Published: Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Bylined to: Arthur Shaw

Arthur Shaw:

George W. Bush, the Cowboy Dictator

VHeadline.com guest commentarist Arthur Shaw writes:

During the 2000 US presidential election, most Americans concluded that something was rotten in Florida ... after the 2004 election, they believe something is rotten in the United States.

During and before the 2004 election, GOP election officials ... chiefly county voter registrars and secretaries of state of the various states ... illegally purged over a million liberal and moderate voters from voters registration lists.

They threw hundreds of thousands of absentee and provisional ballots of liberal and moderate voters into the dumpster or stuffed them into the shredder ... they concocted impossible voter turnouts, sometimes as much as 120% of the electorate of their districts.

They sent ridiculously insufficient number of voting machines to liberal and moderate precincts ... they changed polling places at the last minute.

They lost voting records for liberal and moderate precincts at the last minute ... they booted up voting equipment sometimes five hour after the poll opened.

They hired thugs or so-called "voter challengers" show up at liberal and moderate precincts, backed up by a uniformed police presence, to threaten, jawbone and otherwise humiliate and intimidate voters.

GOP operatives, perhaps independent of corrupt GOP election officials, mailed millions of letters falsely telling liberal and moderate voters that their voter registrations were invalid. These GOPs made millions of phone calls -- both automated and live -- to dispense all kinds of false information about polling places, registrations, criminal backgrounds, and required pre-voting paper work.

These operations are felonies, violating US laws against mail and wire fraud.

Executives of the three major voting machine manufacturing companies -- ES&S, DIEBOLD, and SEQUOIA -- which account for 90% of the voting machines in use in the United States, openly campaigned for Bush and other GOPs.

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