Will The Ruthless Republicans Steal The 2012 Election?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 15th, 2012
You can bet they will give it their best try.
Good morning!
Since Robert,RT was kind enough to send me his list of writes, and post one of them here yesterday, and since Dallas raised the question, this write seemed like the most natural one to follow.
Will the GOP steal America’s 2012 election?
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
September 6, 2012
The Republican Party could steal the 2012 US Presidential election with relative ease.
Six basic factors make this year’s theft a possibility:
- 1. The power of corporate money, now vastly enhanced by the US Supreme Court’s Citizens’ United decisions;
- 2. The Electoral College, which narrows the number of votes needed to be moved to swing a presidential election;
- 3. The systematic disenfranchisement of—according to the Brennan Center—ten million or more citizens, most of whom would otherwise be likely to vote Democratic. More than a million voters have also been purged from the rolls in Ohio, almost 20% of the total vote count in 2008;
- 4. The accelerating use of electronic voting machines, which make election theft a relatively simple task for those who control them, including their owners and operators, who are predominantly Republican;
- 5. The GOP control of nine of the governorships in the dozen swing states that will decide the outcome of the 2012 campaign; and,
- 6. The likelihood that the core of the activist “election protection” community that turned out in droves to monitor the vote for Barack Obama in 2008 has not been energized by his presidency and is thus unlikely to work for him again in 2012.
Winning a fair and reliable electoral system can be achieved only with a massive grassroots upheaval.
The power of money is now enshrined by the infamous Citizens United decision. In at least 90% of our Congressional races and at least 80% of our US Senate races, the candidate who spends the most money wins.
From the presidency to the local level, our elections—and thus control of our government—are dominated by cash.
For more than a century, the ability of corporations and the super-rich to buy in directly has been legally constrained. But the concentration of media ownership in the hands of ever-fewer corporations has vastly enhanced their power.
Already in 2012, the tsunami of dollars pouring in from corporations and super-rich individuals has soared to entirely new levels. Even the floodgates opened by Citizens United can’t handle the flow. With its June decision denying Montana’s attempt to keep some spending restrictions in tact, the John Roberts US Supreme Court has inaugurated an era in which virtually unrestrained “pay-to-play” money will re-define the electoral process. Republicans in the US Senate have also blocked attempts to require that these campaign “donations” be made public.
It’s not hard to guess where this leads. The June, 2012, recall election in Wisconsin saw at least 8 times as much money being spent on protecting Republican governor Scott Walker as was spent to oust him.
Barack Obama has spent much of his presidency courting corporate interests. But he will be out-raised by the corporate/super-rich 1% backing Mitt Romney. A handful of high-profile billionaires will spend “whatever it takes” to put the GOP back into the White House. Just a dozen of them have already provided more than 70% of Romney’s early campaign budget.
Most of this corporate money is being used to persuade voters to oust Obama, which they may well decide to do. But US history shows that some of it can also restrict the ability of Americans to vote. It can then “bend” the vote count in ways the public may not want.
Our nation’s history shows that given the same chance, the Democrats would gladly do the same to the Republicans. And it’s happened many times, especially in the Jim Crow south.
But in 2012, it will be primarily Republicans using gargantuan sums of corporate money to take control of the government from Democrats, and democracy be damned.
We are not writing this in support of Barack Obama or the Democratic Party. We are mystified by their unwillingness to fight for meaningful electoral reform. Both Al Gore and John Kerry were legitimately elected president, but neither was willing to fight for meaningful reform, or even to discuss it. When we broke many of the major stories on the theft of Ohio 2004, it was the Democrats who most fiercely attacked us.
We’re continually asked why the Democrats have been willing since 2000 to sit back and let the GOP get away with this. Frankly, we have no answer.
But for us, the more important reality is that this electoral corruption dooms the ballot as an instrument of real democracy. A system this badly broken means a bi-partisan oligarchy can always deny third and other grassroots parties the use of elections to challenge the status quo, in this case one increasingly defined by war, bigotry, injustice, moneyed privilege and ecological suicide.
Thus it’s been a century since the last significant electoral challenges to the Democrat-Republican corporate domination of the political system.
That challenge was staged by the People’s (Populist) and then Socialist Parties. In rapid succession they rallied huge grassroots followings demanding core changes to the corporate domination of American politics. The 30-year upheaval they represented laid the groundwork for major changes. But it failed to crack the corporate domination of our political system.
