Reply #81: Brought to you by Liebold!

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It does not seem to matter this is the kind of stuff we the people listening to Bev Harris constantly sent to our Reps and Senators last year to get them to do something about these infernal one way to count bandit machines
Chuck Hagel and Nebraska's Upset http://www.infernalpress.com/Columns/election.html

"If you want to win the election, just control the machines."
-- Charlie Matulka, Nebraska Senatorial Candidate

Chuck Hagel first ran for the U.S. Senate in Nebraska in 1996. Electronic voting machines owned by Election Systems & Software (ES&S) reported that he had won both the primaries and the general election in unprecedented victories. His 1996 victory was considered one of the biggest upsets of that election. He was the first Republican to win a Nebraska senatorial campaign in 24 years and won virtually every demographic group, including many largely black communities that had never before voted Republican.

Six years later Hagel ran again against Democrat Charlie Matulka in 2002, and won in a landslide. He was re-elected to his second term with 83% of the vote: the biggest political victory in the history of Nebraska. Again, the votes were counted by ES&S, now the largest voting machine company in America.

While these victories could be dismissed simply as a Republican upset, a January 2003 article in the independent Washington paper The Hill revealed interesting details about Hagel's business investments and casts a different light on his election successes. Chuck Hagel was CEO of ES&S (then AIS) until 1995 and he is still a major stockholder of the parent company of ES&S, McCarthy & Company. Hagel resigned as CEO of ES&S to run for the Senate and resigned as president of the parent company McCarthy & Company following his election (where he remains a major investor).

Today, the McCarthy Group is run by Michael McCarthy, who happens to be Chuck Hagel's treasurer. Hagel's financial's still list the McCarthy Group as an asset, with his investment valued at $1-$5 million. Campaign finance reports show that Michael McCarthy also served as treasurer for Hagel until December of 2002.

ES&S also has a connection to the Bush family. Jeb Bush's first choice as running mate in 1998 was Sandra Mortham who was a paid lobbyist for ES&S and received a commission for every county that bought its touch-screen machines.

The Hill's revelations of Hagel's conflict of interest was disturbing enough to cause Jan Baran, one of the most powerful Republican lawyers in Washington D.C., and Lou Ann Linehan, Senator Chuck Hagel's Chief of Staff, to walk into The Hill's offices to "discuss" the story. According to the author of the article, Alex Bolton, nothing similar had happened in the three-and-a-half years he's worked for the paper. It was, no doubt, a story Hagel would rather see go unreported.


Yet with out a free and open MEDIA the story gets no traction!
Of course if you were in the media and wanted to run a story about the truth behind the fraud of these republicans then you would suffer the consequence of your actions by either
A. getting fired by the editor after receiving a call from the White House.
B. have your credibility attacked aka Dan Rathering by having true stories given to you with FAKE documentation to call your story a fake after it runs.
And Lastly
C. Get attacked by terrorist using highly sophisticated Anthrax which just so happens to come from a secret US Government Lab by a "Rouge Agent" of the Government(in other words works for Tricky Dick)!!!!!

I believe that when they attacked the Media in Nov 01 it was a wake up call to them to not rock the boat! How many of you have seen the coverage in the media of the Marriani Suit against George Bush and company filed as a RICO act against organized crime? http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0311/S00261.htm
Won't happen will it! I think the best thing we can do right now is to Organize a protest across this country the day before the electoral college meets to anoint Bush it would have to be big enough to get the medias attention and start some traction on these stories! By the way one of the best thing to do is get educated on the BBV story by reading the book it is here for free to d/l www.blackboxvoting.org this is the book we need to Blogged around the country with some grass roots organizing to protest the theft of our democracy!