Skeptic
10th November 2004, 19:29
Here are reports of a scary media lockdown on the subject of vote fraud in the current election and also the commitment of a journalist to break the story.--Skeptic
MSNBC Covers Voting Problems November 9, 2004
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/11/con04492.html
Just watched Keith Olbermann on MSNBC in which he did a story on election
problems. He said that there were 90,000 more votes cast in Ohio than
registered voters (he went through a list of counties and said how many
voters were registered in each and how many extra thousands of votes were
recorded).
He reported how in Florida counties, heavily-leaning dem counties went
overwhelmingly for Bush -- the first time these counties have ever voted
Repub. He showed charts with numbers, etc., it was very compelling.
He said that all the irregularities in Florida and Ohio have happened in
counties using non-paper-trail e-voting from the companies run by Bush's
friends.
He interviewed a reporter from the Cincinnati paper who discussed how
homeland security barred reporters from witnessing the voting in some of
the major minority areas in town, that this was the first time the press
was ever kept out of and barred from witnessing the voting. The Sec of
State in Ohio says that it was under orders from Bush's Homeland Security
chief, who said that these cities in Ohio were under a highly increased
threat of terrorism during the election. For this reason, only one entrance
was open for the voting in these (largely democratic) areas, and the press
was barred from coming in to see the voting, or to have the usual offices
in the building they have had in every past year.
Olbermann then had Rep. John Conyers on and there are a dozen or so
representatives demanding an investigation from the GAO. So it's
Chicago-style voting taken to a national level -- the GOP dead vote, the
GOP takes away votes from Dems and turned them into Bush votes, and they
just add extra votes (for pres, not on the other issues or candidates) to
the totals.
In Florida where Bush scored big, on the same ballots Democratic measures
scored big, such as making a Florida minimum wage $1 above the federal
level. In other words, all these people voted for Bush AND voted to pass
these Democratic measures, which the GOP had tried to defeat. So this
indicates that only the presidential election voting was rigged, they
didn't rig the rest of the voting form.
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Keith Olbermann Plays Hardball, Breaks Votergate Story on National, Mainstream Media
By Anthony Wade November 8, 2004 http://www.opednews.com/wade_110904_olbermann.htm
Kudos to Keith Olbermann of MSNBC. Finally, someone in the mainstream media took the story about the rampant evidence of election fraud to prime time. Following the tepid journalism from Chris Matthews, Olbermann reported tonight about the two major stories we have been following since election night.
Olbermann first reported on the events in Warren County, Ohio on election night. Warren was one of the last counties to report and as such, directly contributed to the state being called for Bush. What makes Warren County newsworthy is that election officials decided to lock down the vote count and excluded any observation of the tallying process. The lame excuse given was “homeland security” concerns. Olbermann reported tonight that those concerns actually stemmed from the Department of Homeland Security, who informed them that on a scale of 1-10, Warren represented a 10 in terms of security concerns. Warren County represents a mostly rural district between Dayton and Cincinnati. I would be very interested to hear about the source Tom Ridge used to determine that this small portion of a Midwest state had suddenly become a security threat.
While that is beyond suspicious, Olbermann went on to report on the startling results from 29 Florida counties which had all flipped their vote from their registration. In each of these counties we saw statistically improbable results favoring George W. Bush every time. This story had been on the internet for a week now, but had been all but ignored by all mainstream media until Keith Olbermann finally proved there can be honesty in journalism. Keith’s guest was the Honorable John Conyers, Congressman from Michigan. Mr. Conyers has led the charge for the GAO to investigate the mounting reports of “irregularities”. Mr. Olbermann tried his best to ask pointed questions, referring to the possibility of the election being “rigged” or “fixed”. Conyers tried his best to stay above the political fray but in the end the cold fact remained that something has gone wrong in this election.
