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Some might take this as evidence that they're competent enough to have pulled off 9/11 too. If so, would that they had underestimated the job then as they did with the Congressional elections this year.
"They couldn't possibly beat us by that much." Arrogant to the end.
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Russ Wellen (58 articles, 1029 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 335 comments)
on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 12:50:58 PM
an election the way the last few elections were (most definitely) hacked, you get the feeling you can rig/hack most any election for any desired outcome. I for one, believe the 2006 elections were rigged in favour of the Dems. Why ? The answer is simple. The ones now in place have gone too far. It's time to relax a bit and let the other hand take over. It's still the same ole stanky masturbatory brain that is in charge.
Chomsky dismisses 9/11 as an inside job because, as Chomsky put it, these guys can't get anything right...so how on earth would they be able to pull that off (or so)? Well, strike 3 for all of you for being short sighted. Chomsky included. So when Russ says "Some might take this as evidence that they're competent enough to have pulled off 9/11 too".....a bell goes off in my head and I have to reach for the keyboard.
Election rigging is not restricted to G.W. Bush and friends, nor is it restricted to any particular political party (in the USA but honestly, not much to choose from, eh?), nor is it restricted to any one company or entity. For all we know, it could be an orchestra of multiple individuals / groups who most probably are very little aware of one another.
Same goes for 9/11. Chomsky is dead on when he says BushCo is incompetent of pulling off such an elaborate "inside job". True and misleading. Again and again, the puppets are dangled down before our faces, and we sit and watch as they dance. We fall into a fantasy in which the puppets are given life. They really do exist. The puppets quarrel and spat and we yearn for the "good" to defeat the "bad".
Snap out of it.
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Tony Forest (4 articles, 14 quicklinks, 129 diaries, 1204 comments)
on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 1:22:50 PM
A country that is willing to bomb another country back into the stoneage, should also be willing to take elections back a few centuries to where pen (or pencil) and paper played a major role. No need to go all the way back to when the one with the biggest stick ruled.
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Tony Forest (4 articles, 14 quicklinks, 129 diaries, 1204 comments)
on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 1:32:34 PM
This new report is crucial reading for all those concerned about election fraud--which, last Tuesday, was, again, a massive problem, notwithstanding all the blithe post-mortems issued by the US press from Tuesday night on through the week.
(Nor surprisingly, Diebold joined that chirpy chorus with a
long mendacious press release promoting Diebold's wares.)
Now here's some startling evidence of widespread fraud, assembled by my good friends at the Election Defense Alliance. It's likely that the Dems actually did win, or should have won, some 50 House seats--and that Bush/Cheney's GOP was not just "thumped" but devastated.
This is an all out assault against the very foundations of our democracy perpetrated by the stooges of the corporate/limousine class of politicians. Nothing is more important these next two years than election reform. REAL election reform.
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Dean Powers (103 articles, 7 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 55 comments)
on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 1:52:06 PM
My first reaction is: If there is a gram of truth in all this analysis, then where the hell is the Democratic Party? Do they have the integrity to stand up for themselves, for our election integrity, for our democracy?? If not, then what do all the supporters of the Dems do, think, say and demand???
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Joel S. Hirschhorn (116 articles, 22 quicklinks, 52 diaries, 469 comments)
on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 3:42:54 PM
OpEdNEws broke this story. NO mainstream media have covered it yet, and it just got headlined at Bradblog. Give it a little time, and send it out to the people you know. Actually. You just made me realize, I should have included an action page with it. I'm off to add it. CU
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Rob Kall (747 articles, 3832 quicklinks, 320 diaries, 1610 comments)
on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 3:45:36 PM
Not a bit surprised that Rove and Co. had "their math" but still missed the boat on how much the American people are over their bullshit.
The question now is whether the Dems are going to give us their 'new and improved' version of same old shit or whether we can hold their feet to the fire enough to get substantial action on this critical issue.
So few in government can be trusted. So few...
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Jim Prues (15 articles, 33 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 69 comments)
on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 3:45:58 PM
Hmmm, why am I not surprised. This must be what Rove referred to as "THE math" when interviewed by a NPR reporter concerning national polls. So, Rove's special math was nothing more than "0"s and "1"s -- the computer's programming language. That must be "the" special math that he was referring to when he said that he was confident that the Republicans would emerge victorious in the midterms. God, those people are awful. They need to go to jail for a long, long time. Something must be done about this IMMEDIATELY. Bring back the PAPER BALLOT!
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Mike Browne (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 17 comments)
on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 4:35:57 PM
Time for a Congressionally Mandated Recount of Entire Nation
If US Congress authorizes $127 TO $160 BILLION on top of $70 BILLION already OKd for this fiscal year for Bush's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (most to Iraq), they can anti-up whatever it takes to GUARANTEE democracy here. I don't give a damn who they have to borrow it from to fund the 2006 Nation Election Recount. 2008 elections can not arrive without this matter resolved.
