ERD News (8/14): 130,000 Ballots Altered in Mexico Recount (9% only)

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Since Mexico's Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) ordered a re-count of 9% of the nation's 130,000 precincts, evidence of election fraud continues to mount up. Nearly every Mexican polling station recounted either result with the original count of paper ballots being wrong, sealed packets have been tampered, and in one case, a whole polling station's ballots have disappeared.

DEMAND A RE-VOTE FOR MEXICO

The Mexican people have experienced election fraud on a massive scale. The partial recount produced these results. Of course, there are some states in this country where you practically have to beg for a recount. Mexican law prescribes it under clear conditions. Now the sample of 9% of the precincts reveals the truth.
IT WAS A LOUSY ELECTION. DEMAND A RE-VOTE!!!

Bye the way, somebody gets to say “I told you so?” on this election. ANSWER here

Never forget the pursuit of Truth.
Only the deluded & complicit accept election results on blind faith.
Denying that 2004 was stolen is like denying global warming.

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1. Mexico Recount: 130,000 Votes Altered (“Mexico is where it’s at”)

For all of you who get called names, disparaged, and insulted because you BELIEVE THAT ELECTION FRAUD IS A REAL PROBLEM, here it is: 130,000 votes altered in the Mexican election in a partial recount. I can't say enough good things about this story by ePluribusMedia.

Mexico's Election Fraud: More Questions Raised

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/8/13/112542/316 and http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/08/12/003n1pol.php

by XicanoPwr
Sun Aug 13, 2006 at 11:25:42 AM EST

Since Mexico's Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) ordered a re-count of 9% of the nation's 130,000 precincts, evidence of election fraud continues to mount up. Nearly every Mexican polling station recounted either result with the original count of paper ballots being wrong, sealed packets have been tampered, and in one case, a whole polling station's ballots have disappeared.

The magnitude of the fraud is so evident that it can no longer be considered only as discrepancies because of human error. As of yesterday, over 130,000 votes have been found to be "altered."

[robinlynne]

13. This link is very interesting. Goes to an article, which links to a video

It shows a huge line of people at 7Pm who have been trying to vote since 9 Am being switched from place to place and not allowed to vote. It shows the Europeans questioning what is going on, then the PAN party guys call the tribunal and say that the european watchers are trying to meddle with the vote. Theyw eren't allowed to watch the voting procedure...
I guess our style of "democracy" has gone international.
Excellent post.

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20. 1st Quotation in OP - Box - form epluribusMedia & this post (#1_

Just noticed, link to epluribusMedia, outstanding resource...
http://tinyurl.com/kaogt

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2. Mexico: Obrador – “WE ARE PREPARED TO RESIST.”

A REAL FIGHTING POLITICIAN STANDS UP FOR HIS CONSTITUENTS

Lopez Obrador calls for years of protest
With a partial recount ending today, he rallies supporters to keep up the pressure

By DUDLEY ALTHAUS
http://tinyurl.com/k836u
Aug. 13, 2006, 11:33PM Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

MEXICO CITY — Apparently bracing to be declared the loser of Mexico's presidential election, contender Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed Sunday to lead protests against the process for years to come if necessary.

"We are prepared to resist for as long as necessary," Lopez Obrador told tens of thousands of followers at a midday rally in Mexico City's central plaza. "We can be here for years, if that's what the circumstances merit."

Lopez Obrador called on his followers to continue the sit-ins that have paralyzed much of downtown Mexico City.

He also called for protests at the moment that conservative Felipe Calderon is declared the winner of the elections; at President Vicente Fox's state of the nation speech before the newly elected Congress on Sept. 1; and on the night of Sept. 15, which traditionally begins Mexico's Independence Day celebrations.

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3. July 12th: Mexicans didn’t want recount 37-60%

Wow, with the propaganda machine in full tilt boogie, the Mexican people think the election was fair and square. That’s what they were promised. That’s what the so-called “non partisan” election institute said.

Recounts are not decided on the basis election law and a review of evidence so 37% or 3% of public opinion wouldn’t matter in terms of actually getting a recount.

Nevertheless, the public opinion of the Mexican people is interesting to track.

LINK: http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/12574

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4. July 30th. Mexicans want recount 48-28%

How about that! Public opinion changed. Thanks to heroic journalists, activists, and alternative press on the internet (Narco News), we have a more informed public which shows strong support for a recount.

LINK: http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/12703

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5. Mexico: Giordano: Mexico's Election Fraud Is Coming Undone

What a great combination, “Scoop” and “Narco News”

Giordano: Mexico's Election Fraud Is Coming Undone
Opinion: narconews.com Al Giordano

July 12, 2006

Please Distribute Widely Link: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00179.htm

Things are looking worse and worse in Mexico for the Felipe Calderón, his National Action Party, and the Federal Elections Institute that prematurely announced his victory. New evidence of fraud and crimes on the part of the electoral authorities is appearing every day. The White House is backtracking from its initial enthusiasm for Calderón's "victory." Citizens in towns and cities across Mexico are standing up to make sure the crimes they've witnessed and the stealing of their election is known. And Narco News isn't missing a beat.

