Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)

392 Pages·2005·52.207 MB·English

by  Mark Crispin Miller

FOOLED
AGAIN
How the Right Stole the 2004 Election
& Why They'll Steal the Next One Too
{Unless We Stop Them)
By the author of THE BUSH DYSLEXICON
MARK
CRISPIN MILLER
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IMAGINE A COUNTRY, SOMEWHERE IN THE AMERICAS.
Suppose it holds a presidential election in which government
officials actively suppress registration ofvoters likely to support
the opposition party; provide plentiful voting machines in
precincts favoring the incumbent but fev^ or unreliable ones in
precincts favoring the opposition; refuse to allow international
observersorjournaliststomonitorthevoting; andmanipulatethe
vote count until it is at odds with everyknown pre-election poll.
Operatives looselyassociatedwith the rulingpartycruise through
the cities and countryside, threatening poor voters with arrest if
they try to vote and spreading disinformation about the date of
thevotingandthecorrectpollingplaces. Thegovernmentofficial
chargedwith certifyingtheaccuracyofthevoteisalso theheadof
the incumbent's re-election campaign. The ruling party pulls ofF
an upsetvictory. Is it legitimate?
Now give the country a name. Call it Ohio.
Or call it Florida, or New Mexico, or Nevada.
In FooledAgain, renowned political commentator Mark
Crispin Miller argues that it wasn't "moral values" that swung
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the 2004 presidential race, it was theft and a harbinger of
elections to come. While the greatest body ofevidence comes
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from the key state of Ohio where the Democratic stafiFofthe
House Judiciary Committee found an extraordinary amount of
Republican-engineered vote suppression, election-day irregularities,
old-fashioned intimidation tactics, and illegal countingprocedures
similar practices (and occasionally worse ones) were applied
throughoutthecountry. Ahugearrayofanomalies, improperproce-
dures, and blatant violations ofthe law in state after state all, by a
truly remarkable coincidence, happened to swing in the Bush
ticket's favor. Though these were frequently reported in the
local press, the national media, with their supposed "liberal
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How the Right Stole the 2004 Election
and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too
(Unless We Stop Them)
Mark
Crispin Miller
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