It is no secret that the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections were stolen. In 2000 the supreme court decided that Dubya would be our president and Gore refused to push forward on the recount for what was said was his fear for the reactions of the public. Damn the reactions to a stolen election that was just grief to bear.
In 2004 Edwards stood in front of the crowds of disappointed voters and said that all of our votes would be counted. The very next day he conceded with head hung low and not a word about why he changed his mind.
I was on the internet in my favorite political chat room when we were notified that a recount was going on in Xenia, Ohio and one of the chatters had an actual counter on the phone.
I phoned the counter personally and was chatting with her and reporting online as she told me the story of how when they (the counters), arrived at the election office in the early am, they found all the doors open and unlocked and election paraphnalia strewn about the room.
She called the police and they took thier time arriving. They began the process of recounting the votes when they got a call from Blackwell or his office to tell them to cease the count. They were shocked and dismayed as they thought the count was legal and neccesary, they refused to stop. Soon the police arrived and escorted the counters out of the office. This was after they had been at the job for about 6 hours or more.
Of course, our chatroom was livid and we called all over trying to get the press and others to notice . Little happened from our efforts. And seemingly, nothing has happened since then to prevent it as far as I know.
Some states have gotten rid of the voting machines. I have seen (because I have searched) info regarding the stolen elections online. Greg Palast and others tried to do a few things. However, to my knowledge no one is doing time for the stealth of our election process.
Link TV and HBO have offered programs documenting some of the election process but still we have machines taking our votes with no checks and balances. 20/20 did an espose just this week about how the congress voted for millions of dollors to have the machines placed everywhere without ever finding out how the machines worked or if they were safe. Eveything has checks and balances in our world...indeed our world is based on this precept...except for American elections.
Why would we assume that our elections are fair? Only white male landowners were allowed to vote for a long time in our country. Reluctantly woman and blacks were gradually given some access, many times with various tricks to stop them from voting once they arrived at the polls. And it still goes on...and on and on.
Now some states have early voting. Not here in my red VA and the NAACP has already gone to court here to protest the lack of time to vote for the influx we are expecting. The case has been tabled to be continued after the election which really will be too late.
Now we can see the problems the machines are giving many across the USA. Some have flipped the vote from Obama to Mccain,( why never vice versa?) others have only two voting machines for hundreds of voters. Voters are waiting in line for as much as 6 hours or more and voting hours have been shortened and lenghtened with little notice. Voting places have been changed suddenly and many other voting irregularities are coming to fore.
Our news media is beating ACORN to death for handing in Micky Mouse and Pluto on registration cards. Reporting with zeal and horror the fact that some folks are dead on the handed in forms. No matter that these forms are checked and rechecked and rarely get through to the actual polls where they will be checked again.
All of the huffiness Faux Brews( Fox News) displays about how dare ACORN possibly allowing a handful of near-do-wells to slip through the holes and vote. They pay almost NO attention to the states as they are purging hundreds of thousands of names from the voting rolls again and stealing another election.
Mccain stated early in his campaign that he would win the election in the last 48 hours. Now the polls are saying Obama is winning and the polls are showing they are neck and neck. This serves to help some Obama voters stay away as he has it in the bag. While the neck and neck, tighting polls etc. help to allow the shift to happen for McCains statement to come true and the 2008 presidential election can be STOLEN once again.
Oh Lord, i pray....make me wrong....Go OBAMA GO GOTV