Over the past week, Al Giordano has filed three parts in an ongoing series about Mexico's post-electoral conflict. In his latest installment, Giordano writes:
"At six p.m. last night, Monday, July 10, neighbors of the office of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE, in its Spanish initials) in Comalcalco, Tabasco, witnessed a crime against democracy. They didn't just stand there. They did something about it. And this one small example of the fighting spirit of the Mexican people explains why the historic presidential election fraud of July 2, 2006 will not stand.

"Nine days after the fact, neither the IFE, nor President Vicente Fox, nor his National Action Party (PAN), nor their candidate Felipe Calderón, nor the Commercial Media at their service, have been able to reassert control over the juggernaut of facts, audio and video evidence, and public outrage that today tramples their anti- democratic gambit. The Fraud of 2006, and those who attempted it, are drowning under an authentically democratic tide. Take, for example, what just occurred in the Tabasco town of Comalcalco."

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6. Catch Up on Mexico with “Narco News” – Gutsiest E-News Group Ever!!!

....or at least tied with Larisa (Raw Story).

These are two articles that will provide you with the history you need of this most current and important battle for real democracy. Narco News is a special internet publication focusing on politics, which is to say “Narco Politics,” in Latin America. Al Giordano is the Editor and they’re looking for help!

Part I: "In Mexico, 2.5 Million Missing Votes Reappear: López Obrador Reduces Calderón's Official Margin to 0.6 Percent"

http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1962.html

Part II: "A Full Recount Would Show that López Obrador Won Mexico's Presidency by More than One Million Votes"

http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1967.html

Part III: "Death by Video: Mexico's Election Fraud Is Coming Undone"

http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1972.html

[Joanne98]

14. BTW Narco News is looking for a webmaster.

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7. Nation: Still Fighting Voter Suppression – What a Disgrace

Every politician who has not introduced or supported a bill or bills to take care of this should resign in disgrace immediately. How hard is it? Throughout our history, the “powers that be” have tried to exclude citizens from the vote. It’s WRONG!!! STOP IT. BE ASHAMED, AND IF YOU CAN'T, THEN FAKE IT. THIS HAS GONE LONG ENOUGH.

How is the vote suppressed? - intimidation; barriers to voting like poll taxes; barriers to voting like the Voter Identification Card in many states now (thank you “Carter-Baker Commission” just so much for that MASSIVE BETRAYAL); barriers like remote precincts, unhelpful personnel at precincts, lousy equipment, etc. etc.

Do something about it or get out. It’s a national disgrace.

Washington Post
Still Battling Voter Suppression

By Jabari Asim
Monday, August 14, 2006; 12:00 AM
http://tinyurl.com/rg5e5

"It was not a difficult walk. It was for a good reason."

Those were the words of Besisa Mbaguna, a Congolese man who last month walked barefoot for two and a half hours to reach his polling place and cast his vote in his country's elections. Considering Congo's troubled history and its oppressive ruling class, it's fair to marvel that people such as Mbaguna got to vote at all. One can also wonder whether those votes will actually count, despite the best efforts of United Nations officials who oversaw the elections.

It's easy to imagine, for instance, that in such a country, Mbaguna could have been stopped short of the polls and turned away for some untenable reason -- say, lack of a photo ID. In Congo, sure, but certainly not in the good ol' U.S. of A.

Or so one would like to think. But the efforts of Republican lawmakers in Georgia, Indiana and, most recently, Missouri seemed aimed at making it as difficult to vote beneath our spacious skies as it is in war-torn Third World nations. Missouri, my home state, became the third member of this notorious trio in June, when Gov. Matt Blunt signed into law a requirement that voters show government-issued photo IDs at the polls starting in November.

Blunt and others say the law will prevent fraud. Their opponents rightly point out that the measure disproportionately affects those who have been disfranchised in the past, such as the poor and racial minorities. Besides, they argue, Missouri hasn't exactly suffered from an epidemic of imposters showing up to vote.

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8. AZ: The Elusive Latino Vote

What can I say? I love this guy! Recommended – the full article.

The elusive Hispanic voters: Arizona Republic
They're being courted, they hold the power,
but when will they show up to use it?

JonTalton
Arizona Republic columnist
Aug. 13, 2006 12:00 AM

Only five months after Hispanics organized the largest marches in Phoenix history, Arizona politics seems glacially unchanged.

Most incumbents are cruising to victory. The Legislature seems destined to remain a cradle of Kookocracy. The vilest anti-immigrant rhetoric is still popular.

That's the way things seem, at least. But the big unknown is whether the groundswell of support Hispanics mustered in the marches can translate into political clout. Could the fastest-growing minority group become the fastest-growing voter block?

"Yeah . . . " is how political veteran and migrant rights activist Alfredo Gutierrez answered when I asked him about this. The word was less an affirmation than an acknowledgement of the difficulty of the question.

