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> A Brief History of Computerized Election Fraud in America

> By Victoria Collier

> t r u t h o u t | Perspective

>

> Saturday 25 October 2003

>

> Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--Thomas Jefferson

>

> In the 2000 election, George W. Bush stole the presidency by combining

> various forms of vote fraud, not all of which could be concealed from the

> American public. The month-long battle in Dade County ended with open

> slaughter of the democratic process, and the occupation of the country by

a

> regime of what may be accurately described as corporate fascists.

>

> Thats the bad news.

>

> The good news is, the 2000 election also marked a turning point in

> American consciousness. Or, I might venture to say, an awakening.

>

> Before Ws coup, most Americans were, for lack of a better metaphor,

> asleep at the wheel. This metaphor works just fine, because our electoral

> process is the wheel that guides our nation, the mechanism that allows us

> to control the engines of power, and to turn our country in a new

direction

> if, for instance, were nearing the edge of a cliff.

>

> Nothing is more important to an American citizen than the right to cast

> a ballot.

>

> But modern Americans have been abandoning the voting booth in droves.

> Over the past fifty years, less than half of all eligible voters went to

> the polls, sometimes less than 25%. However, far more astounding is that

> those who voted rarely bothered to wonder if their vote was counted

> accurately.

>

> A vote cast but not counted is meaningless. The only way to know that

> your vote is properly counted is to watch the entire counting process,

> which is why election law requires an open, public vote count, and makes

> secret ballot counting illegal. However, most voters have eagerly

abdicated

> the responsibility of overseeing their vote count to a handful of

extremely

> dubious expertsand officials. Human nature is largely to blame. November

> election night in most states is cold -- and often wet. Those who manage

to

> make their way to the polls after work want only to go home, turn on the

> TV, and let their local newscaster tell them who won. And yet, our natural

> instinct to curl up on the couch cannot be wholly to blame. Recent history

> has shown that the most avid political junkies even candidates

themselves

> -- have demonstrated a profound disinterest in how the gears and levers

> work behind the scene on election night, or who is controlling them.

>

> It should not surprise us that vote fraud has flourished in this vacuum

> of electoral vigilance. Criminals of every stripe have slithered through

> the unwatched gates and into positions of power in America. It has not

> taken them long to corrupt the entire electoral process itself, securing

> for themselves the gates of power. As I write this article, America is on

> the verge of losing the last shreds of its democracy, with the rise of

> ballot-less computerized voting machines.

>

> One Machine to Rule Them All

>

> Thanks in part to the recent Bush approved Help America Vote Act

(HAVA),

> squadrons of shiny new Touch Screen Trojan horses are being rolled into

> precincts across America. Not, as we are told, to make voting easier or

> more accurate, or to help disabled people vote privately, or to save

> America from the dangers of hanging chad and butterfly ballots -- no. The

> real reason America is being flooded with billions of dollars worth of

> paperless computerized voting machines is so that no one will ever again

be

> able to prove vote fraud.

>

> These machines are not just unverifiable, they are secretly programmed

> (their software is not open to scrutiny by election officials or computer

> experts), equipped with modems, accessible by computer, telephone, and

> satellite. They are the final product of decades of work by the election

> rigging industry. When they are installed in every precinct in America,

our

> elections will finally become completely meaningless, nothing more than

> charades behind which criminal thugs will wield the power of this nation.

>

> That is the plan for America. But theres a glitch.

>

> The blatant and multi-faceted fraud of the 2000 election -- in which

the

> ultimate poster boy for corporate corruption stole the highest seat in the

> nation -- woke the American people from their dangerous slumber. The issue

> of election fraud is now smoldering in the minds of millions. Of course

the

> Touch Screens were immediately offered as the solution to all our voting

> problems, but thanks to the wonderful work of many new computerized vote

> fraud researchers, most notably Bev Harris (author of Black Box Voting),

> Americans are quickly recognizing that the solutionis worse than the

> problem.

>

> Despite the best propaganda efforts of corrupt voting machine

> corporations like Diebold and ES & S, even those with the worst butterfly

> ballot jitters are coming to understand that destroying the ballot

> altogether, erasing any verifiable record of the vote count and making a

> recount impossible, is not the answer to our problems. And, as the Touch

> Screen systems continue to openly malfunction, increasing numbers of

voters

> will begin doubting their safety and accuracy.

