Bush No Win

Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio
Friday, November 5, 2004 Posted: 4:15 PM EST (2115 GMT)
In Columbus, Ohio, an error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes elections officials said.
Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.
Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct, Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch but they recorded an additional 3,893.
It is obvious to any American that the error, repeated elsewhere in Ohio, in southeastern Florida (where the same and similar machines were used), affected the outcome.
Bush supposedly won the state by more than 136,000 votes. Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday after acknowledging that 155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in Ohio would not change the result.
Had this error been repeated in all of Ohio’s 88 counties alone the number of ballots that would have been fraudulently awarded to Bush would have been 342,584. Doing something like it in 10 states gives Bush over more than 3 million additional votes.
The only people that don’t think this is possible are those on whom the trick was played. It’s more difficult to purchase, store, distribute, sell and post a profit selling fresh meat products every day than it is to commit this fraud and McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s do that every day.
The Ohio Secretary of State, J. Kenney Blackwell, a lifelong bureaucrat angling for a shot at the governor’s office Friday it could not revise Bush's total until the county reported the error.
In the Ohio precinct in question, the votes were recorded to a cartridge. Supposedly only one of the three machines at that precinct had a malfunction occur in the recording process. J. Kenneth Blackwell could not explain how the malfunction occurred - his level of technical understanding is apparently so low that he couldn’t tell the difference between an empty metal box and an operating computer anyway.
A technician from the Omaha, Neb. company that designed the software, Election Systems & Software Inc., was working to diagnose and fix the problem.
These machines and others like them were distributed through the area in Florida where there was a problem with punch cards during the last election. These machines and other as easily tampered with are in use across the entire nation - but primarily in the center of the state and in rural areas where a lack of education has set up a situation where fraud is possible - and quite clearly - has been perpetrated.
Did Bush win his second election? No. He did not. It would be a simple matter to tamper with just enough machines or flip the results in a few areas to change the outcome.
Does it matter whether or not they committed this fraud in actuality? No. It doesn’t. Intent is the matter. Any one or many of the Bush supporters would have gladly and willingly broken the laws of the United States of America in order to put their lame duck in office. It is good that it did happen - because there is no doubt that the same greedy, violent and seditious men and women that assassinated the President of the United States of America - John F. Kennedy would have tried to do the same to John F. Kerry.
Mr. Kerry represents all that is good and great in America. He is a great American. He is a great man. What the supporters of Bush need to know - and what Bush and his cronies do know - is that he is not alone and this nation produces great men as a fact.
Supporters of Bush - the “herd men” will not prevail. They cannot even look their children in the eyes because of the dishonesty and calumny they have painted God’s world with.
Bush is not the President again. He’s just the chief bureaucrat for the next 4 years.
Put your silverware away the Republicans are coming.