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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 07:40 PM
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HACKED! High Tech Election Theft in America
This new book presents to the American people the work of eleven experts on the issue of electronic vote fraud, stolen elections, and best solutions to the crisis. It explains how electronic voting has stolen our democracy; how elections in American have been privatized by large corporations; why the mainstream media is barely reporting it; and how imperative it is that Americans start TODAY to reclaim their elections.

Editors Abbe DeLozier and Vickie Karp have a mission; To lift the veil of media blackout on the most heinous crime ever committed against the American people: the theft of their democracy; to create the rightful indignation amongst our citizens; and to clearly show that the only solution is direct and immediate citizen involvement geared toward a return to paper ballot elections, hand-counted at the precinct level. Action steps for citizens are included in this expose.
Learn why election fraud is bigger than Watergate

• Convicted felons have been programming our election software.
• Corporate voting machine vendors have ownership ties to top politicians, defense contractors, and foreign governments! Why?
• Elections can be rigged and probably have been for years with the stroke of a keyboard. The truth about what really happened in Ohio in the 2004 presidential election.
• States are using millions of YOUR taxpayer dollars to buy unproven, faulty voting equipment, with no recounts or citizen oversight possible.
• The shocking truth mainstream media has not covered about the electronic voting systems used by 80% of America.
• Learn why you as an American citizen MUST REJECT electronic voting, and insist our government go back to PAPER BALLOTS, HAND COUNTED IN PUBLIC VIEW!

http://hackedelections.com/

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Read a review at this opednews.com link:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_joan_bru_060915_9_2f11_2c_jury_duty_2c_and.htm
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 02:30 AM
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1. Be Free, this looks like a good resource. The people there are
Edited on Tue Sep-19-06 02:30 AM by autorank
long time workers in the area.

Let's keep our folks connecting the dots on the relationship between race and election problems and
the connection between class and election problems. New Mexico saw a unique assault on the voting
rights of Latinos and Native Americans in mostly poor areas. Ohio saw the same in Cleveland, different
victims, working class and poor black Americans.

The history is easy to learn in a about 2 hours worth of reading.

Here's the classic, fee download:

Ballot Manipulation and the "Menace of Negro Domination”:
Racial Threat & Felon Disenfranchisement in the USA, 1850-2000


Democracy Spoiled. Harvard Civil Rights Project

Thanks for your contributions to the heavy lifting in the election forum.

Time somebody said that and I'm told that "I am somebody!";)
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 07:27 AM
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3. Somebody?
Yeah, you are. We all are, fer as I can tell.

You know what's a pisser? That we have to spend time on this subject. After two hundred years of democracy, you'd think the first step would have been well under control. That confidence would be at an all time high.

But we know, don't we, that the powers that wanna be our "royals", are the force behind the theft of our collective voices. That they would like nothing better than to not have to answer to the people.

And the real pisser is that some folks think this whole subject matter is blown way out of proportion, that we are alerting on something that for them there is no cause for concern!

Well, we have educated quite a few and methinks we are getting somewhere, and that the book presented here should be read by all who still have a doubt as to the conspiracy, that if successful, will end democracy as we know it and end the American dream, Thomas Jefferson, et al, dreamed up.

Dream On!
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 03:16 PM
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5. Not every somebody has Ernesto Obrador place an article of his
on the front page of his website, BeFree.

Heck, expressing a little brio (with a tinto mejicano, nae doot) among your friends, would be a safety valve for NOT taking yourself too seriously.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 07:13 PM
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6. Indeed
Auto ranks right up at the top in this here corner of the web.

Not to sound toooo unsophisticated, my friend, KCabot, but what does this mean, in english? "...a little brio (...tinto mejicano, nae doot)..."

Anyways, my sometimes humble demeanor requires that personally targeted accolades be summarily dismissed. Mehopes Auto is not put off by such dissipative scribbling. Or I will be pissed!

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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 06:12 PM
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8. Naah, thank goodness none of us are calculating machines,
who never speak a little out of turn or say something a little amiss, BeFree.

To put it mildly, you're some heavy-lifter here, yourself, in the grand Democrat cause - not least judged on that thread header post of yours. And nobody'll appreciate that more than Auto, as he intimated.

If I remember correctly, "brio" signifies something like "ebullience". A Collins Spanish dictionary gives, "verve", "dash", "spirit", "jauntiness" for "brio". And "tinto mejicano": "Mexican tint" or "Mexican colour".

I'm sure you know "nae doot" is colloquial Scottish for "no doubt", but it doubled me up to hear a Portuguese girl say, "Ah hae ma doots" - which she'd learnt off her boyfriend.

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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 09:44 PM
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10. Thanks, KCabot
I did know that but had forgotten, besides, sometimes I am a little slow, nae doot.

