From Pokey Anderson
co-host, The Monitor radio show, KPFT, Houston
Kerry and his advisors, including his brother Cam (who I met briefly and discussed electronic election theft with two months before the election) are either stupid, misinformed, or purposely threw the election and/or recount. I don't know which, but none of the options are appealing.
1.
On September 14, 2004 in Houston, I told the candidate's brother Cam Kerry in person, face to face, to be ready for voting machine fraud and get some technology experts and people familiar with this onboard. I also handed him a copy of The Nation cover story by Ronnie Dugger, "How They Could Steal the Election This Time," to which I had contributed a bit of research . Cam Kerry had been regaling the crowd of lawyers with boasts of how many lawyers they had, ready to do battle, in the 2004 presidential election. I told him twice, they must have technology help, not just lawyers. Gave him my phone number, and said to call if I could help, or if he had any questions. He seemed polite at best, and not at all curious. ["How They Could Steal the Election This Time," by RONNIE DUGGER, The Nation, Cover Story -- August 16, 2004 issue http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040816&s=dugger ]
2.
A nationally known electronic voting machine expert, specializing in security issues, had contacted the Kerry campaign before the 2004 election. Left his phone number. They never called.
3.
Abbe Delozier and Vickie Karp sent an "Invisible Ballots" (G. Edward Griffin) DVD and Bev's book to Vincent Fry, the chairman of the Democratic party Voting Rights division, or some such title, back in June [2004]. No comment until I e-mailed him later, to which he replied, "Raises some interesting points." End of discussion. I had my suspicions then that the Dems didn't want to know the details, which made me suspect their motives all the way to the top. Apparently my suspicions were justified.
The bloodless coup!
Vickie Karp
karp@mail.com
11 30 04
4.
Greg Palast: "Here's a nasty little fact about voting in the Land of the Free not reported in your newspapers: 3,600,380 ballots were cast in the November 2004 presidential election that were never counted. In 2000, the uncounted ballots totaled just under two million.
And where were the Democrats? In 2004, behind the huge jump in uncounted votes was a mass challenge campaign aimed at poor, Black and Hispanic voters by the Republican Party -- pushing these voters, mostly Democrats, to "provisional ballots." They could have been counted, if someone had fought for it. Hundreds of lawyers were on stand-by but the head of the biggest legal team told me in confidence -- and in frustration -- that the Kerry campaign told them to stand down."
-- "Why Democrats Don't Count: Lessons from the Un-Gore of Mexico," by Greg Palast, Published on Friday, July 14, 2006 by CommonDreams.org, http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0714-20.htm
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The Kerry campaign had an abundance of lawyers, and a war chest for 2004. Pretty much didn't use 'em. Cam Kerry, co-director of Lawyers for Kerry-Edwards, wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe on the day of the challenge to the Ohio electors -- he wrote: "They were backed by 3,300 lawyers on Ohio's election protection team, part of more than 17,000 Kerry-Edwards lawyers nationwide." - Counting every vote
Op Ed
By Cameron F. Kerry
January 6, 2005
The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles
/2005/01/06/counting_every_vote/
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“As we also know, Senator Kerry ran his campaign swearing to us all, that he would not rest until every vote was counted. Yet there he was conceding after mere hours while still staring at massive voter fraud and holding over a million dollars specifically raised for contesting the election.”
Democracy and Dissent Tasered Into Submission
By Anthony Wade
September 18, 2007
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_anthony__070918
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Statement of Stan Merriman to me:
I had started calling the DNC on or about Nov. 4, 2004 asking if there was an elections fraud group, frankly to try to verify the gnawing uncertainty that my Party was doing anything about the reports emerging on "voting irregularities" all over the USA. I was given the name of Louis Fry (sp) as the head of that division. Almost daily until about the 15th I left messages for him. No answers back from anyone. Also each time cycled through the forwarding loop where when you hit "O" for operator, it cycles you to the next person in the department and ultimately to an aide in Chair (hopefully soon to be unseated !) office. On one occasion, a call to the DNC last week at 5:05 pm Eastern Standard Time, the switchboard operator said there was no one there at all -- everyone had gone home for the day.
Finally, after a week, I got a call back from Fry who told me they do have lawyers on the ground, particularly in Florida and Ohio, working also with lawyers from the State Parties. I did not have presence of mind to ask if they also had technical people...........a major omission on my part but my sense was, not from the DNC......they seem to think lawyers are always the solution because that is what they are in the main. I verified that The Chair was indeed on vacation (in the very middle of what might be a Constitutional crisis, but at the very least a very egregious voting rights crisis). Cynically I asked was it at Stowe or Vail ? One aide I got, obviously assigned to assauge an irate hinterlander, me, said....."we lost; we are all moving on here"............I asked if that was the official DNC position and though clearly without the authority to do so, he said YES. He also said that much of the staff had been let go. So, Virginia, your Party was on vacation or furlough during perhaps one of our most crucial elections in American history. My contempt for the DNC grows with each passing day with their incompetence.
Stan Merriman
Houston
(Stan was instrumental in organizing the Progressive Caucus within the Texas Democratic Party.)
November 21, 2004