You knew that someone, somewhere was finally going to blurt out what many thought or believed to have been conspired. Personally, without proof, this is just "stirring the political pot". The possibilities were certainly there and it isn't that far from the potential from happening... I just question whether it did or not. Wouldn't it be better to call an investigation into the election process?

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Source: Boston Herald

Teresa rips GOP’s dirty tricks
By Andrew Miga
Wednesday, March 9, 2005

WASHINGTON - The presidential campaign may be long over, but Teresa Heinz Kerry is still stirring the political pot.

The outspoken wife of Sen. John F. Kerry last weekend openly questioned the legitimacy of electronic vote counts, cited GOP dirty tricks and scolded the Catholic Church for assailing her husband's pro-choice views.

During a fund-raising event in Seattle, she charged it would be ``very easy to hack into the mother machines'' and steal an election.

Heinz Kerry said she was appalled by the attacks of some Catholic bishops on her husband's support for abortion rights.

``You cannot have bishops in the pulpit - long before or the Sunday before the election - as they did in Catholic churches, saying it was a mortal sin to vote for John Kerry ,'' she said, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Heinz Kerry said she doubted the accuracy of the 2004 vote, warning the 2006 mid-term elections are also at risk.

``I fear for '06,'' she said. ``I don't trust it the way it is right now.''

Reprising a familiar Democratic complaint, she alleged that ``two brothers'' who are ``hard right'' conservative Republicans ``own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States.''
Sen. Kerry has said that while there were irregularities in the 2004 presidential vote, particularly in states such as Ohio, he does not question President Bush's three-point re-election win.

Heinz Kerry's office, when asked to clarify her remarks, had no comment.
But a spokeswoman for the senator stressed Heinz Kerry was voicing her ardent support for election reform.

Said Kerry aide Katharine Lister, ``2006 marks the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and, in the spirit of this landmark law, she hopes Republicans and Democrats will work together at every level of government to ensure the passage of electoral reform and the preservation and protection of our voting rights.''