Most Votes Counted by 4 Republican Backed Corporations
Despite mainstream media attempts to kill the story, talk radio
and the Internet are abuzz with suggestions that John Kerry was elected
president on Nov. 2 -- but Republican election officials made it
difficult for millions of Democrats to vote while employees of four
secretive, GOP-bankrolled corporations rigged electronic voting
machines and then hacked central tabulating computers to steal the
election for George W. Bush. The Bush administration's "fix" of the
2000 election debacle (the Help America Vote Act) made crooked
elections considerably easier, by foisting paperless electronic voting
on states before the bugs had been worked out or meaningful safeguards
could be installed. Unlike Europe, where citizens count the ballots, in
the United States employees of a highly secretive
Republican-leaning company, ES&S, managed every aspect of the 2004
election. That included everything from registering voters, printing
ballots and programming voting machines to tabulating votes (often with
armed guards keeping the media and members of the public who wished to
witness the count at bay) and reporting the results, for 60 million
voters in 47 states, according to Christopher Bollyn, writing in
American Free Press. Most other votes were counted by three other firms
that are snugly in bed with the GOP. [more]