An Election Spoiled Rotten
by Greg Palast
45% of Americans
believe the presidential election of 2000 was stolen. According to CNN Headline News, a
smaller number, 13%, believe the junta was successful in stealing
another presidential election this week. You weigh the facts.
Monday, November 1, 2004
– It's not even Election Day yet, and the Kerry-Edwards campaign is
already down by almost a million votes. That's because, in important
states like Ohio, Florida and New Mexico, voter names have been
systematically removed from the rolls and absentee ballots have been
overlooked — overwhelmingly in minority areas, like Rio Arriba County,
New Mexico, where Hispanic voters have a 500 percent greater chance of
their vote being “spoiled.” Investigative journalist Greg Palast
reports on the trashing of the election.
Greg
Palast, contributing editor to Harper's magazine, investigated the
manipulation of the vote for BBC Television's Newsnight. The
documentary, “Bush Family Fortunes,” based on his New York Times
bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, has been released this
month on DVD.
John
Kerry is down by several thousand votes in New Mexico, though not one
ballot has yet been counted. He's also losing big time in Colorado and
Ohio; and he's way down in Florida, though the votes won't be totaled
until Tuesday night.
Through
a combination of sophisticated vote rustling—ethnic cleansing of voter
rolls, absentee ballots gone AWOL, machines that “spoil” votes—John
Kerry begins with a nationwide deficit that could easily exceed one
million votes.
(Click here to read the complete article.)
Also see:
Sour Grapes, or Electoral Fraud?
None of
the facts related to the presidential election add up. Voter
registration went up from 105 million to 120 million. In Ohio alone it
went up a whopping 17%. Whenever registration has surged like this in
the past, it has always favored the challenger and precipitated a
change in government.
Not so,
this time, and Republican pollsters are eager to convince us that the
reason for this is a renewed interest among the American public for
“moral values”. Is that it or are the results simply an indication of
massive (but well calculated) voter fraud?
The exit
polling was equally skewed, showing a clear victory for Kerry. Exit
polling has traditionally been a reliable way of determining the
outcome of elections. Not so in Bush-world, where vote totals are
invariably higher for Bush in the contentious areas that ultimately
decide the election.
Give
strategist Karl Rove his due; he knew what had to be done and did it.
The rest, of course, has been papered over by the pollsters, pimps and
pundits in American press corps.
CITIZENS FOR LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT Launches Investigation Into Discrepancies of 2004 'Election'
Pittsburgh, PA: November 4, 2004
CLG
Founder and Chair, Michael D. Rectenwald, Ph.D., calls for a thorough
investigation into the discrepancies of the 2004 election. At the
conclusion of its investigation, CLG may call for specified action(s)
against the system that has provided for the theft of the 2000 and 2004
elections. CLG may demand prosecution of those that have laid the
groundwork for the 2004 election, if such an investigation points to
the conclusion that a second coup d'etat took place on November 2,
2004.
Click the above link for a long list of detailed discrepencies.
Exit Polls Right, Tallies Wrong?
Alternet
The hot story in the blogosphere is that the “erroneous” exit polls
that showed Kerry carrying Florida and Ohio (among other states)
weren't erroneous at all – it was the numbers produced by paperless
voting machines that were wrong, and Kerry actually won. As more and
more analysis is done of what may (or may not) be the most massive
election fraud in the history of the world, however, it's critical that
we keep the largest issue at the forefront at all time: Why are We The
People allowing private, for-profit corporations, answerable only to
their officers and boards of directors, and loyal only to agendas and
politicians that will enhance their profitability, to handle our votes?
Kerry Won. . .
Greg Palast
November 04, 2004
Bush won
Ohio by 136,483 votes. In the United States, about 3 percent of votes
cast are voided — known as “spoilage” in election jargon — because the
ballots cast are inconclusive. Drawing on what happened in Florida and
studies of elections past, Palast argues that if Ohio’s discarded
ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state. Today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports
there are a total of 247,672 votes not counted in Ohio, if you add the
92,672 discarded votes plus the 155,000 provisional ballots. So far
there's no indication that Palast's hypothesis will be tested because
only the provisional ballots are being counted.
Kerry won. Here are the facts.
I know
you don't want to hear it. You can't face one more hung chad. But
I don't have a choice. As a journalist examining that messy sausage
called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the most
votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was
John Kerry.
Most
voters in Ohio thought they were voting for Kerry. At 1:05 a.m.
Wednesday morning, CNN's exit poll showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio
women by 53 percent to 47 percent. The exit polls were later
combined with—and therefore contaminated by—the tabulated results,
ultimately becoming a mirror of the apparent actual vote. [To read
about the skewing of exit polls to conform to official results, click here.]
Kerry also defeated Bush among Ohio's male voters 51 percent to 49
percent. Unless a third gender voted in Ohio, Kerry took the state.
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