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suppressing news of election fraud. I strongly suspected fraud--perpetrated in the Bushite-corporate controlled, new and untested electronic voting systems--not only because of the inherent non-transparency of the vote counting, but also because of the dramatic switch from a Kerry win to a Bush win late on election day. It did not make sense. DU was the only blog where investigation was featured and permitted to proceed full bore. And what an investigation it was! I marvel at what we did here in the months after the election.
To me, the 2004 election is very simple. Tom Delay & the Anthrax Congress (in 2002) appropriated nearly $4 billion to convert our election system from one in which the votes are counted in public view, into one in which the votes are counted electronically with 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code--code so secret that not even our secretaries of state are permitted to review it--owned and controlled by large electronics firms with very close ties to the Bush regime.
Non-transparent elections are not elections. They are tyranny.
You really don't need to know much else. They DIDN'T WANT a transparent election in 2004, or ever again. Transparent elections are not difficult. People vote, and you count the votes in public. The biggest crooks in Congress--Delay, Bob Ney and Bilderberg 'Democrat' Christopher Dodd--and their co-conspirators in the White House and at Diebold and ES&S, created the exact opposite of a transparent election. These two corporations--and the third big player, Sequoia (also with close ties to the Republican Party)--recently conspired against an honest election official in Florida (Ion Sancho) who had tested Diebold machines, found them insecure, and banned them in his district. The OTHER two corps then refused to do business with him. He needed them to satisfy a disabilities voting provision of HAVA. A racketeering investigation has been initiated. This disturbing event is the tip of the iceberg. We might as well have organized crime running our elections.
The infamous "Help America Vote Act" is the bullying law that coerced state election officials into hasty purchase of expensive, insecure and extremely hackable voting systems, with plenty of money flowing to bribe and entice election officials into foolish, glitzy purchases, and to punish those who demanded some controls (by withholding the funds). In addition to creating this $4 billion boondoggle, HAVA failed to ban 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY vote counting programming code, failed to require even a paper trail for audits and recounts (let alone a real paper ballot backup)--which resulted in one third of the nation's vote being completely unrecountable in 2004--failed to ban partisan vendors (two corporations with very close ties to the Bush junta stepped right in--Diebold and ES&S--and ended up tabulating 80% of the nation's vote in 2004, behind a veil of secrecy), failed to control lavish lobbying of election officials and legislators, permitted secret industry "testing" of the machines, and failed to provide any proper regulation of this new industry.
Everything flows from this. The exit poll discrepancy, for instance (Kerry won the real exit polls) takes place in the CONTEXT of this pervasive corruption of the election system and clear intent to render it NON-TRANSPARENT, evident long before the election. The mystery of the Democratic Party's great success in new voter registration in 2004, a nearly 60/40 edge over the Republicans, NOT translating into an electoral win, as it should have, is thus more explicable. People were flocking to the Democratic Party for a reason, and it wasn't to vote for Bush--it was to oust him. That 60/40 edge in new voters was swallowed up by the Bushite-controlled voting machines. Cheney or Rove later explained their victory by their "invisible" get-out-the vote campaign--in a typical pre-written narrative of events. There is no evidence--none!--that they had significant GOTV success. The real evidence--not the phony narrative--reveals the exact opposite.
Also, the heady power of secret vote tabulation led to other abuses, to supplement their invisible vote stealing--perhaps out of necessity: The blatant, cruel, illegal suppression of poor, black and other Democratic votes in Ohio and other states, for which there are volumes and volumes of evidence.
That's the story. Means. Motive. Opportunity. Would these notorious liars and criminals USE the non-transparent election system that THEY had set up, to steal an election for an unpopular president and his immensely unpopular war and other dreadful policies, such as torture, and huge, out of control, unaccountable spending?
What do you think?
The case for election fraud 2004 is necessarily largely inferential because the perpetrators deliberately set up a non-transparent vote count. They also corrupted and pressured the election system in every way possible, with Republican election officials and other operatives going the limit in unfairness and secrecy. Those who demand "proof positive" are failing to see the forest for the trees. There is an overwhelming PATTERN of illegality, secrecy and illegitimacy in this election, that was initiated by HAVA itself, and its failure to ban "trade secret" programming code and failure to require paper ballots and adequate auditing. Kerry's win of the exit polls (and the corporate news consortium's falsifying of the exit polls--in impossible ways--to make them FIT the results of Diebold/ES&S's secret vote counting software--occurred in this CONTEXT of ill intent, secrecy, non-transparency and illegal war.
