How to steal the election for McCain

[FluffyMcDeath]

Get rid of people who vote Democrat. How many do you need to get rid of? Well, more than a couple million. Here are the things that have already been done to get rid of potential Obama voters and throw the election to McCain.

Quote from here.

Swing state Colorado. Before this election, two Republican secretaries of state purged 19.4 percent of the entire voter roll. One in five voters. Pfft!

Swing state New Mexico. One in nine voters in this year's Democratic caucus found their names missing from the state-provided voter registries. And not just any voters. County by county, the number of voters disappeared was in direct proportion to the nonwhite population. Gore won the state by 366 votes; Kerry lost it by only 5,900. Despite reassurances that all has been fixed for Tuesday, Democrats lost from the list in February told me they're still "disappeared" from the lists this week.

Swing state Indiana. In this year's primary, ten nuns were turned away from the polls because of the state's new voter ID law. They had drivers' licenses, but being in their 80s and 90s, they'd let their licenses expire. Cute. But what isn't cute is this: 566,000 registered voters in that state don't have the ID required to vote. Most are racial minorities, the very elderly and first-time voters; that is, Obama voters. Twenty-three other states have new, vote-snatching ID requirements.

Swing state Florida. Despite a lawsuit battle waged by the Brennan Center for Justice, the state's Republican apparatchiks are attempting to block the votes of 85,000 new registrants, forcing them to pass through a new "verification" process. Funny thing: verification applies only to those who signed up in voter drives (mostly black), but not to voters registering at motor vehicle offices (mostly white).

And so on through swing states controlled by Republican secretaries of state.

The Ugly Secret

Here's an ugly little secret about American democracy: We don't count all the votes. In 2004, based on the data from the US Elections Assistance Commission, 3,006,080 votes were not counted: "spoiled," unreadable and blank ballots; "provisional" ballots rejected; mail-in ballots disqualified.

Palast then lays out the formula

Here's how they can pull off the steal. Take out your calculator and add it up.

Then he gives how votes will be blocked and roughly how many.

Karl Rove once said, "We have elections like those run in countries where the guys in charge are, you know, colonels in mirrored glasses." He wasn't complaining; he was boasting.

So what is the solution? Simply to work as hard as you can to get your vote to count, to make sure you get to the polls and try to overwhelm the crooked system. Make sure that there are more potential voters going to the polls than the scrub margins that have been built in.

 

[Wayne]

I got there at 7:20am and was #200 to vote with the line getting longer before I left.

I'm SO glad to see people enthusiastic about this election. I don't care who they vote for, just that they -- for the first time in 20 years -- get out and participate. It may not seem like it when the people's vote is discarded for the electorate vote, but it's still important.

Wayne

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

I'm SO glad to see people enthusiastic about this election.

That's a good thing, I agree. Our turnout for the last election was a little lack-luster. Mind you, it was under the shadow of the US elections and Canadians are more interested in your show than our own.

 

[Robert]

I'm SO glad to see people enthusiastic about this election.

That's a good thing, I agree. Our turnout for the last election was a little lack-luster. Mind you, it was under the shadow of the US elections and Canadians are more interested in your show than our own.

Seems to be the same here. The outcome of US election does have more importance for UK residents than the other way round to be fair.