Here's an important corrective, by Ken Anderson, to one little slip in Andrew Krieg's fine article on the railroading of Don Siegelman.
(For two good essays on the theft of Siegelman's re-election in '02, including a statistical analysis of the vote-theft, see James Gundlach's and Larisa Alexandrovna's pieces in Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008, which you can get at http://www.markcrispinmiller.com.) MCM Hi Mark, Regarding Andrew Kreig's excellent article, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kreig/siegelman-deserves-new-tr_b_201455.html I did have one burp about it, and commented. I thought I'd pass it along: -ken "But he was defeated in a 2002 re-election vote that was so close he was declared the winner on Nov. 3 until a reported software glitch during a rural county recount cost him 6,000 votes and thus the election. " Andrew, This is a fantastic article, but I hate it when obvious election theft is downplayed as a "glitch." More pointedly, this "glitch" was discovered in the middle of the night by a Republican-only group of election officials, who magically both "lost" and "found" votes, "losing" only Siegelman votes and "finding" only Riley ones. Siegelman and Thom Hartmann (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/interview-with-former-ala_b_99338.html) tell us: ___________________ [Hartmann:] ... And, in fact, if I understand this correctly, you were being prosecuted by a woman whose husband was the campaign manager for the Republican who ran against you for governor and in the middle of the night in one county because of a voting machine malfunction after the election had apparently already been called in your favor, suddenly in the middle of the night, when there were nobody except Republicans standing around, they discovered a couple thousand more votes, and said: "Oh, yeah, no, no! Don Siegelman actually lost." Do I have that right? DS: You have it right. They electronically shifted votes from my column to my Republican opponent's column. TH: To Bob Riley's column. DS: I believe, yes, to Bob Riley's column. And oddly enough, it didn't effect a single down-ballot race. They took five thousand or six thousand votes of mine and shifted it over to Bob Riley, and when they counted everybody else's votes, the shift was at the top which, logically, would have made a difference at the bottom... --------------------------------- Let us note, none of what subsequently happened to Siegelman would have transpired were it not for the theft of that election. Election theft is the crux upon which all the other bullshit teeters. Ken Anderson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to newsfromunderground-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
