“Writing in the Oct. 5, 2006, issue of Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in“Will the Next Election Be Hacked?” described a suspect election that took place in Georgia in 2002, just after Diebold’s electronic touch-screen voting systems had been deployed for the first time across the entire state.
“Six days before the vote,” Kennedy writes, “polls showed Sen. Max Cleland, a decorated war veteran and Democratic incumbent, leading his Republican opponent Saxby Chambliss … by five percentage points. In the governor’s race, Democrat Roy Barnes was running a decisive eleven points ahead of Republican Sonny Perdue. But on Election Day, Chambliss won with fifty-three percent of the vote, and Perdue won with fifty-one percent.”
To this day, Election Integrity advocates cite that 2002 election as suspect, along with the curious software “patch” they later learned was secretly applied to the state’s electronic voting system earlier that year.”
- Is the GOP stealing Ohio? - Salon.com
“Six days before the vote,” Kennedy writes, “polls showed Sen. Max Cleland, a decorated war veteran and Democratic incumbent, leading his Republican opponent Saxby Chambliss … by five percentage points. In the governor’s race, Democrat Roy Barnes was running a decisive eleven points ahead of Republican Sonny Perdue. But on Election Day, Chambliss won with fifty-three percent of the vote, and Perdue won with fifty-one percent.”
To this day, Election Integrity advocates cite that 2002 election as suspect, along with the curious software “patch” they later learned was secretly applied to the state’s electronic voting system earlier that year.”
- Is the GOP stealing Ohio? - Salon.com