Free Press: The Sunday, November 12, 2000 Washington Post, buried
on page A22, the smoking gun of the Bush family’s
CIA-style rigged 'demonstration' election in Florida:
«Something very strange happened on election night to
Deborah Tannenbaum, a Democratic Party official of
Volusia County. At 10 p.m., she called the county
elections department and found that Al Gore was
leading George W. Bush 83,000 votes to 62,000 votes.
But when she checked the county’s Web site for an
update half an hour later, she found a startling
development: Gore’s count had dropped by 16,000 votes,
while an obscure Socialist candidate had picked up
10,000 ... all because of a single precinct with only
600 voters».
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The year democracy ended
As the year ends, 2003 will be remembered by future
historians as the year the pretense of democracy in
the United States ended. Since the 1940s,
conservatives have accepted the assumption of
economist Joseph Schumpeter that democracy in a mass
society existed of little more than the following: the
adult population could vote; the votes were fairly
counted; and the masses could choose between elites
from one of two parties.
With the most recent revelations about the 2000 Bush
coup in Florida disclosed in the shocking stolen
Diebold memos, the Bush family has signaled that an
authoritarian right-wing dynasty is the future course
for American politics.
The Sunday, November 12, 2000 Washington Post, buried
on page A22, the smoking gun of the Bush family’s
CIA-style rigged 'demonstration' election in Florida:
«Something very strange happened on election night to
Deborah Tannenbaum, a Democratic Party official of
Volusia County. At 10 p.m., she called the county
elections department and found that Al Gore was
leading George W. Bush 83,000 votes to 62,000 votes.
But when she checked the county’s Web site for an
update half an hour later, she found a startling
development: Gore’s count had dropped by 16,000 votes,
while an obscure Socialist candidate had picked up
10,000 ... all because of a single precinct with only
600 voters».
So it should come as no surprise when the New York
Times headline on July 24 of this year read "Computer
voting is open to easy fraud." The work by Alastair
Thompson at scoop.co.nz and Bev Harris in her
essential new book Black Box Voting reveal not only
that computer voting is open to fraud but that massive
and widespread fraud occurred in the 2000 election.
Moreover, the emboldened Bush administration appears
to have continued its fraud in the 2002 and subsequent
elections. Why not? The investigation by Senator Frank
Church in the 1970s revealed that the U.S. CIA
routinely rigged elections throughout the world and
was involved in overthrowing democracies and
installing dictatorships as needed during the Cold
War. The list is familiar to human rights advocates:
Iran and Guatemala in the 50s; Chile and Greece in the
70s.
Four computer scientists at Rice University and a
separate study by the Security Institute at Johns
Hopkins University document how easy it is to hack
into the Diebold voting machines. Diebold’s CEO Wally
O’Dell is an ardent Bush supporter who recently hosted
a ,000-a-plate fundraiser for the President in his
manor in the affluent Columbus suburb of Upper
Arlington. He is «committed to helping Ohio deliver
its electoral votes to the President next year» while,
at the same time, attempting to contract with the
state of Ohio for his fabulously flawed voting
machines.
And it’s not just Diebold. The largest seller of
computerized voting systems in the U.S. is ES&S, whose
former top exec is now Nebraska’s Republican Senator
Chuck Hagel, who won after ES&S machines reported an
unusual and stunning black vote for him.
The Dallas News reported that early voting in the 2002
election created «…several dozen complaints . . . from
people who said that they selected a Democratic
candidate but that their vote appeared beside the name
of a Republican on the screen».
Recall the six major upsets of Democrats by
Republicans in Georgia in the 2002 election. The
state’s votes were counted on the unreliable and
easily hackable 22,000 Diebold machines. Also during
the 2002 election, where over 1000 votes were cast in
other races, no votes were registered for governor as
Clinton administration Attorney General went down to a
surprisingly 5000 vote loss.
As a result of these obvious voting irregularities,
hackers went into the Diebold system and stole
thousands of documents and internal memos which expose
the 2000 Florida coup. In Harris’ book based on these
documents and interviews with Diebold officials, she
outlines how Gore originally conceded the election
after somebody used a «second [computer] card (card
#3) that mysteriously appeared, subtracted 16,022 from
Al Gore and still in some undefined way, added 4000
erroneous votes to George W. Bush...»
A summary of the 2002 election by scoop.co.nz found
that in 14 races, there was a 3-16 point swing to the
Republican Party after the final poll was taken
providing several stunning upsets. By contrast, in
only two races was there a swing toward the Democratic
Party, between 2-4 points. In three other races, the
pollsters were within the margin of error.
The American people have been socialized into denial.
First about the ruthless and imperialist nature of
their 26 intelligence-gathering agencies including the
CIA and NSA that have been involved in rigging
elections worldwide and the ongoing involvement by
these agencies in American politics. What is obviously
evolved is a praetorian guard, loyal only to the Bush
family, that some call the «shadow government».
Most Americans are intent to stick their heads in the
sand on Bush’s vote-rigging and our troops in the
sands of Iraq. Future historians will record that
while the facts and documentation of the end of
American republic mounted, many believed the babbling
of a low-IQ’ed well-scripted son of the new
aristocracy.
Dr. Bob Fitrakis is Senior Editor of The Free Press
(http://freepress.org), a political science professor,
and author of numerous articles and books.
The Free Press
www.freepress.org
2003-12-17 15:21:00
Posted by richard at December 19, 2003 10:03 AM