Numerous methods were used by Democrat Party operatives to steal the 2000 Presidential Election from Republican George W. Bush and the American people. The following is a documentary of these Democrat election fraud and election theft efforts.

The following is a partial list of Democrat election fraud methods used in the 2000 Presidential Election:

1. A Democrat Party operative waited until a few days before the election, and then planted a story with a news reporter about a 24 year old Driving Under the Influence (alcohol DUI) arrest of George W. Bush

 
2. Widespread illegal voting by illegal aliens throughout the south-western United States, due in large part to Democrat organization programs and operations to encourage and facilitate this illegal activity

 
3. Illegal voting by non-citizen Haitian immigrants in Florida
4. Illegal voting by convicted felons in Florida and elsewhere
5. Vote buying
6. Vote swapping
7. Voting multiple times
8. Post-election ballot tampering

 
9. Voter News Service effectively suppressed voter turnout for Republicans and other Bush supporters by falsely and prematurely calling Al Gore the election winner in Florida and in the entire election, an hours before the polls were closed in the heavily Republican Florida panhandle, as well as the central and western states. Bush was ahead in all of the polls by at least one percent nationwide going into the election, yet he lost the popular vote. The Democrats then tried to accuse a cousin of Bush of influencing a later call of the election for Bush, without evidence, and even though the polls were already closed. [This item needs more specific information for the last sentence - will get and re-write as necessary]

 
10. Democrat Party fabrication of a "confusing ballot" controversy in Palm Beach County, Florida, which was used as the basis for demanding a county-wide re-vote. This re-vote would have allowed Democrats who voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader to switch their vote to Democrat candidate Al Gore.

 
11. The Florida Supreme Court intervened in the Democrat Party lawsuit involving Florida's statutory county election return reporting deadline, which is unusual because the courts usually avoid becoming involved in election matters, especially after an election is over, and especially when the case does not involve election fraud. In addition, the Florida Supreme Court took an even more extraordinary action by bringing this case to itself. Normally, a case would be brought to a higher level court by the plaintiff or defendant appealing the case to the higher court. It is extremely rare for any court to bring a case to itself. In this case, the Florida Supreme Court ignored the Florida Statutes and Constitution, and violated the separation of powers by usurping the power and authority of the legislative and executive branches of state government. The Florida State Supreme Court came up with an implausible, irrational interpretation of Sections 102.111 and 102.112 that the Secretary of State shall not ignore late county election returns and that the deadline shall be extended to an arbitrary date picked by the court. It is absolutely certain that the Democrat appointees on the Florida Supreme Court acted in a highly partisan manner to steal the election for Democrat Al Gore.

 
12. Miscounting of ballots by Democrat officials in several Florida counties

 
13. Lawsuits and liberal judicial activist judges violating the Constitution and the law

 
14. Democrat lawsuits to exclude more than 200,000 legal and legitimate ballots in Florida's Seminole and Martin Counties, where a majority voted for Republican George Bush

 
15. Democrat lawyers challenging overseas absentee ballots from American military men and women

 
16. Democrat lawsuit challenging Dick Cheney's legal residency

 
17. Democrat efforts to pressure, threaten, intimidate, and otherwise improperly induce Electoral College electors who were elected to vote for Bush to switch their vote and instead vote for Gore

 
18. Democrat operatives in the media and elsewhere trying to steal the legitimacy of the election victor, Republican George W. Bush, after efforts to steal the election were unsuccessful

 
1. Manipulative "manual vote recounts" by news media and other political organizations of the so-called "under-vote" in specially selected Florida counties

 
2. The Democrat Party officials and their political allies in the news media claimed that Al Gore should be president because he won the popular vote, and they and they pressured the Electoral College electors who were elected to vote for Bush to switch their vote and instead vote for Gore, and used this issue to try to steal George Bush's legitimacy

 
3. Manipulative, biased news media reports featuring Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and other Democrat operatives calling for public protests claiming that George Bush and the Republicans stole the election; failure to report competently and accurately on the election lawsuits and court opinions

This is a work in progress ... More to be written ... coming soon.
 

Is George W. Bush a legitimate winner of the 2000 Presidential Election?

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1. A Democrat Party operative waited until a few days before the election, and then planted a story with a news reporter about a 24 year old Driving Under the Influence (alcohol DUI) arrest of George W. Bush. This was clearly intended as a news media hit piece against George W. Bush just before the election, without sufficient time to respond. Clearly, this was an attempt to damage Bush's reputation and divert attention away from the real issues after Al Gore performed poorly in all three Presidential debates. If this was a real campaign  issue, it should have been brought up earlier.


