[statecom-discuss] Re: [Needtoknow] Fitrakis and Wasserman| The GOP shall Win, even if they Lose - Because the election is rigged

[Mike Heichman]

Owen Broadhurst wrote:

>> Subject: Prediction: Republicans will NOT lose either house in Congress
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>> A Loaves & Fishes/Holy Ghost Victory for the GOP in November?
>> by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
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>> The polls all point to a Democratic sweep in November. The news
>> pours in about pedophile Republicans and Team Bush contempt for
>> their fundamentalist bedmates. Iraq implodes. Deficits soar. Katrina
>> lingers. Scandal is everywhere.
>>
>>
>> On the other hand, there are rumors of an "October Surprise." An
>> attack on Iran. A new terror incident.
>> Osama finally captured.
>>
>> Gas prices are down, the stock market up.
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>> None of it dampens the Democrats' euphoria. They think they are
>> about to win. In conventional terms, they should.
>>
>> But think again. Please.
>>
>> It will take just two Biblical fixes for the GOP to keep the
>> Congress, and thus solidify their power in this country, possibly
>> forever: a loaves and fishes vote count, a Holy Ghost turnout.
>>
>> We coined the phrase "loaves and fishes vote count" to describe the
>> tally in Gahanna, Ohio, 2004. This infamous precinct in suburban
>> Columbus registered 4258 votes for George W. Bush where just 638
>> people voted. The blessed event occurred at a fundamentalist church
>> run by a close ally of the Reverend Jerry Falwell.
>>
>> These numbers were later "corrected." But they reflect a much larger
>> reality: the 2004 election was stolen with scores of dirty tricks
>> for whose second coming the Democrats have yet to fully prepare.
>>
>> In the two years since the fraudulent defeat of John Kerry, we've
>> unearthed an unholy arsenal by which that election was stolen. They
>> include: outright intimidation, wrongful elimination of registered
>> voters, theft, selective deployment of (often faulty) voting
>> machines, absentee ballots without Kerry's name on them, absentee
>> ballots pre-punched for Bush, absentee ballots never mailed, touch
>> screens that lit up for Bush when Kerry was chosen, lines for black
>> voters five hours long while white voters a mile away voted in
>> fifteen minutes, tens of thousands of provisional ballots pitched
>> summarily in the trash, alleged ex-felons illegally told they could
>> not vote, Hispanic precincts with no Spanish-speaking poll workers,
>> deliberate misinformation on official web sites.and that's not even
>> the tip of an iceberg whose bottom we may never see.
>>
>> Thanks to a federal lawsuit, we have finally been able to look at
>> some of the actual ballots from Ohio 2004. Just for starters,
>> researchers Stuart Wright and Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips have found
>> a precinct in Delaware County where 359 consecutive voters allegedly
>> cast ballots for Bush. Dr. Ron Baiman found another precinct in
>> Clermont County where a random inspection found 36 straight
>> replacement ballots, a phenomenon that can be accomplished only by
>> divine intervention or outright fraud.
>>
>> These initial snippets have been unearthed with no cooperation or
>> participation from the Democratic Party. The official Democratic
>> spin is that they have "looked into the matter." But public records
>> indicate that they have yet to visit the actual ballot storage
>> facilities to examine the public records from the 2004 election.
>>
>> In sum, we see no indication that the Democrats are prepared for the
>> inevitable.that Karl Rove will steal again, and more, in 2006.
>>
>> In Ohio alone, four election boards have already eliminated some
>> 500,000 voters since the 2000 election---ten percent of the state's
>> electorate---from the registration rolls in four Democratic
>> counties. No similar purges have occurred in rural Republican
>> counties. The Democrats have said or done very little about it.
>>
>>
>> To date there is no logical explanation from John Kerry as to why he
>> conceded with 250,000 votes still uncounted while Bush's alleged
>> margin was just half that. Nor have we heard about Democrat plans to
>> monitor the ever-larger numbers of electronic voting machines
>> deployed throughout the United States with no paper trail and no
>> transparency for programming codes and memory cards that are
>> privately owned, with no public inspection allowed.
>>
>> Which is brings us to the Holy Ghost turnout. As Robert F. Kennedy,
