Under the smoke screen of "Voter Fraud", conservatives are busy
stripping many lower and working class citizens of their right to
vote.
Despite evidence that there is virtually no voter fraud, the drums are
beating and the town criers are shouting out their dire warnings.
We've been here before. There was the Red Scare of the late 40's and
50's. Then even earlier we had the "Sneaky Japs" plotting to take
over the West Coast and plant the Rising Sun on American soil.
Of course we went through the Welfare Fraud years with Uncle Ronnie
telling stories of Welfare Queens.
And so it goes. We all gather at the trough and wait for the next
slop to be served up by our Masters.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/18/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Excerpt: "There is no way to verify the official tally on the electronic
machines on which the majority of Americans will vote this fall. Nearly all
the machines are a decade old, most are controlled by a single company
(ES&S, owned by Warren Buffett) and the courts have ruled that the software
is proprietary, making the vote counts beyond public scrutiny. In fact,
they
are beyond all independent monitoring altogether."
Ohio voters cast their ballots at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in
Cincinnati. (photo: John Sommers II/Getty Images)
Why Can't The Nation & the Left Deal With Election Theft?
By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
18 April 16
There are two things we all need to know about the upcoming 2016 election:
1. Millions of likely Democratic voters have already been stripped from
the voter rolls in critical states like Ohio. The key reporting on this has
been done by the great Greg Palast, who has shown that a computer program
coordinated by the Republican secretary of state of Kansas is being used in
some two dozen states to steal from a substantial percentage of the
citizenry their right to vote. The raw numbers are high enough that they
could have a significant impact on the presidential, US Senate, House and
many other elections this fall. The ACLU has now sued Jon Husted, Ohio's
secretary of state, over the stripping of two million citizens from Ohio's
voter rolls.
2. There is no way to verify the official tally on the electronic
machines on which the majority of Americans will vote this fall. Nearly all
the machines are a decade old, most are controlled by a single company
(ES&S, owned by Warren Buffett) and the courts have ruled that the software
is proprietary, making the vote counts beyond public scrutiny. In fact,
they
are beyond all independent monitoring altogether. In many key swing states
(including Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Arizona) GOP governors and secretaries
of state will have a free hand to flip the vote count to whatever they want
it to be without detection or accountability. This could turn control of
our
government over to the GOP come November, as it did in 2000 and 2004.
These two critical markers of the upcoming national election are at center
stage in our compendium The Flip & Strip Selection of 2016: Five Jim Crows
and Electronic Election Theft (www.freepress.org / www.solartopia.org),
which we'll be publishing at the end of April.
For some reason many on the left have had a hard time accepting these
realities. But they're in fact far more critical than the question of who
will make the better Democratic candidate.
In the interim, the usually solid Josh Holland has published a piece at The
Nation with which we must take issue. It challenges writings that have put
forward the idea that Hillary Clinton might be stealing the primaries from
Bernie Sanders.
To avoid the circular firing squad in which the left indulges every
election
year, we should make it clear that we are both members of the Green Party.
We prefer Bernie to Hillary, but like Jill Stein most of all. We hope
Bernie
at some point will establish a substantial string of grassroots training
camps so the thousands of highly active young people who are supporting him
will convert those energies to great long-term community organizing.
We are most concerned about the possibility of a GOP president come
November. (For what it's worth, we currently lay the highest odds of that
nominee being the absolutely terrifying Paul Ryan. Ryan has said he won't
campaign for the nomination, but he has NOT said he'll refuse it at a
convention where he'll be holding the gavel. His pockets will be stuffed
with Koch cash. Enough said.)
We plead guilty to writing a piece at Reader Supported News pointing out
that the exit polls show Bernie doing far better than the official vote
count. Josh dismisses the reliability of exit polls, along with our mention
of those in Germany. Suffice it to say that exit polling is the most
reliable way we have of monitoring the vote count. In Germany they are
usually within 1% of the official tally.
Here they are corrupted after the original compilations. They're generally
post-rigged to conform to the final official vote count, which is often
pre-rigged. What matters is the original raw data, which we feel after much
study is the gold standard for knowing how the public actually voted.