George Bush, age 54, was arrested 24 years ago in 1976, at age 30, for driving under the influence of alcohol near his parents' home in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush pleaded guilty, paid a $150 fine and had his driving privileges temporarily suspended in Maine. Bush said he had been drinking in a bar with Australian tennis pro John Newcombe and others, and that he was not jailed after the arrest. Bush said, "I told the guy (the arresting officer) I had been drinking, what do I need to do? He said, 'here's the fine.' I paid the fine."

According to Karen Hughes, Bush's spokeswomen, Bush had been at a bar in Kennebunkport on the night of the arrest, with three friends and his sister, Dora. After he left, she said, he was pulled over by police about a mile away from his parents' home -- apparently because he was driving so slowly. Thus, this is does not appear to be a case of wreckless driving and endangerment while under the influence of alcohol. Bush said  on October 31, 2000, at a campaign appearance at a charity center in San Jose, California, "I quit drinking in 1986 and haven't had a drop since then."

Karen Hughes pointed out, "The timing of an announcement like this, four or five days away from the election about an incident 24 years ago, which the governor's daughters don't even know about, is certainly questionable."

According to a November 2, 2000 CNN news report, Kevin Kelly, news director of WPXT, a Fox television affiliate station in Portland, Maine, said his station broke the story after one of its reporters learned of the arrest while covering an unrelated matter at the local courthouse.

"Somebody made a reference to it," Kelly said. The reporter followed up with phone calls, including one to the Maine Department of Secretary of State. Kelly said the department responded with a fax that detailed the 1976 arrest. Kelly said the reporter also talked to the arresting officer, who verified the incident.

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NOVEMBER 3—Contrary to allegations from the Bush campaign, the lawyer who tipped a Maine television reporter to Shrub’s 1976 drunk-driving conviction is hardly the kind of guy who’d carry out a “dirty trick” for the Democratic party. 

Tom Connolly, a Portland trial lawyer and former Democratic candidate for governor, is known around the state as a quirky, straight-shooting iconoclast willing to stand up for positions roundly regarded as foolish, unpopular, and out of the step with the party line. 

In 1998, Connolly won the Democratic nomination for governor, largely because few wanted to challenge the popular incumbent, independent Angus King. Connolly patched together a losing platform that included a proposal to “cut off the retail sales of alcohol at 6 p.m. on weekdays and all day on Sunday,” according to the alternative Casco Bay Weekly. He also told the paper he had smoked pot and advocated the decriminalization of marijuana, and argued strongly for the right to bear arms. 

But Connolly is most notorious for defending a man convicted of the brutal rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl. 

Connolly represented Dennis Dechaine on charges he kidnapped, sexually tortured, and killed Sarah Cherry in the southern Maine woods. Items connected to Dechaine were discovered at the scene, but Connolly and other backers say DNA evidence was inconclusive. In later attempts to help Dechaine win a new trial, Connolly told a judge his representation had been “ineffective.” 

Connolly may have thought he could use a term in the state’s highest elected office to rectify his own mistakes. Asked two years ago by Casco Bay Weekly whether he’d exercise his authority as governor to pardon Dechaine, Connolly said he’d consider it. “I’m inclined to,” he told the paper. “I believe he didn’t do it, and I’m unlikely to back down from my beliefs.” 

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U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, another extreme leftist Democrat, ... Mary Joe Kapecny

California State Senator Art Torres, also California State Democratic Party Chairman, was arrested for drunk driving while still on probation from his previous drunk driving conviction.

http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=Bush+DUI&hc=0&hs=0

http://www.CNN.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/02/bush.dui/

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2. Widespread illegal voting by illegal aliens throughout the south-western United States, due in large part to Democrat organization programs and operations to encourage and facilitate this illegal activity

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3. Illegal voting by non-citizen Haitian immigrants

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4. Illegal voting by convicted felons in Florida and elsewhere

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5. Vote buying - buying votes of homeless people for packages of cigarettes; buying votes as part of vote swapping schemes implemented using multiple internet web sites

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6. Vote swapping

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VoteSwap.com -- a guide to online Gore/Nader vote swapping
http://www.VoteSwap.com/

Election 2000 Vote Swapping Results
http://www.VoteTrader.org/results/
 
 

7. Voting multiple times by students

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8. Post-election ballot tampering

