Crooked Election News Update

(Conspiracy Nation, 01/13/08) – The year was 1980. Jimmy Carter was up for re-election. Iran was holding Americans as hostages. If Carter could get the hostages released, it would be an “October Surprise.” Public euphoria would probably help Carter get re-elected. Through back-door negotiations, the Reagan-Bush people delayed the hostage release, it is consistently alleged, and thereby doomed Carter's chances. The 1980 election was effectively stolen.

In Arkansas, a young Governor, Bill Clinton, made an arrangement with the Reagan-Bush administration. A rogue offshoot of the CIA would fly weapons down to Nicaragua, and Bill Clinton would look the other way.

In 1992, Clinton was rewarded. His straw man opponent in the election, George “Poppy” Bush, kept glancing at his wristwatch during television debates, as if he were bored. In 1996, another straw man, Bob Dole, made a feeble run for the White House.

In the year 2000, Al Gore apparently won the election. But then the networks changed their minds and said George W. Bush won. For weeks there was uncertainty: Who was president? (Some are still uncertain.) But maybe it was Al Gore who stole the election and then Dubya Bush pulled a fast one and stole it back.

In 2004, the presidential race was razor tight. It was decided Dubya Bush had been re-elected. But many claimed the election had been stolen in Ohio. The son of Robert F. Kennedy wrote a good piece on this, published in Rolling Stone magazine. He made an air-tight case that the 2004 election had been crooked.

On January 3rd, at the Iowa Caucus, voters from Illinois may have been bused in to give Barack Obama a surprise upset victory. One report tells of 60 locals gathered to caucus. Then, at “around 6:40, about 30 African-Americans came in, mostly in a group. They provided no identification as legitimate voters in that precinct (they weren't asked by officials either), they just signed their names to a log, often illegibly, and went in to caucus. Obama won the precinct.” (“Rumor: Vote fraud at Iowa Caucus?” http://politizine.blogspot.com/2008/01/rumor-vote-fraud-at-iowa-caucus.html)

Soon thereafter, Hillary Clinton scored a surprise victory in New Hampshire. Again there were “rumors about people being bused in from other states [this time] to take advantage of the same day registration law in New Hampshire to fraudulently vote for Hillary Clinton.” (“A case of Voter Fraud in New Hampshire?” http://mpinkeyes.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/a-case-of-voter-fraud-in-new-hampshire/)

The major news organizations in the United States are reporting scarcely anything about the startling New Hampshire upset. When they do report, they make up fairy tales about the opinion polls being wrong, about Hillary Clinton's weepy moment, etc. But according to TV news station Russia Today, news of possible election fraud in New Hampshire is “very hot in the online world.” So why does the American media focus on relatively inconsequential news instead of possible vote fraud in New Hampshire? There is great interest in the story, yet it is being tip-toed around.

In a previous report (“Vote Recount Is A Loser,” http://www.shout.net/~bigred/RecountLoser.html), it was theorized that a vote recount about to get underway in New Hampshire is a trap. Because voters were bused in from New York, their votes (and chain-of-custody paper ballots) will be “accurate” (though shady). At that point, “conspiracy theorists” will be ridiculed by the mass media. Election integrity advocate Nancy Tobi has suggested something similar: Dennis Kucinich (who demanded the recount) is “stepping into a trap.” States Tobi: “A candidate asking for a recount may well be a tool used to 'prove' everything was okay and then that candidate will be further discredited.” (“Kucinich Stepping Into A Trap With Recount?” http://www.blackboxvoting.org/). Even more cynical is the possibility that Kucinich, a loyal Party man, may himself be part of an overall conspiracy.

Where is the mass media? They will neither report nor countenance the possibility of manipulated election results in New Hampshire.

But when the vote recount proves to be a loser, since bused in voters are not illegal in New Hampshire, let's see how mass media reports on that.

Conspiracy Nation

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