Donald Trump has
said publicly that he fears the next election will be rigged. Based both on
technical capability and recent history, Trump’s concerns are not unfounded.
A
recent study by
Stanford University proved that Hillary Clinton’s
campaign rigged the system to steal the
nomination from Bernie Sanders.
Why would
the Clintons not cheat again?
The issue here is both voter fraud, which
is limited but does happen, and election theft through the manipulation of the
computerized voting machines, particularly the DIEBOLD/PES voting machines in
wide usage in most states.
POLITICO
profiled a Princeton professor — who has demonstrated how
the electronic voting machines that are most widely used can be hacked in five
minutes or less! Robert Fitrakis Professor of Political Science in the Social
and Behavioral Sciences Department at Columbus State Community College has
written a must-read book on the strip and flip technique sued to rig these
machines. Professor Fitrakis is a Green Party activist.
A computer hacker showed CBS how to
vote multiple times using a simple $15.00
electronic device.
To be very clear both parties have engaged
in this skullduggery and it is the party in power in each state that has
custody of the machines and control of their programing. This
year, the results of machines in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio, where
Governor John Kasich controls the machines, must be matched with exit polls,
for example.
Illinois
is another obvious state where Trump has been running surprisingly strong, in
what has become a Blue state. Does anyone trust Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a longtime
Clinton hatchet man. not to monkey with the machines? I don’t. He was using
City funded Community groups to recruit anti-Trump “protestors” who posed such
a threat to public safety the Trump Chicago event was canceled when the Secret
Service couldn’t guarantee his safety.
How do the
pols of both parties do it? As easy as determining, on the basis of
honest polling, who is going to win. Then, if it isn’t your candidate, simply
have the votes for the other guy be given to your guy and vice versa. You keep
the total vote the same. This is where the “strip and flip” technique described
by Professor Fitrakis comes in.
Maybe you
don’t need all the votes the other guy was going to get. If you have a plan in
mind involving votes and their redistribution, you can find a programmer who
can design the machine instructions to produce that outcome. Or you can
hack the machine you are voting in with that $15 device that you can get at
BEST BUY.
Europe has rejected electronic voting
machines because they are untrustworthy. This is
not a secret. The media continues a drum beat insisting voter fraud is non
existent without ever addressing the more ominous question of manipulation of
the voting machines. It keeps those in control in control.
Additionally
some states still use machines that include no paper trail. The "evidence”
is destroyed. Florida’s machines have no paper trail in Bush v. Gore.
In
Europe, they use exit polling to determine who won and lost. The tabulated vote
only serves as a formal verification. But that is done with paper ballots and
hand counts under supervision, the way we used to do it.
Here’s
the recipe now:
(1) Publish
a poll contrived to suggest the result you are going to bring about.
(2) Manipulate
the machines to bring about precisely your desired outcome.
As someone with great sentimental
attachment to the Republican Party, as I joined as the party of Goldwater, both
parties have engaged in voting machine manipulation. Nowhere in the country has
this been more true than Wisconsin, where there are strong indications that
Scott Walker and the Reince Priebus machine rigged as many as five elections
including the defeat of a Walker recall election.
Mathematician and voting statistic expert
Richard Charnin has produced a compelling study by
comparing polling to actual results and exit polls to make a compelling case
for voting machine manipulation in the Badger state.
When the Trump vs. Cruz primary took place,
the same pattern emerged again of a Marquette University poll showing a 20 point
shift from Trump ahead by 10% to Trump behind by 10%, which was simply absurd.
Shifts like that don’t happen over brief intervals of time, absent a nuclear
explosion. It didn’t make any sense — unless you knew what was going on was an
“instant replay” of Walker’s victories. The machine Priebus built was
delivering for Cruz big time.
Today,
the polling industry has
been reported to be “in a state of crisis” because they are altering their
samples to favor Hillary. The Reuters poll actually got busted for oversampling
Democrats in order to inflate Hillary’s lead. We even had the absurdity of a
Gallup poll proclaiming that 51% of those who had heard Trump’s speech were
less likely to vote for him, which was endlessly repeated by the shills at
MSNBC.
I
predicted that Trump would lead in the polls after his highly successful
convention (despite the media frenzy over the non-issue of a Melania Trump
staffer plagiarizing a handful of words). In fact, post convention polling for
the Trump effort by pollster Tony Fabrizio in key swing states was encouraging.
Perhaps this is why the establishment elites have gone into over-drive to
attack Trump.
Hillary
hasn’t exactly had smooth sailing. Julian Assange of Wikileaks said he had
inconvertible proof that as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton armed Isis LINK.
The IRS has opened an investigation to the Clinton Foundation and it’s many
offshoots, and Hillary got caught lying about what FBI Director Comey did say
about her.
But you
will see less of Hillary’s problems in the mainstream media, which has gone
completely overboard in its relentless, even hysterical, efforts to lambaste
Trump and promote her. Every remotely objective commentator has been stunned.
Trump will, however, have an opportunity to drive these points home in the
debates.
We are now
living in a fake reality of constructed data and phony polls. The computerized
voting machines can be hacked and rigged and after the experience of Bernie
Sanders there is no reason to believe they won’t be. Don’t be taken in.
Stone is
a former consultant to Donald Trump's Presidential campaign, a New York Times
Bestselling Author and a veteran of nine Republican presidential campaigns from
Nixon to Trump.
