Electoral Fraud in US- Demonstrated by FLA's Amendment 4

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Regardless of who each of us individually wanted to win, I think we

can all agree that we want a fair and impartial process...

 

On the down side of this article, near the end it mentions how

people with a criminal record were excluded, but isn't that the way

the law reads, if you get convicted don't you lose your right to

vote?

 

But I thought this article important to share, if we are living in a

time when our government is as corrupt as this article says, there

is more out there threatening our health and wellbeing than the

traditional pesticides, gm foods, and such that we normally

discuss...

 

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Misty L. Trepke

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ELECTORAL FRAUD IN THE UNITED STATES - Amendment 4

 

ELECTORAL FRAUD IN THE UNITED STATES

Not even hidden

BY JEAN-GUY ALLAR

Special for Granma International—

 

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/enero/juev6/02maquinas.html

 

ALTHOUGH popular groups in Ohio have observed in November's

presidential elections a veritable pattern of fraud that meant the

votes were significantly modified in favor of the Republican

candidate George W. Bush, in the Miami of the Cuban-American mafia,

fraud was being perpetrated in full view, reaching the level of

farce. The height of ridicule: the vote on the issue of gambling

machines that took place at the same time as the presidential vote.

 

In Miami-Dade and Broward counties, registered voters had to vote on

Amendment 4, which authorizes the installation and operation of fruit

machines, commonly known as slot machines at horse racing enclosures

and greyhound tracks. The preliminary results, announced a few hours

after the polls closed, indicated that a majority were against the

proposed controversial measure.

 

However, the following day, it was suddenly announced that voters had

approved the amendment, because the machine that tabulated the

electoral results had an " internal program " designed to subtract

votes when the ballots cast reached 32, 000.

 

Suddenly, with the complicity of the press, it was dispassionately

announced that there was an error in the tabulation and, even more

scandalously, that the voting machines are " programmed " in such a way

that alterations in the vote can be anticipated.

 

It was similarly affirmed that that program should not have been used

for the amendment in question and thus determined that the amendment

had been approved by 97,000 votes, that it to say around 1%.

 

On three occasions since 1978 Florida voters have rejected measures

that would allow slot machines in casinos. But, thanks to " modern "

technology, history has now been changed and 51% of the votes were

surprisingly in favor of Amendment 4, turning the state into a land

of slot machines¼ for the underworld.

 

In fact, according to several observers, the approval of the bill

constitutes a first step in a series of laws that will authorize all

sorts of gambling machines at some point. It has been amply

demonstrated that in the United States the world of gambling machines

and casinos from Las Vegas to Atlantic City belongs, in general, to

organized crime.

 

According to El Nuevo Herald, " the racetrack and gambling machine

owners spent $15 million so that the proposition would be approved "

by using an outrageous argument¼ that slot machines " are a good way

to collect money for schools. "

 

More than $3 million came from the generous Isle of Capri casino

owners in Biloxi, Mississippi.

 

94% IN FAVOR OF SLOT MACHINES

 

An article in The Miami Herald entitled " Gambling vote glitch mars

tally, " by Erika Bolstad and Curtis Morgan, explained in an

astonishingly serious tone how the spectacular calculation " error "

occurred on November 5.

 

" The problem " that in one single second made 78,000 votes appear

" came to light just after midnight " (sic) when the counting office

for the votes from Broward county was about to close.

 

Opponents to the amendment told The Herald that " they began " to

suspect the snare when they realized that of the 78,000 " new votes "

counted¼ 94% were in favor of the measure.

 

The " program " was used in elections held in 2002. The operational

error had been " discovered two years ago but never corrected, "

affirmed the article.

 

Different alternative press outlets have noted how the voting machine

manufacturing companies have ties with the most reactionary branch of

the Republican Party and the war industry. Among the computer

equipment used in the last election was equipment manufactured by

Diebold, a subsidiary of Kellog Brown & Roost, another subsidiary of

Halliburton, the business of which Vice President Dick Cheny was

executive director.

 

Broward county, in northern Miami, is the same electoral district

where, three weeks before the elections (in October), 58,000 ballots

sent to voters by mail disappeared. The height of that absurd

situation: the mail service denied any responsibility. At that point,

it was reported in the press that the southern Florida FBI branch, of

dubious repute, headed by a " corruption expert, " Special Agent

Clemens, had opened an " investigation. " Nothing more is expected on

the subject.

 

In 2000, in Broward country, more than 7,000 ballots were declared

null, 800 of them because the holes were not perfectly perforated; in

Miami-Dade 17,000 votes were rejected for different reasons and in

Palm Beach more than 12,000 votes were eliminated for being

insufficiently perforated, and another 19,000 because they were

perforated in duplicate.

 

It was also there where, at the request of Congressman Lincoln

Diaz-Balart, Cuban-American criminals like Vigilia Mambisa and his

boss Miguel Saavedra created disturbances in locations where a

laborious recount of votes was underway, thus putting an end to the

Democratic show.

 

According to a team of experts from Berkeley University in

California, who have made a statistical study of the November vote in

Florida, the electronic counting machines could have granted an

excess of 130,000-260,000 votes to George W. Bush. The study reveals

an inexplicable discrepancy of votes in favor of Bush in counties

using computerized machines in comparison to those using traditional

counting methods.

 

Also worth repeating is that in Florida's " democracy, " managed by Jeb

Bush, 600,000 people with a criminal record, for the most part

African American and consequently Democrat supporters, have been

permanently excluded from the electoral lists. The eloquent result is

the direct inspiration of legislation inherited from the period of

slavery. The major US press outlets systematically avoided any

reference to the subject.

 

What occurred in Miami with the vote on Amendment 4 could be a

laughing matter, but this same voting system is what has imposed an

emperor on the entire world. The vote on the Amendment 4 in

Miami-Dade and Broward illustrates with clarity the level of

corruption reached in a country that claims to dictate its criteria

for democracy to the rest of the world.

 

" They are not even bothering to hide it, " a disillusioned observer

from Miami commented to Granma International.

 

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