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dollars appropriated by the Anthrax Congress, to "Help America Vote"--which went straight into the pockets of Bush's big buds at Diebold and ES&S, who returned the favor by selling the states insider hackable voting systems, run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls--was REALLY INTENDED to create a transparent election in 2004, but--darn!--they just couldn't get the hang of it, somehow. Transparent vote counting? Huh? What's that?
"Prove it," my ass.
And then they demand that WE come up with the evidence! WE have to "prove" it. The 2004 election was a fraud going in. It was DESIGNED to HIDE the evidence. We're lucky to have the evidence we do--a mountain of it, all pointing at fraud, gathered by the blood and sweat of tireless activists and experts--but we, of course, can't "prove" it, because ONE THIRD of the country voted on paperless touchscreens, many states had NO audits, the best states had only 1% audits, and virtually ALL votes were "tabulated" by TRADE SECRET code. And in ADDITION you had a criminal president and AG permitting a criminal Republican cabal in Ohio to massively violate the Voting Rights Act with impunity, to cement their manufactured victory--and a bunch of Democratic corporatists and warmongers keeping the lid on it afterward.
A non-transparent election IS fraudulent. The fact that you can't "prove it" either way IS the problem. And THERE IS NO OTHER REASON FOR SECRECY IN VOTE COUNTING THAN TO STEAL ELECTIONS.
Mexico's votes were "tallied" by electronic code that Calderon's brother has an interest in. Ballots were dumped in the garbage. Ballot boxes were stuffed. All documented. They "lost" 3 million votes in the initial "tally"--and when they "found" SOME OF THEM, Lopez Obrador was now within striking distance. Calderon by only .06. They furthermore put tricky numbers on the screen, with Calderon surging to an .06 "victory" on the wings of 90% votes in all the "late" precincts. The Mexican election smells to high heaven. And if WE had been able to do what the MEXICANS are doing now--put 2 million people in the streets demanding a REAL count of all the ballots, and not just a Calderon code "tally"--we wouldn't have an idiot for president leading us straight into WW III.
Proof before an election tribunal is a different thing than the people SMELLING fraudulence, and KNOWING it was a fraud. Because the people look at MOTIVATION, as well as the ballots in the garbage. They may not be able to FIND all of the dumped ballots. But they KNOW WHY it was done. They're all poor--dirt poor--due to deliberate policy of the Fox/Calderon's. And they are part of a VAST POPULATION that has been impoverished and oppressed. There is NO WAY that Calderon represents the majority in Mexico. THAT'S what people know. And when they look at the "lost" 3 million votes, only SOME OF WHICH were "found," and the hairsbreadth of difference between candidates, they know something else, and they know it for sure: It was stolen.
"Proving" that the fraud was deliberate may be impossible. A lot of evidence has no doubt already been destroyed. Proving that the election was invalid may be possible. Establishing grounds for a real recount may be possible (but then there are those "lost" votes--is the ballot base still sufficiently in tact?). The government's RESISTANCE to a real recount is certainly telling--with such a thin margin for the corporatist, and all that "lost" 3 million votes business. (It's no wonder they don't want a recount! Does that "prove" fraud? No. But it adds to the SMELL!) Getting a new election may be difficult, but not impossible.
In the case of OUR election, and in the case of the Mexican election, the burden of proof is on the GOVERNMENT, NOT on the people. If there is egregious non-transparency, as in our case, or highly suspicious circumstances, in their case, the CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED has neither been sought nor achieved. ONLY FULL TRANSPARENCY can achieve that. A PUBLIC VOTE COUNT. All evidence exposed to public scrutiny.
The major difference between the Mexicans and us is that we had Edison-Mitofsky fiddling the exit polls, to match the NON-TRANSPARENT results of Diebold/ES&S's TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--thus denying the American people strong evidence of election fraud. If there was a chance of 2 million people in the streets in this country, that was it--and the people DIDN'T KNOW. Also, Kerry was no Lopez Obrador. (VIVA AMLO!) And, finally, Americans didn't have a vast, peaceful, leftist, democratic revolution happening throughout Latin America, to boost them up, and to give them reason to believe, as the new indigenous president of Bolivia has stated, "The time of the people has come."
Technocrats who demand "proof" understand neither politics nor people--nor the enormous corruption and crime of the global corporate predators who have been running both of these governments. CONTEXT IS ALL.
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