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9. Google Videos on Election Fraud

Fooled Again - America Outsmarted by George W.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6165561321612417255&q=election+fraud

The Big Fix 2000 (Election Fraud) Daniel Hopsicker
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2789977493364741908&q=election+fraud

Votergate - The Presidential Election Special Edition (Election Fraud)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3555094491715905699&q=election+fraud

Michigan IsVulnerable to Election Fraud 1 of 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4218221057557076640&q=election+fraud

Michigan Is Vulnerable to Election Fraud 2 of 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4135068250236217806&q=election+fraud

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10. Nation: “Man Bites Dog” - Republicans sue NAACP on Voter Suppression (Sat

SATIRE


:rofl:Democratic Dirty Tricks: NAACP Tries to Suppress White Vote! :rofl:

Unconfirmed sources report that Republican lawmakers are planning a lawsuit against the NAACP. In a news conference today in Washington D.C. Michigan State Rep. John Pappageorge and Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida, detailed their complaints against the civil rights group. The two lawmakers allege that the NAACP has engaged in a systematic campaign to suppress the white vote.

Holding aloft a report published by the Swift Boatmen for Truth Rep. Pappageorge leveled damming charges against the civil rights organization. "This report details how the NAACP is working to suppress the voter turn out of wealthy white Americans." Jeb Bush, a leading expert in voter suppression, then made their case. "This so called civil rights group is denying the rights of white people to control our government and this must be stopped. This report lists numerous cases where the turn out of white voters has been disrupted."

The report describes several plots used by the NAACP and its operative to suppress the white vote. The following are two of the most egregious examples:

The Valet Ballot Service Scam: Workers pretending to represent a new Valet Voting Service cruised wealthy subdivisions in Troy Michigan in the days preceding the 2000 election. For a small fee the valet service would take your ballot to your designated polling station and return with a receipt after the election. After the election voters were shocked to find out the ballets were phony and their votes has never been cast.

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11. Good Night from Pasadena

A nice gift to take home to their royal highnesses


Yours truly amusing the locals.

[Kurovski]

12. K&R, Thanks for taking time from your vacation to create the ERD.

You're something else, autorank!

"Stealing the white vote" was particularly instructive.:rofl:

[Nothing Without Hope]

15. Yesterday's thread on "a message from Obrador", printed in the NY Times:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1900679

Here's a direct link to Obrador's NYT op/ed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/opinion/11lopezobrador.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

His op/ed is titled "Recounting Our Way To Democracy," and it's "translated from the Spanish by Rogelio Ramírez de la O." One part of Obrador's piece that struck me: "Our tribunals — unlike those in the United States — have been traditionally subordinated to political power. Mexico has a history of corrupt elections where the will of the people has been subverted by the wealthy and powerful. " Of course I immediately thought of the US SCOTUS blatantly defying law to stop the recount and select Bush over the elected President Gore in 2000. Already - as Obrador doubtless knows but is politely not mentioning - US tribunals are NOT always immune to political pressure, and if the neocons get their way and just ONE MORE JUDGE on the SCOTUS, the rule of law in this country will be entirely undermined with no rescue in sight.

The stake in the next Congressional elections has never been higher. Just one more Scalia or Thomas or Roberts or Alito, and it's all over. Not only must we prevent this, we also must remember which Dem congress members voted for Alito, which was so obviously a huge step to the end of Constitutional Democracy. They MUST NOT BE trusted, because they will do it again.

Here is the Senate role call on the Alito cloture vote:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00001

Note which "Democratic" senators voted FOR cloture on Alito along with the Republicans. They cannot be trusted and should be removed from office. Not one Republican voted against Alito's admission to the SCOTUS; a tragic epitaph for a political party which once included upholding personal freedom from governmental meddling and upholding the laws of the land in their political planks. Needless to say, Lieberman voted with the Republicans, but he was not the only Dem to do so.

No, Señor Obrador, as I'm sure you realize but are too courteous to write in your NY Times op/ed, the US courts are NOT always immune to political pressure and in fact destroyed democracy in this country in 2000. The criminal cabal which seized power by coup in 2000 and, with the connivance of the US corporate-owned press, repeated their illegal power grab in 2004, seeks to further solidify and entrench it by increasing their control of the courts, and this must be stopped. The stakes have never been higher. If only the US public were as aware of the corruption of their government as the Mexicans are and as willing to stand up for democracy and the rule of law. WE THE PEOPLE must take accountability and set things straight.

[BeFree]

16. The crimnal cabal, indeed. Let's repeat that.....

The criminal cabal which seized power by coup in 2000 and, with the connivance of the US corporate-owned press, repeated their illegal power grab in 2004, seeks to further solidify and entrench it by increasing their control of the courts, and this must be stopped. The stakes have never been higher.

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This is their last chance. We are on to them about their machinations.

By 2008 their game is over, but they still have this election. They will pull out all the stops this November, and we better be there to plug all the loopholes. How? Audit every damn machine!

[flyarm]

17. surprise surprise..lieberloser!!...now why didn't i even have to look??n/t

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18. If you're going to cheat eventually you're going to get caught

Kicking it to the top, this is great news



P.S. to autorank, Art Shell looks even better this second time, Davis was an idiot for not supporting him on the last go around.

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19. nolabels...

Passing the torch...you're right:evilgrin:

[Annces]

21. kick