Abby,
I think partly, it has to do with who is running the elections. But if you
are marking a paper ballot and putting it in a box, then it's a question of
how those ballots are counted and what checks there are on fraud. All the
stuff that Greg Palast writes about, begins with states preventing people
from voting and then using electronic machines where there ar no paper
ballots at all and where the machines are hacked before the votes are
counted.
Miriam
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California uses machines that mark, then print your ballot. You then remove
it from the machine and place it in the box It's the same for audio or print
users.
Since the votes aren't stored electronically, is the system flip proof Abby
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Is the 2016 Election Already Being Stripped &
Flipped?
Excerpt: "We have already seen deeply disturbing signs of the 'strip and
flip' scam in the 2016 primaries. All, of course, have been to the detriment
of the Bernie Sanders campaign."
Voters wait in line to cast their ballot Tuesday, June 5, 2012, in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (photo: Jeffrey Phelps/AP)
Is the 2016 Election Already Being Stripped & Flipped?
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
03 April 16
Disturbing signs of the time-tested "Strip and Flip" strategy for stealing
elections have already surfaced in 2016. Will they ultimately decide the
outcome, as they have in too many recent elections?
The core approach is to STRIP citizens of their voting rights, then FLIP the
electronic vote count if that's not enough to guarantee a win for the
corporate 1%. (Listen to a one-hour discussion with us, Brent Blackwelder,
and Randy Hayes.) Historically, "stripping" has been based on race. It's
rooted in the divide-and-conquer strategies of slavery and Jim Crow
segregation. Today it centers on racist demands for photo ID and other scams
designed to prevent blacks, Hispanics, the young, and the poor from voting.
"Flipping" is related to electronic voting machines, on which the vast
majority of Americans will vote this fall. Nearly all these machines were
bought with money from the 2002 Help America Vote Act, which came after the
theft of the 2000 presidential election. Virtually all these machines are 10
years old or more, and can easily be hacked. Swing states Florida, North
Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Arizona, among others, have GOP governors
and, except for Florida, secretaries of state who can easily flip the vote
counts, once they are cast, without accountability or detection. Also,
private partisan voting machine companies have unlimited access to the
electronic poll books, voting machines, and central tabulators.
Those who dismiss such warnings as "conspiracy theory" might confront this
simple question: "How will the electronic vote count in the 2016 election be
verified?"
The answer is simple: "It can't be." The vote count in 2016 for the offices
of President, US Congress, governorships, state legislatures, county
commissioners, dog catchers, and thousands of others will come through
electronic black boxes. The veracity of the outcomes will vary from state to
state based on the whims and interests of those in charge of the electronic
tallies.
In the meantime, we have already seen deeply disturbing signs of the "strip
and flip" scam in the 2016 primaries. All, of course, have been to the
detriment of the Bernie Sanders campaign:
. Despite the claim that Hillary Clinton "won" the Iowa and Nevada
caucuses, there's clear evidence Bernie was the rightful winner in both
states. In Iowa, Clinton's "victory" apparently turned on six coin tosses,
all of which she allegedly won.
. There's clear evidence that Bernie actually won the Massachusetts
primary, which the corporate media and official vote count gave to Hillary.
Analyst Richard Charnin has examined pre-election polls and post-election
exit polls, both showing Bernie substantially ahead of Clinton prior to the
voting. In a phenomenon we have seen elsewhere (most notably as George W.
Bush "beat" John Kerry in New Mexico 2004), Bernie won all the precincts
with hand-counted paper ballots but lost all the ones with electronic voting
machines. Exit polls significantly "outside the statistical margin of error"
are the international gold standard for determining election fraud. If the
U.S. held the same standards as the European Union, the government would be
conducting investigations for election fraud not only in the Massachusetts
primary but also in the Missouri, Illinois, and Ohio primaries.
. In Arizona we saw a re-run of Ohio 2004, where left-leaning
Democratic urban areas were stripped of precincts and short-changed on
voting machines and back-up paper ballots, resulting in long lines and
thousands of citizens being deprived of their vote. African-Americans in
Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Dayton, and Cincinnati waited up to seven hours
and more to vote in 2004, causing mass disenfranchisement that helped give
Bush Ohio and a second term in the White House. In Arizona this year,
thousands of citizens were also robbed of their vote due to the elimination
of precincts, machine shortages, and the failure to provide back-up paper
ballots. Many were handed provisional ballots which regularly are discarded
and never counted.
