Amid Charges of Vote Suppression, Activists Look for Larger Fraud
by Jessica Azulay
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Nov 12 - There is little dispute that voters all over the country encountered problems before and while they cast their votes on November 2. Watchdog organizations across the US have compiled hundreds of thousands of complaints. But many are asking whether all the problems add up to a different electoral outcome and whether there were more systemic problems not yet uncovered.
Evidence of Suppression
"There may not have been fighting in the streets, and an election decided by the courts, as some officials feared," said Chellie Pingree, president of the voter advocacy group Common Cause, in a press statement. "But that can’t be our standard for a successful election. Voters not included on registration lists, tens of thousands of absentee ballots never received and lines that snake for blocks are just as large impediments to voting as hanging chads, and they must be addressed."
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Looking for a Tampering Conspiracy
Other voices have echoed Zimmerman’s concerns this week. The lack of a verifiable paper trail to check the accuracy of votes cast on electronic voting machines, coupled with the potential for computer hacking and tampering, was a major concern expressed by voting rights activists going into last Tuesday’s election. Now, with a final result that defied both mainstream predictions and exit polling data from Election Day, some journalists, commentators and academics are crying foul.
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