The fascists are being fascist.

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Voter fraud or tampering works,lets stick w/that ,look what it did for all of us in 2000 and 2004 ,Bush and co. both times .My favorite was all those jewish folks who voted for the nazi-party candidate!..in Florida I believe,this time we could have it so all black people will vote for a kkk candidate and evangelists will vote republican ,problem solved!yep! lets use those no paper trail computors ,we all know how dependable computors are !..etc.etc

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After the Grand Theft Election of 2000, I'd be more comfortable with paper ballots with boxes to ckeck in ink.
I dont, can't, and WILL NOT trust paperless, electronic voting.....EVER! It is criminal that we condone a system where a company that manufactures our voting machines has such an obvious bias. HOW DID WE GET TO THAT POINT?
Remember in August 2004 when Walden O'Dell (CEO of Diebold) stated that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver it's electoral votes for the president"? Can anybody say 'conflict of interest'? That is borderline criminal.
No, I don't think this president was even elected once, he is as legitimate as that "Supreme Court" that installed him.
THANK DOG FOR THE 22nd AMMENDMENT!

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Help them to SWING elections? That's a pretty tame way of putting it. What happened to 'steal' or 'fake' or 'trick'? By the way, what do journalism schools teach these days? I had to re-read the opening sentence twice to be clear on what it was trying to say. Give us a break.

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It's show time, baby! While the GOP implodes from all sides, they know that the American people are finally starting to awaken from the right wing coma they have been under since the dawn of the Reagan Revolution twenty-seven years ago. They know that they no longer (as if they ever could) possibly win an election based upon merits and issues. They will do everything humanly and subhumanly possible to steal the 2008 election - and we can't let that happen again.

If the results next year are different from the polling results, a massive, nation wide tax strike needs to be organized. A people should not be forced to fund a government (such as the administration of George W. Bush) which is not legitimate.

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

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You are all missing a very important point. Who are the voters stationed in another country, sick to DEATH of these corrupt, war-profiteering Chickenhawks in the GOP? Why it's our TROOPS! Remeber them? You support the troops, don't you? You honor their service to our nation...but not enough to let them vote you out of office!
Frame it as a few minority voters being disenfranchised on Reservations, in rural communities and in low-wage urban areas, and only Liberals and Progressives will give a hoot. Frame it as disenfranchizing America's military men and women, and you've got a juicy story that would reveal these Repugs for what they are: Liars, Cheats, CRIMINALS. (Please read Greg Palast for more info.)

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Following the 2000 "election", I recall republicans saying "We stole it fair and square."
In their quest for power, winning is the only thing that matters. When elections are gamed to the point where the will of the people is no longer relevant then the process becomes both a distraction and a charade. Our elections are taking on the flavor of game shows. We are given the illusion that our votes matter; yet nothing really changes.
Democrats "won" "control" of congress because they said they'd bring the troops home. Yet there are MORE US forces on the ground in Iraq now than there were before the "election".
America is committing civic and cultural suicide. Ideally the process of democracy is it's greatest strength. The journey is the destination. In this current regime, that ideal has been subverted at the highest levels of governance.

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All of you that still believe politicians (of either party) want MORE people to vote besides those in their base and when they need them, those who traditionally vote for their party, please stand up.... so you can be dopeslapped for being so naive.

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What the Republicans don’t seem to be aware of is that Bush’s actions are changing the traditional makeup of the Republican party. For most of my life- the Republican party was made up of the wealthy and the middle class. These two groups had similar enough goals that they worked together to form a “business/traditionalists” party. What Bush is doing is reaching out to the born again Christians. That is a laudable goal- that will bring large numbers of the working poor into the Republican party. What the press fails to tell people is that the bulk of born again Christians are the working poor. Bush’s idea is to make an unshakable majority. What a combination this would be- the rich, the middle class- and the poor, all together in one unified party.
Unfortunately, there is one slight snag for Bush- he is annoying the middle class. This is more than a little snag- it is a massive transformational snag. By reaching out to the born again Christians (working poor), the Republicans have launched a group of Presidential candidates that I as a former middle class Republican cannot even think of voting for.
The press has completely hidden the fact that the Republican party is not even remotely addressing the needs and desires of the middle class.
The Republican are trying to remove the ‘poor’ from the election equation to further weaken the Democrats. They will almost certainly succeed in disenfranchising the poor. But this is not necessarily a defeat for the Democrats. First- it is Bush who is trying to woo the working poor- not the Democrats.
If the Democrats are smart- they will use this opportunity to take the middle class away from the Republicans. The middle class began to swing in the last election. Bush had succeeded in preventing poor voters from voting. It was a change in suburbia that gave the Democrats their majority. If the Democrats succeed in capturing the middle class, the election politics of America will change for a generation.

