2 more weeks left of school Today is "dress like the 50's day"for teacher appreciation week. Remember how we trusted in the 50's? Well, I wasn't born until 62 but, we had trust back then. Trust we were getting our votes counted. May peace be inside all of us, Cindy
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CRANKS AND KOOKS: KERRY WON IN '04 ... HEAR ONE OF THEM--LARRY DAVID--TELL YOU THE STONE-COLD EVIDENCE THAT, YEP, GEORGE BUSH STOLE IT IN 2004. AGAIN.
From Armed Madhouse, the new book by Greg Palast
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Hear Larry David, auteur of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and principal
writer of the "Seinfeld" series reading Palast's new book, Armed
Madhouse, Chapter 4: The Con-Kerry Won at www.GregPalast.com
Read the excerpt here:
THE CON
Kerry Won. Now Get Over It . . .
...because they're putting '08 in their pocket. Republicans just seem
to have that winning spirit. They also have caging lists, felons of the
future, rotting ballots, snuffed canaries, and a lock on the votes of
Kissinger-Americans and the undead.
WARNING! There are cranks and kooks and crazies out there on the
Internet who say that George Bush lost the 2004 election, like one titled,
"Kerry Won" published on the TomPaine.com web site two days after the
election. I wrote it.
On November 11, a week after TomPaine.com published it, I received an
e-mail from The New York Times Washington Bureau. Hot on the
investigation of the veracity of the vote, The Times reporter asked me pointed
questions:
Question #1: Are you a "sore loser"?
Question #2: Are you a "conspiracy nut"?
There was no third question. Investigation of the vote was, for The
Times at any rate, complete. The next day, the paper's thorough analysis
of the evidence yielded this front-page story, "VOTE FRAUD THEORIES,
SPREAD BY BLOGS, ARE QUICKLY BURIED."
As America's self-proclaimed Paper of Record had no space for the
facts, I thought I'd share some with you here.
"Kerry Won" was not a two-day inquiry à la Times. It was the latest in
a series of investigative reports coming out of a four-year team
examination, begun for BBC Television's Newsnight, Britain's Guardian papers
and Harper's Magazine, dissecting that greasy sausage called American
electoral democracy.
And, by the way, the answer to Question #1: I didn't lose, so I'm not
sore. This investigation isn't about John Kerry. As a journalist, I
don't give a toss which rich white kid won the game. But I'm not so blasé
that I don't care about the disappearance of American democracy. And I
really wanted to know how the Bushes swallowed the sausage.
How'd they do it? Again. And how will they do it in '08? The answer
arrived just after midnight on October 8, 2004, three weeks before the
official voting, in a series of extraordinary e-mails. The e-mails were
intended for the chieftains of the President's re-election campaign in
Washington. Strangely enough, they were misaddressed and ended up in my
mailbox. Such things happen.
NIGHT OF THE UNCOUNTED:
How to Disappear Three Million Votes
But the e-mails and their technical attachments won't mean a thing
unless you understand some arcane facts about elections American-style.
First, consider CNN's Ohio exit polls broadcast just after midnight
after the voting ended on Election Day. They show John Kerry defeated
George Bush among women voters by 53% to 47%. And among men voters, Kerry
defeated Bush 51% to 49%.
So here's your question, class: What third sex put George Bush over the
top in Ohio and gave him the White House?
Answer: The Uncounted.
In Ohio, there were 153,237 ballots simply thrown away, more than the
Bush "victory" margin. In New Mexico the uncounted vote was fives times
the Bush alleged victory margin of 5,988. In Iowa, Bush's triumph of
13,498 was overwhelmed by 36,811 votes rejected. In all, over three
million votes were cast but never counted in the 2004 presidential election.
The official number is bad enough-1,855,827 ballots cast not counted,
reported to the federal government's Election's Assistance Commission.
But the feds are missing data from several cities and entire states too
embarrassed to report the votes they failed to count. Correcting for
the under-reporting of the undercount, the number of ballots cast but
never counted goes to 3,600,380. And there are certainly more we couldn't
locate to tote up.
Why doesn't your government tell you this? Hey, they do. It's right
there in black-and-white on a U.S. Census Bureau announcement released
seven months after the election -- in a footnote to the report on voter
turn -- out. The Census tabulation of voters voting "differs," from
ballots tallied by the Clerk of the House of Representatives for the 2004
presidential race by 3.4 million votes.
This is the hidden presidential count which, excepting the Census'
whispered footnote, has not been reported.
Unfortunately, that's not all. In addition to the 3 million ballots
uncounted due to technical "glitches," millions more were lost because the
voters were prevented from casting their ballots in the first place.
This group of un-votes includes voters illegally denied registration or
wrongly purged from the registries.
In the voting biz, most of these lost votes are called "spoilage."
Spoilage, not the voters, picked our president for us.
Joe Stalin, the story goes, said, "It's not the people who vote that
count; it's the people who count the votes." That may have been true in
the old Soviet Union, but in the U.S.A, the game is much, much subtler:
He who makes sure votes don't get counted decides our winners.
In the lead-up to the 2004 race, millions of Americans were, not
unreasonably, panicked about computer voting machines, "black boxes," that
could flip your vote from John Kerry to George Bush. Images abounded of
an evil hacker-genius in Dick Cheney's bunker rewriting code and zapping
the totals. But that's not how it went down. The computer scare was the
McGuffin, the fake detail used by magicians to keep your eye off their
hands. The new black boxes played their role, albeit minor, but the
principal means of the election heist-voiding ballots, overwhelmingly of
the poor and Black-went unexposed, unreported and most importantly,
uncorrected and ready to roll out on a grander scale in 2008.
I went to sleep election night with the exit polls showing Kerry ahead
in swing states. But between 1:05 am and 6:41 am the next morning,
goblins went to work. By dawn, the network's exit poll for Ohio showed
Kerry dead even with Bush among women, and down by five percentage points
among men.
What happened? Were thousands of Bush voters locked in the voting
booths, released at 2am, then queried about their choices? Not quite. The
network's polling company applied a fancy "algorithm," a mathematical
magic wand, to slowly transform the exit polls to match the official
count.
And that's bad. By deliberately contaminating the exit polls, the
networks snuffed the canary that would signal that something was deeply
wrong about the vote count.
Hunting for a Democrat to defend the Twilight Zone between the exit
polls and the "official" polls, media grabbed on Dick Morris, Bill
Clinton's old advisor. An expert at walking that fine line between minor
criminality and psychopathic ambition, Morris knows which way his next
client's wind blows.
Morris said:
"Exit polls are almost never wrong. So reliable are the surveys that
actually tap voters as they leave the polling places that they're used as
guides to the relative honesty of elections in Third World Countries.
To screw up one exit poll is unheard of. To miss six of them is
incredible."
His opening was promising, but then he switches into full Morris:
"It boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that incompetent and
invites speculation that more than honest error was at play here."
So, Dick, you're telling us there was an evil cabal among six
pollsters, competitors who don't even like each other, conspiring one dark night
to make George Bush look like a vote thief.
There's another explanation: Kerry won.
We've got the body (the wounded elections), we've got the bullet holes
(the missing votes), now where are the smoking guns? How does the GOP
disappear the vote? And why do Democratic ballots spoil so much more
readily than Republican ballots? How's it done?
But that little Bill O'Reilly in your head is screaming, Get over it;
let's move on already. What they tested in 2000 and practiced in 2004,
they are preparing to roll out in 2008 big time.
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program to steal '08 -- from Republican "caging lists," the "disappearing
Democrats of Area 51," 50 illustrations and even weirder stuff in ARMED
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