>

> Its becoming clear to Americans that, just like the aftermath of the

> Enron scandal, no real government reform is forthcoming in the area of

> election security. The news is out that the same company that was used in

> Florida to purge voter rolls of millions of African American votes is now

> being hired by other states across the country for the same job. As you

> will soon see, many of our Boards of Elections and Secretarys of State

will

> continue to blindly defend their collusion with shadowy corporations, and

> spending billions of tax-payer dollars on unreliable machines that

patently

> subvert the democratic process. Why? Because they have sold out. They have

> been bought by corporate interests. It happened a long time ago.

>

> As political events at home and around the world continue to unfold in

> one devastating disaster after another, our cry for honest elections will

> only grow louder. The movement toward real election reform, and what will,

> in the end, amount to a revolution by the American people, is only just

> beginning.

>

> We the People are responsible for taking back the control of our

> democratic process. No one else will do it for us. We cannot afford to be

> naïve, or uneducated, at this time in history. In order to fully

understand

> the extent of the corruption we are dealing with, and to avoid making

> dangerous mistakes based on ignorance, we must understand the history, and

> the power structure, behind vote fraud in America.

>

> Votescam: The Stealing of America

>

> One of the most mysterious, low-profile, covert, shadowy, questionable

> mechanisms of American democracy is the American vote count.--- Votescam

>

> I grew up with two men who spent twenty-five years investigating vote

> fraud in America: James and Kenneth Collier, my father and uncle.

>

> Their book, Votescam: The Stealing of Americawas published in 1992 and

> immediately banned by the major book chains, which listed the book as out

> of printand actively worked to prevent its sale. Votescam chronicles the

> Collier brothers groundbreaking investigation into Americas multi-billion

> dollar election rigging industry, and the corporate government and media

> officials who control it.

>

> Before the 2000 election, Votescam was widely read (thanks to

> independent bookstores and the Internet) by the minority of Americans

still

> engaged in the political process, mostly members of independent and third

> parties trying to break the chokehold of the two party system. The

> corporate media will not give their causes or their candidates adequate

> press coverage -- if any. This censorship alone effectively controls the

> first stages of our political races. If a candidate cant get T.V.

coverage,

> he or she has little chance of even making it out the gate. These citizens

> were not surprised to learn that the media has been complicit in rigging

> the final stages of our elections our vote counting and the reporting of

> results -- for decades.

>

> Down the Rabbit Hole

>

> The Votescam investigation began in 1970, in surprise!-- Dade County,

> Florida, where Ken ran for Congress (with Jim as his campaign manager)

> against Claude Pepper, the Father of Social Security.

>

> The Colliers were researching a book they were writing for Dell

> Publishing titled: Running Through the System: Ballots Not Bullets,an idea

> born from their involvement in the social upheaval of the sixties.

>

> Jim and Ken proposed that if our Declaration of Independence,

> Constitution and Bill of Rights were indeed the rule of the land, real

> change could be made in America by working within the system -- more

> effectively, and much more safely, than waging bloody revolution in the

> streets.

>

> Putting their ideals, love of country, and political savvy to the test,

> the Colliers began their grassroots Congressional campaign and discovered

> exactly why the bullet, not the ballot, was being used to change the power

> structure in America.

>

> Ken was rigged out of the election through a vote scam, which the

> Colliers later discovered was used throughout the country for decades. It

> went like this: The local newscaster would announce during the broadcast

of

> election returns that election computer has broken down.Instead of giving

> official returns from the County courthouse, the networks would be running

> vote projectionsfor the rest of the night.

>

> Jim and Ken, who had garnered 30 percent of the vote and were excited

> about running again, noticed that when the vote totals came back on the

> screen after the announcement, they had mysteriously lost 15 percentage

> points. They didnt get another vote for the rest of the night.

>

> This piqued their interest.

>

> When they examined the officialelection results from the Secretary of

> States office for the September primary, October run-off and November

final

> election in Dade County, the record listed a total of 141,000 votes cast

> for the Governors race in each election. The exact same number of total

> votes were cast for three elections with a different number of candidates

> running each time. The same identical figures were listed for the Senate

> race 122,000 votes cast in the primary, run-off and final election.

>

> This, of course, is a statistical impossibility.

>

> When they compared the officialvote results with a print-out of the

vote

> projectionsbroadcast by the TV networks on the final election night, they

> found that channel 4 had projectedwith near perfect accuracy the results

of

> 40 races with 250 candidates only 4 minutes after the polls closed.

