{"id":608,"date":"2006-06-02T20:46:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T20:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/608"},"modified":"2006-06-02T20:46:59","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T20:46:59","slug":"the-case-for-fraud-in-the-2004-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/608","title":{"rendered":"The case for fraud in the 2004 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/news\/story\/10432334\/was_the_2004_election_stolen\/1\">summarizes<\/a> the huge amount of evidence of malfeasance and outright election fraud that led to Bush&#8217;s &#8220;win&#8221; in 2004, including a whopping 208 footnotes ranging from newspaper reports to court decisions to official investigation findings. The article is the result of a four-month investigation by Kennedy and Rolling Stone magazine (to echo my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/judith-s.livejournal.com\/58234.html\">Judith<\/a>, why the hell do we have to go to <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> for in-depth political reporting?).<\/p>\n<p>Most of the findings will be old news to those who followed the story at the time, and it&#8217;s clearly just one side of the argument, but seeing the case laid out all in one place is still maddening. (I&#8217;m actually still reading it, because I can only read about a page at a time before getting too mad to continue.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"update\"><b>Update 6\/3\/06:<\/b> As <a href=\"http:\/\/eye-of-newt.com\/nazareth\/\">Death<\/a> comments, Farhad Manjoo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2006\/06\/03\/kennedy\/index.html\">responds in Salon<\/a> that Kennedy&#8217;s article has &#8220;numerous errors of interpretation and&#8230; deliberate omission of key bits of data.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/news\/story\/10432334\/was_the_2004_election_stolen\/1\">summarizes<\/a> the huge amount of evidence of malfeasance and outright election fraud that led to Bush&#8217;s &#8220;win&#8221; in 2004, including a whopping 208 footnotes ranging from newspaper reports to court decisions to official investigation findings. The article is the result of a four-month investigation by Kennedy and Rolling Stone magazine (to echo my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/judith-s.livejournal.com\/58234.html\">Judith<\/a>, why the hell do we have to go to <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> for in-depth political reporting?).<\/p>\n<p>Most of the findings will be old news to those who followed the story at the time, and it&#8217;s clearly just one side of the argument, but seeing the case laid out all in one place is still maddening. (I&#8217;m actually still reading it, because I can only read about a page at a time before getting too mad to continue.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"update\"><b>Update 6\/3\/06:<\/b> As <a href=\"http:\/\/eye-of-newt.com\/nazareth\/\">Death<\/a> comments, Farhad Manjoo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2006\/06\/03\/kennedy\/index.html\">responds in Salon<\/a> that Kennedy&#8217;s article has &#8220;numerous errors of interpretation and&#8230; deliberate omission of key bits of data.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}