Guest Post by Paul Rosenberg
There’s presently a lot of discussion about rigging elections, and so I’d like to make a few things clear. I’ll do that with a few, brief points and stories:
#1: Every significant election involves vote rigging. The incentives and the emotions assure it. The local election judge knows what he or she can get away with, and 1 of x times, he or she will. That’s just the nature of the beast, and no faction is immune to it.
#2: Political organizations always steal or add votes. Whether it’s stuffing a ballot box, tossing away votes from the precinct that votes for the opponent, or a thousand variants, this happens all the time. Again, the incentives are all for it, as is the arrogance of party: We’re the righteous ones and our opponents are crazy, ignorant and dangerous.
#3: Big operators rig elections with superior assets. The big players tend to develop manipulation strategies like Google campaigns or psycholinguistic-based TV adds (bending the masses to their will), but they play dirty too. Not only do they have financial motives (favorable laws are immensely profitable), but they love the feeling of owning politicians.
Stories
Again, briefly, I want to give you a couple of stories.
#1: LBJ and Box 13. The photo above shows Lyndon Johnson (later president of the United States and a thoroughly despicable human being) with his election rigging pals in 1948. This was the election that put Johnson into power, and while it was very close, he was losing.
And so, Johnson and his pals “found” a box of 202 ballots from Precinct 13. 200 of them were for Johnson, winning him the election. The cheated opponent fought, of course, but Johnson prevailed. (Yes, Virginia, judges can be bribed too.)
#2: Harold Washington in Chicago. Harold Washington was the first black mayor of Chicago, and the Democratic party in Chicago fought to keep him out. On the day of the crucial election (in one-party Chicago that’s the primary election), the train system on the heavily-black south side experienced a “surprise outage” and the system was inoperable, making it very hard for Washington’s core constituency to get to the polls.
It happened that the source of the outage was an electrician who worked for me. He was a ward committeeman, and took every election day off, to “help” in whatever way was required. A couple of days later he told me the full story, including details on the switches he disconnected.
For what it’s worth, this act of vote rigging was only partly race-driven. If Washington had been white, they still would have run dirty tricks against him, though probably not so openly. I was freakishly young to be supervising electricians and didn’t know what to do about this (I wrote it off to “government is evil”), but it was reckless of them to allow someone like me to know details.
And Now
My personal stories (and I have others) are from a few decades back, but these things are still going on.
In general, the American left is better at this than the American right: The right believes more in personal righteousness and the left in collective righteousness; that restrains Red stealing. That said, some on both sides will steal votes.
I hesitate to say anything about politics most of the time (I still go back to “government is evil”), but since the upcoming election may involve claims of vote rigging that lead to riots, looting and murder, I think I should address this briefly:
While there will be more Red stealing in some places and more Blue stealing in others, the Blues will steal more votes overall. Most vote rigging occurs in big cities, and nearly all of those have been under Blue control for decades. Long-running political machines are much, much better at thieving than rural, Red state amateurs.
Bear in mind also that TV news, as well as the Google complex, are joined at the hip with the Blues, and would be regardless of who the Red candidate was. “Respected journalists” are not be believed.
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By creating the duopoly in 1987, elections have been rigged ever since.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/forget-russia-the-democrats-and-republicans-have-openly-rigged-the-election-for-decades/
It’s older than that. The Federal Election Campaign Act [FECA[L] Act] creates 2 government parties and everyone else. It was enacted in 1971 to prevent third parties.
The dnc have a plan:
Way more Democrats will vote by mail than Republicans, due to fears of the coronavirus, and it will take days if not weeks to tally these. This means Trump, thanks to Republicans doing almost all of their voting in person, could hold big electoral college and popular vote leads on election night.
“When every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day, which will be some day after Election Day, it will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that, a mirage,” [Hawkfish CEO Josh] Mendelsohn said. “It looked like Donald Trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted.”
https://www.axios.com/bloomberg-group-trump-election-night-scenarios-a554e8f5-9702-437e-ae75-d2be478d42bb.html
This helps explain the too close elections we’ve experienced for decades. It seems it’s bad for reputations of either party to be trounced resoundingly. So, it goes.
This is one of my all time favorite rigs:
Jack’s opponent in the primary election was a legitimate politician named Joe Russo. To insure that Jack won the primary campaign, Joe Kennedy paid Joseph Russo, a janitor, to also enter the race. This effectively confused the voters, and split the votes for Joe Russo.
– Russo the janitor recalled how Joe’s friend Joseph Timilty and another man had visited him one day and asked him to run. In return, Russo said, “They offered me favors. Whatever I wanted.” In fact, he said later, he wound up getting very little – occasional payments of $50 in cash.
– Even the aunt of the real candidate voted for the janitor, recalled Joseph A Russo, the real candidate’s son. “They didn’t leave anything unturned,” he said. His father claimed that Kennedy’s people had also arranged for other bogus candidates to “run in other areas to break up the Irish vote, or some other vote. They played for keeps.”
– After Jack won the Democratic primary, Joe sold Somerset Importers Inc, freeing $8 million to help Jack in his campaign and insuring that his liquor holdings would not become an issue.
The excerpt from :
The Sins of the Father – by Ronald Kessler
The Kennedy Men: Three Generations of Sex, Scandal, and Secrets – by Nellie Bly