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HOW THEY STOLE THE MID-TERM ELECTION (liberal barf)
Greg Palast ^ | Greg Palast

Posted on 11/07/2006 11:38:04 AM PST by Dr. Marten

Edited on 11/07/2006 11:57:52 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

for The Guardian (UK), Comment is Free
Monday November 6, 2006

Here’s how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.

Note the past tense. And I’m not kidding.

And shoot me for saying this, but it won’t be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they’ll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means.

For six years now, our investigations team, at first on assignment for BBC TV and the Guardian, has been digging into the nitty-gritty of the gaming of US elections. We’ve found that November 7, 2006 is a day that will live in infamy. Four and a half million votes have been shoplifted. Here’s how they’ll do it, in three easy steps:


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2006election; 2muchmarijuana; doper; elections; gregpalast; libwhining; losingrats; moonbats; morethorazineplease; palast; politics; pothead; ratsarelosing
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1 posted on 11/07/2006 11:38:07 AM PST by Dr. Marten
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To: Dr. Marten

LOL they've started already.


"Steal this Vote" a new book by the Dims.


2 posted on 11/07/2006 11:39:09 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: Dr. Marten

It's gotta really stink to be Greg.I hope that we don't find him hanging in his basement someday....like tomorrow morning.


3 posted on 11/07/2006 11:39:48 AM PST by Gay State Conservative ("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
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To: Dr. Marten

All this and he did not even mention how many votes the Diebold machines will flip from Democrat to the GOP....


4 posted on 11/07/2006 11:40:45 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Dr. Marten

Calling Dr. Strange Juice......i need a new Scrip. for some special sauce.


5 posted on 11/07/2006 11:42:50 AM PST by thingumbob (Dead terrorists don't make more terrorists!)
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To: Dr. Marten
These are votes lost because a punch card didn’t punch (its chad got “hung”), a stray mark voided a paper ballot and other machinery glitches.

Except that, under a federal law passed by the very pubbies being attacked here, electronic voting machines are now mandated. So much for this part of the theory.

I guess they'll just replace it with a rant about Diebold. It sure beats factual analysis.

6 posted on 11/07/2006 11:42:54 AM PST by dirtboy (John Kerry - the world's only re-usable political suicide bomber.)
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To: Dr. Marten
May I suggest you… steal back your vote.

Nice huh....your modern democrats in action. All the more reason to utterly defeat and crush these gremlins in every election. True Freepers never stay home on election day or vermin like this will rule over us. NEVER EVER let it happen.

7 posted on 11/07/2006 11:43:25 AM PST by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: Dr. Marten

8 posted on 11/07/2006 11:43:39 AM PST by Petronski (Why won't Diebold talk about RYMB.DLL?)
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To: Dr. Marten

Why do I give a crap about what someone who still has a monarch has to say?


9 posted on 11/07/2006 11:43:54 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (`)
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To: Dr. Marten
Remember, remember the Rove of November,

The MSM treason and plot

I see no reason why MSM treason

Should ever be forgot.

For MSM and Dems 'twas their vile intent,

To defeat Repubs and impeach a President.

By God's mercy 'tis they who will be defeated

With votes; and not voices heated.

T'won't be Reid for Frist

Nor Pelosi for Hastert

For Rove is the Magnificent Bastard

10 posted on 11/07/2006 11:43:54 AM PST by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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To: Dr. Marten
Lots of leftist BS here. The only people "hurt" by this are illegal aliens and felons who are not eligible to vote anyway. Regarding the "hanging chad" issue, the voter can solve that easily by examining paper and picking off any "hanging chads". It might add 10 seconds of effort. No more than the effort to fully fill the optical ovals with the black pen at my own polling place today.
11 posted on 11/07/2006 11:44:02 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Dr. Marten
Hahahahahahahaha ... I love this stuff.

Let them whimpering in a pool of sweat.

12 posted on 11/07/2006 11:44:14 AM PST by tx_eggman (Democrat Campaign Slogan - 2006: "Bring Out The Gimp!")
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To: Dr. Marten
For six years now, our investigations team, at first on assignment for BBC TV and the Guardian, has been digging into the nitty-gritty of the gaming of US elections.

Surfing the moonbat leftwing blogs while sitting in a pub.

13 posted on 11/07/2006 11:44:22 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Dr. Marten

He misses the good ol' days when Dems would dump entire voting machines from Republican precincts into the river.


14 posted on 11/07/2006 11:44:23 AM PST by Oratam
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To: Dr. Marten

What??!!!!
No mention of Jon Carry????


15 posted on 11/07/2006 11:45:03 AM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: Blueflag

The internal polls must be showing a heavy Republican turnout....if the dems were leading.....they wouldn't bother to put up this crap about republicans stealing the vote...