Channel

> 7 came even closer; at 9:31 pm, they projectedthe final vote total for a

> race at 96,499 votes. When the Colliers checked the officialnumber . . .

it

> was also 96,499.

>

> In hockey, they call that a hat trick,the Colliers write. In politics,

> we call it a fix.

>

> The networks then made the astonishing claim that the results from a

> single voting machine somewhere in Dade County were run through a computer

> program in order to get these vote projections.

>

> Elton Davis was the computer programmer responsible for the magic

> formula that could convert one machines vote results into near perfect

> projected vote totals for 40 races and 250 candidates. When Jim and Ken

> confronted Davis in his office at the University of Miami, he responded:

> Youll never prove it, now get out.

>

> Finally the networks claimed that members of the League of Women Voters

> were out in the field on election night, calling in vote totals to

channels

> 4 and 7.

>

> When the Colliers confronted the head of the League, Joyce

> Deiffenderfer, she admitted that there were no LWV members out in the

field

> that night. She broke down crying, saying I dont want to get caught up in

> this thing.

>

> But theres more.

>

> According to the print-out of the TV networks election night

> projections,the networks were not receiving any actual voting results at

> any time during their broadcast, but had been using their own projections

> from the moment the polls closed. When they claimed that the courthouse

> computer had broken down, and they would no longer be reporting actual

vote

> totals, they were lying. They had never been reporting actual vote totals.

>

> However, the final shoe dropped months later when an official press

> release appeared from Dade data processing chief, Leonard White, which

> stated emphatically: The county computer at the courthouse was never down,

> and it was never slow.

>

> This was the beginning.

>

> The Collier brothers had slammed their boat into the tip of a giant

> iceberg. As they continued to investigate, they were horrified to discover

> vote fraud collusion among key individuals in every branch and on every

> level of the American political system. Those who were not benefiting from

> the fraud were too afraid to fight it. Their search for justice led to

> dead-ends. Their lives were threatened, they were vilified as conspiracy

> theorists by the mainstream press, Dell publishing cancelled their book

> contract . . . and yet they persevered.

>

> The next quarter century was spent compiling a wealth of FBI documented

> evidence proving that elections in the United States have come under the

> tight control of a handful of powerful and corrupt people: Secretaries of

> State, Election Supervisors, Judges, owners and editors of the major media

> outlets, voting equipment corporations, and assorted key members of the

> elections establishment, including the League of Woman Voters. These

groups

> have assured the dominance of the two party system, unfettered corporate

> control over government, and media censorship of issues most important to

> the American people, including the cover-up of vote fraud evidence.

>

> Now we understand why things have gone so terribly wrong in this

> country. Its due to the corrupted vote. It is the stolen vote that

> perpetuates corrupt city, state and federal governments. When those

corrupt

> power brokers in your town weed out that up-and-coming politician, they

are

> looking for a person who is willing to play ball. Politics is playing

> ball. Suddenly you find property decisions going against nature; land and

> water needed for the perpetuation of life on our earth suddenly disappear.

> A handful of developers get richer while the land, and the quality of

life,

> get poorer. -- Votescam

>

> Jim and Ken both died young during the 90s, as heroes to many thousands

> who read their book and heard them speak on the radio and at political

> meetings across the country. They helped to guide individuals and groups

> working for clean elections in their communities -- some of them fighting

> against the first wave of computerized voting machines.

>

> The Colliers last hope was that Votescam would be used as evidence in a

> serious Congressional investigation into election fraud, if we should ever

> see the day. Many people still in power have yet to be held accountable

for

> their role in aiding and abetting vote fraud. Ill give you two important

> examples.

>

> When the famous Miami lawyer Ellis Rubin agreed to be Ombudsman for the

> original Votescam evidence, he brought it to the Florida assistant State

> Attorney at the time, Janet Reno. The evidence included the shaved wheels

> of lever voting machines, forged canvass sheets (the sheets that poll

> workers sign to verify the final vote count), and pre-printed vote tally

> sheets that were used in conjunction with a lever machine vote rigging

> device called the Printomatic.

>

> Reno refused to prosecute, claiming falsely that the statue of

> limitations had run out on the crime. Years later, Rubin would tell my

> father that behind closed doors Reno had stated that she could not

> prosecute. Why? Because she would bring down many of the most powerful

> people in the state.

>

> Would the 2000 election fiasco in Florida have been avoided if Reno had

> agreed to do her job thirty years earlier and root out the vote fraud

> thieves?

