Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted. The exit polls, which predicted an overwhelming victory for John Kerry. By midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for George Bush -- and the next day, lacking enough legal evidence to contest the results, Kerry conceded.
Despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004. Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad never received their ballots -- or received them too late to vote -- after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations.
A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states was discovered shredding Democratic registrations.
New Mexico, decided by 5,988 votes, failed to register 20,000 ballots. Will you be robbed in 2006?
2006-10-17
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