America’s Election Circus
A Billion-Dollar Game!
‘The Strip & Flip Selection of 2016’
Could the 2016 Election
Be Stolen With Help from
Electronic Voting Machines?
(M. Javed Naseem)
The might is right! People are being fooled in the name of
democracy, human rights, freedom of speech, liberty, freedom of choice, etc.
They say: Your vote counts! Does it? If it did, it has never been counted in my
favor, to my benefit or to make a change I wanted.
Election is a stunt, a drama, a circus, a fake exercise of
pre-selection, a billion-dollar game. And only the vested-interest groups
benefit from it. They are the people who control the whole affair from the
beginning to the end. They decide, as per their needs and requirements, who
should be the president to serve them as a ‘rubber stamp’. In the whole sham
process of elections they use modern technology and media to support and
facilitate their mission. They make it look as real as possible.
America,
the staunch champion of democracy, people’s rights and freedom of speech, has a
dual-core election system. There is a parallel system of election (or
selection) running under the disguise of “popular vote”. They claim that
people’s vote (popular vote) counts but it’s a drama. Popular vote don’t count.
They are fooling people. Here’s how it works:
Generally people participate in the drama of voting; they go
to the polling booths in millions and cast their votes. Each state (out of 50
states) has an allotted number of ‘delegates’. In theory, if a candidate wins a
popular vote in a state, he wins the state and the state delegates vote for
him. But these delegates are not legally bound to vote for the winning
candidate. They can vote against him. And that’s exactly what happened in 2000
when George Bush lost the popular vote in Florida but the delegates still voted for
him and eventually he won the presidential election. Poor Al Gore, who won the
popular vote in Florida
(as a matter of fact in the entire country) was declared the ‘loser’ because
the delegates did not vote for him. In principle, they should have. That’s how
the mafia robbed him of presidency!
The million-dollar question is: If people elect their
candidate (president) why do they need the delegates? They sell you out. Let
the people decide who they want as President on the basis of popular vote. No
need of delegates! The delegates form a parallel election system to give the
‘controllers’ (the vested-interests mafia) the power to pull the lever whenever
they don’t want a particular candidate to win.
Corruption in American election system is deep-rooted. Many
people are concerned about official efforts to corrupt the election process or erect barriers to participation. For
example, election officials could manipulate registration databases to remove the names of people likely to vote in a
certain way so that these people are unable to cast regular ballots when they
arrive at polling places. Corruption of this kind was widely alleged to have
taken place in Florida
and other states during the 2000 election.
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“The only good
thing we can say about
George W. Bush is
the American people
never actually elected
him president (in
2000). And we’re
looking now at 2016, at
an election that
will be very easily flipped,
in those six key
swing states and elsewhere.”
-- Harvey
Wasserman
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Deliberate disfranchisement of voters may also occur because
of other kinds of official misconduct: turning away voters already in line when
polls close; intimidating or misinforming voters when they arrive at the polls;
producing misleading or poorly designed ballots; failing to provide bilingual
voting materials, as required by law; failing to upgrade or repair voting
systems in specific election districts; and by other means.
Overall, the disfranchisement of voters through antiquated
voting systems, errors, mismanagement of registration bases, and intimidation or harassment is a far bigger
problem today than traditional forms of election fraud. The problems in Florida in 2000, which
determined the outcome of a presidential election, are dramatic evidence of
this point.
The outcome of the 2000 U.S.
Presidential election was not known for more than a month after balloting,
because of the extended process of counting and then recounting of Florida ballots. The
drama in Florida
uniquely dragged out for several weeks before eventually settling the election
for the entire nation.
The election was held in early November but in late October, one poll found that Al Gore was leading George Bush 46-42 (margin: 4) among likely voters, but the poll had a margin of error of four percentage points. Florida had been considered fertile territory for Republicans. It was governed by Jeb Bush, George W. Bush's brother.
After an intense recount process and the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court,
George Bush was officially declared the winner by a margin of only 537 votes
out of almost 6 million cast. The process was extremely divisive, and led to
calls for electoral reforms. As a result, the electronic voting machines were
introduced for future elections.The election was held in early November but in late October, one poll found that Al Gore was leading George Bush 46-42 (margin: 4) among likely voters, but the poll had a margin of error of four percentage points. Florida had been considered fertile territory for Republicans. It was governed by Jeb Bush, George W. Bush's brother.
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“You cannot verify
an electronic voting
machine. They are
privately owned by
private
corporations, and the proprietary
software prevents
the public from getting
access to the
actual vote count.”
-- Harvey
Wasserman
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Ironically, it has been proved today that these electronic
machines make the voter fraud much easier, safer, simpler but harder to detect
(leave no traces to be verified). An IT-expert from the supplier/contractor of
these machines can manipulate and pre-program the results.
From: Democracy Now
February 23, 2016
A Documentary Record of
Theft
And Fraud in The 2004
Election:
Harvey Wasserman of Columbus,
Ohio, has been a vocal critic of
electronic voting machines. He co-wrote the book, "What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary
Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election." His upcoming book is
titled "The Strip & Flip Selection of 2016: Five Jim Crows &
Electronic Election Theft."
Here are excerpts from his interview:
Host Amy Goodman: Your concern over the years that
electronic voting could be used to steal elections. Are you still concerned about
this?
Harvey Wasserman: Well, electronic voting was used to
steal the presidential election right here in Ohio in 2004. John Kerry was the rightful
winner in 2004 over George W. Bush. The secretary of state at the time, J.
Kenneth Blackwell, and the governor, Robert Taft, used their power of
electronic vote count to flip the vote to George W. Bush from John Kerry.