>

> Another notable Votescam criminal can now be found sitting on the bench

> of the highest court in the nation. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,

> while still a Federal Appeals Judge, single handedly destroyed what would

> have been an historic lawsuit filed against Justice Department lawyer

Craig

> Donsanto, who had refused to prosecute the extensive vote fraud evidence

> brought to him by the Colliers. The evidence included videotape of the

> League of Women voters tampering with ballots in a close door vote

> countingsession. The women were illegally punching holes in already cast

> ballots. When confronted by Jim and Ken, just minutes before the two were

> bodily thrown from the building (which they had snuck into), the women

> claimed they were only trying to remove . . . the hanging chad.

>

> Votescam states, Because the League of Women Voters has about it a

> perfume of volunteerism and do-goodism, the fact that it is actually a

> political club with a political agenda and a hungry treasury is shrouded

by

> the false myth that it is a reliable Election Day watchdog.

>

> Its no surprise to me that the League of Women Voters has recently come

> out strongly in favor of the diabolical ballot-less Touch Screen machines.

>

> And even less shocking was the role Antonin Scalia played so willingly

> in the selection of George W. Bush to office.

>

> The Rise of Resistance/ Knowledge is Power

>

> Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth

> who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.--- Thomas

> Jefferson

>

> Thanks to the 2000 fiasco, election reform is now growing as a public

> battle cry . . . but who is leading the army?

>

> This is a question that every American has the responsibility to ask.

>

> Various individuals and groups are seeking to guide the reform process,

> including politicians, government officials, voting machine companies,

> computer experts, activists, and members of the elections establishment.

It

> is very safe to assume they do not all mean well. Many have agendas of

> their own, some obvious, others hidden.

>

> Many are corrupt, others are ignorant.

>

> And some, who have the very best interests of America at heart, are in

> the difficult position of having to make serious and potentially damaging

> compromises in their quest for safe elections, in order to push the issue

> in Washington.

>

> Before I explore this issue in more depth, Id like to offer a brief

list

> of important lessons learned from twenty-five years of fighting vote fraud

> in the trenches.

>

> 1) If there is any conceivable way to tamper with or rig an election

> someone will attempt it. This includes average citizens as well as

> officials charged with protecting the process.

>

> 2) Every voting system is open to tampering, but paper ballots counted in

> public are the easiest system to protect and monitor. (Its estimated that

> only 2% of Americans still vote on a hand-counted paper ballot).

>

> 3) Secret vote counting is illegal. Remember : counting them faster is not

> a justification for counting them secretly.

>

> 4) When machines began to take over our vote counting systems, election

> rigging became an exciting new national industry.

>

> 5) Lever machines were the first to appear, and they were riggable in a

> number of ways. One could rig the lever machine itself, or, much more

> easily, the electronic scanning machines that counted the ballots. (See

the

> Votescam video for footage of ballot rigging under the supervision of both

> parties and the Dade County Election Supervisor).

>

> 6) Computerized voting machines are the easiest to rig. Their software is

> not open to public scrutiny, or the scrutiny of Election Supervisors

> (rendering their title meaningless). There are nearly infinite ways to

> program the machines to count votes fraudulently. Since they are

accessible

> by modem, they can be controlled from a remote, centralized location.

>

> 7) Voting machine companies operate with no federal oversight,

> certification process, standards or restrictions. Controlling members of

> some of the most powerful voting machine corporations are convicted

> criminals, some are politicians with obvious conflicts of interests,

others

> are not even American citizens. Just two companies -- Election Systems and

> Software (ES & S) and Diebold Voting Systems now control about 80% of the

> vote count in the U.S.

>

> 8) Vote fraud on a statewide and national scale is not possible without

the

> complicity of (among others) corrupt Election Supervisors, Secretaries of

> State, Judges, voting machine corporations, and top officials of the major

> media outlets.

>

> 9) Both the Democratic and Republican parties have been complicit in vote

> rigging for decades, to their mutual benefit. Vote rigging is NOT a

> partisan issue (though recent evidence suggests Republicans might be

> gaining the upper hand in the race to control our elections).

