The Story of 2016 US Election Rigging….

 

This Election is Not Over!

Donald Trump

Donald Trump

 

By TZ Business News Staff and Agencies.

Media reports suggest the United States of America can no longer  withstand the accusation it lacks democratic moral integrity. The so-called Electoral College has robbed the people’s will, while other reports indicate the Republican Party—also referred to as the Great Old Party(GOP)— has rigged the 2016 election results in a scheme planned since 2013.

American blacks, Latinos  and the economically disenfranchised were schemed out of the voter registers in this election, particulary in the racist Southern States supported by a fraction of northern states. Before a single vote was cast, the election result had been fixed by GOP and Trump operatives, Greg Palast, a renowned investigative journalist has reported on his website in the US:

Starting in 2013 – just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act – a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOP–controlled states.

The system, called Crosscheck, is detailed in my Rolling Stone report,
The GOP’s Stealth War on Voters,” 8/24/2016.

Crosscheck in action:  
Trump victory margin in Michigan:                 13,107
Michigan Crosscheck purge list:                    449,922

Trump victory margin in Arizona:                   85,257
Arizona Crosscheck purge list:                     270,824

Trump victory margin in North Carolina:        177,008
North Carolina Crosscheck purge list:           589,393

On Tuesday, we saw Crosscheck elect a Republican Senate and as President, Donald Trump.  The electoral putsch was aided by nine other methods of attacking the right to vote of Black, Latino and Asian-American voters, methods detailed in my book and film, including “Caging,” “purging,” blocking legitimate registrations, and wrongly shunting millions to “provisional” ballots that will never be counted.

Trump signaled the use of “Crosscheck” when he claimed the election is “rigged” because “people are voting many, many times.”  His operative Kobach, who also advised Trump on building a wall on the southern border, devised a list of 7.2 million “potential” double voters—1.1 million of which were removed from the voter rolls by Tuesday. The list is loaded overwhelmingly with voters of color and the poor. Here’s a sample of the list

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Those accused of criminal double voting include, for example, Donald Alexander Webster Jr. of Ohio who is accused of voting a second time in Virginia as Donald EUGENE Webster SR.

Note: Watch the four-minute video summary of Crosscheck. The investigation and explanation of theserigging-2 methods of fixing the vote can be found in my book and film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: a Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits (2016).

No, not everyone on the list loses their vote.  But this was not the only racially poisonous tactic that accounted for this purloined victory by Trump and GOP candidates.

For example, in the swing state of North Carolina, it was reported that 6,700 Black folk lost their registrations because their registrations had been challenged by a group called Voter Integrity Project (VIP). VIP sent letters to households in Black communities “do not forward.”  If the voter had moved within the same building, or somehow did not get their mail (e.g. if their name was not on a mail box), they were challenged as “ghost” voters.  GOP voting officials happily complied with VIP with instant cancellation of registrations.

The 6,700 identified in two counties were returned to the rolls through a lawsuit.  However, there was not one mention in the press that VIP was also behind Crosscheck in North Carolina; nor that its leader, Col. Jay Delancy, whom I’ve tracked for years has previously used this vote thievery, known as “caging,” for years.  Doubtless the caging game was wider and deeper than reported.  And by the way, caging, as my Rolling Stone co-author, attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., tells me, is “a felony, it’s illegal, and punishable by high fines and even jail time.”

There is still much investigation to do.  For example, there are millions of “provisional” ballots, “spoiled” (invalidated) ballots and ballots rejected from the approximately 30 million mailed in.  Unlike reporting in Britain, US media does not report the ballots that are rejected and tossed out—because, after all, as Joe Biden says, “Our elections are the envy of the world.”  Only in Kazakhstan, Joe.

While there is a great deal of work to do, much documentation still to analyze, we’ll have to pry it from partisan voting chiefs who stamp the scrub lists, Crosscheck lists and ballot records, “confidential.”

But, the evidence already in our hands makes me sadly confident in saying, Jim Crow, not the voters, elected Mr. Trump.

What about those exit polls?

Exit polls are the standard by which the US State Department measures the honesty of foreign elections.  Exit polling is, historically, deadly accurate. The bane of pre-election polling is that pollsters must adjust for the likelihood of a person voting.  Exit polls solve the problem.

But three times in US history, pollsters have had to publicly flagellate themselves for their “errors.”  In 2000, exit polls gave Al Gore the win in Florida; in 2004, exit polls gave Kerry the win in Ohio, and now, in swing states, exit polls gave the presidency to Hillary Clinton.

So how could these multi-million-dollar Ph.d-directed statisticians with decades of experience get exit polls so wrong?

Answer:  they didn’t.  The polls in Florida in 2000 were accurate.  That’s because exit pollsters can only ask, “How did you vote?”  What they don’t ask, and can’t, is, “Was your vote counted.”

