Crisis Papers: What Can We the People Do About Election Fraud?

[AtLiberty]

What Can We the People Do About Election Fraud?

Ernest Partridge, Co-Editor
The Crisis Papers
April 26, 2005

During the two and a half years that The Crisis Papers has been on the web, we have posted hundreds of articles and links in our “Election 2004 Fraud” and “Electoral Integrity” pages. In addition I have written and published numerous essays about the issue, most recently just two weeks ago. On each occasion, I have received numerous letters telling me “I’m convinced that the elections are frauds,” then asking “Now what can I do about it?”

Here is a partial answer. “Partial,” because if honest and verifiable elections are ever to return to the United States, it will be because this question will be asked relentlessly by an outraged public.

Electoral integrity is arguably the most important political issue to face the American people since the founding of our democracy, as it raises the question of whether, in fact, we still have a democracy. For if, as the skeptics contend, the outcome of our federal “elections” are decided before a single vote is cast, then the government of the United States no longer “ its just powers from the consent of the governed.” Despite what we are told from Washington, or by the corporate media, this is not a government “of, by, and for the people.”

The grounds for suspicion about the integrity of our elections are simple, straightforward, and undisputed. In federal elections, thirty percent of the votes are cast, and eighty percent of the votes are regionally compiled, in machines: (a) utilizing secret software, (b) producing no independent record of the votes (e.g. Paper trails”), and ( c ) manufactured by active members and supporters of the Republican Party. In sum, the system in place is effectively designed, either deliberately or accidentally, to facilitate fraud...

For the full article, click:

http://www.crisispapers.org/essays-p/election-fraud.htm

[MontageOfFreedom]

1. Thank you for this report. I am amazed at how blind we all are.... n/t

[roseBudd]

2. They had means, motive and opportunity, now we have to inform

lots of people who do not hang out on lefty web sites.

The easiest way to do that is to use a carrot.

The carrot is entertainment. Think Daily Show.

The only entertaining source of election fraud information is:

Behind The Election: Bush Cheated
http://bushcheated04.com

and "Loser version 2.0"
http://bushcheated04.com

help spread BushCheated04.com and watch election fraud awareness grow. Freeway blog it, write it on dollar bills, send it to friends, aquaintances and family in an email, always emphasisizing how funny it is. First they laugh, then they start thinking.

[Amaryllis]

3. Question is, how to get Jon Stewart on board. He did a great segment

on e-voting prior to the election, but nothing since.

[roseBudd]

4. It's hard to be funny about election fraud. I am not sure the format I..

have used could translate to a Daily Show format. I used the Behind The Music technique of villians who are proud of their misdeeds dishing the dirt on themselves.

Please help spread bushcheated04.com by writing it on dollar bills, glueing it to bus stop shelters and phone booths.

Print the bush cheated 04 flyer by downloading this PDF:

http://bushcheated04.com/images/bushcheated04.pdf

[Amaryllis]

8. His segment on e-voting was pretty funny. He can make anything funny,

even Iraq. Election fraud should be easy if he can make Iraq funny.

[jen4clark]

5. letters!

Seriously, if enough of us keep on writing we WILL be heard! We just have to get enough of us doing it and don't give up! From the article of OP:

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Case in point: the Sinclair Broadcasting "Stolen Honor" fiasco. As you likely recall, in the closing days of the Presidential campaign, Sinclair scheduled "Stolen Honor," a smear of John Kerry's Vietnam service. Following a public outcry, Sinclair withdrew the program. And why? A sudden realization of civic responsibility? Ya gotta be kidding! Fear of offending the public? Yes, but not directly. In fact, the Sinclair management, solid supporters of George Bush and the GOP, buckled from pressure from the stockholders.

The offended public was removing its eyes from the Sinclair TV screens. Hence lower ratings and lower profits. Sinclair management was ungently reminded that their job was not to campaign for George Bush, their job was to provide a return on the stockholders' investments. Failing that, management might quite properly be sued, or at least booted out, at the next stockholders' meeting.

<snip>

Our job: tell the media, and their sponsors, that we no longer trust their news reporting, and are now looking elsewhere...

