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kster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 11:21 PM
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M. Collins: Paper for President - The Time is NOW
By Michael Collins
“Scoop” Independent News
Washington, DC

The United States just endured another election that inspired more suspicion than confidence. Two years after the fiasco of Election 2004 in Ohio and elsewhere, four year years after the never investigated mystery of Georgia 2002, and six years after the disgrace of Florida which saw the loser of the popular vote (s)elected President by the Supreme Court; major problems pervade the US election system. The new problems created by computerized voting and tabulation merge with traditional race and class based election fraud in an assault on free, fair, transparent and inclusive elections.

The Democratic controlled House of Representatives may be 10 to 12 members shy on the left side of the aisle due to election irregularities. Jonathan Simon of the Election Defense Alliance just published a major paper demonstrating that as many as three million votes may be missing from the 2006 election. Problems of this sort were anticipated by internet poster TruthIsAll and this author in a three part series in “Scoop” which developed a vote fraud model that identified likely races for those photo finishes that always seem to put a Republican in office.

VotersUnite.Org produced a database of election irregularities from around the country. Ironically, the creator of the database was John Gideon who predicted many of the problems that he logged in the database. A short list of problems with voting machines in 2006 includes: vote switching from one candidate to another; candidate names simply disappearing from the touch screens; full or partial deletion of candidate names; and a simple failure of voting machines to operate.

The master foul-up occurred in Florida’s 13th Congressional District. More than 17,000 votes were simply lost. Ironically, this seat was just vacated by Katherine Harris, chief election official and Bush campaign chair during Florida’s 2000 presidential election. That race and at least three others remain without a conclusive vote count. A further irony is that the election to replace Harris resulted in a very slim advantage for the Republican candidate with the 17,000 ballots removed from the equation.



http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00399.htm
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 11:40 PM
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1. K&R
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kster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 01:50 AM
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3. Thank you, Patsy Stone
sooner rather, Than later WE WILL PREVAIL!! It's a simple fight, that they can not win "PBHC". :thumbsup:
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 12:22 AM
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2. Hey,THANK YOU. Please also give this one a BOOST!!!
vacation starts wednesday midnight.

until then, this will amuse and entertain;)

General Discussion: "Paper" for President

http://tinyurl.com/y6m7v5
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kster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 10:18 AM
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5. Your welcome, Autorank
we get this done and it will seal the deal in 08.
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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 11:35 AM
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7. enjoy your vacation...kp
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Stevepol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 05:33 AM
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4. I think this idea, Kucinich's, needs to be pushed full-throttle.
If this is required, then it could be expanded to all national elections, that is, all elections for Senate and House. These are the key races: if we can get fair elections on these races, the effect will filter down to the others.

Meanwhile, we can continue to push for voter-verified paper print-outs and ROBUST audits required for all elections where the machines are used, along with serious penalties for false results registered on these pieces of crap posing as technology.

Paper ballots for presidential elections! Go Dennis!
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galloglas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 10:35 AM
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6. After predicting the recent electoral trainwreck, are...
those for HCPBs the "dreamers", or is it the machine people who say "it be right next time?

Who are the the real Realists?

When you electorally crash and burn each two years, on schedule, it is time to consider what is "insane". Continuing to repeat disastrous behavior, while expecting a different outcome, is definitive.

If HCPB advocates are not the "Realists", then call them "Prophets" for predicting each failed election.

So take your pick of terms. Either the machine people are "dreamers" and the advocates of HCPBs are "realists", or the HCPB advocates are "prophets" and the machine folks are just "fucking crazy"!

"I want my voting franchise... pure, unadulterated, and non-mechanical!"


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bear425 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 12:20 PM
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8. k/r n/t
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