I saw this great documentary on the Sundance Channel - UNPRECWDENTED - about how brazenly the 2000 Election was stolen in Florida by using DBT to purge the voter rolls of Black Americans. Then consider reports on the 2004 election, like the one by Christopher Hitchens Vanity Fair, about Diebold machines, less machines in Dem precincts, etc...the fact is our Democracy is in peril because elections are unreliable - and no politician on the Dem side seems to be taking it seriously...but the Republicans seem to be...not in Florida or Ohio...in Washington!
So I get this e-mail from the GOP about their "crisis" in Washington. A blogger recently said that the GOP modus operandi is to ACCUSE the Democrats of doing what they are ACTUALLY doing, and no better example can be seen of that than this:
More and more reports are emerging of the extent to which Democrats were willing to go to try to influence the 2004 election.
Well, their tactics worked in Washington State.
Our Republican candidate for Governor, Dino Rossi, actually won the election. Then he won the recount.
Then Democrat-controlled King County "found" 566 new votes just in time for the second recount, enough to overturn the results of Election Day and the first recount.
The new result? Dino Rossi "lost" by 129 votes. But consider the following facts in Washington state;
* 943 felons illegally voted
* 49 dead people voted
* 3 people voted in Washington and another state
* 2 illegal aliens voted
* 12 people voted multiple times
* 174 provisional votes were counted but later found to be cast people who had already voted or were unregistered
Also, at least another 1,600 ballots are still in question:
* 875 more absentee votes were cast in King County than there were absentee voters
* 95 more ballots in King County and 50 ballots in Whitman County were "found" after both recounts, and have never been counted
* At least 660 provisional ballots were improperly counted in King County.
Dino Rossi is fighting, and voters of good conscience from across this country should stand with him. For more info on Dino Rossi and his ongoing fight, please go to www.dinorossi.com.
Sincerely,
Michael DuHaime
RNC Political Director
What the fuck!?