Election Fraud 2004

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	2004 Election Fraud [Updated 20 June 2006] I didn't expect to have breaking news almost two years later, but Greg Palast delivered some explosive findings last Wednesday. Read on... * Amy Goodman's interview with Greg Palast, 14 June 2006, on Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to Greg Palast. His new book is called Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Greg Palast. GREG PALAST: Thanks, Amy. AMY GOODMAN: Before we talk about the class war -- what isn't supposed to be talked about in this country -- I wanted to ask about a very specific story that you touch on in the book but have seemed to gather more information on, and that is the story of black soldiers in Iraq and voting here at home. GREG PALAST: Yeah. They went after -- they lost their vote. Let me explain what happened. A lot of people know me from my story of how -- for BBC, that I reported here for you -- how just before the 2000 election, thousands of black voters were scrubbed off the voter rolls of Florida, by Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris, you know, who wiped out all of these voters -- 94,000 -- claiming they were felons, criminals, but their only crime was voting while black. And we busted that story on BBC, and it took years to get over here, but that's how 2,000 was fixed. So I looked at 2004 for BBC, and we were able to get out of -- they didn't go after the felons this time. The new target group -- or they did, but now they've added a new target group: suspect voters, with suspect addresses. And I was able to get out of Republican Party computers, using a fake front, actually working with a joke website, GeorgeWBush.org, we literally sucked files and emails out of the Republican computers. I know some people may object to that but -- AMY GOODMAN: Explain what you mean. GREG PALAST: Well what happened was the top brass of the Republican Party, a guy Tim Griffin, who is head of operations and research, was sending a bunch of emails to the chairmen of the state committees, top-level guys of the Bush campaign in 2004, attaching lists of voters and addresses -- very unusual. What's all of this clerical stuff going on back and forth between the very top guys? And they're saying, "Here's a caging list. Here's another caging list. Here's another caging list." AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean, 'caging lists'? GREG PALAST: Well, it's these spreadsheets with names and addresses of voters. It was really odd and why the top guys were with it. AMY GOODMAN: But I still don't understand why you were seeing these lists. GREG PALAST: Ok, what happened was, is that GeorgeWBush.com was the internal secret way of communicating through email in the Republican campaign. Someone changed one address from "com" to "GeorgeWBush.org." That allowed us, through a false website, GeorgeWBush.org, to suck down all of these emails at the top level of the Republican Party, and attached were these sheets. And at first, we didn't know what the heck they were until the team -- we had 70,000 names from one state, of names on these so-called 'caging lists'. We do the demographics, and first we go -- and by the way, we went straight to the Republican Party for BBC and said, "What are these?" And they said, "Lists of donors." And there's page after page of guys from homeless shelters. You know, I don't think there's a lot of Bush-Cheney donors there. "Donors? You get another -- We'll give you another chance to answer the question." They wouldn't answer. The experts say, look at the demographics. We'd spent endless hours matching whose names were on these secret sheets against the demographics, the racial breakdown of the -- of where these voters live. 98% were in African-majority precincts, African-majority precincts, except for 2%, which were in Jewish-majority precincts, retirement areas in Miami. What was this about? These are called -- These are "challenge" sheets. It was a secret system to challenge tens of thousands of voters, actually hundreds of thousands, maybe a million voters in the United States. We had over a million challenges in the United States, never seen before in the United States. How did this happen? This was the secret program. Now, who was on these sheets? What was the basis of challenge? What they said is these people have -- "Oh, they have suspect," you know -- when we finally caught them with it, they said, "Oh, suspect addresses." Well, who's suspect? We looked. Page after page, and I have a page here if you -- on the radio you'll just have to take my word for it, but a page where every name says "Naval Air Station." "Naval Air Station, Naval Air Station, Naval Air Station," page after page of African-American soldiers, sailors and seamen, who were targeted on the challenge list to have their vote challenged. How? We called up -- we called them up, their families, and one, for example, Randy Prousa, was the first one we got. We said, "Where is Mr. Prousa?" Is he really at this address? Is he a fake voter?" And they said, "Well, Randy has been sent overseas, he shipped overseas." These are soldiers, black soldiers shipped overseas to Germany, to Baghdad, and now they're being challenged by the Republican Party because they were not at their voting address. AMY GOODMAN: Now, explain how the challenge works? GREG PALAST: Very simple. Anyone can challenge another voter. In other words, Amy Goodman can say, "Greg Palast shouldn't vote." AMY GOODMAN: I can at the poll and saying, "I challenge his" -- GREG PALAST: You can be at the poll. There's two ways to do it. One, you give to elections officials evidence that this is a voter, who if their absentee ballot comes in, should not be counted. And you have to understand; 3.6 million votes were cast and not counted, mass challenges all over the swing states. AMY GOODMAN: Do you know if I've challenged your vote, if you're an absentee voter? GREG PALAST: No, and so -- AMY GOODMAN: You don't know if your vote has counted? GREG PALAST: No, unless you're standing -- unless it's a challenge right there and you're standing there, but even -- by the way, this is the other evil -- even if you're standing there and you're challenged, in the 2004 election, three million people, if they were challenged, were not given real ballots, they were given what's called "provisional" ballots, and those provisional ballots, of the three million ballots cast, 1.1 million were never counted, 88% of those, black voters, by the way, and Hispanic voters. AMY GOODMAN: You mean, if I was standing at the poll challenging you, then they would give you a provisional ballot, and they would decide whether they would count that ballot later. GREG PALAST: That's right, and it went two ways. In the case of the black soldiers, what was particularly evil -- see, in the felon case, they could make some type of claim, 'Oh, we didn't know that we had a bad list; we didn't know that these were innocent people.' Like, in fact, in 2004, Bernice Kines, she was convicted of a felony. Right on their list it says -- and we had thousands of these -- "Bernice Kines, convicted on July 31, 2009." I said -- when we confront the state is -- what about, you know, I mean, this is quite a master criminal that, you know, she can commit a crime in the future. You didn't know that this was a false name? Ok. They had an excuse, though. They said, 'we didn't know, it's an error.' What about black soldiers? Here's what they did. They sent, we found out -- here's now what we've just found out. They sent first-class letters to the homes of African-American soldiers shipped overseas. They wrote on the envelopes "Do not forward. Return to addressee." Well, of course, they're shipped overseas, so the letter can't be forwarded, to Baghdad or Germany, or wherever. Letters are sent back to the Republican National Committee, filtered back out to the state committees, and then elections officials are told, 'These people don't live at that address. We have evidence that they're falsely registered.' Now, here's the trick. You send in your absentee ballot. That is a great act of faith, probably the greatest religious act of faith since Moses walked across the Red Sea, you know, hoping that he wouldn't get drowned. You just mail in that ballot, and soldiers -- this is, remember the Republican Party made a big deal about Al Gore complaining about soldiers' illegal absentee voting. These people knew that these soldiers couldn't defend themselves, would not know that their ballot would not be counted, would be challenged. And there's no way, I mean you could -- from Baghdad you can fight George's war, but you can't fight for your ballot -- massive, massive, nationwide challenge. In places like Wisconsin, by the way, we've just discovered -- How did they even know how to challenge these people? They were using Blackberries loaded with the names. This is one expensive multimillion-dollar operation, and by the way, Amy, it's illegal, okay? One of the reasons why the Republican Party didn't 'fess up when we showed them the sheets and they said, 'Oh, it's donors,' is that if you target black people, or Jewish voters, as they did in a few districts, because that's a democratic demographic, if you challenge these people, that's against the law. That's against the voting rights act of 1965. It's a felony crime, you know. So you can't, you can't just -- You know, this is the old gimmick of -- like they used to have literacy tests in the South in you know, in the Jim Crow era, where only black people were asked tough literacy questions. Same thing, you cannot target just African-Americans. I mean, you go to jail for that. The only problem is -- and people ask, 'Why didn't they go to jail now that you've caught them?" Because the cops, the voting cops in the United States are in the U.S. Justice Department, and at the time, 2004, the voting cop was John Ashcroft. You know, George Bush's guy, and now we have Gonzales. I mean, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, called, by the way, for a criminal investigation when I began showing this evidence. I don't give them my sources, but I do give them the public evidence, with the BBC's approval. You'll see it in the book. They did vote for criminal investigations. This never got reported in America. The reaction of the Justice Department was to completely ignore the demand for a criminal investigation, and George Bush fired every member of the Civil Rights Commission that voted for the criminal investigation. Do you like that? AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Greg Palast, author of Armed Madhouse. Very quickly, Greg, on the issue of class war, where this relates, if you can just summarize your thoughts? GREG PALAST: Class war -- look, when they take away your vote -- 3.6 million people cast ballots that didn't count. While race is the badge of poverty, what we're finding is that it's the income of the voter that mattered on whether your vote counted. It's not -- and, look, you go through my book and you've seen my reports on your show. Whether it's Iraq, what Huey Long of 70 years ago, used to call "rich men's wars." AMY GOODMAN: Huey Long being -- GREG PALAST: Huey Long was the governor of Louisiana, and it's a very simple point. Whether it's Iraq, whether it's elections, whether it's Hurricane Katrina, and whether it's Enron that we've discussed. These are all aspects of a class war against the very powerful and the very wealthy, against the average person. We've had a class war declared in America, and one of the points in the book is that these are -- all of my investigations are really investigations of various fronts in the class war. And we are not shooting back because we don't have a general. The closest thing we have to a general is far away in Caracas, Hugo Chavez. And we've been here before in America. You know, last night, you and I were with Paul Krugman, who said, 'We need a new F.D.R., a new Franklin Roosevelt to bring us a New Deal, to turn things around.' That's not how it works. Back in 1927, the entire nation changed when the levees of New Orleans broke and New Orleans was drowned. This entire nation -- it was a Republican era, Republican Congress, Republican President. Business was in charge of everything, then New Orleans' levees broke. And -- AMY GOODMAN: The great flood of 1927. GREG PALAST: The great flood of 1927. When the floodwaters hit Louisiana, one guy -- and Democrats were saying nothing except, 'Balance the budget.' One Democrat stood up on the back of a flatbed truck, grabbed the Internet of the day, which was the radio. He was the first guy to use radio. He grabbed the radio microphone and said, "This is it. The rich are drowning us. The rich don't pay for our schools. The rich are leading us into their wars for oil." -- At that time, by the way -- "The rich will not give us social security for old age. They are not protecting us or providing infrastructure. They are not saving us from deadly work, and they're letting the oil companies and the banks control this nation, and we have got to end it. We're going to take this nation back. We're going to share the wealth. Join with me." And there was a huge national uprising. Huey Long created something called "Share the Wealth clubs." And it went like a prairie fire, man. It was explosive. And the Democratic Party itself got scared to death. And I hate to say it, two things happened. First, they assassinated Huey Long, who had become governor of Louisiana and was heading towards the White House, but then Franklin Roosevelt, a very weak governor, conservative governor of New York, conservative Democrat, suddenly said -- took on Huey's spirit, kind of, and said, 'Okay, because we're going to lose this country, and even the billionaires are going to lose their billions.' And so, it was not that we had a great man. This is a new myth that we had a great man, F.D.R. What we did was, we had a great movement that found F.D.R., and F.D.R. found the movement, and that changed America. It's 1927 again, Amy. It could be. AMY GOODMAN: Greg Palast, I want to thank you very much for being with us. His new book is called Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War. Thanks for being with us. * [Posted 3 November 2004; Last updated 11 November 2004] Yesterday as she was leaving work, a co-worker declared "Now I'm going to go and vote Bush out of office. This is going to feel gooooooood." Well, our state went for Kerry. We did our job. Today was a different matter. I didn't see one happy face, as everyone agreed that another 4 years of a bad economy & people dying in Iraq will be nothing but horrible. One co-worker showed me his morning paper with the picture of Bush torn off of its cover. "I just get sick of looking at his face," he said. Another well-traveled co-worker was telling her friends that Southerners are mostly religious fanatics who'll vote exclusively on issues like abortion and gay marriage, even if they're suffering personally from bad economic policies or the war on Iraq. Patrons at a local bar, who talked about golf and looked like they owned their own Florida homes, couldn't believe that Florida had gone