Reply #28: A four leaf clover?

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I can see these three scandals connected to a fourth: massive election fraud. Jack Abramoff's ties to AIPAC don't get much press, but we have good reason to suspect that they are deep and wide.

And Abramoff lobbied for Diebold. Abramoff's personal assistant became Rove's personal assistant. Abramoff's ties to Bob Ney, author of the HAVA legislation, have been discussed widely (e.g., http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/17/AR2005101701918_pf.html). Brad Friedman of BradBlog has succinctly described HAVA as "...the bill that used the phony confusion of the 2000 Florida Election Debacle along with the specter of poor disabled people roaming the country desperate and helplessly unable to vote unless they were given paperless, hackable, un-recountable Electronic Voting Machines in every precinct in America. The kind that can only work at all if the software they use is kept a complete secret from every voter in the country, except those who work for one of America's Voting Machine Companies like Diebold, Inc. for instance" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/connecting-ohios-bob-ney_b_13582.html).

With all the massive influence-peddling going on, would influence over the vote (legal and otherwise) be something they could resist? It seems more likely that it was a crucial element of the strategy to implement the PNAC vision.