Prior to the Olbermann show, we saw Chris Matthews, playing softball as only he can. After the obligatory shock and awe Iraq coverage, Matthews had a segment on “where the Democrats went wrong” and had on Bush Campaign 04 Senior Advisor, Tucker Eskew. Quite the moment of impartial journalism. The only thing separating Matthews from being a Fox host is the “fair and balanced” tag line. The intent is again, quite clear. Pay no attention to the fact that there is mounting evidence of fraud. Ignore the clamoring from the people on the Internet, who are starting to put the pieces together and hold out for the elections to be certified. Chris Matthews should be ashamed.
Today on Democratic Underground, Bev Harris of Blackboxvoting.com posted the following:
“I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2. Even the journalists are pretty horrified. My source said they've also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time, and he was calling from somewhere else. He was trying to figure out how to get the real news out on vote fraud.”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu...ess=104x2636130 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2636130)
This is what is happening in America folks. They are waiting it out, hoping we all go away like we did in 2000. This election was stolen and now mainstream media is in lockdown, denying you the truth. Keith Olbermann should be commended for breaking this open. Please send him thanks and encourage him to continue to be the sole voice of real journalism in a media that has all but abandoned us:
[email protected]
We are not going anywhere this time. We have all fought hard for over a week now to try and get this into the mainstream media and finally it has happened. It cannot stop here though. We need to continue the barrage. Email all mainstream media personalities (except Fox). Demand from your representatives that they get on board with John Conyers in demanding an investigation BEFORE the elections are certified.
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An Examination of the Florida Elections http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~adamsb6/elections/ Update 11/8/04 Dated news sources.
New: Florida is reporting more votes in the presidential election than it is reporting citizens that turned out to vote. Adding all the presidential race votes reported by the Florida Department of State here yields a total of 7,588,422 votes. The Florida Department of State reports here that voter turnout totalled only 7,350,900. That's a difference of 237,522. 3.1% of Florida's presidential votes were in excess of the number of voters in the election. 380,952 votes separate the President and John Kerry in Florida.
If we disregard the votes cast on the Model 100s and the Optech 3P Eagles, the difference between Bush and Kerry drops to 124,514. The votes cast on the Model 100s and the Optech 3P Eagles in conjunction with votes that cannot be tied to voters may have elected George W. Bush.
The 13 counties that report more votes than voters delivered 39.4% of the votes cast in Florida. These are the 13 counties:
County Count Total Votes Cast % Total Votes Cast Turnout Turnout-Total Votes Cast
Palm Beach 542835 7.15% 452,061 -90,774
Hernando 75832 1.00% 0 -75,832
Miami-Dade 768553 10.13% 716,574 -51,979
Volusia 228358 3.01% 209,052 -19,306
Osceola 82178 1.08% 63,589 -18,589
Highlands 41491 0.55% 33,996 -7,495
Orange 387752 5.11% 386,104 -1,648
Collier 128352 1.69% 127,409 -943
Glades 4188 0.06% 3,446 -742
Duval 379614 5.00% 379,257 -357
Okaloosa 89707 1.18% 89,485 -222
Lake 123938 1.63% 123,751 -187
Leon 136314 1.80% 136,229 -85
Totals 2989112 39.39% 2,720,953 -268,159 Clip..
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Florida’s election was an utter sham and Putsch stole the state again http://www.zeppscommentaries.com/VRWC/gun.htm
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson 11/06/04
Imagine that you lived in a county that had 30,000 registered voters, of
whom 10,000 were registered as Democrats, 10,000 as Republicans, and 10,000
as independents. Suppose you further knew that polls had shown that 91% of
Republicans planned to vote for the Republican, and 88% of Democrats
planned to vote for the Democrat. Among the independents, 60% planned to
vote for the Democrat. (Less than 1% of all voters planned to vote for
third party candidates in this scenario.) We'll pretend that 100% of these
voters actually voted, although in reality, the turnout would have been
closer to 75%.
Given that data, you would expect a fairly sizeable win for the Democrat.
