-Caveat Lector- Political MindControl: Proof Bush did not win election Early Calls 1) Major pre-election polls had Gore leading in Florida the night of Nov. 6. (http://www.zogby.com/features/featuredtables.dbm?ID=30#Anchor- Florid- 922) (http://dailynews.yahoo. com/h/nm/20001106/ts/election_leadall_dc_11.html) 2) On Election Day, November 7, Voter News Service correctly predicted through exit polls that matched with early results that Gore won the state of Florida by a safe margin of 5%. At 7:53PM VNS issued the bulletin: FLORIDA PRESIDENT RACE -- GORE WINS. The networks immediately called the state for Gore. (http://www.herald.com/content/tue/business/florida/digdocs/045599 .htm ) 3) A mortified Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, shortly thereafter left his family in Austin to make some calls. Then George W., after consulting with his advisors including his brother Jeb, called reporters to his hotel suite and told them the networks had made a mistake in calling Florida. "I'm upbeat," he said. At 10:13PM the networks recalled the state and put it back into the "too close to call" column. (http://www.herald.com/content/tue/b usiness/florida/digdocs/045599.htm) 4) At 2:18 AM the networks began declaring George W. Bush the president. They had done so after Fox News called Florida. Who made the decision to incorrectly call Florida for Bush over at Fox, thereby creating the lasting myth that Bush won? John Ellis, who also happens to be George W. Bush's first cousin. (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/15/ellis/index.html) Irregularities -- Palm Beach County 5) An illegal ballot design (the infamous "butterfly ballot") confused many residents of Palm Beach County into undervoting, overvoting, or accidentally voting for Pat Buchanan. Regarding the spin about how it's because they are stupid old people: voters started complaining about this at 7:05 AM on Election Day. DNC HQ calls were jammed due to the high volume of calls. Rep. Robert Wexler, the local Congressional Representative, received a deluge of calls, and on Election Day, even VP Candidate Joseph Lieberman called the local office to see what was going on down there. The elections supervisor issued a warning midway through the day warning people of the confusion. (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/politics/AP-Florida-Ballot- Confusion. html) (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/09/lapore/index.html) (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/n ews/daily/detail/0,1136,36000000000123102,00.html) 6) The odds that all those Palm Beach County residents voted for Buchanan intentionally rather than Gore is approximately a trillion to one. Statistical models bear this out when you compare them to the Buchanan vote in other counties. Looking at any graph you see a huge, disproportionate spike in Buchanan votes. Pat Buchanan himself agrees that the majority of these votes were not cast for him. (http://www.bestbookmarks.com/election) (http://madison.hss.cmu.edu/) 7) Many Palm Beach county voters who mis-voted but caught it immediately and asked for another ballot were told they could not have another ballot by poll workers, in violation of county rules. (NPR, 11/10/00) 8) Socialist Party candidate David McReynolds received abnormally high vote totals in Palm Beach County. His name appears directly below Buchanan's name on the butterfly ballot, in a position that could potentially draw erroneous votes from Democratic votes. McReynolds received 302 votes in PBC. Statewide, in the other 66 counties, he received 316 votes combined. McReynolds got virtually as many votes in Palm Beach County as he did in the entire rest of the state of Florida...nearly 50% of the statewide total! (http://www.bestbookmarks.com/election) 9) After the handcounts were completed, after using a stricter standard than neighboring Broward County, the deadline was missed by an hour or two. Could the count have been delayed because of stall tactics used by overzealous GOP observers? (http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/324/nation/Democrats_accuse_ GOP_of_s ta lling_for_time+.shtml) Irregularities -- Miami-Dade County 10) Miami-Dade has a recent history of election fraud. In 1998, Mayor elect Xavier Suarez was stripped of his election victory by a Florida appeals court, reinstating Joe Carollo as mayor of Miami, finding that massive fraud had robbed him of victory at the polls four months prior. A trial court judge had previously ruled that the election was tainted by ``massive, well-conceived and well-orchestrated'' absentee ballot fraud in which even a dead man voted. (http://www.income-online.com/content/news/NEWS/MIAMI.html) 11) The very same scandal-tainted Xavier Suarez currently sits on the executive committee of the Miami-Dade Republican Party and was specifically involved this year in helping to get out the Republican vote. He admitted on November 8th that "he helped fill out absentee ballot forms and enlist Republican absentee voters in Miami-Dade County" (http://www.feedmag.com/te mplates/daily_master.php3?a_id=1389) 12) Despite tough rules put in place after the fraud-plagued Miami mayoral election, rules designed to keep absentee ballots out of the hands of campaign operatives, GOP workers obtained hundreds of them from voters during their aggressive drive to increase turnout for George W. Bush. An estimated 500 to 600 completed ballots were collected by Bush volunteers or dropped off at campaign offices in Little Havana, Westchester and Hialeah, according to GOP campaign officials in charge of the absentee vote. (http://www.herald.com/content/archive/news/elect2000/decision/01 8937. htm) 13) The Miami-Dade Canvassing Board decided to abruptly stop the hand count after mobs of Republicans paid for by Bush and other GOP operatives including that of House Majority Whip Tom DeLay stormed their building. Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y., was one of the ringleaders of the Miami fight against the recount, and after hearing the decision to change a vote tally, Sweeney uttered a three-word order to his troops: "Shut it down." (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63455- 2000Nov27.html) (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/28/miami/) (http://www.msnbc.com/news/494375.asp) 14) Gore gained 157 more votes than Bush in the partial hand recount, which were not added to the tally by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Irregularities -- Volusia County 15) On Election Night, a computer glitch showed a Socialist Party candidate had more than 9,000 votes, while Vice President Al Gore had minus 16,000. Those numbers were sent out over the Internet, picked up by local newspapers and subsequently reported by major networks on Election Night. The socialist eventually ended up with 9 votes in the county. (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/11/volusia/index.html ) 16) Then, during Wednesday's recount, a forgotten ballot bag emerged from a county poll worker's trunk. Two days later, three other ballot bags emerged later from the county vaults without their tamper-proof seals intact. (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/11/volusia/index.html ) Irregularites - Seminole County 17) 2,100 incomplete GOP absentee ballot requests were selectively fixed/altered by GOP workers invited into election offices by the GOP elections supervisor while similar Democratic absentee ballot requests were rejected. (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/28/seminole/index.ht ml) (http://www.campaignwatch.or g/update.htm) Irregularities -- Broward County 18) Broward County elections officials are investigating the possibility that a handful of voting machines malfunctioned Nov. 7, now that the hand recount has been completed. (http://www.herald.com/content/archive/news/elect2000/decision/04 2 862.htm) Irregularities -- Duval County 19) A 40,000-vote error in the Duval count was one of two significant miscalculations the Voter News Service made in Florida on November 7. (http://www.jacksonville.com/tu- online/stories/111300/met_4597444.html ) 20) Many of the 27,000 presidential ballots in Duval County that were disqualified were in predominantly black areas. Nearly 42 percent came from four districts alone, ones that are overwhelmingly Democratic, where voters there favored Gore by about 80%. (http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/111300 /met_4597444.html) Irregularities -- Hillsborough County 21) VNS Reported higher than usual numbers for Bush in six precincts in the Tampa area which was one of the reasons they pulled the state from Gore to the undecided column on Election Day. An exit poller said that a sampling of six precincts in Tampa included "too many Democrats". (St. Petersburg Times; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Nov 9, 2000) Irregularities -- Martin County 22) Martin County Supervisor of Elections Peggy S. Robbins allowed GOP operatives to take flawed absentee ballot forms home and correct them. Altering an absentee ballot application is a third-degree felony in Florida. (http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/decision2000/lat_absent0012 02.ht m) Irregularities -- Nassau County 23) Predominately Republican Nassau County inexplicably decided to report its original election returns rather than its recount tally to the secretary of state for certification, thus stripping Vice President Al Gore of 51 votes. (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/24/deutsch/index.ht ml) Irregularities -- Bay County 24) A Bay County resident alleged the Republican Party of Florida used "unlawful and heavy-handed actions" to encourage people to vote by absentee ballot. The GOP apparently used the state seal, in violation of state law, on letters urging voters to seek absentee ballots. (http://www.newsherald.com/articles/2000/11/14/lo111400g.htm) (St. Petersburg Times, Nov 30, 2000) Irregularities -- Escambia County 25) A forged absentee ballot may have been part of an broader voter-fraud scheme. (http://www.sptimes.com/News/111000/Election2000/Forged_ballot _in_Esca .shtml) Irregularities -- Overseas Ballots 26) Some Florida residents serving at a U.S. Air Force base in England received two absentee ballots for this year's presidential race. (http://www.salon.com/politics/fea ture/2000/11/09/duplicate/index.html) Irregularities - Statewide 27) The distribution of archaic voting machines were in predominately Democratic Counties. At least another 4,942 votes would have been registered for Gore if the punch-card and