Hillary’s Tears, Possible Vote Fraud, and the Fate of America

Written by Steven Yates

Jan 23, 2008 at 12:00 AM

“Where are you going with this, Commander? “Some place very dark. I hope to God I’m wrong!” ~ Babylon 5 “It’s not who votes that counts. It’s who counts the votes.” ~ attributed to Stalin Something went wrong at the New Hampshire primary (probably in Iowa as well), and if there is one thing you can put in the bank, it is that the corporate-controlled media won’t breathe a word about it.   Let me see if I have this right. Hillary Rodham Clinton gets choked up and teary-eyed during an interview, and a couple of days later due to some kind of sympathy factor, wins the New Hampshire primary when polls from just a day or so before had Barack Obama winning by 7 to 9 percentage points? Are Democratic voters in New Hampshire really that stupid? Moreover, votes for Ron Paul simply vanished inside the paperless electronic voting machines owned by elite-connected Diebold Corporation. The other day I watched a YouTube video that showed how easy it is for votes fed into one of these machines to be altered. The demonstrator watched in shock as the machine he was using changed a Yes-No vote from six No’s and two Yes’s to seven Yes’s and one No. Later in the same video, a computer technician figured out in a matter of minutes how the machine’s memory card had been overwritten to deliver a predetermined result. He explained that it isn’t even that hard. A high school computer whiz could figure out how to do it. In Iowa, Ron Paul’s official tally was 10 percent. Yet in several counties he had polled 12 percent; in others, the figure was 13 percent, 14 percent, with one at 21 percent and one at 35 percent. Do you smell a rat? We have learned—via the Internet, of course—that in Sutton, N.H., 31 people voted for Dr. Paul. The official tally, however, for that voting location was zero. The discrepancy is being attributed to ordinary human error. As Bev Harris of Black Box Voting observes, though, the disappearance of two or three votes could be attributed to human error. Not 31. Br’er Rat is stinking worse! The first I heard of possible vote fraud in America was eight years ago, when a reader of one of my LewRockwell.com pieces drew my attention to the website VoteScam.com (the site no longer exists—imagine my shock). Then I encountered Devvy Kidd’s work on the subject, dating from 1993. Devvy Kidd gets carried away sometimes. She isn’t called “redheaded dynamite” for no reason at all. But she’s a fearless researcher who calls things as she sees them. Her sources generally check out. I didn’t want to believe her. I hoped nothing like that was going on. I now think it is. And I hope to God I’m wrong. A Rasmussen poll had Ron Paul at 14 percent prior to the New Hampshire primary. The official tally following the primary was 8 percent. What happened? Did 6 percent of Ron Paul supporters suddenly change their minds at the last minute? Ron Paul didn’t challenge the result. Some of his supporters are saying he should have, especially given the obvious “disappearance” of votes into the black maw of the Diebold machines at Sutton. Dennis Kucinich, possibly Dr. Paul’s Democratic equivalent who has also shunned the power elite, tried to do so, as did a still-less-visible candidate. It cost money: $55,600, to be exact. The Granny Warriors actually raised it! PayPal, administering the payment electronically, dragged its feet past the initial deadline over a “suspicious” $1,000 contribution, including freezing the Granny Warriors’ account! Finally, under increasing fire from grassroots activists, PayPal relinquished, allowing the recount in New Hampshire to happen. If all goes well it will have begun by the time this reaches print. From the corporate media: total blackout. Not a peep about any of this. Incidentally, Ron Paul came in second in Nevada, a longstanding libertarian stronghold, with 14 percent. Again: total blackout. Has anyone read a word about the fact in The Greenville News or heard it on Faux News? Both Ohio and Colorado have banned these kinds of voting machines as unreliable. It might be worth noting that according to Black Box Voting, the corporations that manufacture and market these machines and print the ballots have taken convicted criminals on board. Check this out, from the BBV website: “The Diebold ballot printing plant at the time we got records on the overages [that is, more ballots than needed for election] was being run by a convicted felon who had spent four years in prison on a narcotics trafficking charge. No, not New Hampshire’s voting machine programming exec Kan Hajjar, who cut a plea deal in 1990 for his role in cocaine distribution. This was another convicted felon, John Elder, who ran the Diebold ballot printing plant; he’s now an elections consultant.” Feeling confident about those who are “counting our votes”? We used these same machines in last Saturday’s Republican primary here, and got the same kinds of results: coming out on top was Sen. John McCain of Arizona (confirmed power-elitist who had won in New Hampshire). Interestingly, McCain received the endorsement of The Greenville News in one of that paper’s most intellectually dishonest unsigned op-eds ever (Jan. 13). That article listed all the “credible” candidates (it actually used that word) while omitting Ron Paul, who has repeatedly drawn more votes than the fading Rudy Giuliani. Ron Paul came in at a dismal 4 percent last Saturday. According to the official tally, he received 15,773 votes. And yes, there were issues with electronic voting machines here. At one point 80 to 90 percent of those in Horry County malfunctioned, and then were placed back in service (possibly violating a state law). Is it mere coincidence that the Myrtle Beach area is one of this state’s Ron Paul strongholds? Be all this as it may, systematic vote fraud would be very difficult to prove in a court of law. That is the advantage of paperless electronic voting. When I went to vote last Saturday morning, I asked a poll worker for a printout that