Of course that data can be messed with along the way. But at this point
it's
the best we've got. And the original data can be hard to get. When
statistician Ron Baiman requested original data from big-time pollster
Warren Mitofsky (since deceased) Mitofsky told to him to "go fuck
yourself."
For some reason Josh drags "conspiracy theory" into the mix, with a lengthy
soliloquy on 9/11. Neither of us writes about 9/11, though we know plenty
of
people who do. We find much of the official story not credible, but that's
about it at this point.
However, history warns us to be discerning about so-called conspiracy
theories. Josh paints them all with a broad brush when he says they "tend
to
fall apart under the weight of their own internal illogic."
But at the risk of rolling some eyeballs, here are (briefly) five that have
proved indisputably true: Spain did NOT torpedo the battleship Maine in
1898, a false charge the led to a terrible war (the US Navy has confirmed
the Maine blew up from the inside); the Lusitania WAS carrying munitions in
1915, as Germany argued; the Gulf of Tonkin incident NEVER happened, as
confirmed by former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara; Richard Nixon DID
treasonably subvert Vietnam peace talks in 1968; and there were NO WMDs in
Iraq.
Maybe we can leave the Mexican War; Pearl Harbor; the assassinations of
JFK,
MLK and RFK; and the "October Surprise" timing of the release of hostages
from Iran in 1980-1981, etc., for another discussion.
About the elections of 2000 and 2004, we are way beyond conspiracy theory.
That the voter rolls were stripped in numbers exceeding 90,000 throughout
Florida 2000, and the vote count electronically flipped in Volusia County
at
the key moment, are simply beyond dispute. So is the reality that had the
Supreme Court not stopped the recount, Gore would have won.
In Ohio 2004, it's also beyond dispute that more than 300,000 voters were
stripped from the registration rolls from mostly Democratic urban areas,
and
that the vote count was flipped by 6.7% from Kerry to Bush between 12:20
and
2 a.m. on machines in a basement in Chattanooga where the servers for Karl
Rove and the Republican National Committee also resided. Thousands of
Ohioans were deliberately robbed of their vote with the stripping of
precincts and denial of voting machines and back-up paper ballots in
African-American and student strongholds. In an election with an official
victory margin of 118,775, more than 250,000 votes remain uncounted to this
day. Thousands of provisional ballots were also pitched in the trash, as
they already have been in this primary season, and will be again in
November.
Imagine a world in which, instead of George W. Bush, Al Gore had been
inaugurated as the rightfully elected president in 2001, or John Kerry in
2005. It's easy if you open your eyes to what actually happened in those
elections, and terrifying if you think about what could happen this year.
For some reason, Josh also takes us into the purported mind of a Hillary
operative who would never think of rigging a primary election because she
was winning anyway.
This a bit hard to follow. But let's just say that the exit polls have
indicated Bernie doing better than the official vote count, that (according
to Richard Charnin) Bernie won all the hand-counted precincts in
Massachusetts but lost all the machine-counted ones, and that all the
caucuses have been extremely messy and open to all sorts of manipulation by
both sides.
Far more important to say is that the voting machines this fall will be
significantly more vulnerable to being flipped than ever before, because
they are now nearly all at least ten years old. Some are decrepit enough to
have been used to play PacMan or the University of Michigan fight song in
public displays.
For us, the most significant event of the primary season has been the
5-hour
lines in Arizona and the one-hour lines in Wisconsin. We are less concerned
about whether Hillary did this to Bernie than we are worried that these
will
become the defining moments on the rigged path to a GOP victory in
November.
Josh, if you're reading this, we repeat our invitation to come on our radio
shows (http://prn.fm/hosts-harvey-wasserman/ and
http://www.talktainmentradio.com/shows/fightback.html).
Meantime, how about a piece on the "strip and flip" realities both the
Democrats and the Greens will face come November? Whether it's Hillary,
Bernie, or Jill, as things stand now we are certain to see deliberately
engineered long lines that will disenfranchise countless young,
African-American. and Hispanic voters. We also know that in certain key
swing states, the electronic vote count will come out however the hell the
governor wants it to.