I take it you have observed this American mess from across the big ditch? Well, thanks for taking the time to place your words here and there, but I must say, I wish you could have a greater presence, as your insight has been most beneficial.

The naysayers: Screw the slimy bastasrds! I can't think of one positive note that they have contributed. And except for helping us sharpen our points now and then, they have been nothing more than an irritating retardant.

Well, KCabot, wish us well as we head ever close to the cliff we Americans are ever faster approaching. We've been trying to grab the wheel and steer away from the crash and we may well yet succeed. We had better, eh?
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-21-06 10:31 AM
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16. You said it, BeFree. We dont deserve it, but you're going to save
Edited on Thu Sep-21-06 10:33 AM by KCabotDullesMarxIII
our skins, too.

I'll tell you what though, the more I see how you guys go to battle with the uber-Underworld of the US military-industrial-media complex, the Devil's kitchen (just as I was ruminating on mentioning Old Nick here, I heard a guy on the TV behind me mention the Devil, apparently in connection with Chavez's words and the UN) the more awestruck I am, and the more inspired by the Almighty I feel you are.

You know the saying, "The mills of God grind slow, but exceeding fine". I watch those mills every day, absolutely mesmerised, as I see new brilliantly incisive and comprehensive research on those publically-funded but criminal election charades of 2000 and 2004, which twice usurped your democracy, posted on here for us all to read.

Sure, the historic, unashamedly predatory culture of my country, the UK, has made us endemically degenerate and amoral (we don't want to change our society, just be one of the winners), and the contrast with you people is thus all the greater, but even standing alone, in absolute terms, what you are doing over there is not one whit less awesome. It's very very scary, I'm sure from the malefactors' perspective, not having total control over the media, with you prophetic truth-tellers to the nation beavering away to such powerful effect.

Well, I'm really a kind of gadfly, no expert in anything, but its difficult to forbear from responding to some of the posts of those pompous, but mendacious, honey-tongued, oh-so-reasonable Pharisees - so respectable sounding, but such weasels, so lethally cynical; "whited sepulchres, hiding dead men's bones". God willing, it won't be long before we're spared their bad faith on here.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-21-06 07:12 PM
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17. That's good news.
That you see us grinding away with powerful effect.

Sometimes I wonder. Are we really making headway? I mean, while I see some local movement in my small town, I don't know just what is going on elsewhere, save for the comments posted by the comrades here. But we, here, can't be but 2 percent of the US. So it is nice to read that someone from a distance such as your's is able to recognize that overall we are doing something.

Well, come November 8, when all that's left is the mess of counts and recounts, audits and lawsuits, will any of us ever be so well informed as to our combined effect.

Looking at how far we have come, against a force so much greater than ourselves, and being in the right nearly the whole way, it is quite amazing, isn't it? I guess we are a force to be reckoned with?

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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-22-06 03:36 PM
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19. I thought of you guys when I was watching a TV series here about
our clandestine services called "Spooks".

As a fascist coup looked to be on the point of succeeding, one of the spooks, referring to the way bloggers were galvanising the population to demonstrate en masse against what was set fair to be government by a far-right tyrrany, said how good it was for once to view the bloggers as "on our side".!!!!! Tee hee!
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-22-06 04:11 PM
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20. Politics makes for
...strange bedfellows. I said a long time ago that any patriotic spooks left would be working toward the same goals we are.

Keep on dishing out the praise, we need all we can get.
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-22-06 05:33 PM
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22. It's just credit where it's due.
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 11:41 PM
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7. There is an emerging sense of urgency....
Lou Dobbs is the harbinger. Now people are willing to listen, but not soon enough I suspect. And even that's not enough. There should be a set of recommendations that each candidate has along with resources for contact. That's a long shot too.

I keep thinking back to the Ohio special measures election in 11/05 (or there abouts). Two of the four propositions on clean elections were ahead something like 60-30%, meaning "Yes", and the outcome, as you'll remember. Seven or so days after the best political poll for prediction was issued with these numbers, the election was held and they were practically reversed to "No" 60%. The paper caved in and didn't raise a ruckus and, except for Fitrakis and the great Ohio activists, nobody raised a stink.

I think that was the test. "If we can do this, we can do anything. These Democrats are chumps," they concluded.

So fasten your seat belts. It could be a bumpy ride. I hope I'm wrong, btw. This isn't really a prediction, it's just a rumination;)
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 09:29 PM
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9. That was some test -Ohio 05
And they pretty much got away with it. But as you say, things are beginning to turn. More and more people are willing to listen, and it is folks like you who have enabled that listening to take place.

Sitting here wondering what life would be like had the thefts not occured, one contemplates that the latest thread would be who would succeed Al Gore in 08, or given that that was the only theft - what are Kerry's reelection chances next year?

Instead of bush bashing we'd be laying it down on the Dem president, hashing over the latest US move to make all people free of overt government control, worldwide.

