Alaska Election 2004: The Numbers Don't Add Up
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The Alaska Election Results from 2004 don't add up, yet the state won't release the records so a transparent examination can find what happened to the missing votes. According to the State Div. of Elections, it's Diebold's software and we have no right to access their trade secrets.
How can any intelligent American accept that as an answer? We cannot verify the validity of our election results because a Private (Republican Owned) Corporation owns the machines. This makes no sense in "the land of the free".
What makes this claim beyond ridiculous is that copies of these files have been on the internet for over two years. Bev Harris at BlackBoxVoting.org has been exposing the hackable voting machines since 2002. The Diebold file systems are not really secret, so using that as an excuse to withhold data is patently absurd.
My question lies not with how Bush received 100,000 more votes in one counting... but in the Senate race where Tony Knowles was lost by 9500 votes. And just like Kerry, he wasn't interested in a recount- weird eh?
But some Alaska Democrats wanted a recount anyway. There's a $10,000 fee- the small group of citizens had $3,000 on Saturday, with the Deadline Wednesday- yet John Kerry wouldn't give them $7,000 from his cache of $51 million- why the hell not? What about Tony- did he have any money left?
Tony Knowles lost by only 3%, and just like Kerry- Exit Polls showed him winning. Why did his spokesman say Knowles will not be joining the recount effort?
Something is fishy with the Opposition Party in the USA.

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