Re: [cia-drugs] Greg Palast. Left-leaning voters scrubbed from lists. Mexico election.
Do you want someone who merely scratches the surface, or someone who gets to the heart of the matter? If you just want the former, stick with Greg; if you want the latter, read my work. Peace, Arlene Johnson Publisher/Author http://www.truedemocracy.net the home of The Journal of History (Le verdad sobre la democracia) Click on the icon that says Magazine. The 11th edition is about election reform and has articles in it by Brian Downing Quig. Remember him? Password for 2006: message -Original Message- From: Eco Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 9, 2006 9:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cia-drugs] Greg Palast. Left-leaning voters scrubbed from lists. Mexico election. It is much harder to change cannabis and drug policy if these coup d'etats continue in elections in the USA and Mexico. In Mexico we need more honest elections and more honest voter registration and more voting machines in poorer Mexican neighborhoods (sound familiar?) and more voting machines along the border. Also, simple runoff election would solve many problems, too. The Mexican election vote was divided mainly between the 3 main candidates. A runoff election between the top 2 candidates would elect the left leaning candidate. In Canada the Conservative Party only won a minority of the votes but now its leader is the Prime Minister. The other parties to the left of the Conservative Party had far more votes, but the lack of runoff voting, and the screwy system for selecting the Prime Minister means that Canada also has been taken over by the War Corporatists, Big Oil, and the Prison Industrial Complex. They all kiss George Bush's butt, and want more war, more unfair trade, less wages, no adequate increases in the minimum wage, more prisons, more wasteful government spending, huge deficits, more pollution, more Big Oil instead of Big Ethanol, etc... From the July 8, 2006 Guardian article below: As we found in Florida in 2000, my investigations team on the ground in Mexico City this week found voters in poor neighbourhoods, the left's turf, complaining that their names were disappeared from the voter rolls. ---July 8, 2006 Guardian article begins-- http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1815601,00.html Mexico and Florida have more in common than heat There is evidence that left-leaning voters have been scrubbed from key electoral lists in Latin America Greg Palast Saturday July 8, 2006 The Guardian There's something rotten in Mexico. And it smells like Florida. The ruling party, the Washington-friendly National Action Party (Pan), proclaimed yesterday their victory in the presidential race, albeit tortilla thin, was Mexico's first clean election. But that requires we close our eyes to some very dodgy doings in the vote count that are far too reminiscent of the games played in Florida in 2000 by the Bush family. And indeed, evidence suggests that Team Bush had a hand in what may be another presidential election heist. Just before the 2000 balloting in Florida, I reported in the Guardian that its governor, Jeb Bush, had ordered the removal of tens of thousands of black citizens from the state's voter rolls. He called them felons, but our investigation discovered their only crime was Voting While Black. And that little scrub of the voter rolls gave the White House to his brother George. Jeb's winning scrub list was the creation of a private firm, ChoicePoint of Alpharetta, Georgia. Now, it seems, ChoicePoint is back in the voter list business - in Mexico - at the direction of the Bush government. Months ago, I got my hands on a copy of a memo from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, marked secret, regarding a contract for intelligence collection of foreign counter-terrorism investigations. Given that the memo was dated September 17 2001, a week after the attack on the World Trade Centre, hunting for terrorists seemed like a heck of a good idea. But oddly, while all 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, the contract was for obtaining the voter files of Venezuela, Brazil ... and Mexico. What those Latin American countries have in common, besides a lack of terrorists, is either a left-leaning president or a left candidate for president ahead in the opinion polls, leaders of the floodtide of Bush-hostile Latin leaders. It seems that the Bush government feared the leftist surge was up against the US's southern border. As we found in Florida in 2000, my
[cia-drugs] Greg Palast. Left-leaning voters scrubbed from lists. Mexico election.
