ERD News. 08.28.06 Election Nullification 2: "Scoop" Follow Up

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Election Nullification 2: Speaker of House had
Special Source for Election “Certification”

California Assistant Secretary of State for Elections
Tells House Clerk, it’s all good!

Please get This Article around.
(at "Scoop" click on "Print" version for copying.
Links are very clear.)

Another “Scoop” exclusive…

By Michael Collins
“Scoop” Independent Media
Washington, DC
Monday, 28 August 2006, 5:55 pm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0608/S00338.htm

What would you think if you heard that a Member of Congress was sworn in prior to the official certification of his hotly contested and controversial election?

Would it matter to which political party the Member of Congress belonged?

On August 25, 2006, "Scoop" revealed that there was something very wrong with Brian Bilbray’s swearing in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Republican Bilbray allegedly defeated Francine Busby in a close and controversial special election in California’s 50th Congressional District. There were immediate cries of foul and demands for both an investigation and a recount. The problems were well publicized before the swearing in.

Nevertheless, this sequence emerged: June 6 - unofficial results announced with Bilbray over Busby by a few thousand votes, followed by immediate public protests; July 13 - Speaker Hastert swears in Republican Bilbray on the House floor and Bilbray becomes a Member of Congress; and, June 30, 2006 - 17 days after Bilbray was sworn in as a member of the House, Mikel Haas, Registrar of San Diego County, officially completed the audit of election results required for certification, and officially certifies the election of Bilbray over Busby based on 163,931 total votes.

The problem with the sequence is simple to spot. The swearing in of Bilbray occurred a full 17 days before the election became official as a result of the San Diego Registrar’s certification of results. The question raised in the previous article was, how could Speaker Hastert swear in Bilbray without notification that the election results were official? We have an answer.

Previous Scoop Article: Congressional Election Nullified – Nobody Noticed. Friday, 25 August 2006, 10:45 pm Article: Michael Collins

AMERICANS & MEXICANS AGREE

Recount “every vote in every precinct.”


No more Bull Shit


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Denying that 2004 was stolen is like denying global warming.

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1. OH: Strickland Crushing Election Thief Blackwell in Ohio Governor Contest

In July it was Democrat Strickland 51-37% over Republican Blackwell. Now it’s 57=32%. That’s a trend I like to see and we’re not even to the good part yet, you know those pesky truth advertisements telling of all the harm Blackwell has done. If Blackwell loses, I’m going to Ohio to see justice done at the inauguration. Can you imagine, Taft at 6% approval on the podium? Who would want to miss that?

Rasmussen Reports: August 27, 2006
Ohio Governor: Strickland by 25

http://tinyurl.com/ldjj3
Sun Aug 27, 11:49 AM ET

During the past several months, Democratic Congressman Ted Strickland's edge over Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has ranged from four to seventeen percentage points. Now, in our latest election poll of Ohio's gubernatorial race, Congressman Strickland leads his opponent by an intimidating 57% to 32%.

Last month, Strickland led 51% to 37%.

We conducted the new survey August 22, several days after the Strickland campaign began airing positive TV ads about the Democrat. The health of the steel industry has been one issue this electoral season, and Strickland's ad touts his help in securing a loan for an ailing steel company.

Blackwell is not well established even with GOP voters, only 59% of whom now support him. He is perceived as conservative by 51% of all voters.

By contrast, Strickland appeals to 88% of Democrats, and 55% of unaffiliated voters. A plurality of all voters (44%) see him as moderate

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2. OH: The Prodigal Purchase Peeks it’s Head Out Again

What goes around comes around. See the next message. Hats off to Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman for being sentinels of democracy, heroes of the in the resistance to the most brutal and tyrannical administration in this country’s history.

CommonDreams: August 27, 2006
Shocking Diebold Conflict of Interest Revelations From Secretary of State Further Taint Ohio's Electoral Credibility
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Published on Thursday, April 6, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0406-27.htm

Ohio is reeling with a mixture of outrage and hilarity as Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has revealed that he has owned stock in the Diebold voting machine company, to which Blackwell tried to award unbid contracts worth millions while allowing its operators to steal Ohio elections. A top Republican election official also says a Diebold operative told him he made a $50,000 donation to Blackwell's "political interests."

A veritable army of attorneys on all sides of Ohio's political spectrum will soon report whether Blackwell has violated the law. But in any event, the revelations could have a huge impact on the state whose dubiously counted electoral votes gave George W. Bush a second term. Diebold's GEMS election software was used in about half of Ohio counties in the 2004 election. Because of Blackwell's effort, 41 counties used Diebold machines in Ohio's highly dubious 2005 election, and now 47 counties will use Diebold touchscreen voting machines in the May 2006 primary, and in the fall election that will decide who will be the state's new governor.

