Heard You Twice the First Time: The Silence of the Vote Scams

Few Americans know about the historic event that happened on January 6, 2005, the official date for counting electoral votes. For the first time since 1877, congressmembers challenged the electoral count. Representative Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of Ohio, accompanied by the lone senator, Barbara Boxer of California, led the challenge to the Ohio vote count. Although massive fraud was reported around the country, only Ohio was officially cited. It is curious that an issue so profound and consequential is barely on the radar screens of most Americans, especially those who supported Kerry. Though we are not certain of the actual outcome, statistically impossible discrepancies exist between results of exit polls and official counts in counties without paper trails. Also documented are patterns of anecdotes about corrupted procedures and accounts of strange behaviors, phenomena and illegal interventions in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and other places. Many say there is fraud in every election, but there was far more in 2004 than in any previous year, and if the errors were random, about half would go in Kerry's favor. Virtually all went in Bush's favor. But rather than demanding a thorough investigation, the American people seem eager to forget the incidents and put the election behind them, thus implicitly supporting such corruption. Under what conditions do millions of allegedly "free" people knowingly acquiesce to being deceived, dominated and deprived of their own political will? [more]

• Where was Kerry? Before the Election he was "Howlin' like a Thurston" about Protecting the Vote. Iraq "Election Observer" Abandoned Vote Dispute. Sen. John Kerry  did not join a small band of House Democrats in challenging voting irregularities in Ohio - even though they needed at least one senator to join them in order to temporarily stop the process and force the House and Senate to formally debate their complaint. Mr. Kerry said he 'wouldn't be that one senator.' Kerry had more important matters to attend to in the middle east -and here he is seen sipping Arabic coffee in the ancient Omayyad Mosque in old Damascus on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2005, the day after the election challenge. AP Photo. Reposted