The Populists were shattered in 1896 with a combination of co-option by William Jennings Bryan’s Democratic Party and election theft engineered by Mark Hanna’s Republicans. (Republican strategist Karl Rove, a serious student of the 1896 election, considers Mark Hanna to be one of his great heroes).
The Socialists were co-opted and divided in 1916 by the Democrat Woodrow Wilson, who then crushed them in the most violent wave of physical repression ever imposed by a US President on a mass movement that derived from the heart of America’s working public.
No third party has since risen up with enough real political clout to threaten corporate power through the electoral system. As long as our ballot box is corrupted and unaccountable, none will.
That one party could steal an election from the other means our democracy, if it could still be called that, is essentially in shambles.
Would the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, the Chamber of Commerce and their related billionaires spend tens of millions of dollars to win the White House but stop short of spending the relatively small amount it would take to flip the vote?
In the larger view, the ability of either (or both) corporate parties to do this means no grassroots party will be allowed to force meaningful change in America—at least not through the ballot box.
But we are citizens of a nation born with the bottom-up overthrow of the planet’s then-most powerful king. As believers in grassroots democracy, we know that the survival instinct is ultimately more powerful than the profit motive. When it comes to the basics, we have no doubt the power of the people will ultimately prevail.
For those working on the 2012 election, and for democracy in general, that will mean an extraordinary commitment to protecting the registered status of millions of Americans, getting them to the polls, guaranteeing their right to vote once there, and making sure there is an accurate vote count—electronic and otherwise—once those votes are cast.
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Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman are authors of WILL THE GOP STEAL AMERICA’S 2012 ELECTION?, their fifth book on election protection, an e-book at www.harveywasserman.ning.com and freepress.org/store.php#a2012.
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Readers: Thoughts? Blog me. This will be the first of many so stay tuned.
Social Butterfly: Thanks for the heads-up and for blogging the missing link :). I corrected the write last night before I saw your 2nd post. So Readers, if you haven’t signed it yet, feel free to sign it now. Thanks. Also as I stated to all my readers last night: FYI: The main heading is almost always a link to the original article should you want to go to the original source.
Robert, RT: Thank you for the list! I perused it and yes it is stunning, and a wealth of information – these articles will be very illuminating to all who read. Thank you, again.
With respect to Obama, I completely agree with you. Obama is a very fair-minded man, which is a characteristic that I appreciate and hold in high regard. But in these circumstances, he needs to think like the GOP think and take ruthless actions against them. If it means investigation and prosecution, he must do it.
Vivien, Sarah: Thanks for the heads-up and helpful advice.
Readers: With respect to comments from Vivien and Sarah, there are many people who hang out in front of grocery stores etc., who claim to register you to vote, but have been hired by repubs to throw away your registration form. Please be careful and either take it to your countys’ official voter registration office or after registration do what was suggested and check on-line.
Another way to ensure that you are registered and that your form was in fact not thrown away is to mark the box that allows you to vote by mail, early. If you check that box you should receive your voting form in the mail within a week. If you don’t get it, then call and make sure that it was indeed turned in. Besides checking online this is another step that won’t leave you left wondering, only to be upset on election day when you are not registered to vote. Then it will be too late.
I am not sure about other states but the last day to register to vote is 15 days before election day, which put the last day as October 22nd. My suggestion is that if you have any question as to whether you are registered or not is to get on it now and check. You can check the status of your voter registration on California by clicking here.
If you want to register to vote online in California, click here. It is very quick and easy. However, if you do so , the site requests permission to contact the DMV for a copy of your signature. Some might not like having their signature on file – I didn’t. What I do suggest is that you visit the website, locate the registration office in your county, fill out the form there and turn it in.
If anyone else has any suggestions please do speak up. Thanks.
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October 15th, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Friend,
My dad used to tell me, “In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.” He and my mom emigrated from Cuba to America to give us a better life.
They believed in American exceptionalism, the promise of America.
America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights; power belongs to the people; and government exists to protect our rights. We shouldn’t be trapped by the circumstances of our birth — we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.
In America, we’re united not by a common race or ethnicity — but by common values. This election’s about preserving those values and applying the founding principles to solve the challenges of our time.
It’s a choice about what kind of country we want to leave our children. Let’s choose more freedom instead of more government. Let’s choose Mitt Romney and the Republican team to lead our nation back to prosperity.
