This Michael Keefer article from May is excellent. Was it overlooked, or

[Amaryllis]

did I just miss it? It's one of the most comprehensive articles I've seen.
Goes into tabulation problems more than most.

Michael Keefer: The Strange Death of American Democracy: Endgame in Ohio

University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) Associate Professor of English Michael Keefer writes: So who ever thought the 2004 US presidential election had the remotest chance of being honest and democratic?

Not, one might guess, the electronic voting security experts like Ken Thompson, Roy Saltman, Rebecca Mercuri, Bruce Schneier, Doug Jones, Victoria Collier, Aviel Rubin, Lynn Landes, and Bev Harris, who have for years been warning that the new voting technology coming into use in the United States offers unprecedented opportunities for electoral fraud.<1>

Probably not Osama bin Laden, who made his much-anticipated Jack-in-the-Box video appearance three days before polling day: wearing a gold-lamé hospital gown in front of a blank shower curtain, and with a nose that looked to have been quite recently punched flat, he landed some anti-Bush shots that Rush Limbaugh and the other ring-tailed roarers of the American right were happy to interpret as a last-minute endorsement of John Kerry.<2>

And certainly not Republican Congressional Representative Peter King, who made an equally notable video statement on the afternoon of November 2nd, long before the polls closed, in the course of a White House function that seemed to have put him into a celebratory mood. "It's already over," he told the interviewer. "The election's over. We won." Asked how he knew at that early hour, King replied: "It's all over but the counting. And we'll take care of the counting."<3>

Much More:
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=34681

[Benhurst]

1. Self-delete -- posted in wrong forum

[Benhurst]

2. Little wonder this hasn't been picked by U.S. MSM.

I'm sending a copy of it to all on my email lists. And recommending it for "Greatest". It's a great article to bring those who haven't paid any attention to the issue up to speed.

[Amaryllis]

3. Good idea to recommned for greatest. Is it one of the most

comprehensive articles you've read? I thought it was.

[Benhurst]

4. Yes, especially considering its length.

Concise and readable-- perfect for those (still, unfortunately, most of the electorate) in need of a readable catch-up on what took place.

[MelissaB]

5. Democratic Underground and TIA are mentioned at the end of the article!

[autorank]

6. Great Article--Kick & Recommend

:kick:

This is a great read and it certainly covers all the bases. It's a perfect vehicle for CM (corporate media) to crib, and I encourage them to do so.

CM (corporate media) is starting to actually run articles mentioning election fraud. A recent piece pointed out that Roberts advised Jeb Bush that 2000 Florida could be stolen in the case Gore actually won the recount. How? By appointing Republican electors in the face of a Gore recount victory. What a charmer.


A comprehensive explanation of election fraud--text and key links

[quiet.american]

7. Blackwell broke the law many times

I've seen many references to the fact that Blackwell broke the law --why then have no criminal charges been able to be filed against him, and instead he is free to run for Governor, and further sell us all out?

[Nothing Without Hope]

8. The answer, in a word, is CORRUPTION. n/t

[quiet.american]

12. True --

But apart from the given corruption of his abuse-of-power co-horts, why can't Democrats file charges against him?

[Nothing Without Hope]

14. Why haven't they really fought ANYTHING the GOP has done, including

the stolen elections?

The answers are related. They cave in on demand and attempt to justify it by claiming it's bipartisan. What it is, is appeasement and, I do believe, complicity.

[quiet.american]

15. Can't agree wholeheartedly, because we do have some fighters.n/t

[Fly by night]

9. Keefer article was originally published in January, 2005.

Here is the link to the article and where it was originally published.

www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE501A.html

There were several DU 2004 ERD threads on the article back in January and February, which is where I first found out about it. I don't think the article has been updated since the original, but I could be wrong.

[Peace Patriot]

10. An extremely well-written article! Needs wide, wide, WIDE circulation!

Keefer has really done his home-work. And, boy, does he get some zingers in! Here's one...

