Jun 01 2006
The will of the people
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has written an amazing article for Rolling Stone…
Was the 2004 Election Stolen? Any election, of course, will have anomalies. America’s voting system is a messy patchwork of polling rules run mostly by county and city officials. ”We didn’t have one election for president in 2004,” says Robert Pastor, who directs the Center for Democracy and Election Management at American University. ”We didn’t have fifty elections. We actually had 13,000 elections run by 13,000 independent, quasi-sovereign counties and municipalities.”
But what is most anomalous about the irregularities in 2004 was their decidedly partisan bent: Almost without exception they hurt John Kerry and benefited George Bush. After carefully examining the evidence, I’ve become convinced that the president’s party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004. Across the country, Republican election officials and party stalwarts employed a wide range of illegal and unethical tactics to fix the election.
Click on the headline. Read the entire article.
Update: There are many arguments against Mr. Kennedy’s findings. (James Joyner does an excellent job of compiling them.) This is not surprising. After all, you can hardly expect the Right to accept his findings without argument. To do so would be an admission of their crimes.
