It happened again and everyone knew it. The 2004 election was fixed. I sat there and told people there was no way Kerry could win because the right would not allow it. I heard the exit poll numbers which are never off by the kind of margins they’d have had to be off for Bush to win, and yet I knew we didn’t live in a country that would allow George Bush to lose. And now enough evidence is in and indeed only someone with their head in the sand and with no conception of statistical relationships, facts, or evidence could support the idea that George Bush did not benefit from his second straight subversion of democracy and follow up to the coup de tat of 2000. I barely have the energy to write this because its just calls for so much more mental and emotional energy than this pathetic excuse for a democratic country deserves. But here goes nothing.
The evidence has been recounted in many places including leading Dem of the House Judicial Committee Rep Conyers report and is nicely and readably put together in this extensive article in the latest Rolling Stone.
(It’s long but worthwhile). I can’t recount it all here but I’ll hit on some of the low points starting with aforementioned exit polls. They’re never that wrong people. These things are gold Jerry. Gold! They’re used to monitor Third World elections to discern whether they were legitimate. Bush himself supported and paid for polling in the Ukraine using them to aid in the administrations desire to see Yuschenko lose.
From the Rolling Stone article:
But that same month, when exit polls revealed disturbing disparities in the U.S. election, the six media organizations that had commissioned the survey treated its very existence as an embarrassment. Instead of treating the discrepancies as a story meriting investigation, the networks scrubbed the offending results from their Web sites and substituted them with ”corrected” numbers that had been weighted, retroactively, to match the official vote count. Rather than finding fault with the election results, the mainstream media preferred to dismiss the polls as flawed.
Statisticians and experts can’t believe how the media ignored the blatant discrepencies that resulted in turnarounds that had odds like 1 in less than 144,000 and 1 in 666,000 for such drastic discrepencies of the Ohio turnaround combined with similarly large ones in Pennsylvania and Florida. And while the media trumpeted such injustices to denigrate other nations, they ignored results that warranted U.N. peacekeepers being brought in to save America from another gross injustice and fraud only a bit less subtle then what Sadaam used to pull off.
357,000 votes of an overwhelmingly democratic bent were uncounted in battleground state Ohio that was decided by about 118 k votes. 80,000 votes for Kerry were apparently counted for Bush. Of course Ohio was led by Secretary of State Kenny “Katherine Harris” Blackwell who also happened to be co chair of Bush’s re election committee. This guy was pretty blatant about his Bush-love and his hate for Kerry and, “In a ruling issued two weeks before the election, a federal judge rebuked Blackwell for seeking to ”accomplish the same result in Ohio in 2004 that occurred in Florida in 2000.””
He aided in purging 300,000 voters from the rolls by targeting newly registered people likely to have been recently mobilized by a Democratic registration movement that all reports had as far outpacing Republican efforts. Various methods were used to do this that included an illegal process called caging which basically involves mailing registration verification letters to voters they know aren’t at those addresses due to things like being homeless or away at college. THese and other targeted groups are of course largely democratic voters. These voters were also basically denied their right to challenge the governments challenge by having such challenge take place in ad hoc kangaroo courts set up a week or 2 before the election that the voters could not have even known about.
Many were still cleared to vote but received notices telling them otherwise that were not updated and so stayed away from polls.
On October 29th, a federal judge found that the Republican Party had violated the court orders from the Eighties that barred it from caging. ”The return of mail does not implicate fraud,” the court affirmed,(78) and the disenfranchisement effort illegally targeted ”precincts where minority voters predominate, interfering with and discouraging voters from voting in those districts.”
But they also stayed away from the polls due to documented police intimidation that made many feel they would be arrested if they tried to vote. This also went on in other states and besides the above intimidation included Republican strike forces threatening former convicts with telephone calls that kept them away. Blackwell also issued an illegal ruling rearding the stock type of the paper registrations must be on that disqualified tens of thousands of voters and made other efforts to ensure that the kind of registrations most likely to come from Dem’s were not processed as surely and readily as those from Republicans.
