Editorial: Stolen votes/Concord Monitor says Bush Stole the Election

NH Concord Monitor ^ | 3/18/02 | Concord Staff

[ecurbh]

[medved]

The idea would be to have a sixty-day window before election day to put your vote up on the master computer, along with your name and SSN over a modem. Then anybody on the planet could check up on any possible allegation of fraud. Very simple; anything else is almost too complicated to work.

[Deguello]

Thanks. I lost mine on a driver crash.

[smith288]

Are they insinuating that most of the people who are too stupid to read the butterfly ballot are blacks? Awfully racist to be making such an accusation.

[Lazamataz]

I guess this means I can start posting again.

Get back in your hole.

One of your conditions was that a Bush win would require California. It didn't.

Back, back, back into the pit with you.

[eno_]

That's true if you want 100% verifiability. But that is not needed. All you have to do is arrest enough fraudsters to deter the rest. If enough illegal immigrants are in jeopardy of being sent home, the union thugs that corral these people and take them to vote will have a harder time. Raise the costs high enough and it stops working.

[medved]

One other thing you could do woul be to end the war on drugs. Every drug offender thrown out of prison could be viewed as one more prison cell available for a democrat...

[alnick]

And a Federal Circuit Court judge ruled that many of those absentee ballots had been illegally disqualified (by Dims), and must be counted.

And they never were counted, were they? Very shortly after that ruling came down, the Supreme Court issued their ruling, and the absentee ballots were just forgotten about.

[Steve0113]

Where, exactly, are all these "voters" who were not allowed to vote? I suspect they are in their graves and have been for a while now.

Merely being dead has never stopped anyone from voting for Rats.

[eno_]

And one more cop available to follow up on election fraud complaints. In business this is known as "opportunity cost." We know the Drug War has a direct cost of about $50B per year. It also damn near cost the election last time, and you can figure that if drug interdiction were not such a preoccupation, we might have caught a few terrorists before they had a chance to kill so many Americans on 9/11. Stop the Drug War and start doing real law enforcement work.

[Howlin]

Had thousands of voters not wrongly been turned away from the polls

Even Mary Frances Berry couldn't make that charge stick.

[Howlin]

Reform efforts are under way, but at least one major flaw in the system should be repaired by Congress before another national election is held.

He's right about that one. Everybody needs to bring their BIRTH CERTIFICATES with them when they come to vote.

[Howlin]

I believe that was Tacis' point.

[Tuco-bad]

Back, back, back into the pit with you.

Wait, wait, wait - the Concord Monitor says Bush Stole the Election.

[L.N. Smithee]

Reform efforts are under way, but at least one major flaw in the system should be repaired by Congress before another national election is held. A chilling two-page account in the current issue of Harper's magazine by Greg Palast, who investigated the 2000 election for the BBC, illustrates why.

I have read Palast's stuff on Florida before. While on the surface this reads like the allegations of police blockades in black neighborhoods and few-and-far-between incidents of problems with individual election workers, it's a different tale altogether.

Palast focuses on the scrubbing from the Florida voter rolls the names of alleged felons, and the way that the job was monumentally botched, revoking the right to vote for criminals who had a legal right to vote. He makes great hay out of the fact that the company that screwed things up -- a division of ChoicePoint, founded by a Republican donor, now deceased -- was located in (cue scary music!) Texas. He also makes the accusation that Katherine Harris violated the Florida law by making those who were mistakenly scrubbed reapply to vote. Most of the non-felonious criminals were black, and there were supposedly more mistakenly scrubbed than made up the winning margin for Bush, so, the thinking is hundreds of potential Gore voters weren't allowed to choose him by Harris and Jeb Bush.

Essentially, Palast argues that ChoicePoint's ineptitude was too beneficial to the Bushes to be an accident. As someone who once was in a board meeting that was entirely about ChoicePoint's inability to get my department necessary applicant information, I can tell you all that I am not surprised, and don't think it was a plot.

When reading Palast's story at face value, complete with charging after Fla. officials through parking lots and being rebuffed, it seems like a damning argument, but the question is, why is it that the actual alleged victims of what went on don't embrace Palast, and continue to hold on to the butterfly ballot and the bogus charges of racism as the cause of the "disinfranchisement?" I hate to say I won't believe it until I see it in the mainstream media, but I don't think it would allow this story to languish in the pages of Harper's a year and a half after the fact if it could stand up to scrutiny.

[Kaslin]

Well, Excuse... Me. If they are Jamaican and Haitian and not US citizens, then they cannot vote.

See US election laws.

That doesn't bother the democRATS

[Lazamataz]

Wait, wait, wait - the Concord Monitor says Bush Stole the Election.

So does Terry McAuliffe and Michael Moore.

Pit. Now.

[4CJ]

W already won without them - Gore could have forced the issue and demanded that they be counted. I wonder why he didn't want "evey vote" to be counted? < /SARCASM >

[alnick]

True, but the media recounts did not include those.