Re: dear sci.research.careers readers



On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Hot_Potato wrote:

In todays information age it should be easy to expose the cheaters, via
media , blogs , whatever,   the risk of expose will tend to keep things
reasonably honest.



I appreciate your intentions and "on paper" or "in theory" it sounds good, but please read below and understand that it may not be easy at all to expose the cheaters, etc. If the Supreme Court can decide elections, and/or if the voting machines were hacked to just pass 1-2% of votes for candidate A to show up on the counters for candidate B, especially when the candidates are running very very close, then you have a winner not accouring to the popular vote. Not since the last election can I trust "the system" any more. And, the media don't want to touch this issue. And, besides that, more and more of the media are falling under the control of smaller numbers of more wealthy owners. Somebody made a comparison of today's capitalism with yesterday's centrally planned economies that folded up 15 years ago and what do we have? A "controlled" election. A controlled press? Are those oil refineries down south really damaged by Katrina? Or, did the oil companies stage a shortage like they did back in 1976+/- when there was an oil embargo and lines at the gas pumps, but the inventories in the tanks were never higher and I remember the media discovered that there was a fleet of oil tankers just outside the Houston ship channel, all chuck full of oil, waiting for orders to come in and unload. Or, remember the phoney electricity shortage out in California a few years ago. All totally manufactured by "control points" in the system and manufactured to _squeeze_ people for a bunch of money. Its fact. Then there is Enron/Andersen.

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Subject: Election Fraud Continues in the US


   http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0813-29.htm
   Election Fraud Continues in the US

   Published on Saturday, August 13,2005 by CommonDreams.org

   Election Fraud Continues in the US
   New Data Shows Widespread Vote Manipulations in 2004

   By Peter Phillips


   In the fall of 2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida
   ballots never counted in the 2000 election, an analysis by the
   National Opinion Research Center confirmed that Al Gore actually won
   Florida and should have been President. However, coverage of this
   report was only a small blip in the corporate media as a much bigger
   story dominated the news after September 11, 2001.

   New research compiled by Dr. Dennis Loo with the University of Cal
   Poly Pomona now shows that extensive manipulation of non-paper-trail
   voting machines occurred in several states during the 2004 election.

   The facts are as follows:

   In 2004 Bush far exceeded the 85% of registered Florida Republican
   votes that he got in 2000, receiving more than 100% of the registered
   Republican votes in 47 out of 67 Florida counties, 200% of registered
   Republicans in 15 counties, and over 300% of registered Republicans in
   4 counties. Bush managed these remarkable outcomes despite the fact
   that his share of the crossover votes by registered Democrats in
   Florida did not increase over 2000, and he lost ground among
   registered Independents, dropping 15 points. We also know that Bush
   "won" Ohio by 51-48%, but statewide results were not matched by the
   court-supervised hand count of the 147,400 absentee and provisional
   ballots in which Kerry received 54.46% of the vote. In Cuyahoga
   County, Ohio the number of recorded votes was more than 93,000 greater
   than the number of registered voters.

   More importantly national exit polls showed Kerry winning in 2004.
   However, It was only in precincts where there were no paper trails on
   the voting machines that the exit polls ended up being different from
   the final count. According to Dr. Steve Freeman, a statistician at the
   University of Pennsylvania, the odds are 250 million to one that the
   exit polls were wrong by chance. In fact, where the exit polls
   disagreed with the computerized outcomes the results always favored
   Bush - another statistical impossibility. .

   Dennis Loo writes, "A team at the University of California at
   Berkeley, headed by sociology professor Michael Hout, found a highly
   suspicious pattern in which Bush received 260,000 more votes in those
   Florida precincts that used electronic voting machines than past
   voting patterns would indicate compared to those precincts that used
   optical scan read votes where past voting patterns held."

   There is now strong statistical evidence of widespread voting machine
   manipulation occurring in US elections since 2000. Coverage of the
   fraud has been reported in independent media and various websites. The
   information is not secret. But it certainly seems to be a taboo
   subject for the US corporate media.

   Black Box Voting reported on March 9, 2005 that voting machines used
   by over 30 million voters were easily hacked by relatively
   unsophisticated programs and audits of the computers would not show
   the changes. It is very possible that a small team of hackers could
   have manipulated the 2004 and earlier elections in various locations
   throughout the United States. Irregularities in the vote counts
   certainly indicate that something beyond chance occurrences has been
   happening in recent elections.

   That a special interest group might try to cheat on an election in the
   United States is nothing new. Historians tell us how local political
   machines from both major parties have in the past used methods of
   double counting, ballot box stuffing, poll taxes and registration
   manipulation to affect elections. In the computer age, however,
   election fraud can occur externally without local precinct
   administrators having any awareness of the manipulations - and the
   fraud can be extensive enough to change the outcome of an entire
   national election.

   There is little doubt key Democrats know that votes in 2004 and
   earlier elections were stolen. The fact that few in Congress are
   complaining about fraud is an indication of the totality to which both
   parties accept the status quo of a money based elections system.
   Neither party wants to further undermine public confidence in the
   American "democratic" process (over 80 millions eligible voters
   refused to vote in 2004). Instead we will likely see the quiet passing
   of legislation that will correct the most blatant problems. Future
   elections in the US will continue as an equal opportunity for both
   parties to maintain a national democratic charade in which money
   counts more than truth.

   Peter Phillips is a Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University
   and Director of Project Censored. Dennis Loo's report "No Paper Trail
   Left Behind: the Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election," can be
   viewed at http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/voter_fraud.html

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