HOW THEY STOLE THE MID-TERM ELECTION-- Repub Victory Alert!

The Guardian (UK) ^ | Monday November 6, 2006 | Greg Palast

[GilGil]

by Greg Palast for The Guardian (UK), Comment 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:

Theft #1: Registrations gone with the wind...

[GilGil]

I guess the Repubs are so good by demanding ID and trying to prevent fraud that they are starting with 4.5 million votes ahead of the dems. Or is it that by requiring ID the Repubs are denying the dems 4.5 million dead voters. Wow! What moonbats these dems are!!!

[Jaysun]

Absurd.

[Caipirabob]

So great to see our "vintage" FReepers popping in for the festivies. I've been seeing a lot more < 2K members on threads as of late.

Thanks for the post.

[jammer]

I've seen some Twilight Zone stuff on FR in the last 8 years--on both sides--but this may just be the winner of the Rod Serling award.

[pabianice]

This is psychotic.

[AmericanMade1776]

You really rate when you are a "vintage" Freeper!

[sourcery]

You really rate when you are a "vintage" Freeper!

Hey, I resemble that remark! :-)

[chesty_puller]

You really rate when you are a "vintage" Freeper!

Vintage..HMMRFF, rookie.

[quantim]

the Karl Rove-bots

[Shooter 2.5]

Obviously, you haven't seen this one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1725590/posts

[AmericanMade1776]

You are a "vintage" freeper! Even more vintage than the poster of this article. Yes.. I am just a "rookie" freeper!

[Brett66]

They're absolutely right, we'll steal every election so why even bother to vote? < /snicker >

[Lx]

Palast is a #1 whack job. Which means he's a god on DU.

[shield]

Christian Nation will not allow their values to be stomped by the rat crowd...that's the bottom line...we'll win...we are a HUGE BLOCK OF VOTERS...

[KTM rider]

The problem with Greg's conspiracy theory is the same problem as with all conspiracy theories

Millions of eyes and ears involved to see the theory and blow the whistle, but the conspiracy is only a revelation to Greg and no one pays attention to his pathetic little whistle

[BraveMan]

I wonder what this hack would say about the 110% voter turnout in the Milwaukee central city district two years ago . . .

NOTE: Despite the hue & cry, we still do not have voter ID requirements.

Anyone care to bet how that district turns out?

Anyone?

Bueller?

[Doomonyou]

Rove + Bastard = Magnifico!

[RightOnline]

Dang. We're such bastards.

[visualops]

His accusations are rather libelous.

[IOWAfan]

and I'm ok with that.

[norton]

Have to wonder if there is any tinfoil left in the shops 'round Mr. Palast's bomb shelter...

[alarm rider]

Yeah, just think what a price you would go for on e-bay...

[Savage Beast]

The word progressives, of course, is newspeak.

[arthurus]

Repubs are denying the dems 4.5 million dead voters.

Dead, alien, and multiple.

[libertyline]

The Guardian....

grain of salt.

[John Lenin]

Unless you have a photo ID you should not be allowed to vote. Even Mexico has a better system of making sure only legal votes get counted.

[YellowRoseofTx]

Catch Greg Palast on Election Night on the new Mike Malloy Show on many Air America Radio affiliates.

Bonnie Raitt, Larry David and friends invite you to join Jackson Browne, Ed Asner, Ben Vereen and other stars on November 16, 6-8pm, at an intimate gathering in the home of Jodie Evans in Beverly Hills, California, to support the Palast Investigative Fund, a 501c3 educational foundation. For details and to request one or two of the limited number of invitations, go to http://www.palastinvestigativefund.org/november-16th-fundraiser

[gitmo]

So great to see our "vintage" FReepers popping in for the festivies. I've been seeing a lot more < 2K members on threads as of late.

Yeah, I've been on sebatical for a while. But when you really want to know what's happenin, it's FR all the way.

[wildcatf4f3]

Hey, who cares? we won we won...Pal'sass said so...prophesy from pal'sass,,,whoopie!!

[Michael121]

Progressives..... PRO-anything anti American. Liberals who cannot say what they believe to the general public.

"I AM NOT A LIBERAL, i am a progressive......"

Just stay home If "W" can control hurricanes you wanna make him mad?

[SuziQ]

THe Guardian has a BAD case of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome).

[AppyPappy]

Really. Screw you newbies

[AmericanMade1776]

Soucery is more of a vintage Freeper than you...

sourcery Since Jul 31, 1998

[AppyPappy]

Except this is my 3rd ID

[gitmo]

The technology today is utterly amazing. I'm in the Information Technology business, but I am still stunned by the advances I see every day. The skin color detection algorithms in touch screens and the self-destructing identification cards for Hispanics seems almost science fiction.

And the software that forces minorities to move to different states right before elections has got to be even more sophisticated than Bush's domestic spying programs.

I'm glad to see they even recognize our computer expertise across the pond.

[AppyPappy]

Since Jun 21, 1998

[Rad_J]

Yeah, let's add it up Greg.

How many people vote in a presidential election vs a midterm election? It doesn't make sense to use 2004 numbers to predict 2006 numbers.

Tomorrow, new federal ID requirements and a dozen new state show-me-your-ID laws will permit the GOP challenge campaign to triple their 300,000 record to nearly one million voters blocked.

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

I saw that....:-)

[William Tell]

The posted article explains why there have been millions of successful lawsuits challenging the denial of voting rights. Or is it tens of thousands? Maybe a dozen?

I like the way the author equates using a provisional ballot to being denied the vote. Just exactly what would the author have the poll worker do when the rolls indicate that the voter is not registered or has already received an absentee ballot? Let them vote anyway?

Just why is it that Dems seem to have such a hard time registering to vote properly? Why do they have such a hard time equipping themselves with a photo-ID?

How does the average Dem manage to jump through all the hoops to purchase a firearm in California? It's thousands of times more painful than voting. Oh, wait... I forgot...They don't FEEL that people should try to protect themselves. So it doesn't matter if the right to keep and bear arms is infringed.

[muffaletaman]

Here's another fine mess you've gotten us into...

[beyond the sea]

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h35/lesser_satan/Maria%20Sharapova/06_msharapova_17.jpg

[beyond the sea]

I'm ok with that.

[El Gato]

Just why is it that Dems seem to have such a hard time registering to vote properly? Why do they have such a hard time equipping themselves with a photo-ID?

Documenting artificial people is not that difficult, but apparently too hard for them. You can see several methods, most based on taking the identity of someone who died as an infant, in "Unintended Consequences".

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

If they can't make it from the graveyard to the polls, the dead should be allowed to send a proxy voter. Provided, of course, that they reached the age of majority before passing.

[danamco]

This is psychotic.

Robert Wexler Florida all over again before polling places closed!!!

[GitmoSailor]

Just read your post and noticed your name gitmo is similiar to mine.In 1961 I was stationed in Gitmo Bay for six weeks while in the U.S. Navy.That is why I choose that as a handle for this Forum.Please drop me a line on a Private reply.

[jammer]

Sure haven't! Thanks!

[Wuli]

The Republicans, no matter what they did could ever surpass the numbers of dead, ficticious and multiple-vote Dimorats.

[jdege]

The numbers are outrageous.

I had figured the Dems had been manufacturing only a few tens of thousands of fraudulent votes, in selected districts.

Not millions.

[SauronOfMordor]

So great to see our "vintage" FReepers popping in for the festivies.

I prefer the term "old and crusty"