Stealing elections in 10 easy steps....

[Junkdrawer]

1.) Buy a corruptible voting machine company.

2.) Infuse massive capital into said company.

3.) Obtain market share by presenting a "winning" image and by spreading around the dough to the *right* local officials (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

4.) Learn all the local rules on auditing elections. Devise cheating strategies accordingly.

5.) Test the waters by throwing state-level elections. Begin a buzz about "resurgent conservatism".

6.) Use your control of the state houses to further weaken election laws.

7.) Steal the US Congress.

8.) Steal the US Presidency.

9.) Steal the US Senate.

10.) Use the above to vigorously prevent all attempts to reform the election process.

FYI:
Steps 1&2 were in 1984
Step 7 was 1994
Step 8 was 2000
Step 9 was 2002

And, before we all feel superior, I'll remind everyone that the vast majority of us didn't even suspect the above until after Step 9, and then it was only after the exit polls were mysteriously shut down on election day.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)

( Tip of the hat to DUer Nothing Without Hope for the quote )

[NoBushSpokenHere]

1. K and R'd n/t

[mod mom]

2. PURGE Registered voters in high opponent precincts (preferably low income

where registers voters have no access to computers to check status and no voice to express outrage.)

[mod mom]

3. Consolidate long standing precincts, especially in low income precincts +

justify it by suggesting less precincts will be needed due to the efficiency of the new voting machines.

[jarnocan]

4. Do something?

Fool me once
Shame on you
Fool me twice
Shame on me
Or the Bushie version in this case .....

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
:D
with this book coming out and the GAO report maybe we could convince our media to take a hard look back at the unfortunate facts from 1 year ago.
One more reason our www.worldcantwait.org Off to the City now. :toot:
http://www.millionphonemarch.com/impeach.htm easy to use form and toll free #s here.
http://vvlobbydays.blogspot.com petitions etc.

[mod mom]

5. Gain control of the Secretary of State position-perhaps the most powerful

position in government-especially in those pesky swing states.

[mod mom]

6. apply directives to suppress the vote and cause time and energy to be

devoted to lengthy court battles and confusion at County BOEs.

[mod mom]

8. Divert machines from inner city low income neighborhoods out to the mega

churches on the periphery of large cities. Explain this move by suggesting that low turnout in the last (small) election should determine future voting patterns despite huge increases in new voting registration.

[mod mom]

9. Ship the oldest, most likely to break down machines to your opponents

precincts. Disregard any calls for replacement by tying up phone lines into the SOS office.

[mod mom]

10. Institute ballot rotations between precincts so that you can gain extra

votes simply by switching the rotations to benefit your candidate.

[mod mom]

11. Use 2 Dem, 2 Rep BOE officials to show fairness, although SOS will

determine any tie breakers and has final say in just which opponent BOE officials will be hired.

[mod mom]

12. disallow any election observors who might record problems.

[mod mom]

13. Quickly label those who question results with sore loser conspiracy

theorist. Use self appointed BOE officials to back this opinion.

[mod mom]

14. Postpone any request for recount until last minute. This allows

techniques to be employed to match your numbers. Recount should be handled by most devoted employees and under strictest supervision.

[Junkdrawer]

15. Let me tell you a story:

Back in 2003-2004, my best friend got himself appointed to a panel that was to make suggestions as to how Pennsylvania would abide by the Help America Vote Act. He got the position because he's one of the state's leading advocates for handicapped rights.

Well, I educated him on the issue and soon the committee was strongly against voting machines with no voter verified ballot.

At that point, PA's SOS disbanded the committee and refused to officially accept it's recommendations. And now we find that PA is going touchscreen and paper trails, much less a paper ballot, are actually being prohibited by the SOS office.

...

Nope. The paper stays at the poll. If there were ever need for a recount to verify whether the election, or even just one machine, were accurate, the VVPATs can be compared to the machine tallies.

That sounds great.

Except, as Schulte never explains to the ladies, Pennsylvania won’t approve any electronic voting machine that also records the vote on paper. The Accupoll 1000 got certified on Aug. 4 with the proviso that their VVPAT will be disabled.

