The old reverso votefraud trick

[HomerRamone]

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
The old reverso votefraud trick

The Democrats are headed for a big unpleasant surprise in the 2006 elections. Their apparent success in the most recent elections was just a trick. With various Republican scandals, and Bush's ridiculously low poll results, Republican victories due to more election fraud would have produced outrage, and forced Democrats to get off their sorry asses and do something about trashing the crooked voting machines. With the Democrat 'victories', they now will shut up and allow the Republicans to fix the 2006 elections, the ones the Republicans really care about. It is even possible that Rove told Diebold and his other vote machine pals to fix the most recent results to ensure Democrat wins, just to make sure that no one messes with the precious machines before 2006.

How do we know what happened? These recent elections were completely irrelevant to the continued Republican raping of the American treasury, and did not in the least concern Republican organized criminals in Washington. Well, except for one telling exception. There were five ballot initiatives held in Ohio, four of which were to reform that state's obviously corrupt voting system (you know, the one that gave Bush the Electoral College votes he needed to win the last crooked election). The poll numbers before the election showed that the reform would win comfortably, or, at the very least, that the issue was still open and dependent on undecided voters. In spite of this, all the election reform initiatives were defeated, with dramatic discrepancies from the pre-election poll results (the only non-election-related initiative passed matching the poll results almost exactly). Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman describe (or here) the gory details of the striking flip-flop in the voting (which they characterize in two of the four cases as 'statistically staggering'), and Brad Friedman sets the results out in a table (or here) so you can see the discrepancies. What a coincidence. The only results that Rove cared about in the whole country are the ones where the results didn't match the polls, and the ones where the electorate provided the results that Rove wanted. Jeb or Dick will need those Electoral College votes in 2008. Another coincidence? Diebold computer voting machines were used in almost half the voting stations to create obtain the results.

Now we won't hear anything about the problems with the voting machines until late next year, after the Democrats get trounced, and the Republicans will be able to drag out reform so the crooked machines will still be in use in 2008. Karl Rove, busy with other matters (!), still had enough time to be ten steps ahead of the Democrats. It's like watching a cat play with a dying mouse.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

1. I thought DU doesn't allow Conspiracy Theories anymore? nt

[Jim Sagle]

3. I thought it didn't allow filthy antisemitic websites, either.

[HomerRamone]

5. They're pretty heavily anti-Zionist but

as a half-Jew myself I don't believe that's the same thing as anti-Semitic. And anyway, I don't circulate those points but find much of value on that site...

[HomerRamone]

4. If we're not allowed to consider that elections may be stolen

I'm outta here...

[Patchuli]

2. Pooh bah!

Never underestimate the power of the common folks who sick to death of this bullshit.

Welcome to DU...I think.

[Rainscents]

6. Next year election is going to be VERY important one!

Republican Senate needs 5 more seats plus reelect one alrady there... For some reason, they manage to pull this shit off, we are all FUCKED! I'm seriouse, this is very important race!

[kaygore]

7. Look where the big wins were

Virginia--Democratic governor (hard to steal the election)

New Jersey--again Democratic governor in place already

California--a blue state that was blinded by star power and the Kennedy name but finally saw the light

The point is that it is harder for these guys to steal elections in states controlled by Democrats in the governorship and/or legislature (that makes Richardson in NM very suspect, by the way!)


This is also why we need to get more Democrats in as governor. Kilgore ran a very nasty campaign, very much as Bush and the Republicans did in 2004. What we have going for us in 2006 is that that tactic is working less and less. People are getting fed up with candidates and their minions smearing the other guy and not presenting their own position. Let us hope that Rovian political campaigns no longer have a positive effect for the Republicans!

[upi402]

8. Media traitors must be investigated

for their betrayal of democracy.