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Amanda Lang (22 articles, 13282 quicklinks, 419 diaries, 530 comments)
on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 6:16:41 PM
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Shut up stupid, if there was a vast Republican conspiracy don't you think they would have, umm I don't know KEPT THE HOUSE AND SENATE MAJORITY. I love how you people who believe in this conspiracy crap cling to it no matter what. One of the retards that commented on this oped said "I for one, believe the 2006 elections were rigged in favor of the Dems. Why ? The answer is simple. The ones now in place have gone too far. It's time to relax a bit and let the other hand take over." That's insane Illuminati talk. Why don't you idoits put down the John Grisham novel and actually try to help solve these problems. Maybe try to get your beloved Democrat leaders to do something about these voting machines if there so bad. Just do something besides making up insane babble you 9/11 conspiracy believing morons. And if you want to know I'm a Republican who voted mostly democrat this last election because I think the Republicans messed up the last 6 years, not because I think Bush and seven Jewish bankers are trying to turn the whole world into one huge neo-con corporation.
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Bill Jones (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 7:34:20 PM
Didn't you read the reference article? Rove and his fellow co-conspirators exuded confidence about the upcoming elections because they believed that a bonus hokus-pokus electronic vote of +4% for the Republicans should be enough to do the trick and keep their majorities in Congress. Why don't you read the article before you criticize?
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Mike Browne (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 17 comments)
on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 11:25:36 PM
I have only been a member here for about five, or six month, so I am not as familiar as you are with folks here. But now that you mention it, I will suggest to Rob Kall he put a little thought and action in about those machines. A little confrontation from the real guys never hurt no one.
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Katrin R. (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 525 comments)
on Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 1:55:21 AM
We have a voting integrity editor here, Joan Brunwasser, who has done an extraordinary job building a library of articles here that may be unsurpassed on the web. Go to the table of contents and check out election and voting. You'll see thousands of articles and links.
We've published and distributed thousands of DVDs on e-voting and have sent Joan to cover the latest conference. We got the exclusive scoop on this article because we earned it.
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Rob Kall (747 articles, 3832 quicklinks, 320 diaries, 1610 comments)
on Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 5:00:11 AM
To Rove and the small cadre of operatives who have been at his side throughout the administration -- including Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman and White House political director Sara Taylor -- confidence that Republicans will keep their majorities in Congress flows from a conviction that a political operation that has produced three consecutive national victories is capable of one more, despite voter disaffection with Iraq and GOP scandals in Washington. Does that political operation include control of electronic-voting machines? After George W. Bush won the 2004 U.S. election, tales of vote fraud began circulating. University of Pennsylvania organizational-dynamics professor Steven J. Freeman has said that Bush's final-day tallies were significantly higher than exit-poll results in 10 of the 11 battleground states. Freeman says there is a 250,000,000:1 chance of those discrepancies occurring simultaneously in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
Much attention focused on touch-screen electronic-voting machines, which don't require paper ballots, making it impossible to physically verify Voter's intention and election results. In 2004, when touch-screen voting machines were widely deployed for the first time in a national election, questions about the security and reliability of the machines--and therefore, the 2004 election results--abounded. Edward Felten, Ari Feldman, and Alex Halderman of the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, in a report titled "Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine" detail simple methods to compromise the security of electronic-voting machines to steal an election.
Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that voters "know something is wrong" in Washington and urged Democrats to create change in the November elections. "I have never seen the American people so serious," said Clinton. "I think I know why. People know things are out of whack. The rhythm of our public life and our common life in America has been disturbed."
The Republican establishment "know something is wrong" too and are in widespread panic about the coming Democratic victory in the 2006 midterm elections. Some Republicans on Capitol Hill are bracing for losses of 25 House seats or more.
Incongruously, there are two in the Republican establishment whose confidence about GOP prospects hit even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat: President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove. Party operatives say Rove is predicting that, at worst, Republicans will lose only 8 to 10 seats -- shy of the 15-seat threshold that would cede control to Democrats. In the Senate, Rove and Bush believe, a Democratic victory would require the opposition to "run the table," as one official put it, to pick up the necessary six seats -- a prospect the White House seems to regard as nearly inconceivable. "They aren't even planning for if they lose," says a GOP insider who informally counsels the West Wing.
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 lost the House and Sentae, however, he'll still invade Iran on behalf of Israel.
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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 Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 6:37:28 AM
This article has been shouted on shoutwire.com, http://tinyurl.com/y6mxrg - and I thought you might be interested in seeing the below Lying Liar's response. This sick puppy spends a great deal of time spreading dangerous lies and disinformation on shoutwire and I wonder if he could be working for that new propaganda group that Herr Von Rumsfeld created before being kicked out.
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CommunismIsForRetards said:
Basing this assertion ENTIRELY upon exit polls is probably the first clue this story is full of shit.
Exit polls have historically ALWAYS been off... long before electronic voting and even back during the Tammany Hall days when Democrats were the ones accused of election fraud (only that one was documented).
Maybe the problem with exit polls is 1) that they're typically female grad students (who overwhelmingly vote Democratic) asking people and 2) more importantly, the pollsters tend to get their sampling from the places where it's the easiest to get answers from the most people... metropolitan areas (which also overwhelmingly vote Democratic).
So basically, you've got people who Republicans tend not to associate with asking people who are statistically more likely to be Democrats.
MAYBE exit polls are the problem... which even after the 2004 election, the polling agencies themselves acknowledged was probably the case.
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RCG (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 352 comments)
on Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 11:41:14 AM