If the polls were accurate (and exit polls are VERY accurate, to within one
half of one percent of the actual vote totals), then the Democrat would
have gotten 8,800 votes from Democratic voters, about 900 from Republican
voters, and 6,000 from independents, giving him 15,700 votes to 14,300
votes for the Republican.
If you looked in your paper the next day and saw that the Republican won,
you might be surprised.. Typically, 7% of voters actually decide in the
last day, which is why polls are sometimes off by up to 3%. But exit polls
interview people who have already decided.
If you learned that the Republican got 22,000 votes and the Democrat just
8,000, you might be very suspicious.
This is what happened in Florida. It didn't happen in just one county. It
happened in a large number of counties, and the discrepancy between the
vote totals and the voting demographics is far bigger and more egregious
than my fictional example above.
Commondreams collated the numbers, and the results are available at
http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm These collations, in turn, are
based directly on the numbers given by the state of Florida, and represent
98.6% of the vote total.
Here are some of the examples:
In Baker County, where 69.3% of the voters are registered as Democratic,
Bush supposedly won by a 7,738 to 2,180 margin. For this to be possible,
Bush would have had to have gotten the votes of every single Republican and
4,500 of the roughly 7,000 Democrats and independents.
In Calhoun County, where 82.4% of voters are Democrat, Putsch won the vote
by a 3,780 to 2,116 margin. There are less than a thousand Republicans in
that county.
Bradford County: 61.4% Democrat, Putsch won 7,553 to 3,244.
In Dixie county, roughly 1,500 Republicans were able to deliver 4,433 votes
for Putsch. The 7,700 Democrats only had 1,959.
It goes on and on. Florida has a lot of counties, and nearly all of them
show these discrepancies. In all, Democrats came up short by about 430,000
votes, and the Republicans had 1,023,000 more votes than the models would
have predicted.
Equally interesting was the way in which the discrepancies broke down
between counties using touch screen, and those using optical scanners. In
the touch screen counties, the deviation was 410,491 towards Putsch and
414,913 away from Kerry. (And there were widespread complaints in Florida
that people who had picked Kerry noticed that the screen showed them
picking Bush) Among the optical scanners, the deviation was 13,250 from
Kerry (and well within the margin of error). However, George seems to have
picked up an extra 612,971 votes from somewhere. That jibes with reports
that early morning voters had encountered ballot boxes that already had a
whole bunch of ballots in there. It looks like Putsch did quite well in the
midnight to 6am vote in Florida.
The deviations are most noticeable in small counties, such as Hardee,
Holmes, Lafayees, and Liberty (where Putsch managed to get 712% of his 2000
vote).
The touch screen machines were off by 400,000 from what the models said
they should have reported, but of course, there's absolutely no way to
check their totals. The ONLY record of the voting is the totals that the
machines gave. No recount is possible, and isn't that a disgrace?
However, it's obvious that in the Optical Scan counties, there was
systematic and widespread ballot box stuffing – over 600,000 votes cast,
not by Americans selecting a President, but by crooked polling personnel
and Republican party hacks.
The ballot box stuffing was widespread, and focused on small counties
where, it was assumed, the figures wouldn't be examined very closely.
Does anyone believe that there is a single place in America where Putsch
could not only get SEVEN TIMES the number of votes he got in 2000, but get
over two-thirds of all the Democratic voters in order to do so?
Do you believe that's possible? Well, do you?
The official margin of victory for Putsch in Florida was 377,216 votes. It
looks like Diebold alone would have stolen the election for him, but the
Republicans are greedy, stupid, and insecure. They had to stuff the ballot
boxes in Op-Scan counties with an extra 600,000 ballots.
Write your Congressmen, write your newspapers, pass this along to all your
friends. Make sure the link to Ustogether.org is in there so people can
check it out for themselves.
And if you live in Florida, contact an attorney and push for a revote in
Florida. If you don't want America to be just another third-world joke, do
it right away. Organize, and push for a revote. Even if Kerry demurs.
