S. O. Damocles
11-11-2004, 09:17 AM
~z~ wrote:
> [That's pretty nice---90,000 more votes than
> voters........hmmmmm........)
>
>
> http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/11/con04492.html
>
>
> Incredible As It May Seem, MSNBC Covers Voting Problems
> A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
>
> Just watched Keith Olbermann on MSNBC in which he did a
> story on election problems. He said that there were 90,000
> more votes cast in Ohio than registered voters (he went
> through a list of counties and said how many voters were
> registered in each and how many extra thousands of votes
> were recorded).
>
> He reported how in Florida counties, heavily-leaning dem
> counties went overwhelmingly for Bush -- the first time
> these counties have ever voted Repub. He showed charts with
> numbers, etc., it was very compelling.
>
> He said that all the irregularities in Florida and Ohio
> have happened in counties using non-paper-trail e-voting
> from the companies run by Bush's friends.
>
> He interviewed a reporter from the Cincinnati paper who
> discussed how homeland security barred reporters from
> witnessing the voting in some of the major minority areas
> in town, that this was the first time the press was ever
> kept out of and barred from witnessing the voting. The Sec
> of State in Ohio says that it was under orders from Bush's
> Homeland Security chief, who said that these cities in Ohio
> were under a highly increased threat of terrorism during
> the election. For this reason, only one entrance was open
> for the voting in these (largely democratic) areas, and the
> press was barred from coming in to see the voting, or to
> have the usual offices in the building they have had in
> every past year.
>
> Olbermann then had Rep. John Conyers on and there are a
> dozen or so representatives demanding an investigation from
> the GAO. So it's Chicago-style voting taken to a national
> level -- the GOP dead vote, the GOP takes away votes from
> Dems and turned them into Bush votes, and they just add
> extra votes (for pres, not on the other issues or
> candidates) to the totals.
>
> In Florida where Bush scored big, on the same ballots
> Democratic measures scored big, such as making a Florida
> minimum wage $1 above the federal level. In other words,
> all these people voted for Bush AND voted to pass these
> Democratic measures, which the GOP had tried to defeat. So
> this indicates that only the presidential election voting
> was rigged, they didn't rig the rest of the voting form.
>
> Looks like maybe we're going to get some sort of
> investigation into the fraud that's gone down after all,
> even if Kerry caved in.
>
> Also, some counties in Ohio where the press has always been
> allowed to inspect figures from voting -- have been taken
> away and they're not allowed to view them. They're filing
> something in court to force the Sec of State to release
> them for public review.
>
> Also, one heavily-Dem county in Florida discovered a huge
> stack of absentee ballots that had not been counted and
> told the Sec of State's office about the ballots and said
> they would count them -- and the Sec of State told them to
> hold on, and then came and took the ballots away, so the
> officials in that county were never able to count them.
> [That's pretty nice---90,000 more votes than
> voters........hmmmmm........)
>
>
> http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/11/con04492.html
>
>
> Incredible As It May Seem, MSNBC Covers Voting Problems
> A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
>
> Just watched Keith Olbermann on MSNBC in which he did a
> story on election problems. He said that there were 90,000
> more votes cast in Ohio than registered voters (he went
> through a list of counties and said how many voters were
> registered in each and how many extra thousands of votes
> were recorded).
>
> He reported how in Florida counties, heavily-leaning dem
> counties went overwhelmingly for Bush -- the first time
> these counties have ever voted Repub. He showed charts with
> numbers, etc., it was very compelling.
>
> He said that all the irregularities in Florida and Ohio
> have happened in counties using non-paper-trail e-voting
> from the companies run by Bush's friends.
>
> He interviewed a reporter from the Cincinnati paper who
> discussed how homeland security barred reporters from
> witnessing the voting in some of the major minority areas
> in town, that this was the first time the press was ever
> kept out of and barred from witnessing the voting. The Sec
> of State in Ohio says that it was under orders from Bush's
> Homeland Security chief, who said that these cities in Ohio
> were under a highly increased threat of terrorism during
> the election. For this reason, only one entrance was open
> for the voting in these (largely democratic) areas, and the
> press was barred from coming in to see the voting, or to
> have the usual offices in the building they have had in
> every past year.
>
> Olbermann then had Rep. John Conyers on and there are a
> dozen or so representatives demanding an investigation from
> the GAO. So it's Chicago-style voting taken to a national
> level -- the GOP dead vote, the GOP takes away votes from
> Dems and turned them into Bush votes, and they just add
> extra votes (for pres, not on the other issues or
> candidates) to the totals.
>
> In Florida where Bush scored big, on the same ballots
> Democratic measures scored big, such as making a Florida
> minimum wage $1 above the federal level. In other words,
> all these people voted for Bush AND voted to pass these
> Democratic measures, which the GOP had tried to defeat. So
> this indicates that only the presidential election voting
> was rigged, they didn't rig the rest of the voting form.
>
> Looks like maybe we're going to get some sort of
> investigation into the fraud that's gone down after all,
> even if Kerry caved in.
>
> Also, some counties in Ohio where the press has always been
> allowed to inspect figures from voting -- have been taken
> away and they're not allowed to view them. They're filing
> something in court to force the Sec of State to release
> them for public review.
>
> Also, one heavily-Dem county in Florida discovered a huge
> stack of absentee ballots that had not been counted and
> told the Sec of State's office about the ballots and said
> they would count them -- and the Sec of State told them to
> hold on, and then came and took the ballots away, so the
> officials in that county were never able to count them.