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 Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:33 am Post subject: Who is rigging our elections? Clues from Massachusetts. |
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Who-is-rigging-our-electio-by-Josh-Mi tteldorf-100902-920.html
| Quote: | Who is rigging our elections? Clues from Massachusetts.
By Josh Mitteldorf, opednews.com
Since the stolen presidential election of 2004, Jonathan Simon has been at the forefront of analysis and research into election fraud in America. Yesterday, Simon published the result of his inquiry into the special election last January in which Ted Kennedy's Senate seat (from the nation's most solidly Democratic state) was offered up by the Democrats to a Tea Party Republican.
This was an election with crucial national significance. The Democrats had exactly the 60-vote margin in the Senate needed to push through Obama's health care initiative over united Republican obstruction. Ted Kennedy had been a lifelong champion of that legislation, and his was widely regarded as a safe Democratic seat. State Attorney General Martha Coakley was supposed to be a shoo-in.
But Coakley campaigned half-heartedly -- some would say incompetently. The RNC shoveled money into the race. A media campaign before the election proclaimed that challenger Scott Brown was unexpectedly competitive.
Most inexplicably -- perhaps this is the biggest clue -- Coakley conceded the race at midnight, with a quarter of the votes still uncounted.
So this was a curious election in a number of ways, even if you base your view on the story as reported by the mainstream. But there remains a crucial unreported story, which Simon addresses: Were the votes properly counted? Simon gives us good cause to believe that more voters chose Coakley than Brown last January.
The only proof of a stolen election would be to re-count the votes, or to examine software the scanning machines that were used to tabulate 97% of the votes that day. Simon recounts efforts by the Election Defense Alliance to get this evidence from the State, and the State's determination to seal both the paper ballots and the counting process from public scrutiny.
Denied access to the only direct evidence, Simon pursues the indirect evidence with an ingenuity and a thoroughness that makes a solid case for election fraud. His starting point is the fact that among the 3% of ballots that were hand-counted, Coakley won a solid victory. He then proceeds to eliminate, one by one, all the innocent explanations for the disparity between the 3% (hand counted, publicly verifiable) and the 97% (machine-tallied using trade-secret software by two large corporations, ES&S and Diebold, both with partisan Republican ties).
Could it have been a statistical fluke? The chances of this were one in a million.
Were the hand-counted votes in more Democratic parts of the state? No--in fact, these precincts trended slightly more Republican in registration.
In past elections, were the hand-counted precincts more likely to favor Democrats? No -- the 3% has tracked the 97% accurately in other recent elections.
Simon's genius is to pull together clues from disparate, yet publicly verifiable sources, in order to create a convincing picture out of a muddle of uncertainty. As Edison told us, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Simon has not shied from the task of spreadsheeting historical data from 500 different Massachusetts localities, and he offers us all the data in an appendix. If only the State would be as open as Simon in offering us a basis for confidence in the official election results!
If the picture that Simon paints is valid, there is a disturbing and mysterious pattern over the last several election cycles. Most elections in the US have been untainted but they have also been uncontested, with lopsided victories for one side or the other. Among the few that are hotly contested, there has been a thumb on the scale a lot of the time, and the thumb pushes inexorably from Blue toward the Red. (see EDA article on the 2006 election)
We imagine that politicians are playing to win, that politics is a rough and tumble game. The reality is stranger. One side alone is going for the jugular. The Democrats are not just pulling punches, they are actively complicit in their own defeat. Confronted with solid evidence of Republican election fraud, Democrats ignore and deny. The Liberal Media have uniformly refused to report on stolen elections, and what little coverage we see actually comes from Fox news! Proposed legislation that would demand transparency in the way our votes are counted is opposed by Democrats at the state and the Federal level. Ten years ago (in a scene made famous by Michael Moore), Vice President Al Gore presided over a quashing of a Senate protest over the election that had been stolen from him. Six years ago, John Kerry had a $20 million war chest reserved for legal challenges in case he lost the election under questionable circumstances; but after Bush stole the election in Ohio, Kerry conceded promptly and pursued no inquiry or challenge. And Martha Coakley, handed the seat that was still warm from Ted Kennedy's years of liberal service, passed the seat to the Right.