Republican groups brought in by the RNC were caught misusing and destroying Democratic registrations on more than one occasion. Blackwell also violated voting laws by making provisional ballots used mainly by people in lower income areas who move allot and vote democrat, harder to obtain. Again he was chastised by a judge and according to the RS article “made a speech in which he compared himself to Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and the apostle Paul — saying that he’d rather go to jail than follow federal law.”
The Justice Dept behind Ashcroft went to bat for Blackwell to actually deny voters the right to vote, getting involved in such matters for the first time ever. And remember all those long lines that prevented so many people from voting. They were all in democratic precincts of course, causing delays in voting of up to 11 hours and approzimately 3% of voters to go home without voting. This was because of a calculated decision involving Blackwell and others to cut voter precincts and reduce the amount of voting machines in strategic areas.
Many of those who did make it through to vote reported that their Kerry votes went to Bush
While many of the techniques used to accomplish this were complex (read the article), sometimes it was just good old fashioned ballot stuffing and tampering as in
Clermont County, where optical scanners were used to tabulate votes, sworn affidavits by election observers given to the House Judiciary Committee describe ballots on which marks for Kerry were covered up with white stickers, while marks for Bush were filled in to replace them.
And if that’s not enough do you know about what happened in Warren County? Blackwell tried to keep reporters and election observers 100 feet away from polls, a decision that the Sixth Circuit called “an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment” and that ”democracies die behind closed doors.”
But they found a way to count the vote in secret anyway GOP officials claimed there was a terrorist threat that demanded lockdown of all the administration building where votes were being tabulated in the hours after polls closed and the needed votes for a Bush win were being determined.
Of course they made it up as the FBI later confirmed.
An investigation by The Cincinnati Enquirer unearthed e-mails showing that the Republican plan to declare a terrorist alert had been in the works for eight days prior to the election. The late-night secrecy in Warren County recalls a classic trick: Results are held back until it’s determined how many votes the favored candidate needs to win, and the totals are then adjusted accordingly.
Blackwell is now being rewarded with a run at Governor of Ohio.
So once again the will of the American people were subverted by a party so in fear of them that they had to devise countless byzantine operations to keep its citizens down. A party that hides behind patriotism has once again proven their utter contempt for the building blocks of this country and the democratic process that they claim they went into Iraq to set up. Our country grows more and more complacent in its acceptance of dirty politicsthat have empowered the most ruthless and disreputable people to enter into the political arena and dominate it while our media nods in wonder.
2 elections over and the outcomes clearly and undisputedly in great doubt, if not clearly mistaken and we know too well the consequences. The Kennedy’s (of whom John most probably rigged an election as well), and Martin Luther King must die for their poliltics but Bush never faces an assassination attempt? Maybe that’s because liberal opposition doesn’t resort to such tactics but if ever any man deserved to die in office it is this wretched quasi-dictator who has been given everything he has ever had. It’s quite possible he is not even aware of the depths that those around him have gone to to aid him but he knows their characters and must pay the price for choosing him. Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are probably more evil and more responsible for getting Bush elected and carrying out the self-serving policies we’ve seen instituted the past 6 years, but Bush has accepted the mantle to stand as symbol in his chosen role. for that choice he must take on all responsiblity and consequences. And for that, and I mean this in all seriousness, he deserves to die in office.
I’m not encouraging assassination attempts or meditating on his death. I’m only saying that if Karma exists no man has deserved to suffer a painful political assassination than this unfeeling, disattached, covetous, and disdainful monarch. I’m ashamed of having to feel this way. i’m ashamed at being ashamed of this country. But he is the symbol of the most destructive and backwards admisistration in my lifetime, and arguably of all time, and as the symbol of that I want to watch him and his administration go down in a cloud of smoke from a high power rifle that bleeds his brain like he’s bled our country. And since America and its media didn’t take him down honorably in 2000 or 04, its time someone did it dishonarably.
It’s only right.
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