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October 8, 2008 at 01:37:23
Can the GOP Steal The Election Again? You Betcha! by Ernest Partridge Page 1 of 3 page(s) |
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And so the polls show an expanding lead for Obama over McCain, with no clear indication that the trend might reverse.
Conventional political "wisdom" tells us that Barack Obama and Joe Biden may be on the road to a substantial victory in November.
Sorry, folks, but I'll have to rain on this parade.
Have you forgotten? Private Republican corporations count and compile the votes with secret and unverifiable software! Just as they did in 2000 and in 2004, and we all know how that turned out.
Accordingly, the stark fact remains: the Republicans might "win" this election, regardless of the preference of the voters. The culprits who rigged the previous elections are fully aware that they might face hard time in the federal slammer if President Obama's Attorney General is ordered to investigate past elections. Thus they are acutely motivated to use their considerable resources to keep Obama out of the White House.
And that's just the beginning: the GOP is waging a multi-front war on our democracy. As Mark Crispin Miller describes the situation in a recent e-mail:
The ground has been prepared for yet another stolen race, Bush/Cheney's party having made enormous strides in sabotaging our election system (while the Democrats just sat there, whistling). Now, from coast to coast, it's far more difficult (for Democrats) to register to vote, and far more difficult (for Democrats) to cast their votes, while countless (Democratic) voters have been stricken from the rolls, through purges carried out by the Department of Justice.
Thus Bush's government has legally diminished the electorate (the Roberts Court approving every step). Meanwhile, the regime also continues to suppress the (Democratic) vote illegally, either through voter "caging" prior to Election Day--or, far more effectively, by fiddling with the numbers electronically at every level, and/or simply dumping countless names (of Democrats) from the electronic voter rolls, and/or putting far too few machines in (Democratic) polling places, and/or disinforming (Democratic) voters as to when and where to cast their votes, and/or simply scaring (Democratic) voters into staying home.
Happy talk notwithstanding, the situation facing the Democrats is desperate. But it is not hopeless.
However, if the Obama-Biden team is to win, it must win big. Less than 60% of the actual popular vote puts the contest into "The Diebold Zone," whereby a McCain-Palin win becomes plausible in the public mind, and the "paperless" GOP voting machines and their secret software take care of the rest.
That "big win" is within reach, but only through determined and energetic activity by the supporters of the Democratic candidates, and through brilliant tactics and inspiring leadership by the Democratic candidates and their managers.
In particular:
Registration and Turnout
The coordinated Republican effort at massive disenfranchisement can and must be overwhelmed.
If, as is likely, the GOP succeeds in keeping as many as five million Democratic voters from the polls, the Democrats in turn must register and send to the polls, ten million more. In addition, the word must go out that no one can assume that his or her vote is secure. Citizens must be urged to validate their registration status immediately. They can do so by contacting their Register of Voters, or by following this link.
http://www.crisispapers.org
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Spoonamore explains why the elections WILL be stolen...
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/ ...unless this becomes WIDESPREAD knowledge. Scroll down for the most recent interview with Spoonamore, cyber security expert. by Malcolm Y (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:30:59 AM  (0+)
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stealing the election
If things stay as is (with Obama leading), there would be an incredible, unbelievable backlash to an election theft--at least I hope there would be. by jeffrey faulkner (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:24:17 AM (0+)
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stealing the election
If things stay as is (with Obama leading), there would be an incredible, unbelievable backlash to an election theft--at least I hope there would be. by jeffrey faulkner (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:24:32 AM (0+)
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Reply: Incredible Backlash
Provisions for any "incredible backlash" against yet another stolen election have already been prepared. This would be the crisis needed to enforce all the signing statements and other similar shreddings of the Constitution and Bill of Rights that have been silently put in place in the past 7 years. This would be the reason martial law and full dictatorship would be invoked. Read this and start to become very concerned: http://www.alternet.org/rights/101958/thousands _of_troops_are_deployed_on_u.s._streets_ready_ to_carry_out_%22crowd_control%22/ by Bill Cain (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 434 comments [67 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:33:51 PM (0+)
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What if Obama won 80% of the vote?
