Scandal: Was OverSeas & SoldierVote Left BEHIND?

[SpaceBuddy008]

took me many hours to research this report, after suspicious that the subject was kept under the radar and few results that were reported around the country by various precincts showed Kerry doing well

ONE REASON I'M NOT GIVING UP....Is This Guy



Here is the summary and few HighLights and full story including moving images are at this indymedia link:

https://www1.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303710.html
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Scandal: Did Expatriate & SoldierVote COUNT?

CultureJamCleveland | 12.01.2005 16:15 | Social Struggles

U.S. CitiZeNs; ON The FrontLines Of Int. Relations- DID Expat.
& SoldierVote get Left Behind?

A Pivotal, Hotly contested 'election of a lifetime' spurring
Worldwide interest saw OverSeas Voters registration increase
fourfold as these Americans are the Country's spokespeople, and
best face forward.
Recalcitrant insistence on conflict creating
perpetual war, was on the table for We Decide, you saw the
BillBoards reminding US whose Will was to be measured- The People's! RiP van
Winkle Voters came out of the woodwork, contributing herculean
volunteer efforts & enthusiasm were unprecendented and
encouraging. NEVER in U.S. Presidential politics have MASSIVE
crowds shown up to endorse an incumbent. But to throw out, Reject
malfeasence and Get Rid of incompetence!

The 51st state, as
American's abroad were called
because of it's swing potential, an estimated 4million civilians
and 500,000 military, of course many in dubious, difficult,
dangerous and DeaDly situations, it's numbers giving it an impact
larger than the 24 smallest states. Participation was cool this
time,
many expressing eager desire to voice their vote. Also though, a
haunting anxiety that the systemic flaws characteristic of
confusing procedures and snafus investigated by the GAO in previous
efforts at smooth and fair election process run by a mosaic of federal
& state agencies would DisCount NOT AcCount accurately the absentee
Vote.
Expatriates tend heavily liberal, outnumber military
significantly and the soldiers
especially rank and file were said to be more mixed, varied not so
monolothic, or predictable as usually seen said veterans of multiple
elections. However, the pentagon, which for some reason took over
from the state department, the handling of ballots, was criticized
for registration websites not working, unequal mishandling of the
CivilianVote, absentee ballots mailed late in 8 of 15 swing states,
ballots hard to get, too many hoops to jump through and doubts
whether they would get back in time, count and be honored fairly as
a private firm owned by a republican donor and of the reelection
team, was handling ballots historically counted at local levels.
Typically 8% of absentee votes are discarded, with Bush possibly
winning the popular vote by 2-3%, HOW assured at Legit can we be?
when you also ADD the percents lost of provisionals thrown out, the
undervotes thrown out, unequal distribution of election hardware,
not random in the stunting of turnout toward one of the choices,
including GAINS from unreal certification of results with more
votes than voters, when the long lines were in the democratic
precints!.
Registration going up, up, UP Machines going DOWN, down,
down, DOH! What level of fraud is sufficient to BeSmirch
Confidence? Reports below abound of systemic pre-election
suppression and NOW BlackOut and silence of OverSeas results are
Signs of a Sinister Scandal. These OverSeas American's are ambassadors, this
vote should not be treated cavalierly but be traceable, honored and
COUNTED, foreigners, frontlines in someone elses HomeLand, they
REALLY understand Vote or Die.

I asked my roomate for a historical
quote which could speak to this unseemly realization, scenario
we've allowed to happen? She said there is NONE, because it has
never happened before. So I say, an UNprecendented, UNheard of,
UNfair, UNacceptable, UNnatural Results can only be Remedied,
Adjudicated, Balanced by SomeThing that hasn't happened before a
NewVote to Ameliorate this WaterShed MoMent! POST AS COMMENTS WHAT
YOU'VE HEARD, FOUND OUT, RESEARCHED ON THE ACCURACY & VALIDITY OF
OVERSEAS VOTE COUNTS. NO SoldiersVote Left Behind.
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WARNING:
31 It should be clear that more is at stake than the presidency
itself. Use of computerized vote counting
will only increase, as mandated by law. Vote counting is the
bedrock protocol of a democracy and
meaningful reform of a broken counting system is dependent on an
expression of public will ultimately
exercised at the ballot box and fairly, accurately, and honestly
tabulated. If the system has broken down
and is no longer counting accurately and honestly, there is no
effective democratic mechanism to bring
pressure upon a governing majority to reform a vote counting status
quo which is seen to work in its favor.
This is, as may be seen, a potentially crippling catch-22 for a democracy.

