U.S. Presidential Election. Rest of the world - Kerry. "Minority vote - disallowed!" 13 November, 2004

Shows a globe representing 'Rest of the world' placing a vote for 'Kerry' in a ballot box. To the side an angry judge bangs his gavel on his desktop and shouts that this is a minority vote and so not allowed. Refers to the 2004 United States presidential election in which John Kerry, who was the Democrat choice, was beaten by the Republican choice, George W. Bush. It is widely believed that the election was stolen from John Kerry. There were irregularities which is often the case but they almost without exception went against the Democrat candidate, John Kerry. For example, Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.

Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad never received their ballots -- or received them too late to vote. A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states, was discovered shredding Democratic registrations. 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. Officials there purged tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls, neglected to process registration cards generated by Democratic voter drives, shortchanged Democratic precincts when they allocated voting machines and illegally derailed a recount that could have given Kerry the presidency. (Notes from ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.Posted Jun 01, 2006, in Rolling Stone.)

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