ad hominem, my ass.
Although I can clearly see where you would say that........I guess Greg Pallast's assumptions are now certainly fact?
If I read the article correctly, and you examine it closely, he asserts that exit polls were
spoiled by the actual vote? And again, comparing Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004, regarding hanging chads, pregnant chads, and discerning a voters intent from overvotes.
There were also the 'challenges.' That's a polite word for the Republican Party of Ohio's use of an old Ku Klux Klan technique: the attempt to block thousands of voters of color at the polls. In Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida, the GOP laid plans for poll workers to ambush citizens under arcane laws—almost never used—allowing party-designated poll watchers to finger individual voters and demand they be denied a ballot
In the end, the challenges were not overwhelming, but they were there. Many apparently resulted in voters getting these funky "provisional" ballots—a kind of voting placebo—which may or may not be counted. Blackwell estimates there were 175,000; Democrats say 250,000. Pick your number. But as challenges were aimed at minorities, no one doubts these are, again, overwhelmingly Democratic.
Yeah, that's not partisan. Pick your number, but it's surely democratic. Back up the minority numbers, with, I don't know, a "for example". Cut the racial crap. I have another friend who is a lawyer, huge democrat, volunteered and was assigned as a democratic poll watcher in a precinct in Columbus. No voter challenges, no minority discrimination, but he was upset about a pollworker trying to encourage people to leave because the polls were about to close, even though people were still in line past 7:30. My friend that had to cast a provisional? White Republican. Kenneth Blackwell? Not caucasian.
There is nothing that I see as factual in Greg Pallasts report. He surmises that "spoiled" and provisional ballots, if all counted, would automatically go to Kerry, specifically based on his assertion that all spoiled and provisional ballots were cast by non-caucasians.
My point about key states, is that if other states.....namely those with close races, that went either way, were scrutinized in the way that Ohio's votes are now, we might find that some of these states might swing the other way.
Here's the deal, in my view:
Kerry conceded, Bush won. By every piece of news reporting that I've seen, Bush won the popular vote and Bush won the electoral vote. Let's move on, please. If you didn't agree with the election, and no, I don't either......then let's move to boost a third party that can compete, like the Libertarian Party. Or, let's push for a change in the voting process, eliminate the electoral college, I dunno, something, other than second guessing, whining, and crabbing because we didn't want Bush for another term, and we'll pull anything out of our arses to prove that we were really right. Spend the next four years changing something, not bitching about what is over and done with.