*footnotes from statistical proof on examination of vote count data
http://www.spiral-stairs.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/30/...
explanation of the ease of hackability at end of this post.

Let’s Get Real
By Mark Crispin Miller

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1692 /

To let ourselves believe that the “election” was legitimate because
this claim or that has been disproved(apparently) is to not honor
reason. On the contrary, a veritable sea of evidence, statistical
as well as anecdotal and circumstantial, supports the claim that
Bush, again, was not elected by the people. "(NOW documentation,
statistical affidavits, concealing records, log books, ducking
inquiries, subpoenas, delaying due-process in court cases,
orchestrated, unprincipled caustic attacks and denials to distort,
distract and divert away from the onus of those in charge
preventing legislation requiring paper trails which increase
transparency and trust) per CJCleveLand."

To nod agreement that this was indeed an honest win is to forget
how Bush was shoehorned into office in the first place; to ignore
the ease with which electronic totals can be changed without a
trace; to suppress the fact that Diebold, Sequoia and ES&S—the
major manufacturers of touch screen voting machines and central
tabulators—are owned and run by Bush Republicans, who have made no
secret of their partisan intentions; to deny the value of the exit
polls, which turn out to have been “mistaken” only in the swing
states; to downplay the weird inflation of the Bush vote in county
after county, where the number of votes for president was somehow
higher than the number of voters who turned out; to ignore the bald
chicanery of the Bush supporters who ran the central polling
station in Ohio’s Warren County and forced out the press and poll
monitors so they could count the vote in secret; to forget the
numerous accounts of vote fraud coast to coast throughout the prior
weeks of early voting; to overlook the fact that every single
“glitch” or “error” that has been reported favors Bush; to ignore
the countless instances of ballots—absentee, provisional—thrown
away or left uncounted; to forget that the civilian vote abroad
(some four million Americans) was being mishandled by the Pentagon
(which had somehow become responsible for doing the State
Department’s job); and to ignore the many dirty tricks reported—the
polling places quickly relocated at the last minute, the fake
voter-registration drives, the thousands of Americans who found
themselves not on the rolls, the police road-blocks, the bullying
pro-Bush poll workers, the machines that kept translating votes for
Kerry into votes for Bush. And so on.

To forget or ignore all this and to accept—on faith—the mere say-so
of Bush & Company (and our compliant media) is to make clear that
you are not a member of what the Busheviks deride as “the
reality-based community.” Those who help discredit false reports
are doing that community, and this erstwhile democracy, a precious
service. But, those who would abort the whole inquiry in the name
of science or journalistic probity and “closure” are putting that
community, and this nation, at grave risk.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1692 /

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Suppressing the overseas vote

Record numbers of Americans abroad have registered, but
bureaucratic snafus may prevent many from actually voting, writes
Alix Christie

Alix Christie
Monday October 25, 2004


Guardian Unlimited

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0%2C3858%2C5047076-1143...

FOUND THIS BY ACCIDENT AND MOVED IT TO THE FRONT OF THIS REPORT!

November 08, 2004
Can I still vote? It depends...

A highly unusual email sent from the Pentagon to Voting Information
Officers at US military installations around the world ON ELECTION
DAY contained a very specific reminder that it was not too late to
vote in OHIO, clearly explained why, and encouraged one last bit of
taxpayer-funded GOP GOTV. Is this criminal? It should be. It is
certainly unpatriotic and un-American.

http://www.aokerry.com/aok/2004/11/can_i_still_vot.html...

