Alarms Should Go Off Whenever the Discrepancies Between the "Official" Results and the Polls Can't Be Explained

But we don't have all the information that might explain this latest improbable discrepancy and we will never know if the elections reflect the will of the voters so long as we are forced to vote on proprietarily controlled machines, which have been shown to be as hackable as they're unreliable.

If we had a responsible media it would be reminding us daily that this country was founded on the wisdom that a democracy can only survive as long as the open market place of ideas is protected. People must be well-informed in order to make decisions about those they’ve entrusted to represent their interests. Our ability to continue to exercise control over our government is dependent upon our ability to consent or to withhold consent through our vote. Once we lose control of our vote, the very essence of our democracy is undermined:

"Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust." —Thomas Jefferson

Today millions of Americans have already lost control of their ability to cast a vote for the candidates of their choice and hence we no longer have a government elected by the majority of the people. Regardless of what proof we are lacking, by design, it is indisputable that no one voting on an electronic voting machine knows whether the computer cast their vote as selected or altered it, intentionally or unintentionally. But what we do know is that in the past 6 years, the evidence that millions of votes were not cast as intended is staggering. We have already witnessed the devastating consequences of having lost our vote. We were unable to prevent the Legislature from being taken over, the Executive from staying in power and the concomitant disaster of the Judiciary. The consequences were predictable and indeed predicted:

Once we lost our independent press in service to the people, we lost the ability to know that we’d lost control to elect or vote out the government. How could most of us have know when "Never has there been an administration so disciplined in secrecy, so precisely in lockstep in keeping information from the people at large.....Never has so powerful a media oligopoly ....been so unabashed in reaching, like Caesar, for still more wealth and power. Never have hand and glove fitted together so comfortably to manipulate free political debate, sow contempt for the idea of government itself, and trivialize the people’s need to know." — Bill Moyers, The Future of the Media

If we had responsible media we would have been able to connect the dots and see the emerging pattern: First Florida in 2000; then the 2002 senatorial races delivering the Legislature to the Republicans; then the 2004 election. The increased use of electronic voting systems is curiously proportional to the declining reliability of exit polls, still viewed as highly reliable everywhere --except here. Electronic voting is part of a larger plan to secure one party rule permanently. The loss of our constitutionally guaranteed free press has been an accomplice. Still not there? Consider this:

The 2002 Congressional Elections:

With Republican control only two seats away, the 2002 senate races were hard fought; the "upsets" extraordinary. Right up to election day public opinion polls (Zogby and Harris, for eg. were within a ½% point margin of error in 2000 and previous elections) had predicted Democrats winning in numerous key battleground states. But then unexplained last minute swings resulted in all of those races going to the Republicans. The polls were somehow all "wrong". Remarkably these last minute improbable swings appear to have been concentrated in critical senate races (Georgia and Minnesota), thus sealing Republican control of the Senate.

–In Minnesota, Senator Paul Wellstone, was leading by 5 points when he was killed in a small plane crash less than two weeks before the election. The situation was eerily reminiscent of the fatal plane crash that killed senate candidate Gov. Mel Carnahan, also within a few weeks of that election. The Republicans still couldn’t get their man in though; Ashcroft lost to the deceased Carnahan. But that was in 2000. Two years later we have more electronic machines counting the vote (Diebold and ES&S machines were used in 2/3s of the counties in the state) and Norm Coleman (with his100% approval rating from the Christian Coalition) beats Wellstone’s replacement, former VP Walter Mondale, even though Mondale had retained the 5 point lead going into the election. When the computerized machines were done counting the vote a few days later somehow Coleman had beat Mondale by 50 to 47 percent, a statistically remarkable 8 point swing!

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