>

> 10) The corporate major media networks play a vital role in perpetrating

> and covering up vote fraud. Media methods of vote rigging are explored in

> the Votescam book, including the role of Voter News Service (VNS). (VNS

was

> a consortium of all the major media outlets. It recently closed up shop

and

> scurried off into the shadows, but for decades, under two different

> corporate names, it controlled the compilation and dissemination of

> national vote totals, with the power to alter the reported results. The

> networks have actually not competed for vote totals, as they claim to have

> done, since 1965. They got all their numbers from VNS , which operated

> behind an iron curtain of secrecy. Any questions regarding their operation

> were met with the ubiquitous response: This is not a proper area of

> inquiry.Most people erroneously thought they were simply a polling

> organization, though no evidence of their supposedly massive polling

> operation could be found by investigators). See my interview with Bill

> Headline, former head of VNS, at

>

<http://www.votescam.com/articles.html>http://www.votescam.com/articles.html

>

> 11) Election Day media polls are untrustworthy at best, and very likely

> fabricated to influence voter decisions and to support phony vote results.

>

> Now that Ive provided the minimal context for understanding the current

> threats we face, we can begin to talk about strategies to win back the

> control of our government.

>

> Not all strategies currently on the table are acceptable. Do not take

> anyones word on the reform that is needed. Do not cede your power to

> government officials and so-called experts any longer. Educate yourself.

> Its up to us, the American people, to decide what strategies to support,

> and our goal must not fall short of what will truly restore democracy to

> this sinking nation.

>

> The Nuts and Bolts of Computerized Voting

>

> The gravest error of judgment these days comes from those vote

reformers

> who honestly believe that the answer to the butterfly ballot and hanging

> chad problems in the 2000 election is to embrace the ballot-less

> computerized voting machine.

>

> Lets make this clear. These machines are nothing but Trojan horses

built

> by and for election thieves. With the ballot-less computer, there is no

way

> to recount, no way to prove any discrepancy, inaccuracy or fraud. Just the

> fact that companies like ES & S, Diebold, and Sequoia would even make a

> ballot-less machine should be cause for a Congressional investigation.

> (There are also many other reasons to investigate them. For a detailed

> examination of these sinister corporations, check out

> <http://www.blackboxvoting.com>http://www.blackboxvoting.com.)

>

> That said, the next error of judgment comes from those who believe that

> all we need to make computerized voting machines safe is a paper receipt.

>

> Many intelligent, well-intentioned and hard working vote reformers are

> supporting HR 2239, proposed by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), requiring all

> computerized voting machines to produce a receipt for each individual

> voter. While I support the effort that has gone into creating this bill,

> and I recognize the monumental struggle it will face in Congress, I am

> unable to support it at this time, for many reasons. The first of which is

> that, while calling much needed attention to the dangers of ballot-less

> machines, this legislation does not require actually hand-counting the

> receipts altogether in each election.

>

> Why is this a serious problem?

>

> First of all, individual receipts are meaningless. Theyre worth nothing

> if not counted altogether. A persons vote might be verified by the slip of

> paper, but that person has no idea whether the computer accurately tallied

> her vote along with all the other votes. The final count still takes place

> inside the infamous computerized black box,beyond the reach of public

> scrutiny. An individual receipt in no way guarantees the safety of the

> final vote count. It is at best a meaningless gesture that I am deeply

> afraid will provide an extremely false sense of security for voters.

>

> As for recounting disputed elections, the obvious question is, which

> ones? Every election is in dispute when counted by a secretly programmed,

> modem-equipped computer!

>

> Most of the supporters of this bill agree that the receipts should be

> counted across the board in each election, which would be the equivalent

of

> a good old-fashioned paper ballot count. But so far there is little

> incentive to demand that the provision be added because it wont get any

> support in Congress. What does this mean? Are we interested in actually

> making our elections safe, accurate and verifiable, or are we willing to

> play political ball to the point where we lose sight of our goal

completely?

>

> I am told that perhaps, over time, the legislation will be

strengthened.

> But history has repeatedly shown that as a bill makes its way through

> Washington channels, its effectiveness is more often than not watered

down.

> Whatever teeth it might have to begin with get filed into nubs that have

no

> strength to tear into corruption.

>

> HR 2239 proposes surprise randomrecounts, where a small percentage of

> jurisdictions are chosen for verification in each election. Unfortunately,

> this is completely inadequate. Individual machines can be manipulated, and

> election thieves can buy off the people in charge of the random recount.

> Anyone who thinks that is far fetched or impossible is very new to this

> issue.