16 posted on 11/07/2006 11:45:07 AM PST by auto power
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To: Dr. Marten
A legion of pimple-faced Republicans

Move along....no bias here...nothing but objectivity to see here....

17 posted on 11/07/2006 11:45:10 AM PST by txroadkill (It's a war stupid, not a trial.)
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To: Always Right

I voted on a infovote system, I could find Diebold's logo on it anywhere..


18 posted on 11/07/2006 11:45:41 AM PST by cardinal4
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To: Dr. Marten

Seems like a combination of projecting and bemoaning the unfairness of the simple abilities our side exhibits (reading English correctly, filling in a circle neatly or punching all the way through a card).


19 posted on 11/07/2006 11:47:00 AM PST by polymuser (There is one war and one enemy.)
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To: Dr. Marten
Why wouldn't you want to have a photo ID verify the person is who they say they are?!?!

I think its a fair request for voters to be able to prove who they are... its the only way to keep people from voting several times under different aliases that are registered.
20 posted on 11/07/2006 11:48:31 AM PST by Element187
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To: Lazmataz

Calls for another round of Rove?


21 posted on 11/07/2006 11:48:56 AM PST by listenhillary (You can lead a man to reason, but you can't make him think)
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To: Dr. Marten
What a moron, what happens if the dhimmi's manage to win a few seats? Did they find a "better" way to cheat?

So if they win anything, they have just disenfranchised themselves by claiming that the voting wasn't legal.

Putz's
22 posted on 11/07/2006 11:48:59 AM PST by padre35 ("money is the crack cocaine of politics" J. McCain before he left for a fundraiser)
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To: Dr. Marten

Greg Palast officially went over the deep end in 2000, and hasn't had a sane word to say since.


23 posted on 11/07/2006 11:49:22 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Dr. Marten

>>1.1 million were allowed a “provisional” ballot — which was then simply tossed out.<<

Isn't this part simply a lie - don't provisional ballots by law have to be checked and counted if valid?


24 posted on 11/07/2006 11:49:55 AM PST by gondramB (It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.)
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To: Dr. Marten

Somebody leaked the operation, blast them. Actually it is the telehypnosis: Karl can mentally manipulate a rat [even a mentally/morally defecative rat] voter into voting the right way - and no traces are left, for Karl does not even have to be within 500 miles from there. No need to shoplift the votes when one could manipulate the voters.


25 posted on 11/07/2006 11:50:17 AM PST by GSlob
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To: Dr. Marten

Please, Greg. At least give the Magnificent Bastard a fair chance to pull off the job before you start yelling "Stop! Thief!"


26 posted on 11/07/2006 11:51:42 AM PST by RichInOC (If you want a more conservative America, the solution is never going to be electing more Democrats.)
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To: Dr. Marten
The Guardian (UK)

Big talk from a SUBJECT, not a CITIZEN.

27 posted on 11/07/2006 11:52:13 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Dr. Marten

Good laws meant to stop vote theft. They are just pissed they can't cheat as well now.


28 posted on 11/07/2006 11:53:09 AM PST by Toby06 (jon carry is a piece of s#it)
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To: Dr. Marten

This is a term paper for a psych class demonstrating 'delusional' right?


29 posted on 11/07/2006 11:55:12 AM PST by FourPeas (The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Dr. Marten

This is the same crap he claimed in 2000 too. Funny thing is, the careful reader will note that in all these cases, simple voter IGNORANCE isn't taken into consideration.

Here's something to consider Gregory:

1. If you aren't properly verified, then who's fault is that? More specifically, if you don't have a registration card with your current polling place, then what makes you think you've been registered correctly? Only a DEMwit would think everything's ok if you don't have a registration card, and you can just walk right into whatever polling place you THINK is right. Here's a hint: Make sure all your ducks are in a row MONTHS BEFORE!
2. If you don't have valid ID, who's fault is that? The only ones who hem and haw about ID checks are those who already planned some voting fraud.
3. If you're too stupid to punch a card right, or blacken a fricking oval, well then you shouldn't be voting anyway. Jim Crowe may have been too extreme, but what's wrong with requiring a bare MINIMUM of intelligence? Do we want people who can't blacken a simple oval deciding our nation's direction?

So let's add it up: Greg is asking us to coddle the stupid, and basically forget about identification verification. This is, again, what he had to say in 2000. It was stupid then, it's stupid now.


30 posted on 11/07/2006 11:57:01 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: txroadkill
"A legion of pimple-faced Republicans."

I'd rather be a pimple-faced Republican than a paranoid Democrat. Pimples eventually go away, but paranoia only gets worse.
31 posted on 11/07/2006 11:57:27 AM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, avoid the moor, where the powers of darkness are exalted.")
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To: dead

"Surfing the moonbat leftwing blogs while sitting in a pub."

Funny you should mention that because that's where I found this heap of dung. LOL!


