Election fraud hysteria - Salon 11/12

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/11/12/hysteria/
Election fraud hysteria
I'm not on Karl Rove's payroll -- and there's still no evidence that George W. Bush stole Election 2004
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Salon received dozens of letters in response to my article debunking the idea that Republicans stole the election, and many readers were interested in only one thing: How much did Karl Rove pay me to print such garbage? According to these people, I clearly hadn't examined the overwhelming evidence that Bush won through dirty tricks. From the exit polls pointing to a Kerry win, to the tales of voting machines switching selections for Kerry into votes for Bush, to the odd results in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and those weird stats in Florida's rural counties -- there's just so much evidence that something fishy went on last Tuesday, these people said, that the only way I could argue that everything was OK was if I was being paid by Turd blossom himself.

So let me say first that, alas, I'm expecting no checks from the Bush-Cheney team. I've been writing about the flaws in our electoral system for at least two years now, and I'm not naive about the possibility of fraud; elections have been stolen in the past, and it isn't crazy to suspect that some people may have thought about stealing this one. It's also important for activists to keep searching for clues...
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Who is this POS?

...and dosen't want to play catchup.

No wonder Salon is teetering on the edge of Chapter 11.

It is not all dismissive, but it is not supportive either. He agrees there are problems, but points to research countering our claims. I didn't go over the research, but my guess is it is the same rehashed data as we have seen earlier - of course I don't think he would be in a position to evaluate competing reports based on merit of analysis, just that they come from people he knows. So from our point of view, ignore it. We have to have more proof to get through the spin machine (I actually think he is a victim of spin and not a spinner).