by Joel Bleifuss

In These Times

12/10/04

Did the Bush-Cheney campaign engage in electronic vote fraud to ensure that George W. Bush would be president for another four years?

That is a question every small-d democrat should be asking. Much has been written on the Internet alleging that the election was stolen. Some writers are members of the tin-foil hat brigade, but others provide sober analysis of the election results that raise disturbing questions. Unfortunately, thanks to the herd instinct in our current media culture, anyone who publicly raises this question is immediately labeled a conspiracy theorist. ... Suspend disbelief, buck conventional wisdom and suppose that 'such a thing happened' -- that the Bush-Cheney campaign 'won' the election through systematic electronic voting fraud. Would the Bush-Cheney campaign have any qualms about stealing an election? Of course not. They did it in 2000...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp