The Coming Post-Election Chaos - John Dean

[Randypiper]

1. A GOP Disposition For Nasty Campaigns
2. The GOP's Campaign Tactic Of Attempting to Disqualify Votes And Voters
3. Rove's Refusal To Accept Defeat: The Knee-jerk Response of Suing
4. Still Too Close To Call: The Conspicuous Closeness Of The 2004 Race
5. An Election For Attorneys: Neither Side Will Budge If Litigation Begins
6. The Nightmare Scenario: An Election Up in the Air For Months

simultaneous litigation in a number of states


http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20041022.html



God I hope there's a Kerry landslide

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. litigation is coming, my friend

Pandora's Box was officially opened in 2000 and there ain't no way to close that sucker now...elections (at least national) will never be the same...

theProdigal

[olddem43]

2. If it's not a landslide, the SCOTUS will choose Bush again.

[anarchy1999]

4. How do you get a land slide with all the voter tampering and corrupt

machines? Do you really think 2000 and 2002 are not going to happen again?

http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=1972&blz=1

U.S.: Republican Fraud will Disqualify 200,000 in Florida Vote, Says Harper’s and New Documentary

2004-10-18 | *** Telephone Press Conference Tuesday, 10:30am ***

BBC Investigative Reporter Greg Palast Exposes How Democratic and African American Votes Will be Thrown Out

Bush Gets “Head Start” in Florida with Tens of Thousands of Votes

Rampant voter fraud in Florida will disqualify 200,000 mainly Democratic and African American voters on November 2, according to an article in next week’s Harper’s by Greg Palast, the BBC investigative reporter who in 2000 broke the original story regarding the infamous felon list in Florida. Palast’s findings were echoed in the October 14 New York Times Op Ed by Paul Krugman.

Who:
Greg Palast, BBC Investigative Reporter
Ralph Neas, President, People for the American Way

What:
Telephone press conference to speak about evidence of voter fraud

When:
Tuesday, October 19

10:30 am ET

Call in #: For phone #, RSVP to Beth George at: [e-mail]

Background: For copy of Harper’s article or Palast’s DVD Bush Family Fortunes, call Scott Shapiro or Beth George at (1) 212-584-5000

In the Harper’s article, Palast illustrates how Bush has a “head start” on the voting before the first ballot is cast:

· Palast documents that 180,000 votes will be cast but not counted – 54% of which are expected to be overwhelmingly Democratic, African American precincts

· Of that 180,000, 27,000 votes will be lost by highly predictable computer errors in mostly black precincts

· Most of the 93,000 voters illegally purged in the 2000 election have not been allowed back on the rolls, despite media reports to the contrary; these voters are Democratic by a margin of four to one

· Jeb Bush’s office illegally barred more than 50,000 registrations, and then hid the evidence from U.S. Civil Rights investigators until Palast uncovered the hidden documents

Expanding on his new documentary “Bush Family Fortunes” which is a compilation of Palast’s BBC investigative reports on voter fraud and other wrongdoing, the Harper’s article documents how:

· Touch-screen voting machines without paper ballots in 15 counties will result in a net lead of thousands of votes for Bush before a single ballot is cast

· Thousands of people like Willie Steen, a Gulf War veteran who was illegally purged from the rolls in 2000, have still been unable to get back on the voter roles

· Criminal violations of federal law are being charged in Florida by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission based on the Palast evidence

Palast is author of the New York Times bestseller “Best Democracy Money Can Buy” (Penguin, 2004) and his film, Bush Family Fortunes, is taken entirely from his reports for BBC Television including Newsnight, Britain’s 60 Minutes.

[napi21]

5. I don't think so. I think at least some of them are sorry they got into

that mess in 2000, and I don't think they'd ever do it again! Their decision tarnished their reputation and that of the court. I really don't think they'd ever touch something like that again.

[greekspeak]

8. I wouldn't count on that

I think that O'Connor has publically said she regrets her actions last time. Her vote would go over to the "librul" side of the court.

[Zero Gravitas]

3. It won't be that Close

Kerry will get over 300 EVs, no one state will be enough to change the result. They won't go quietly, but they will go.

[Eloriel]

7. I wish I shared your optimism -- but with a large perctage of

voting taking place both before election day (makes me increasingly nervous) and on eminently riggable electronic voting machines, not to mention all the regular old fraud and vote suppression the GOP is so fond of, I think it's going to be a disaster.

[Karenina]

9. Is that YOU, Cassandra?

;-) Disaster does not even BEGIN to describe the trajectory. :SIGH:

[peacetalksforall]

6. We need Nader people. Forget about convincing him - try to convince his

supporters.

We desperately need Kerry on that Inaugaration platform on January 20 - with professional leaders that we know - Lockhart, Rubin, and all the others and some new ones. No neo-cons and none of the toxic and maniacally obsessed destructionists.

Then - we need fair national and international policies. Integrity. Honesty. We need to let the propaganda networks scramble and we need a fair and balanced network to spread truth.

[Porcupine]

10. Polls are rigged, Lapdog Media and Faux News....

combined with computer vote counting run by GOP partisians. Add to that a "We killed Bin Laden while trying to capture him" October Surprise. (Of course he's Bin Ladin; he's a dead 70 something arab and anyways we said so)

Our only hope is that our corporate masters have had enough of the Bush disaster.

Stalin is SO jealous right now.

[DeepModem Mom]

11. kick