If Florida had had an honest vote, Kerry would have had 280 electoral votes
and would be the President-elect today.
Don't let those nazi bastards steal the election again!
---------------
Did Bush Rig the Vote? (excerpt)
Manipulation of votes and results
In Florida, 13 counties reported more votes than voters, these accounting
for 39.4% of the vote. In Ohio, at the Gahana 1 Precinct, Bush received
6,253 votes, Kerry 1,916 votes, and the others, 23. This totals 8,192
votes, which is strange, since only 4,346 people voted.
At another Precinct in Gahana, Ohio, 4,258 votes were cast for Bush and
only 260 for Kerry, while only 638 people were registered as having voted.
Electronic vote and rigged machines
Hernando Country recorded 0 votes. In Ohio, 14,6% of votes cast were by
e-voting machines, which are susceptible to hacking and fraudulent
manipulation and the Republicans had worked hard to exclude the possibility
of there being a paper trail to provide any proof.
In Florida, electronic scan machines registered a gain of 128.45% for Bush
and a decrease of 21% for Kerry, whereas in some places a gain of 400% was
recorded for the Republicans and in Liverty County, 700%. Strange.
Ohio purchased e-voting machines from the Diebold Corporation, whose CEO
Wally O'Dell is a Bush fundraiser, who promised "to help Ohio deliver its
votes to the President". What a good professional he appears to have been.
Fewer machines were placed in Democrat areas in many Precincts, causing
long queues to form and people to turn away, frustrated. In Ohio, Blackwell
held back the distribution of 2000 machines.
Electoral fraud
In Franklin County, Ohio, Ron O"Brien, County prosecutor declared to 10TV
that "people are being paid to register new voters". One man who died in
February was registered to vote and in another case, 25 applications
belonged to the same person.
In Chaves County, New Mexico, which has an enormous Hispanic, African
American and Native American population (who traditionally vote Democrat),
Bush won by 68% to 31%. ?? Clip..
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MSNBC Covers Voting Problems November 9, 2004
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/11/con04492.html
Just watched Keith Olbermann on MSNBC in which he did a story on election
problems. He said that there were 90,000 more votes cast in Ohio than
registered voters (he went through a list of counties and said how many
voters were registered in each and how many extra thousands of votes were
recorded).
He reported how in Florida counties, heavily-leaning dem counties went
overwhelmingly for Bush -- the first time these counties have ever voted
Repub. He showed charts with numbers, etc., it was very compelling.
He said that all the irregularities in Florida and Ohio have happened in
counties using non-paper-trail e-voting from the companies run by Bush's
friends.
He interviewed a reporter from the Cincinnati paper who discussed how
homeland security barred reporters from witnessing the voting in some of
the major minority areas in town, that this was the first time the press
was ever kept out of and barred from witnessing the voting. The Sec of
State in Ohio says that it was under orders from Bush's Homeland Security
chief, who said that these cities in Ohio were under a highly increased
threat of terrorism during the election. For this reason, only one entrance
was open for the voting in these (largely democratic) areas, and the press
was barred from coming in to see the voting, or to have the usual offices
in the building they have had in every past year.
Olbermann then had Rep. John Conyers on and there are a dozen or so
representatives demanding an investigation from the GAO. So it's
Chicago-style voting taken to a national level -- the GOP dead vote, the
GOP takes away votes from Dems and turned them into Bush votes, and they
just add extra votes (for pres, not on the other issues or candidates) to
the totals.
In Florida where Bush scored big, on the same ballots Democratic measures
scored big, such as making a Florida minimum wage $1 above the federal
level. In other words, all these people voted for Bush AND voted to pass
these Democratic measures, which the GOP had tried to defeat. So this
indicates that only the presidential election voting was rigged, they
didn't rig the rest of the voting form.
