APJ: Instant Activist: You Can Halt Election Fraud

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" Mark Hull-Richter " <mhull

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:13:40 -0700 (PDT)

APJ: Instant Activist: You Can Halt Election Fraud

 

 

Now here's a great article from APJ about elections, rights, votes,

fraud and so on. California better be prepared and awake because with

Bruce Almighty MacPherson as our new SoS, blessed by the club of

Assembly Speaker Nunez (who threatened every Democrat in the assembly

with some dire consequences if they dared to vote against Bruce

Almighty such that only four had the courage to hide in their offices

to avoid voting for him), any election in CA is now potentially another

Harris-Hood-Blackwell candidate for total fraud.

 

The paragraph about enlisting the allies is telling.

 

 

 

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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 07:58

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[APJ] American Politics Journal 4/26/05 -- Instant Activist:

You Can Halt Election Fraud

 

 

American Politics Journal

April 26, 2005

 

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Instant Activist: What We the People Can Do About Election Fraud

by Ernest Partridge

Co-Editor, The Crisis Papers

 

April 26, 2005 -- SAN FRANCISCO (crisispapers.org) -- During the two

and

a half years that The Crisis Papers has been on the web, we have posted

 

hundreds of articles and links in our " Election 2004 Fraud "

(http://www.crisispapers.org/topics/election-fraud.htm) and " Electoral

Integrity " (http://www.crisispapers.org/topics/electoral-integrity.htm)

 

pages. In addition I have written and published numerous essays about

the issue (http://www.crisispapers.org/partridgepubs.htm#election),

most

recently just two weeks ago

(http://www.crisispapers.org/essays-p/means-motive.htm). On each

occasion, I have received numerous letters telling me " I'm convinced

that the elections are frauds, " then asking " Now what can I do about

it? "

 

Here is a partial answer. " Partial, " because if honest and verifiable

elections are ever to return to the United States, it will be because

this question will be asked relentlessly by an outraged public.

 

Electoral integrity is arguably the most important political issue to

face the American people since the founding of our democracy, as it

raises the question of whether, in fact, we still have a democracy. For

 

if, as the skeptics contend, the outcome of our federal " elections " are

 

decided before a single vote is cast, then the government of the United

 

States no longer " [derives] its just powers from the consent of the

governed. " Despite what we are told from Washington, or by the

corporate

media, this is not a government " of, by, and for the people. "

 

The grounds for suspicion about the integrity of our elections are

simple, straightforward, and undisputed. In federal elections, thirty

percent of the votes are cast, and eighty percent of the votes are

regionally compiled, in machines: (a) utilizing secret software, (b)

producing no independent record of the votes (e.g. Paper trails " ), and

(

c ) manufactured by active members and supporters of the Republican

Party. In sum, the system in place is effectively designed, either

deliberately or accidentally, to facilitate fraud.

 

Moreover, remedies for these shortcomings are readily available, and in

 

fact, in use. These include: (a) a requirement that software ( " source

codes " ) be made public (as in Australia), (b) production of a separate

paper ballot to be inspected by the voter (as in Nevada). In addition,

voting machines could be selected at random, during elections, and

examined for accuracy. And central compiling could be done " in

parallel "

by two distinct and independent methodologies.

 

These " black box " voting machines, as now in use, inevitably raise

questions as to the legitimacy of the elections. For if the system now

in place is as honest as " the winners " (i.e., the Republicans) tell us

it is, why do they oppose these guarantees? Would not the winners want

these suspicions to be put to rest? Why, then, do they doggedly oppose

reforms that would validate the honesty of our elections? Causes one to

 

wonder, does it not?

 

Add to this the accumulating evidence that our elections have in fact

been " fixed. " This includes: (a) anecdotal evidence from voters – e.g.

malfunctioning screens, " lost " registrations, etc. (b) public

demonstrations of simulated vote fraud, (for example, the CNBC

demonstration by Bev Harris and Howard Dean – see

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm and

http://www.equalccw.com/deandemo.html). © impossible and improbable

vote totals – e.g. more votes reported than registered voters, and

" negative " vote totals. ( d ) exit poll discrepancies – accurate polls

in precincts with validated (e.g. paper) ballots, inaccurate polls in

precincts with " black-box " machine voting and all discrepancies

favoring

one candidate or party. (e) statistical analyses of these anomalies.

Because the evidence of machine voting fraud has been extensively

published elsewhere, I will not elaborate here. (For a list of websites

 

and articles dealing with voting fraud, see The Crisis Papers pages on

" Election Fraud 2004 " and " Electoral Integrity " ).

 

So what is to be done about this outrage?

