Reply #55: Up to this point...

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My understanding is that Kerry has been depressed about losing a national election. Understandably. Remember Al Gore and the Grizzly Adams look? In addition, the envelope of advisors around any politician is very tight. In essence, you hear what people think you should hear. His brother Cam has been very skeptical about the "fraud" allegations, which should give us an idea of what Kerry himself is hearing. Theresa on the other hand seems to get it, but as of last week it was unclear what she was actually doing.

I have not had an update from my people for about a week, despite repeated phone calls and emails. My sense is that nothing has really changed, but I could be wrong. I am hoping to get direct feedback from them on an article for my blog that I expect to publish tomorrow.

With respect to the media, everyone has chimed in so far (NYT, WP, CNN, Charlie Rose, NPR, etc.) with "balanced pieces" of one sort or another. Since there is really no "evidence" of fraud yet, there is no "fraud story." Who in their right mind would go out on a limb at this point if their "career" depended on it? I am not sure I would, but then again my career is not in journalism.

The "evidence" alleged by Arnebeck and others is purely circumstantial at this point. Without an actual showing that the vote should have been X when it was tallied Y, what evidence do we really have? That is why the recount in Ohio was so important. Since the recount only showed 272 new votes for Kerry, people are starting to say: "move on."

The objective at this point should be to seize voting machines, memory cards, and all other available physical evidence so that they may be inspected without the assitance of the voting machine manufacturers. In addition, it is very important to begin a process of formally desposing witnesses, like Blackwell, Rapp and members of the BOEs in various counties. That will help to develop a formal evidentiary record to compare against the circumstantial evidence we have from the exit polls and the obstructive behaviour of various Republican election officials.

I hope this helps. My principal role in all this is as a Blogger. I have good connections, but then again I am a Republican (traditionally), not a democrat. As a result, I am working through friends and friends of friends not political/professional relationships of my own.

Please visit the blog. I hope to publish a new piece on this tomorrow:
http://scam-o-rama.blogspot.com