----------
Keith Olbermann Plays Hardball, Breaks Votergate Story on National, Mainstream Media
By Anthony Wade November 8, 2004 http://www.opednews.com/wade_110904_olbermann.htm
Kudos to Keith Olbermann of MSNBC. Finally, someone in the mainstream media took the story about the rampant evidence of election fraud to prime time. Following the tepid journalism from Chris Matthews, Olbermann reported tonight about the two major stories we have been following since election night.
Olbermann first reported on the events in Warren County, Ohio on election night. Warren was one of the last counties to report and as such, directly contributed to the state being called for Bush. What makes Warren County newsworthy is that election officials decided to lock down the vote count and excluded any observation of the tallying process. The lame excuse given was “homeland security” concerns. Olbermann reported tonight that those concerns actually stemmed from the Department of Homeland Security, who informed them that on a scale of 1-10, Warren represented a 10 in terms of security concerns. Warren County represents a mostly rural district between Dayton and Cincinnati. I would be very interested to hear about the source Tom Ridge used to determine that this small portion of a Midwest state had suddenly become a security threat.
While that is beyond suspicious, Olbermann went on to report on the startling results from 29 Florida counties which had all flipped their vote from their registration. In each of these counties we saw statistically improbable results favoring George W. Bush every time. This story had been on the internet for a week now, but had been all but ignored by all mainstream media until Keith Olbermann finally proved there can be honesty in journalism. Keith’s guest was the Honorable John Conyers, Congressman from Michigan. Mr. Conyers has led the charge for the GAO to investigate the mounting reports of “irregularities”. Mr. Olbermann tried his best to ask pointed questions, referring to the possibility of the election being “rigged” or “fixed”. Conyers tried his best to stay above the political fray but in the end the cold fact remained that something has gone wrong in this election.
Prior to the Olbermann show, we saw Chris Matthews, playing softball as only he can. After the obligatory shock and awe Iraq coverage, Matthews had a segment on “where the Democrats went wrong” and had on Bush Campaign 04 Senior Advisor, Tucker Eskew. Quite the moment of impartial journalism. The only thing separating Matthews from being a Fox host is the “fair and balanced” tag line. The intent is again, quite clear. Pay no attention to the fact that there is mounting evidence of fraud. Ignore the clamoring from the people on the Internet, who are starting to put the pieces together and hold out for the elections to be certified. Chris Matthews should be ashamed.
Today on Democratic Underground, Bev Harris of Blackboxvoting.com posted the following:
“I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2. Even the journalists are pretty horrified. My source said they've also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time, and he was calling from somewhere else. He was trying to figure out how to get the real news out on vote fraud.”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu...ess=104x2636130 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2636130)
This is what is happening in America folks. They are waiting it out, hoping we all go away like we did in 2000. This election was stolen and now mainstream media is in lockdown, denying you the truth. Keith Olbermann should be commended for breaking this open. Please send him thanks and encourage him to continue to be the sole voice of real journalism in a media that has all but abandoned us:
[email protected]
We are not going anywhere this time. We have all fought hard for over a week now to try and get this into the mainstream media and finally it has happened. It cannot stop here though. We need to continue the barrage. Email all mainstream media personalities (except Fox). Demand from your representatives that they get on board with John Conyers in demanding an investigation BEFORE the elections are certified.
-------
An Examination of the Florida Elections http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~adamsb6/elections/ Update 11/8/04 Dated news sources.
New: Florida is reporting more votes in the presidential election than it is reporting citizens that turned out to vote. Adding all the presidential race votes reported by the Florida Department of State here yields a total of 7,588,422 votes. The Florida Department of State reports here that voter turnout totalled only 7,350,900. That's a difference of 237,522. 3.1% of Florida's presidential votes were in excess of the number of voters in the election. 380,952 votes separate the President and John Kerry in Florida.
