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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 02:08 PM
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Recipe for a Cooked Election-by Greg Palast for Yes! Magazine
Edited on Thu Oct-19-06 02:08 PM by kpete

Recipe for a Cooked Election
Published by Greg Palast October 19th, 2006 in Articles

A nasty little secret of American democracy is that, in every national election, ballots cast are simply thrown in the garbage. Most are called “spoiled,” supposedly unreadable, damaged, invalid. They just don’t get counted. This “spoilage” has occurred for decades, but it reached unprecedented heights in the last two presidential elections. In the 2004 election, for example, more than three million ballots were never counted.

Almost as deep a secret is that people are doing something about it. In New Mexico, citizen activists, disgusted by systematic vote disappearance, demanded change — and got it.

In Ohio, during the 2004 Presidential election, 153,237 ballots were simply thrown away — more than the Bush “victory” margin. In New Mexico the uncounted vote was five times the Bush alleged victory margin of 5,988. In Iowa, Bush’s triumph of 13,498 was Continue reading ‘Recipe for a Cooked Election’

Correcting for that under-reporting, the number of ballots cast but never counted goes to 3,600,380. Why doesn’t your government tell you this?

more at:
http://www.gregpalast.com/recipe-for-a-cooked-election
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 02:40 PM
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1. Recommended #3
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robertpaulsen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 04:06 PM
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3. Right on. I'm #8!
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robinlynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 03:48 PM
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2. cause "my gov't' is responsible for the fraud.....
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druidity33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 04:44 PM
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4. GP is the man!...K&R n/t
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-19-06 09:59 PM
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5. This man is so brilliant.
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liam_laddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-20-06 01:16 AM
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6. K & R !!! n/t
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greeneyedboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-20-06 03:45 PM
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7. that's right - the machines are a red herring.
yes, they can cheat with the machines, but if they shave off votes in other ways, they don't have to.
this is why OVERWHELMING TURNOUT must go hand in hand with monitoring.
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MonteSano Donating Member (109 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-20-06 06:55 PM
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8. that's almost painful to read
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