 

-- The Media Problem --

 

Don't expect help from the mainstream media – at least, not without

some

persistent and creative pressure from the public. The issue of voting

fraud is virtually absent from the media, except for occasional

debunkings of the skeptics. There are reports

(http://www.rense.com/general59/ememd.htm) that " top down " orders have

been given to media staff to say and write nothing about the issue, and

 

that violations of these orders are " career-enders. " True or not, the

media behaves as if such orders have been given. There is a black hole

of reporting on ballot integrity. As for investigative reporting,

fagetaboutit.

 

What to do? We begin by acknowledging this problem, and then proceed to

 

locate the " pressure points " that might budge the media from its

negligence.

 

Ask an ordinary citizen, " Who are the sellers and the customers, and

what is the product, of the broadcast mass media? " and you will likely

be told that the TV and radio networks are the sellers, the audience

are

the customers, and the programming is the product. Wrong! In fact, the

media corporations are the sellers, the corporate sponsors are the

customers, and the attention ( " eyes " ) of the public is the product. If

you doubt this, then just follow the money. It flows from sponsors to

the broadcasters.

 

So therein is the pressure point: if the public withdraws the

" product, "

namely its attention, the public can " starve the beast. " This is the

crucial difference between the media in the Soviet Union and the media

in United States. The Soviet Commissars didn't care a whit if Pravda,

Izvestiya and Gostelradio failed to turn a profit, so long as they

continued to spew out the party line. In the US, profit is the sine qua

 

non – the whole point of having a media at all.

 

Case in point: The Sinclair Broadcasting " Stolen Honor " fiasco. As you

likely recall, in the closing days of the Presidential campaign,

Sinclair scheduled " Stolen Honor, " a smear of John Kerry's Vietnam

service. Following a public outcry, Sinclair withdrew the program. And

why? A sudden realization of civic responsibility? Ya gotta be kidding!

 

Fear of offending the public? Yes, but not directly. In fact, the

Sinclair management, solid supporters of George Bush and the GOP,

buckled from pressure from the stockholders. The offended public was

removing its eyes from the Sinclair TV screens. Hence lower ratings and

 

lower profits. Sinclair management was ungently reminded that their job

 

was not to campaign for George Bush, their job was to provide a return

on the stockholders' investments. Failing that, management might quite

properly be sued, or at least booted out, at the next stockholders'

meeting.

 

The immediate target of our protest is not the mainstream media at

large, it is the mainstream news media. And that beast is starving even

 

today. The credibility of the corporate news media is in free-fall.

Timothy Maier reports that:

 

>>> For two decades polls increasingly have indicated public dismay

>>> at the spin and fantasies of the press. In fact, a recent Gallup

>>> Poll says Americans rate the trustworthiness of journalists at

>>> about the level of politicians and as only slightly more

>>> credible than used-car salesmen. The poll suggests that only 21

>>> percent of Americans believe journalists have high ethical

>>> standards, ranking them below auto mechanics but tied with

>>> members of Congress. More precisely, the poll notes that only

>>> one in four people believe what they read in the newspapers.

>>> Chicago Tribune Editor Charles M. Madigan may have put it best

>>> when he offered this advice: " If you are a journalist, you

>>> should probably just assume that you come across as a liar. "

>>> ...

>>> The study also points out that there has been a rapid decline

>>> in newspaper readership since the 1980s, with slightly more

>>> than half of Americans, 54 percent, reading a newspaper during

>>> the week.

(http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38398)

 

The prospects for the future are grim, as the younger cohorts are

particularly cool to the media. In a recent speech, Rupert Murdoch (no

less!) noted that the 18-34 age group was abandoning newspapers for the

 

Internet(http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1459697,00.html).

 

Furthermore, he reported that " only 9% " of this group " describe us as

trustworthy, a scant 8% find us useful, and only 4% think we're

entertaining. "

 

Professional journalists find these statistics alarming. On the

contrary, I find them very hopeful. The mainstream news media have

richly deserved this public contempt, as they have increasingly become

purveyors of trivia and conduits of official right-wing propaganda, and

 

decreasingly independent investigative watchdogs serving the public

interest. The public, especially the younger cohort, knows this and is

now looking elsewhere for its news.

 

With the abandonment of responsible broadcast journalism in favor of

trivial " info-tainment, " there is a latent demand for the " old-style "

reporting and investigations of " pros " such as Edward R. Murrow, Walter

 

Cronkite, and Woodward and Bernstein. Surely such an enterprise would

be

commercially viable. As in the " Field of Dreams, " if they build it the

public will come.

 

And so the news media, desperate for recovery, need to be told, time

and

again, that if they want our attention, they had better declare their

independence and get back to the business of investigating and

reporting

significant public issues. And they might start with the most important

 

issue of all: the integrity of our ballots.

 

Our job: tell the media, and their sponsors, that we no longer trust

their news reporting, and are now looking elsewhere. And while we are

at

it, we should collect and distribute the names and addresses of media

and sponsors, and encourage still others to voice their complaints.