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9. Voter News Service effectively suppressed voter turnout for Republicans and other Bush supporters by falsely and prematurely calling Al Gore the election winner in Florida and in the entire election, an hours before the polls were closed in the heavily Republican Florida panhandle, as well as the central and western states. Bush was ahead in all of the polls by at least one percent nationwide going into the election, yet he lost the popular vote. The Democrats then tried to accuse a cousin of Bush of influencing a later call of the election for Bush, without evidence, and even though the polls were already closed. [This item needs more specific information for the last sentence - will get and re-write as necessary]

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10. The Democrat party fabricated a "confusing ballot" controversy in Palm Beach County, Florida, which was used as the basis for demanding a county-wide re-vote. This re-vote would have allowed Democrats who voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader to switch their vote to Democrat candidate Al Gore with the knowledge that the election result would be changed. It is absolutely certain that sufficient Democrats would have switched their votes in Palm Beach County to change the Presidential Election outcome. Ralph Nader received 5,565 votes in Palm Beach County, and only 538 of those votes would need to switch to Al Gore due to the 537 vote lead that Bush had over Gore in the final vote count. The Democrat Party activists, including those in the news media, would sensationalize the issue and pressure Democrats who voted for Nader to switch their votes to Gore. This would result in the Democrats stealing the election from the winner, Republican candidate George Bush.


The Democrat Party hired a telemarketing company in Texas on election day, December 7, 2000, to telephone thousands of Palm Beach County Democrat voters before the polls closed. The script suggested that the so-called "butterfly ballot" was confusing and cause Democrats to mistakenly vote for Pat Buchanan rather than Al Gore. The script then requested that election officials and elected representatives be contacted to complain about the "confusing ballot". This Democrat operation was used both to demand a re-vote and to falsely claim that George Bush and the Republicans stole the election, and that George Bush is an illegitimate President.
 

11. Florida's statutory deadline for the canvassing board of each county to certify the county election and send the election results to the Florida Department of State for inclusion in the certified state election results is specified in two statutes. These are Title IX, Chapter 102, Section 111 (102.111) and Title IX, Chapter 102, Section 112 (102.112).
    
    Section 102.111 uses the word "shall" and states, "If the county returns are not received by the Department of State by 5 p.m. of the seventh day following an election, all missing counties shall be ignored, and the results shown by the returns on file shall be certified."
    
    Section 102.112 uses the word "may" and states, "If the returns are not received by the department by the time specified, such returns may be ignored and the results on file at that time may be certified by the department."
    
    Section 102.111 states that the Secretary of State has no discretion and that late county election returns shall be ignored. Section 102.112 states that the Secretary of State has discretion as authorized by the state legislature when the statute was enacted, and may ignore late county election returns.
    
    Thus, any plausible and rational interpretation of Sections 102.111 and 102.112 would be that the Secretary of State has no discretion and late county returns are ignored, that the Secretary of State has discretion and may ignore late returns, or somewhere in the continuum between these two endpoints. For example, they may be interpreted such that the Secretary has limited discretionary authority to accept late returns under specific circumstances, such as a hurricane or other natural disaster, but has no such discretion under other conditions. In interpreting two such differing statutes, one may use the statute enacted more recently, or the statute that is more specific. But one cannot legitimately ignore both statutes and come up with an interpretation that is entirely different and outside the continuum of the differing statutes.
    
    Note that one practical purpose of this statutory deadline is that it limits the time window during which ballot tampering and election fraud can be committed.
    
    The Florida Supreme Court intervened in the Democrat Party lawsuit involving the Florida Presidential Election, which is unusual because the courts usually avoid becoming involved in election matters which are normally left up to the legislative and executive branches of government unless fraud is involved. This is especially true after an election is over. The Courts are normally extremely reluctant to change the outcome of an election. In this case, no fraud was alleged or involved. In addition, the Florida Supreme Court took an even more extraordinary action by bringing this case to itself. Normally, a case would be brought to a higher level court, including the State or U.S. Supreme Court, by the plaintiff or defendant appealing the case to the higher court. It is extremely rare for any court to bring a case to itself. In fact, it is so rare that it typically does not occur in any given year. It is even more rare, and probably the first occurrence in U.S. history, for a State or U.S. Supreme Court to bring to itself a court case involving an election. A search of all court case records for the entire history of each state Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court will probably verify this as fact.
    
    In this case, the Florida Supreme Court ignored the Florida Statutes and Constitution, and violated the separation of powers by usurping the power and authority of the legislative and executive branches of state government, including the discretionary power of the Secretary of State. The Florida State Supreme Court came up with an implausible, irrational interpretation of Sections 102.111 and 102.112 that the Secretary of State shall not ignore late county election returns and that the deadline shall be extended to an arbitrary date picked by the court. There is no language in the Florida Statutes that states that Florida courts, including the Florida Supreme Court, have the discretion or authority to extend the statutory deadline or to accept late county election returns for inclusion in the certified state election results.
    
