defective voting machines, mass deletions of registered voters, and other means.  
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==About==
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There has been repeated evidence of [[election fraud]] in recent US presidential elections.
  
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In the [[wikipedia:United States presidential election, 2000|2000 election]], [[George W. Bush]] was officially elected by a narrow margin (271/538, 50.3%), and in the [[wikipedia:United States presidential election, 2004|2004 presidential election]] he was officially re-elected by somewhat less narrow margin (286/538, 53.2%). According to many claims, he would have been the clear loser in both cases had the votes been counted correctly.
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In the [[2000 US presidential election]], [[George W. Bush]] was officially elected by a narrow margin (271/538, 50.3%). According to many claims, he would have been the clear loser had the votes been counted correctly.
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===2006 Elections===
 
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* '''2006-09-22''' [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11717105/robert_f_kennedy_jr__will_the_next_election_be_hacked Will The Next Election Be Hacked?] by [[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.]]
 
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===2004 Election===
 
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* '''2006-06-01''' [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen Was the 2004 Election Stolen?] by [[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.]]
 
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** '''2006-06-07''' [http://www.alternet.org/rights/37153/ RFK Jr: Taking the Stolen Election Seriously]: further analysis by Thom Hartmann (AlterNet)
 
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* '''2006-02-23''' [http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/19421.html votes were time-stamped 2 weeks before the election date] ([http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/24/1326217 2006-02-24 slashdot])
 
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* '''2006-02-22''' [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/socal/la-me-diebold22feb22,0,33600.story?coll=la-news-politics-local Man Pleads Not Guilty in Voting Device Case][([http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=3948 2006-02-26 slashdot])
 
  
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===2000 Election===
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There were also widespread allegations of fraud in the [[2004 US elections]], though it is less clear what the results should have been.
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* "Although it was reported &ndash; in ''The New York Times'', no less &ndash; that [[Al Gore]] got more votes than [[George W. Bush]] in a statewide recount of Florida "no matter what standard was chosen to judge voter intent," most Americans don't know to this day that Gore actually won the 2000 election. The reason is a small percentage of [[US Republican Party|Republican]] spin and a large percentage of journalistic cowardice in the mainstream media following [[9/11]]. (This cowardice is limited to the USA, by the way -- the story was extensively covered in most of the rest of the world.)" [http://www.alternet.org/rights/37153/] Interestingly, the [http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/politics/12VOTE.html?ex=1151294400&en=50238bdd2e2e00e3&ei=5070 original article] leaves the reader with the opposite impression; the AlterNet article points this out and concludes that the ''Times'' did not want to undermine [[George W. Bush|Bush]]'s authority in a time of crisis (the article having been published not long after [[9/11]]).
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==Related Pages==
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===Elections===
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* '''2008''': [[US/president/elec/2008|2008 US presidential election]]
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* '''2006''': [[US/elec/2006|2006 US elections]]: No known reports of fraud
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* '''2004''': [[US/president/elec/2004|2004 US presidential election]]: Widespread fraud alleged, upshot unclear
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* '''2000''': [[US/president/elec/2000|2000 US presidential election]]
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Latest revision as of 16:01, 9 February 2022

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There has been repeated evidence of election fraud in recent US presidential elections.

In the 2000 US presidential election, George W. Bush was officially elected by a narrow margin (271/538, 50.3%). According to many claims, he would have been the clear loser had the votes been counted correctly.

There were also widespread allegations of fraud in the 2004 US elections, though it is less clear what the results should have been.

Related Pages

Elections


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