Mitt believes we need to change the direction of our country. He has a plan to create 12 million new jobs. Together with the Republican team, he can deliver the real recovery America deserves.
Supporters of Mitt Romney and the Republican team also believe in this plan for a real recovery. They have shown their support by giving countless hours contacting voters and telling them about Mitt’s plan.
With Election Day 3 weeks away, every effort made takes us one step closer to victory. In 2012, volunteers have made 3.5 times more phone calls than they had at the same time in the 2008 campaign. Victory volunteers have knocked on 13 times as many doors than they had at the same time in the 2008 campaign — 4 times as many doors than the entire 2008 campaign combined. Since the national absentee and early voting turnout program began, over 108,000 volunteers have made nearly 23 million volunteer voter contacts — nearly 40 million voter contacts since Victory launched this year.
It is because of the work of these supporters that we will have a Republican victory in 2012.
Contribute now to preserve American exceptionalism by electing Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and conservatives across the country.
Thanks,
Marco Rubio
U.S. Senator, Florida
October 15th, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Marco, Sorry once you’ve had black you can’t go back. Obama!!! 2012.
I know that will make a lot of insecure white men very angry. LOL
October 15th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
The Right complains about Biden being rude to Ryan. But what they say about the President of the USA is alright with them.
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Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Tommy Thompson’s son delivered some head-turning thoughts on the presidential election Sunday morning.
In a clip posted on YouTube from a Republican Party Of Kenosha County brunch event, Jason Thompson commented that “we have the opportunity” to send President Barack Obama “back to Chicago — or Kenya,” drawing applause from the crowd.
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Mr President I apologize to you for the ignorance from the people who call themselves Americans. I hear comments from people at my place of employment and I just sit and listen.
I’ve come to a conclusion that this election is all about race, nothing else. I’ve never witness such Total Disrespect for a PRESIDENT. Not only did I vote for Obama but I also voted against racism abd ignorance.
So glad I’m not a republican.
October 15th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
Almost all these voting scams seem to be perpetrated by the Repubs these days, which is not to say the Dems don’t pull off a few themselves.
But, with the Repubs far worse on this issue, it is important they get the most of the blame. The 50-50 approach is designed to minimize the issue, not to be fair.
Failing to go after vote machine fraud is the real Dem contribution to the vote crime spree.
October 15th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
All electronic vote-counting machines should be confiscated for examination immediately post-election. This should be standard procedure, not something that would require a specific court order in each case.
That is certainly no remedy like getting rid of them entirely, but it would go a long way toward changing the ease with which an election can be stolen today.
Any district counted by a flawed machine would invalidate the entire district and call into question all districts counted by similar machines (same manufacturer/owner).
October 15th, 2012 at 8:36 pm
a voter can demand a paper ballot. I think all states should be required to go back to the paper ballots. Computers are too vulnerable to corruption by officials.
A paper ballot and a receipt should be mandatory in all states. Nice to have such a corrupt government that millions of people won’t even go out to vote because they already figure that either their vote doesn’t count or it will be stolen.
We need some real reforms in this country and I don’t know if there is all that much we….the citizens can actually do to get them. The system is so rigged already.
October 15th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
Choose Your Colonoscopy Doc Wisely
I was surprised recently to learn that lots of colonoscopies in the US are not performed by gastroenterologists—physicians who, of course, specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of digestive conditions.
Primary-care doctors and general surgeons also are doing these vitally important screenings that can detect and save a patient from cancer.
Do they do as good a job?
Well, a new study compares how good the colonoscopies are when done by these three types of doctors—and, trust me, the results may influence the type of doctor you choose to perform your next colonoscopy.
WHICH DOC IS BEST?
In the study, when researchers examined medical data for men and women ages 70 to 89, they found that in comparison to people who did not have colonoscopies…
People who had colonoscopies done by gastroenterologists ended up having a 65% lower risk of dying from colorectal cancer.
People who had colonoscopies done by primary-care physicians had a 57% lower risk of dying from colorectal cancer.
People who had colonoscopies done by surgeons had a 45% lower risk of dying from colorectal cancer.
In other words, a colonoscopy performed by any of these types of doctor reduces the risk for colorectal cancer death—but this study suggests that when it’s performed by a gasteroenterologist, specifically, the risk for colorectal cancer death is lowest of all.
