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Once Again, in Tallahassee
Moreover, while Gov. George W.
Bush edged Vice President Al Gore by 56 percent to 44 percent in Martin County,
the absentee votes—control of which violated the rules of chain of custody—broke
nearly 2 to 1 for
Bush. This strange disparity had an echo in the 2004 election in Florida,
which we will soon take up.
Other tantalizing clues have
emerged, like the recent statements made by Jeff Fisher, Democratic candidate
for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District, which,
curiously, encompasses both Martin as well as Palm Beach County, where the vote
count has been disputed in an analysis by UC Berkeley researchers.
Fisher has evidence, he says,
not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who hacked it and how.
Perhaps the proof of vote
tampering, if proof is ever found, will be found by piercing through the
implausible explanation offered for Charlie Kane’s illegal access to election
records, and then collating it with whatever the truth turns out to be about the
'goings-on' in Tallahassee, home of the heart of Florida’s
election machine, the central tabulating computer, on the day before the 2004
election.
Authorities there evacuated
the headquarters of state election officials over a suspicious ticking package
which turned out to be just “papers flapping in an air vent.”
An Echo (Not a Choice) in Ohio
Similarly, citing
concerns about potential terrorism, Warren County Ohio officials locked down the
county administration building on election night and blocked anyone from
observing the vote count as the nation awaited
Ohio's returns.
This is odd. If you wanted to
rig an election, the easiest path would seem to involve the fewest people.
Creating some "crisis" which
takes people away from the crime scene would be key.
Only two states would need to
be controlled illegally: Ohio and Florida. Curiously, in both there occurred
still-unexplained events which may have impacted the result of the election.
In Ohio there was the famous
"Warren County Lockdown" because of "terror" threats, and in Florida, a "bomb
threat" at the State Elections Office in Tallahassee
The State Elections Office in
Tallahassee holds, of course, that state’s main tabulating computers.
Numerous election experts have
testified to the ease with which unsupervised access to the main tabulating
computers before the actual election could be used to “hack the vote.” In an
environment with no meaningful oversight and no paper trail, vote tampering,
they state, can occur virtually undetected.
One expert on the technical
aspects of electronic voting stated a typical concern...“There are virtually no
limits to the way votes can be distributed... Programmers can write code that is
self-erasing and redistributes votes to conform to whatever outside interests
are operative, and without any kind of traceability."
And a Johns Hopkins University
study researchers noted: "Software flaws in a leading US electronic voting
system could be used to subvert the outcome of an election."
A mysterious rattle
With this in mind compare two
typical quotes from mainstream stories:
“The Republican-dominated
(Warren Ohio) County threw out all the media and independent vote watchers when
votes were being counted at the end of Election Day, claiming ‘homeland
security’ issues.”
“State elections workers got
off to a slow start this morning after Tallahassee police evacuated their
building. Investigators called in the bomb squad after finding a suspicious
package.”
The events seem strangely
similar. Moreover, the explanation given in Florida lacks a certain je ne
sais quoi, we discovered, after reading all the news clips…
“As if Florida's election
system weren't already stretched enough, employees in Florida's main elections
office in Tallahassee arrived at work Monday morning to find their building
surrounded by police and a bomb squad truck parked out front. A security guard
had reported a suspicious package that appeared to vibrate in a storage room for
the state's archives, which share the… building.
“The package was discovered in
an area that stores quilts and other artwork that is part of the department's
historic archive.”
The package turned out to be a
bundle of documents, supposedly being blown by an air vent.
The mysterious rattling
noise was caused by an air vent that was blocked by the box of papers?
Had the box changed position on
the morning before the election? Had the air vent?
“Calling out the troops” to
protect Florida’s collection of quilts seems a dubious excuse… made far more
suspicious by the unfortunate box’s proximity to the state’s central tabulating
computer on the eve of the election.
They must be some really
important quilts.
NEXT: What does the challenge
to a gambling initiative allowing slot machines at South Florida race tracks and
jai alai frontons in Broward County show about the massive vote fraud alleged to
have taken place in the 2004 Presidential Election? |