Alarms Should Go Off Whenever the Discrepancies Between the "Official" Results and the Polls Can't Be Explained

The media also failed to get back to us on the inexplicable discrepancies in Florida in the 2000 election. Turns out the "mainstream" media’s projections had been right all along. The problem wasn’t the exit polls, but the official tallies themselves. In analyses conducted by the National Opinion Research Center in Florida after the U.S. Supreme Court aborted the vote recount, Gore emerged the winner over Bush, no matter what criteria for counting votes was applied.

How could our media not have investigated the correlation, if any, between the increased use of electronic voting systems, with their non-transparent secret software, and the sudden demise of a half century’s experience with highly reliable exit polls? The rest of the world still considers exit polls as the gold standard of accuracy so how is it that this phenomenon only exists in the United States? Not only did our media fail to question such a remarkable coincidence, but ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and the Associated Press have all refused to release the raw exit poll data, requested by Rep. Conyers on behalf of the Judiciary Committee. In his request Conyers stated that the information in the media’s possession was needed because "the American citizenry has voiced a collective lack of faith in government to carry out fair election procedures". Ironically, this very need to protect its citizens against a government not accountable to the people was what caused the founders to include protections in the Constitution so that the press would be free to provide to the people this very information it’s now withholding. "Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press". – Thomas Jefferson

The Ohio Recount which followed the 2004 election, aside from being successfully thwarted, continued the electronic nightmare. In a nutshell: in an interview a former employee of Triad confessed to having altered tabulating software in a great number of counties in Ohio. The Conyers Report, stated that it strongly appeared Triad was engaged in a course of behavior to provide "cheat sheets" to those counting the ballots so that the machines would correlate with the recount and appear to be operating fairly and effectively.

See the pattern? Still think we’ll just vote them out in 2006 or 2008? We’ve lost the means to hold our government accountable. We’ve lost our constitutionally guaranteed free press – in service to we the people. We’ve lost our vote that so many Americans gave their lives for. We are all we have left if we are to save this republic. It is therefore every person’s responsibility to take this on.