What Can We the People Do About Election Fraud?

[Independent_Liberal]

This is an old article and some of you have probably read it already. But I figured I'd bring it up again to reinforce some of the things mentioned in it that we as citizens can do about election fraud.

http://www.crisispapers.org/essays-p/election-fraud.htm

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What Can We the People Do About Election Fraud?

Ernest Partridge, Co-Editor
The Crisis Papers
April 26, 2005

During the two and a half years that The Crisis Papers has been on the web, we have posted hundreds of articles and links in our “Election 2004 Fraud” and “Electoral Integrity” pages. In addition I have written and published numerous essays about the issue, most recently just two weeks ago. On each occasion, I have received numerous letters telling me “I’m convinced that the elections are frauds,” then asking “Now what can I do about it?”

Here is a partial answer. “Partial,” because if honest and verifiable elections are ever to return to the United States, it will be because this question will be asked relentlessly by an outraged public.

Electoral integrity is arguably the most important political issue to face the American people since the founding of our democracy, as it raises the question of whether, in fact, we still have a democracy. For if, as the skeptics contend, the outcomes of our federal “elections” are decided before a single vote is cast, then the government of the United States no longer “ its just powers from the consent of the governed.” Despite what we are told from Washington, or by the corporate media, this is not a government “of, by, and for the people.”

The grounds for suspicion about the integrity of our elections are simple, straightforward, and undisputed. In federal elections, thirty percent of the votes are cast, and eighty percent of the votes are regionally compiled, in machines: (a) utilizing secret software, (b) producing no independent record of the votes (e.g. Paper trails”), and ( c ) manufactured by active members and supporters of the Republican Party. In sum, the system in place is effectively designed, either deliberately or accidentally, to facilitate fraud.

>>>>More at http://www.crisispapers.org/essays-p/election-fraud.htm

[lanah]

1. thanks for posting

people in Alaska are still fighting over the 2004 elections-How do we get the opposition party to do their jobs? I was just reading this...

The Alaska Election Results from 2004 don't add up,
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7386582p-7298824c.html
yet the state won't release the records so a transparent examination can find what happened to the missing votes. According to the State Div. of Elections, it's Diebold's software and we have no right to access their trade secrets.

How can any intelligent American accept that as an answer? We cannot verify the validity of our election results because a Private (Republican Owned) Corporation owns the machines. This makes no sense in "the land of the free".

What makes this claim beyond ridiculous is that copies of these files have been on the internet for over two years. Bev Harris at BlackBoxVoting.org has been exposing the hackable voting machines since 2002. The Diebold file systems are not really secret, so using that as an excuse to withhold data is patently absurd.

My question lies not with how Bush received 100,000 more votes in one counting... but in the Senate race where Tony Knowles was lost by 9500 votes. And just like Kerry, he wasn't interested in a recount- weird eh?

But some Alaska Democrats wanted a recount anyway. There's a $10,000 fee- the small group of citizens had $3,000 on Saturday, with the Deadline Wednesday- yet John Kerry wouldn't give them $7,000 from his cache of $51 million- why the hell not? What about Tony- did he have any money left?

Tony Knowles lost by only 3%, and just like Kerry- Exit Polls showed him winning. Why did his spokesman say Knowles will not be joining the recount effort?

Something is fishy with the Opposition Party in the USA.

[EFerrari]

2. I've never seen this. Thanks! K&R

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