(The

Democratic Underground's outstanding " Local Media Blaster "

[http://www.democraticunderground.com/cu/cu.php?az=blaster] can direct

you to local and national media addresses. See also The Crisis Papers'

" Activist's Page " [http://www.crisispapers.org/features/activist.htm]).

 

-- Progressive Voices on the Commercial Broadcast Media --

 

Air American Radio is a good start – but merely a start. A progressive

cable news channel – an " Anti-FOX " -- is long overdue, and as the past

election campaign demonstrated, " start-up " funds are available from

such

major sources as George Soros and Warren Buffet.

 

-- The Internetand Alternative Media --

 

Unless and until the mainstream news media acknowledge and deal with

the

ballot integrity issue, the progressive Internet and the alternative

media must be supported and encouraged to publicize the problem of

ballot fraud. In your public and private e-mails, include links to the

websites and the particular articles that deal with the issue.

Download,

print, and copy these articles, and pass them around to your friends

and

associates.

 

-- Recruit the " Allies. " --

 

Regrettably, many prominent progressives are not convinced that the

past

election was " fixed. " Among them, Paul Begala, Al Franken, Arianna

Huffington, and Bernie Sanders. To this day, the Democratic Party is

mute on the issue, as is the progressive think-tank, The Center for

American Progress. Demand that they examine the evidence and challenge

them to refute it. And if they can't, tell them to join the fight. --

 

-- Where are the Books? --

 

Effective political movements have a supporting literature. The

American

Revolution had Tom Paine and " Common Sense. " The Civil War had " Uncle

Tom's Cabin. " The supporting documents of the electoral reform movement

 

are compelling, but they are diffuse. The defining and catalyzing book

–

the book that is held aloft at the public meetings, cited in the media

and in the letters to Congress – that work is desperately needed and

overdue. Perhaps it is still in progress, or even now at the

publishers.

If not, will some genius (and our cause has several) please write that

book!

 

Perhaps such a book exists, but no American publisher dares to print

it.

In that case, the author might look abroad and import it. (And what a

message that would convey about the state of our " free press " !) In the

meantime, or instead, the book should be put on the Internet.

 

-- Send a Message to the Democrats. --

 

Those who contributed to the Democrats and the Kerry Campaign are

surely

receiving numerous solicitations for donations. Find them, take out a

red felt pen, and write something like: " Unless the Democratic Party

addresses the problem of voting fraud, its time and my contribution

will

be wasted. Secure my vote, and I will once again contribute generously.

 

Until then, nada! "

 

-- Demand Action on the Local Level. --

 

As Ohio's Kenneth Blackwell dramatically demonstrated, federal

elections

are administered on the state level. Election fraud is a violation of

both federal and state laws. Obviously neither Attorney General

Gonzales

nor the Republican Congress will touch the issue. However, there must

surely be a state with a Democratic Governor and/or Legislature and/or

Attorney General that could investigate, indict, and prosecute some

culprits involved in the Great Election Robbery of 2004. And if elected

 

officials refuse to take the initiative, citizen groups and defeated

candidates should file law suits. With the threat of perjury and

imprisonment, and the prosecutor's power of investigative discovery,

some culprit somewhere might " break, " then another and another,

whereupon the whole rotten system of fraud and cover-up might collapse.

 

It happened to Richard Nixon, and it can happen again.

 

The voting fraud issue is a sleeping giant that the Busheviks, with the

 

determined complicity of the mainstream media, are desperately trying

to

keep asleep. Few appreciate just how daunting a task this is. As we

noted at the outset of this essay, the opportunity for fraud is known

and undisputed. The evidence published, available, and compelling.

There

is no refutation other than " trust us, " " get over it, " " let's move on, "

 

" don't be so paranoid, " and other such irrelevancies

(http://www.crisispapers.org/essays-p/shut-up.htm).

 

Bush, the GOP and their media allies hope that if they ignore the issue

 

and direct public attention elsewhere, the sleeping giant will not

stir.

But if I were Bush, Rove, Cheney, or the rest, I'd be afraid – I'd be

very afraid. For now Bush's approval ratings are falling even as gas

prices, interests rates, and the consumer price index rise. And all

these may be harbingers of much worse to come. As the dire economic

costs to almost everybody of the Bushevik plunder become more apparent,

 

the American public will become ever more receptive to the idea that

they were criminally robbed of their franchise in (at least) the past

three federal elections, that the Bush Administration and the

Republican

Congress lack legitimacy, and that the American people are no longer,

in

any authentic sense, " citizens " of a free society.

 

Those of us who are aware of the electoral crime against the American

people must steadfastly sound the alarm and arouse the sleeping giant.

 

 

No doubt many of you who read this essay will have still more ideas.

Share them with us. Send your suggestions to me at

crisispapers , and I promise to collect and publish a

selection of them in The Crisis Papers.

 

 

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Mark Hull-Richter, U.S. Citizen & Patriot

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