Blackwell is the frontrunner for Ohio's Republican nomination for governor. The first African-American to hold statewide office, the former mayor of Cincinnati made millions in deals involving extreme right-wing "religious" radio stations.

As part of his campaign filings he has been required to divulge the contents of his various stock portfolios. Blackwell says that in the process he was "surprised" to learn he owned Diebold shares. According to central Ohio's biggest daily, the conservative Republican "Columbus Dispatch," Blackwell claims his multi-million-dollar portfolio has been handled "by a financial manager without his advice or review."

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3. OH: Never Underestimate Blackwell, He is the architect of miracles.

This is a real mind blower. We need more Democrats in Ohio putting Blackwell etc. on record about the dire consequences of election fraud. I get in trouble when I say this but Blackwell is a genius. He’s gotten away with everything. No one has laid a glove on him. Know your enemy and show him the respect he deserves for his skill, regardless how repugnant the uses of that skill are.

Bob Koehler: Chicago Tribune Syndicated Columnist

http://commonwonders.com/archives/col321.htm
Of the five proposed amendments on the Ohio ballot, only the first — a $2 billion state bond initiative to promote high-tech industry — was not related to the conduct of elections, and oddly enough its results were accurately forecast in the poll (predicted yes vote, 53 percent; final yes vote, 54 percent). Then it gets hairy.

Issue 2 would have made absentee voting easier in the state. It had lots of high-profile support, and the Dispatch poll predicted a cakewalk for it: 59 percent yes, 33 percent no, 9 percent undecided. The actual result: 36 percent yes, a whopping 63 percent no.

Then there was issue 3, which would have lowered the campaign-contribution limits that a lame-duck state legislature had raised a year ago. Prediction: 61 percent yes, 25 percent no, 14 percent undecided. Actual result: 33 percent yes, 66 percent no.

The results of issue 4, to control gerrymandering by establishing an independent board to draw congressional districts, were only slightly less dramatic. Prediction: 31 percent yes, 45 percent no, 25 percent undecided. Result: 30 percent yes, 69 percent no. And for issue 5, to establish an independent board instead of the secretary of state’s office to oversee elections, a 41 percent predicted yes vote shrank to 29 percent, while the no vote ballooned from 43 to 70 percent.

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4. OH: Reasons to Keep an Eye on Blackwell and the Ohio Republicans

Bob Koehler, Chicago Tribune Syndicated Columnist

http://commonwonders.com/archives/col321.htm

Of the five proposed amendments on the Ohio ballot, only the first — a $2 billion state bond initiative to promote high-tech industry — was not related to the conduct of elections, and oddly enough its results were accurately forecast in the poll (predicted yes vote, 53 percent; final yes vote, 54 percent). Then it gets hairy.

Issue 2 would have made absentee voting easier in the state. It had lots of high-profile support, and the Dispatch poll predicted a cakewalk for it: 59 percent yes, 33 percent no, 9 percent undecided. The actual result: 36 percent yes, a whopping 63 percent no.

Then there was issue 3, which would have lowered the campaign-contribution limits that a lame-duck state legislature had raised a year ago. Prediction: 61 percent yes, 25 percent no, 14 percent undecided. Actual result: 33 percent yes, 66 percent no.

The results of issue 4, to control gerrymandering by establishing an independent board to draw congressional districts, were only slightly less dramatic. Prediction: 31 percent yes, 45 percent no, 25 percent undecided. Result: 30 percent yes, 69 percent no. And for issue 5, to establish an independent board instead of the secretary of state’s office to oversee elections, a 41 percent predicted yes vote shrank to 29 percent, while the no vote ballooned from 43 to 70 percent.

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5. The Press: Why they don’t cover election fraud: proof positive

Here is the proof. * makes a totally insane remark – “sometimes I’m happy” in response to a question on 8/21, “Are you frustrated…”CBS reports this but look what happens. The remark “sometimes I’m happy,” which is a message that he’s totally out of touch with anything given the context of the question, just happens to get deleted. This is a fragment but it can be expanded as proof of the uniform standard of never dealing with reality, so much so that the press cleans up after *.

TO DISCUSS ELECTIONS ISSUES IS TO OPEN THE DOOR TO ELECTION FRAUD.
TO THAT IS FORBIDDEN TERRITORY FOR CORPORATE MEDIA, HENCE NOTHING IS EVER COVERED.

