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Politics > 2004 Election Fraud, Part 5 (Wisconsin; Undetermined)

Jim Lampley, writing in the new Huffington Post, brings up old charges of Republican election fraud in the 2004 election, based entirely on exit polls which didn't predict the election results.

In reality we had far better predictions than those exit polls, which were both random and notoriously unreliable. Take for instance the prediction of Mark Mellman - the Kerry-Edwards campaign's own pollster. He predicted a Bush win with 51.6% of the two-party vote. Mellman published that prediction in "The Hill" the morning of the election.

Democrats have spoken often and powerfully about the nation’s economic problems. But by historical standards, they are not that bad. The “misery index” is 7.8 today but was 20.5 when Jimmy Carter was defeated. Economic models of elections show Bush winning 52-58 percent of the vote.[...]

Mellman isn't alone. A CBS/New York Times poll two days before the election found Bush ahead by 3%. RealClearPolitics has a roundup of pre-election polls and their accuracy. Pew Research, Rasmussen, ABC/Washington Post, Harris, NBC/WSJ, Reuters/Zogby, and Newsweek all predicted a Bush win. CNN/USAT/Gallup and ARG predicted a dead heat.

If you've read my blog you've seen plenty of examples of vote fraud in 2004, all perpetrated by Democrats (see links below). These are not anecdotal cases - they're all backed up by indictments at least, and in some of those caes convictions and guilty pleas.

Democrats like to imagine skullduggery in Ohio, where Bush won by a margin of more than 140 thousand votes. Yet in Wisconsin, where Kerry won by just over 11 thousand votes, there were confirmed election irregularities. In Milwaulkee, 4,609 more votes were cast than there were registered voters. Most cities are happy to get 75% voter turnout. Milwaulkee got 101% voter turnout.

Kerry took 71% the Milwaulkee votes. That doesn't necessarily mean it was Democratic vote fraud - I've long maintained that members of both parties cheat on election day - but it doesn't look good for the Democrats. In Milwaulkee there are already indictments against five Democrats - all of them members of the Kerry-Edwards campaign, with one a son of a first-term congresswoman and another the son of Milwaulkee's former acting mayor, both Democrats - who have been charged with slashing the tires of Republican get-out-the-vote vans. Yet Democrats keep trying to paint 2004 as an election stolen by Republicans.

See also:
 - 2002 Election Fraud (New Hampshire; Republican)
 - 2004 Election Fraud, Part 1 (Wisconsin; Democrats)
 - 2004 Election Fraud, Part 2 (Ohio; Democrat)
 - 2004 Election Fraud, Part 3 (Illinois; Democrats)
 - 2004 Election Fraud, Part 4 (Missouri, Democrat)

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