32 posted on 11/07/2006 11:58:16 AM PST by Dr. Marten (http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com)
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To: Dr. Marten

It's tonight right now in Britain, they already know who won!


33 posted on 11/07/2006 12:01:47 PM PST by SquirrelKing (Kayaking, environmental-conservationist, organic food eating, beer loving, gun owning conservative.)
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To: Dr. Marten
...the Dems are simply strangling the Republican voters at the polls, failing to provide ballots, intimidating voters in lines, messing with the machines in key states....

This guy is living in a fantasy world if he thinks the Republicans are the worst participants in the dirty tricks to win the mid-term. He is also (I believe) a plant by the RATS to convince people that the elections were "stolen." He and all the rest of the media who have been hyping the "sure win" for the last 2 months. It's all a bunch of bologna to plant the seeds of doubt/outrage when they lose.

34 posted on 11/07/2006 12:02:44 PM PST by I'm ALL Right!
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To: Dr. Marten

Greg Palast is raving psychotic dog feces..... it's no surprise that he "writes" for the far-left al-Guardian, but does still surprise me that even leftists can take his puerile ranting seriously.


35 posted on 11/07/2006 12:04:10 PM PST by Enchante ("WE SUPPORT THOSE WHO ARE NOT AS SMART AS JON VICHY CARY!")
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To: N. Theknow

LOL!

Good one!

Best of luck today!


36 posted on 11/07/2006 12:04:36 PM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Even the DUmmies at DU are tired of him.


37 posted on 11/07/2006 12:05:32 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Dr. Marten

I sometimes wish that some of these conspiracy theories were true and that we are as invincible as the opposition says we are. But, alas that is not the case. The left always exaggerates the power of the right when they lose.


38 posted on 11/07/2006 12:07:11 PM PST by Courdeleon02
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To: Dr. Marten

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep...

Rermember Democrats...

Miles to go before you sleep!

>Bo)


39 posted on 11/07/2006 12:08:54 PM PST by NickatNite2003
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To: Dr. Marten

The Author.

40 posted on 11/07/2006 12:09:56 PM PST by r9etb
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To: Dr. Marten

I didn't bother to read his article but I'm guessing he skipped discussing Philly, Milwaukee, New Mexico, King County etc?


41 posted on 11/07/2006 12:14:00 PM PST by BJClinton (Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program)
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To: FourtySeven
So let's add it up: Greg is asking us to coddle the stupid, and basically forget about identification verification. This is, again, what he had to say in 2000. It was stupid then, it's stupid now.

Actually Greg is alleging that Democrat Elections officials who were elected by the people in those voting districts are intentionally throwing out valid votes by minority voters.

It is true that there have been generally more invalid ballots in areas with heavily minority populations. However, those areas also generally have Democrat elections officials.

There are so many obvious lies in Gregory's statements that only idiots that will believe any kind of weak conspiracy theory will place any value in his comments. However, that appears to be an appallingly large portion of the public.

42 posted on 11/07/2006 12:14:08 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: Dr. Marten

Palast, you paranoid whiner, shut up! You think only Democrat votes can be stolen?


43 posted on 11/07/2006 12:16:05 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Dr. Marten

These dirt bags, do the crime and accuse the other guys of doing it.


44 posted on 11/07/2006 12:18:31 PM PST by Lowell (The voice from beyond the far right edge!)
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To: Blueflag

Reality is pretty harsh to face for the Rats to make up and believe such blather.


45 posted on 11/07/2006 12:21:31 PM PST by TheDon (Are you a cut and run conservative?)
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To: Dr. Marten
This freak Palast is a waste of bandwidth, his jump the shark moment was his hatemongering screed "Good Riddance Gipper" written literally within minutes of the news of the death of Ronald Reagan.

FR should be a Palast-free zone. If SOBs like Ted Rall are banned, certainly Palast should be too.
46 posted on 11/07/2006 12:27:15 PM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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...this story was written six months ago. Glad that someone remembered to publish it...


47 posted on 11/07/2006 12:28:44 PM PST by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: Dr. Marten

48 posts in and no one has posted a magnificent bastard pic!?


48 posted on 11/07/2006 12:32:18 PM PST by JWinNC (www.anailinhisplace.net)
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To: Dr. Marten

Same old liberal play. Point to special information that only you are privy to. Then claim that nobody else can deny it. Finally, declare the debate over and yourself the winner.


49 posted on 11/07/2006 12:44:35 PM PST by Niteranger68 (Already voted absentee...straight Republican ticket...best choice on the menu.)
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To: Dr. Marten

How did this guy find all this out! I thought Rover was good at keeping things under wraps.


50 posted on 11/07/2006 12:46:37 PM PST by Cyclopean Squid (Authoritarianism depends on lack of information. Totalitarianism depends on misinformation.)
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