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James_Madison_Lives
03-03-2019, 08:02 PM
I'd be surprised if half of the congresscritters sitting in office really belong there.


https://hubpages.com/politics/New-York-Times-John-Kerry-Says-History-Changing-2004-Election-May-Have-Been-Rigged-After-All




New York Times: John Kerry Says History-Changing 2004 Election May Have Been Rigged After All


A New York Times article has reported an acknowledgment by John Kerry that the 2004 presidential election may have been stolen. Kerry implicates the type of election fraud which happens at the machine vote-counting level, which election integrity activists have been warning about for years.

Referring to the machine count of the paper ballots in the controversial
swing state of Ohio election results, Kerry told Brian Lehrer on WYC radio's
Brian Lehrer Show last September that his campaign had asked for, but was denied, the opportunity to examine the software which counts the votes on the paper ballots as they are fed into the machines.

Kerry said:

“We were told by the court that you were not able to get that
algorithm to check it, because it was proprietary information,”

The "algorithm" refers to the tabulation program which is supposed to accurately add votes as candidates receive them. The same type of machine involved in the Ohio controversy was used in a demonstration of machine hacking in the 2006 HBO documentary Hacking Democracy. Rather than simply add the votes, the machine was programmed, in short order, to subtract rather than add votes from targeted candidates.

One way to discover malicious instructions would be to examine the software code
after each election. Kerry was pointing out that most of US vote-counting machine software is secret.

Three companies dominate the US elections market: Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Hart InterCivic and Sequoia Voting Systems.

Had Kerry won in Ohio in 2004, he would have won the presidential election. As a result of being declared the victor, George W. Bush was able to escalate the war in Iraq from 120,000 to nearly 170,000 US combat troops. That period coincided with the highest number of US casualties in the war.

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In 2012 some of the election results of a stoutly anti-war Republican primary candidate, Ron Paul, were studied by mathematicians, and found to exhibit signs of machine vote-count hacking. The type of analysis used, cumulative vote tally (CVT) charting, also has been applied to other races since, with similarly unexplained results.