If we disregard the votes cast on the Model 100s and the Optech 3P Eagles, the difference between Bush and Kerry drops to 124,514. The votes cast on the Model 100s and the Optech 3P Eagles in conjunction with votes that cannot be tied to voters may have elected George W. Bush.
The 13 counties that report more votes than voters delivered 39.4% of the votes cast in Florida. These are the 13 counties:
County Count Total Votes Cast % Total Votes Cast Turnout Turnout-Total Votes Cast
Palm Beach 542835 7.15% 452,061 -90,774
Hernando 75832 1.00% 0 -75,832
Miami-Dade 768553 10.13% 716,574 -51,979
Volusia 228358 3.01% 209,052 -19,306
Osceola 82178 1.08% 63,589 -18,589
Highlands 41491 0.55% 33,996 -7,495
Orange 387752 5.11% 386,104 -1,648
Collier 128352 1.69% 127,409 -943
Glades 4188 0.06% 3,446 -742
Duval 379614 5.00% 379,257 -357
Okaloosa 89707 1.18% 89,485 -222
Lake 123938 1.63% 123,751 -187
Leon 136314 1.80% 136,229 -85
Totals 2989112 39.39% 2,720,953 -268,159 Clip..
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Florida’s election was an utter sham and Putsch stole the state again http://www.zeppscommentaries.com/VRWC/gun.htm
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson 11/06/04
Imagine that you lived in a county that had 30,000 registered voters, of
whom 10,000 were registered as Democrats, 10,000 as Republicans, and 10,000
as independents. Suppose you further knew that polls had shown that 91% of
Republicans planned to vote for the Republican, and 88% of Democrats
planned to vote for the Democrat. Among the independents, 60% planned to
vote for the Democrat. (Less than 1% of all voters planned to vote for
third party candidates in this scenario.) We'll pretend that 100% of these
voters actually voted, although in reality, the turnout would have been
closer to 75%.
Given that data, you would expect a fairly sizeable win for the Democrat.
If the polls were accurate (and exit polls are VERY accurate, to within one
half of one percent of the actual vote totals), then the Democrat would
have gotten 8,800 votes from Democratic voters, about 900 from Republican
voters, and 6,000 from independents, giving him 15,700 votes to 14,300
votes for the Republican.
If you looked in your paper the next day and saw that the Republican won,
you might be surprised.. Typically, 7% of voters actually decide in the
last day, which is why polls are sometimes off by up to 3%. But exit polls
interview people who have already decided.
If you learned that the Republican got 22,000 votes and the Democrat just
8,000, you might be very suspicious.
This is what happened in Florida. It didn't happen in just one county. It
happened in a large number of counties, and the discrepancy between the
vote totals and the voting demographics is far bigger and more egregious
than my fictional example above.
Commondreams collated the numbers, and the results are available at
http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm These collations, in turn, are
based directly on the numbers given by the state of Florida, and represent
98.6% of the vote total.
Here are some of the examples:
In Baker County, where 69.3% of the voters are registered as Democratic,
Bush supposedly won by a 7,738 to 2,180 margin. For this to be possible,
Bush would have had to have gotten the votes of every single Republican and
4,500 of the roughly 7,000 Democrats and independents.
In Calhoun County, where 82.4% of voters are Democrat, Putsch won the vote
by a 3,780 to 2,116 margin. There are less than a thousand Republicans in
that county.
Bradford County: 61.4% Democrat, Putsch won 7,553 to 3,244.
In Dixie county, roughly 1,500 Republicans were able to deliver 4,433 votes
for Putsch. The 7,700 Democrats only had 1,959.
It goes on and on. Florida has a lot of counties, and nearly all of them
show these discrepancies. In all, Democrats came up short by about 430,000
votes, and the Republicans had 1,023,000 more votes than the models would
have predicted.