>

> And what if discrepancies are found? Then everyone will call foul

> rightly so -- a glut of confused and disputed recounts will ensue, and the

> entire elections machine will become hopelessly tangled in its own

> mechanized parts. Meanwhile every election criminal in the country will

> descend like vultures on the chaos.

>

> Folks, lets look at this honestly. We are already deep into a horrible

> and expensive mess that could all be avoided by skipping the computerized

> middleman and simply counting paper ballots.

>

> Paper Ballots A Radical Idea

>

> The last, and to my mind, most grave error of judgment comes from those

> who think that returning to a hand-counted paper ballot system is somehow

> impossible, that we cant go back to a simple process that works once weve

> stupidly and recklessly abandoned it.

>

> I dont know about you, but that strikes me as an extremely dangerous

> perspective.

>

> An MIT/Cal Tech study done in 2001 shows that manually counted paper

> ballots are the most accurate system out of the 5 systems used in the last

> 4 presidential elections. They are totally verifiable, and first-world

> nations across the globe still use them, including Canada which counted

> their last presidential election in four hours. And yet I am told

> repeatedly by vote reformers that there is no hope of America ever

> returning to paper ballots because too much money has been spent on the

> machines, and because the public is being sold on their benefits. My

> argument is that the public must be immediately educated on their dangers

> -- that should be the top priority of every serious vote reformer in the

> country.

>

> My argument is that we should stop playing ball with these corrupt

> voting machine corporations and the sold-out government officials who

> support them.

>

> My argument is that we should remember were Americans -- we dont ask

for

> permission to secure our own freedom. We should take these Trojan horses

> and burn them in the public square before our whole damn country crumbles

> before our eyes!

>

> But all this debate is misleading.

> The bottom line is that a computerized vote count is a secret vote count

> and thats illegal. Technology cannot supercede the constitutional and

> mandatory provisions of election law, which require open and verifiable

> elections. There is no way to do a public vote count with computers.

>

> Listen, heres my idea. After the public Touch-Screen bonfire (we really

> need more community minded events, dont you think?), we should march to

our

> Secretary of States office and demand the restoration of a hand-counted

> paper ballot system.

>

> Picture it. Millions of citizens marching on the gates of power,

> demanding their keys back. It would be a quick, effective, non-violent,

> American Revolution. And I think its long overdue.

>

> The fact is, with a well-designed ballot and see-through boxes (to

> prevent stuffing) the paper system can be simple, user-friendly, and

> fosters community-based democratic participation. High school kids, even

> children, used to count the ballots in America. We must have a strong,

> diverse presence of citizen watchdog groups to oversee the count, along

> with poll workers. The only election officials who are truly independent,

> who represent the interests of all parties in an election, are the poll

> watchers. The count must be done by hand, in public, video-taped, aired

> live on television, and the results posted on the precinct wall -- just

> like they used to be. Ballots should be counted on the same day as the

> voting takes place, making it much more difficult to alter ballots.

>

> But that is not enough to ensure the safety of the election.

>

> Intense, multi-faceted scrutiny and public awareness must surround

every

> step of the process, not just the activities at the precinct. Otherwise

> ballot boxes tend to disappear on the way to the county courthouse, or

> arrive with their locks broken. Election officialswill be waiting with new

> locks, to replace the broken ones (ballot box seals are also made by

> multiple suppliers, making duplicate numbered seals easy to obtain).The

> reported vote totals tend to change mysteriously when a secret corporate

> media consortium is in charge of reporting them. If anyone disputes the

> numbers, the same centralized media can assure the charges are never

> investigated or reported by the press. Election officials and Secretaries

> of State can manipulate or withhold the final election results to prevent

> citizens from proving fraud, and rotten Judges can throw out vote fraud

> lawsuits.

>

> I promise you, all of this can and will happen it has been happening

for

> decades -- if the public as a whole is asleep and only a few good men and

> women are on the watch.

>

> Hand counted paper ballots and eternal vigilance are the only hope left

> for us. The corporate fascists are taking over, and we will never depose

> them non-violently as long as they control our elections.

>

>

> ----------

> Victoria Collier directs a non-profit organization focused on building

> sustainable living systems that work on the personal, community and global

> levels. A long time writer and political activist, she continues to

> educate the public on the subject of vote fraud in place of her father and

> uncle. She is the editor of

> <http://www.votescam.com>http://www.votescam.com. Victoria is available

> for interviews and can be reached at 1-866-280-9090 and at

> <editoreditor

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> http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/102503C.shtml

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