Posted on 09/18/2004 11:28:44 PM PDT by Travis McGee
Freepers who helped to defeat the democrat election fraud in 2000 will want to obtain this new book by John Fund ASAP, in order to be ready for their tricks in November 2004.
I heard Fund on a radio talk show last week, briefly. He went into the scoop discovered on Free Republic in 2000, namely, how 15,000 Bush ballots were "spiked" in Palm Beach County. This was first discovered through statistical analysis by freeper Robert E. Cook, PE.
If you are not familiar with this method of vote fraud, here is how it was done: corrupt 'rat precincts held back their ballots in tight races, most flagrantly in Palm Beach County. At the last minute, stacks of ballots were "spiked" down the Gore hole. This did not change the Gore ballots, which already had their chads punched out in normal voting.
But every Bush vote was ruined, because with the Gore hole also knocked out (by the spike) it became an invalid double vote.
These 15,000 ruined Bush ballots were traced to certain corrupt late-reporting precincts. (The rest of the Republican candidates on these 15,000 ballots were not spiked or invalidated, leaving a clear trail of evidence of the 'rat fraud.)
This was exhaustively detailed here in late 2000, but in those days, an explosive scoop from Free Republic was simply unable to gain traction in the MSM, and the story languished and died.
I suggest that as many freepers as possible get hold of this book, first: for defense against many types of 'rat fraud in November, and second: in order to explain to people how the 'rats almost stole the election in Palm Beach in 2000 by "spiking" ballots.
I believe that it does happen, but it is kind of like useless speculation about how many angels can sit on the head of a needle.
Until the GOP leadership has the willpower to do something about this, talk about fraud is just so much whining...
I hear we have massive fraud in Boston -- and since there's hardly every any Republicans running, it must be the Dems using it against each other! A friend of my sister's used to be high up in the Boston Elections Department; after a local primary a couple of years ago (with low turnout even for a local primary), he told her -- after knocking himself out, because he didn't feel he could trust most of the people under him -- he was satisfied that it was a "fairly" clean election.
Thanks for raising this at a critcal time.The cheating in 2000 was never exposed except here and in these few books.Somehow I'm not any more secure knowing kerry's lawyers and kofi will be "overseeing and monitoring".
Thank for this post. Democrat voter fraud is the next big deal for us. They do it every time and are going to be the worst every this time and we need to be ready ready ready.
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The Florida Fiasco of 2000, with hanging chads, butterfly ballots and Supreme Court intervention, forced Americans to confront an ugly reality. The U.S. has the sloppiest election systems of any industrialized nation, so sloppy that at least eight of the 19 hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were actually able to register to vote in either Virginia or Florida while they made their deadly preparations for 9/11.
In Stealing Elections, John Fund takes the reader on a national tour of voter fraud scandals ranging from rural states like Texas and Mississippi to big cities such as Philadelphia and Milwaukee. He explores dark episodes such as the way "vote brokers" stole a mayoral election in Miami in 1998 by tampering with 4700 absentee ballots. He shows how, in the aftermath of the Motor Voter Law of 1993, Californians used mail-in forms to get absentee ballots for fictitious people and pets, while in St. Louis it was discovered that voter rolls included 13,000 more names than the U.S. Census listed as the total number of adults in the city.
Election officials try to reassure voters by turning to computerized voting machines. But Fund shows that with the new technology come even greater concerns. Early in 2004, for instance, the state of Maryland, which has 16,000 new Diebold machines, commissioned a security expert to try to rig a practice election. He and his team broke into the computer at the State Board of Elections, completely changed the outcome of the election, left, and erased their electronic trailall in under five minutes.
Stealing Elections gives us a chilling portrait of our electoral vulnerabilityin the 2004 presidential election and on into the future. Writing with urgency and authority, John Fund shows how a lethal combination of bureaucratic bungling and ballot rigging have put our democracy at risk.
John Fund is a member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board and writes the paper's daily Political Diary. He has written on voter fraud and election irregularities for the last decade in the Wall Street Journal, New Republic, American Spectator and other publications. In the past year, Fund has made over 90 appearances on Fox News, MSNBC, C-Span, and CNBC.
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Travis... I think 2000 was an eye opener to a lot of folks. Clearly revealed what many had suspected and confirmed what some knew. IMHO, this election "vote" will be nasty. Pale in comparison. We are in an absolute struggle for our country. Libs will stop at nothing. Thanks for the info.
Bump, Travis.
Thanks for posting!
fyi
BTW, having the machine was illegal. I wonder what his punishment was? Being named Democrat of the year?
Excellent work!
Why of course!
You wouldn't want to get your hands dirty by volunteering to help watch the polls, would you?
Who's whining?
Yes, BEFORE the election!!!
Thanks backhoe
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The major bookstore chains and lunatic lib owned locals have pulling this scam for at least a decade.
These machines were designed to make vote fraud easier. Back doors. Software code that nobody ever sees. You must be kidding. Look up "Diebold" in the dictionary; it is a synonym for "fraud". Or do a google search.
Eventually they will push toward 'internet' voting, and claim all kinds of "security". Just imagine the ease of vote fraud when everybody votes from a PC.
--Boris
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