The No-BS Inside Guide to the Presidential Vote Recount

[pangaia]

Greg Palast explains what the whole recount thing is and why..
Pretty revealing info on what is wrong with 'vote counting' in the US of A.

The Ballots in the Electoral "Dumpster"

The nasty little secret of US elections is that we don't count all the votes.

In Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania -- and all over America -- there were a massive number of votes that were simply rejected, invalidated and spoiled; they were simply not counted. Officially, in a typical presidential election, at least three million votes end up rejected, often for picayune, absurd reasons.

The rejects fall into three big categories: provisional ballots rejected, absentee and mail-in ballots invalidated and in-precinct votes "spoiled," spit out by a machine or thrown out by a human reader as unreadable or mismarked.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38553-the-no-bs-inside-guide-to-the-presidential-vote-recount

[red dog 1]

1. K&R

Probably the most depressing part of Palast's article is near the end:

"In the end, the single biggest impediment to a full and fair recount is that 70 percent of Pennsylvania voters used what are called "Push and Pray" voting machines - Direct recording Electronic touch-screens.
Push the screen next to your choice and pray it gets recorded.
Pennsylvania is one of the only states that has yet to require some form of voter-verified paper audit trail that creates an ATM-style receipt."

No other country in the free world consistently allows presidential elections to be stolen.


I wish Palast would write about Obama's role in this bogus election.

1) Obama appointed a right-wing Republican named James Comey to be FBI Director..and if it weren't for Comey's criminal act of sending that Clinton email letter to Congressional leaders only11 days before the election,
a CLEAR violation of the Hatch Act of 1939
If it weren't for that rat bastard Comey, we'd all be discussing
President-elect Clinton now.

2) Obama's phone call to HRC early in the AM on Nov 9, before all the votes were even counted, and with Clinton leading by nearly a million votes, to "suggest that she should concede now."

THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT...THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[pangaia]

2. I used to notice when driving from Rochester, NY to Cleveland

that I-90 always got worse as soon as I hit the PA line, then got better in Ohio.

[red dog 1]

3. Twitter now says "Greg Palast is blocked"

Click on the link posted at this OP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512636847#top

[pangaia]

4. Not sure I see what you mean?

[red dog 1]

5. Apparently, the "block" on Palast has now been removed