Max Cleland “lost.” So will Jim Martin “lose”?

Posted by mcm

November 23, 2008

Allegations about 2002 Georgia election raise doubts on current voting
Muriel Kane
Published: Friday November 21, 2008

As the state of Georgia prepares to conduct a runoff between incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss and his Democratic challenger, Jim Martin, old doubts about the election in which Chambliss took the Senate seat from Max Cleland six years ago are attracting fresh notice.

Chambliss was the victor in the 2002 election by seven percentage points, despite polls which showed him trailing by five points just a week earlier. That unexpected turnaround, combined with the exclusive control over the voting machines by Diebold Election Systems, raised suspicions of electronic vote-tampering from the start.

According to cyber-security expert Stephen Spoonamore, “If you look at the case of Saxby Chambliss, that’s ridiculous. The man was not elected. He lost that election by five points. Max Cleland won. They flipped the votes, clear as day.”

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