Reply #39: I hate to depend on massive Dem turnout as the only defense against another GOP theft...

[warren pease]

I just did a quick scan through the growing pile of evidence (completely ignored by mass media, of course) proving RNC/GOP election fraud in 2006. The general consensus still seems to be that Dem candidates nationwide started out 3 to 4 million votes in the hole and that the first couple of hours on election day were spent just pulling even.

This year, that 3 - 4 million vote deficit may well double -- possibly triple. Twelve million votes down is a hell of a way to start election day.

But the crazies are getting desperate. A GOP loss this November could set off a chain of events that ends with life without parole for maybe a couple dozen of the worst of the worst, and stiff sentences and fines for another couple of hundred. Possibly ICC tribunals on a couple million counts of murder and other war crimes, like torture.

The worst thing that could happen to the Bush junta is allowing somebody who knows and honors the Constitution to set the national agenda, backed by a congress that, for once, actually reflects and is guided by the sense of the people... and they're not in a very forgiving mood last poll I saw.

So there's a lot on the line and, from their perspective, the old field-tested methods absolutely can't fail this time.

Here's a couple of paragraphs from an October 19, 2007 article in The Free Press by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman called "Will the GOP election theft machine do it again in 2008?" that I find particularly infuriating. (emphasis mine):

Though Democrats carried Ohio in the off-year elections of 2006, our research indicates that the GOP still stole as much as 12% of the vote, and is still intent on disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of minority, poor and young voters. In a single election in Franklin County in 2006, a magistrate found that more than 83% of all the precincts were miscounted on the DRE machines.

And though DRE machines are under intense attack, their presence in 2008 will still be substantial, and will still subject the election to GOP theft.

For the mathematically inclined, here's a state-by-state statistical analysis of the 2006 vote by TruthIsAll, posted on ProgressiveIndependent.com in December 2006 that, frankly, makes my right brain melt. This is plain enough even for me, though:

The goal of this model is to determine the percentage of votes which needed to be switched from the Democrats to Republicans to match the 11/9 CBS News 52.7% Democratic vote share. This was far below both the pre-election 120 Generic poll trend and the Wikipedia 57.7% Democratic share. The model assumes that Wikipedia represents the TRUE national vote.

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The base case analysis assumes that 7% of the recorded votes were switched. In order to match the Wikipedia vote share (57.7D-41.8%R), and assuming that 3.16% of total votes cast were uncounted, almost one in 12 (8.5%) Democratic votes must have been switched to the Republicans. The probability that the CBS 52.7% recorded Democratic vote would deviate by 5% from the Wikipedia count is 1 in 43 billion.

The humans (loosely defined) behind those numbers are still around, too. Absent miracles on a par with the loaves and fishes -- such as veteran invertebrates Pelosi and Reid discovering that democrats actually have the majority in congress and deciding to act like it -- Mukasey will still be Attorney General; the carefully vetted, politically reliable US Attorneys will still be around; the supreme court will remain in the hands of the Federalist Society fascists.

US mass media will pretend neutrality while performing its real job as the ministry of propaganda for the RNC and tireless advocates for the status quo; Rove and his reptilian corps of fixers and B&E specialists will be well-rested and ready for the long haul.

And at least 40 percent of Americans will remain narcotized, inert and oblivious.


Same shit, same thieves, same script... same results?

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