Election 2006: How to Detect Fraud
by Jeff Davis
There’s been a flurry of news articles in the last two weeks, which have left many Americans thoroughly confused. Less than two weeks ago, opinion polls came out showing Democrats with a crushing double-digit lead. Resentment over the Iraq War and Bush’s “Stay the Course” policy was at an all time high. The Mark Foley Gay sex scandal and the apparent cover-up by high ranking Republicans didn’t help either. Despite all this, the neocons have been digging in their heels and insisting that they can still hold both the House and the Senate. A few recent headlines are now claiming that the Republicans are “closing the gap” and may hold onto one or both houses. Is this merely a ploy to keep people watching the election coverage or is there anything to this?
The unfortunate part of the 2006 election is that most Americans support Republican issues such as reducing taxes, traditional moral values and limited government while the neocons who control the GOP don’t. The neocons have hijacked the Republican Party, shredded the Constitution at an alarming rate, passed a bill approving torture and they plan to keep us in Iraq forever. The neocons have alienated moderate voters and disgusted traditional conservatives to the point, where many of them will stay home on election day or vote for a third party. The neocons are certain to cheat in the 2006 election. The big question is how much cheating can the neocons get away with? A number of states have added paper trails to their electronic voting machines since 2004, but it’s not clear how much fraud is still possible.
Here’s how we can tell whether or not the November 7th elections are rigged: if U. S. Senator Rick Santorum (R.-Pa) gets re-elected, we’ll know the fix is in. Rick Santorum is the ultimate Congressional neocon. He never met a war against a Muslim nation he didn’t like. He has praised that braying neocon jackass Sean Hannity as “our greatest American.” He compares putting a Santorum for Senate bumper sticker on your car as equivalent to “fighting for your country in Iraq or Afghanistan.” He babbles about the illegal and criminally bungled invasion of Iraq as “retaliation for 9/11,” even though most neocons now quietly admit that there was no connection of any kind. He has continued to back the disastrous Iraq invasion to the hilt even though many of his Congressional colleagues in the GOP as well as an increasing number of both retired and active duty generals are saying out loud what most of America already know full well, that the whole thing has become a catastrophe and that George W. Bush is a moron. (more…)