Some interesting comments on how our election system has been hijacked...from Huffington Post...
huffingtonpost.com
<<...Hey, Bob Cesca, it's great to see some follow-up on Robert Kennedy Jr.'s epic analysis of what passes for "democracy" in the USA these days. The levity with which you addressed this issue belies the negative impact of our "loss" of democracy.
Now, I don't want to come across as some kind of Leftist wingnut, because I am not -- more like a moderately progressive mildly conservative independent. (Okay, wrap your brain around THAT description, if you dare.)
As far as I am concerned, the 2000 election, examined in retrospect, was stolen by a less-than-divine intervention of seemingly disconnected events. It certainly did not help to have a DLC-led platform, or ticket (Lieberman?), or staff including lawyers that could not successfully argue for a state-wide recount in Florida. Oh, wait -- that never happened.
Apparently, no neo-Con(artist) worth his/her salt would let a mid-term election go by without some monkey busness. The 2002 election saw the 2nd year in a row redistricting of Texas (1st by court order, and 2nd by Delay & his crew), as well as the curiously misnamed "Help America Vote (Our Way) Act. Imagine spending $6 Billion USD on new voting machines without providing national-level machine standards, including testing & certification & vote recount capability. But that is exactly what did happen, and without so much as a whimper from the MSM.
The very same selectively exclusionary voter lists that proved so successful in Florida in 2000 spread to a dozen states in 2004. The march of the neo-Con(artist) vetted voting machine juggernaut continued to spread all across the country. Florida was "promised" to George W. Bush in 2000, and Ohio was "promised" to him in 2004. This was neither an accident, nor was it telepathic presience. But it was the plan, and it worked.
How is it that election day exit polls can be used throughout Western Europe to determine vote outcomes, with the actual ballots used only as confirmation? The quick and easy answer is -- it just works (and quite well). But in the USA, exit polls that vary from actual "counted" ballots by as much as 50%, without any coverage from MSM beyond "Well, we were just wrong, is all." Of course, it was this same "wide variance" in 2000 in Florida that started all this ruckus that set the stage for the Supreme Court decision.
I stopped believing in pure coincidence long ago. It had to do with PNAC and 9-11, with fictional WMD and the Iraq war, with Dubya's "war on terror" and wide open borders & seaports, and so on.
By: David762 on June 04, 2006 at 10:44pm...>> |