The central tabulators could still show that McCain had won, as the author points out. But if everyone had been able to successfully register and cast a vote, the disparity between the huge Obama landslide and the fraudulent machine results giving the election to McCain would be obvious. But suppose that it was possible to PROVE beyond a shadow of a doubt that Obama had gotten 80% of the votes and that the machine results were fraudulent? The public would be outraged. But there would still be no way short of violent revolution, which is unlikely to succeed after so many billions have been spent training and equipping Homeland Security to suppress civil dissent, to force Congress to look at the evidence. Clint Curtis had indisputable evidence that his election was stolen, but Congress still swore in Tom Feeney. And his indisputable evidence was only possible to obtain, given the secret ballot and voter privacy requirements, because voters were so outraged that they had elected a Democrat and were getting a Republican, that they voluntarily waived their right to privacy and signed sworn affidavits that they had voted for Clint. But Congress simply refused to look at the evidence and they are the sole judge of Congressional elections. In the Presidential election the situation is even worse, since the Constitution does not allow us to vote directly for President or Vice-President. In 2000 and 2004 it didn't matter at all how many people had voted or who we had voted for because both times the President was sworn in BEFORE THE VOTES WERE COUNTED. In 2000 the Supreme Court stopped the votes from being counted. Imagine that -- the Supreme Court taking away our precious right to vote. And they could do it again any time they wished because no matter how unconstitutional their decision, or how far outside their purview it may be, there is no appeal from a Supreme Court decision. They are the highest law of the land and because they aren't even elected, We the People don't even get a chance to try to vote them out in the next rigged election. This is naked power, an unelected body that is not answerable to the people, deciding who the President should be without regard to the popular vote. And of course there may be those who think that if John Kerry had gotten 80% of the vote in 2004 it would have been so obvious that he'd won that he couldn't have conceded before the votes were counted. But since he DID concede before the votes were counted, how would he or anyone else have known if he'd gotten 80% of the vote? The machines would still have reported close results with Bush the winner, just as they'd been programmed to do. And the Congress would have ignored the public outrage just as they did with the bailout. They are answerable to their owners, not to us. If there was a way to obtain indisputable documented evidence of fraud, which with electronic elections there is not, and if that evidence proved conclusively that Obama had won 80% of the votes, which with his support for war and the bailout isn't possible anyway, there is still no way to PREVENT the machines from reporting that McCain had won and no way to PREVENT Congress from swearing in McCain. And of course, once sworn in, only Congress could impeach him. But focusing on vote theft, which is real, you distract people from the much greater danger of ELECTION THEFT. Votes are stolen through voter suppression, rigged voting machines, and other tricks. But elections are stolen when a candidate wins the popular vote and does not become President anyway, as happened in 2000, 2004, and is likely to happen this year also. Election theft is not done by rigged voting machines, crooked elections officials, or dirty tricks by the political parties. It is done by Congress in accordance with the right granted to Congress by the Constitution to make the final decision (barring Supreme Court intervention) as to who becomes President without regard to the purely symbolic and meaningless popular vote that need not be counted. Even if it were possible for the popular vote to control the outcome of the election, which it is not, in order for Obama to have a wide enough margin to arouse public outrage, he would have had to oppose the bailout, which he did not. By failing to represent his constituents, he successfully deterred millions from voting for him who otherwise would have. While it may seem irrelevant to the political parties and their candidates, to the people it is still the economy that matters. And when 90% of us begged that our interests be represented, there was no response from Congress, the political parties, or their candidates. Now they come with their hands outstretched begging us to vote for them when we know that they don't even really care if our votes are counted or not? Congress pushed through HAVA. They wanted the rigged elections so that they and not we could control the results. And they do. by Mark E. Smith (21 articles, 30 quicklinks, 100 diaries, 1325 comments) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:48:55 AM (0+)
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What do we DO if they DO steal it?
