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Check out all these unexpected deaths of people involved with elections

by Pokey Anderson     Page 1 of 2 page(s)

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Keep your coincidence caps handy, folks. People involved in elections and voting machine companies seem very unlucky.  Especially those in Ohio (4 of the 7) and Georgia (2 of the 7).

--Pokey Anderson

1. Dan Rocco -- April 1, 2002 -- ChoicePoint VP -- plane crash
He died on April 1, 2002, in a plane crash in Gainesville, Georgia. He was an executive vice president at ChoicePoint, the firm that gained infamy with their faulty "felons" list supplied to Katherine Harris during the 2000 election in Florida. As a result of this list, over 90,000 voters (mostly African-American voters) were wrongly identified as felons and purged from the rolls.
http://www.bk2k.com/bushbodycount/stolen-election/bodies.shtml


2. Wesley Vance -- April 26, 2003 -- Diebold VP -- plane crash
Pilot Killed In Plane Crash Was Top Exec At Diebold
April 28, 2003
http://www.wkbn.com/Global/story.asp?S=1253108
(Jackson-AP) -- The pilot of a single-engine airplane that crashed in southern Ohio over the weekend was the chief operating officer of Canton-based Diebold Incorporated.


The company says 45-year-old Wesley Vance of Canton was flying a private plane that crashed Saturday near the Jackson County Airport. ...The company says Vance joined Diebold in October, 2000, as president of its North America business unit. He was named chief operating officer in 2001. Chief Executive Walden O'Dell will assume the company's daily operational responsibilities until a successor is found for Vance. An airport spokesman says Vance was practicing takeoffs and landings in a six-seat Beachcraft A-36 when it crashed near the airport.

[Note - On September 21, 2005, Diebold announces that its current COO will leave his post and the board.  Stock drops 16% intraday.  O'Dell will temporarily assume the post.]

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http://www.abqjournal.com/obits/profiles/vance05-02-03.htm

Vance was an Eagle Scout, elected to Boys State, and a church-going Mormon, married, father of five.  He earned a degree from Brigham Young University.  He was described as a confident person who people liked to be around.  His senior class in high school voted him "favorite boy".  He had been a pilot for over twenty years.  He was named to Diebold's No. 2 position as COO in 2001, managing the company's global operations.


3. Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr. -- July 4, 2003 -- Diebold consultant -- cause of death not confirmed
Anthony Celebrezze Dies
07/05/03 Cleveland.com 

Former Ohio Attorney General Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr., 61, died yesterday in an Urbana hospital. Champaign County Coroner Joshua Richards confirmed that Celebrezze died about 9 p.m. yesterday, but would not confirm a cause of death.

Celebrezze, a Democrat of Columbus, was a stalwart in Cleveland and Ohio politics.... He was 38 when he was elected secretary of state in 1978.

He was Ohio attorney general from 1983 to 1991, and Ohio secretary of state from 1979 to 1983. Celebrezze ran against George Voinovich for governor in 1990 but lost.

Wayne Hill, Celebrezze's longtime communications director during the 1978 campaign for secretary of state and then attorney general, was in shock at Celebrezze's death yesterday.

Hill said Celebrezze, who enjoyed racing cars, was at Shady Bowl Speedway in De Graff for a Fourth of July race when he felt ill. De Graff is west of Columbus.

"It's beyond a shock. Tony had a passion for racing," said Hill in a telephone interview. "It's unbelievable. It's not right."

...After his loss to Voinovich, Celebrezze joined the law firm of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter, and recently was a consultant for Diebold Inc., promoting electronic voting machines.

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There was another

high ranking exec, from one of the big voting machine manufacturers. A Holiday standoff with cops a few years ago, and an 'apparent' suicide before the cops got into his house. If I have time later I will try and look it up. Minnesota I think. Made the national news.

by Jack Harrington (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 675 comments [68 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:03:59 AM

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CIA friends of Bush crime family taking care of loose ends?

Scary thought, but scarier that it is possible and believable.

by John H Kennedy (12 articles, 7 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 281 comments [19 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:08:51 PM

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Who will tell the People?

"Who will tell the People?" You have pointed directly at why the People do not have the facts as to what is going on; Murder committed against anyone who would dare tell the People, what is going on. Many of our criminal elite are not dead, rather, they fake it and go into hiding. If the government of Indonesia should topple, we may receive a large number of our contract murdering elite as a gift from the new government. This is why there have been repeated attempts to launch an all out nuclear war; they do not want to stand in front of trial courts to answer for the crimes against us that they have committed. The employers of our contract murder for hire specialists know that this is all a game; a big game. As with any game, everybody gets their turn; and they made the decision that before you the People figured it out and gave them their turn, that they would burn you all up with nuclear weapons, while they hid underground. They do not have any other plans than extermination of the 'Host' population using the most advanced technology that our money can buy. We are truly; the "Living Dead."

by Patrick (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 519 comments [22 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:22:23 PM

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Many assassins

were trained ... are trained ... in the School of the Americas.... who then went gleefully back to their assigned nations and committed not only assassinations but mass murder. 

Why would anybody imagine that the same sorts of folks have not been trained to do exactly the same thing here in the good ole US of A? (except the assassinations that occur here are disguised .... usually as 'suicides' or plane 'crashes'....

There are a number of dead folk associated with the Clintons ... as well as journalists investigating everything from CIA drug running to the 9/11... as I seem to recall. Oh, and don't forget all those microbiologists/biological warfare experts....  

by richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 1359 comments [399 recommended, 8 rejected]) on Sunday, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:08:24 PM

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Lame

Sorry, but my tin hat is at the cleaners. ;)

This list is almost as lame as the outpatients who count up the people the Clintons supposedly murdered.