According to investigative reporter Greg Palast, hundreds of thousands of
potential voters are now being stripped from the registration rolls in key
swing states, including Ohio. Palast, whose work is strictly non-partisan,
broke the major stories in Florida 2000 showing Gov. Jeb Bush had
disenfranchised tens of thousands of registered voters (in an election
decided by 537 votes) using a computer program allegedly showing them to be
ex-felons (they weren't). This year Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach,
using a computer program called Interstate Crosscheck, is doing the dirty
work. This program allegedly tracks down people who have voted twice (none
actually have) and denies them their right to vote. Palast says the names
indicate a heavily African-American and Hispanic constituency being
disenfranchised, which would have a significant impact on the presidential
race, but also on Congress, governorships, state legislatures and more.
As reported by Brad Friedman and others, a wide range of irregularities in
other states have also dogged this primary season. They could well be the
determining factor in who gets the nomination in both major parties.
Official reports have now surfaced in Wisconsin of "problems" with poll
books and other electronic apparatus in the lead-in to that states's
critical primary.
A recent study by Harvard and the University of Sydney, Australia, found
that the United States had the "worst elections of any long-established
democracy." The U.S. ranked 47th out of the 47 long-term democratic nations.
Something serious must be done. Without radical action, these carefully
engineered precinct eliminations, ballot and machine shortages, mass
disenfranchisements, and too much more will not only determine who wins the
presidency this fall, but also who controls the Congress, numerous
governorships, and state legislatures and the whole gamut of elective
offices around the country.
In the long run, only universal automatic voter registration, a four-day
national holiday for voting, universal hand-counted paper ballots and other
reforms will guarantee us a fair and reliable vote count. Posted at
www.freepress.org, we call it the "Ohio Plan."
But none of that will be in place this fall. In our coming articles, and in
two weeks with our PowerPoint compendium, THE STRIP AND FLIP SELECTION OF
2016, we will discuss what we can do in the interim.
________________________________________
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman have co-authored six books on election
protection, including the upcoming power point compendium THE STRIP & FLIP
SELECTION OF 2016: FIVE JIM CROWS AND ELECTRONIC ELECTION THEFT. Bob's
FITRAKIS FILES are at www.freepress.org. Harvey's AMERICA AT THE BRINK OF
REBIRTH: THE ORGANIC SPIRAL OF US HISTORY will be published soon via
www.solartopia.org.
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Is the 2016 Election Already Being Stripped & Flipped?
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
03 April 16
isturbing signs of the time-tested "Strip and Flip" strategy for stealing
elections have already surfaced in 2016. Will they ultimately decide the
outcome, as they have in too many recent elections?
The core approach is to STRIP citizens of their voting rights, then FLIP the
electronic vote count if that's not enough to guarantee a win for the
corporate 1%. (Listen to a one-hour discussion with us, Brent Blackwelder,
and Randy Hayes.) Historically, "stripping" has been based on race. It's
rooted in the divide-and-conquer strategies of slavery and Jim Crow
segregation. Today it centers on racist demands for photo ID and other scams
designed to prevent blacks, Hispanics, the young, and the poor from voting.
"Flipping" is related to electronic voting machines, on which the vast
majority of Americans will vote this fall. Nearly all these machines were
bought with money from the 2002 Help America Vote Act, which came after the
theft of the 2000 presidential election. Virtually all these machines are 10
years old or more, and can easily be hacked. Swing states Florida, North
Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Arizona, among others, have GOP governors
and, except for Florida, secretaries of state who can easily flip the vote
counts, once they are cast, without accountability or detection. Also,
private partisan voting machine companies have unlimited access to the
electronic poll books, voting machines, and central tabulators.
Those who dismiss such warnings as "conspiracy theory" might confront this
simple question: "How will the electronic vote count in the 2016 election be
verified?"
The answer is simple: "It can't be." The vote count in 2016 for the offices
of President, US Congress, governorships, state legislatures, county
commissioners, dog catchers, and thousands of others will come through
electronic black boxes. The veracity of the outcomes will vary from state to
state based on the whims and interests of those in charge of the electronic
tallies.