>> Jr., has reported in Rolling Stone Magazine, in Georgia 2002, U.S.
>> Senate incumbent Max Cleland went into Election Day with a very
>> substantial lead in the polls. He proceeded to allegedly lose by a
>> substantial margin. Church-state operatives like Ralph Reed
>> attributed this astonishing turn-around to an alleged last-minute
>> mass turnout of evangelical voters.
>>
>> Similar things were said about Florida and Ohio 2004.
>>
>> But it never happened. There are no visual reports or other reliable
>> indicators of extraordinary lines or massive late-in-the-day crowds
>> at the polls. Throughout all those election days, it was every bit
>> as quick and easy to vote in rural precincts that gave Bush his
>> miraculous victory as it was impossible to do so in your average
>> black neighborhood. But there was no extraordinary turnout of
>> last-minute Bush voters.
>>
>>
>> What happened instead hearkens to the Holy Ghost, made manifest in
>> electronic voting machines that cannot and will not be monitored.
>> The miraculous pro-Bush margins give new meaning to the phrase
>> "ghost in the machine." While the Democratic vote count was slashed
>> and trashed in urban precincts, the rural voting stations, through
>> the miracle of untrackable electronics, materialized just the right
>> number of GOP votes to keep the Men of God in the White House (where
>> it's recently reported they dare to mock those earthly evangelicals
>> who allegedly gave them their margin of victory).
>>
>> There's absolutely nothing to prevent this from happening again in
>> 2006. Major studies from the Conyers Committee, the Government
>> Accountability Office, Princeton University, the Brennan Center, the
>> Carter-Baker Commission, and esteemed others, have all come to the
>> same conclusion: it takes just one individual with inside
>> access---or even just a wi-fi machine---to change the outcome of any
>> election anywhere.
>>
>> Electronic voting machines can be pre-programmed, re-programmed,
>> re-calibrated, electronically adjusted, hacked, jimmied, jammed or
>> otherwise blessed with a few well-placed electrons and---LO AND
>> BEHOLD!---a Democratic landslide can be born again to a Republican
>> deliverance.
>>
>> We already see the signs. The corporate bloviators predict a
>> last-minute surge for Bush. The Fox/Rove media machine has planted
>> suggestive stories at the New York Times and elsewhere about the
>> alleged hidden powers of the GOP juggernaut. They will, they say,
>> once again turn out those invisible legions of evangelical voters
>> when and where necessary.
>>
>> Every two years, Rove leaks some story that is implausible and
>> easily refuted: four million new evangelical voters are identified
>> nationwide; or, a late surge of homophobic Old Order Amish rush to
>> the polls in Ohio; or shy and reluctant right-wing Republican women
>> flood the polls at closing and slip out unseen without speaking to
>> exit pollsters (but, they are only shy in the early evening in
>> Republican counties).
>>
>> And the Democrats? They say they are also turning out voters. But
>> what happens when their names are miraculously gone from the new
>> electronic registration rolls? When there aren't enough machines in
>> their precincts on which to vote? When they press a Democratic name
>> on their touch-screen and an anointed Republican's lights up? Or
>> when techno-gods from private partisan vendors barge in unchallenged
>> to "adjust" the e-machines in the middle of the voting process.
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>> So far, the Democrats have heaped abuse on those who dare to warn of all
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>> But as it is written, so it shall be: unless there are armies of
>> trained, dedicated citizens prepared to monitor this upcoming
>> election, electronic and otherwise, the Holy Ghosts will vote, the
>> loaves & fishes will multiply and be counted, and the GOP will once
>> again emerge with total control of the checks and the
>> balances---this time, perhaps, for all Eternity.
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>> Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman are co-authors, with Steve
>> Rosenfeld, of What Happened in Ohio?, just published by The New
>> Press. Fitrakis is of counsel and Wasserman is a plaintiff in the
>> King-Lincoln lawsuit that has preserved the Ohio 2004 ballots.
>> Fitrakis is an independent candidate for Ohio governor, endorsed by
>> the Green Party; Wasserman is author of Solartopia! Our
>> Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030.
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