An Election Spoiled Rotten (A million votes already stolen)

It's not even Election Day yet, and the Kerry-Edwards campaign is already down by a 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.

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.

The Urge To Purge

Colorado Secretary of State Donetta Davidson just weeks ago removed several thousand voters from the state's voter rolls. She tagged felons as barred from voting. What makes this particularly noteworthy is that, unlike like Florida and a handful of other Deep South states, Colorado does not bar ex-cons from voting. Only those actually serving their sentence lose their rights...

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/an_election_spoiled_rotten.php

edit to add props to Rigorous Intuition

Nonetheless, thank you for posting this. As disturbing as it is, it is one of the most important posts I have ever seen here at the DU. I plan to keep it and forward it if necessary to every pundit and ethnic leader I can think of if we lose. Well done.

or would have voted Bush so I think it overdramatizes to potray it like that.

Still, I agree that on November 4 there should be a renewed vigor toward FINALLY having true blue voter verified voting that is easy to tabulate and REAL. No fake without a paper trail stuff.

We can make it happen and we will. We can also make sure the registration of everyone who wants to vote takes place and there are necessary precautions againt voter fraud.

This is the 21st century, yes?

Sounds like you have everything under control there on the inside track and all. I'm sure you know a lot more about all the various plans than I do :)

FYI