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Comment On Potential US Voting Fraud
by Larry Ross 28/8/04

Howard Dean, previous presidential contender, warned recently about potential voting machine fraud and that voters should demand a paper trail for each machine - otherwise fraud can occur and be undetected. I suspect that Bush & Co. will arrange with his voting machine friends for the disappearance of some Democratic votes, dropping, losing or not counting enough of the democratic votes in borderline states, that Bush will win and appear to be re-elected by popular vote.
I think that one answer for Americans would be educate as many fellow- Americans as possible, particularly some of the categories of Bush supporters. The whole psychology of reaching and communicating with Bush supporters should be quickly explored. A proportion would be immune to any critical communication. However some could be reached with specific arguments in their own language. For example:

1. The fundamentalists could be offered a great variety of Christian-religous and ethical arguments to show Bush as more like antichrist than like Christ.
2. Arguments to real or pseudo military types would show how counterproductive Bush's war strategy has been and how wasteful, alienating and unnecessarily to achieve US objectives and how Bush is risking global war and massive annihilation to achieve phoney goals based on lies.
3. Then there is Mr and Mrs average Republican voter. Approaches to them may be
   that Bush does not represent traditional US conservatism - and that Bush is doing the opposite of what the US founding fathers taught.

However there are various strategies Bush may use to win or postpone the election, or get voter support such as:

1. Another terrorist incident like 9/11 would again unite US opinion behind Bush. People may never know how such a convenient incident happened.
2. Declaring red alert due an alleged "terrorist warning" and using that to gain public support and maybe cancel the elections if it appears he would lose.
3. Inventing a flood of new lies to justify starting a new war - as is warned with Iran.
   It worked with Iraq. So long as the US mass media continues to co-operate, any scheme convincingly done, might fool enough people in increase support for Bush.
4. Terrorist warnings, incidents, new wars etc all give Bush the right climate to initiate new patriot-type laws thus furthering the US steady march toward a full-fledged fascist dictatorship - American style.
   
   The answer? Massive resources, multi-millions, for a big US citizen-directed voter education campaign.