IF THEY CLEAN UP HIS WACKY RESPONSES, WHAT MAKES ANY ONE THINK THAT THEY WOULDN’T CLEAN UP THE ACCUSAION THAT 2004 AND OTHERS WERE STOLEN?

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2948

Action Alert, Fiarness in Media: August 24, 2006
CBS, NBC Clean Up Bush's 'Happy' Talk

During his August 21 press conference, George W. Bush responded to a question about the Iraq War by saying that "sometimes I'm happy" about the conflict. But many readers and TV viewers never heard the remark, since journalists edited the statement to save Bush any possible embarrassment.

Bush's unedited comment was as follows:
Q: But are you frustrated, sir?

BUSH: Frustrated? Sometimes I'm frustrated. Rarely surprised.

Sometimes I'm happy. This is -- but war is not a time of joy.

These aren't joyous times. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand that.

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11. One thing to note about this poll:

How can they do a legitimate poll by only including 2 of the 4 candidates on the ballot? There will be 4 candidates: Strickland (D) Blackwell (R) Fitrakis (Green) and Peirce (Libertarian), yet the media/pollsters are in a news blackout (except the Cincinnati Enquirer) about the other two. If you think they are insignificant, then why would a Dem lawyer from DC call up one of the independent candidates and attempt to get him to pull out of the race? (BTW it will benefit Ohio voters to have independent candidates in the race in case of voting descrepancies(remember Blackwell is counting the vote and party turnover would likely result in REAL INVESTIGATIONS!) only candidates can challenge an outcome in Ohio and the Dem Party (as we see in the CA-50 race and saw in '04), are not aggressive when it comes to challenges).

I posted this on a comment regarding this poll on the politics forum and someone replied perhaps it is intentional to use as an excuse for a blackwell victory. Something to think about.

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6. Mexico: Left wins Governors Race in Chiapas

Miamil Herald: 08.38.06 MEXICO
Mexico: Leftist wins Chiapas race
Official results gave the governor's race to a leftist candidate in Mexico's Chiapas state. However, the results will be challenged.

By MANUEL DE LA CRUZ
Associated Press

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - A leftist candidate won the governor's race in Mexico's volatile Chiapas state, edging out a hopeful backed by President Vicente Fox's party by about 6,300 votes, electoral officials said Sunday.

Following a tense, two-hour session, Chiapas' electoral council announced the official results from the Aug. 20 election, giving Juan Sabines of the Democratic Revolution Party 553,270 votes, compared to 546,988 for Jose Antonio Aguilar of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which controlled Mexico's presidency from 1929 until 2000.

''I call for unity in Chiapas and forgetting old conflicts,'' Sabines said.

PRI officials said they would challenge the results first in state electoral courts and then before the Federal Electoral Tribunal, the country's highest legal authority in electoral matters.

''We are completely certain we can overturn the announcement of Juan Sabines as governor-elect,'' said Roberto Dominquez, the party's representative to the state electoral council. ``We are confident that the courts will annul this election given all the challenges and documentation of irregularities.''


Locatoin:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiapas#Some_Landmarks

In 1868 there was an armed native rebellion, led by the Tzotzil Maya as well as Tzeltal, Tojolabal, and Ch'ol; it almost succeeded in taking San Cristóbal, then the state capital, before it was suppressed by the Mexican army.

“After the initial seizure of San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, the Mexican army kept the Zapatistas bottled up in their rural strongholds. Sporadic armed repression by paramilitaries that appears to have been funded by local landowners, and with which elements in the federal government may have sympathized, followed. There was a series of massacres,most notably in 1997 in Acteal, where refugees from indigenous communities, mainly women and children, were killed, after a National Peace Accord had been signed.”

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7. NarcoNews.Com on Chiapas

Fraud and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in Chiapas
Mexico’s Electoral Institutions Suffer Another Self-Inflicted Wound as Sunday’s Gubernatorial Vote, Marred by Fraud on Both Sides, Is Too Close to Call

By Al Giordano
Reporting from Chiapas with the Other Journalism with the Other Campaign
August 21, 2006

With 94.08 percent of the precincts reporting (according to the preliminary results of the Chiapas State Electoral Institute), the candidate of the center-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD, in its Spanish initials) leads the coalition candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and National Action Party (PAN) by only 2,300 votes (0.2 percent of more than 1.1 million votes cast). Amidst evidence of vote buying and fraud on both sides, Mexico’s electoral institutions and political system appear unlikely to be able to establish a credible result, plunging the country into its second post-electoral crisis in seven weeks.

