
We've all agreed to pretend that we have free and open elections in this country. Due to this agreement, we gleefully (or not) swallow the script as spewed-forth by the corporate-owned-and-operated U.S. media.
So, chances are excellent that you've ingested the "fact" that Hillary Clinton "won" Pennsylvania with a 10-point cushion.
As per unsavory tradition, Brad Friedman and friends have spent the past 24 hours documenting the many script-controlling circumstances and events that have somehow escaped the awareness of nearly everyone.
Here is the
front section of the final entry from Brad Blog's
Pennsylvania Primary: E-Voting, Registration, Polling Place Problem Report Wire (do click over to read the whole thing, unless the thought of yet another stolen election strikes you as unimportant and/or impossible):
4/23, 2:40am ET: "Smooth Sailing" say the media...even if their very own reporting revealed otherwise...
This will likely be the last of our "Problem Report Wire" dispatches added to this item. We'll pick up the rest of the PA mess, and there is a lot of it, in subsequent blog items.
The long list of reports that you can peruse below, from the past 24 hours, mostly culled directly from the corporate media itself, belie the claims made all day yesterday by many public officials and even the media themselves, that all went well at the polls in the Keystone State.
Countless voters were unable to cast a vote yesterday in PA. The overwhelming majority of those who succeeded in doing so, will never be able to determine whether or not their vote was counted accurately, or even at all, given that some 85% of those votes were cast on machines in which it is literally impossible to verify that a single vote was ever recorded as per the voter's intent.
If any election official in PA (or anywhere else), or any voting machine company employee has proof otherwise, The BRAD BLOG would be happy to see it, and share it with everyone. But that proof will never come, because it cannot be done.
The headline of the first story our final posted collection below, may say it all. The headline indicates "Mostly smooth sailing at polls," yet we suspect the voters referenced, who will never know if their vote was counted at all, and those who have no idea if their vote was counted accurately (that would be all of them who voted on an e-voting machine!) may feel otherwise.
From Vindy.com...
Another machine, at the Greene Township Building on Dowling Schoolhouse Road, started freezing up at one point during the day, he said, so the polling place stopped using it."He said that machine has 23 votes on it."He said that if necessary, the company that manufactures the machines, Election Systems and Software out of Omaha, Neb., can retrieve those votes.
NOTE FROM JOHN GIDEON OF VOTERSUNITEORG: Since when is it NOT necessary to count every vote? This tells me that it may not be necessary, in the county's mind, to count the provisional ballots.
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And so on and so forth, line after line after line, like a drone underlining the
FACT that we no longer have elections in this country, but rather, we have
digitized control devises that give the
illusion of participation -- when, in fact, the
Powers That Be are totally and completely free to manifest the scripted outcome.
You know, I go through this futile exercise every time America gathers to "elect" its national leaders, including the President.
And every time, I realize just how brainwashed we (the Rabble) have become.
I mean, our current government has been
documented as the most corrupt, treasonous and dishonest in our entire history -- the
hits just keep on coming -- and we just wander around as if things will magically "return to normal." We have the shortest memories of any mammal, such that we could not care less about this country's
history of crimes against itself and against much of the rest of the world.
Given this state of affairs, why should anyone think that the population will
wake up to the fact that it's happening again, right before our very eyes...?!?
Whatever. The fix is in. I guess I should just live with it, like everyone else.
UPDATE: By the way, this was the 2000th post at this blog.
You are correct, I
really need to get a life....