Was the election hacked?

As I noted below there are substantial anomalies in this year's election results.

Dick Morris notes in that exit polls are almost never wrong. For six of them to be wrong releases a foul odor. I'll say. It is now a national priority that the discrepancy between the exit polls and the final results, as well as the extremely suspect results coming in from Florida be investigated, particularly because there seems to be a one to one match between a Diebold Optical Scanner and a suspect vote tally.

Morris condludes that the exit polls were fixed. But that is a crock. As far as conspiracies go, simple explanations are usually correct. It would be extremely difficult to organize an airtight effort to conduct six separate exit polls that produce false results in total secrecy. As it can be shown, it is much easier to tamper with the vote totals. And let's do a risk/reward analysis: What is the benefit of doing either? One leaves much to chance with devastating consequences. The other leaves nothing to chance with equally devastating consequences. If you are going to risk it all, are you going to risk it all for a chance or a certainty?

But there are less speculative arguments. Read, Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked, or An Examination of the Florida Elections. The vote totals from Florida counties using Diebold optical scanners are wildly off and also - miracle of miracles - wildly favor Bush. There are about 12 counties where more people supposedly "voted" than actually turned out.

We should not ignore the obivious. Support the efforts to get to the bottom of this. It isn't about Kerry winning anymore. It's about our country being the victim of the crime of the century.