According to the exit poll, Kerry should have received sixty-seven percent of the vote in this precinct. Yet the certified tally gave him only thirty-eight percent. The statistical odds against such a variance are just shy of one in 3 billion.

Take paragraphs like that, stack them 50 screens high, and you’ve got today’s Rolling Stone piece, Was the 2004 Election Stolen? by Robert Kennedy Jr.

This article is bringing back that sinking feeling in my stomach from election night 2004 — the one that no amount of gin could wash away.