The Election Porn Industry

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Comment by Mark on October 21, 2008 at 12:44pm

Thanks, Sandra!

The article is also posted here:

http://globalpundit.org/2008/10/20/oped-stolen-votes-and-stolen-elections/

And is the top story on their front page today. But if you post a link to it elsewhere, use the link I just gave here rather than their home page, as the home page changes frequently.

Comment by Sandra M. Zwingelberg on October 21, 2008 at 12:40pm

Hello Mark, and everyone!

Great article Mark, I'll pass along to others who need to think about it. Also to a friend of mine here in Denver working on voter issues, he was on KBDI last week, Jeff Cook. Will look forward to more real news here! Peace out!

Comment by Mark on October 8, 2008 at 4:55pm

I've been accused of dissing the election porn industry, the people like Greg Palast, Mark Crispin Miller, Bev Harris, and others who investigate, analyze, document, and publicize stolen elections while encouraging people to vote. Most of them claim that by carefully monitoring an election, it is possible to prevent vote theft. Even if that were the case, which it is not, since no matter how closely you observe an election, you cannot prove that a vote was stolen until AFTER it has been stolen, it would not prevent election theft.
That's because there is a big difference between protecting votes and protecting elections. The election fraud industry concentrates on protecting votes. Even if that were possible, it could not deter or prevent stolen elections.

Here's an analogy. You've probably heard about shoplifters and store robbers who work in groups. They go into a store and one or more of them creates a disturbance to distract the store owner and security guards, while another one robs the store. That's how I see the election fraud industry. They are creating a disturbance to focus everyone's attention on the theft of votes, so that nobody will notice that it is the theft of the ELECTIONS, not the theft of the votes which really matters.

No matter how many times I point out to them that in their own words they have freely admitted that Bush was sworn in both times, in 2000 and in 2004, BEFORE THE VOTES WERE COUNTED, they persist in trying to focus attention on whether or not people are allowed to vote, and whether or not their votes are counted accurately. I keep pointing out that even if every eligible citizen was allowed to vote, and every single vote was counted accurately, it would NOT prevent elections from being stolen by simply, once again, swearing in the President BEFORE THE VOTES ARE COUNTED.

And that decision, to swear in a President before the popular votes are counted or without regard to the popular vote, is not up to voters, to elections officials, or to lower courts. The Constitution gives the sole power to make that decision only to Congress (however the Supreme Court, since no matter what it does its rulings cannot be appealed, has the same Constitutional power as it demonstrated in Bush v. Gore 2000).

So I don't see the election fraud industry as raising public awareness. I see them as distracting people from the real danger and thereby consciously or unconsciously abetting election theft.

They are all very clear on the distinction between voter fraud and election fraud (the former consisting of rare cases of individuals attempting to vote when they are not eligible, and the latter being widespread voter suppression and election rigging by elections officials and voting machine programmers). But none of them, brilliant as many of them are, seem to understand the distinction between vote theft and election theft. Or perhaps they do, but in the service of the wealthy elites and the political parties, which need the popular vote in order to claim the consent of the governed, they are only pretending not to understand.