Reply #277: Bigger than Watergate

[Liberty Belle]

Way to go, Bev! Here's a copy of a letter that I just sent to dozens of major media figures after seeing your post at Democrats.com earlier today:



Faked voting records, trashed originals, & a cover-up: We know have smoking guns as evidence of fraud in the 2004 presidential election.

Bev Harris of Blackboxvoting.org and her film crew have captured evidence of electoral fraud in Florida. In Volusia County, Bev showed up with Freedom of Information Requests for polling place tapes. She was given new, unsigned printouts instead of originals. The next day, she and her film crew returned and found a trash bag on the porch filled with--guess what? Poll tapes--the real ones. Alarmed election officials called the cops, but couldn't prevent Bev from cross-checked the new printouts against original signed polling tapes. Bev found multiple discrepancies--including an African-American precinct with hundreds of added votes for Bush. An employee hustled the boxful of tapes off to a back room. (Download video at www.blackboxvoting.org)

Then a voting integrity official from Broward County showed up and found mre polling tapes and memos in the election office's trash--destined for the shredder. Lawyers appeared to threaten Bev, but the Blackboxvoting crew didn't back down. Black Box Voting investigator Andy Stephenson then managed to get the Diebold "GEMS" central server and memory cards locked down! Further auditing and a hand count is planned for today in Volusia County, where serious talk of contesting the election has begun. Full story at: http://blog.democrats.com/node/690.

Here's more dynamite: Owners and executives of Diebold and ES&S, companies that produce electronic and optical scan voting machines used nationwide, have been convicted of bribery and suborning public officials in over 12 states! Isn't ironic that convicted felons can be kicked off voter rolls, but are allowed to control the voting across America? See details at Bob Fertik's blog at the link above.

Does anything still believe that all of those Florida Democratic counties with flip-flopped exit polls and vote tallies REALLY voted overwhelmingly for Bush? How can anyone have confidence in the honesty of this system?

TV networks should run excerpts of the Blackboxvoting.org videotapes on newscasts and full-length special reports. Newspapers should run this as front page headline stories. We deserve a full and complete investigation by our national media into election results in EVERY state. The national press leaped to cover Watergate, which involved a break-in at a single Democratic headquarters. By comparison, this is vast in scale--potentially involving collusion between voting machine companies, election officials, the RNC, and for all we know, possibly even the White House. When will the national media reporters have the guts to start asking RNC officials, the Bush administration, and the GOP leaders in Congress what they know about Diebold & ES&S corruption and electoral fraud. This is a more important story than anything else, including Iraq, since it concerns the future of democracy in OUR country.