    Thus, it is absolutely certain that the Democrat appointees on the Florida Supreme Court acted in a highly partisan manner in an attempt to steal the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election from Republican George Bush and give it to Democrat Al Gore.
    
    This is a glaring example of why it is so important to elect Governors and Presidents that will appoint strict constructionists rather than liberal judicial activists as supreme court justices. Strict constructionists interpret the law as enacted by the legislature, and they use the written federal and state Constitutions, previous court precedents, the writings and philosophy of the founders including the Federalist Papers and the record of the Constitutional Debates, and intellectually honest logic and reasoning to arrive at sound decisions.
    
    In contrast, liberal judicial activists ignore all of these and use twisted irrational reasoning to legislate from the bench, changing existing laws and enacting new ones, in complete violation of the Constitution and the traditional separation of powers. Under rule by liberal judicial activists, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, including the Second Amendment (right to keep and bear arms for defense of self and country), is nothing more than a worthless scrap of paper. Under judicial activism, we have no rights because the laws and the Constitution is whatever the current crop of justices say it is, without regard to the original social contract and the history and traditions of our country.
    
    The primary solution to the danger of judicial activism is to elect conservative presidents and governors who will do their best to appoint only strict constructionists as Supreme Court justices. Because Supreme Court justices are appointed for life, it may become necessary at some point in the future to curtail or eliminate the authority of the courts to engage in judicial review. This power was never given to the courts by the Constitution, but was assumed by the courts in the famous case of Marbury v. Madison. (WILLIAM MARBURY v. JAMES MADISON, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,  5 U.S. 137,  FEBRUARY, 1803 Term. Chief Justice Marshall delivered the opinion of the court.)
    
    Although there are advantages to judicial review, the extreme abuses by liberal judicial activists may have spoiled this system for everyone. Other alternative solutions should also be researched to find the best and most workable solution. One solution would be for the Congress and state legislatures to write into specific laws that the law is not subject to judicial review, and to re-enact laws improperly misinterpreted, modified, or repealed by judicial activists with such a clause forbidding future judicial review of the law. Another solution that may be used in conjunction with other solutions would be to require that Supreme Court justices that are appointed for life serve shorter finite terms and/or that they require periodic confirmation by the voters.
    
    Some years ago, California voters voted to not confirm three California Supreme Court justices - Rose Bird, Renosa, and Grodin, due to their liberal judicial activism. There was a successful campaign to educate the voters and prevent their confirmation. This cleared the way for the Governor to appoint new justices to replace them, with a clear message from the voters that judicial activists were unacceptable. Unfortunately, several Florida Supreme Court justices came up for voter confirmation in the same election that they later ruled on, and it will be some time before they are again up for reconfirmation. Voters who were unaware of their extreme liberal judicial activism provided a 72 percent majority vote in favor of confirmation. Interestingly, only 78 percent of the 5,963,110 Florida voters that voted for President (final vote count) voted for or against confirmation of the three Florida Supreme Court justices on the ballot. Thus, at most 56 percent of the voters who participated in the election voted for  confirmation. The more than 22 percent non-participation rate indicates voters were uninformed about these justices.

 
12. Miscounting of ballots by Democrat officials in several Florida counties

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13. Lawsuits and liberal judicial activist judges violating the Constitution and the law

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14. Democrat lawsuits to exclude more than 200,000 legal and legitimate ballots in Florida's Seminole and Martin Counties, where a majority voted for Republican George Bush

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15. Democrat lawyers challenging overseas absentee ballots from American military men and women

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16. Democrat lawsuit challenging Dick Cheney's legal residency

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17. Democrat efforts to pressure, threaten, intimidate, and otherwise improperly induce Electoral College electors who were elected to vote for Bush to switch their vote and instead vote for Gore

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18. Democrat operatives in the media and elsewhere trying to steal the legitimacy of the election victor, Republican George W. Bush, after efforts to steal the election were unsuccessful

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1. Manipulative "news media vote recounts" by news media and other political organizations of the so-called "under-vote" in specially selected Florida counties

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2. The Democrat Party officials and their political allies in the news media pointed out before the election, when they believed that Al Gore would win the Electoral College vote but lose the popular vote, that the winner of the Presidential Election under the Constitution is the winner of the Electoral College vote. Then, after the election when George Bush won the Electoral College vote but lost the popular vote, the Democrat Party officials claimed that Al Gore should be president because he won the popular vote, and they and their media allies pressured the Electoral College electors who were elected to vote for Bush to switch their vote and instead vote for Gore. They also used this phony issue to try to steal George Bush's legitimacy and to claim that George Bush and the Republican Party stole the election. They referred to George Bush as the "commander in thief".