would show who I voted for and prove that my vote had been counted. I was told none was available. To prove vote fraud, everyone who voted for Ron Paul (or for any other candidate) would have to fill out an affidavit and have it notarized according to proper procedure. Many of us did just this. The number of affidavits indicating votes for Ron Paul, however, would have to exceed the official vote tally by a number large enough not to be dismissible as “human error” in enough precincts to demonstrate a pattern. Our inability to provide such evidence, if it exists, is our fault. We should have anticipated six months ago that something like this might happen and started planning for it. We didn’t. So I can’t really do more than raise suspicions. Why should we be suspicious? It’s very simple. The power elite wants to remain in power and further its global-integration agenda. A Ron Paul would definitely get in the way. Contrary to what I intimated a couple of weeks ago, they don’t have to do anything as rash as assassinate him. All they need do is marginalize him. Media neglect will work on much of the government-schooled public for whom what isn’t on TV doesn’t exist. The elites can count on the “sheeple” to believe mainstream newspaper op-eds and that the vote-tallying process is honest. There isn’t even a need to steal that many of his votes—just enough to keep him from obtaining enough delegates for the Republican National Convention next summer to make a difference, in which case the November election might as well be over. We will again have a “choice” between elite-approved Candidate A and elite-approved Candidate B. Should this happen, Ron Paul would be wise not to have given in to those who wanted him to run as an Independent. He has raised over $30 million. There are better uses to which that money can be put. Is there hard evidence for power elite chicanery behind the “credible” candidates? Debbie Niwa is another independent researcher who regularly sends out information from her home office in Arizona. She compiled a nice compilation on the North American Union agenda just over a year ago. Just recently she sent out a list of which elites are working behind the scenes. Here is a partial list which I have embellished a little with my own research. CFR stands for Council on Foreign Relations; TC for Trilateral Commission, the two core power elite organizations in America. You be the judge. Behind John McCain (CFR): Henry Kissinger (CFR, TC cofounder and architect of NAFTA, longstanding Bilderberg attendee), Richard Armitage (TC, former deputy Secretary of State, covert operative, and lifelong Bush ally), Robert McFarlane (CFR, Reagan/Bush national security advisor), Brent Snowcroft (CFR, Ford and G.H.W. Bush national security advisor), William Kristol (arch-neocon), Alexander Haig (CFR, Reagan/Bush Secretary of State), James Woosley (CFR, former CIA director), Lawrence Eagleburger (CFR, G.H.W. Bush Secretary of State), William Ball (Reagan Administration Navy Secretary), Colin Powell (CFR, G.W. Bush former Secretary of State). Behind Hillary Rodham Clinton (past Bilderberg attendee): Bill Clinton (CFR, Rhodes Scholar), Madeline Albright (CFR, TC, Clinton Administration Secretary of State), Sandy Berger (CFR, Clinton Administration national security advisor), Leslie Gelb (former president of the CFR), Strobe Talbott (CFR, TC, Clinton administration deputy secretary of state), Gen. Wesley Clark (CFR, Clinton Kosovo commander), Richard Holbrooke (CFR, TC, Clinton administration UN ambassador, longstanding Bilderberg attendee), Martin Indyk (CFR, Clinton administration Israel ambassador), Jeffrey Smith (CFR, former CIA general counsel). Behind Barack Obama: Zbigniew Brzezinski (TC cofounder and first director), Anthony Lake (Carter national security advisor), Sarah Sewall (CFR, Clinton administration deputy secretary of defense), Susan Rice (CFR, TC), Bruce Reidel (former CIA officer). Behind Rudy Giuliani: Kim Holmes (CFR, former G.W. Bush assistant secretary of state), Louis Freeh (former FBI director), Norman Podhoretz (arch-neocon), Kenneth Weinstein (arch-neocon). Behind Mike Huckabee (who has power elite wannabe written all over him): Richard Haass (CFR President, TC, Bilderberg attendee 2007 and 2005), John Bolton (CFR and G.W. Bush UN Ambassador), Ed Rollins (Republican operative), numerous easily-led Evangelicals. Behind John Edwards (Bilderberg attendee 2004): Barry Blechman (CFR, Carter assistant director of U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament), Irving Blickstein (RAND Corporation). Behind Mitt Romney: Cofer Black (former CIA, G.W. Bush state department counter, vice president of Blackwater USA), Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich., ranking member, House Intelligence Committee), Roger Noriega (G.W. Bush assistant secretary for Western hemisphere affairs). Behind Ron Paul: no elites and tens of thousands of grassroots activists in every state in these United States speaking with one voice: “Give us back our Constitutional republic!” You see? The power elite exists. It is afraid of Ron Paul, and probably even more afraid of the movement that has galvanized around him since right now there isn’t a thing they can do about it. The power elite is about control. The Ron Paul Revolution is about freedom from control. The two are on collision course. The fate of America might hinge on the outcome of the donnybrook I suspect is coming. -------------------------------------------- Steven Yates teaches philosophy at the University of South Carolina Upstate and Greenville Technical College, and is on the board of the South Carolina chapter of Citizens Committee to Stop the FTAA. The views expressed in his columns are his own, and do not reflect official views of any of these institutions or organizations. His latest book World-views: Christian Theism versus Modern Materialism, was published last year by The Worldviews Project (for more information call 864-288-0043). He is at work on a new book tentatively entitled The Real Matrix. His email address is: