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The Winning Ticket: Hillary and Diebold in 2008
by Mike Whitney Something doesn't ring true about Hillary's “upset” victory in the New Hampshire primary. It just doesn't pass the smell test. All the exit polls showed Clinton trailing Obama by significant margins. In fact, in the Gallup Poll taken just days before the election, "Crocodile tears" Hillary was down by a whopping 13 points.
Her “turnaround” was not only unexpected, but downright shocking. The results for the rest of the candidates--excluding Clinton and Obama---were all within the margin of error. Clinton was the only anomaly. Surprise, surprise.
“Its not who votes that counts. Its who counts the votes.”
- Joseph Stalin
If this election had been conducted in any other country in the
world, the Bush administration would have immediately dispatched an
independent team of election observers and demanded a recount. But not
in the good old USA, where stealing elections is replacing baseball as
the national pastime. Would it surprise you to know that (according to
Black Box Voting) the Marketing and Sales Director of the company that
tallies the votes (LHS) “was arrested, indicted, and pleaded guilty to
"sale / CND" and sentenced to 12 months in the Rockingham County
Correctional facility, and fined $2000.” That would be LHS Sales
Director Mr. Ken Hajjar. Here's an excerpt from Bev Harris's Black Box
Voting web site:
“The Diebold ballot printing plant at the
time we got records on the overages (that is, more ballots than needed
for election; MW) was being run by a convicted felon who had spent four
years in prison on a narcotics trafficking charge. No, not New
Hampshire's voting machine programming exec Ken Hajjar, who cut a plea
deal in 1990 for his role in cocaine distribution. This was another
convicted felon, John Elder, who ran the Diebold ballot printing plant;
he's now an elections consultant.”
Still feel confident about the election results?
Then
why not spend 5 minutes perusing this you-tube demonstration that shows
how anyone with a screwdriver and a brain the size of a walnut can
transform a 'humiliating defeat' into a miraculous Clintonesque
“comeback”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiiaBqwqkXs
The
you-tube video also shows LHS's owner defending the dubious record of
his optical scanning hardware in court. The reader can decide for
himself whether we're dealing with a man of impeccable integrity or
another flannel-mouth opportunist who has enriched himself at the
expense of our basic democratic institutions.
Bradblog's Dori
Smith reports that Sales Director “Hajjar totes memory cards around in
the trunk of his car and defends the practice of swapping out memory
cards during the middle of elections.”
(http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5320) Nice touch, eh?
Smith also adds this revealing tidbit:
"Other
LHS staff members we spoke with, including Mike Carlson and Tom Burge,
provided similar comments. They said they would open machines up during
an election and swap memory cards as needed. This is illegal under
Connecticut law and Deputy Secretary Mara told us she has since
informed LHS that such actions were in violation of Connecticut
election laws.”
"So
what's all the fuss? I'll just slip this little card in the slot
and---Lookee here---Hillary's a winner; just like I figured.”
Activist
Nancy Tobi provides a great summary of the back-room machinations in
her article “Democracy for New Hampshire” which came out the day after
the primary:
“81% of New Hampshire ballots are counted in secret
by a private corporation named Diebold Election Systems (now known as
"Premier"). The elections run on these machines are programmed by one
company, LHS Associates, based in Methuen, MA. We know nothing about
the people programming these machines, and we know even less about LHS
Associates. We know even less about the secret vote counting software
used to tabulate 81% of our ballots. People like to say "but we use
paper ballots! They can always be counted by hand!"
But they're
not. They're counted by Diebold. Only a candidate can request a hand
recount, and most never do so. And a rigged election can easily become
a rigged recount, as we learned in Ohio 2004, where two election
officials were convicted of rigging their recount. (Is it just a funny
coincidence that Diebold spokesman is named Mr. Riggall?)
We
need to get the count right on election night. Right now, nobody in New
Hampshire, except the programmers at LHS Associates and Diebold
Election Systems, knows if we are getting it right or wrong.”
Good job, Nancy.
Does
it seem to you, dear reader, that we could save the taxpayer a lot of
money and trouble by just returning to the “old system” of letting 9
judges on the Supreme Court chose our leaders? Why do we continue with
this pointless sham?
Look, our elections are being run by
corporations that have an obvious stake in the outcome. There's a heap
of money involved and nothing is left to chance. The media's job is to
make us feel like we have a choice. We don't.
The only reason
the farce continues is because the ruling elite believe that perception
management is the cheapest way to control the bewildered herd. And, of
course, they're right. Pulling a lever every 4 years is a type of
political empowerment. It makes us feel like we're part of the
decision-making process, which makes it easier to accept the “shittier
and shittier paying jobs”, the curtailed civil liberties and the
endless wars. (Thanks George Carlin)
This year we can choose
from a slate of 8 candidates; all of whom are members of the secretive
Council on Foreign Relations; and all of whom are wholly committed to
the off-shoring of businesses, the outsourcing of jobs, the expansion
of police-state powers, and the obscene enlargement the already
over-bloated War Machine. The only exceptions are Ron Paul and Dennis
Kucinich who are treated like pariahs by the establishment media.
As
for Hillary; she won nothing. The results are completely bogus. Her
weepy performance before the balloting was orchestrated to create a
credible narrative to explain the fraudulent shifting of votes away
from Obama. It was exactly the same trick that Karl Rove played in
2004, when he had the entire corporate media standing behind his
cockamamie story that 3 or 4 million fundamentalists---who had never
voted before in a general election---suddenly poured down from the
mountains to cast their ballot for their champion, George Bush.
This
absurd narrative was spouted from every media-soapbox in the nation
until it was generally accepted as fact. The media then proceeded to
quash any investigation of the massive voter fraud which took place
across the country (particularly in Ohio) while discrediting critics as
conspiracy theorists.
“Conspiracy theorists?”
s it a
conspiracy to think that the same guys who abduct foreign nationals off
the streets of cities around the world and take them to black
sites---where their eyes are gouged out and their finger nails ripped
off---would get squeamish over something as trivial as ballot stuffing?
Get real!
Clinton's tearful antics were right out of
Karl Rove's “Dirty Tricks Playbook”. Chapter one: Invent a believable
storyline, run it through the Propaganda Ministry (the media) and stick
with it no matter how ridiculous it sounds.
I carry no brief
for Obama or Clinton and I don't see any substantial difference between
either of them. They are both water carriers for their far-right
constituents. It is the system that's important. And the system is
broken.
The primary was stolen. End of story. Now, it's our move.
They are both CFR puppets, so what does it matter?
Liberty and Democracy got robbed the moment this vote fraud affected Dr. Ron Paul.
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Electronic voting in New Hampshire primary written by Hammo,
January 12, 2008
Many special interests may want Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination. Was there vote fraud in New Hampshire? See the article: "New Hampshire primary results questioned: Electronic voting machines threaten U.S. democracy?" (AmericanChronicle.com, January 11, 2008) at ...
I was online reading smear attempt after smear attempt, until I found this decent and truthful article.
Ron Paul isn't winning for a combination of reasons, among them you'll find manipulated national polls, antagonism from the media, vote fraud and the fact that the average American is too distracted to take a hard look at what is happening to our country.
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Liberty and Democracy got robbed the moment this vote fraud affected Dr. Ron Paul.