To you this may be conspiracy theory. But remember the Maine.
________________________________________
Harvey Wasserman's America at the Brink of Rebirth: The Organic Spiral of
Us
History can be had via www.solartopia.org. The Strip & Flip Selection of
2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft, co-written with Bob
Fitrakis, is at www.freepress.org.
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Ohio voters cast their ballots at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in
Cincinnati. (photo: John Sommers II/Getty Images)
http://readersupportednews.org/http://readersupportednews.org/
Why Can't The Nation & the Left Deal With Election Theft?
By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
18 April 16
here are two things we all need to know about the upcoming 2016 election:
1. Millions of likely Democratic voters have already been stripped from
the voter rolls in critical states like Ohio. The key reporting on this has
been done by the great Greg Palast, who has shown that a computer program
coordinated by the Republican secretary of state of Kansas is being used in
some two dozen states to steal from a substantial percentage of the
citizenry their right to vote. The raw numbers are high enough that they
could have a significant impact on the presidential, US Senate, House and
many other elections this fall. The ACLU has now sued Jon Husted, Ohio's
secretary of state, over the stripping of two million citizens from Ohio's
voter rolls.
2. There is no way to verify the official tally on the electronic
machines on which the majority of Americans will vote this fall. Nearly all
the machines are a decade old, most are controlled by a single company
(ES&S, owned by Warren Buffett) and the courts have ruled that the software
is proprietary, making the vote counts beyond public scrutiny. In fact,
they
are beyond all independent monitoring altogether. In many key swing states
(including Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Arizona) GOP governors and secretaries
of state will have a free hand to flip the vote count to whatever they want
it to be without detection or accountability. This could turn control of
our
government over to the GOP come November, as it did in 2000 and 2004.
These two critical markers of the upcoming national election are at center
stage in our compendium The Flip & Strip Selection of 2016: Five Jim Crows
and Electronic Election Theft (www.freepress.org / www.solartopia.org),
which we'll be publishing at the end of April.
For some reason many on the left have had a hard time accepting these
realities. But they're in fact far more critical than the question of who
will make the better Democratic candidate.
In the interim, the usually solid Josh Holland has published a piece at The
Nation with which we must take issue. It challenges writings that have put
forward the idea that Hillary Clinton might be stealing the primaries from
Bernie Sanders.
To avoid the circular firing squad in which the left indulges every
election
year, we should make it clear that we are both members of the Green Party.
We prefer Bernie to Hillary, but like Jill Stein most of all. We hope
Bernie
at some point will establish a substantial string of grassroots training
camps so the thousands of highly active young people who are supporting him
will convert those energies to great long-term community organizing.
We are most concerned about the possibility of a GOP president come
November. (For what it's worth, we currently lay the highest odds of that
nominee being the absolutely terrifying Paul Ryan. Ryan has said he won't
campaign for the nomination, but he has NOT said he'll refuse it at a
convention where he'll be holding the gavel. His pockets will be stuffed
with Koch cash. Enough said.)
We plead guilty to writing a piece at Reader Supported News pointing out
that the exit polls show Bernie doing far better than the official vote
count. Josh dismisses the reliability of exit polls, along with our mention
of those in Germany. Suffice it to say that exit polling is the most
reliable way we have of monitoring the vote count. In Germany they are
usually within 1% of the official tally.
Here they are corrupted after the original compilations. They're generally
post-rigged to conform to the final official vote count, which is often
pre-rigged. What matters is the original raw data, which we feel after much
study is the gold standard for knowing how the public actually voted.
Of course that data can be messed with along the way. But at this point
it's
the best we've got. And the original data can be hard to get. When
statistician Ron Baiman requested original data from big-time pollster
Warren Mitofsky (since deceased) Mitofsky told to him to "go fuck
yourself."
