Was the 2004 presidential election stolen?
Subtitle: exit polls, election fraud, and the official count
By: Steve Freeman and Joel Bleifuss.
Contributors: Bleifuss, Joel.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781583226872
Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- Election, 2004.; Elections -- Corrupt practices -- United States.; Election forecasting -- United States.; Voting -- United States.
Description: According to the official count—the number of votes tallied, not necessarily the number of votes cast—George W. Bush beat Kerry by a margin of three million votes. The exit polls, however, had predicted a margin of victory for Kerry of five million votes. Occurences of vote manipulation, vote suppression, and outright election fraud were alleged at the local level in many precincts throughout Ohio and other "battleground" states. Where the controversy of the 2000 presidential election had come about as the result of an extremely close race, in 2004 the irregularities were widespread and appeared to follow a clear pattern. Why then did the Democrats concede the election early the next morning? Why has there been no investigation by any major news organization? What does it say about our democracy when the slot machine industry is more strictly regulated than our electronic voting machines? Freeman and Bleifuss analyze the available data, and attempt to answer the question of whether America's sitting president was inaugurated after winning, or losing the 2004 presidential race. – from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Exit polls and electoral politics; title: Florida sets the stage in 2000; title: Conventional vote theft; title: Electronic voting; title: Biased polls or biased count?; title: How did America really vote?; title: Responsible journalism versus conspiracy theory; title: There can be no moving on.