Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting
ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John Kerry
in the White House.
BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., Rolling Stone Magazine, June 2006
Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election watching
the returns on television and wondering how the exit polls, which
predicted an overwhelming victory for John Kerry, had gotten it so
wrong. By midnight, the official tallies showed a decisive lead for
George Bush — and the next day, lacking enough legal evidence to
contest the results, Kerry conceded. Republicans derided anyone who
expressed doubts about Bush’s victory as nut cases in ”tinfoil hats,”
while the national media, with few exceptions, did little to question
the validity of the election. [read more]