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because there were so few machines setup to take the early voting that every single day that it was open prior to the day of the General Election, there were massive long lines and long waiting times--which generated significant complaints. The curious/suspicious part was that the Democrats were making a massive effort to take advantage of the early voting--in the hopes of avoiding the disenfranchisement tricks (being redirected to the wrong polling places, challenging/harrassing people based on looks (ie. color), too few machines in key Democratic areas resulting in impossibly long lines/waits, etc). While it seemed the Republicans took little, if any, organized notice of the early voting (based on the local reporting frequently making mention of Democrats voting early, as well as Democrats facing the long lines and complaining, etc., with nary a word about or from Republicans at the same time). I never did hear a breakdown of the early vote, yet you say it resembled the final outcome on Election Day... so, to me, seems a little strange (it make sense though, if you assume a 'fixed' election...).
It's all the more suspicious considering that after the Election, it was shown how in many Democratic precincts, the lines were extending out of the building and well beyond--forcing the polls to be kept open extra hours (and you just know that untold numbers of Democrats came to the polling place around late afternoon, saw the line wrapping around the outside of the building, and just gave up and went home. I find it tiresome and confusing, not having access to quality data (if anyone was allowed access to "quality" data--as in, IF it was even possible to obtain such), and not having a Doctorate in Mathematics, to go into the whole issue of the identified, statistically impossible patterns/outcomes involving the Bush vote counts analyzed by voting machine/counting machine types across Florida. My educated guess virtually concluded beyond much doubt that Bush once again managed to "steal" the election in Florida by both obvious and electronic fraud and manipulation. And my suspicion was that the Election Day totals, but for the irregularities, should have favored Kerry (or at the very worst, an actual tie).
Of course, it being known that the race in Florida would be close, it's probably that they would therefore decide on a modest vote margin for their win--therefore, it's no surprise after all that the pre-election voting statistics were approximately the same as the reported results for the election day (they wouild simply have fixed them both at the same margin of victory). For that matter, if they were fraudulently manipulating the totals, consider how much easier it must've been to manipulate the pre-election vote tallies... of course they weren't being reported, and naturally, where there were touch-screen machines, there was no paper-trail and no way before or after the election to produce adequate proof of fraud to force a recount even if a recount had been possible. If they were in control of the tallies, the only way a recount--even if it were possible--could be called for is if they deliberately decided to set the numbers to a virtual tie, and that would be self-defeating. The only other way would be to have proof of fraud, and with things done behind closed doors and within computers/electronic equipment, unless the person performing the fraud decided to risk their lives and confess in front of as many officials, law enforcement people, judges and numerous major members of the Press, we'd never know. Even if they did, the argument would be "it's an isolated case" and a seemingly impossible "hush" would fall over the whole proceedings. Indeed, I'd be surprised if a "whistle blower" of major electronic electoral fraud could even succeed in exposing the cheating--the media are easily enough told what not to report, and we have Republicans in high places in Florida (and obviously, we have Republicans in high places throughout the Federal Government, including the Justice Department...).
Whether they did or didn't blatantly defraud the vote, I suppose we'll never really know (until someone on their death-bed decides to tell all or some such admission--because we'll never catch them, and if we catch them, we'd never succeed in proving it to anyone (no matter how damning the evidence--the truth just doesn't seem to matter anymore)). It's also too late to fix the electoral procedures in the thousands of boards of election before November (2006)--and it's been only partially secured in a few places across the country... So, we need to start working on requiring the U.S. to revert to simple "paper" ballots and hand-counting before 2008. I am afraid we'll see Democrats fail to win in many races in which it "looked like" they might really win; and we'll all be shocked and dismayed once again. If it turns out that way, I will wonder to myself "won't we ever learn".
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