How Bush stole the 2004 Election

international | politics / elections | other press Tuesday July 04, 2006 12:45 by Completely Unmanageable

Where is the outcry in the US?

Michael Parenti has written today of the Stolen Election of 2004. Confirming what many already suspected and has been reported elsewhere, Parenti's account of what happened to ballot papers, at voting centres and to US voters overseas makes stomach-churning reading.

But where is the Deomcratic outcry, why are the US people not taking to the streets? What is the strange malaise that afflicts them and how much more evidence do they need of their governments corruption before they start the fight in earnest to have the Bush administration exposed for what it is. The evidence is all there.

Here is an excerpt from a Znet commentary circulated today:

"Sixty newspapers that had endorsed Bush in 2000 refused to do so in2004; forty of them endorsed Kerry.

All through election day 2004, exit polls showed Kerry ahead by 53 to 47percent, giving him a nationwide edge of about 1.5 million votes, and asolid victory in the electoral college. Yet strangely enough, the official tally gave Bush the election. Here are some examples of how theGOP "victory" was secured.

---In some places large numbers of Democratic registration forms disappeared, along with absentee ballots and provisional ballots. Sometimes absentee ballots were mailed out to voters just before election day, too late to be returned on time, or they were never mailed at all.

---Overseas ballots normally reliably distributed by the StateDepartment were for some reason distributed by the Pentagon in 2004. Nearly half of the six million American voters living abroad---a noticeable number of whom formed anti-Bush organizations---never received their ballots or got them too late to vote. Military personnel,usually more inclined toward supporting the president, encountered no such problems with their overseas ballots.

---Voter Outreach of America, a company funded by the Republican National Committee, collected thousands of voter registration forms in Nevada, promising to turn them in to public officials, but then systematically destroyed the ones belonging to Democrats.

--- Tens of thousands of Democratic voters were stricken from the rolls in several states because of "felonies" never committed, or committed by someone else, or for no given reason. Registration books in Democratic precincts were frequently out-of-date or incomplete."

The rest of this account can be had from Znet at the following link:

https://www.zmag.org/sustainers/members