Bev Harris shows in Black Box Voting that in Volusia County and elsewhere in Florida in 2000, at least 20,000 electronic tallies were "in play" throughout election night. But machines vulnerable to hacking are still being purchased by election boards throughout the U.S.
In 2000, Brett Kavanaugh served on the Bush legal team that helped stop the Florida recounts that would have put Al Gore in the White House. In 2020, Kavanaugh could again turn the election, this time from his perch on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Outgoing Vice President Al Gore has never apologized for killing the legitimate constitutional challenge by the Congressional Black Caucus against Florida's fraudulent Electoral College delegation that cost Gore the presidency.
Then in 2004, in Ohio, the head count of citizens stripped from the registration rolls was about 300,000 (out of 5.4 million, in an election decided by 118,775). The percentage of votes electronically flipped from Kerry to Bush was 6.7 percent, with the job done during a "glitch" in the official vote count between 12:20 and 2 am. It could easily happen again in Ohio and elsewhere in 2020.
John Kerry was thoroughly briefed (see our How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election and The Strip & Flip Disaster of America's Stolen Elections) but has yet to do anything significant to stop another such theft.
In 2016, Michigan was decided by 10,000 votes, eclipsed by more than 70,000 "beheaded" ballots. Many such ballots also surfaced on Indigenous reservations in New Mexico in 2004. In both cases, we are expected to believe that voters stood in line for hours to then not choose a president.
In 2016, the Greens' Jill Stein raised $7 million and (with co-author Bob Fitrakis) found irregularities in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that may have decided the 2016 election, all of which could recur in 2020. Stein won the right to a Michigan recount, but Hillary Clinton killed it while still publicly blaming Stein for her loss. In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania (with a Democrat governor) Stein was blocked from litigating widespread irregularities while getting no help from the Democrats.
In 2019 alone, swing state Ohio purged nearly 500,000 voters, most of them suspected Democrats. The Democratic Party has failed to prevent the purge, and is on course to lose this critical swing state yet again.
In Ohio 2020, violent pro-nuclear "blockers" physically assaulted signature gatherers working (unsuccessfully) to qualify a popular referendum to repeal a $1 billion bailout for two dying atomic reactors. Voting rights activists now pushing an election protection referendum for 2020 may face similar violence.
In far more states nationwide, the Trump assault is already stripping millions of mostly young, poor and non-white citizens from the voter rolls.
The purge comes with countless hackable voting machines being installed nationwide instead of far cheaper, simpler machines that can scan and preserve hand-marked paper ballots with digital images and reliable, reviewable outcomes.
Unless this latest GOP strip and flip is stopped, the few votes that might bounce between the Green Party and the Democrats will be manipulated and rendered meaningless, except to serve as a periodic distraction.
The grassroots movement at the Transformative Justice Coalition, vote.org, rockthevote.org and elsewhere is already underway to protect our 2020 election. It must succeed.
Networking is being done, national gatherings are being planned, hard-core campaigning is well underway. The success or failure of this great and desperate grassroots movement will determine the 2020 outcome. Thus, it will play a key role in shaping the fate of the Earth. It's time to rise up against voter suppression before it's too late.
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