[IP] "Kerry Won. . .:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Mike O'Dell <mo@xxxxxxx>
Date: November 4, 2004 8:29:36 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
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.
<snip>
-------------------------------------
You are subscribed as roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To manage your subscription, go to
http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip
Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/