The Guardian October 27, 2004


US election already rigged

Manuel Valenzuela

As much as America and the world wish to believe Florida will not 
be rigged with electoral fraud this November, the sad truth is 
that all the mechanisms needed to steal the state in favor of 
George Bush are already firmly entrenched.

This is thanks to Jeb Bush — Governor of Florida, manipulator of 
mandates, corrupt fraudster, decimator of democracy, brother of 
the president, and the Republican Party, which in essence 
controls the logistics of and the keys to running the election. 
Florida has already declared tens of thousands of voters, mostly 
black and Democratic, ineligible.

Many more voters, of all creeds and colors, will be 
disenfranchised on election day, be it through intimidation, 
coercion, government intervention, criminal negligence, 
corruption and fraud, and, of course, through electronic voting 
machines, most of which are owned by staunch Republican 
supporters.

Thus, it is fair to say that the election scheduled for November 
is already stolen, the purging of votes already assured, the 
swindling of the 2004 Presidential election has become, for all 
intents and purposes, an absolute inevitability.

Already, throughout the nation, instances of Republican Party 
meddling with electoral procedures and citizens' right to vote 
have surfaced, from Florida to Nevada to Oregon to Ohio and 
everywhere in between, trying desperately to garner any advantage 
in any of a dozen states deemed as swing states, where the 
outcome will be so close that 10,000 votes could mean the 
difference between winning electoral votes and losing the 
presidency.

With so much at stake, and with American democracy a mirage of 
its former self, Republican minions and vultures are hard at 
work, once more disenfranchising thousands from an election that 
will decide the future destiny of the entire planet.

After all, absolute power corrupts absolutely and addiction to 
the Almighty Dollar makes demons of already dishonorable 
miscreants.

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