First, let me say, I was wrong in my prediction for the Presidential
Election (1). For the record, I said: " It is becoming
increasingly apparent that Mitt Romney will win the Presidency. He appears to
be ahead in the popular vote. Whether he will actually also finish ahead of the
President in the electoral vote count seems to be becoming immaterial. First,
there seems to be on the GOP side a campaign getting underway to challenge any
Obama electoral vote victory (given that Romney indeed would have a substantial
lead in the popular vote). It would bring pressure, both public and private, on
the electors to not vote as they were chosen to do, but rather to "recognize
the popular will" (as if Republicans do that in any other circumstance)."
Then I went on
to say: "Second, there is increasing evidence that a massive vote-count
cheating operation has already been organized in some of the key "battleground'
states (2-7) like Ohio, which Bush won in 2004 by cheating. (The Ohio Secretary
of State, in charge of the ballot counting, just happened to be the Chair of
the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.) If this strategy were to be successful,
and could withstand the challenges that the Obama Campaign might or might not
mount against it, that would make the first plan superfluous."
Let me modify
that. The President did win the popular
vote, by about 1.6 million votes. (The
polls aren't slanted to the GOP, are they?
Nah. Couldn't be.) But on the second point, I think that there
was evidence of an attempt being made to cheat in Ohio (as the GOP clearly did
in 2004 and likely did in 2000 (2-7). On
Tuesday evening, sometime around 11PM EST, after all of the networks, including Fox, called Ohio for Obama, I just
happened to switch to Fox. And there was "independent"
"analyst," a chubbier Karl Rove (the $240 million man) saying
"hold on there. I've got the Ohio Secretary of State's website up and he
says that the vote difference is only 20-plus [yes, that was 20 votes, count
"em] for Obama. And there is a huge number of Republican votes
outstanding." This of course is the Ohio Secretary of State who, following
in Ken Blackwell's footsteps (Blackwell being the man who supervised the 2004
voting while at the same time being the Ohio State Chair for Bush/Cheney), did
his darnedest to suppress the minority vote in Ohio, an attempt that was openly
hailed on racist grounds by at least one GOP county chair (8).
It happens that there was no such thing as the virtual tie
that Rove had claimed to exist (except as it was apparently being presented on
the website of the Ohio Secretary of State).
The other networks, and indeed Fox itself, had Obama ahead by about
20,000 votes at the time. Nevertheless,
Rove's claim got Fox to pause, and so did CNN and MSNBC (I checked). The latter two did not say why they were pulling
back, at least a bit. However, shortly thereafter, Fox sent one of their
anchors to their "decision desk," the home of their numbers
crunchers, when Rove was still holding onto his "Sec. of State says 20
votes" story. They held firmly to
their count that Obama was actually 20,000 votes ahead and to their projection
that he would win Ohio. Nevertheless, a
scheduled Romney appearance, apparently planned for a concession speech, was
delayed. Then by about 11:30 all the networks went back to their call of Ohio
for Obama. And anyway, by that time Fox was then showing Obama with a 290
electoral vote total, so even without Ohio's 20, he still had won.
So what might have happened in that
half hour or so that the projection of Ohio for Obama had been at least
partially called back (reminding one of similar episodes in the 2000 and 2004
elections)? My guess is that someone may have tried to get the cheat machine going
in Ohio and couldn't. We will never know if such an episode actually
happened. However, it happens that one
well-informed colleague of mine had told me several days before the election
that the left-wing web organization Anonymous had gotten into the Ohio
vote-counting computers, was prepared to hack any changed results, and had made
their intention known privately. An
attempt to implement the scheme may have been tried anyway, and then it was
found not to be successful. Your guess is as good as mine. We'll never
know.
But Rove had seemed so confident when
he called a halt to calling the election for Obama. Maybe it was Obama's getting to 270 without
Ohio (and as we now know Virginia went for Obama [!] so even if Ohio had been
cheated over to Romney it wouldn't have made any difference anyway) that caused
the operation to be halted, if indeed there had been one. If this hypothetical is correct, someone then
made the call to Romney, said "sorry Mitt, we couldn't do it even though Tagg
is a part-owner of the machines," the concession speech was made, and it was
all over.
My friend who told me about the
Anonymous counter-hacking operation penned this post-script: "Romney's refusal
to concede [at first] raised the specter of Bush's refusal in 2000 - and we
well know the machinations that motivated that one. Clearly, you read [the
situation] correctly - they were in the throes of orchestrating a hacked
election in OH for the second time - the first being 2004. With Romney's son
and 45 former employees (former in name only) holding the titles to a massive
bloc of voting machines in OH - they must have considered the capability and
viability of rigging this one, too.
Romney's very hesitant and even reticent concession must now be
explained and totally in original context - the calling of the state of OH that
precipitated the calling of the US presidential election for his opponent -
while he and his surrogates held the keys and the codes to a vast array of
electronic voting machines in the crucial state of OH."
In the meantime, it will be interesting
to see if anyone raises questions about the incident and, if a response is
made, what the answer might be.
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