With ABCNote in TOTAL MEDIA WHORE MODE, try WaPo "Briefing"

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration/whbriefing/

White House Briefing
The Exodus Begins
Wednesday, Nov 10, 2004; 12:01 PM
<snip>The Vote Fraud Buzz

Rick Klein writes in the Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/11/10/internet_buzz_on_vote_fraud_is_dismissed?pg=full
: "A week after Kerry conceded and Bush declared victory, those assertions and scores of others from New Mexico to North Carolina have kept alive fierce speculation that Bush's victory either wasn't real or wasn't as decisive as it seemed. With memories fresh from the 2000 irregularities, e-mails and Web postings accuse Republicans of stealing an election.

"Much of the traffic is little more than Internet-fueled conspiracy theories, and none of the vote-counting problems and anomalies that have emerged are sufficiently widespread to have affected the election's ultimate result. . . .

"Still, with reports swirling on the Internet, six Democratic members of Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate. Leading academics have joined the fray as well, saying that the integrity and future of the nation's voting system demand a vetting of all claims."


Julia Malone http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/news/politics/stories/11/10conspiracy.html writes for Cox News Service: "Activists are forming groups with names like ' 'stolenelection2004.com' and members of 'Ohio Recount 2004' are assembling to share their suspicions.

"On the airwaves of predominantly black radio station WAOK in Atlanta, the hot topic this week has been whether hackers rigged computer voting equipment or to ask why the exit polls early on Election Day seemed to point to a Kerry victory.

"None of the conspiracy theorists has provided proof of a widespread error that might have changed the election outcome. Independent groups who monitored the voting found problems scattered around the country but nothing decisive, and election officials have generally dismissed the Internet chatter."

Jake Tapper and Avery Miller of ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=239735&page=1 also debunk some of the rumors.<snip>

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1. Here is a MN Star Trib article

For some, the fat lady hasn't sung yet
Julia Malone, Cox News Service
November 10, 2004 ELECT1110

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. John Kerry conceded, President Bush declared victory and planning for the second term is well under way at the White House.

But some of the disappointed supporters of the Democratic challenger are not giving up, at least not yet. Fueled by skepticism about voting machinery and vivid memories of the election debacle in Florida four years ago, conspiracy theories are swirling on the Internet.

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In North Carolina, an estimated 4,500 votes were lost altogether because computer voting machines were allowed to be overloaded. And an unknown number of voters around the country have complained about problems with touch-screen machines that appeared to record a different candidate from the one the voters chose.

The group Blackboxvoting. org, founded by computer programmer Bev Harris, who works from her home from Seattle, warned before Election Day that the electronic voting systems could be easily hacked. Her Internet site alleges that it has documents that prove fraud and asks for donations to pursue the charge.

the rest of the article is at

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5077645.html