Kennedy's Claim Refuted
Salon examines Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent examination of whether Republicans stole the 2004 election and offers its response in a word: no.
"The evidence he cites isn't new and his argument is filled with distortions and blatant omissions."
For example, in response to Kennedy’s claim that one out of every four registered voters in Ohio were not on the voter rolls, Salon writes that the cited study "found no significant difference in the share of Kerry voters and Bush voters who came to the polls and didn't find their names listed."
As for the 357,000 overwhelmingly Democratic voters who were prevented from casting ballots, Salon reports that "Kennedy finds these 'missing votes' in the damnedest places.
He counts 30,000 voter registrations that were deleted from voter rolls, in keeping with state law, as mostly Kerry voters, though it's impossible to know if those were even real people. He says that 174,000 mostly Kerry voters didn't vote because they were put off by long lines.
But the source states it was actually 129,543 voters, and that those votes would have split evenly between Kerry and Bush. And that same source -- the Democratic Party's report once again -- notes conclusively: 'Despite the problems on Election Day, there is no evidence from our survey that John Kerry won the state of Ohio.' But Kennedy doesn't tell you that."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/06/03/kennedy/index_np.html
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