Reply #35: The war profiteering corporate news monopolies directly colluded in the

[Peace Patriot]

2004 election theft.

1. They failed to inform voters that Bushite corporations--mainly Diebold and ES&S (run by Bush campaign chairs and rightwingnuts)--had gained control of vote tabulation during the 2002-2004 period, with "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY software in their electronic voting systems, and little or no audit/recount capability, and furthermore with nifty election-stealing features like internal modems (direct company access) and extreme insecurity and hackability.

2. On election night, these news monopolies DOCTORED their exit polls (Kerry won) to FIT the results of Diebold's and ES&S's secret formulae (Bush won). Kerry won their exit polls by a 3% margin. They then permitted their "consortium" pollster (Edison-Mitofsky) to FALSIFY that result, and to match it to the covertly tabulated Diebold/ES&S result. This was not the normal exit poll adjustment for election day demographics. It went way, way beyond that, into the realm of absurdity (for instance, in-putting a 100% turnout of Bush-2000 voters without deducting a % for those who had died in the meantime; and other fraudulent and ridiculous tweakings to confirm a Bush win, despite evidence to the contrary). See www.TruthIsAll.net for more details.

They put FALSE NUMBERS on everybody's TV screens, late on election day. They denied the American people major evidence of election fraud, and thus squelched protests and calls for investigation.

This was the worst journalistic crime I have ever witnessed.

They actively prevented change. They stopped our political system from making a desperately needed change of course. And they then blackholed the story about how THEY and the Bushite election thieves did it.

In my opinion, the Bushites perpetrated the open, blatant Voting Rights Act violations in Ohio because Kerry's win was even bigger than the exit poll 3%, and the electronic vote tabulators had to be pre-programmed to certain percentages (and not be too obvious). Ohio was part of Plan B: how to deal with a BIG Kerry win. I think he--and we, the antiwar grass roots majority in this country--won by more like 4% to 5%, if all votes had been counted and no same-day vote suppression had occurred, and even bigger, if no purging of minority voters from the voting rolls, and shredding of Dem voter registrations, had occurred, prior to the election. We won by maybe as much as 10% (as some believe). The exit polls only count those voters who made it to the voting booth.

The key question that arises in many peoples' minds is: How could the Dems let them get away with this? On the surface, it appears insane and suicidal on the part of Dem leaders. Scratch below the surface, and you find Dem election officials at the state/local level corrupted by the new electronic voting boondoggle, lavish lobbying and "revolving door" employment--and now in positions of tremendous power over Dem elected representatives, AND over the voters, as they spout their esoteric goggle-de-gook about electronic voting. (Connie McCormack, in Los Angeles, is a good example.) We also find higher ups like Sen Christopher Dodd in collusion on electronic voting (--who apparently advised John Kerry on the matter). And finally we have a number of Dem leaders who like Bush's war, who approve of a huge US military presence in the Middle East for the foreseeable future, and who did not want a president who would have been beholden to the grass roots antiwar majority. All of this worked together to prevent any objection by the Dems to this utterly fraudulent election SYSTEM.

We need a BIG BROOM--and the Republicans are not the only ones who need their house cleaned!

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Throw Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW! (--along with your copies of the NYT.)