In 2000, in Florida, GOP Secretary of State Katherine Harris officially rejected 181,173 ballots, as “spoiled” because their chads were hung and other nonsense excuses.  Those ballots overwhelmingly were marked for Al Gore.  The exit polls included those 181,173 people who thought they had voted – but their vote didn’t count.  In other words, the exit polls accurately reflected whom the voters chose, not what Katherine Harris chose.

In 2004, a similar number of votes were invalidated (including an enormous pile of “provisional” ballots) by Ohio’s GOP Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell.  Again, the polls reflected that Kerry was the choice of 51% of the voters.  But the exit polls were “wrong” because they didn’t reflect the ballots invalidated by Blackwell.

Notably, two weeks after the 2004 US election, the US State Department refused the recognize the Ukraine election results because the official polls contradicted the exit polls.

And here we go again. 2016: Hillary wins among those queried as they exit the polling station—yet Trump is declared winner in GOP-controlled swings states. And, once again, the expert pollsters are forced to apologize—when they should be screaming, “Fraud!  Here’s the evidence the vote was fixed!”

Now there’s a new trope to explain away the exit polls that gave Clinton the win.  Supposedly, Trump voters were ashamed to say they voted for Trump.  Really?  ON WHAT PLANET?  For Democracy Now! and Rolling Stone I was out in several swing states.  In Ohio, yes, a Black voter may have been reluctant to state support for Trump. But a white voter in the exurbs of Dayton, where the Trump signs grew on lawns like weeds, and the pews of the evangelical mega churches were slathered with Trump and GOP brochures, risked getting spat on if they even whispered, “Hillary.”

This country is violently divided, but in the end, there simply aren’t enough white guys to elect Trump nor a Republican Senate.  The only way they could win was to eliminate the votes of non-white guys—and they did so by tossing Black provisional ballots into the dumpster, ID laws that turn away students—the list goes on.  It’s a web of complex obstacles to voting by citizens of color topped by that lying spider, Crosscheck.

  • In the meantime, a Nigerian website has claimed  the Russian Government was involved in the destruction of proper election result in the US, adding that Russia’s Medling in the 2016 US election is Confirmed. The Website calls on the so-called Electoral College to let the people’s will to prevail.

The Electoral College was established so that a small group of (at the time) men could exercise a sober second-thought on the election of the President. At the time, it should be noted of course, the learned men who crafted the Constitution did not hold the general population in high regard. We have come a long way since then, but it is worth perhaps recalling why the Electoral College was established.

In Federalist 68, Hamilton wrote: It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice… It was also peculiarly desirable to afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder. This evil was not least to be dreaded in the election of a magistrate, who was to have so important an agency in the administration of the government as the President of the United States. But the precautions which have been so happily concerted in the system under consideration, promise an effectual security against this mischief. [Emphasis added]

One, of course, should not recommend lightly that the Electoral College substitute its will for the will of the people, nor even upset the tradition of reflecting the popular will as filtered through the distribution of electoral votes.

But, the election of Donald Trump raises unique questions. First, is he really fit to be President? One might argue that the people have made that judgment… but, have they? This conclusion has nothing to do with his opinions or even his being a sexual predator, but rather that he displays all the signs of a sociopathic personality disorder. Although the term did not exist at the time, one might think that one function of the Electoral College may have been to serve as a bulwark against a sociopath becoming president regardless of his political views.

But, even that function may be considered a stretch as the popular will is much more respected today as the only basis for legitimacy. People, it may be said, saw him in action. The question is whether they were able to relate that to a “diagnosis” that has profound consequences.

Let us say, however, that that is not enough. There are two additional events that should be given weight. The first is that Trump did not win the popular vote. In and of itself, we have accepted that anomaly in our belief in the popular will. (It should be said, however, that Trump himself did not—he sent out a gaggle of tweets when he thought Romney was ahead in the popular vote in 2008 declaring the Electoral College system disgusting).

But, the fact remains that if invoking the legitimacy of the popular will is grounds for objection to the Electoral College overturning the results, Trump did not win the popular will. He came in second.

The second, however, is even more telling: the involvement of a foreign government, an adversary, in our elections. This is no longer rumor or innuendo. It was confirmed by the intelligence service, and now confirmed by Russia itself.

Consider additionally that we still do not have Trump’s taxes that would show Trump’s financial relationships to the very country that meddled in our elections.

Add all this up: a sociopath, who lost the popular vote (that he himself said should be determinative), admitted Russian involvement in the election, and complete opacity about what Trump’s financial relationships are with that meddling foreign power nor with his role model who leads it, Vladimir Putin.

Together, these constitute an appropriate basis for the Electoral College to perform its role as the “sober second-thought” the Founders envisioned. This election is not over. Source: The Nigeriana