The only thing that has kept me from buying into widespread vote fraud is that I have to believe that somewhere, someone has the guts to tape a conversation, save an email, or videotape some fraud in action.
The fact that "they" could cover "it" up so well (with a 100% success rate), tells me that Occam's Razor applies...ie...no fraud.
But I hope I'm wrong...
Vote fraud is a huge problem in this country, and has been for some time.
There are numerous academic reports detailing how the 2004 presidential election was likely stolen. Much but not all of this research is based on exit polling, which has only failed to predict the winner of the Presidential race the last two elections.
Steven Freeman, an MIT trained PhD, now at U. of Pennsylvania, has written a series of papers on the 04 election. You can find these papers at
http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/
by going to "Direct link to Election Research" link at the bottom.
For instance, in the conclusion of this paper
http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/Doc...APOR060519.pdf
Steven Freeman states,
"The rest of us cannot know for certain what the withheld data might prove, but the public record indicates clearly that had the votes been counted as cast on
November 2, 2004 John Kerry would have won the victory that was initially reported on Election Day."
Steven Freeman has caught some heat for his work on this subject, but he's sticking to his guns. In this 63 page dossier he concludes
http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/Doc...iscrepancy.pdf
"But while the media and the public dismisses allegations of "conspiracy theorists", the conspiracy has already transpired from right under our noses."
An academic report from UC Berkeley entitiled,
"The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support for Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections" by Michael Hout, Laura Mangels, Jennifer Carlson, and Rachel Best, the conclusions are
* Irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000 excess votes or more to President George W. Bush in Florida.
* Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases in support for President Bush between 2000 and 2004. This effect cannot be explained by differences between counties in income, number of voters, change in voter turnout, or size of Hispanic/Latino population.
* In Broward County alone, President Bush appears to have received approximately 72,000 excess votes.
* We can be 99.9% sure that these effects are not attributable to chance.