...

http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/scripts/printIt.cfm?ref=5003

So, yeah, the SOS is ENORMOUSLY powerful.

[mod mom]

16. Refuse to answer any question on the integrity of the elections or

documented problems, regardless of authority of those questioning.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Stealing elections in one easy step.

Consolidate and own the media.

[Junkdrawer]

17. Yeah, well, it would be nearly impossible to do the above if the...

MSM were actually doing their job. But even with near total media control, an honest count of 2004 would show Kerry won by a fairly wide margin.

So media control alone is not enough.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

31. That's probably due to the fact that they control it so badly.

But one should point out that their control is viable enough to sell the theft without tens of millions storming the White House. However, your point is taken.

[vanboggie]

18. Programming for Fascism

The central tabulating computers can be so easily fixed. Michigan, under * re-selection committee co-chair SOS, has just gone to optical scanning equipment and sold the story they are a paper trail. It will be so easy to turn this blue state red.

[BeFree]

19. Auditing that paper trail is the key

And it's gonna take a lot of us to make sure audits are done right. If Ohio, had been audited correctly, Kerry would be in the WH today.

Each of us needs to become involved at the local level to see that proper audits are used to restore our confidence in the process.

We shouldn't have to worry about how our votes are counted.

[vanboggie]

26. That won't work either

They use the courts to stop the audits. No, we should not have to worry about how our votes are counted. Election fraud is what made war crimes, deficit, New Orleans and our other problems possible. It's too bad there were so many unbelievers about the last three
s-elections.

[Wilms]

20. kick n/t

[Junkdrawer]

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[Junkdrawer]

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[DemReadingDU]

21. recommended

[DemReadingDU]

22. dupe

oops, sorry

[DemReadingDU]

23. dupe

oops, sorry

[mod mom]

24. ONE YEAR AGO TODAY the election was stolen in my state of Ohio + I

am still as mad today as I was when the faux results and when Kerry conceded. Where was the outrage from our Democratic leaders (with the exception of those who stood with us on Jan 6th) Where was the investigation by MSM? Did Judith Miller use her clout with the NYT to divert stories away from serious investigtion? I will not rest until this is exposed and the country is faced with what truly happened!

[NoBushSpokenHere]

25. None of us will rest until it is exposed

I will shout from the highest building

I TOLD YOU SO!!

[ignatzmouse]

27. 5 Pillars of Minority Disenfranchisement

The Five Pillars of Minority Disenfranchisement:

1. Keep Them From Registering to Vote
2. Purge Them From the Rolls
3. Keep Them From Reaching the Polls
4. Keep Their Votes From Counting
5. Vote For Them Ahead of Time

from: "False Populism: Racism, Religion, & Republican Values"

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ignatzmouse2/

(essay originally posted to DU)

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. It is scary to see how

long it was in the works. They had a lot of patience to set all that up.

I long for the day we have a decent government and election system. I really do.
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/electionreform.htm

[Junkdrawer]

29. I suppose that's one of my main points..

Mostly I'm reacting to those who dismiss this with the notion that an enterprise this big would be impossible. But I've been near this issue for a long time and I'm here to tell you they're doing it and that they worked long and hard to do it.

Democrats wouldn't think to put their efforts in this direction because we know we have the numbers - we always think in terms of voter education and voter motivation.

But the folks who are doing this have nothing but contempt for their fellow citizens and the notion of democracy. I guess we should have known. It would have been easy to stop them in, say, 1990. Now it's hell on earth just to get a paper trail (see my post #15).

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. As long as people think it's just about getting out the vote, we're

screwed. Because no matter how many people we get out there to vote for a Dem, the Repubs will fix the numbers to make the Dem lose. Witness Chambliss kicking Cleland out of his seat.

Legitimate paper record is a major concern for certain but it's not the only one. There are so many things to fix or tweak in our election system it isn't funny. And the irony is that I think the founding fathers would mostly approve of making changes because this is a great experiment. However many people today scream in horror over the idea and proclaim we have to leave things as they are because that's the way we've always done it. (Which isn't true. I think the founding fathers would be appalled by the state of thigns today.)

[Wilms]

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