Equally interesting was the way in which the discrepancies broke down
between counties using touch screen, and those using optical scanners. In
the touch screen counties, the deviation was 410,491 towards Putsch and
414,913 away from Kerry. (And there were widespread complaints in Florida
that people who had picked Kerry noticed that the screen showed them
picking Bush) Among the optical scanners, the deviation was 13,250 from
Kerry (and well within the margin of error). However, George seems to have
picked up an extra 612,971 votes from somewhere. That jibes with reports
that early morning voters had encountered ballot boxes that already had a
whole bunch of ballots in there. It looks like Putsch did quite well in the
midnight to 6am vote in Florida.
The deviations are most noticeable in small counties, such as Hardee,
Holmes, Lafayees, and Liberty (where Putsch managed to get 712% of his 2000
vote).
The touch screen machines were off by 400,000 from what the models said
they should have reported, but of course, there's absolutely no way to
check their totals. The ONLY record of the voting is the totals that the
machines gave. No recount is possible, and isn't that a disgrace?
However, it's obvious that in the Optical Scan counties, there was
systematic and widespread ballot box stuffing – over 600,000 votes cast,
not by Americans selecting a President, but by crooked polling personnel
and Republican party hacks.
The ballot box stuffing was widespread, and focused on small counties
where, it was assumed, the figures wouldn't be examined very closely.
Does anyone believe that there is a single place in America where Putsch
could not only get SEVEN TIMES the number of votes he got in 2000, but get
over two-thirds of all the Democratic voters in order to do so?
Do you believe that's possible? Well, do you?
The official margin of victory for Putsch in Florida was 377,216 votes. It
looks like Diebold alone would have stolen the election for him, but the
Republicans are greedy, stupid, and insecure. They had to stuff the ballot
boxes in Op-Scan counties with an extra 600,000 ballots.
Write your Congressmen, write your newspapers, pass this along to all your
friends. Make sure the link to Ustogether.org is in there so people can
check it out for themselves.
And if you live in Florida, contact an attorney and push for a revote in
Florida. If you don't want America to be just another third-world joke, do
it right away. Organize, and push for a revote. Even if Kerry demurs.
If Florida had had an honest vote, Kerry would have had 280 electoral votes
and would be the President-elect today.
Don't let those nazi bastards steal the election again!
---------------
Did Bush Rig the Vote? (excerpt)
Manipulation of votes and results
In Florida, 13 counties reported more votes than voters, these accounting
for 39.4% of the vote. In Ohio, at the Gahana 1 Precinct, Bush received
6,253 votes, Kerry 1,916 votes, and the others, 23. This totals 8,192
votes, which is strange, since only 4,346 people voted.
At another Precinct in Gahana, Ohio, 4,258 votes were cast for Bush and
only 260 for Kerry, while only 638 people were registered as having voted.
Electronic vote and rigged machines
Hernando Country recorded 0 votes. In Ohio, 14,6% of votes cast were by
e-voting machines, which are susceptible to hacking and fraudulent
manipulation and the Republicans had worked hard to exclude the possibility
of there being a paper trail to provide any proof.
In Florida, electronic scan machines registered a gain of 128.45% for Bush
and a decrease of 21% for Kerry, whereas in some places a gain of 400% was
recorded for the Republicans and in Liverty County, 700%. Strange.
Ohio purchased e-voting machines from the Diebold Corporation, whose CEO
Wally O'Dell is a Bush fundraiser, who promised "to help Ohio deliver its
votes to the President". What a good professional he appears to have been.
Fewer machines were placed in Democrat areas in many Precincts, causing
long queues to form and people to turn away, frustrated. In Ohio, Blackwell
held back the distribution of 2000 machines.
Electoral fraud
In Franklin County, Ohio, Ron O"Brien, County prosecutor declared to 10TV
that "people are being paid to register new voters". One man who died in
February was registered to vote and in another case, 25 applications
belonged to the same person.
In Chaves County, New Mexico, which has an enormous Hispanic, African
American and Native American population (who traditionally vote Democrat),
Bush won by 68% to 31%. ?? Clip..
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