mark-sense voting machines had been randomly distributed throughout Florida. (http://www.dshields.net/randomvotingmachine.htm) 28) When the first machine recount was completed on Nov. 9, there were highly non-random corrections to the vote count for Gore, but just in the counties which were already voting heavily for Gore. Graphs showing this discrepancy indicate that there may have been an undercount of the votes for Gore in those counties in the initial machine count. The re-count corrections in the Republican show a nice bell-shaped curve, which is what you would expect if the distribution of corrections was random, which is expected if the original count was strictly fair. The distribution of the corrections in the Democratic is lop-sided on the right, indicating the magnitude of corrections went heavily towards Gore. This is NOT what you would expect if the corrections were due to random errors, and indicates some other factor is involved which is not random (i.e. fraud). (http://www.dshields.net/floridaelectionrecountstats.htm) 29) Hand recounts, while denounced exaustively by the Bush campaign and the GOP, were used in certain Republican counties that favored Bush. (http://www.salon.com/politics /feature/2000/11/28/hand/index.html) 30) A Miami Herald analysis suggests Gore would have won Florida by 23,000 were it not for statewide irregularities. (http://www.herald.com/content/archive/news/elect2 000/decision/104268.htm) Voter Intimidation and Jim (Jeb) Crow 31) Black votes statewide have been disproportionally tossed, in some county precincts in Duval County the ratio is as high as one in three. (http://www.msnbc.com/news/497956.asp#BODY) (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/politics/29MACH.html ) 32) A disproportionate number of rejected presidential votes in South Florida came from African-American and Caribbean neighborhoods, according to an analysis of election data from Broward, Miami- Dade and Palm Beach Counties. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/ws/item/0,130 8,46649 -46819-4 8438,00.html) 33) A disproportionate number of black votes were tossed in Glades County. (http://home.netcom.com/~mecowan/glades.htm) 34) Registered black college students at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach and Tallahassee's Florida A&M University said they were turned away from the polls even though they had signed up in fall registration drives. (http://www.sun- sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,3600000000013302 0,00.html) 35) In Leon County, highway patrol troopers set up an unauthorized checkpoint near a polling place in the town of Woodville (http://www.sun- sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,3600000000013302 0,00.html) 36) Many black voters were inexplicably not on the voter lists at the polling locations. (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/30/politics/30BLAC.html) 37) Many reports of voter intimidation surfaced in Hillsboro County. (http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT 3WRE3N LFC&live=true&tagid=ZZZOMSJK3 0C&subheading=US) (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/11/naacp/index.html) 38) The FBI has been investigating allegations that some voters, primarily Haitians with limited or no English speaking or reading ability, were duped into voting for Bush by misleading "palm cards" that made them think they were voting for Gore. (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,36 000000000126886,00.html) 39) In Miami, Haitian-Americans said they weren't given mandated ballots in Creole, or were denied help from poll workers. (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0, 1136,36000000000133020,00.html) 40) In Healdsburg County, police were stopping African American voters, asking for ID's and asking, "What are you doing here?" (http://www.allegedirregularities.com/profil ing/) 41) Many were asked a litany of questions even though they were on the voting rolls and had ID's. The questions had to do with whether they had been convicted of a felony, when was the last time they voted, etc. Only African Americans appeared to be asked these questions. (http://www.allegedirregularities.com/profi ling/) 42) Four ballot boxes in heavily black precincts were alleged to not have been picked up. (http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/335/nation/NAACP_says_it_will_ sue_ov er_alleg ed_flaws_in_Fla_voting+.shtml) 43) A polling place was demolished without notice. (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/1 1/naacp/index.html) Racist and Hate Group Intimidation 44) Protesters have been infiltrated by Neo-Nazis, the KKK and other hate groups. A major Neo-Nazi website encourages people to attend its "No More Gore" rallies. (http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0047/ladd.shtml) (www.stormfront.org) Other Intimidation 45) Several Democrats were punched, kicked and trampled by Republican goons during the court-ordered Miami-Dade recount. Death threats and other assaults have also occurred, specifically towards Rep. Robert Wexler, and Palm Beach commissioner Carol Roberts. A certain website also published the home phone numbers of the Florida Supreme Court Justices, and one can assume the possibility of death threats may have reached even to that