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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-20-04 07:56 PM
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The only thing we have to worry about is BBV! That's it folks!
Edited on Tue Jul-20-04 07:56 PM by trumad
Kerry is massacring Bush in Fund raising and will certainly have the money to counter Dubya and gang.... The left is galvanized like never before, F9/11 is smacking the fence sitters upside the head, .....

The only possible way for us to lose is if Kerry admits that he's a Atheist or that he thinks John Edwards has a cute Butt. ;-)

Or of course...BBV... That's my biggest worry in NOV.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-20-04 07:57 PM
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1. Totally agree!


This crew will stop at nothing to hold the power.
They will steal every vote.
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-20-04 07:59 PM
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2. RW MEDIA 24/7--RW MEDIA 24/7
today's examples..... attacks on Wilson and Berger
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-20-04 08:03 PM
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3. What is the lates update on UN poll inspectors
are we going to get them to monitor the elections
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lovedems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-20-04 08:10 PM
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4. My husband is pissed off about this
which I have to say surprised me a little bit. I didn't think he really paid that much attention to the details of this election.

He was complaining at dinner tonight about BBV and he said, "Damn it! Every time you go to McDonald's and they ask you if you want a receipt, that is like BBV! If they can give you a receipt for your food, from your ATM machine, etc. they can give you a receipt for your vote!" He also went on to say a simple power outage could disrupt the election. If you drop the machine, it could disrupt the vote. He is mad at the whole concept of cost. He thinks there is easily less then 500.00 worth of hardware in each machine and were probably charging 15K so these companies are making a fortune. He said there are a number of ways BBV could totally screw things up. He doesn't like all of this talk about a paper trail because he doesn't like BBV at all!

Now, all of what he said was not news to me. The fact that he was bringing all of this up to me was news! I honestly didn't realize he had given it that much thought!
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T Roosevelt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-20-04 08:20 PM
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5. Keep in mind who's in control of the color code system...

Terrorism and the Election: California is the Target!

No postponement, just bedlam at the polls and a low turnout on the west coast is Bush's plan for 'victory'

by Wayne Madsen

You have to give the right-wingers credit. The fear tactics they learned from arch-Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels remain at the front of their political playbook. First, they put out the notion that in the event of a terrorist attack around the time of the November 2 election, a postponement of the vote may be necessary. Second, they start talking about the Federal government’s response to such a scenario. It’s the second item we must all be focused upon.

The idea of terrorism affecting the election was first proffered by Reverend DeForest B. Soaries Jr, the Bush-appointed chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Soaries is a right-wing New Jersey Republican Secretary of State who has been living under the small “fanatics only” revival tent of the Christian fundamentalist crowd for some time. Soaries’s job is to ensure that there is no repeat of the 2000 Florida fiasco. However, he and his friends in the Bush administration (read that as Karl Rove and Tom DeLay primarily) may have their eyes set on causing a major West coast electoral disruption in 2004 that will make Florida 2000 look like a minor glitch by comparison.

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The right wing had a different take on the possibility of an election postponement. Neo-fascist babble mongers like Rush Limbaugh said, “No!” to a postponement of the election. They argued that if a terrorist alert or attack were to occur, the election should go on and only those votes cast should be counted. Bingo! The plan for a second Bush administration became clear as day. And that plan’s target is California, with its whopping 54 electoral votes, and possibly Washington State’s 11 electoral votes, at stake.

In 2000, Bush and the election fraud cabal that included his brother, Florida Governor “Jebbie” Bush, and Jebbie’s old flame, Florida Secretary of State (now Congresswoman) Katherine Harris and Fox News election analyst John Ellis (Bush’s first cousin), engineered Bush’s phony Florida “win” using a combination of scrubbed electoral rolls that disenfranchised almost 100,000 African-Americans, confusing “butterfly ballots,” an early Fox projected Bush “win” in the Sunshine State, and voter intimidation at mainly rural polling places. As with Osama bin Laden and his band of zealots, the Bush team never uses the same tactic twice. Therefore, all eyes should shift from Florida this Election Day, to California, where one of Bush’s new minions, the Nazi-admiring Arnold Schwarzenegger, engineered a gubernatorial coup d’etat with the help of Enron’s Ken Lay and his Texas oil cronies, to seize control of the governorship from the reelected Democrat Gray Davis.

<more>
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-20-04 08:35 PM
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6. Paranoia is warranted nowadays..... Lets's not take ANYTHING for
granted.....
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