Unions will try to help re vote fraud)Media Whites Out Vote Fraud

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Media Whites Out Vote Fraud

By David Swanson, ILCA, http://ILCAonline.org

Part of the Media Blackout series on underreported labor stories

A shorter version of this article, for easy reading between commercial interruptions, is available at http://ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1397.



January 3, 2005 -- The Cleveland Federation of Labor is sending busloads of demonstrators to a rally in Columbus, Ohio, today to take part in a protest of election fraud in the 2004 presidential election. As detailed below, there is strong evidence of vote theft in Ohio. But to anyone who gets their news from a television or from most print media, these protesters are kidding themselves or kidding the rest of us, but certainly they are not onto anything worthy of investigation. Last week I received this Email from the Columbus Dispatch:



"Dear Mr. Swanson:

"You say the rally is to protest the fraud that took place in the election. Where did this fraud occur? Who did it? How did they do it?

"Thanx,

"glenn sheller, editorial page editor"



Two months after the election, an editor at ground zero was (seriously or sarcastically) asking a stranger and an amateur to tell him from Washington where the fraud had occurred. I immediately sent him a reply. And I didn't hear anything further.



I expect the Dispatch and probably the Associated Press (AP) will cover today's rally, albeit in the way they would cover a disliked visiting sports team. They'll dismiss the concerns of disenfranchised voters in a very wise manner, but they won't actually investigate any of the charges of election fraud - not if they adhere to the practices established by the media over the past two months.



When forced to talk about ethics, media big shots often insist that they draw no conclusions. They endlessly reported Dick Cheney's claims that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, but it would not have been their place to label that a "conspiracy theory." When it comes to election fraud in Ohio and other U.S. states, on the other hand, the media has jumped straight to reporting that it's all a "conspiracy theory" before ever reporting any of the facts. The Bush Administration has recently presented the media with a nutty theory that our Social Security system is broken, which the media in turn has presented to us as established fact. But to anyone who reads more than just the news that's fit to print, it's our election system that has broken down.<snip>

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1. And we re just now getting warmed up

Mr. Bush, Tear Down That Iron Curtain.

Your election was a series of illegal acts. If not technically illegal, the intent was there.

We, the People, being edumacted(sic), have decided that the way our votes were counted by the more than one hundred different counting systems used, is too easily corrupted, and was corrupted.

As evidence we proffer the exit poll data as broadcast throughout the day, exit poll data we believe was later changed in the dark of the night.

We also know a good deal about the machines used: How easily they could be accessed, how the programming is a secret even to our election officials, and who actually owns the programs running those machines. And, we know of many high profile computer experts who have warned us about casting our votes on a DRE.

Now, knowing all that, and seeing that the Truth and Justice involved in the recounts is being obstructed, we simply must conclude the election was an illegal act. Therefore, it will so be described.

Mr. Bush. Tear Down That Iron Curtain from around the voting process.