 
3. Manipulative, biased news media reports featuring featuring Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and other Democrat operatives calling for public protests claiming that George Bush and the Republicans stole the election; failure to report competently and accurately on the election lawsuits and court opinions

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Numerous false accusations were made against President George W. Bush and the Republican Party by Democrat Party operatives, including accusations of election theft. These false claims were enthusiastically amplified and repeated by liberal Democrats in the news media and the entertainment industry. This is especially ironic considering the abundance of evidence that Al Gore and the Democrat Party aggressively tried to steal the 2000 Presidential Election from Republican George W. Bush and the American people. The following is a documentary of these Democrat accusations.

The following is a partial list of false Democrat accusations against George Bush and the Republican Party:

1. The Democrats falsely claimed that Florida Governor Jeb Bush, George W. Bush's brother, somehow helped George Bush steal the election, without offering a shred of plausible evidence, and in spite of the fact that Jeb Bush exercised excess of caution and recused himself from involvement in the certification of the Florida election results.

 
2. The Democrats falsely claimed that Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris hired a company to purge the Florida voter rolls when in fact that company was hired by the State of Florida before Katherine Harris was elected to office.

 
3. The Democrats falsely claimed that Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris acted illegally and improperly in enforcing the statutory deadline for submission of county election returns for inclusion in the state election certification. This is covered in depth in another page on this web site.
    
4. Voter News Service effectively suppressed voter turnout for Republicans and other Bush supporters by falsely and prematurely calling Al Gore the election winner in Florida and in the entire election, an hours before the polls were closed in the heavily Republican Florida panhandle, as well as the central and western states. Bush was ahead in all of the polls by at least one percent nationwide going into the election, yet he lost the popular vote. The Democrats then tried to accuse a cousin of Bush of influencing a later call of the election for Bush, without evidence, and even though the polls were already closed. [This item needs more specific information for the last sentence - will get and re-write as necessary]
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5. The Democrats falsely claimed that some devious Republican plot resulted in a "confusing butterfly ballot" used in Palm Beach Florida. The ballot was designed by a Democrat election official to allow the use of larger, more readable text in the sample ballot and the actual ballot. The ballot was made available for review, criticism, comment, and dispute by officials of all political parties and the public. There was no criticism during the review period.
   
   Criticism and complaints were made only after a telemarketing company hired by the Democrat Party on election day, before the polls closed, called thousands of Democrat voters in Palm Beach Florida urging them to complain about the ballot. The telemarketers suggested that the ballot was confusing, that Democrat voters may have voted for Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan by mistake instead of Democrat candidate Al Gore, and that they should contact their election officials and elected representatives to complain. That same ballot type and format was used without problem or complaint in at least one previous election in Palm Beach County, Florida.

 
6. The Democrats falsely claimed that conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justices stole the election on behalf of George Bush and the Republican Party. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the Florida State Supreme Court in a 7 to 2 decision, in Bush v. Gore (2000), that the manual hand recounts of specially selected ballots in specially selected Florida counties using undefined, inconsistent, and unconventional methods of determining voter intent for ballots with no clear vote for any candidate for President violated the Equal Protection clause and was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court further ruled in a 5 to 4 decision, that there was insufficient time remaining to establish and implement a constitutional and fair method of vote counting that would allow for public review, input, and legal challenges.
   
   Extreme leftist Democrat "Reverend" Al Sharpton exclaimed publicly that "George Bush was selected by the judges, not elected by the people!" And another typical extreme leftist Democrat, "Reverend" Jesse Jackson, made similar claims. After attending the U.S. Supreme Court hearing as an obvious act of intimidation and implied threat of race riots, Jackson threatened, "If this court rules against counting our vote, it will simply create a civil rights explosion. People will not surrender to this tyranny. We will fight back."

RELATED LINKS

• Fraud Factor mathematical definition

 
• Fraud Factor and Fraud Vote Count for selected Florida Counties (those with vote count changes of 100 or more for either candidate)

 
• Fraud Factor and Fraud Vote Count for all Florida Counties

 
• Machine Count Accuracy and Error Rates

 
• "Under-Counted" Ballot Re-Count Table with Theoretical Projected Votes for Bush and Gore

 
• Combined "Under-Counted" Ballot Re-Count and Fraud FactorTable