GAO report indicates Bush/Cheney campaign stole the 2004 election through election fraud

[unixronin]

[...] But the GAO report now confirms that electronic voting machines as deployed in 2004 were in fact perfectly engineered to allow a very small number of partisans with minimal computer skills and equipment to shift enough votes to put George W. Bush back in the White House.

Given the growing body of evidence, it appears increasingly clear that's exactly what happened.

The report indicates that Diebold and Triad electronic voting machines were probably exploited to steal as many as four states (Ohio, Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico) for the Bush/Cheney campaign.  The article particularly notes that the Ohio election was conducted under the auspices of the Ohio Secretary of State who was at the same time working as co-chair of the Bush/Cheney campaign.  The conflict of interest here is clear, obvious, and inexcusable.

Yahoo news article HERE

Direct link to GAO report HERE (PDF document)

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[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

If Nevada was stolen, it was with the complicity of election officials, and they took a big risk: the NV Secretary of State required ALL electronic voting machines (which were used statewide) to provide a written audit trail, which was presented to the voter before the vote was committed. I even documented my experience (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sierra_nevada/42272.html).

Clark County (Las Vegas) almost went for Kerry, and there was a significant minority for Kerry in Washoe County (Reno/Sparks, and where I live), but solidly Republican, pretty much as expected. No one called for a recount in NV, but the paper audit trails should still be available if you want to double check our five electoral college votes ...