There is also the knotty question of why the bad guys would be murdering their own operatives, and not the people blowing the whistle on election fraud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i_vquVDPgU

by Perry Logan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 557 comments [74 recommended, 3 rejected]) on Monday, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:55:57 AM

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Let Us Not Forget Paul Wellstone

Granted he did not have to do with running an election, but he was indeed a threat and was given the "serious consequences" talk by Dick Cheney prior to the vote in the Senate on giving Bush authority for illegally invading Iraq.  Wellstone voted against....

by Dennis Kaiser (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 35 diaries, 730 comments [137 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:32:26 AM

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Anyone that doesn't think politicians aren't ...

... simply gangsters with titles is either naive to the point of being imbeciles, or are in someway in their employee.

Certainly not all politicians are gangsters, but if you hang long enough and rise high enough, just like in any organized gang you rise in rank and get your "made-man" badge.

Look, these murders blow-up 3,000 people in broad day-light, would anyone think they'd stop at silencing anyone that could expose them? Think of all the people in government that know or suspect just who the people were that carried 9/11 out that are keeping silent because they can see what's happening to those that dare try to tell the truth. Certainly not all are being murdered, but threat of loosing ones job or other means of intimidation work as well.

We need to focus on the murders we can prove they did, 9/11 is that case.

by Mr M (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 2845 comments [654 recommended, 27 rejected]) on Monday, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:43:59 AM

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Mr M is Right

That is why the impeachment hearings would have been fruitful as once these gangsters start being threatened they will start squealing and the cast of those who were involved, if only in knowing who, we could begin weeding out the crooks in government service.

That is why I continue to say Nancy Pelosi is obstructing justice by refusing to hold those hearings.  That is why Congress is not enforcing those subpoenas.  Too many politicians would be exposed for wrongdoing if they did.  

 

by Dennis Kaiser (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 35 diaries, 730 comments [137 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:35:35 AM

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anthrax - proof of intimidation by

Whoever committed the anthrax deaths was sending a message to the whole world that the people in power, people who have access to top secret weaponry of all types, are not playing softball. People at, or connected to, the highest levels of power, people for whom secrecy is a primary rule, are no less likely to commit murder, voting fraud, or massive theft than common criminals. Life to them is a high stakes game at which they have excelled. Murder and torture are clearly accepted means to further their diabolical ends. Mankind's only hope is eternal vigilance in promoting leaders who put the interests of humanity first.


In the US our problem is that we have no means to enforce the will of the people. Insincere politicians game the current system through "pay to play" politics in DC as well as Chicago and there is little we can do about it because our only recourse as citizens is voting, at best every 2 years, for our "representatives". The rest of the time our only power is being able to march in the streets in protest or writing endless letters to editors, the vast majority of which are unpublished.

Citizenship, vigilance and activism have come a long way in the last 15 years. Hopefully the "movement" will keep moving. For me the priority is the need to fix our broken elections systems. This needs to be done pretty much across the board, but one of the priorities should be to overcome our fear of ballot initiatives. We should go on the offensive to guarantee the right of all citizens the use of ballot initiatives in all jurisdictions from federal to local and vote more often on more of the broad issues that govern our lives. Our representatives should be left to decide the details, not the direction of our future. When the people lead, the leaders must follow, if they don't, the people will then have the opportunity to confront them at the ballot box with greater oversight. In these times, every 2, 4, or 6 years is not nearly enough opportunity to express ourselves with serious effect.

Please consider empowering citizens with the right to make laws "of, by and for" ourselves. Please visit www.vote.org

Sincerely,
George Ripley

by GeoRip (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 47 comments) on Monday, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:45:53 PM

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Lemme

What did the Rendition CIA learn forty years ago? How to steal elections. Henry Kissinger and US Black Ops controled the elections south of the border for decades. The war criminals they are, have passed these techniques onto the US elections since Jimmy Carter. The tools are very advanced. They include ballot and black box fraud, murder, bribery and blackmail. These folks in Mr. Andersons article along with Raymond Lemme and others are hooked, landed and released. In these cases, these fish are eaten. Rove and Cheney are slowly becoming the biggest war criminals since Kissinger. The problem for them in o8 was a landslide that could not be rigged. Even the consprirators in polling were way off. The idea for 2012, STACK the DECK on both sides. Or did they do that already with Obama?

by Patrick Lafferty (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 557 comments [316 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Monday, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:50:46 PM

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So what?

3 people die in unrelated incidents.   People, if you haven't noticed, die every day.  I imagine some them might even work for Diebold.  

If you have some REAL EVIDENCE other than the fact that someone works for a company that is involved in manufacturing voting equipment or is involved in voting in general was actually murdered then stop this nonsense.   If you check you will probably find that there were even more people who worked for Diebold that died last year too.  So what? 

by Mad Jayhawk (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 652 comments [56 recommended, 3 rejected]) on Wednesday, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:09:50 AM

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other deaths


Then there is the death of Raymond Lemme.  He was of the Florida Inspector General Office and was found dead in a motel in Valdosta, Georgia, just across the state line from Florida.  His death was ruled a suicide, and not investigated, although there were strange facts.  He had been talking to Clint Curtis about fraud at the highest level. 
 
See: 

by Jerry Berkman (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Sunday, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:57:43 PM

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