Rolling Stone - Election Already Stolen

Here we go again. what is it going to take to stop these f**kers? problem with the good guys is the idea that we should all be able to get along, but the dark side is constantly scheming to enslave the light side and it seems the dark side is more determined and works much harder at enslavement then the light side works at defending itself.



[SIZE=+4]Rolling Stone -
Election Already Stolen
[/SIZE][SIZE=+1]Investigation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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10-17-8[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Don't worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election. According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]- Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]- While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of 'Jim Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]- A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing leaders of his own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block legal voters as "fraudulent."[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]- Digging through government records, the Kennedy-Palast team discovered that, in 2004, a GOP scheme called "caging" ultimately took away the rights of 1.1 million voters. The Rolling Stone duo predict that, this November 4, it will be far worse.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]There's more:[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]- Since the last presidential race, "States used dubious 'list management' rules to scrub at least 10 million voters from their rolls."[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]Among those was Paul Maez of Las Vegas, New Mexico - a victim of an unreported but devastating purge of voters in that state that left as many as one in nine Democrats without a vote. For Maez, the state's purging his registration was particularly shocking - he's the county elections supervisor.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]The Kennedy-Palast revelations go far beyond the sum of questionably purged voters recently reported by the New York Times.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]"Republican operatives - the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics," report Kennedy and Palast, under the cover of fighting fraudulent voting, are "systematically disenfranchis[ing] Democrats."[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]The investigators level a deadly serious charge:[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]"If Democrats are to win the 2008 election, they must not simply beat McCain at the polls - they must beat him by a margin that exceeds the level of GOP vote tampering."[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]Block the Vote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Greg Palast in the current issue (#1064) of Rolling Stone. [Media enquiries - Dave Falkenstein, Sunshine Sachs & Assoc, via [email protected].][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+1]Note - Kennedy and Palast are releasing, simultaneously with the Rolling Stone investigative report what they call, the vote-theft 'antidote': a 24-page full-color comic book, Steal Back Your Vote, which can be downloaded or obtained in print from their non-partisan website, StealBackYourVote.org[/SIZE]
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Exclusive Interview: Voting Experts Bobby Kennedy and Greg Palast on How to "Steal Back Your Vote!"

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M.S. Bellows, Jr.: Exclusive Interview: Voting Experts Bobby Kennedy and Greg Palast on How to "Steal Back Your Vote!"

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The perennial issues of vote fraud and voter suppression are becoming front-page news as several states conduct early voting and as Election Day itself nears. The candidates themselves will continue to stump, trying to win votes in contested states, but after tonight's final debate, the parties will focus less on persuading undecided voters and instead put more and more energy into "get out the vote" or "GOTV" efforts or, more ominously, into "voter suppression" efforts, which discourage or bar the other side's likely voters from casting ballots.
GOTV includes simple acts like helping homebound voters obtain and cast absentee ballots or driving voters who don't have cars to the polls on Election Day. More broadly, the concept also can include all kinds of efforts to increase voter turnout: voter registration drives, websites that help voters confirm that they're still registered in time to fix any problems (one good, nonpartisan example is the National Association of Secretaries of State's CanIVote.org), and public service announcements reminding voters that Election Day is approaching.
Voter suppression practices are the flip side of such efforts. Suppression efforts can appear innocuous, such as requiring voters to show photo I.D.s - a requirement that excludes a surprising number of poor, minority, very young and very old voters and kept several elderly nuns from voting in Indiana's Democratic primary this year. Suppression can pose as false righteousness, such as Fox News's 342 negative mentions of a single voter-registration group in just four days (casting the group's efforts to register underrepresented demographics as a threat to democracy, and frightening voters registered by that group into thinking that their registrations might be unlawful), or the past Republican practice of stationing armed, uniformed "Ballot Integrity" personnel in minority polling places (again, tamping down turnout). And there is no lack of flatly illegal suppression schemes, such as vote "caging" (in which voter resident status is challenged merely because their house is in foreclosure or because a piece of direct mail was returned by the post office), robo-calls falsely telling voters their polling places have changed, and deceptive flyers (like the ones posted in Pennsylvania's inner-city and college neighborhoods, warning of police plans to arrest voters for unpaid child support or parking tickets).
The parties argue every year over whether vote suppression or vote fraud is the greater threat to democracy, but the numbers suggest that it's no contest: about six people are convicted each year of actually casting ballots fraudulently, while hundreds of thousands of people who are entitled to vote fail to do so because of misinformation, intimidation, deception, or bureaucratic hurdles.
Illustrating the point, the Republican National Committee has issued more than 50 press releases and convened at least 12 press conference calls in the past month to air complaints about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ("ACORN"), which turned in more than 1.3 million new voter registrations nationwide this year. The RNC has even unveiled silly anti-ACORN mascots in time for Wednesday night's final presidential debate. In a call just this morning, however, when I and other reporters pressed RNC communications director Danny Diaz and RNC chief counsel Sean Cairncross to name specific instances of ACORN-registered voters who had actually cast fraudulent ballots, they could name just one: a single Ohio man who was caught yesterday trying, unsuccessfully, to cast a fraudulent ballot. Even Florida's Republican governor says that his fellow Republicans may be exaggerating the problem.
Two of the most knowledgeable and outspoken advocates of voting rights are Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a law professor at Pace University and cohost of Air America Radio's "Ring of Fire," and Greg Palast, an investigative journalist with the BBC. Following the Florida debacle in 2000, it was Palast who dug deep and revealed the widespread suppression efforts that, in conjunction with the Supreme Court's order to stop counting votes, led to George W. Bush's 537-vote margin of victory. And Kennedy, in a Rolling Stone article last June, carefully explained how voter suppression and election fraud cost John Kerry enough key-state votes in 2004 to hand the election, again, to George W. Bush.
This year, Kennedy and Palast have teamed up to educate citizens about how their Constitutional voting rights could be taken away and how to protect themselves -- how to, in their words, "Steal Back Your Vote!" In a new Rolling Stone article, a movie, and even a comic book, Kennedy and Palast have outlined six ways votes could be stolen and seven ways voters can "steal them back." In an exclusive interview with OffTheBus, Kennedy and Palast explained, at breakneck pace, what they're afraid of this year -- and what they hope voters will do to make sure the 2008 election is fair, open, and small-d democratic.
In the first part of the interview, both Kennedy and Palast riff on an encyclopedia's worth of voter suppression information: the nonexistence of "voter fraud"; the history of Republican (and, in some cases, Democratic) efforts to suppress the votes of African American, Latino, American Indian, young, and senior citizen voters; the ways that seemingly sensible vote "protection" measures like photo I.D. and database cross-matching requirements are designed to reduce the Democratic vote; why "provisional ballots" are really just "placebo ballots"; why absentee ballots are a bad idea; how "fraud prevention" measures cost a group of elderly nuns their right to vote in the Indiana primaries; how Colorado's Republican former secretary of state wiped 1/5 of the names off the state's voter rolls without the Democratic governor even knowing; and the new methods being unveiled this year to disenfranchise voters.
Want to hear everything you need to know about vote fraud, vote suppression, and how to protect yourself, all in 15 minutes? Buckle your seat belt, download the mp3 podcast or click the player below, and hang on:


After the first part of our interview, Palast answered more questions about what concerned voters should expect in coming weeks. Want to know why Palast believes Colorado and Nevada may be this year's Florida and Ohio? How black students and black airmen were "caged" while they were away from their college addresses for the summer or deployed overseas? Instances of Democratic officials interfering with voting rights, either out of self-interest (e.g., to force through a uranium mine on sacred native lands) or because they incorrectly believe federal law requires it? What the relationship is between the US Attorney firings scandal and this year's Republican efforts to disenfranchise voters? Why Republicans are gunning for ACORN, and what other tricks might be in store between now and the election? And, most importantly, whether Mary Poppins will actually show up to vote on Nov. 4? You can listen to the audio player below, or you can download an mp3 of part 2 of our interview here. (18 min.; edited for length and clarity.)


More resources:Much more information is available from Kennedy and Palast's StealBackYourVote.org, including:
"Steal Back Your Vote!" comic book (available for download for a donation of any amount, or for purchase in hard copy; they're also making plates available so the comic can be reproduced by college newspapers, newsweeklies, and other periodicals)
"Steal Back Your Vote: The Movie" on Huffington Post
Palast's book, "Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild"

the link is there

No, it won't happen again. After falling prey to negative attacks and voter suppression tactics from Republicans in the last two or three elections, Obama seems to have been ready for all the shenanigans, legal and otherwise. He has an army of lawyers saturating the battleground states to make sure that voters get counted and that uniformed cops aren't standing outside polling places to intimidate (yes, that's another Nazi-like Republican tactic there, which they've used in the past).

Also, look at the sheer number of places where they'd have to steal votes now. Obama has many MANY paths to 270 electoral votes. McCain can only play defense and pray that he has enough money and ideas (he doesn't) to defend all the states Bush won. And he has to hope that the RNC doesn't simply cut off their presidential campaign funds and concentrate solely on congressional races, where the Republicans are about to experience a *serious* beatdown either way.

What made Ohio vulnerable to voter suppression last time was that that became Kerry's only realistic path to victory, so it was like a narrow pass and the Republicans were simply better at the immoral stuff. Now, with so many fronts open against McCain, there are simply too many fronts to defend or cheat out a victory. Obama just needs one of the battleground states, and McCain must win ALL of them. And Obama is way smarter and cannier than Kerry.

well i have many thoughts on the race from dubya not giving up the house due to some false crisis and declaring martial law, to obama being a plant and with days to go befroe the count his not being born in the USA becoming factual and on like that. in the end its still the two party crap and they are all CFR and TLC hacks and all that entails. have you watched Endgame?

GrowRebel said:

By Alex Jones right? ... I haven't seen it yet ... why what's it about?

As far as the election ... the fix is in ... they have rejected millions of new registrations ... and purged millions from the voting rolls ... I guess I won't be surprise if there is a "stunning upset" and McSame steal it ... I mean they've stolen all the elections since 2000 ... there really isn't much to keep them from stealing it again ... and now they're feeding the the bullshit about voter fraud ... which is laughable ... there has NEVER been a case of an election being stolen due to voter fraud ... but tons of evidence of elections being stolen due to election fraud ... no matter which of the corporatist win ... we lose ....

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i agree and there may have been many stolen before but dubya seems to have brought out the high speed mode of these traitors.

this is totally worth watching and here it is in its entirety - endgame - Google Video

I'm having a hard time............
so whos the good guys and whos the bad guys again?

fraud on both sides, nothing new being reported.
How in the world can the american people still debate whos the good guys and whos the bad guys are?

I'm in faver of a third party who wants to charge the other two with treason.

-The penalty for treason is imprisonment up to a maximum of life, or up to 14 years ... The Criminal Justice Act 1990 removed the death penalty for treason.

That law needs to be restored. Having the very same people who would be charged with such a crime, in charge of and setting laws...is silly season.
Like having oversight on the bailout, good idea, right?....
guess whos doing that? youll be shocked.