for Bush. "Maybe it was the hurricanes, people feeling he was there for them," one man speculated. Then the conversation drifted off to O'Reilly. "Why did he pay her off?" "She had tapes." "Oh, let me call you again and sexually harass your answering machine." "Bow-wow-wow." "He's no Robert Redford." Everyone has plenty of opinions when things don't look right. And things didn't look right. If you haven't noticed, even people who voted for Bush last time are disgusted with the man now. Even people from Texas. His bad economy, record deficits, illegitimate wars, war on freedom and human rights... all of this angers everyone from conservatives to liberals. And then there was a history of election fraud with electronic voting machines... and then Jeb Bush decided to use the old felon lists already discredited as merely a pretext to take black voters off of the rolls... and then absentee ballots disapeared in Florida... and the polls were all over the map using strange techniques... And the list goes on. Of course, the mainstream press won't be covering voting discrepancies for you. As usual, for the real news, internet services and a few radio programs are the only option. I recommended 3 on my main page, 2 of which are following the election fraud carefully: whatreallyhappened.com rense.com One of the first activists drawing attention to problems with Diebold machines was Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org. Andy Stevenson of Black Box Voting appeared on WBAI November 4th to talk about Black Box Voting's FOIA requests and election fraud. (WBAI also hosted famous author and historian/political scientist Dr. Michael Parenti the same day, discussing the campaign and election results.) Harris is covering some problems with the 2004 election on her web site. Greg Palast, the Guardian reporter who covered Katharine Harris' and Jeb Bush's success at rigging the 2000 election in Florida, covers how Kerry actually won Ohio this time in his article "Kerry Won". Palast, the author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, claims that even without the new voting machines, "spoiled" ballots would decide the election for Kerry in Ohio anyway. I'm also providing a long list of other links found on rense.com and whatreallyhappened.com. These sites change their links daily, and I'd like to preserve such good information, to give you an idea of why Americans did the right thing, but were cheated out of the change they wanted: Exit polls and 'actual' results don't match; Evoting states show greater discrepancy Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked Fixed - The Stealing Of Another Election The Ohio Factor: Did Homeland Security and the FBI interfere With the Vote Count? Nader wants every ballot legally verified Yale Law School Dean Rebukes Kerry For Conceding Global monitors find faults 2004 COLLECTED VOTE FRAUD STORIES "In states with paper ballots and audit trails, the exit polls did indeed predict the results. In states using electronic voting machines, the results from the voting machines were skewed towards Bush." - whatreallyhappened.com (This is a graphic of charts that needs to be viewed on a full screen or enlarged.) A STOLEN NATION House Dems Ask GAO To Investigate Voting Machines Never Say Die-bold: So You Don't Think the Bush Campaign Stole This Election? Think Again Screen Shots Show CNN Changed Exit Poll Data! Software flaw found in Florida vote machines Broward machines count backward Computer Glitch Gives Bush 3,893 Extra Votes Stanford Prof On Black Box Secrecy How They Could Steal the Election This Time by Ronnie Dugger Did Kerry Concede Too Soon? Incredible As It May Seem, MSNBC Covers Voting Problems Was The Ohio Election Honest And Fair? Voting Machine Controversy VOTE FRAUD! Diebold Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting Fraud votergate.tv Documentary Digital Chads: E-Voting Errors Almost Inevitable In one precinct, Bush's tally was supersized by a computer glitch Vote Fraud in Ohio? The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy Russian Observer Shocked by U.S. Election Procedures Stop whining about the vote. You got exactly what you deserved. A homicidal liar with the weaponry - and the willingness - to kill everyone on the planet. This is the new American dream, and it's your worst nightmare. You have only yourself to thank for not paying attention. Have a nice day. John Kaminski, "American Sunset" Stolen Election? Some observations of the 2004 election Computer May Have Lost 4,500 NC Votes Residents turned away at polls America is screwed: Election stolen again Surprising Pattern of Florida's Election Results They are stealing Minnesota Maryland e-voting controversy continues in presidential race HOW A PRIVATE COMPANY COUNTS OUR VOTES ON ELECTION NIGHT A Full Investigation is Required What went wrong in Cuyahoga? - Did they count 90.000 votes in time? E-Voting Tests Get Failing Grade The stolen election of 2004: welcome back to hell Too many voting 'irregularities' to be coincidence Did Bush fix the elections? (E-)Voting : Blogosphere: Election Fraud? (Updates) Left Wing Claims Exit Polls Were Accurate, Bush Stole Election Diebold suit settled Oregon Elections Officials Face Backlog Of Complaints Vote Theft Round 2: And so the sorting and discarding of Kerry votes begins Good News From Bev Harris An Election Spoiled Rotten by Greg Palast States with electronic voting machines gave Bush mysterious 5% advantage; bloggers do the math that broadcast networks fail to follow As more and more analysis is done of what may (or may not) be the most massive election fraud in the history of the world, however, it's critical that we keep the largest issue at the forefront at all time: Why are We The People allowing private, for-profit corporations, answerable only to their officers and boards of directors, and loyal only to agendas and politicians that will enhance their profitability, to handle our votes? ...Why have we let corporations into our polling places, locations so sacred to democracy that in many states even international election monitors and reporters are banned? Why are we allowing corporations to exclusively handle our vote, in a secret and totally invisible way? Particularly a private corporation founded, in one case, by a family that believes the Bible should replace the Constitution; in another case run by one of Ohio's top Republicans; and in another case partly owned by Saudi investors? Of all the violations of the commons -- all of the crimes against We The People and against democracy in our great and historic republic -- this is the greatest. Our vote is too important to outsource to private corporations. It's time that the U.S.A. -- like most of the rest of the world -- returns to paper ballots, counted by hand by civil servants (our employees) under the watchful eye of the party faithful. Even if it takes two weeks to count the vote, and we have to just go, until then, with the exit polls of the news agencies. It worked just fine for nearly 200 years in the U.S.A., and it can work again. Thom Hartmann, AlterNet - "Exit Polls Right, Tallies Wrong?" Diebold's Political Machine Bloggers Cry 'Foul:' Widespread Allegations of Election Fiction Should America Trust the Results of the Election? Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies Democrats want election machine firm thrown out The GOP's Shameful Vote Strategy He wanted every vote to matter; Athan Gibbs, Sr. dies in crash Theresa LePore has journalist arrested, tackled for photographing voters outside precinct Presidential Votes Miscast on e-Voting Machines Throughout The Country Protests Against Stolen Election Voting Machine Tests For Tamperability NOT Done Bush/Cheney '04: "More votes than voters: Now THAT'S a mandate!" Electronic-Voting Critics Scrutinizing U.S. Election Grand Theft Election Palm Beach County Logs 88,000 More Votes Than Voters Election Was Rigged and Stolen Where is the Outrage? Possible evidence of voter fraud in Ohio ES&S run 90% of the voting machines State: All Counties; Topic: Voting System Used FRAUD!! in Ghanna Ohio Faun Otter: Vote Fraud - Exit Polls Vs Actuals CITIZENS FOR LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT (www.legitgov.org) Launches Investigation Into Discrepancies of 2004 'Election' Betty Bowers F.O.O.L. Awards for the 2004 Elections Election Stolen? Was the Ohio Election Honest and Fair? AN ELECTION MOST FOUL Republicans, Justice Dept. Gear Up To Steal Votes E-mail stolen from Diebold is a call to gouge Maryland Diebold Machines Yield Fishy CA Results Kucinich on Voting Rights The Year Democracy Ended BlackBoxVoting.com (not to be confused with blackboxvoting.org, Bev Harris' site) Voting Paper Trail Advocate Dies In 'Tragic Accident' http://www.wsoctv.com/news/3892151/detail.html Staged Election: Several Republicans Win by Exact Same Amount of Votes Rage Against the Machines Two Voting Companies & Two Brothers Will Count 80% Of The U.S. Election -Using BOTH Scanners & Touchscreens Commentary America 2004 Is Germany 1930 (This has election links contained in the article) God's Anointed One Was Elected - Be Afraid American Sunset; "Look, dear! Don't the chemtrails look lovely tonight..." Amerikan Moonrise - The New Dark Age The Illuminati Always Win The 'Election' Cowering in anticipation of what America might do next The Italian model A few weeks ago, another well-traveled co-worker told me about Italy's way of avoiding election fraud -- ballots are all on paper, counted in public with a representative from each party there to observe and step in if they disagree. Obviously, if Americans want to preserve the right to elect their leadership and have their own interests represented, a new system must be demanded. The country's founders left it up to us to make sure voting was honest. Self-selection by the elite is a monarchy, not a democracy. It's King George all over again. Back to the top © 2004, 2006 by Pam Rotella; Amy Goodman's interview subject to copyright notices of Democracy Now! and Pacifica Radio/WBAI New York Back to Pam's vegan vegetarian FUN page Pam's vegan vegetarian cookbook, with vegan vegetarian recipes