Yes, The 2004 US Election Was Really Stolen

The media just isn't talking about it.

Josh Mitteldorf, of the Philadelphia Inquirer, reports from a recent meeting of people investigating 2004 vote fraud:

I met David Griscom, a retired physics prof who spent months with colleague John Brakey poring over election tapes, signature rosters and "consecutive number registers" from Brakey's Tucson home precinct.

They audited and verified, one by one, the 895 votes in the precinct and found: 12 innocent and unsuspecting voters who had their names duplicated on the roster and their votes for Bush counted twice. Twenty-two "undervotes" where the machine had failed to register a preference for president, and these had been dutifully and meticulously converted to 22 votes for Bush.

The "Republican" and "Democratic" co-directors of the polling place were a local fundamentalist preacher and his wife. Thirty-nine of their parishioners from another precinct had cast provisional ballots, which were (illegally) converted to regular ballots and passed through, all 39 for Bush.

I met Richard Hayes Phillips, a geologist from New Hampshire who was invited to Ohio to study the integrity of the vote, and realized that a complete inventory of lost and miscounted votes was needed. To date, Phillips has analyzed 15 of Ohio's 88 counties, and by his most conservative estimate has found 101,000 uncounted Kerry votes - 136,000 is the margin by which Bush officially defeated Kerry.

I heard Clint Curtis talk about working in 2001 as a programmer for Yang Enterprises in Florida. He was assigned to a meeting with State Senate Speaker Tom Feeney, who asked to have a program written into the software that controls voting machines so that the totals could be manipulated without leaving a trace. Curtis, the whistleblower, is now unemployed. Feeney, the politician, is now the U.S. representative from Florida's 24th Congressional district.

I was inspired to hear the travails of Ohio lawyer Cliff Arnebeck. After the Green Party raised $200,000 and obtained authorization for a recount in Ohio, Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell staged a charade in which every state rule about the conduct of the recount was thrown out, and two hand-picked precinct captains emerged from behind locked doors to report that yes, indeed the numbers were exactly right and all was hunky dory.

Arnebeck was lead attorney in a lawsuit to expose this sham, and get a real recount. The suit was dismissed by Supreme Court Justice Thomas Moyer, who ruled on the case despite the fact that his own re-election was part of the challenge. Arnebeck has continued to pursue the case while he fights for his legal life: State Attorney General Jim Petro has brought an action to discipline Arnebeck for bringing a frivolous suit that wastes the precious time of the Ohio court.

And check out some of the comments on this article at The Smirking Chimp. For example:

This is no longer the United States of America, the big brawling country where justice might get a bruise or two but always prevailed in the end. This is the sweaty, lurching nightmare place of Franz Kafka's novels where a shadowy sinister, totalitarian bureaucracy crushes citizens with maddening slowness and alters the rules with diabolic design.

This America is an alien place where body snatchers have taken whole towns, entire counties and regions, where the unchanged watch in fascinated horror as the changelings slowly and irresistibly assimilate the body politic. This is a place where the liar is celebrated and the truth-teller is shunned, where the laws have no meaning.

This is not a series of accidents; this is all deliberate design, this is a coup d'etat. One more election cycle under the control of the dominionists and the transformation will be completed.

If you fall asleep now America, you'll be changed forever.

Mind you, other commenters are still hoping George Lucas and his Hollywood friends will come riding in on a white horse to save the day! Gawd... it's too depressing sometimes, isn't it?