- For about 2 hours yesterday I posted figures I had received
from a reader someone had sent him listing the Official Vote counts for
all 50 states that showed close to a 2 million vote lead for George W.
Bush. I checked about 15 of the states and found the figures to be mostly
accurate, with some totals showing small differences that appeared to be
from late absentee voter counts.
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- So I posted the article, with both my reader's warning
that the figures were not verified and my own observation that I had not
checked all the official vote tallies in all 50 States. I was rushing to
a catch an airplane to Chicago, and didn't do a total verification.
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- Posting the article was a mistake. Very quickly I began
getting letters from Michigan readers that the person who compiled the
report had used the TOTAL vote for Michigan of all votes cast for George
W. Bush, rather than the Bush vote. So, I removed the article and send
a correcting e-mail to the list that gets my e-mailed reports.
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- The rest of the day was spent en route to Chicago and
out of touch with my computer.
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- When, after midnight, I finally was able to download
e-mail again, I found a huge number of e-mail from people who had taken
my suggestion and checked out the individual official State Election results
they could find by going to the Original Sources State pages at http://www.originalsourcs.com/candidates/statepolitics.html.
At the top of each state page is a link to election results for that page,
generally to the State's Secretary of State.
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- Several readers had checked out all 50 state Election
Department website posts of the OFFICIAL counts for each state. Three states
still do not have official returns posted on their websites but all those
who checked the ORIGINAL SOURCE of correct official returns, which I had
posted told me much the same story. George W. Bush did not receive the
majority of the popular vote according to those official returns. Several
pointed out that it doesn't make any difference whether he did or not.
He received the majority of the ELECTORAL COLLEGE votes and that is what
our constitution provides to choose the President.
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- Those readers are, of course correct. Contrary to what
the media often says, the founding fathers did not found a pure Democracy.
In fact, they thought a pure democracy was the worst form of government.
What we have is a Republic We have heard a lot about "voter intent"
during the 36 day challenge to the official returns in Florida. In fact,
we are told daily it seems that if "voter intent" was counted
as legal votes in Florida, Al Gore would have won the State and therefore
the Presidency.
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- If "voter intent" is important in Florida,
shouldn't it also be important in California, New Mexico, and other Pacific
Standard Time states? Every person I have talked to who was a California
election worker on election day tells me the same story. Because Al Gore
was declared the winner at 4:50 PM California time, hundreds of thousands
of registered voters who "intended" to vote for George W. Bush,
didn't go to the poll while many more Democrat voters DID go to the polls
after Gore was declared the winner. We will never know who WOULD have won
had true voter intent been counted as a vote in the November 7th election.
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- On the airplane today I found myself with a California
election worker as a companion. She told me that immediately following
the announcement on all networks that Al Gore had won Florida, there was
a sharp drop in the number of registered Democrat voters coming to vote
sharply increased while the number of registered Republican voters coming
to vote sharply decreased. They had believed false media reports of a Gore
victory.
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- While I apologize for adding more media confusion to
an already confusing situation by posting the report containing an error
on the Michigan tally, in some ways I'm glad I did it. I am impressed that
so many readers, once they knew where to look, took the time and made the
effort to search out the original source of correct, official, vote returns,
add them up and make their own judgments on who won the official vote tally.
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- So far, no two tallies of the results match, although
all of them indicate George W. Bush did not win a majority in the popular
vote. But as many readers pointed out, that is just irrelevant at this
point George W. Bush won the Electoral College vote in spite of reports
of widespread voter fraud, illegal aliens voting, the dead voting, Democrats
paying "walking around" money to voters in black precincts to
get more votes for Al Gore.
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- The November 7th election clearly was imperfect. But,
the Electoral College has voted and George W. Bush will become the 43rd
President of the United States. The next time we have a national election,
hopefully we will have figured out a way to reduce the voter fraud and
conduct a truly honest election that everyone can believe selected the
president and the members of Congress the majority INTENDED to vote for.
That will require a system that halts voter fraud AND media manipulation.
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- One of the best ways to accomplish that is for more people
to do what many of my readers did - go to the original sources which are
increasingly available online and complain loudly when someone in the media
gets it wrong. The American people have become far to accepting of leaders
and media who don't tell them the truth.
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- To comment: mmostert@originalsources.com
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