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Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count | ||||||||
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Product Details
ISBN-10
1-58322-687-7
ISBN-13
978-1-58322-687-2
Publication Date
Jun 2006
Nb of pages
266
Illustration type
Illustrations, black & white
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Description
With a foreword by U.S. Representative John Conyers.
On the afternoon of election day 2004, the world was abuzz with the news: exit polls indicated that John Kerry would decisively win the election and become the next president of the united states. That proved not to be the case.
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?
Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? analyzes the available data, and attempts to answer the question of whether America's sitting president was inaugurated after winning, or losing the 2004 presidential race.
STEVEN F. FREEMAN has a Ph.D. in Organization Studies from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Organizational Dynamics, where he teaches research methods and survey design (a domain that includes polling). He has received four national awards for best research paper of the year—on four different topics in three different fields.
JOEL BLEIFUSS, a journalist of 23 years, is the editor of In These Times. In his 18 years there, he has had more articles cited as one of the “Top Censored Stories” of the year by Project Censored than any other journalist. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Utne Reader, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and Dissent, among many others.
"Freeman and Bleifuss make you smell the fraud, taste the fraud and understand the fraud -- in straightforward language that ends all dispute." - Greg Palast, author, Armed Madhouse Read "Will The Next Election Be Hacked?" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Rolling Stone. See RFK, Jr. on The Colbert Report. Read Freeman and Bleifuss' op-ed in the Boston Globe, a call to investigate the 2004 election. Read How to steal an election in the Washington Post. Also available from Amazon.com and in bookstores everywhere. Read a PDF excerpt of Was the 2004 Election Stolen? Voter's rights and election integrity organizations: Contact lars at sevenstories dot com or call 212 226 8760 if you would like a review copy or to discuss bulk purchasing opportunities. ReviewsPress Reviews
author of Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Only those who simply and reflexively assert the explanation with which they're most comfortable will dismiss this careful and judicious book as the work of conspiracy theorists.
- John Allen Paulos
from the foreword - Congressman John Conyers, Jr |
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