Gnarlodious.com wrote:
> Hey! That hurts!
> Don't you know this "election" is a fraud just like the last one? The
> fundamentalist cor****atist fascists that own the voting machine
companies
> have appointed George to be their Head Lackey.
> I fear Americans really ARE blithering idiots and it will take several
> more election cycles for them to figure out how democracy was stolen
from
> them.
Here in Germany, people say "don't worry about election fraud, the exit
polls are accurate enough to detect anything, except a 'too close to
call'". I've never seen an election where the exit poll didn't forecast
the
result correctly, even our very close to call last election (3 seats, i.e.
0.5% difference between red-green and black-yellow). The exit polls were
correct, the predictions from partly counted votes were off by up to 2%,
some hours later. In the early morning, it was clear that the exit polls
were right.
Ok, I've now seen two elections where the exit polls did predict something
different: The 2000 Florida ballot (exit poll: Gore wins), and the 2004
USA-wide ballot (exit poll: Kerry wins). It took 10 months to conclude
(inofficially, though) that Florida really had more Gore votes than Bush
votes (though very close; too many confused voters thought they had voted
for Gore, but pushed the wrong button and such), but this time, they made
sure that noone will be able to recount. They left no paper trail behind.
As European, I'm not really sure if I want Kerry instead of Bush. Here in
Europe, we have only one plutocrat, that's Berlusconi in Italy. In
America,
there's only the choice between several plutocrats, and both parties even
run with a plutocrat as vice president candidate. All non-billionares are
excluded from the election process in early stages by making sure that
these early stages are so expensive noone without a billionare in his
family can get through. Plutocracy is definitely a form of Aristocracy,
and
the founding fathers are rotating in their graves.
--
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/
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