Election 2004 irregularities
From dKosopedia
Diane Perlman's list (reformatted and edited) of 2004 election irregularities favoring Republicans:
- throwing out of Democrat voter registration forms
- broken machines
- misplaced machines
- machine errors
- reduced numbers of machines in Black and predominantly Democratic areas, less than in 2002, causing long lines
- unmailed absentee ballots
- absentee ballots requesting 86 cents, which was insufficient postage and caused these ballots to be returned
- certification of more votes than registered voters in some areas ("phantom votes")
- reversal of percentages of registered Democrats and votes for Bush in many counties
- modem-connected voting machines and tabulators
- different standards for provisional ballot recounts in different areas
- failure to count many provisional ballots, also called “placebo ballots”
- voting machines defaulting to Bush
- voting machines 'jumping' by recording a vote for Bush when Kerry's button was pushed
- phony companies (e.g., Nathan Sproul's) registering voters and then tearing up the registrations of Democrats but not Republicans
- exit polls not corresponding with reported votes in counties with no paper trail, while exit polls matched reported votes in counties with paper trails
- voting elections officials creating apparently phony election machine poll tapes and tossing original, signed tabulations in the garbage
- people posing as technicians tampering with machines
- Republicans posing as Democrats
- a lockdown in which observers were not admitted, under the excuse of a terrorist alert
- misinformation about the date and location of voting in Black neighborhoods
- threats of arrest for voters with traffic tickets or any record
- unusual discrepancies between numbers of votes for Kerry and Democratic candidates on same ticket ("crossover")
- widespread refusal of media to report on any of these
External links
- List of election problems from 2004 to the present compiled by VotersUnite.org
- eRiposte's Vote Watch 2004