-Caveat Lector-
RadTimes # 100 November, 2000
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
"We're living in rad times!"
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Contents:
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--Police find locked ballot box at Miami hotel
--International elections expert 'amazed' by tight U.S election
--'Coup Watch' Series Begins On IMC
--Non-citizens to Choose Next President Says U.S. Border Control
--US officials bristle at "banana republic" charges
--US officials bristle at "Banana Republic" ridicule abroad over election
Linked stories:
*Webpage on the vote fraud 2000
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Police find locked ballot box at Miami hotel
Saturday November 11
MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami police on Friday found a locked ballot
box from the disputed Florida election at a downtown hotel, a
police officer said on Saturday.
Police Lt. Diego Ochoa was speaking at a town hall meeting
called by the National Association for the Advancement of
Coloured People (NAACP) to hear testimony of alleged
irregularities in the election.
Florida's 25 electoral votes hold the key to Tuesday's election
as neither candidate can reach the 270 votes required to win the
keys to the White House without them. A recount was ordered when
the state race became too close to call.
Ochoa, a 26-year veteran of the police department, said he came
forward with the consent of his commanding officer and
arrangements were now under way for election officials to pick up
the box.
The ballot box was labelled "Number 541." It was locked and was
sealed by police with evidence paper.
"At the moment we don't know exactly what's in the box," the
officer said. He said: "We called the election departments
yesterday (Friday/Veteran's Day) to tell them. As it was a
holiday no one answered. That's what I understand."
It was not clear how the box arrived at the hotel and Ochoa did
not say if there would be a criminal investigation. There were no
further details.
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International elections expert 'amazed' by tight U.S election
<http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/10/costello.qa/index.html>
[Excerpt from an interview with the director of Jimmy Carter's Democracy
program, which monitors elections in foreign countries.]
Q: Could the Carter Center ever be called in to monitor this election
and would you be willing to do so?
COSTELLO: Some other people have now raised that question about
Carter Center involvement somehow. As I say, the Carter Center
typically monitors elections overseas. We
didn't do any monitoring of this election. I suppose
we would be available as election experts
for technical comments on questions people might
pose to us. But monitoring or mediating this
election? I doubt it.
Our leader, President Carter, is of course known as
an elder statesman and elections expert from
his work in this field overseas. Obviously, he was a
Democratic president of the United States,
so people would find it hard to accept him in any
role here.
He did make a statement Thursday at the National
Press Club in Washington about the election.
It was basically the same kind of message we give in
similar circumstances overseas. And that
is: Everybody should stay calm, let the people who
are directly involved in it go at it in a
thorough and professional way, and try to keep
political passions from being inflamed by the
kind of public discourse that's used. Also make sure
that this thing is channeled into American
institutions, such as election commissions, the
courts, and a free press, for a full treatment in a
way that keeps this thing done according to the rule
of law, according to proper procedures and
in a civilized and peaceful way.
The fact that the country was so evenly split about
who should control not only the
presidency but also Congress is quite remarkable. In
most countries that we work, that would
create immediate dangers of civil unrest and a
struggle over power.
I think the great good fortune of us here in the
United States is that we have full confidence that
this will be worked out according to election laws.
Therefore, everybody should stay calm and
let this get settled the proper way.
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'Coup Watch' Series Begins On IMC
by Paul H. Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thu Nov 9 '00
This post announces the beginning of a series of COUP WATCH articles. It's
not a coup by a particular small group of plotters, it's the fitting climax
of a systemically anti-democratic process -- a plutocratic coup taking place
in plain sight. Get informed. Join the opposition.
There is a coup going on in our country, right now as I write. It's taking
place in plain sight. It's been in plain sight for many of us for quite some
time now. But now it's obvious to everyone.
This marks the beginning of a series of COUP WATCH articles. It's not a coup
by a particular small group of plotters, though there's certainly signs that
a variety of deliberate acts were taken to suppress Democratic votes. Rather,
it's the fitting climax of a systemically anti-democratic process -- a
plutocratic coup taking place in plain sight.
Many people who visit our site may shrug and say, "So What?" They didn't vote
for Gore, maybe they didn't vote at all. But this latest turn of events, with
the will of the people in Florida *clearly* thwarted, serves as a massive
escalation in the ongoing demonstration of just how anti-democratic our
system really is.
It's no longer just the anti-WTO demonstrators being shut out of the process.
It's no longer just Ralph Nader being shut out of the debates.