AMY: How do you know this?
HARVEY:
We watched it—I grew up here, Amy. We watched it, totally, right up close and
personal. We did the accounting. I work with a political scientist named Bob
Fitrakis. We’re about to come out with another book, The Strip & Flip of
the 2016 Selection. They are stripping the voter rolls—and Greg Palast, the
great investigative reporter, is doing great on this—removing African
Americans, Hispanics, people who might incline to vote progressive, and they—so
that—in 2004, they stripped 300,000 people from the voter rolls here in the
urban areas. Bush only won by less than 120 [thousand].
And this year, about 80 percent of the vote nationally will
be cast on electronic voting machines. There is no verifiability. In six key
swing states—Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Arizona—you have
Republican governors and Republican secretaries of state, and no method of
verifying the electronic vote count. At midnight or whenever it is on election
night, those two guys can go in there with an IT person and flip the outcome of
an electronically counted vote within about 60 seconds. So all this millions
and millions of dollars, people out campaigning and so on, can be negated by an
electronic vote flip late at night on election night, and there is no way to
verify what’s happened.
AMY: They didn’t do this with President Obama in
2008.
HARVEY:
They did. He had too many votes; he was too far out. They couldn’t—it would
have taken them too many, to flip too many states. [inaudible] believe Obama
won by well over 10 million votes. The last—the final vote count was
in—official, was in 7 or 8 million.
AMY: But what gives you this idea?
HARVEY:
Because we’ve seen it happen. When you compare exit polls, which are generally
accurate to within 1 percent, with the electronic outcome, there are huge
variations. And we have documented many dozens of different things that they
have done over the years to flip electronic votes.
AMY: How does e-voting, electronic voting, work? And
who controls the controls on it?
HARVEY:
Well, that’s the key. The electronic voting machines are owned by private
corporations, which are Republican in orientation, generally. And the courts
have ruled that the source code on these electronic voting machines is
proprietary. So, even the governments that buy or lease these machines have no
access to a final verification process. Even Ronald Reagan said, "Trust,
but verify." And we know that the vote count was flipped in 2004. We know
it was flipped in Volusia
County in 2000.
AMY: Where is Volusia County?
HARVEY: In Florida, when Al Gore
basically was the rightful winner, and George W. Bush won the election. I mean,
the only great—
AMY: And they were electronic voting machines?
HARVEY: In Volusia County, they were, yes. In the southern
part of Florida,
they used butterfly ballots, as you’ll recall. The only good thing we can say
about George W. Bush is the American people never actually elected him
president. And we’re looking now at 2016, at an election that will be very
easily flipped, in those six key swing states and elsewhere.
AMY: What do you think is the answer?
HARVEY:
We have to have universal, hand-counted paper ballots. And Bernie Sanders has
endorsed that. We have to have automatic voter registration, where people can
monitor the registration rolls, because people are being stripped from the
registration rolls, mostly, of course, African-American and Hispanic. And so
we’re going through this huge charade here of a national campaign, primaries
and then a general election, where hundreds of millions of dollars will be
spent, and on election night, in 60 seconds, the actual outcome can be flipped
electronically in key swing states with no verification whatsoever.
AMY: How do you think they can be protected, people
can be sure that their vote is counted, that they cast, even using electronic
voting machines?
HARVEY:
They can’t be. You cannot verify an electronic voting machine. They are
privately owned by private corporations, and the proprietary software prevents
the public from getting access to the actual vote count.
AMY: Why do you think just Republicans would do it?
HARVEY:
Oh, no, Democrats definitely do it. I have—we have strong questions about Rahm
Emanuel being re-elected in Chicago,
for example. We have no doubt that Scott Walker stole his re-election in Wisconsin.
AMY: Based on what?
HARVEY:
Based on the miraculous discovery of several thousand votes in a so-called ‘glitched’
computer voting machine that gave him a victory where it was clearly a defeat.
You know, this is stuff that’s been going on a long time. These methods were
perfected more or less overseas by the CIA and other covert and overt
operations. They came back. It started in 1988 with George H.W. Bush using
electronic voting machines in New
Hampshire to beat Bob Dole in the 1988 primary. And
we have seen since then the use of electronic voting machines all across the
country to flip elections after they have stripped the voter rolls. And, you
know—
AMY: When you say "stripping the voter
rolls," you mean?
HARVEY:
Yes, well, Greg Palast has reported on this. In Florida 2000, 90,000 mostly
black and Hispanic voters were stripped out of the voter rolls before the
election, in a vote count that was won by 600 votes. And in Ohio 2004, 300,000
voters in primarily urban areas were stripped off the voter rolls. People
showed up to vote in the same precinct—as did I, by the way—they were—I was
denied my absentee ballot, and we had a federal lawsuit on this, which we won
and went nowhere after that.
It’s a nightmare. And it’s not democracy. I mean, Bernie
Sanders has shown that the election—that the campaign finance is rigged, that
the economy is rigged. Why wouldn’t they take the very small next step to rig
the electronic voting machines?
Watch The Video!
Electronic voting machines actually make it easier to
manipulate results. It’s shocking!
This is the hack that proved America's elections can be stolen
using a few lines of computer code. The DVD is available at
Youtube.
Comments by ActivistAngelTruth:
Finally, the most important issue in our political potential
for return to democracy. Everyone watch the documentaries: "Hacking Democracy" and
"Murder Spies And Voting Lies." All (currently) available on
YouTube.
Check out HBO Special Documentaries:
“Hacking Democracy”, "Uncounted" and
the new film documentary “Recount" from Google Video and Torrent.
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