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a neat 100 percent. The television totals simply subtract out the spoiled vote. And not all vote spoil equally. Most of those votes, say every official report, come from African American and minority precincts."

In fact, if you look at just the city of Cleveland, Ohio, you would see something quite startling. A quick overlay of the city's racial makeup matches almost identically with the precincts that had the greatest spoilage as a percentage of total votes cast. Therefore, if you were living in a predominantly Black neighborhood the likelihood that your vote would become part of the spoilage count was nearly ten times greater. For Whites, 1.6% of their votes didn't count, but for Blacks the amount was 14.4%.

But the problem is even greater than a fake felon list to purge voters as well as higher ratios of spoiled votes. Exit polls are almost never wrong. They eliminate the two major potential fallacies in survey research by correctly separating actual voters from those who pretend they will cast ballots but never do and by substituting actual observation for guesswork in judging the relative turnout of different parts of the state.

But in 2004, the networks got the exit polls wrong. Not just some of them. They got all of six Bush states wrong. So, according to ABC-TV's exit polls, for example, Kerry was slated to carry Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Iowa, all of which Bush carried. Are we to believe that the experts in surveys suddenly slipped up big time? Are we to believe that six exit polls were wrong during the same election? Did more than 10% of all exit polls in 2004 err that much?

In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes, malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots. Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment - roughly one for every 100 cast. By the 2004 election, the Republican Party had gone from rigging one state's outcome, to six different states. By the time the 2008 election rolls around, who knows how many states are going to be rigged? Greg Palast declares, "Florida and Ohio are continuing problems. In 2008 look for vote theft in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Oregon and certainly New Mexico too."

As Chris Floyd of Empire Burlesque so aptly stated on March 3, 2006, "One of the few certainties in modern American politics is that no Democrat

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