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Showing Original Post only (View all)Is the 2016 Election Already Being Stripped and Flipped? [View all]
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.
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 thats 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. Its 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?
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I strongly believe that many of HRC's wins have been padded. Perhaps heavily so.
stillwaiting
Apr 2016
#2
It's your subjective opinion that caucuses are undemocratic. But I bet you only
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#110
You don't believe anyone that dares speak truth to the Authoritarian Power.
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#111
Gloat because you feel safe siding with the biggest bully, the wealthy 1%. But we will
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#136
how many black people did you meet in your business travels in Virginia
La Lioness Priyanka
Apr 2016
#62
That's also my view of the recent election in Virginia where I know there are .
appalachiablue
Apr 2016
#82
That is not my argument. Thanks for playing. We have fabulous parting gifts. nt
stillwaiting
Apr 2016
#146
We would not allow nuclear weapon launch codes to be susceptible to hacking.
Tom Rinaldo
Apr 2016
#4
Count paper ballots. The obsession for instant results is utter stupidity. . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2016
#5
Or use computers, but print out two copies of each vote, turn in one and keep one.
DamnYankeeInHouston
Apr 2016
#9
our elections should not come down to trusting anything but our own eyes
questionseverything
Apr 2016
#57
doubled checking that what is reported at the precinct compared to the tape report is one important
questionseverything
Apr 2016
#70
I agree!! Paper ballots, hand counted. Have cameras at the counting stations streaming to the
FighttheFuture
Apr 2016
#103
Exactly. Bernie sure got the votes "stripped and flipped" in Clark County, NV.
SunSeeker
Apr 2016
#128
In WI last Friday, election registration computers crashed for 3 hours starting at 8:45AM.
FourScore
Apr 2016
#14
Let's try Bernie's political revolution first. Yes it will take millions of committed Americans to
Dustlawyer
Apr 2016
#28
These things are mostly subject to state law, so solutions can be mandated by state legislatures
99th_Monkey
Apr 2016
#55
Not according to the Wisconsin tweet celebrqting the negagive effect of voter ID on students n/t
eridani
Apr 2016
#143
I've come to the conclusion that all of the Bernie Brigade complaints stem from the same problem...
brooklynite
Apr 2016
#20
Or we noticed that the alerter's complaints were a job for the hosts, not a jury
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2016
#69
A complete waste of time and good will. If we can't be cleaner than the other guy
Ed Suspicious
Apr 2016
#49
those are caucuses, not primaries. Primaries have much, much higher overall turnout.
geek tragedy
Apr 2016
#67
caucuses require a lot more effort to vote, and they don't allow for much participation
geek tragedy
Apr 2016
#74
if it's the stand in one place stuff, not if people fill out paper ballots
geek tragedy
Apr 2016
#90
I'm not fond of caucuses though I've never experienced one first hand
creatives4innovation
Apr 2016
#106
These things are mostly subject to state law, so solutions can be mandated by state legislatures
99th_Monkey
Apr 2016
#59
Hard to trust elections after 2000 and 2004. The GOP destroyed the integrity of the election.
Rex
Apr 2016
#78
Yep: The U.S. has ‘worst elections of any long-established democracy,’ report finds
think
Apr 2016
#102
Those who run the "flip" are shielded from "confronting." The #1 answer: a constitutional amendment.
ancianita
Apr 2016
#94
Bernie has the Momenum and it keeps growing! Optimism is infectious!
Dont call me Shirley
Apr 2016
#142
Boy are the GOP Plants good. It took all of one minute for this to go from a discussion
Jackie Wilson Said
Apr 2016
#101