Confirmed: We wuz robbed!

A day after the 2006 vote, I warned that we should not discount the likelihood of vote fraud simply because the Democrats carried both Houses. The discrepancy between the actuals and the exits made me suspicious. Actually, "suspicious" is too gentle a word.

Now, the Election Defense Alliance carries that same theme forward. Not only is the exit poll discrepancy real, but apologists cannot claim that Dems were oversampled by the exit pollsters. Don't let a few numbers boggle you; as Q likes to say, "Now pay attention, 007":

The E2006 exit poll itself contains a "background" question which serves as an intrinsic measuring stick to allow us to put this claim to a very objective test. Respondents were asked for whom they voted in the 2004 presidential election.

Because this very telling intrinsic yardstick was included in the 2006 Exit Poll, it provides an objective basis to assess whether Democratic and Republican voters actually were sampled and weighted in correct proportions. In fact it reveals that Democrats won by a 4% greater margin than indicated by the actual vote count.

In the 2004 election, Bush's margin was 2.8%. The 2006 exit poll results as of 7:07 p.m. on Election Night recorded a comparable 2% margin among respondents asked for whom they had voted in 2004, 45% Kerry to 47% Bush. This is a very strong indicator that the exit poll, on the evening of November 7th, accurately reflected the official 2006 outcome as a whole. The 2006 national vote for the House, as captured by this weighted but unadjusted Election Night exit poll, was 55.0% Democratic and 43.5% Republican, an 11.5% Democratic margin.

(Emphasis added.) 11.5%. Consider the implications...

If numbers don't scare you, you'll want to read this take by our old friend, Truth Is All. Once again, we learn, the final exit polls were skewed by being conformed to the "actuals."

Regarding the disaster in Sarasota County, Florida: Nobody in his right mind can look at the results and come away with the impression that the vote was clean. The massive undervote in the House race was unprecedented -- especially since the undervote phenomenon occurred only in the compu-ballots, not in the absentee ballots.

The National Voting Rights Institute and other groups have demanded a full revote. We should ALL make that demand.

Then we should force our congressfolk to fix the damned problem.