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"Democratic Party officials in Washington and state capitals were not fully aware of the latest Voting Section effort to winnow voter rolls, but Democratic National Committee officials said it would be studied in a 50-state review of election practices before 2008."

The complacency of the Democratic Party in the face of massive cheating by their "rivals" is astonishing. If they're not aware of the problem or of this campaign, what on Earth are they aware of?

In 2004, Kerry refused to challenge the cheating in Ohio, even though he had promised to "defend the vote" and had raised money for the purpose. Perhaps he meant to put the money in his pocket; or perhaps he had no intention of being President that year. I do wonder.

Only the Greens and Libertarians defended the vote in 2004. I helped pay for it. So who are the real democrats?

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The experiment is a wash out. People ARE waking up. Even, and especially the ones tasked with these crimes. They are now beginning to resist.

The MSM is instructed not to put those kinds of stories up. Doesn't mean that it isn't happening though.

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Voter Purging and "Voter Fraud" for 2008 ?

The biggest election thief in the world:

MR. TED OLSON

(Bush's favorite for Atty General)

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Congress needs to continue inquiries into the firings of the US Attorneys in order to put Alberto Gonzales and all of his & Ashcroft's partisan election saboteurs behind bars, or at least get them out of the Dept of Justice ASAP. We can't wait until after the Republicans fix the next election.

Nothing infuriates me quite as much as to have the most obvious crooks and swindlers accusing ordinary citizens of fraud, when every last member of the Bush Administration only has a job as a result of the most heinous election fraud in the history of this country.

Until the REAL criminals (GW Bush, GHW Bush, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ashcroft, Gonzales, etc.) are in jail for THEIR election fraud, the Bush Dept of Injustice should be regarded as illegal and unauthorized, totally devoid of authority. Tear up their letters and tell them to go to hell.

The biggest problem is that people (like Congress) go along treating Bush and Cheney as if they were legitimate elected officials (which they clearly are not) rather than arresting them and throwing them in jail for their very obvious tampering and bribing. Everyone they installed into the DoJ is a partisan goon, whose "orders" and "directives" have no function other than to further the financial and political ambitions of the Bush Crime Family and its corporate sponsors.

Purge the Department of Justice! Purge the Supreme Court! Purge the entire Executive Branch! Take action against the real election frauds first!

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Tanner was an unassuming career civil servant until he was moved back into the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in 2002, after a 7-year stint in the Criminal Section, serving on the Hate Crimes working group and the National Church Arson Task Force. And when he took charge of the Voting Section in 2005, the changes came fast and furious.

He became a different person, and no one is quite sure why. Regardless, he has been one of Bush's sharpest tools in the shed in the politicization of Justice.

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Gosh, those fascist Repugs are all from hotel Madness.

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The most surprising thing is that the Dems express utter ignorance at what is going on. Could it be that their ignorance indicates that they just don't care? Take the example of Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell who, at the same time, was Shrub's campaign chairman. Conflict? Dem voters disenfranchised? Same with Katherine Harris in Florida in 2000. Dems now control Congress so what are they doing to prevent this conflict in the future? Asleep at the wheel? I think so.

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Get serious..people! Does anybody think they'll be protected by paper-trail voting machines. It's not LESS TECH. It's more tech and can be controlled MUCH more cleverly! I'm a software programmer who has done his share of hacking. The printer voting machine would still be run by a MICROPROCESSOR....hence, still microprogrammed.

The EXTRAORDINARY thing about the printing voter machine is I could program it to tell the user exactly what he selected, AND SEND TO STORAGE OR WHEREVER the results are sent, exactly what I desire!

And if there ever was anyone asking for a check on his vote later, my wonderful program would spit out the same printer slip given to him/her earlier. Orwell is turning over in his grave and shaking his head!

The VOTER feels happy (read dumb) and the SYSTEM (read GOP) gets its election! We are all cyphers (read numbers) in this BRAVE NEW WORLD!

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Congress cannot sit on their hands and assume this grotesque cabal will sink itself. This cabal has umpteen people in the DOJ, State, DOD, Interior, etc., and every other Department controlled by the president. The reason Rove left is that the GOP setup of every department is COMPLETE. All the minions are working to get the 2008 election and continue the GOP dictatorial takeover of the government. Congress must still try to pull the purse strings and make every chunk of money contingent on withdrawal from Iraq. The kiddy-think Democrats have been blind-sided by a totally disciplined GOP and they are orchestrating another win in 2008.

