Diebold

Did Diebold help Bush steal the 2004 election? Of course, no right-thinking person would entertain a notion that our democracy can be so easily side-tracked.

The official Federal fraud watchdog, the Government Accounting Office (GAO), isn't so sure. While not accusing anyone, they believe that electronic voting machines like the ones made by Diebold were easy to tamper with and could be manipulated to erase or add votes at will by unethical partisans. Ironically, Diebold makes ATMs that give paper results. According to Diebold, your ATM withdrawal should be more secure than your stake in democracy.

While there is no smoking gun, the circumstantial evidence is there: CEO of Diebold promises to deliver Ohio for Bush. Diebold supplies electronic voting machines that are highly vulnerable to tampering (per GAO Report) in key states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa, Alaska, New Mexico, etc. Exit Polls give Kerry Ohio, Nevada, Florida, New Mexico and Iowa. Bush somehow wins ALL those states, defying reasonable probability. Dumbfounded Election Night News Anchors watch as they see an early night win for Kerry turn into a long, drawn out, incredulously improbable win for Bush. Mainstream media blames faulty polling, not faulty voting machines. Bush re-elected, and now sits as an amazingly unpopular president.

So, you decided: Who really won in 2004?