THIS is how they do it.... THIS is how the Rethuglican Party wins elections, and the Bush-Cheney White House continues to be snyonymous with CORRUPTION, FRAUD, TORTURE, illegal spying, lies-to-war, and all the other sins and crimes of the Bush-Republican administration, despite in-the-cellar 20-30% approval ratings:
THEY CONTINUALLY get "SOFT" press/media coverage from the corporate media, most fundamentally the WASHINGTON POST and NEW YORK TIMES, which determine what CNN, ABC, and the other media networks will devote their short 2-5 minute on-air stories to.
In this case, Mr. Len Downie junior's Washington Post implies "NO PROBLEM HERE!" despite EIGHTEEN THOUSAND NON-VOTES for a Congressional seat in an off-year CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION (no presidential vote) for Katherine Harris' old House seat in Florida.
NOTE here (in the article, click our headline link) the SCARCITY of details or substance in this "report," which is little more than a textbook case of a PROPAGANDA HEADLINE with just enough text to fill out the headline. Much of that text is merely the names of those involved in the superficial inquiry into those 18,000 missing "undervotes," as they are called by those who analyze elections. This Post/AP article DOESN'T EVEN MENTION the word "undervote," and certainly doesn't mention that 18,000 undervotes is statistically improbable and a multiple, many times over, of the 100 or 200 "undervotes" typical of similar congressional races in other Florida districts and counties.
The Post and the Republican propaganda machine understands that it is HEADLINES that often shape viewer's opinons, even those, such as this one that completely misleads readers and is completely divorced from fact. NO OTHER DISTRICT or county in Florida had anywhere near 18,000 non-votes in a congressional (off-year) election... but the ATROCIOUS Washington POST "spins" that simple fact into an outright and complete lie.
As Stalin is reputed to have said, "IT'S NOT WHO VOTES that counts... it is WHO COUNTS THE VOTES that is important."
Len Downie Junior's Washington Post: turned the Clinton's overnight guest list, "LINCOLN BEDROOM!" into a SYNONYM for SCANDAL.... turns EIGHTEEN THOUSAND COMPUTER-STOLEN VOTES into "NO PROBLEM HERE, MOVE ALONG, MOVE ALONG."
That is at least the THIRD important US election - 2000, 2004, and 2006... with vote results that defy logic, statistical probability, or common sense. As well, the vote count for Senator and Vietnam combat war veteran/amputee Max Cleland's 2002 Georgia senate reelection campaign, and the vote count for former Vice President Walter Mondale's 2002 senate campaign (in stead of the tragically deceased Senator Paul Wellstone, killed along with his wife, his daughter, 3 close campaign aides and 2 pilots in an unexplained aircraft crash) also lost STASTICALLY ANOMALOUS vote counts.
That is to say, EVERY national election since November of 2000 has had at least one or more suspicious vote totals, and Mr. Downie and the Washington Post agree with Stalin and the Republican Party: "IT'S NOT WHO VOTES THAT COUNTS, IT IS WHO COUNTS THE VOTES."
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Voting Machines Found Not at Fault in Florida Election
Associated Press
Saturday, February 24, 2007; Page A08
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022301728.html
TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 23 -- An audit of touch-screen voting machines at the center of a dispute in a congressional election found no evidence of malfunction, Florida's secretary of state said Friday.
The audit was conducted after more than 18,000 ballots were cast in Sarasota County without a selection in the District 13 congressional race in November between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings. Buchanan was the certified winner by 369 votes, but Jennings sued, alleging that the machines malfunctioned.
Third-party voter advocate groups, along with Jennings, have been asking to examine the machines' source code or programming chips to find out whether they malfunctioned. The audit report released Friday said an independent study of the source code of the machines used in the election found no evidence of malfunction.
"Governor [Charlie] Crist and I are committed to ensuring that every Floridian's vote is counted, and I am confident that the race in Sarasota County was fair and accurate," Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning said in a statement about the official audit report.
Buchanan was seated in Congress in January, but Jennings has yet to concede the race.
Jennings spokesman David Kochman said in a statement that the audit was flawed.
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