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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill 9 GOP Governors Electronically Flip Romney Into the White House?
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17529-will-9-gop-governors-electronically-flip-romney-into-the-white-houseWith their secretaries of state, they control the electronic vote count in nine key swing states: Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Arizona, and New Mexico. Wisconsin elections are under the control of the state's Government Accountability Board, appointed by the governor.
In tandem with the GOP's massive nation-wide disenfranchisement campaign, they could---in the dead of election night---flip their states' electronic votes to Romney and give him a victory in the Electoral College.
Thankfully, resistance has arisen to the disenfranchisement strategy, which seems designed to deny millions of suspected Democrats the right to vote. The intent to demand photo ID for voting could result in some ten million Americans being disenfranchised, according to the Brennan Center at New York University. Other methods are being used to strip voter rolls---as in Ohio, where 1.1 million citizens have been purged from registration lists since 2009. This "New Jim Crow"---personified by groups like True the Vote (New York Times Article)---could deny the ballot to a substantial percentage of the electorate in key swing states.
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)nebenaube
(3,496 posts)You can bank on it.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,460 posts)Gin
(7,212 posts)begin_within
(21,551 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)for RMoney to win the vote. So, make sure on Nov. 6th that you make certain not only that you voted but your friends, family, neighbors, etc. vote. I mean in Wisconsin, he's up by double-digits. Flipping the switch, if that lead holds, would look like California flipping the switch for RMoney.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)I don't think these republican governors would have the cojones to try to pull something like this. It might be possible if Romney had turned out to be even a marginally credible presidential candidate but by November it will be patently obvious that there is no chance in the world of him coming anywhere near victory.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,460 posts)if the state polls aren't realistically close by November, particularly if we're talking about likely voters, then I don't know how they'd be able to pull off such a heist. 2000 and 2004 were VERY close elections and ultimately came down to single states (BTW I'm not discounting theft/suppression/disenfranchisement in those races). President Obama appears to be doing well enough in several states (like in 2008) that such a last minute massive shift in Romney's favor in several states would just be too jarring for most people to accept IMHO.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)There's only one answer for such high crimes.
Brother Buzz
(36,505 posts)AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)Rmoney isn't even trying to appeal to swing voters. He continues to pander exclusively to the hard right.
He is not trying to appeal to the voters, he is trying to appeal to the teabaggers who will count the votes. Even his "gaffes" have been designed to appeal to them.
They intend to steal the election. What they did in Florida in 2000, and in Florida and Ohio in 2004, they intend to do in 2012 in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and as many of the 27 states that they control as they can.
It will take a landslide to stop them.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Both sides are free to offer input on what the injunction should include tomorrow, but he's made it pretty clear there will be one.