It's now the MAJORITY of the American people who are seeing their votes for
President being shut out of the political process. Al Gore may not care about
it that much. He seems half-inclined to prefer looking like a good sport to
fighting for his own election. But the people whose intended votes have been
invalidated are MAD AS HELL.
While many liberal Democrats are their venting spleen on Ralph Nader, further
splitting progressive forces, the objective facts of an OPEN COUP are
creating an opportunity for reaching out to a much broader constituency. This
is what we ought to be focusing our attention on now: fighting against this
most fundamental attack on the very principle of democratic self-government.
As an example of what's going now, a story in the Sun-Sentinel
<www.sun-sentinel.com> "Widespread voting irregularities marred presidential
results in S. Florida" By SCOTT WYMAN contained the following passage:
"Republicans from Gov. Jeb Bush to local party leaders disputed whether any
voter problems tipped the scales in favor of the GOP. Jeb Bush, brother of
the Texas governor, blasted a lack of specifics about voting problems.
"'Don't overexaggerate the accusations,' he said. 'This is highly important
business. What's at stake is the next leader of the free world.'"
A *LACK* of specifics? There are people signing affidavits and filing
lawsuits concerning *specific* violations. There are accounts of people
turned away from polling places. There are accounts of police roadblocks,
ticketing people on the way to vote. There are specifics out the ying-yang.
And *BUSH* is the honest one in this campaign???
The whole political elite is being forced to go through all manner of
contortions, just to keep up the charade that the Emperor's New Clothes
*really, really, really ARE* the best that's ever been seen. The system is
working, they proclaim. No people pouring out into the streets like in Peru
or Indonesia.
No, we Americans are a bit slow. Demonstrations have been called nationwide
for 11 AM on Saturday. Here in LA, they're at the Westwood Federal Building
(11000 Wilshire). The Countercoup website link below has more information.
There is a coup going on in our country, right now as I write. It's taking
place in plain sight. Defending democracy means defending the bad as well as
the good. Al Gore is no Salvador Allende, that's for sure. But not defending
democracy means tacit support for democracy's enemies. And those who would
triumph in this coup are remarkably similar to Pinochet.
There is a coup going on in our country, and there's an opposition. Join the
opposition.
<www.geocities.com/countercoup/>
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Non-citizens to Choose Next President Says U.S. Border Control
MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/
"Whichever candidate wins the
electoral vote in Florida and goes on to become President of the
United States will have won his margin of victory by the votes of
non-citizens and illegal aliens, voting in mass numbers in South
Florida," charged Edward Nelson, President, U.S. Border Control.
"We have asked legal counsel for U.S. Border Control to review
the Florida election results carefully to determine how a
challenge can be made to the votes cast in certain Florida
precincts in order to document once and for all the scope of
voting by non-citizens."
"Thanks to the National Voter Registration Act, commonly known as
the Motor-Voter law, millions of non-citizens and illegal aliens
are being invited to register to vote as they apply for their
driver's licenses or welfare benefits."
"In Florida, as in most other states, the Motor Vehicle
Department has been advised not to ask if applicants are citizens
because this would somehow violate their civil rights. As a
consequence, this 'don't ask -- don't tell' policy is wittingly
or unwittingly handing out voter registration cards to tens of
thousands of ineligible voters, more than enough to effect the
results of a close election."
"Our efforts have absolutely nothing to do with helping one
candidate or another win the election as we have no idea whom the
non-citizens may have favored. Our interest is in defending the
voting rights of American citizens whose votes are being canceled
out by non-citizens."
Mr. Nelson continued: "We believe that the national average for
non- citizen voting is about 2-4 percent with it spiking up to
10-15 percent in places like Dade County, Florida, and in major
cities that have large current immigrant populations."
USBC Legal Counsel William J. Olson stated, "Arizona Congressman
Bob Stump (R-AZ-3) has introduced legislation to repeal the
Motor-Voter law as the best way to stop the process of
registering non-citizens." (H.R. 38, 106th Congress)
In 1996, the "Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act" was enacted, confirming expressly what
everyone already knew, that it was illegal for non-citizens to
vote and made voting by non-citizens an offense punishable by
deportation. Unfortunately, Congress failed to provide a
mechanism by which state and local election officials could check
on citizenship so that the law could be enforced.
A year later, Rep. Steve Horn (R-CA-38), observing a rapid
increase in non-citizen voting, introduced the Voter Eligibility
Verification Act that would have given voter registrars the
ability to eliminate non-citizen voting. Although the bill was
voted upon and received a majority of the votes cast, the Rules
under which is was brought to the House floor required a
two-thirds majority and so it failed to pass. (H.R. 1428, 105th
Congress) (Voter Eligibility Verification Pilot Program Act of
1998, H.R. 3485, 105th Congress.)
Mr. Nelson said, "Unless American citizens don't mind the fact
that their votes are being canceled out by the votes of illegal
aliens and resident aliens, they should demand the immediate
passage of both of these bills (motor-voter repeal and voter
eligibility verification act)."
Additional information relevant to these issues follows.
Motor-Voter Fraud
According to the Wall Street Journal, "voter fraud has become a
bigger problem since the 1993 federal Motor Voter law required
states to allow people to register to vote when they get a
driver's license; 47 states don't require any proof of U.S.
residence for enrollment. Motor Voter has added some eight
million people to the rolls...."
John Fund's Political Diary, Wall Street Journal, 10/23/00.
The Changing Florida Electorate
Data provided by the Florida Secretary of State demonstrate the
efficiency of the Motor Voter Law in registering new voters. From
6.56 million registered voters in 1994, to 8.22 million voters in
1998, an increase of 25 percent.
At the same time, these data show more than a six-fold increase
in the number of "other race" registered voters, from under
100,000 to over 650,000. (Florida's Registered voter data are
reported in categories of white, black, and other -- including
primarily Hispanic, but also Native American, Asian, and others
-- with the category race not identified being added in 1996).
A comparison between the rate of growth of "other race" versus
"white, black and unidentified race" voters during this four year
period is even more stark. While "other race" voters increased
660 percent, 39 times faster than "white, black, and
unidentified" race voters which increased only 17 percent.
No one knows how many of the 550,000 new "other race" voters were
newly naturalized citizens under the "Citizenship USA" program of
the Immigration and Naturalization Program, Al Gore's program to
add more than 1 million immigrants to the U.S. voter roles in
1996. Indeed, Miami, Florida was one of the five cities specially
targeted for "Citizenship USA."
On the other hand, no one knows how many of these same voters are
not citizens at all, but non-citizens and even illegal aliens who
were nevertheless were invited to register to vote by Florida
motor vehicle and welfare state employees doing what they were
required to do under the federal Motor Voter law.
Source: Florida Secretary of State's office
<http://election.dos.state.fl.us/voterreg/vrstats.shtml>
Deluge of Legal and Illegal Immigrants
* INS has naturalized more than 1.7 million resident aliens in
the past two years.
* 463,060 in GFY 1998;
* 872,427 in GFY 1999;
* 898,315 in GFY 2000.
* INS naturalized 1,044,869 new citizens in 1996.
* No fingerprint checks on 180,000 of the applicants.
* 80,000 had criminal records; 6,300 "had committed serious
crimes."
* Number of resident aliens naturalized in 1990s increased
four-fold over 1970s.
* Since 1994, 1.6 million aliens have been naturalized in
California alone.
* Voter registration by Latinos has doubled in California since
1994.
* 1 million new Latino voters have registered in California since
1990.
* Chicago INS office holding 2 swearing-in ceremonies a day to
accommodate the crush of newly minted citizens -- 85,000 in
Illinois in past two years.
* Number of resident aliens naturalized annually in Washington
State has increased five-fold since 1991. Walter Robinson,
"Immigrant Voter Surge Seen Aiding Gore," Boston Globe,
11/4/2000, p. A01. Politicization of Immigration and
Naturalization Service ("INS")
* INS Deputy Commissioner Chris Sale pressured by National
Performance Review (Al Gore's vehicle for Reinventing Government)
"to delegate broad authority to the managers in "New York,
Chicago, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles. NPR official Doug
Farbrother sent Mr. Sale a fax reiterating how important this
delegation was in order "to get the results the Vice President
wants. "In the fax he also commented, "I need you or Doris
(Meissner) to sign something like the attached," referring to a
memo giving those INS district directors "full authority to
waive, suspend, or deviate from DOJ and INS nonstatutory
policies, regulations, and procedures provided you operate within
the confines of the law."
* On March 21, Elaine Kamarck in the Vice President's office sent
an e- mail to Farbrother saying, "THE PRESIDENT IS SICK OF THIS
AND WANTS ACTION. IF NOTHING MOVES TODAY WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE SOME
PRETTY DRASTIC MEASURES." (Emphasis original.) Farbrother
responded, "I favor drastic measures."
* In a March 26 e-mail to the Vice President, Farbrother reported
that Chris Sale had indeed "delegated hiring authority to the
five cities and increased their budgets by 20%." But, he wrote,
"I still don't think the city directors have enough freedom to do
the job." (Emphasis added.)
* By the end of March, Doris Meissner capitulated. In time,
Newark, N.J., and Houston, Tex., would be added to the list of
targeted cities, and in all, more than a million aliens would be
naturalized in time to vote in the 1996 election.
* In our investigation we developed sources inside the INS with
specific knowledge of the facts who revealed that FBI arrest
records that were being sent to the Chicago INS office simply
were not being inserted into the aliens' files. As a result,
aliens with criminal records were being granted citizenship. Our
sources also disclosed that, just prior to the 1996 voter
registration deadline, a box was discovered in the Chicago INS
office >containing nearly 5,000 FBI arrest reports -- reports
that had arrived on time but had been ignored.
* One criminal was actually in jail at the time he was
naturalized.
David Schippers, Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's
Impeachment, Regnery Publishing Company, 2000. Link to excerpt
from Sellout:
<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky-exnews/20000828-xex-schippers-go.shtml>
Eliciting Votes from Resident Aliens Using Government Databases
* A Guatemalan housekeeper has a daughter who just turned 18. The
immigration status of both mother and daughter has been pending
for years. Papers have been filed with the Immigration and
Naturalization Service. Hearings have been held. But they are not
citizens. The daughter has not registered to vote.
* The 18-year-old got a very attractively packaged "Dear friend"
letter from Bill Clinton, paid for by the California Democratic
Party. "Congratulations on your decision to register. Registering
to vote is a basic responsibility of citizenship that far too
many people ignore. "Now that you are registered ... Can I count
on you to vote Democratic on November 7th? "Remember Your Vote is
Your Voice. "Sincerely, President Bill Clinton"
* Below that letter is a P.S. that explains, "Here is your
personal Voter Identification Card. Sign your name, then detach
your card. Bring your card with you to your polling place on
Election Day. It will help your voting go more smoothly."
* As my friend points out, only the U.S. government knows her age
and pending residency status, and, obviously her Latino
background. How did this information wind up in the partisan
political hands of the California Democratic Party? And what kind
of impact will a mailing like this -- obviously utilizing a
government database for political purposes -- have on the
California legislative races? How widespread is this fraud?
Joseph Farah, "Voter Fraud, Again!" WorldNetDaily, November 7,
2000.
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SOURCE U.S. Border Control
11/09/2000 13:59 EST <http://www.prnewswire.com>
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US officials bristle at "banana republic" charges
By Deborah Zabarenko
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - As the United States stewed over Tuesday's
inconclusive presidential election, there was plenty of derisive glee on
Thursday from foreign capitals where voting is often the butt of jokes.
In Moscow, where elections are often questioned by outside observers, the
head of Russia's Central Election Commission sniffed: ``Our presidential
elections are conducted in more (of) a democratic fashion and are more
easily understood by voters'' than the U.S. elections that brought no
clear winner two days after the balloting.
Less officially, the Russian Web site www.anekdot.ru joked that Russian
election commission chief Alexander Veshnyakov had flown to the United
States to help straighten out the election mess.
``Latest reports show (Russian President Vladimir) Putin in the lead''
over Republican George W. Bush (news - web sites) and Democrat Al Gore
(news - web sites), the site said.
In Mexico City, another place where vote fraud has been chronically
alleged, the Mexican media smelled a rat north of the border.
Florida's popular Gov. Jeb Bush, the brother of the presidential nominee,
drew comparisons to Raul Salinas, the ''awkward brother'' of former
Mexican President Carlos Salinas, whose 1988 election victory was sealed
only after a government-run computer system tallying the vote ``crashed''
when early results showed an opposition candidate ahead.
``In this photo finish ... something bad is going on in Florida,'' said
Pedro Ferriz, a commentator for Mexico City's Imagen radio.
Italians Lampoon U.S. 'Banana Republic'
Mexican commentators and conspiracy theorists drew parallels between the
vote count in Florida and past election shenanigans that helped maintain
Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in power for seven
decades.
Opposition parties long alleged that the PRI, which lost its first
presidential election ever last July, stuffed boxes with ballots cast by
citizens long dead but still registered, among other underhanded tactics.
In Rome, home of ``opera buffa'' politics and governments that can change
as fast as the seasons, there was open gloating over the U.S. election
non-result.
``A Day as a Banana Republic,'' the Rome daily newspaper La Repubblica
wrote in a headline about the U.S. vote.
``The first election of the new millennium has brought America into the
realm of the surreal,'' the newspaper said.
Its banner headline ``For a Fistful of Votes'' -- was a play on the title
of Sergio Leone's famous ``spaghetti Western'' film ''A Fistful of
Dollars,'' with Clint Eastwood.
``Forty-eight hours after the vote, the most powerful nation on earth is
not able to tell its citizens and the world who the 43rd president of the
United States is,'' said Rome's Il Messaggero newspaper.
A U.S. embassy party in Beijing meant to introduce the Chinese to the joys
of democracy, but wound up causing more confusion than anything else.
``It's so complicated,'' said 19-year-old language student Xiao Wangxin at
the party for 2,000, which featured live CNN, bagels and cream cheese and
a U.S. policy wonk in an Uncle Sam suit explaining how the Electoral
College works. ``I don't think this system is suited to China.''
A Chinese Foreign Ministry (news - web sites) spokesman said only that
``Every country must decide which election method it should use according
to local conditions.'' China's Communist Party has ruled for more than
five decades and brooks no opposition.
British bookmakers took a different approach to the U.S. vote: they let
people bet on it.
Two days after Americans voted, with no clear winner in sight, British
online betting firm Blue Square had Bush as the strong favorite to win the
election at 5/2 on -- if you put down five pounds you would get seven back
including your stake -- and Gore at 7/4.
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US officials bristle at "Banana Republic" ridicule abroad over election
WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (AFP) -
US officials struggled to keep their upper lips stiff Thursday, but
bristled at derision being heaped on the United States overseas for
confusion surrounding this week's presidential election.
"Hah! And I stand by that comment," State Department spokesman Richard
Boucher said when asked about remarks reportedly made by Libya's UN
ambassador that problems with the vote proved American democracy was
"scandalous."
Boucher insisted that despite gleeful lampooning of the election in the
world's media, foreign officials had been silent on the matter, at least
in their contacts with US diplomats.
"We're quite aware that there's a lot of interesting press commentary
overseas, but I've checked with our operations center and they haven't
seen any official cable traffic or reports from overseas or inquiries from
foreign leaders about the status of things or concerns," he said.
No one is "inquiring officially whether the United States is lost in space
or something like that."
A senior State Department official said he found the attention "amusing,"
but referred to those making insulting remarks as "the idiots around the
world."
Another senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed
surprise the election had provoked snide remarks, but tried to put on a
brave face, saying: "It's no skin off our nose, bring it on."
And bring it on they did, as commentators around the globe ganged up on
the world's lone superpower and particularly its television networks,
which admitted to jumping the gun by prematurely awarding victory to
George W. Bush.
Also under siege was the entire US electoral system that could, in this
case, bring into office a candidate who received fewer votes than his
rival.
"America today is a laughing stock," wrote the British tabloid Mirror,
adding: "It's the sort of thing you would expect from a banana republic."
The German daily Die Welt said Tuesday's polls were a "macabre spectacle."
"A giant empire with 280 million citizens sends voters to the polls to
decide who should be the next American president and both candidates
remain in a dead heat in a way we have not seen in elections in
Uzbekistan," it said.
And widespread was the verdict that the electoral system was outdated and
in desperate need of reform.
"The first presidential election of the new millennium takes America into
the surreal world of a possible unprecedented constitutional crisis, a
crisis of confidence in the integrity of its electoral system," said the
Italian center-left daily La Republica.
In India, the world's largest democracy, pundits could not resist
suggesting the United States might have something to learn from its
system.
"This alone should trigger a post poll debate about the validity of
electoral colleges and whether the US should not just switch directly to a
popular vote like the great democracy of India," the Asian Age said.
Boucher would have none of that, however.
"We follow legal processes, we count ballots carefully, we reach results
and we have peaceful transitions of power," the spokesman said.
"We've done this for 200 years in the United States and we think we know
how to do it pretty well," he said, adding that the country was not
interested in hearing proposals, lighthearted or not, for assistance in
counting votes in the Florida, disputed ballots on which the entire
election hinges.
"We have no reports that some government has offered to help us count and
I'm not aware that we have either the need, the desire or any necessity of
doing that any way," Boucher said.
Asked whether Washington, which has recently been forceful in calls for
the Organization of American States (OAS) to take an active role in
election reform in Peru and Haiti, thought the group might be able to play
a role in this case, he replied tersely: "I'm not going to entertain the
idea here."
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more being added all the time. If you know of stories I should link to,
please let me know. Also, be sure to spread the word about this....
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