level. (http://www.msnbc.com/news/494375.asp) Cyber Jim Crow 46) Due to a "computer glitch", approximately 12,000 voters across the state were mistakenly identified as having out-of-state felony convictions, thereby making them ineligible to vote. Although 8,000 of these so marked were able to fix the problem through an arduous process of restoring their rights through the Florida Office of Executive Clemency, 4,000 remained ineligible to vote by Election Day. Those falsely marked as felons included a disproportionate number of African Americans, more disproportionate than the standard ratio of conviction rates between blacks and whites would allow. (www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,402957,00.html), (http://home.netcom.com/~mecowan/voter_r olls.htm) 47) The source of this so-called "glitch": Database Technologies, a division of ChoicePoint; hired by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Harris hired Database Technologies to identify people registered in other counties, those who have died, or those who are felons. In 1999 the FBI suspended their contract with DBT because of suspected ties of the company founder to drug smugglers, despite the fact that one year prior, a respected former DEA agent and narcotrafficking specialist was hired as Vice President. (http://geocities.com/glitchgate) 48) ChoicePoint's founder, Rick Rozar, died from an accident in 1998. According to Guardian Observer reporter Gregory Palast, he was "under fire for misuse of personal data in state computers." ChoicePoint is a very private firm with tight Republican ties. (www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,402957,00.html), (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2 000/12/04/voter_file/index.html) 49) The computer glitch that disenfranchised the 4,000 Floridians stemmed largely from Texas state records that erroneously included people with misdemeanors as having felonies. (http://home.netcom.com/~mecowan/voter_rolls.htm) Collusion 50) The Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, is George W. Bush's brother. 51) Katherine Harris, Florida's Secretary of State and the person in charge of certifying Florida's electors, was George W. Bush's Florida co-chairwoman as far back as October 1999. (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/13/harris /index.html) 52) George W. Bush is son of the former President who was head of the CIA. The CIA has experience in overturning elections and pulling off coup d'etats in third-world countries. (http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/policy/church-chile.htm) (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/chile/ind ex.html) Scorched Earth and Other Endgames 53) Despite the fact that Gore most likely won, if he succeeds is any of his legal battles and wins the popular vote in Florida, the Florida Legislature may decide to ignore this fact and railroad through their own set of Republican electors, in violation of the will of the voters and perhaps the will of the State Supreme Court of Florida. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/o npolitics/elections/electors18.htm) 54) If this fails, Republicans on Capitol Hill, led by House whip Tom DeLay will initiate what he calls a "doomsday scenario" whereby they would attempt to reject Florida's electoral votes if they feel it is tainted (i.e. belonging to Gore), in violation of the will of the voters in Florida and the rest of the country. Some Republicans have even called for a boycott of the Inauguration should Gore prevail, in an apparent scorched-earth policy aimed at crippling the Presidency right from day one. (http://washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/onpolitics/elections/congress20.htm) (http://www.vny.com/cf/News/ upidetail.cfm?QID=136895) Relevant Character Issues (Aside from the Obvious Ones) 55) Bush won't accept defeat. "...Even if he loses, his friends say, he doesn't lose. He'll just change the score, or change the rules, or make his opponent play until he can beat him..." as reported in Gail Sheehy's "The Accidental Candidate" in the October 2000 issue of Vanity Fair. (http://gailsheehy.com/Politic s/politicsindex_bush3.html) Doomed Anyways 56) Al Gore was character assassinated by a powerful Bush campaign opposition machine which utilized a database of every public utterance in Gore's 26 years in public service with which to twist every variance and use it to tarnish him as duplicitous and untrustworthy. Opposition research has never been used to this magnitude before. (http://www.time.com/time/campaign2000/story /0,7243,59665,00.html) Vendetta, Inc. 57) In many respects this whole election is about payback for a hatred for Clinton (and by proxy, Gore) and what they have done to the "Bush stocks". The corporate power players abide and abet, because they are delighted at the prospect of grand-scale deregulation of business, services and industry, 'bringing the business special interests into politics so they can take over the regulatory bodies of government and regulate themselves'. (http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,406082,00.ht ml) Political MC: Proof Bush did not win election _________ EcoNews Service - Always online for Exopolitics & a Universe Ecology. 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