Night of the Living Vote-snatchers -
from Steal Back Your Vote!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
by Greg Palast
Excerpted from the Greg Palast, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Robert F. Kennedy's comic book voter guide. See www.StealBackYourVote.org for more.
In 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act.
When a Bush tells you he’s going to “help” you vote - look out!
The result: in the 2004 presidential election, over three million votes - 3,006,080 - were cast and not counted. Like, what the !@#!?
That’s from the official data from an agency created by George Bush called the “Elections Assistance Commission.” When a Bush tells you he’s going to “assist” our elections... (well, you get it).
Three MILLION ballots disappeared - Pfft!
And not just anyone’s ballots. U.S. government experts reported, for example, that a black voter’s ballot is 900% more likely than a white voter’s ballot to get “lost” in the machine. Bush fired the experts.
Three million voters went missing in ‘04 - but that ain’t nuthin’!
Law professor and voting law expert Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns that it’s about to get a whole lot worse. Nasty new spores of the “Help” America Vote Act went into effect since the last election that have turned the process into a vicious game of “Chutes and Ladders,” with traps and tricks between you and your vote...
Example: the Republican Secretary of State of Colorado “helped” her state vote by eliminating 19.4% of the voters from the voter rolls. That’s one in five !@#$#@ voters!
Over three million missing ballots – and now the voters themselves are disappearing by the millions. Where the hell did they go?
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Hi. By now, people are getting more familiar with HOW the elections are being stolen. Do you have information about how to PREVENT it from happening this November? Thanks for all your great work!
Why weren't the "vote stealers" charged?
States with huge voter fruad (Ohio, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, North Carolina, etc.) should have lost their representation in Congress...their Secretary of State arrested.
All votes should be counted, recounted, and fruad investigated before the party "leaders" declare victory at the Electoral College.
Without punishment for voter fraud how can we have a democracy and true representation? Oops I guess we don't.
Bush's action to under fund the FEC is a action to steal yet another election. He should be impeached.
How about "We the people" sue the violating states and Secretary of State? Nothing is more important than honest elections. Both parties should have a fair and open election or why bother? It is a sham and I believe treason.
The large parties in this country not doing so are part of the problem. They have failed their party and country.
People will take to the streets for representation in the future. Elections are a democratic way of changing power without guns.
In addition to trying to outsmart the smart alecks who are stealing democracy in America, it's about time to require a NOTA (none of the above) option on every ballot. This way the "I don't like what they're offering" vote will be counted and tallied and reported, and - if the legislation is written properly - will require a new election with different candidates. We need also to mandate that "third party" candidates be included in all politcal debates and get free air time on the media.
Way to go, Palast.
I am very new at this computer netting,but I read Armed Madhouse. It took me awhile, but I held my nose and did it. Good (no, great writing). I don't yet have a site, so, please email articles,etc.
Thanks
Here from Brazil i send all my support to all of you, democracy now!!!!!
Tell me how I can help!
Greg,
Great work as always. I have followed your work for a few years.
Question: Could a class action suit do anything to pre-empt this coming debacle or do we just give up?
If so, how does that go, who do we talk to, what do we do next? Time is running short. Awareness is great, some kind of positive action is better.
Cheers
The United States was hijacked by the Neocons in 2000. The astounding awarding of the presidency by the US Supreme Court to George W. bush marked the takeover in a bloodless coup as the public accepted the decision whiile in shock. It is very clear to me that this happened. The pieces of this puzzle of deception were amazingly evident when the Bush operatives, like followers of a cult leader, descended upon the offices of the Broward Country, Florida Board of Elections during an official recount as prescribed by Florida law, and proceeded to invade that office, intimidate everyone, including media persons present, and essectially derailed that process in an unlawful way. Then they went to work on the Supreme Court. It worked.
As a Floridian,, and as a liberal Democrat who has worked for progressive causes all of my life, I was dumbfounded. This could not have been happening. That was the beginning of the end. As Greg Palast and Bobby Kennedy Jr. have shown, the second Bush presidency was the result of Rove operatives working the game and stealing the US election once again. I cannot believe that this has happened in a country I love. I served honorably in the US military. I am a father and a grandfather, and for me to see the right wing fanatics again applying the Rove machine to steal the upcoming election, I become literally ill. We MUST NOT let this happen for a third time. I have recently cried thinking that a right wing fascist government would control the country my two grandchildren would know as their fatherland. We MUST NOT let this election be won by those monsters. PEACE
What a joke!
What do you think ACORN is doing? They are being investigated in several States, and for those that are uninformed, illegal aliens, non-citizens, are not able to vote...neither are dead people, fake names, or "Joe Blow", who is now registered in Ohio.
This group, cancels out every citizens vote, with their illegal voters.
OKay, please provide the text of the comic or the comic itself without donation so that we know this is for real-if you have the info we need to stop them from stealing our vote, please provide it without charging anything-I don't want to have to go through paypal for something that you seem to want to give away.
So what's the deal?
I understand Palast is underpaid-and I am grateful he gets the stories he does. But the "min $50.00" "min $100.00" and stuff on the purchasing page is kinda creepy
I don't want to see threads like this whonews.,
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