The big winner on Sunday was abstention. A majority of Chiapas voters simply declined to participate (voter turnout on Sunday was below 45 percent). Most of the estimated 400,000 indigenous citizen-adherents to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, in its Spanish initials) here in Mexico’s poorest state of Chiapas refused to vote in a process increasingly considered a simulation of democracy.

The Chiapas results also show the slippery slide of Mexico’s main political parties away from any shred of principle or ideology, mere vehicles for factional disputes over the power and money that comes with political office. The PRD’s “center-left” candidate, Juan Sabines, was, until this year, a longtime politician of the PRI. In fact, he sought to be the PRI’s candidate until Chiapas Governor Pablo Salazar cut a deal for him to be the PRD nominee. The PRI candidate, José Antonio Aguilar, up against the significant power of the state government, then had to forge an alliance with President Vicente Fox’s PAN party and other smaller parties to be able to compete in the race.

The Chiapas vote occurred seven weeks after Mexico’s still-unsettled presidential election, in which the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) has attempted to declare PAN candidate Felipe Calderón the winner as supporters of PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador have taken downtown Mexico City to demand a full recount. A partial recount by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (known as the Trife) has revealed a pattern of ballot stuffing and vote theft that legally should cause the annulment of results from more than 7,000 precincts, an order that would invert the official result and make López Obrador the victor. However, the Trife’s reluctance to order a full recount earlier this month was widely viewed as a signal that it will endorse the national electoral fraud and impose Calderón. A third option is that the court could annul the election, Congress would choose an interim president, and new elections would be called within 18 months. The court must rule by September 6, but the week ahead could bring partial rulings that point to the conclusion the Trife is likely to make, possibly sparking a national wave of civil disobedience and resistance unlike in any prior historic moment.

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8. DUere Joanne98: Obrador: “As of September 12th there will be Two Preside

DUere Joanne98: Obrador: “As of September 12th there will be Two Presidents of Mexico
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-27-06 03:29 PM

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AMLO "As of September 12th there will be Two Presidents of Mexico"

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The Battle of Oaxaca in the Context of Mexico's Post-Electoral Crisis
“I Never Wanted to be a War Correspondent When I Grew Up”

http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article2025.html

By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca
August 26, 2006

Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced the forthcoming Mexican revolution, on the front page of La Jornada of August 24, 2006. He said that as of September 12 there will be two presidents of Mexico. On TV local channel 11 last night, he amended that to September 16. A small detail. It’s on…

…Unless the Election Committee unexpectedly decides to somehow avert the chaos sure to result if Felipe Calderón is crowned. How about if the court annuls 4,000 precincts and declares AMLO the winner?

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9. Finally!!! A US Paper Raises the Question – Who Really Won– Sacramento Bee

I was born in Sacramento. Now I have reason to be proud of that fact. They’re the first major US media outlet to raise the question of Calderon’s alleged “election.” They don’t do much with the question, like point out all the fraud committed by Calderon and Vincente Fox, the current President and Calderon’s patron.

Fraud gives birth--Fox to Calderon. Photograph: Exparta
This picture did not appear in the Sacramento Bee :evilgrin:

Sacramento Bee: 08.28.06
In Mexico, the leaders change, distrust lingers
Amid election crisis, many see rival parties acting just like the old days.

By Susan Ferriss -- Bee Staff Writer

Published 12:01 am PDT Sunday, August 27, 2006

MEXICO CITY — Turn on the radio here and taxpayer-paid ads trumpeting President Vicente Fox's commitment to Mexico are sure to air, so frequently they prompt jokes about Big Brother.

Go to a march demanding a full recount of the July 2 presidential vote and some of the more vocal participants will be unlicensed taxi drivers, who owe the anti-Fox party that controls this city a favor for tolerating and helping them with their activities.

Mexico has been struggling toward democracy after 71 years of living under a one-party state that ended only six years ago, in 2000, when Fox was elected and the omnipresent Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI, lost the presidency.

Today a prolonged crisis continues over who really won the July 2 presidential election to succeed Fox.

Was it really Felipe Calderón, a conservative who belongs to the National Action Party, as does Fox, who by law was not allowed to run again or to campaign on behalf of his party? Or was the true victor Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, a populist former mayor of Mexico City who vowed a presidency devoted to helping the poor and appears to have lost by less than 1 percent?

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10. Link to "Election Nullification 2" in General Discussion ...

It's here.... http://tinyurl.com/km45o ...com/qa4hz Gracias!!!!

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12. Viva!!!!

We need to learn a whole lot from our South of the Border patriots!

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13. K & R

thanks for staying on top of this, Auto!
Great thread!