But it never happened. There are no visual reports or other reliable indicators of extraordinary lines or massive late-in-the-day crowds at the polls. Throughout all those election days, it was every bit as quick and easy to vote in rural precincts that gave Bush his miraculous victory as it was impossible to do so in your average black neighborhood. But there was no extraordinary turnout of last-minute Bush voters.
What happened instead hearkens to the Holy Ghost, made manifest in electronic voting machines that cannot and will not be monitored. The miraculous pro-Bush margins give new meaning to the phrase "ghost in the machine." While the Democratic vote count was slashed and trashed in urban precincts, the rural voting stations, through the miracle of untrackable electronics, materialized just the right number of GOP votes to keep the Men of God in the White House (where it's recently reported they dare to mock those earthly evangelicals who allegedly gave them their margin of victory).
There's absolutely nothing to prevent this from happening again in 2006. Major studies from the Conyers Committee, the Government Accountability Office, Princeton University, the Brennan Center, the Carter-Baker Commission, and esteemed others, have all come to the same conclusion: it takes just one individual with inside access---or even just a wi-fi machine---to change the outcome of any election anywhere.
Electronic voting machines can be pre-programmed, re-programmed, re-calibrated, electronically adjusted, hacked, jimmied, jammed or otherwise blessed with a few well-placed electrons and---LO AND BEHOLD!---a Democratic landslide can be born again to a Republican deliverance.
We already see the signs. The corporate bloviators predict a last-minute surge for Bush. The Fox/Rove media machine has planted suggestive stories at the New York Times and elsewhere about the alleged hidden powers of the GOP juggernaut. They will, they say, once again turn out those invisible legions of evangelical voters when and where necessary.
Every two years, Rove leaks some story that is implausible and easily refuted: four million new evangelical voters are identified nationwide; or, a late surge of homophobic Old Order Amish rush to the polls in Ohio; or shy and reluctant right-wing Republican women flood the polls at closing and slip out unseen without speaking to exit pollsters (but, they are only shy in the early evening in Republican counties).
And the Democrats? They say they are also turning out voters. But what happens when their names are miraculously gone from the new electronic registration rolls? When there aren't enough machines in their precincts on which to vote? When they press a Democratic name on their touch-screen and an anointed Republican's lights up? Or when techno-gods from private partisan vendors barge in unchallenged to "adjust" the e-machines in the middle of the voting process.
So far, the Democrats have heaped abuse on those who dare to warn of all this.
But as it is written, so it shall be: unless there are armies of trained, dedicated citizens prepared to monitor this upcoming election, electronic and otherwise, the Holy Ghosts will vote, the loaves & fishes will multiply and be counted, and the GOP will once again emerge with total control of the checks and the balances---this time, perhaps, for all Eternity.
-- Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman are co-authors, with Steve Rosenfeld, of WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO?, just published by The New Press. Fitrakis is of counsel and Wasserman is a plaintiff in the King-Lincoln lawsuit that has preserved the Ohio 2004 ballots. Fitrakis is an independent candidate for Ohio governor, endorsed by the Green Party; Wasserman is author of SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030.
HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE US is available at http://www.harveywasserman.com/, as is A GLIMPSE OF THE BIG LIGHT and clues to the whereabouts of the Holy Grail.
We still have Ken Blackwell running the election, and he did a marvelous job for the Repubs in 2004. Along with whatever transparency can be created, the big job is an overwhelming rejection of these bastards. It's much easier to swing an election of a few point spread versus a 20 point advantage.
In a word: VOTE!
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Jim Prues (15 articles, 33 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 77 comments)
on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 11:16:16 AM
Why does eveyone think this year will be different? They already stole 2 presidential elections (wide scale fraud). You really think they cannot steal House elections (small scale fraud). This is the same group that managed to legalize warrantless wiretaps, suspend habeas corpus, ban books like "America Deceived" from Amazon, detain demonstrators and start 2 illegal wars based on lies. The Republicans will probably lose a few seats to make it look good but maintain a majority. Then they'll invade Iran on behalf of Israel.
Support indy media.
Final link (before Google Books bends to gov't will and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)
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Lorring II (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 86 comments)
on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 3:21:26 PM
Whoever controls the voting machines can cause more mischief than just ballot-box stuffing to ensure victory. You see, in 2004 the GOP made a big mistake in that virtually every discrepancy that occurred with the machines was in favor of the GOP candidates. Luckily, their stringent control on the Mainstream Media did not allow this to evolve into the issue that it should have.
What I would do if I was an evil GOP mastermind would be to install the same kind of malware that was used last time, but this time have it programmed to favor all of the Democratic candidates. On election morning, the Democrats have taken more seats than they can imagine! But then my dastardly plan unfolds: an American hero comes forth and shows that something wasn't right with the results. The Democratic victory is found to be due to some sort of cheating! A CIA computer team investigation finds that the voting machines contained malware! The self-deleting virus was miraculously preserved on one machine they inspected because of a power outage or some such nonsense. The program bears some kind of signature that links it to a computer owned by the Democratic party! Elections are held again for all districts that use machines. Republicans win in a landslide because who wants to elect a bunch of cheaters!
Get it? It's false-flag election fraud! A November surprise!
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Bluebeard (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 6:27:31 PM
In his autobiography, "Will," G. Gordon Liddy tells the inside story of the Republican convention during the Nixon years.
Liddy relates how "Ken Rietz" was trouping around with a group of children who were "Servicing" the Politicians who so desired a piece of young weiner. Liddy goes on to say that this group Rietz was spreading around was known as the "Kiddies Club."
The corporate gangster elite want service from the political elite, and so they send out the "Kiddies" to help make our political elite "Compliant."
This is but one suggestion as to why the Democrats have yet to say anything about 2 stolen elections in a row.
Politicians from both sides of the aisle are basically a bunch of "Pee Pee Weiner heads."
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Patrick (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 417 comments)
on Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 2:50:28 AM
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