(mid-article)
"The Ohio recount of the presidential vote was declared officially terminated on December 28th, a day that in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints commemorates the Slaughter of the Innocents."

I was also struck by this quote from Blackwell:

"I have no doubt the strong campaign we helped the President run in Ohio--coupled with a similar effort I helped deliver for State Issue One (the Marriage Protection Amendment)--can easily be credited with turning out record numbers of conservatives and evangelicals on Election Day. <....> And, I draw great satisfaction in hearing liberal members of the media credit the Marriage Protection Amendment as single most important factor that drove President Bush over the top in Ohio." --Blackwell quoted by Keefer

I think that the anti-gay amendments (in dozens of states) were a pre-planned cover story for the stolen election. The "talking points" on this were also pre-written--and you hear Bush "pod people" often repeating them, almost as if they had literally had their bodies "snatched," driven to a remote bunker, and there, had Rovian "chips" implanted.

And notice what he has the "liberal members of the media" saying--that bigotry against gays "drove pResident Bush over the top in Ohio." Some "liberal members of the media" may have done this, casting about for an explanation of the inexplicable. Bought into it. Got suckered. Didn't look at the numbers. But, really, wasn't it mostly the fascist "members of the media" who were saying this (prompted by their implants)? I dunno. I wasn't paying much attention to anybody's explanations of "how Bush won."

In so far as the "liberals" (free trade? free speech? an Oxford education? thinking beings? what DOES "liberal" mean to these people?)...ahem...

...in so far as the "liberal members of the media" may have fallen into this trap, they really need to learn HOW MUCH THESE FASCISTS ARE LYING, how profoundly they are lying, on how many levels they are lying, how they never stop lying, and how well the lying is planned out in pre-written soundbites long before events happen.

(i.e., Karl Rove's "invisible" get out the vote campaign--that was one of them.)

[Fly by night]

13. Was circulated widely 7 months ago, but re-circulating it is a good idea.

[Time for change]

11. Very nice article n/t

[Bill Bored]

16. I'm sure Peter King knew whereof he spoke, but this was NOT

on Nov. 2, 2004 as reported here. The DU Election Fraud video actually stated the correct date, which was sometime in the Summer of 2004 or 2003! Anybody have a link to that for those who haven't seen it? It was great!

The quote comes from Alex Pelosi's documentary "Diary of a Political Tourist" which premiered on HBO on October 11, 2004! Hard for King to have made that statement on Election Day, unless he had been running around spouting it like a broken record since the documentary was made, which would make him even dumber than he looks!

If we are trying to win friends and influence people in this fight, we had better keep our facts straight.

I'm sure this article has many other more accurate points, but this one just happened to bother me, not unlike the allegation that Gore winning FL was revealed on Sept 11, 2001, which is also untrue. It was NOVEMBER 11!

Let's try to stay with the program people. There's plenty of evidence to go around without overly embellishing it!

[Fly by night]

17. King told the truth about Repug election theft plans in summer of 2003.

[Amaryllis]

18. Crispin Miller's Harpers article has the date. I just read it in the store

and don't have it but seems to me it was summer 2003. I remember being surprised because I had the idea it was on election day, which didn't make sense to me since they weren't at the ranch on election day. What a bunch of crooks.

[Bill Bored]

19. Well done MCM! They were at the White House actually.

It was outdoors. Kind of cold in Nov. to be having a cookout in DC.

I think the statement is even more sinister if made on Election Day.
In Summer 2003, he could have been talking about some other election, who knows? I'd like to know the complete context. Anyone have that? You'd think the interviewer would have asked a follow up such as "WTF is THAT supposed to mean?"

[Amaryllis]

20. I will email the producer of Electile Dysfunction and see if she knows.

It's in there.

[Amaryllis]

22. It was a party on the White House lawn in the summer of 2003.

[kster]

21. kick.nt