Think about it. 2004 saw the first nationwide test-out of these new electronic voting systems. A paper ballot backup and a 100% recount should have been REQUIRED. Any good government and representative Congress would have done so. There was ill intent here--very ill intent--and very bad government.
And think, too, about the Anthrax Congress. The fear was palpable. How much of the Democratic Party leadership's mind-boggling silence about Bushite corporations counting all our votes in secret is attributable to fear? Some of it is corruption, surely. But I think much of it was/is fear. Now they're stuck with it--they, too, are beholden to Diebold and ES&S, and to corrupt election officials around the country who promote these non-transparent voting systems.
The war profiteering corporate news monopolies, who brought us the doctored exit polls, also wrote "Mission Accomplished." Then they wrote the American peoples' endorsement of illegal war and torture and $10 trillion deficits. Quite a fictional enterprise. It is no surprise that they doctored a few facts (the real exit poll results) to support their pre-written narrative, and that they have black-holed both the pre-election facts of the Bushite/corporate corruption of our election system, AND its result. They colluded in the stolen election, just as they did in 2000, only worse.
Financial criminals have been prosecuted and put in jail on less evidence than this. Means--they themselves created the means. Motive--to overrule the American people on the war and other issues, and to destroy our sovereign right to hold our government accountable through open and fair elections. Opportunity--they had ample opportunity (one hacker, a couple of minutes, leaving no trace). (--the scene of the crime was likely the central electronic vote tabulators, in the various states--also run on "trade secret" programming--the last stop for these electrons--your votes?--before going to an Associated Press computer, thence to the news consortium pollster, where they were mixed with the exit polls to concoct a Bush win out of thin air).
I didn't understand INTENT until well into the 2004 election investigation. I understood motive, of course--and I reviewed all the evidence, including the sidebar of the exit poll discrepancy naysayers, who have seemed intent on getting everybody to ignore the CONTEXT and to engage in distracting and obscure academic controversies about statistics. When you learn more about HAVA, and who pushed this terrible, democracy-killing bill through Congress, the overall picture that we are looking at--all of the evidence taken together--comes into better focus. Why do we NEED exit polls to tell us who won an American election? Because of the non-transparency of "trade secret" vote tabulation. Why were the "official results" so non-transparent? Because the Bushites DID NOT WANT a transparent election. Why would the corporate news monopolies be silent about this NEW non-transparency--and this NEW partisan control of the vote count? And why--given this brand new, largely untested voting system--would they not insist on using the exit polls as a tool to verify the election and check for fraud, as exit polls are used everywhere else in the world? When you focus on INTENT (on Tom Delay & Co. and HAVA), and on CONTEXT, on the blatant, deliberately created non-transparency ("trade secret" programming, no paper trail), and start asking these kinds of questions, the evidence--including the real exit polls, which are just one piece of an overwhelming evidential picture--forms an unmistakable pattern of election fraud in 2004, and points to a conspiracy to commit it.
If you leave INTENT out of it, and ignore CONTEXT, and engage in arguments about what might be true, or what might explain some piece of the evidence--for instance, what might explain the discrepancy found in several studies between electronic and paper ballot votes (electronic always favoring Bush)--you end up in fantasyland. It's not that evidence shouldn't be rigorously examined. It should be. But when evidence analysis looks for any explanation apart from election fraud, and ignores possible fraud as an explanation--thus ignoring intent and context--for instance, ignoring Tom Delay's obstruction of a paper trail provision for electronic voting--the conclusions lack any sense of reality (as do the conclusions of the exit poll discrepancy naysayers, who have wasted the time of election fraud investigators on fanciful alternative explanations of Kerry's win of the exit polls that have no basis in fact or reality).
The history of HAVA leads straight to today, and Bush ignoring the will of 70% of the American people on the Iraq War. Means. Motive. Opportunity. Context. Intent. The election SYSTEM was fraudulent, and still is. And its results were fraudulent in 2004.
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