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REPUBLICANS AND ELECTION FRAUD IN KENTUCKY…ONCE AGAIN

We see, again, the nightmare scenario warned about for so many years: a U.S. election where all of the pre-election polls suggest Candidate X is set to win, but Candidate Y ends up winning by a huge margin instead and nobody even bothers to verify that the computer tabulated results accurately reflect the intent of the voters.

That’s exactly what happened in Kentucky on Tuesday, where Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway was leading by a fair margin (about 3 to 5 points) in almost every pre-election poll in his race for Governor, but then ended up being announced as the loser to ‘Tea Party’ Republican candidate Matt Bevin by a landslide (almost 9 points) — according to the state’s 100 percent UNVERIFIED computer tabulation systems.

Remember: Republican politicians complain about nearly non-existent voter fraud, but that’s just classic misdirection - what Kentucky does have is a history of rigging voting machines

(read Brad Friedman’s full Alternet post »here)

(via recall-all-republicans)