As it is, it is what it is, and instead of looking forward to the latest liberal moves, we are left pondering if we will even survive the next four years.

Methinks we have done a great service to democracy in our missives, rants and raves against the machines. We've done what we could do and had we been more supported by our party our efforts would be ripe and ready for the shenanigans about to be foisted, again, upon the whole country.

But we are somewhat ready. We may have nipped it in the bud, so to speak, and it may well turn out that the machinations come to a grinding halt on, or thereabouts, election day.

I have alerted all my local candidates and am pleasantly surprised at the reception. They have heard that they should not concede without first demanding an audit and seem to be in agreement.

To you, Auto, and all the rest who have stuck around during this long and frustrating episode, I say I am proud to have served along side you, and pledge that your efforts will never be forgotten.

And hope that one day we all can sit down over some brewskis and look back and laugh at this episode.



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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 10:18 PM
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11. We've been shouting about this for exactly four years now. I feel we are
just starting to make some headway over the last few months.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 10:42 PM
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12. Just in the nick of time
I am tired. Sick and tired of having to rehash this whole mess with the idiots who look the other way as our power is being stolen away - vote by vote. Let us hope we will overcome.

I wonder, are Americans just now afraid to question the powers that be? It used to be that questioning the government was a patriotic act, but now it seems most people are afraid of being true patriots!

I see you, blm, are a true patriot, you must not be afraid. Ain't scairt, eh?

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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 10:47 PM
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13. I know too much to be scared and too much NOT to be scared and way too
much to be complacent.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 10:59 PM
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14. Complacent
Do tell.... why do you think so many others are so complacent? Has not the knowledge you have, been likewise available to them, too?

Or is it that you are cut from some different cloth?

I have often pondered this question with no clear answer yet. Why so much complacency?


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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-21-06 08:21 AM
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15. Failure to connect with the information.
It's hard to take the initiative and go back to what was really happening in the 60s.70s, 80s, and 90s, but once you take the time it becomes easy to understand the agenda we are facing today.

Alot of people around this country haven't engaged on that level because alot of the facts and back stories are ignored by the media, so, many people, even a few here at DU, act as if the events today are occurring only because of 9-11.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-21-06 07:28 PM
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18. Heh, I remember the "Good Old Days" too
Yep, I am over the hill.

Now it seems I remember that the same general complacency was in the air back then, too. But there were some sparks which did start a few a'burning. Heck, 50,000 dead soldiers.... for what? Then Four dead in Ohio. Whole areas up in flames! Burn baby burn. Yep, that's the 60's I remember.

I guess today's right spark is yet to be launched, and if that means there are not 50,000 dead to make that launch... well, that's alright by me.

Yes, the 9/11 event was a spark, but oddly enough not the right one.

But my whole theory is that good government doesn't wait to react to a spark, they progress ahead to prevent the flames that a spark would create. Sadly, this bunch is just waiting to throw gas on any fire. Like they did with Iraq.

Oh well, they weren't really elected anyway.
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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 01:09 PM
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4. It sure does, doesn't it, Auto? Just terrific.
Edited on Tue Sep-19-06 01:21 PM by KCabotDullesMarxIII
"The shocking truth mainstream media has not covered about the electronic voting systems used by 80% of America." That must be a classic; a must read for every American, man, woman and child.

A couple of quotes I particularly liked:


"Bev Harris asks, "If an elections official ruins an election - loses votes forever, or mishandles the voting so badly that no one can repair the error - we can fire that person. If an election's machine ruins an election, shouldn't we fire that voting system?"

A couple more:

"Why are former elections officials now lobbying (often those who once worked for them) for electronic voting machine vendor contracts?"

and Joan Brunwwasser quoting Abbe Delozier:

"Diebold has failed every test put to it by computer experts, yet it insists that its machines do what they're advertised to do. Worse yet, its and other vendors' wares are routinely certified. So then what does certification actually mean? And what kind of certifying body is the ITA when it is vendor-funded, and reports only to the vendors, who can choose to rectify the problems (or not) without voters being notified? The law asks: cui bono? Who benefits from such a system? Surely not the voters. (Please see the postscript about the just released Princeton's Center for IT Policy Report.)"

Not so much from the naysayers, these days, eh, Auto? DU posts sound almost all upbeat.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-22-06 04:22 PM
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21. Favor to ask, autorank... You mention the poor Latinos and Indians
of New Mexico.

I get soooo tired of reading repeatedly on DU about how poor folk either don't vote, or vote RW.

Would you please help me in dispelling this obnoxious myth?!

I'd really appreciate it! I get so tired of poor bashing!

Thanks!
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mom cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 06:25 AM
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2. K&R ... also be sure to read the excelent review that is the second
link in the OP. PAPER, PAPER, PAPER!
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