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So, what's the general opinion of this book around here? I don't think I've ever seen it discussed. I finished it over the weekend, having bought it after I saw Miller giving a talk on CSPAN2. It's a little messy (Miller could've used a better editor), and there's a little too much Moore-style angry invective, but it does present a pretty interesting case.
The gist of it is that the election was stolen through the use of some pretty heinous misuses of bureaucracy and disinformation: voter registrations submitted with driver's license applications not being recorded, "legitimate" voter registration drives resulting in Democratic registrations being thrown out or switched to Republican registrations, Democratic absentee ballots and provisional ballots being tossed, people being intentionally told the wrong polling place and given the wrong date for election day, a phony list of felons being used to keep people from casting ballots in Florida, and on top of that, the usual black-intimidation practices. There's a lot of evidence that shows that government officials in Florida and Ohio went out of their way to change state laws to make things as easy as possible for dirty tricks to be played at election time. Plus, there's reason to believe that electronic voting machines manufactured by politically-compromised companies were used to throw things off.
What I found most interesting aside from the evidence presented (which was all very well-sourced) was the comparison Miller draws between the Bush administration's use of preemption in foreign policy and the way they - and the GOP in general - use it in domestic, PR-related matters. What's the easiest way to draw attention away from your own misdeeds? Accuse the other side of being guilty of it, and do it loudly.