The Bombs in the BasementErnest Partridge, Co-Editor
The Crisis Papers
August 22, 2005*snip*
To my mind, the most vulnerable line of attack against the Bush/GOP machine is voting fraud. The evidence is compelling (see Dennis Loo’s “No Paper Trail Left Behind” and The Crisis Paper’s “Election Fraud” page). The best that the GOP and the media can offer as rebuttal is (a) stonewall silence, (b) the laughable, unsupported and refuted hypothesis of “the reluctant Bush voters” at the exit polls, and (c) predictably, smearing the election-critics by calling them “conspiracy theorists.” Substantive proof that the paperless e-voting machines and central compiling were totally honest is non-existent. That’s the way the e-voting machines were designed.
Nothing, except perhaps a collapse of the economy, is more likely to move the public to open revolt than proof, possibly in the form of criminal indictments and conviction, that their votes were stolen, and that the administration and Congress in Washington have put themselves beyond the reach of recall by the voters. Despite the determination of the mainstream media to ignore the issue of voting fraud, it will not go away. Occasional doubts of the integrity of the ballot break through the media’s wall of silence: first Keith Olberman, and just this week, Paul Krugman. Citizen doubts must now be relentlessly expressed. As more White House lies are exposed, as casualties mount in Iraq, and as the economy darkens, more and more citizens will be open to the idea that they’ve been had – at the polls.
Obviously, the Congress and Bush’s Attorney General will not investigate the issue of voting fraud. But no matter.
National elections are administered on the state and local level, and thus any state attorney general or local district attorney is authorized to investigate and bring charges of voting fraud. One must wonder why it hasn’t happened yet. (Perhaps such investigations are underway and the media won't tell us about them). Citizen pressure has more clout on the state and local level than on the federal level. So that’s where demands for action must be made.*snip*
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