http://www.liberaloasis.com/palast3.htm LO: You also revisit what happened in Florida in the 2000 election. What's your sense of how things will go this time around?
GP: ...They're stealing it again. One of things that was crucial in the film which still hasn't come out in the US media here, which I think is going to determine this year's election, is the loss of the black vote.
What I mean by that is, in the United States of America, two million votes are cast which are never counted.
We call it "spoilage" in the vote biz. Technical reasons why votes are voided...ballot's blank, has extra marks, hanging chads.
One million of those votes are cast by African-Americans.
What I show in the film is how that is done.
In Florida, 180,000 votes were not counted. 54 percent of those votes were cast in majority black precincts in Florida.
And that's how they took that election...
...And it's done with bad machines. Just like you give the black communities...bad schools and they get bad hospitals. They get the crap voting machines. It's deliberate.
Because they don't want those votes to count...
...Let me tell you something else to look for in this election.
The number of absentee ballots is increasing by 500%.
There's going to be something like 15 million absentee ballots in America.
It's going to be wholesale theft...
LO: What can they do with absentee ballots that they can't do with regular ballots?
GP: One, throw them away.
You get a receipt when you register to vote, but not when you actually vote by absentee ballot.
They won't send you a note saying we've accepted your ballot, it's rare...
...And in Florida they make it easy because they put Democrat and Republican on the outside of the envelope.
Theresa LaPore on the Aug. 31st primary, two weeks ago, counted 37,000 votes from absentee ballots. There were only 31,000 ballots cast in Palm Beach.
31,000 absentee ballots, 37,000 votes. That's a taste of what's coming...
And by the way, LiberalOasis first: Election's going to be stolen in New Mexico and Colorado.
LO: And what leads you to say that?
GP: Same thing. Votes cast, not counted. Especially in Hispanic and Native American areas. Massive vote loss, massive. They just don't count the votes...
...I talked to Terry McAuliffe about
. He shrugged his shoulders.
There is one guy who is very interested in it.
John Edwards saw the film, by the way, and took it John Kerry and with some material from me.
And Kerry has been adding to speeches -- unfortunately, only to black audiences -- that he's not going to stand for it, the disenfranchisement of a million votes.
LO: Did you have a personal showing of the film with John Edwards?
GP: What happened was that Jesse Jackson and John Edwards and I were having breakfast.
And Jackson kept grabbing the bagel away from Edwards saying you're not eating until you read Greg's stuff -- I'm not kidding -- and you give it to Kerry.
Edwards is concerned about these things. He really is, I'm very impressed with his concern about disenfranchisement of black voters.
And I think that Kerry is sincere.
The question is, other than putting together teams of lawyers, when it will be too late -- and it's not clear how they can help -- basically the Kerry team is kind of at a loss on what to do here.
And also, it's pretty difficult.
LO: Is there something that they should be doing that they're not doing?
GP: I'm not to going to say that there is some great miracle that they can perform here.
In Florida, you have an electoral army of occupation. This is no joke, the way they have set up the voting mechanisms.
Everything from illegal removal of registering, to bad balloting machines, to refusal to identify where how and which votes they are obtaining through absentee voting...
...and the Democratic Party simply is not prepared, not prepared at all for this.
And McAuliffe did tell me the cost and difficulty of mounting a defense is just pretty much overwhelming.
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