The following is copied and pasted directly from Mr. Dougherty’s article: ABCNews.com – the Internet web site for ABC News – inadvertently published all of Tuesday’s election results last Monday evening, then tried to explain it away as a computer glitch.

I’m not buying; ABC had too much information to simply have put it all together to run a "test" of their vote-tally system. I know of what I speak; as a web operator who personally updates and publishes USA Journal Online seven days a week, I know what’s involved in putting new web pages and web page programs online.

For instance, it’s damned hard to just "make a mistake." You have to consciously assign your new web pages a URL address, consciously publish them to the host web site server, then provide links to those new pages on however many different web pages within your site. It’s not something that is "automatic" and to me, ABCNews.com’s election results sites – over 40 printed pages worth – was far too large an undertaking to simply be a "test." I don’t buy it.

Since I am now learning how to do the same, there isn’t anyway that a 40-page election results web page could have been done accidentally. I now have 20 pages of instructions that I have printed out and still don’t have everything I need to design and set up my own Internet journal. And the one thing I am absolutely certain of is, it does take conscious effort to link page after page.

Assuming then that ABC had the election results in advance, the only way this can occur is through voter fraud. Electronically speaking, there isn’t anything to rigging an election. It would take, however, a conspiracy to do so.

And, since ABC had the results of the election in advance, the conspiracy had to involve the network. Based on the bias obvious in ABC political news reporting, it would not be unreasonable to assume it is one of the major parties involved in the conspiracy.

Or, maybe it is both. We have a Congress and government that is not straight forward with the people of this nation. The most common behavior of the membership is to misrepresent themselves and state fraudulent information at any time it is needed in order to keep control.

The Congress is made up of people who have, in some cases, held their positions of power for decades. Whether a professed member of the Republican or Democratic parties, the fact is they are in Congress with the potential of extreme corruption.

It doesn’t matter personally to any one of them which party is actually in power as that is nothing more than a gimmick to win votes, votes that now appear to be as meaningless as you swatting a fly on a summer’s day.

The fact is that they are still in the powerful position of being bought by special high-dollar interest groups, including the ABC network.

To put this simply, regardless of party affiliation, each of them who has been in power for several terms have become financially independent and have made good use of their positions in assuring future financial security along with the retention of power.

Are we going to hear more about this? Will there be an investigation into voter fraud? Will there be an investigation into a conspiracy to put whom the perpetrators want in Congress? Will Congress pursue this as diligently as they have lies concerning sexual transgressions by President Clinton?

Gosh, Folks, wouldn’t that be rather like a crook investigating his own crime and presenting his ‘facts’ to the judge?