Pat Buchanan gets 8,000 votes in Palm Beach County, more (and by a ridiculous margin) than any other county in the state. The infamous "butterfly ballot" is to blame but this doesn't hold water.
For those who don't recall the ballot's layout, Bush's name was on the left and pointed to hole #3. Gore's name was directly below it and pointed to hole #5. On the right was Buchanan, pointing to hole #4 while the Socialist candidate was directly below Pat's with hole #6. If one wanted to argue it was strictly confusion, one could also argue that half of the mistaken votes were meant for Bush since the hole existed halfway between the two names (thus making the point moot for Democrat claims of a wrong result).
If one wishes to believe, as the Democrats and the media do, that Buchanan got 8,000 votes because confused grannies pushed it when they meant to vote for Gore, it would stand to reason the Socialist candidate would have also received a few thousand votes. He didn't. He received less than 200.
Buchanan, himself, expressed surprise that he did so well in Palm Beach County (an "Amen Corner" perhaps?) so one could surmise this really wasn't a landslide of Brigadeers either.
So, how do you explain the vote totals?
As a community with many senior citizens and a Democrat-controlled local governemnt, vote fraud would be fairly easy. A clerk could merely gain access to the death certificates of the past few years and check them against those names still on the voter rolls. They would then assign some flunkie to include these voters in the vote totals with pre-prepared ballots voting for Al Gore and the rest of the party slate.
Only the flunkie accidentally poked the ballots with hole #4 (Buchanan) instead of hole #5 (Gore), an easy mistake to make given Gore's position on the left side of the ballot just below G. W. Bush (hole #3). The flunkie's superiors only learned of the error after it was too late to correct.
Now comes the smoking gun. In a post-election story in the Washington Post buried deep in the first section, a mention appears that the Democrat Party contacted a telemarketing company in Texas to call back Palm Beach voters who "may have been confused" about the butterfly ballot and to contact their election officials about re-casting their vote.
Even if one accepts the cover story that a few befuddled grannies called Congressman Wexler and expressed their concern (one wonders how they were able to dial the congressmen on their rotary phones when they couldn't correctly punch ballot holes with arrows clearly leading to the correct holes to punch), there's no way he could have enough pull with the *national* party apparatus so as to take people away from precious get-out-the-vote calls to other states in order to call back people who had allegedly already voted in sufficient numbers before the polls in Florida had closed. That is, unless the national party realized the fix was in and needed to create a cover story for the clearly irregular vote totals.
Even a football stadium filled with addled old bitties wouldn't be able to get the national party to move that fast (before any of the votes had even been counted!) unless the national party already knew what was really at stake.
It's obvious, then, that the Democrats hatched the fraud scheme and, when their plan went awry, took unusual steps to come up with an alternate story that could be accepted and manipulated by a pliant press corps. Imagine if the person who created and approved the butterfly ballot had not been a Democrat herself!
And it was this flunkie, whose hand was undoubtedly directed by God to screw up the best-laid plans of deceit and fraud, that accidentally gave the White House to George W. Bush! That's why the Democrats are so filled with hatred and disgust toward Bush. Imagine how you'd feel if you rigged an election and STILL lost!!
It doesn't matter if the general public hears it, just the Republicans who can be motivated to become active. This can only be done at the local level. It is the RATs doing the fraud, not the general public, and it's up to the GOPers to stop them.
All Republican FReepers should take this info and make sure it gets to your state, county and city Republican committees and their websites.
Mailings to primary GOP voters may net more potential poll workers, fraud detectors, phone workers etc.
The Republicans remain C-students in Electioneering 101 - Getting The Message Out. The media remains firmly in control of the Democrats
Absolutely...so do the colleges. But the RATs do not control the internet or the mail (well, maybe the mail.)
GOP FReepers......please copy/paste the pertinent information and in a professional manner, distribute it to concerned Republicans...especially those whom you know.