The question will be, what will the American people DO if it somehow becomes clear that the election was stolen (yet again). Firstly, there's serious question as to whether we WOULD find out, as the corporate media will do everything possible to avoid looking at the issue. But, with all the peer-to-peer communications mechanisms among the YOUNG, who are major supporters of Obama, the word might get out. Then, the question becomes, WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT. Personally, if all we are going to do is BLOG about it, then we are doomed as a nation. But most of us will not go into the streets and risk our lives because some blogger or even a media pundit called upon us to do so (OK, maybe if Keith or Rachel did). It will be up to THE CANDIDATE to call upon us to engage in civil disobedience (sit in at Secretary of State offices, etc.) and I don't see it happening. "That one" will be told to be a "good boy" and take his medicine and bide his time for the next opportunity. He will be told that if he wants to retire from the Senate there will be LOTS of speaking tours and books and money to be made. BUT, he will also be told that if he fights "the system" and instigates "trouble" that he will be blamed for all the (promised) deaths that will occur in the streets of America and that he will set back civil rights two generations. And it's true. He WILL be blamed, and if we are not victorious, civil rights WILL be set back. It will be a gamble, and Poker Player Obama will have a hard decision to make. by Charlie L (2 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 747 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:29:14 PM (0+)
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It is their only hope, Obi-one-kenobe
It has been quite obvious since McCain was chosen for the nomination that Bush-Rove and company were working to steal yet another election. There is no way on earth or in hell that McCain-Palin can honestly win an election since neither one knows what honesty is. by Hayesml47 (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 540 comments [10 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:46:50 PM (0+)
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Are the Democrats...........
really such morons that the Republicans can steal 3 elections in a row? If they are really that stupid you might want to re-think your party loyalty. by larry booth (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 303 comments) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:55:49 PM (0+)
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Reply: Dem Dems?
The Democrats are not the only ones that are "morons". What about all Americans? Why are We, the People, not screaming for the investigations into voter fraud, the war, the lies, the failure to investigate, impeach, remove, and indict for all of the crimes that have and are occuring in DC and across our country and the world? We are all in this mess together and it will take all of us to find and punish the guilty parties on both sides of the aisle and the White House. by Hayesml47 (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 540 comments [10 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:25:41 PM (0+)
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Sit ins in every school (secession of the plebs)
Great article. absolutelay on the ball except for a) Neither Ernest nor Mark mentioned one Florida horror, which IMO we should all give high priority to educating people about - namely the DanRather story of the Florida voting machine company which deliberately supplied substandard ballots, misalligned and on substandard paper so as to cause the hanging chads 'fiasco', a prime example of how conspiracies can be designed to look like mere 'co*k-ups' b) we should remember the sad danger of the Kennedy/King/Malcolm 'solution' - which the wild rhetoric of Palin is making credible that some small guy might carry out (though just the patsy) - the troops have the new techniques (sound weapons, etc, etc tested in Iraq) to know how to handle days of rage on the streets, i guess, especially if they bring in troops who don't speak English as they began to do at New Orleans. And of course there is always NSPD-51 which can be invoked to create dictatorship (and 'postponement' of election?) in the event of engineered financial crises or or false flag terror attacks anywhere in the world .... c) IF the election goes ahead and Obama is not assassinated by the system but is defeated by the purge lists and on the machines, my guess is he will concede as per Kerry though maybe more on a Gore timepath .... d) however the votes are not his to concede, they belong to the people and it may be that if, thanks to the voting integrity movement, enough evidence turns up and enough pressure occurs the truth of the fix will [finally!] become more or less mainstream consciousness so then the question being asked (rightly - including by Mark E Smith) is what do folk do then? Unlike nealry all other 