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NEWS | By Bob Neer - Sunday, 31 October 2004
Republicans Say Kerry Will Win up to 80% of U.S. Voters in Canada
Canada.

The head of Republicans Abroad Canada estimated that up to
80% of the approximately 500,000 U.S. citizens who live in Canada
will vote Democratic, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported. The
paper said Democrats Abroad Canada alone have distributed over
40,000 absentee ballots to their supporters in the country.<+>
Battleground States. Reuters reported large numbers of expatriates
are returning to volunteer for the final days of the U.S. election
campaign.<+> The Washington Post said most volunteers of this kind
appear to support Kerry. Japan. U.S. troops in Japan were voting
in record numbers.<+> The Chicago Sun-Times, however, reported on
widespread concern that many military ballots will not be
counted.<+> Singapore. Channel News Asia reported on the race for
U.S. votes in Singapore.<+> Munich. The Munich chapter of Americans
Overseas for Kerry (AOK) completed their last Run Against Bush on
the sunniest day of October.<+> Draft. The satirical website
Enjoythedraft.com presented a blistering critique of the Bush
administration's military policies.<+>

+Bush sued to stop any recounting of the votes, and, on
Tuesday, December 12th, the United States Supreme Court gave him
what he wanted. Bush v. Gore was so shoddily reasoned and
transparently partisan that the five justices who endorsed the
decision declined to put their names on it, while the four
dissenters did not bother to conceal their disgust. There are rules
for settling electoral disputes of this kind, in federal and state
law and in the Constitution itself. By ignoring them—by cutting off
the process and installing Bush by fiat—the Court made a mockery
not only of popular democracy but also of constitutional
republicanism.

A result so inimical to both majority rule and individual civic
equality was bound to inflict damage on the fabric of comity. But
the damage would have been far less severe if the new President had
made some effort to take account of the special circumstances of
his election—in the composition of his Cabinet, in the way that he
pursued his policy goals, perhaps even in the goals themselves. He
made no such effort. According to Bob Woodward in “Plan of Attack,”
Vice-President Dick Cheney put it this way: “From the very day we
walked in the building, a notion of sort of a restrained presidency
because it was such a close election, that lasted maybe thirty
seconds. It was not contemplated for any length of time. We had an
agenda, we ran on that agenda, we won the election—full speed
ahead.”

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?041101ta_talk_ed...


October 31, 2004 in NEWS | Comments (1)

Conservative Newspapers Endorse Kerry

An unprecedented collection of right-wing periodicals and leading
conservatives have turned away from George W. Bush's reckless
economic policies and religious fundamentalism to endorse John
Kerry as the conservative choice for America in the coming
election. Kerry is supported by among others the Editor of The
American Conservative, The Orlando Sentinel (its first Democratic
endorsement since 1964), John Eisenhower, son of the former
Republican President, and The Economist. For an exhaustive
collection of Republicans who have abandoned Bush and switched to
Kerry visit RepublicanSwitchers.com. Other periodicals that have
endorsed Kerry include The New Yorker, Bush's hometown newspaper
the Crawford Texas Lone Star Iconoclast, and The Yale Daily News.
For a catalog of 2004 presidential endorsements by periodicals,
including a list of those that endorsed Bush in 2000 but now favor
Kerry, visit Editor & Publisher magazine.
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UPDATE*
LexisNexis: Expatriate vote could play role in determining next president
As many as 10 million ballots could be cast from abroad

http://www.lexisnexis.com/about/releases/0729.asp
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LOOKYou will find an interesting count of military voters in NJ.







PLUTOCRATS DID NOT GIVE THEIR MOM'S THE RIGHT TO VOTE TILL 1920

https://www1.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/303710.html

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[fooj]

1. The picture of our soldier and his message breaks my heart!

What can we do to stop these madmen? I'm at my wits end...the only thing I can do now is to promise that brave soldier that I will NEVER, EVER GIVE UP THIS FIGHT! EVER! Peace!

[demo dutch]

2. Of course the Military and overseas vote was totally supressed!

as we know they barely count the absentees. The pentagon takes care of the military vote so figure it out!