Now, is it possible that patients who were at highest risk for cancer, perhaps because of existing illness or family history, tended to choose to go to surgeons for their colonoscopies, and perhaps that’s why their survival rates were the lowest?
That is a possibility, the researchers noted—although using that logic, you’d think that the healthiest patients would have chosen primary-care doctors for their procedures and that therefore primary-care docs’ results would have been the best…but that wasn’t true.
The study was a retrospective analysis of medical data, so researchers didn’t have any information about the patients’ preexisting health.
And (unfortunately) they did not analyze how each type of doctor fared in terms of complication rates.
One limitation of the study is that researchers weren’t able to assess why the patients were having colonoscopies in the first place.
So it’s possible that patients who had symptoms that were suggestive of colon cancer were sent to surgeons, and that could have affected the results.
Until more research is done, what we know so far is that gastroenterologists’ patients did best in avoiding death from the main disease that colonoscopies are supposed to find.
TRAINING, EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION COUNT
To learn more about why gastroenterologists may have come out on top, I talked with study coauthor Nancy Baxter, MD, PhD, who cited three potential reasons…
More initial training.
To become a board-certified gastroenterologist, a doctor must complete a two- to three-year fellowship that includes specific education and training on GI procedures such as colonoscopy.
Higher volume.
Gastroenterologists tend to perform more colonoscopies than other physicians (one recent study estimates that they perform roughly two-thirds of colonoscopies).
The more experience doctors have, the more skilled they tend to become at both performing the procedure and spotting cancerous or precancerous tissues.
Continuing medical education.
To remain board-certified, gastroenterologists must continue their education and training to remain up-to-date on the latest developments in their field.
FIND THE RIGHT DOC
This study suggests that, when you are going to have a colonoscopy, your odds of not becoming a victim of colon cancer are highest when choosing a gastroenterologist.
So you can start by looking for a board-certified gastroenterologist in your area at the Web site of the American College of Gastroenterology, http://Patients.GI.org/find-a-gastroenterologist/.
But is a gastroenterologist always going to be a better choice? Not necessarily, said Dr. Baxter. Remember, this study looks at overall odds in a large group of patients.
There are probably many primary-care doctors and surgeons who perform the procedure just as well as gastroenterologists or sometimes better, said Dr. Baxter. It’s just that it might take a little work to find them.
The key to a successful colonoscopy is finding a physician with a good track record at detecting adenomas (the most common precancerous polyps).
Whichever type of physician you consult, Dr. Baxter suggests asking, “What is your adenoma detection rate?”
Current guidelines from the American Gastroenterological Association suggest that for patients older than age 50, doctors should have at least a 15% adenoma-detection rate in females and at least a 25% detection rate in males.
Make sure that the physician you choose meets your high standards—because when it comes to your health, you should accept nothing less.
Source(s): Nancy Baxter, MD, PhD, associate professor, division of surgery, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto. Her study was published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.
October 15th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
Software used for purposes of public business should be open source.
There are always ‘glitches’ in the counting of votes, but never in counting of pennies when it comes to bank accounts. WHY??? Same companies.
As to the fraud of the “Chicago Machines”.. those were not machines and software, but of dead people voting and the votes handcounted. That was voter fraud.
That has been pretty much corrected. What we have today is not voter fraud, but vote counting fraud. That appears to be something nobody is doing anything to correct.
Meanwhile, our Democracy continues to be eroded.
October 15th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Same thing happened in FL for the Bush win too, not just OH. Full story with admission by tech who wrote the vlte flipping code is on The Brad Blog.
October 15th, 2012 at 8:48 pm
The US is not a democracy. If it were, it would have at least three major national parties and minority governments on a regular basis.
And “minority government” does not mean the leader is one, it means no party has more than 50% of the power.
A two party government is no better than a one party government – the US’s “system” is no better than that of communist China or the USSR used to be (or is now).
For those who live in actual democracies, it’s infuriating to watch American stupidity. You’ve got enough money, enough people and enough time to have a paper ballot election – you know, boxes next to names, marked with a pencil. But no, no, no, Americans aren’t smart enough to do that.
First it was idiotic “butterfly ballots” which require a piece of paper to be lined up properly in a machine or the ballot is ruined (never mind the stupidity of “hanging chads”).
