3.5 million is not all that significant when about 33% of the votes were cast on electronic machines with "proprietary code" (acessible to no one in the government) and not accessible to confirmation or recount, and when Democrats were much more likely to have to wait in line for 1 to 10 hours just to vote (and thus more likely to give up and go back to work).

The call for audit of 34 states' voting machines' codes

In any event, Kerry got more votes than any other Presidential candidate in US history besides G W Bush, and Bush's victory -- even if not by fraud -- was by the smallest margin, percentagewise, of any incumbent seeking a second term.

Genie