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Recruit Allies. Regrettably, many prominent progressives are not convinced that the past election was fixed - among them, Paul Begala, Al Franken, Arianna Huffington, and Bernie Sanders. To this day, the Democratic Party is mute on the issue, as is the progressive think-tank, The Center for American Progress. Demand that they examine the evidence and challenge them to refute it. And if they can't, tell them to join the fight...

And then there's this thread:

Let's encourage the Chicago Tribune to run Bob Koehler's columns
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x362820

[Amaryllis]

9. do you have an address for Stewart? I haven't been able to find one.

[jen4clark]

12. sorry

I didn't see this until now and I can't find an addy for John Stewart either. Hopefully someone else will see this and be able to provide one!

[kster]

6. Thanks for the article

whether you send one e-mail, letter or phone call or 10,000, Don't stop doing whatever it is you are doing. FIGHT FIGHT. NGU

[kster]

7. kick.nt

[kster]

10. kick.nt

[tommcintyre]

11. kick

[jen4clark]

13. big problem

this article shows how our efforts to ensure for fair/transparent elections is totally tied in to ensuring we get some sort of representation in the media. It seems like it'll be hard to get one without the other.

The Left's Media Miscalculation

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/042805.html

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...When the pro-Bush Swift Boat Veterans for Truth sandbagged Kerry over his Vietnam War record, the conservative media infrastructure made the anti-Kerry attacks big news, joined by mainstream outlets such as CNN. But liberals lacked the media capacity to counter the charges.

By the time the major newspapers got around to examining the Swift Boat allegations and judged many to be spurious, Kerry’s campaign was in freefall.

Similarly, there was no significant independent media capability to quickly investigate and publicize voting irregularities on Election Day 2004. Ad hoc citizens groups and Internet bloggers tried to fill the void but lacked the necessary resources...

<snip>

...There also was a new variation on the Left’s three-decade-old emphasis on “grassroots organizing.” MoveOn.org postponed action on media infrastructure in favor of rallying political activists in support of Democratic legislative goals.

When media activist Carolyn Kay presented a comprehensive media reform strategy, MoveOn.org’s founder Wes Boyd responded with an e-mail on April 24 saying, “Just to be direct and frank, we have no immediate plans to pursue funding for media …

“Our efforts are focused on a few big fights right now, because this is the key legislative season. Later in the year and next year I expect there will more time to look further afield.”

Kay e-mailed Boyd back, saying, “For five years people have been telling me that in just a couple of months, we’ll start addressing the long-term problems. But the day never comes. … Today it’s Social Security and the filibuster. Tomorrow it will be something else. And in a couple of months it will be something else again. There’s never a right time to address the media issue. That’s why the right time is now.”

Boyd’s April 24 e-mail – calling the idea of addressing the nation’s media crisis as wandering “afield” – is typical of the views held by many leaders in the “progressive establishment.” There is no sense of urgency about media.

Still, MoveOn’s blasé attitude may be even more surprising since the organization emerged as a political force during the media-driven impeachment of President Clinton. It also watched as Gore’s MoveOn-sponsored, pre-Iraq-War speeches were trashed by the national news media, reinforcing his decision to forego a second race against Bush...

[Kip Humphrey]

14. In spite of this, we succeeded in getting 60-64 million citizens

to come out to throw Bush out! Those folks are still out there and they are still pissed! Having the media would be nice, but we didn't have it last year and we still succeeded. Meetups, teach-ins, email campaigns, pone campaigns, "letter to the Editor" campaigns, rallies, protests, - we know how to do this!... And we can do it again!

[jen4clark]

15. Yes we can

and we are doing it! I think the mainstream media will grow less and less relevant and hopefully by the time of the '06 and '08 elections they won't be able to "sway" as many with their biased/liar based coverage!

At the same time, hopefully progressives and Internet based "action" groups like MoveOn will finally get it that this is an area that needs lots of attention.

otoh, maybe with the continued growth and influence of Internet news progressive groups don't feel it's crutial that we attempt to re-establish a foothold in the corporate controlled mainstream media?