Reply #5: Freeman is brilliant and courageous! KICK! KICK! KICK!

[Peace Patriot]

I've read both of Dr. Steven Freeman's papers on the Exit Poll discrepancy and the man is not only brilliant and courageous, he is that rare bird among academics who is willing to state the broad implications of his research and take on "the powers" even when what he has to say is extremely dangerous and profoundly threatens the existing order.

He reminds me of the professors during the Vietnam War who risked their careers to stand with their students who were threatened by the Draft and to protest that dreadful war.

There is nothing more dangerous to the Bush administration right now than an election fraud truthteller with impeccable creds.

I agree with cornermouse. One of our chief problems on this issue is the media, and I don't mean just their general warmongering, disinformation and trumpeting of government propaganda. They did something very specific with regard to this election outcome that will live in infamy as the worst journalistic crime ever committed.

On Election night, they denied Americans the information that Kerry had won in the Exit Polls. They ALTERED the Exit Polls--that figure on everybody's TV screens that was showing a Kerry win all afternoon--by "adjusting" it to fit with the "official results" as they came in from central electronic vote tabulators (owned and controlled with secret, proprietary programming code, by highly partisan pro-Bush companies).

In the Ukraine, people had the two separate, conflicting figures--the Exit Polls vs. the "official results"--and could plainly see that something was very wrong. Not so here.

Some people have charged that the Ukraine Exit Polls were manipulated by the U.S. Freeman references this charge, above, and points out that the Bush/Kerry pollster has the most solid reputation in the world. How ironic it would be if the BushCons used (or created) a manipulable pollster in the Ukraine, and could not manipulate our pollster, but found another way to produce the result they wanted...

...getting our collusive and unreliable TV networks to disguise the Exit Poll result.

I am not sure that our exit pollster (Mitofksy) is entirely innocent in this regard. They designed the poll as a demographics poll (i.e., how many white Catholic woman voted for Kerry? etc.), not as a check on fraud (as is done throughout the world), although even Mitofksy has said there is no reason that their Exit Poll information can't be used to verify the election. The trouble is that this poll design gives BushCons an easy "talking point" to question the Kerry win.

And, more critically, with the U.S. testing out a new and controversial electronic voting system--with no controls, no auditability, no paper trail, and secret source code owned by highly partisan Republicans--why DIDN'T Mitofsky, the TV networks, the major newspapers, the Democratic Party, and even the Republicans DO an exit poll SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED as a check on fraud and a verification of this system?

The situation CRIED OUT FOR such verification.

Further, Mitofksy has refused to release his raw data. Investigators were forced to rely on screen shots of the afternoon Exit Polls to analyze data and expose the virtually impossible discrepancy (Exit Poll vs. "official result"), and later, on leaks (impossible discrepancy confirmed). Is Mitofksy's refusal to release the raw data more than cowardice? Is it collusion?

As Dr. Freeman points out in his second paper on the Exit Poll discrepancy, in Germany--and everywhere else in the world with a decent democracy--THESE THINGS ARE NEVER IN QUESTION. There are EASY ways to virtually GUARANTEE an honest election AND to check for fraud, should it occur. And we didn't, and don't, use them. Our system is ABSURDLY non-transparent, fraud prone, insecure and hackable. It was designed that way!

One final possible colluder: the Democratic Party leadership. Are they suicidal or what? WHAT accounts for their near silence about BushCons owning the voting system?

The only thing I disagree with Dr. Freeman on is that this is a non-partisan issue. It wasn't Republicans who were defrauded and bullied at the polling place. It was only Democratic voters who took the hit. So, the two questions that remain are:

1. Why didn't our party defend us?
2. Has the Republican Party stopped believing in democracy (i.e., transparent elections)?
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Freeman's papers:

http://www.truthout.org/unexplainedexitpoll.pdf
http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/epdiscrep.htm