Stealing Elections

Sunday January 9 2005

Sooner or later the truth always comes out. The more we learn about the ballots in Ohio, the more it sounds like an Oliver Stone movie. Voters are demanding recounts and the inclusion of provisional ballots in all eighty eight Ohio counties. It is looking more and more like the Republicans have stolen another election.

They had spent four years preparing. Tampering with the voting machines, bribing election officials and practicing voter intimidation. In the days prior to the election, several counties in Ohio reported the appearance of a giant John Kerry Waffle Head, driving around proclaiming that democrats should “Vote on Wednesday”. These tactics are deplorable but apparently effective. 370,000 voters showed up at the polls on Wednesday November 3rd all 370,000 were Democrats. In several counties the ballots were printed in Chinese. When the poll workers were summoned to help confused, non Chinese voters, the ballots were filled out by the poll worker which resulted in an indeterminate number of votes for Bush. The Chinese voters chose Kerry 3 to 1.

Curly Tatum of Cayuga County Ohio tells the tale of a large man, in a black suit who visited his and several other families in his neighborhood dozens of times in the days leading up to November 2nd. “He was very mean to me and my wife Lilly” Curly explained obviously nervous about speaking to me. “He told us if we didn’t vote Bush, the Klan would burn down our houses. We was all scared, very scared so most of us didn’t vote. Thems that did vote was gonna vote Bush anyways.”

These stories are common place all over the country. If you look at the US Electoral Map by county, you can see the results in Red and Blue. Crafty Karl Rove’s calculator must have worked overtime computing what counties would need rigged voting machines; what counties would need strong arm tactics, and what counties would need a huge John Kerry Waffle Head spewing disinformation to unsuspecting voters.

Looking at election day 2004 is like peeling an onion, each layer reveals more and more onion. Eventually it makes you cry. There were threats of “baseball bat abortions” for pregnant voters who voted for Kerry; threats of black voters dragged behind pick-up trucks. Some Hispanic voters were pistol whipped in advance of election day to be sure they would get the message. This election was a travesty at best

With inauguration day fast approaching it is unlikely that the 2004 election can be undone but we can start working towards 2006 and 2008. With Howard Dean at the helm of the Democratic Party (providing he can avoid imploding before DNC votes next month) maybe there’s a chance.
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