It is much harder tochange cannabis and drug policy if these coup d'etats continue in elections in the USA and Mexico.In Mexico we needmorehonest elections and more honest voter registration andmore voting machines in poorer Mexican neighborhoods (sound familiar?) and more voting machines alongthe border.Also, simple runoff election would solve many problems, too. The Mexican election vote was dividedmainly between the 3 main candidates. A runoff election between the top 2 candidates would elect the left leaning candidate. In Canada the Conservative Party only won a minority of the votes but now its leader is the Prime Minister. The other parties to the left of the Conservative Party had far more votes, but the lack of runoff voting, and the screwy system for selecting the Prime Minister means that Canada also has been taken over by the War Corporatists, Big Oil,and the Prison Industrial Complex. They all kiss George Bush's butt, and want more war, more unfair trade, less wages, no adequate increases in the minimum wage, more prisons, more wasteful government spending, huge deficits, more pollution, more Big Oil instead of Big Ethanol, etc... From the July 8, 2006 Guardian article below: "As we found in Florida in 2000, my investigations team on the ground in Mexico City this week found voters in poor neighbourhoods, the left's turf, complaining that their names were "disappeared" from the voter rolls." ---July 8, 2006 Guardian article begins--http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1815601,00.html Mexico and Florida have more in common than heat There is evidence that left-leaning voters have been scrubbed from key electoral lists in Latin America Greg Palast Saturday July 8, 2006 The Guardian There's something rotten in Mexico. And it smells like Florida. The ruling party, the Washington-friendly National Action Party (Pan), proclaimed yesterday their victory in the presidential race, albeit tortilla thin, was Mexico's first "clean" election. But that requires we close our eyes to some very dodgy doings in the vote count that are far too reminiscent of the games played in Florida in 2000 by the Bush family. And indeed, evidence suggests that Team Bush had a hand in what may be another presidential election heist.Just before the 2000 balloting in Florida, I reported in the Guardian that its governor, Jeb Bush, had ordered the removal of tens of thousands of black citizens from the state's voter rolls. He called them "felons", but our investigation discovered their only crime was Voting While Black. And that little scrub of the voter rolls gave the White House to his brother George. Jeb's winning scrub list was the creation of a private firm, ChoicePoint of Alpharetta, Georgia. Now, it seems, ChoicePoint is back in the voter list business - in Mexico - at the direction of the Bush government. Months ago, I got my hands on a copy of a memo from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, marked "secret", regarding a contract for "intelligence collection of foreign counter-terrorism investigations". Given that the memo was dated September 17 2001, a week after the attack on the World Trade Centre, hunting for terrorists seemed like a heck of a good idea. But oddly, while all 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, the contract was for obtaining the voter files of Venezuela, Brazil ... and Mexico. What those Latin American countries have in common, besides a lack of terrorists, is either a left-leaning president or a left candidate for president ahead in the opinion polls, leaders of the floodtide of Bush-hostile Latin leaders. It seems that the Bush government feared the leftist surge was up against the US's southern border. As we found in Florida in 2000, my investigations team on the ground in Mexico City this week found voters in poor neighbourhoods, the left's turf, complaining that their names were "disappeared" from the voter rolls. ChoicePoint can't know what use the Bush crew makes of its lists. But erased registrations require us to ask, before this vote is certified, was there a purge as there was in Florida? Notably, ruling party operatives carried registration lists normally in the hands of elections officials only. (In Venezuela in 2004, during the special election to recall President Hugo Chavez, I saw his opponents consulting laptops with voter lists. Were these the purloined FBI files? The Chavez government suspects so but, victorious, won't press the case.) There's more that the Mexico vote has in common with Florida besides the heat. The ruling party's hand-picked electoral commission counted a mere 402,000 votes more for their candidate, Felipe Calderón, over challenger Andrés Manuel López Obrador. That's noteworthy in light of the surprise showing of candidate Señor Blank-o (the 827,000 ballots supposedly left "blank"). We've seen Mr Blank-o do well before - in Florida in 2000 when
