Did Kerry win?

The Blogging of the President has a list of articles questioning the accuracy of the vote count in Ohio and Florida (from Politics in the Zeros). I'm trying to figure out whether the Republicans stole the election.

Most elections have some level of fraud, going back to Landslide Lyndon and long before that. And considering the extreme Republicans tactics on display in the election, there's every reason to believe that Tuesday's election continued the pattern. The question is whether Kerry would have won the Presidency if it weren't for that fraud.

For example, this graph displays how accurate exit polls with in states with paper ballots, while Bush exceeded the exit polls results in states with electronic ballots. According to this chart, Florida counties with optical scanner tabulations sent voting totals in Republicans did massively better that you'd expect from the party registrations. And there are numerous sad stories from Ohio about voters who didn't receive absentee ballots, voting lines several hours long in minority districts, and other problems.

Since the mainstream media isn't investigating, and the Democratic Party isn't challenging the results, it's an academic issue. Still, it seems more likely than not that the American people elected John Kerry as President.