Koehler: Why would anybody cheat in an election?

[AtLiberty]

Election reformists who have been fighting for three + years should take a moment to rejoice. Remember when Robert Koehler first came out with a piece on the fishy numbers in the 2004 election? He was one of the few "mainstream" voices who dared to discuss it. (Mainstream is used loosely here, I know. Most people aren't aware of Tribune Media Services.) In those dark days, hardly no one was writing on the topic. Sometimes we'd go weeks or months without a big news story.

Although we still have a long way to go, you've gotta admit that a lot more people are talking about this subject than the days following the stolen 2004 election. More people are accepting that election fraud is occuring on a grand scale. So take a moment to rejoice. Sit down with a cup of coffee or tea and read Koehler's latest piece. And be sure to drop Bob a line thanking him for his role and his courage for building awareness.

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Conspiracy Theorist
Why would anybody cheat in an election?

By ROBERT C. KOEHLER
Tribune Media Services

January 24, 2008

“We should at least get votes back on paper and get people counting them by hand.”

As innocuous as these words may sound, they make me feel like I’m on I-35 in Minneapolis, headed toward the Mississippi bridge. Ankle-deep in a presidential election year, I find myself without faith in the infrastructure of American civilization.

This is not what I’d like to be writing about. Our nation’s soul is bleeding, its future up for grabs. The candidates jockey for a mandate — our mandate — and they’ll define it as narrowly as possible unless we define it for them. How thoroughly and courageously do we repudiate the Cheney-Bush legacy? How resolutely do we move toward peace and global oneness? That’s what 2008 is all about, right?

Why, then, must I divert my attention from matters such as this and ponder . . . memory cards and molded plastic deflectors? Ah, democracy! We can’t simply leave it to the voting machine vendors any more than we can leave it to the politicians. The O-rings and gusset plates of democracy are poised to fail in every election; every vote does not count. The media and most government officials are still in denial about this, still dazzled by glitzy, electronic voting technology or maybe just trapped in their billion-dollar commitment to it. Besides, when has technology ever gone backwards?

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[kster]

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[Stevepol]

2. K&R!!