In the meantime, we have already seen deeply disturbing signs of the "strip
and flip" scam in the 2016 primaries. All, of course, have been to the
detriment of the Bernie Sanders campaign:
. Despite the claim that Hillary Clinton "won" the Iowa and Nevada
caucuses, there's clear evidence Bernie was the rightful winner in both
states. In Iowa, Clinton's "victory" apparently turned on six coin tosses,
all of which she allegedly won.
. There's clear evidence that Bernie actually won the Massachusetts
primary, which the corporate media and official vote count gave to Hillary.
Analyst Richard Charnin has examined pre-election polls and post-election
exit polls, both showing Bernie substantially ahead of Clinton prior to the
voting. In a phenomenon we have seen elsewhere (most notably as George W.
Bush "beat" John Kerry in New Mexico 2004), Bernie won all the precincts
with hand-counted paper ballots but lost all the ones with electronic voting
machines. Exit polls significantly "outside the statistical margin of error"
are the international gold standard for determining election fraud. If the
U.S. held the same standards as the European Union, the government would be
conducting investigations for election fraud not only in the Massachusetts
primary but also in the Missouri, Illinois, and Ohio primaries.
. In Arizona we saw a re-run of Ohio 2004, where left-leaning
Democratic urban areas were stripped of precincts and short-changed on
voting machines and back-up paper ballots, resulting in long lines and
thousands of citizens being deprived of their vote. African-Americans in
Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Dayton, and Cincinnati waited up to seven hours
and more to vote in 2004, causing mass disenfranchisement that helped give
Bush Ohio and a second term in the White House. In Arizona this year,
thousands of citizens were also robbed of their vote due to the elimination
of precincts, machine shortages, and the failure to provide back-up paper
ballots. Many were handed provisional ballots which regularly are discarded
and never counted.
According to investigative reporter Greg Palast, hundreds of thousands of
potential voters are now being stripped from the registration rolls in key
swing states, including Ohio. Palast, whose work is strictly non-partisan,
broke the major stories in Florida 2000 showing Gov. Jeb Bush had
disenfranchised tens of thousands of registered voters (in an election
decided by 537 votes) using a computer program allegedly showing them to be
ex-felons (they weren't). This year Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach,
using a computer program called Interstate Crosscheck, is doing the dirty
work. This program allegedly tracks down people who have voted twice (none
actually have) and denies them their right to vote. Palast says the names
indicate a heavily African-American and Hispanic constituency being
disenfranchised, which would have a significant impact on the presidential
race, but also on Congress, governorships, state legislatures and more.
As reported by Brad Friedman and others, a wide range of irregularities in
other states have also dogged this primary season. They could well be the
determining factor in who gets the nomination in both major parties.
Official reports have now surfaced in Wisconsin of "problems" with poll
books and other electronic apparatus in the lead-in to that states's
critical primary.
A recent study by Harvard and the University of Sydney, Australia, found
that the United States had the "worst elections of any long-established
democracy." The U.S. ranked 47th out of the 47 long-term democratic nations.
Something serious must be done. Without radical action, these carefully
engineered precinct eliminations, ballot and machine shortages, mass
disenfranchisements, and too much more will not only determine who wins the
presidency this fall, but also who controls the Congress, numerous
governorships, and state legislatures and the whole gamut of elective
offices around the country.
In the long run, only universal automatic voter registration, a four-day
national holiday for voting, universal hand-counted paper ballots and other
reforms will guarantee us a fair and reliable vote count. Posted at
www.freepress.org, we call it the "Ohio Plan."
But none of that will be in place this fall. In our coming articles, and in
two weeks with our PowerPoint compendium, THE STRIP AND FLIP SELECTION OF
2016, we will discuss what we can do in the interim.
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman have co-authored six books on election
protection, including the upcoming power point compendium THE STRIP & FLIP
SELECTION OF 2016: FIVE JIM CROWS AND ELECTRONIC ELECTION THEFT. Bob's
FITRAKIS FILES are at www.freepress.org. Harvey's AMERICA AT THE BRINK OF
REBIRTH: THE ORGANIC SPIRAL OF US HISTORY will be published soon via
www.solartopia.org.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission
to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
Supported News.
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