Here's how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.
Note the past tense. And I'm not kidding.
And shoot me for saying this, but it won't be stolen by
jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they'll do
their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral
spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots
have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely
different means.
For six years now, our investigations team, at first on
assignment for BBC TV and the Guardian, has been digging
into the nitty-gritty of the gaming of US elections. We've
found that November 7, 2006 is a day that will live in
infamy. Four and a half million votes have been shoplifted.
Here's how they'll do it, in three easy steps:
Theft #1: Registrations gone with the wind.
On January 1, 2006, while America slept off New Year's Eve
hangovers, a new federal law crept out of the swamps that
has devoured 1.9 million votes, overwhelmingly those of
African-Americans and Hispanics. The vote-snatching statute
is a cankerous codicil slipped into the 2002 Help America
Vote Act -- strategically timed to go into effect in this