What's needed...
A continued assault on the DOJ to get as many of Gonzales's henchmen out.
Stoppage of the Iraq war funds. Suck it up and beat thru the traitor accusations that will be hurled. Do the nation right!
Start a concerted impeachment inquiry on Bush and Cheney.
Thoroughly examine The Department of Justice's Voting Section. Congress must make sure the 2008 elections will be clean.

The DEMs can't wait until after the next election to fix ANYTHING. The Republicans can easily fix the next election and the Dems and our poor nation would suffer another four years of Thugdom!

As someone has already pointed out, Congress cannot treat Bushco and friends as people who will color inside the lines. They are thugs who have broken the system. There IS NO legitimate Dems legislation that can be done for the next ten months. Attack the GOP on all fronts. Investigate and bring them before congress. Get them on the record. They are all partisan thugs and goons! Get a least one or more to make a mistake and nail him/her.

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Im amazed at the purging they are doing... imagine tossing out illegal aliens.. or names of dead people, or dear god convicted felons. We Democrats should speak up ! Allow us to put fake names, dead relatives and whatever stuff we can work out in the voting booths !! I would hate to think that the purging might take out republicans as well...
We cant lose this in the voting ! We have to lose this when we elect hillary !

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Below is just a quick tabulation of what the fraud has cost Americans. It is massive indeed.

The Cost of Fraudulent Removal of Eligible Voters:

Year: 2000
State: Florida
Result: Fraudulent Election of GW Bush after voter recount stopped. Brother Jeb and cronie Katherine Harris (FL Secretary of State) had purged voter roles of thousands of Dems. Road blocks on election day stop many African-Americans from voting.
Cost of fraudulent election: Illegal war with Iraq. Thousands Dead. Total cost to be over $500 billion. Other costs in the USA include stagnant domestic economy, global warming to continue unabated, USA poverty rate to increase.


Year: 2004
State: Ohio
Result: Fraudulent Re-election of GW Bush. Entire known Democratic Precincts lose thousands of votes. Press "forgets" to cover debacle.
Cost of fraudulent re-election.: Iraq war continues, thousands more die. Total cost of war now to likely exceed $1 trillion. Other costs occur as US prestige in the world diminishes. USA is no longer a respected nation. USA violates international law with illegal detentions at Guantanamo, loss of civil rights for US citizens. Other costs occur as the USA economy slides now towards recession. USA debt at all time high. Massive tax breaks for the rich continue .

Americans and the World have paid a high price for the perpetuation of the fraudulent removal of voters. That is will continue into the next election is a sad prediction, but, the likely reality.

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There is an overseas NGO called Democracy Now that is sponsored by USAID and is active in numerous countries worldwide. Their purpose is to teach people about how democracy works and encourage them to try it in their own countries. It is most active in countries that have both petroleum and regimes hostile to the US oil companies, but that is another story.

This past weekend I was chatting with one of their people in the airport and made the comment that they had a lot of work to do in Washington. I was met with total agreement and the observation that their work is made doubly difficult because the Bush administration practices the opposite of what it teaches. This article is a clear example of why they are less than successful because you can't preach about the speck of dust in your neighbor's eye when it is obvious to everyone that there is a board in your own eye.

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Scary movie!

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A national ID cart might be a solution to the Republican inclination to purge eligible citizens from the voting rolls.
If every citizen were required to have an ID card, then voter registration could be made automatic. The antiquated process of registering to vote would become completely unnecessary; it could be eliminated altogether. No citizens eligible to vote could be turned away from the poles.
I am aware of the fact that both Nazi Germany and the USSR had a system of ID cards which they used to restrict personal freedom. But, I believe that problems could be mitigated with proper checks and balances, like liberal use of impeachment.

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When I went to vote in the 2000 presidential elections, it was fortunate that I had voted before. One of my neighbors was a poll worker and knew that I had voted in earlier elections. According to the powers that be, I had moved to another city!

I have voted in every election that I could since I turned 18. My husband's name was on the list, giving me more credibility as I tried to make my case. I even had my voter card. The poll workers got on the phone and explained to someone on the other end that I indeed belonged there and did not in fact move away. After about 30-45 minutes (and I'm there with my then toddler) I was able to vote. I also got my new voter card in the mail afterwards.

Voter fraud is repblican code for too many democats on the voter rolls!

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