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It is odd to BuzzFlash that so many progressives still think that the possibility that the Busheviks stole the 2004 election is some sort of fringe theory.

After all, they stole the 2000 election. Why wouldn't they do it again, if they could? In fact, it defies common sense to think that getting away with one robbery, they, all of a sudden, wouldn’t try it a second time.

So many individuals have uncovered the evidence of a multi-pronged approach to suppressing and altering the votes by Republicans (the latter theory rooted in the private ownership of electronic voting machine tabulating software). Why then is the GOP penchant for stealing elections still a taboo topic among mainstream media and Democrats?

After all, it's only likely to get worse – and more sophisticated – with each election.

BuzzFlash has featured several books on the issue, as well as ongoing links to websites that cover voting fraud and the electronic voting machine scam.

We strongly recommend another addition to this growing library: "Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count."

Steven E. Freeman and Joel Bleifuss are the co-authors. Freeman is the University of Pennsylvania academic specializing in polling. It was Freeman's groundbreaking study that gave the gravitas to the notion that the exit polling showing Kerry winning the election by a comfortable margin was statistically likely to be true. In fact, the likelihood that Bush would have "won" despite the large exit-polling advantage for Kerry was about equal to being struck by lightning in the Mojave Desert.

"Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?" is a book grounded in a thorough, detailed examination of the data. It is grounded in fact.

It is also eminently readable for such an exhaustively researched book.

As the authors note in their chapter on how the media has ignored the questions raised by the 2004 election, "That a journalistic examination of the exit-poll discrepancy is deemed 'not fit to print' by both the corporate and the independent media indicates how far our standards have devolved. It seems undeniable to us that the very same set of facts applied to a foreign election anywhere in the world would have garnered front-page coverage in every American newspaper and would have been the lead story on every American news program. If election fraud in Ukraine or Haiti is news, why isn’t election fraud in the United States?"

This is a question we ignore at great peril to our democracy.

We know the presidency was stolen in 2000. This book, along with others that BuzzFlash has featured, makes an extremely strong case that it was stolen again in 2004.

How long can we keep letting the Republicans get away with mugging elections?

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