And now you’ve got rigged “electronic voting”. In 2008, only ONE state that had electronic voting went to John Kerry – Arizona.
Guess which state was the only state with electronic voting that provided “receipts”, where the voters could actually check and prove who was voted for? All the other states with electronic voting went to Bush.
But the worst of all is the idiotic American impatience. In parliamentary democracies like Canada or England, paper ballots are counted and RECOUNTED – twice – by hand within days of the election, and the governments are sworn in within a week.
And in some countries or places like the EU, there are multi-stage elections over a month, and again, paper ballots are marked by hand then counted and recounted.
October 15th, 2012 at 8:50 pm
A sad commentary indeed. Will privately owned voting machines steal the election for the GOP in America? The very suspicion casts doubt on the results.
The world witnessed the Florida farce in Gore’s loss to Bush. Was that the new standard for U.S. Presidential elections?
America should return to the paper ballot and honesty in election results!
October 15th, 2012 at 8:51 pm
And once again, Americans aren’t smart enough to figure this out. The US elections take place in November, the “winners” are not sworn in for two MONTHS, and yet Americans are too stupid and impatient to count and recount ballots within those sixty days.
Americans stupidly expect a FINAL count – only done once – within five minutes of the polls closing on election night. Is your “democracy” so poorly run, do you want a “democracy” so poorly run, that you’d rather have instant totals than the correct totals?
That you’d rather have a declared winner than the person who actually got the most votes? Is your “democracy” so worthless that you don’t care if it’s run properly? Apparently, you are. It makes me VERY glad not to be a yank.
October 15th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Mr. President, while you may not be fond of debates nor of the fact that a liar like Mr. Romney has made it this far, you are the leader of the free world, sir, and this is the time when you must show it to all of the American people.
While I believe you work hard every day to secure a better and brighter future for all Americans, you must show that resolve on tomorrow’s stage.
Stand tall and proud, acknowledge your accomplishments and take the fight to Romney as best you can.
So many people, myself included, are counting on you now. Please do not lose.
October 15th, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Greetings
Warning…Warning…Warning
It should make us all uncomfortable when liberals/progressives start talking about “morals” and “values.”
After all, it was their party that lustily booed God on their convention floor. Of course, this is in addition to their devotion to killing children in the womb; their removing prayer, the Commandments, and the Bible from the public arena; and their support of sexual immorality and the redefinition of marriage.
Cheers:)
October 15th, 2012 at 9:03 pm
I”m still amazed that everyone says Romney won the last debate and all he did was stand up there and lie to the American people the entire time!
October 15th, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Peter, what they described was a performance of an actor who is acting in a ‘debate’.Mitt Romney lied constantly. He lied about the deficit (President Obama has reduced it steadily each year throughout his presidency).
The President’s actions on the economy (unemployment is lower than when he took office and he has created over 300,000 net jobs in 38 months of positive job growth).
Romney’s economic ‘plan’ (his plan will explode the deficit and raise taxes on the middle class).
In a real debate (think college, highschool, even junior high school), the moderators would not allow obvious falsehoods.
October 15th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
When I read this I could understand that the Right will do anything to win.
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David and Charles Koch are “attempting to control their workers’ votes” by sending out pro-Romney informational packets and “stifling workplace political speech,” In These Times reports.
According to an investigation carried out by the magazine, the Koch brothers allegedly sent out a mailing to 50,000 employees earlier this month offering information as to how to vote in this year’s presidential election.
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We, as americans need to take back our country from the 1% that has corrupted our entire governmental process from the local to the federal.
October 15th, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Beginning this evening at Human Events, we will be previewing tomorrow night’s second presidential debate. Also, we will have our latest special focus issue live on the site. It is on defense and national security. You don’t want to miss it.
Some of our offerings today and choice web links are below.
Talk to you all tomorrow,
– Adam Tragone, Managing Editor
October 15th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
The Right has ratcheted up their attacks and rhetoric against Candy Crowley, the CNN anchor scheduled to moderate Tuesday’s town-hall debate.
They are preparing for any eventuality including a trouncing of Mitt by Obama by suggesting that she will prevent Mitt Romney from getting his message out in an effective way and, thereby, give the advantage to Barack Obama.
If they believed this, why did Republican members of the debate commission agree to her selection?
The answer is obvious. They didn’t and don’t. But if it will offer an explanation for a Mitt flub. It will do.
Robert, RT
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