Why Vote?

Cap'n took me a little by surprise with this quote in his last post, Primary Report: New Hampshire:

Now the rumors of not enough ballots were starting to make sense. It's not unexpected turnout from the college kids. It's not more people participating in the process - it's blatant voter fraud! Well, at least the Democrats are consistent. How come they don't yell and scream and finger point when they do it though?

First of all it took me a little by surprise. No where else in the otherwise well-written piece was this mentioned nor was there a link to this fact. Don't get me wrong. I believe it. I just would like further proof that this happened. On second thought, no I don't.

See, the Democratic Primary is over. Yep, finished. Don't bother supporting or helping or endorsing a candidate, it's over. Hillary Clinton has won. Democracy has lost.

Besides this lack of votes in college district that our brave Cap'n has eluded to, there is also some odd things happening in the voting booth by the Democracy destroying Diebold. Elections involve many people and in recent times not all ballots get counted. What occurred in New Hampshire was 20% of the ballots were counted by hand and 80% were "faith based." Meaning counted by machine. Now this system works if you look into discrepancies and hand count any issues either side may have.

Last Tuesday there were discrepancies. The EDA has released it's report on the New Hampshire primary and it seems that the percentages in the Obama-Clinton relationship were exactly reversed when hand counted vs machine counted. Here is the key graph:

Analysts at the Election Defense Alliance (EDA) have confirmed that based on the official results on the New Hampshire Secretary of state web site, there is a remarkable relationship between Obama and Clinton votes, when you look at votes tabulated by op-scan v. votes tabulated by hand:

Clinton Optical scan 91,717 52.95%
Obama Optical scan 81,495 47.05%

Clinton Hand-counted 20,889 47.05%
Obama Hand-counted 23,509 52.95%

The percentages appear to be swapped. That seems highly unusual, to say the least.

To say the least. I take you back to the line from Cap'n's quote above that claims, "How come they don't yell and scream and finger point when they do it though?" No, not the status quo politicians. But Dennis Kucinich is asking for a recount in the name of election integrity. I think one should be performed. It's in our national interest to have fair, honest, and trustworthy elections. I do not think that it is a coincidence that less people vote now than ever.

I know one state in the primaries is no reason to claim that no one but Hillary can win. But there are other factors that have led her to win the Democratic nomination. For example, Michigan and that bastard of a state, Florida.

Both states moved up their primaries. Michigan in an attempt to relevant, Florida because it gives less time for people to fix known election machine errors. In a show of solidarity, Obama and Edwards took their names out of the primaries. Hillary did not.

The DNC will not need to upset Michigan or Florida (can you say "Swing State?") during the convention shortly before the National Presidential Election. The press Democrats do not need is not wanting or caring for these two states. A deal will be struck. It may make for a good convention for a change. But the bottom line is Hillary is the only legal candidate. this would give her an additional 366 delegates.

We also have the issue of Superdelegates in the Democratic Party. In an effort to not let the voters vote the establishment out of office, the Democratic Party decided that 796 of their delegates should consist of former presidents, congressmen, senators, and general "in" folks in the party. Hillary being establishment is said to possess around 80% of these delegates. This gives her (in theory) around 637 more delegates. this gives her 1003 delegates BEFORE the voting starts. The magic number is 2025. She is almost halfway there.

Now we add in these discrepancies and we have ourselves a winner. Here is a handy CNN follow the votes item. Keep in mind that this does not count Florida, Michigan, or unannounced superdelegates like Bill Clinton. I'm just saying maybe start your taxes instead of involving yourself in this process. Unless Hillary does not place in the top three in about half of the remaining primaries (there are five candidates left including Kucinich and Richardson) then she could possibly not win. I think this is a forgone conclusion.

Just saying.