'mixed' movments. it seems to me from here (Scotland) that the US election integirty movement has a reasonably good gender balance and this will have contributed to its reasonably good record of civil discussion and co-operation across and within States. It is vital that the machoMen don't dominate discussion of what to do. Fighting in the street they can handle and even supply plenty of provocateurs to start throwing stones to legitimise crackdowns, mass arrests and brutalization by brutalised and Iraq-hardened troops. Would not primary schools be the (female-predominating) kind of venue where women and such loyal allies as they approve can occupy, strategise, hunker down, refuse to leave for as long as it takes, with their kids, with loyal allies bringing food, and if the resupplying with food is cut off then the sit-ins become so many ticking clock open-ended Fasts for Truth, for Justice and for getting your country back ??? Greenham Common showed the potential of Woman power, Crone Power, the Power of Mothers and children, the added moral authority synergy which came from all ages and diversity of class and ethicity and styles. 'You remind me of my son' they said to the police round the perimeter fance, hoping to re-son the 'real men', help them return to sonhood loyal to the Matrisphere, and not continue to give their primary allegiance to the Frats, the brotherhoods, the MAN-hallucination-addiction, the lethal nonsense gangs. Woman-led and (judiciously) mixed decision-making on woman led or woman only (but loyal ally supported) occupations, actions, press conferences, etc - this is the Election Integrity movement's best hope, IMO. And often black-led as Florida shamefully wasn't in 2000 - though black students started sitting in in the State Capitol building as soon as the polls closed, and also learning from e.g. the poor and idigenous Americans who camped out for a month in Mexico City when they were swindled out of the Election in 2006 (i think it was), with shamefully little support from the gringos in the US - or Scotland. Like the secesssion of the plebs in ancient Rome - normal life comes to a standstill and NOTHING WILL MOVE TILL THIS IS SORTED OUT. Why, with this sort of mass movement I reckon Obama might not concede ! (if he is still alive) and who knows?, McCain just might concede (before being shot) or even increasing numbers of judges and professors and newspaper owners etc might continue to crumble away from the neoconChristian financialscammer desperados passing for your ruling Establishment these days, Good luck people, it could all go pearshape but it could also unfold with good surprises. If the (bankrupt) Empire is paralysed for just a week of Secession of the Plebs, the repurcussions in twenty other countries will start to become pretty huge. PS Lawyers on tap but not on top. by Keith Mothersson (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 74 comments [1 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:27:50 PM (0+)
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It's called ACORN started by the Democrats
Call it like it really is... ACORN you guys are already busted.. and they have funded Obama .. if they funded McCain we'd hear an out cry.. how could anyone stand there and be so blinded? Using every name of the Dallas Cowboys... are you people for real? You get busted it's all hush hush... everyone does it.. it's o.k.... Talk about lies of American Goverment ... and we don't understand why the sky is falling? by don bybee (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 206 comments) on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:14:33 PM (0+)
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Reply: NO, there really is only ONE side to it.
The Democrats have NOT engaged in voter fraud to anywhere near the extent or level that the Republican party has. That's a documented fact. So you're wrong with "everybody does it". by JOHN LORENZ (23 articles, 117 quicklinks, 118 diaries, 313 comments [25 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:35:48 PM (0+)
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Reply: You cons and your ACORN obsession.
Voter Registration Group ACORN Long a Target of GOP Operatives http://www.opednews.com/articles/4/Voter-Registration-Group-A-by-Jason-Leopold-081008-972.html by JOHN LORENZ (23 articles, 117 quicklinks, 118 diaries, 313 comments [25 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:34:01 PM (0+)
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Acorn is run by Democrats
The Democratic Party got to Mickey Mouse 1st, and he makes over 250k so I guess he'll have to pay the big tax increase Obama has in store, They signed up the DALLAS COWBOYS .. Republicans are not in the news right now... the finger is pointed at you .. Hey free cigarettes ... just trying to help ya keep your job by Don Bybee (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 116 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:05:36 PM (0+)
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