For some reason Josh drags "conspiracy theory" into the mix, with a lengthy
soliloquy on 9/11. Neither of us writes about 9/11, though we know plenty
of
people who do. We find much of the official story not credible, but that's
about it at this point.
However, history warns us to be discerning about so-called conspiracy
theories. Josh paints them all with a broad brush when he says they "tend
to
fall apart under the weight of their own internal illogic."
But at the risk of rolling some eyeballs, here are (briefly) five that have
proved indisputably true: Spain did NOT torpedo the battleship Maine in
1898, a false charge the led to a terrible war (the US Navy has confirmed
the Maine blew up from the inside); the Lusitania WAS carrying munitions in
1915, as Germany argued; the Gulf of Tonkin incident NEVER happened, as
confirmed by former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara; Richard Nixon DID
treasonably subvert Vietnam peace talks in 1968; and there were NO WMDs in
Iraq.
Maybe we can leave the Mexican War; Pearl Harbor; the assassinations of
JFK,
MLK and RFK; and the "October Surprise" timing of the release of hostages
from Iran in 1980-1981, etc., for another discussion.
About the elections of 2000 and 2004, we are way beyond conspiracy theory.
That the voter rolls were stripped in numbers exceeding 90,000 throughout
Florida 2000, and the vote count electronically flipped in Volusia County
at
the key moment, are simply beyond dispute. So is the reality that had the
Supreme Court not stopped the recount, Gore would have won.
In Ohio 2004, it's also beyond dispute that more than 300,000 voters were
stripped from the registration rolls from mostly Democratic urban areas,
and
that the vote count was flipped by 6.7% from Kerry to Bush between 12:20
and
2 a.m. on machines in a basement in Chattanooga where the servers for Karl
Rove and the Republican National Committee also resided. Thousands of
Ohioans were deliberately robbed of their vote with the stripping of
precincts and denial of voting machines and back-up paper ballots in
African-American and student strongholds. In an election with an official
victory margin of 118,775, more than 250,000 votes remain uncounted to this
day. Thousands of provisional ballots were also pitched in the trash, as
they already have been in this primary season, and will be again in
November.
Imagine a world in which, instead of George W. Bush, Al Gore had been
inaugurated as the rightfully elected president in 2001, or John Kerry in
2005. It's easy if you open your eyes to what actually happened in those
elections, and terrifying if you think about what could happen this year.
For some reason, Josh also takes us into the purported mind of a Hillary
operative who would never think of rigging a primary election because she
was winning anyway.
This a bit hard to follow. But let's just say that the exit polls have
indicated Bernie doing better than the official vote count, that (according
to Richard Charnin) Bernie won all the hand-counted precincts in
Massachusetts but lost all the machine-counted ones, and that all the
caucuses have been extremely messy and open to all sorts of manipulation by
both sides.
Far more important to say is that the voting machines this fall will be
significantly more vulnerable to being flipped than ever before, because
they are now nearly all at least ten years old. Some are decrepit enough to
have been used to play PacMan or the University of Michigan fight song in
public displays.
For us, the most significant event of the primary season has been the
5-hour
lines in Arizona and the one-hour lines in Wisconsin. We are less concerned
about whether Hillary did this to Bernie than we are worried that these
will
become the defining moments on the rigged path to a GOP victory in
November.
Josh, if you're reading this, we repeat our invitation to come on our radio
shows (http://prn.fm/hosts-harvey-wasserman/ and
http://www.talktainmentradio.com/shows/fightback.html).
Meantime, how about a piece on the "strip and flip" realities both the
Democrats and the Greens will face come November? Whether it's Hillary,
Bernie, or Jill, as things stand now we are certain to see deliberately
engineered long lines that will disenfranchise countless young,
African-American. and Hispanic voters. We also know that in certain key
swing states, the electronic vote count will come out however the hell the
governor wants it to.
To you this may be conspiracy theory. But remember the Maine.
Harvey Wasserman's America at the Brink of Rebirth: The Organic Spiral of
Us
History can be had via www.solartopia.org. The Strip & Flip Selection of
2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft, co-written with Bob
Fitrakis, is at www.freepress.org.
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