The Big Difference Between the 2000 Selection and the 2004 Robbery

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The Big Difference Between the 2000 Selection and 2004

At the time of the 2000 recount, no one was talking about fraud. Just overvotes and undervotes. And the overvotes (the Butterfly ballot and the double and triple-punched cards) were never an issue in the recount. We were told it was machine malfunction or dumb democrats who didn’t know how to vote. And of course there was the Dade county riot.

I believed it was fraud then, only because Bush and Baker furiously fought the recounts which Gore had sought. But the F-word was never mentioned. It was never an issue.

It was only later that Greg Palast told us about the thousands of disenfranchised blacks in Florida. And we never knew until much later that 80,000 of the 110,000 punched card overvotes (mostly in minority precincts) included a punch for Gore. No one even suspected that this could have been due to the deliberate spoiling of Gore votes.

So Bush was selected, thanks to the Supreme Court. We all knew he was illegitimate, but never suspected fraud – just nasty aggressiveness on the part of the Republicans to get back the White House. Even Kerry said we should “get over it” afterwards. I won’t ever forget that. I posted an open letter to Kerry on DU telling him to go to hell.

Flash forward to 2004. We all know that Bush stole it in 2000; we knew the Repubs stole the Senate in 2002. We warned the Democrats about the lack of a voter trail. We knew what was coming. And it came. The exit polls were the first major clue. Impossible odds on the part of Bush to have 41 of the 51 state deviations move his way – and 16 of them beyond the margin of error. The probability is ONE in 13.5 TRILLION.

But even more than that, we knew about Jeb Bush and we knew about the thousands of incidents (intimidation, registration fraud, touchscreens registering Kerry votes for Bush and another round of spoiled punch card ballots, in Ohio this time.

Once again, enter Greg Palast. This time Greg wrote right BEFORE the election that Kerry was already over one million votes behind – especially in Ohio and New Mexico, where the ballots were spoiled and deja vu, the blacks and Hispanics were disenfranchised before the election and could be found in "back of the bus".

So the big difference between now and 2000 is that just six weeks after the election, DUers and the Democratic Party (if there still is one) are well aware that Bush has engineered the biggest fraud in history – through a combination of low-tech and high-tech robbery.

The only question is: will they let him get away with it this time?
Or will Kerry just tell us once again to “just get over it”?