LaRouche Spurs Broad Fight Against Bush's Election Theft
Special to New Federalist
Dec. 22 (EIRNS)"We've got them dead to rights on violations of Federal law, on Voting Rights Act violations," said Lyndon LaRouche Dec. 16, in discussing, on a Cincinnati, Ohio radio show, how the Republicans stole the Nov. 2 Presidential election, and how the incoming Bush-Cheney Administration can be brought down for it.
"That is a crime," LaRouche continued. "That's a five-year Federal sentence, to be caught doing that crime! Whereas simple vote fraud is more difficult to deal with. But, if you go at the criminal violations, which are Federal criminal violations, in terms of election tampering and in terms of Voting Rights Act frauds, then you open up the whole area, you have to investigate the whole territory, in which these crimes have been committedwhich means the entire question of the vote fraud is now looked at, from that standpoint."
Since LaRouche first called, in a Nov. 9 webcast, for prosecuting those who engaged in vote suppression as violators of the Voting Rights Act, the fight against the theft of the Nov. 2 elections has exploded, reflecting a renewed aggressivity within the Democratic Party. LaRouche's campaign to ensure that every vote is counted, and that vote suppression is investigateda campaign operating in parallel to the efforts of Michigan Congressman John Conyershas catalyzed the national fight that alone can ensure that Conyers' work is successful. - Washington State Fight -
The increased combativity of the Democrats nationally, as a result of continuing intervention by LaRouche and his LaRouche Youth Movement, is exemplified in the hot fight now underway in Washington State, where the Democrats refused to knuckle under to the Republicans' claimed win in the gubernatorial race between Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Christine Gregoire. The result of the Democrats' determination is that in that racenow in its second recount, this time a hand recountDemocrat Gregoire has, as of this writing, pulled ahead by eight votes, not including absentee ballots.
LaRouche spokesmen note that the battle in Washington State, as well as a similar one in San Diego, Calif., show the Democrats' revived commitment to having the vote counted, as a result of LaRouche's principled fight over vote suppression, against the GOP's determination to win at all costs, even if that means excluding masses of Americans' votes. - And Washington, D.C. Fight -
But the most momentous fight, of course, is that in Washington, D.C., where a joint session of the U.S. Congress must, on Jan. 6, meet to certify the Electoral College vote, and hence the Bush election.
In the nation's capital, as we reported last week, House Judiciary Committee Democrats led by ranking member Conyers held hearings Dec. 8, followed by hearings in Columbus, Ohio Dec. 13.
These hearings were called to investigate reports of vote suppression and other irregularities and felonies in the Presidential election in (especially, but not only) Ohiowhose electoral vote put Bush over the top, when he claimed a win there that looks more and more dubious with each passing day. More dubious because new evidence continues to come in, concerning efforts by the Bush-Cheney campaignincluding its state head, J. Kenneth Blackwell, who also just happens to be Ohio's Secretary of Stateto prevent citizens from registering, to turn away registered voters, and to prevent counting of lawful ballots.
At the Washington, D.C. hearings, Debra Freeman, national spokeswoman for Lyndon LaRouche, quoted LaRouche as having said, during his immediate post-election webcast Nov. 9, "Voter suppressionthat's tyranny!" As Freeman testified, LaRouche had explained that the Democrats, having insufficiently mobilized among the lower 80% of family-income brackets among Americans, failed to organize the required landslide; "only the forces around LaRouche, and those working with us, mobilized in this manner."
Freeman noted that in a statement released Dec. 6, LaRouche called on Democratsand others"to start their battle against the insane, unconstitutional Bush Administration with an all-out battle against ... voter suppression." At the same time, Freeman said, "LaRouche identified George W. Bush's plans to rip off Social Security through privatization, as the second major focal point for a mobilization" to save the country from the new Bush Administration. - Target Date: Jan. 6 -
Freeman went on to say that "Mr. LaRouche has enthusiastically supported leading Democrats, like Rep. John Conyers, who are collecting the evidence of voter suppression, and has urged that that evidence be used to bring criminal charges, and jail those who committed this Federal crime. He has further urged that the evidence be compiled, to be presented to the full House and Senate on or before Jan. 6," when Congress meets to certify the vote.
Meanwhile, Conyers has written to Kevin R. Brock FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Cincinnati FBI office and to Larry Beal, Hocking County Prosecutor in Logan, Ohio, requesting investigation of charges of election tampering by the Triad GSI voting machine company. He and 11 other Democratic Congressmen on Dec. 2 sent a letter to Secretary of State Blackwell on election irregularities in Ohio, and Conyers wrote Blackwell again Dec. 14, complaining of the latter's "refusal to answer 36 questions we posed to you," and using the words "obstruct" and "stonewall."
As Conyers was holding his hearings in Columbus Dec. 13as the Electoral College was meeting, state by state, around the country, and as electors in Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont were formally questioning the validity of the election processalso on Dec. 13, some 40 Ohio voters were filing an election lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Ohio, contesting the certification that day of the Presidential election results in that state. The plaintiffs, led by the Rev. Bill Moss and Ruth Carol Moss, brought suit against 26 defendants, led by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign committee, and Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell.
The suit reviews numerous instances of voting machine breakdown, error, and failureincluding cases in which votes cast for John Kerry were visibly and immediately "hopped" to George W. Bush; refusal by county boards of election to permit public review of the poll books; and the like.
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