[Texgreen] Fwd: How They Stole The Mid-Term Election

[Jerry Chamkis]

It's rather disingenuous to say they can't steal the election if the actual=
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vote is 55% non-Republican because they control ALL the mensuration channel=
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They've been announcing the Democratic margin is shrinking for a week now,=
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there is no way for anybody to know any honest numbers any more.  The 'trut=
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becomes whatever they say it is.  A very instructive example is Lieberman's=
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steady rise from ~20% behind Lamont to the reverse.  This sets the stage fo=
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an easy and wide Lieberman victory, but is that a Republican or Democratic=
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win??  "It's a question that could cross a rabbi's eyes."  [Fiddler on the=
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Roof]  Given that the Republicans have put a ton of money behind Lieberman=
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for TV ads and that the entire issue that Lamont is running on is the=20
wretched war, the dramatically rising popularity of Lieberman must be=20
because:

(a.)  The positive and encouraging news from Iraq has made the war issue=20
irrelevant    or

(b.)  Voters have such weak attitudes about the war that a couple slick TV =
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have changed their minds.

I contend it's neither-  the numbers are ALL totally fabricated.  Our only=
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knowledge of the electoral system is flickering shadows on the cave wall an=
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soon enough they'll realize they can just put the fire out and cancel=20
elections all together.

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HOW THEY STOLE THE MID-TERM ELECTION
by Greg Palast
for The Guardian (UK), Comment
Monday November 6, 2006

Here's how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.

Note the past tense. And I'm not kidding.

And shoot me for saying this, but it won't be stolen by jerking with the
touch-screen machines (though they'll do their nasty part). While
progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes,
the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely
different means.

=46or six years now, our investigations team, at first on assignment for BBC
TV and the Guardian, has been digging into the nitty-gritty of the gaming of
US elections. We've found that November 7, 2006 is a day that will live in
infamy. Four and a half million votes have been shoplifted. Here's how
they'll do it, in three easy steps:

Theft #1: Registrations gone with the wind.

On January 1, 2006, while America slept off New Year's Eve hangovers, a new
federal law crept out of the swamps that has devoured 1.9 million votes,
overwhelmingly those of African-Americans and Hispanics. The vote-snatching
statute is a cankerous codicil slipped into the 2002 Help America Vote
Act -- strategically timed to go into effect in this mid-term year. It
requires every state to reject new would-be voters whose identity can't be
verified against a state verification database.

Sounds arcane and not too threatening. But look at the numbers and you won't
feel so fine. About 24.3 million Americans attempt to register or
re-register each year. The New York University Law School's Brennan Center
told me that, under the new law, Republican Secretaries of State began the
year by blocking about one in three new voters.

How? To begin with, Mr. Bush's Social Security Administration has failed to
verify 47% of registrants. After appeals and new attempts to register, US
Elections Assistance Agency statistics indicate 1.9 million would-be voters
will still find themselves barred from the ballot on Tuesday.

But don't worry: those holding passports from their ski vacations to
Switzerland are doing just fine. And that's the point. It's not the number
of voters rejected, it's their color. For example, California's Republican
Secretary of State Bruce McPherson figured out how to block 40% of
registrants, mostly Hispanics. In a rare counter-move, Los Angeles, with a
Hispanic mayor, contacted these citizens, "verified" them and got almost
every single one back on the rolls. But throughout the rest of the West, new
Hispanics remain victims of the "Jos=E9 Crow" treatment.

In hotly contested Ohio, Kenneth Blackwell, Secretary of State and the
Republican's candidate for Governor, remains voter-rejection champ -- partly
by keeping the rejection criteria a complete secret.

Theft #2: Turned Away - the ID game

A legion of pimple-faced Republicans with Blackberries loaded with lists of
new voters is assigned to challenge citizens in heavily Black and
Hispanic(i.e. Democratic) precincts to demand photo ID that perfectly
matches registration data.

Sounds benign, but it's not. The federal HAVA law and complex new ID
requirements in states like New Mexico will easily allow the GOP squads to
triple the number of voters turned away. Rather than deny using these voter
suppression tactics, Republican spokesmen are claiming they are "protecting
the integrity of the vote."

I've heard that before. In 2004, we got our hands on fifty confidential
internal memos from the files of the Republican National Committee. Attached
to these were some pretty strange spreadsheets. They called them "caging
lists" -- and it wasn't about zoo feeding times. They were lists (70,000 for
=46lorida alone) of new Black and Jewish voters -- a very Democratic
demographic -- to challenge on Election Day. The GOP did so with a
vengeance: In 2004, for the first time in half a century, more than 3.5
million voters were challenged on Election Day. Worse, nearly half lost
their vote: 300,000 were turned away for wrong ID; 1.1 million were allowed
a "provisional" ballot -- which was then simply tossed out.

Tomorrow, new federal ID requirements and a dozen new state show-me-your-ID
laws will permit the GOP challenge campaign to triple their 300,000 record
to nearly one million voters blocked.

Theft #3: Votes Spoiled Rotten

The nasty little secret of US elections is that three million ballots are
cast in national elections but not counted -- 3,600,380 not counted in 2004
according to US Election Commission stats. These are votes lost because a
punch card didn't punch (its chad got "hung"), a stray mark voided a paper
ballot and other machinery glitches.

Officials call it "spoilage." I call it, "inaugurating Republicans." Why?
According to statisticians working with the US Civil Rights Commission, the
chance your vote will "spoil" this way is 900% higher for Black folk and
500% higher for Hispanics than for white voters. When we do the arithmetic,
we find that well over half of all votes spoiled or "blank" are cast by
voters of color. On balance, this spoilage game produces a million-vote edge
for the GOP.

That's where the Black Boxes come into play. Forget about Karl Rove messing
with the software to change your vote. Rather, the big losses occur when
computers crash, fail to start or simply don't respond to your touch. They
are the new spoilage machines of choice with, statistically, the same racial
bias as the old vote-snatching lever machines. (Funny, but paper ballots
with in-precinct scanners don't go rotten on Black voters. Maybe that's why
Republican Secretaries of State have installed so few of them.)

So Let's Add it Up

Two million legitimate voters will be turned away because of wrongly
rejected or purged registrations.

Add another one million voters challenged and turned away for "improper ID."

Then add yet another million for Democratic votes "spoiled" by busted black
boxes and by bad ballots.

And let's not forget to include the one million "provisional" ballots which
will never get counted. Based on the experience of 2004, we know that,
overwhelmingly, minority voters are the ones shunted to these baloney
ballots.

And there's one more group of votes that won't be counted: absentee ballots
challenged and discarded. Elections Assistance Agency data tell us a half
million of these absentee votes will go down the drain.

Driving this massive suppression of the vote are sophisticated challenge
operations. And here I must note that the Democrats have no national
challenge campaign. That's morally laudable; electorally suicidal.

Add it all up -- all those Democratic-leaning votes rejected, barred and
spoiled -- and the Republican Party begins Election Day with a 4.5
million-vote thumb on the vote-tally scale.

So, what are you going to do about it? May I suggest you . steal back your
vote.

It's true you can't win with 51% of the vote anymore. So just get over it.
The regime's sneak attack via vote suppression will only net them 4.5
million votes, about 5% of the total. You should be able to beat that
blindfolded. If you can't get 55%, then you're just a bunch of crybaby
pussycats who don't deserve to win back America.

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Jerry Chamkis
jchamkis@bga.com

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