Why do the Democrats want to lose? What's going on, and who is running this show?
http://daily-inspiration.org
Josh Mitteldorf, a senior editor at OpEdNews, was educated to be an astrophysicist, and has branched out from there to mathematical modeling in a variety of areas. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and physics at several universities. |
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Look up your Name on the Crosscheck Voter Purge-List:
By Greg Palast Thursday, 30. October, 2014
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=d9e75 d38e0&e=d3ba3092dd
'My investigative report, JIM CROW RETURNS: Millions of Minority Voters Threatened by Electoral Purge, is the most-read story ever on Al Jazeera America’s website.
If you haven’t read it yet – the results of a six-month intensive investigation – read it now.
And tonight, Thursday, at 9pm, watch my reports on this investigation on Al Jazeera America's America Tonight (enter your zip code to find it on your TV).
The Palast team has ripped the lid off “Interstate Crosscheck” – a system used by 27 states, almost all under Republican control, which claims to find illegal “double voters,” those who vote in the same election in two different states.
It took us months, but we got our hands on 2.1 million of the names of the so-called “double voters” accused by Crosscheck.
Are YOU a criminal double voter? Look up your name right now.
(Apparently, Michael Moore voted 176 times!)
What we found is that Crosscheck is simply a list of common first and last names. And the list is a sloppy, absurd mess. Over a million and half of these alleged double voters have mis-matched middle names. Social security numbers are rare – and all mismatches ignored.
Here’s a random “double voter”: James Dalton Long of Georgia supposedly is the same voter as James Manly Long IV of Virginia.
And guess the color of the double-voting criminals? ONE IN EIGHT VOTERS OF COLOR in the 27 Crosscheck states are on the list. Why? Because, says the US Census, Asian-Americans, Hispanics and African-Americans are 80% more likely to share a common name (one of the top 1000 surnames) than a white American. Nearly a fifth of all Asian-Americans use one of just 30 names (Chung, Lee, Patel, Kim, Ho, Park etc.).
This new purge game, simply a bigger, uglier, yet more sophisticated version of Katherine Harris’ fake “felon” purge of 2000, can easily determine the control of the US Senate in this Tuesday’s races. Battleground state Georgia has tagged over half a million of its voters, especially Black and Asian-American citizens, as suspected criminal double voters.
North Carolina, where a Senate race is in the balance, is gunning for 190,000 voters, including, for example, Kevin Antonio Hayes of North Carolina—who supposedly voted a second time, in Virginia, as Kevin Thomas Hayes. I met one Mr. Hayes at his home in East Durham. He swears he has never used the middle name “Thomas” – and that he didn’t vote twice. Indeed, according to Crosscheck’s own records, he didn’t vote once!
Please pass on this note and these links—before you vote Tuesday.
For 15 years, Greg Palast has been uncovering voter suppression tactics in investigative reports for BBC Television, The Guardian, Harper’s and Rolling Stone.
Greg Palast is the author of several New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits.
Palast is a Puffin Foundation Fellow for Investigative Reporting.
Make a tax-deductible donation and support our ongoing investigation into voter suppression.
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Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief:
http://www.projectcensored.org/12-mysterious-death-of-mike-connell-kar l-roves-election-thief/
Another convenient 'murder by plane crash'.
Election fraudster silenced - the hard way Karl Rove's right hand man dead in a plane crash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNNHSpM-Z-w
This is an "old" story from "way back" in 2008.
On election day 2008, Mike Connell, the computer mastermind behind the numerous election frauds run by Karl Rove, was in court ordered to testify before a judge about what he knew about the case.
A few days later, he died in a plane crash.
Welcome to real American history
You might ask yourself...How the heck was this not a massive national scandal that led to the investigation of Karl Rove and everyone associated with him including George Bush Jr.
Here's a hint:
Who is good at wiring planes to fail? Who had a massive financial incentive to keep the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and everywhere else) going without distraction?
The military-industrial complex had the motivation and also has plenty of operatives who can do such things quite easily.
An NST is "national security threat." When you're on the list, it's best not to fly your private plane or go on a hike in the woods alone because of your odds of getting home in one pieces are slim.
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