Done Deal For Obama? Don't People Undrestand GOP Election Fraud?

Folks who are poll-obsessed already know that by Sunday, Nate Silver had moved Obama's chance of winning the Electoral College (and reelection) to 85.1%-- pretty tough odds for Romney. And when I woke up Sunday morning I found an odd press release from Paddy Power, Europe's top betting house, that says they had already started paying out to punters who picked Obama to win and had already sent $650,000 worth of checks before a single vote is counted! 75% of the money that's been bet has gone Obama's way over the last two months. A Paddy Power spokesperson said: “Romney gave it a good shot and is doing well in the popular vote, but we suspect he’s had his moment in the sun and is likely to be remembered more for his legendary gaffes than Presidential potential. The overall betting trend has shown one way traffic for Obama and punters seemed to have called it 100% correct. Despite Romney appealing to the large evangelical and senior vote, America‘s sticking with black and cool.” As you can see below, they're still taking bets on how big Obama's win will be and on state races, etc.

Had Katherine Harris, Ken Blackwell, and Kathy Nickolaus been tried and then shot for treason-- which is, after all, exactly what those three were guilty of-- I would feel that there would be less of a propensity for Republican officials in the states they've captured in 2010 to try to steal the election now. We've all seen the attempts to limit voter participation in Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, New Hampshire, Georgia, Texas... all the states they control... but now they're looking for ways to subvert the vote-counting itself. Reince Priebus-- straight out of the Kathy Nickolaus school of election theft in Wisconsin and now the chairman of the RNC-- hired notorious election criminal Nathan Sproul to undermine democracy in Virginia, Florida and Colorado. It's what happens when no one is held seriously accountable for serious crimes. Viper-like Ken doll Jon Husted, Ohio's extremist Secretary of State, seems determined to be this year's Katherine Harris. He's already the 2012 posterboy for voter suppression, even after being slapped down by state and federal courts for his efforts to keep likely Democrats from voting. And now he has a new scheme to invalidate votes. Anyone who though these anti-democracy freaks were just going to accept the inevitable without a dirty fight, just doesn't know the nature of these people. And what do they have to lose? No one ever gets held accountable. So keep his graphic in mind when the GOP tries their coup d'état this week:

It won't always be as gross as the bomb scare at an Orlando area early voting station or serial election fraudster Patrick McHenry trying to subvert democracy at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, which Newsweek ranked the "most liberal college in America." But anyone who isn't expecting nationwide GOP attempts to steal the election, just hasn't been paying attention this year decade.

With electronic voting machines, which leave no paper trail and are programmed with proprietary software, the count can be decided before the vote. Those who control the electronics can simply program voting machines to elect the candidate they want to win. Electronic voting is not transparent. When you vote electronically, you do not know for whom you are voting. Only the machine knows.

According to most polls, the race for the White House is too-close-to-call. History has shown that when an election is close and there’s no expectation for a clear winner, these are the easiest ones to steal. Even more important, the divergence between exit polls, perhaps indicating the real winner, and the stolen result, if not overdone, can be very small. Those who stole the election can easily put on TV enough experts to explain that the divergence between the exit polls and the vote count is not statistically significant or is because women or racial minorities or members of one party were disproportionately questioned in exit polls.

There have been recent reports that, because of costs, exit polls in the 2012 presidential election will no longer be conducted on the usual comprehensive basis in order to save money. If the reports are correct, no check remains on election theft.

...For now Republicans seem to have the technological advantage with their ownership of companies that produce electronic voting machines programmed by proprietary software, but in the future the advantage could shift to Democrats. Early voting aids electronic election theft. Successful and noncontroversial theft depends on knowing how to program the machines. The victory needs to be within the range of plausibility. Too big a victory raises eyebrows, but if the guess is wrong in the other direction theft fails. Early voting helps the voting machine programmers decide how to set the machines.

The absence of transparency is a threat to whatever remains of American democracy. In the Summer 2011 issue of the Trends Journal, Gerald Celente made the point that “if we can bank online, we can vote online.”

Think about it! Across the globe, trillions of dollars of bank transactions are made each day, and rarely are they compromised. If we can accurately count money online, we can certainly count votes accurately online. The only obstacles blocking online voting are entrenched political interests intent upon controlling the ballot box.

The lack of transparency has given rise to election litigation. On October 29, the Washington Post reported that “thousands of attorneys, representing the two major presidential candidates, their parties, unions, civil rights groups and voter-fraud watchdogs, are in place across the country, poised to challenge election results that may be called into question by machine failures, voter suppression or other allegations of illegal activity.”

Voting online, if properly arranged, can provide the transparency that the current system lacks. While the GOP might remain active in voter suppression, the Democrats could no longer vote graveyards, and the count of those who do manage to vote would not be subject to secret proprietary software.

In 2005 the nonpartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform concluded that the integrity of elections was compromised by those who controlled the programming. Proprietary private ownership of voting technology is simply incompatible with transparent elections. A country without a transparent vote is a country without democracy.

Anyone know if Romney's most malevolent little shit of a son, Tagg, invested in a company that owns voting counting machines in Hamilton County, Ohio (Cincinnati)? That could be the best investment the sleazy Romney family ever made.