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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 48) Winter 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 48 A vote in the can is worth two for George Bush Garrick Alder The apparent re-election of George W. Bush as US President seems to have its roots in a mechanical failure. On 12 March 2004, a car went out of control on a busy highway and propelled itself in front of an 18-wheeler. The driver an African-American clergyman called Athan Gibbs was killed outright. Gibbs, 57, was the President and CEO of a company called TruVote International.( 1) Gibbs founded TruVote after witnessing the electoral debacle in Florida's 2001 presidential election. He spent the next three ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 462 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-38.htm
2. Updates [Lobster #44 (Winter 2002)]
... www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 44 Updates Election fraud Further to 'How to fix an Election' in Lobster 43, more news on the gentle art of perfuming a skunk. First Pick Your Voters Some strong contenders here. But first out of the hat is the Labour Party for performance during the all-postal voting experiments that were tried across the country in the May local council elections. All-postal may have increased turnout to 60 per cent, but it is a fixer's paradise. Lord Greaves (Lib Dem) told the Upper Chamber that some applications for postal votes in his old stamping ground of Pendle, Lancashire, had resulted in 982 voting papers ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 350 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-25.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 47) Summer 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 47 Vote-rigging USA Alfred Mendes Hi-tech computer voting is now the order-of-the-day in America. In October 2002 the US Administration passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which authorised $4 billion for states to use the Direct Recording Election system (DRE) equipment which would have to meet certain standards (set by the Act) by the year 2006. At which point, the states will be under obligation to have purchased said new equipment. As of December 2003, 36 states have agreed to these obligations. (1) In the evolution in voting methods in America, from the mechanical ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 348 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-15.htm
... with self-administration hypodermic equipment and unlimited Charlie (in solution). Allow monkeys to become addicted. Take away Charlie. Replace with psychoactive ingredient of Mary Jane (in solution). Result? Monkeys continue to inject regularly. Proven: cannabis is as addictive as cocaine. Now contrast: put BBC Radio 4 staff in office. Supply with votes for the Today programme's 'Man of the Year' award. Allow researchers to count votes. Choke off supply of spontaneous votes with a prompted supply of votes for Tony Blair. BBC staff continue to count. Proven: Tony Blair is Man of the Year, 1996- or would have been, had this delightful scam not been discovered ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 343 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-10.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 49) Summer 2005 Last| Contents| Next Issue 49 Election-rigging in the UK Garrick Alder Colin Thompson was in his sixties, with bottle-bottomed glasses. He was carrying a laundry basket when we met, so he offered me his forefinger to shake instead of his hand. When I asked who he had voted for, Colin became visibly confused. It was just after 9 pm on 5 May 2005 and polling stations would be open for another hour.( [1]) Colin not his real name is one of five residents in Bunyan Lodge, Bedford, a care home for the long-term mentally ill. And the great thing ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 301 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-26.htm
... winnable marginals, and only 40 of those were Tory-Labour- the rest were either Liberal-held, or three-way splits, when the Liberals had been keeping Labour out of office since 1923); or that the Tories' 154 net gains in 1924 came from Labour (two thirds were from the Liberals); or that the increase in the Tory vote came from former Labour voters. Labour's numerical vote increased by 24%: if Zinoviev was meant to reduce the Labour vote, it was a total failure. Labour's vote was up on 1923 in almost every seat it contested, even in the ones it lost. As in that other mythical election, 1979, the one where millions ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 151 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-42.htm
... of the British newspapers spread vicious lies about him. And that is why I would like you to go to your public library, get a copy of my book, read it, and then decide for yourself. Let's examine one claim I made in that book, that British Intelligence breaches the secrecy of the ballot box by monitoring all votes cast for British Communists. On p. 419 I explained that most people in Britain believe that their vote is sacrosanct, that nobody can possibly discover how you voted. Not so. When you enter a polling station your name is automatically checked on the voters' roll. This gives your home address. Then, so you can ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 132 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-05.htm
... Merry England to the benefits of this system of government and, hey presto, there it was in full flower (the 'Mother of All Parliaments' nonsense that conveniently forgets, for instance, the ancient Greeks and Romans.) Strafford recounts the major milestones in Britain's evolution of democracy such as the Magna Carta, The Great Reform Act, votes for women and so on, and always seems to come up with something new. It's a critical history and eschews the congratulatory 'how wonderful!' approach of many writers on the subject. Let's now examine a couple of chapters that discuss specific areas. First, the City of London. It was not reformed by the Municipal Reform ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 127 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-193.pdf
... resources a small country by the shareholders of large (mostly US) corporations in the name of the 'freedom and democracy'. You want to see it written in official black and white? Here it is. There is a long chapter on the way the Republicans stole the 2004 election. But he isn't interested in the claims of computer voting fraud in the 2004 election. Palast believes he has shown that the election was stolen using 'traditional' methods- rigging the voting lists, discouraging Democrat voters etc.- and some recent wrinkles, which amounted to more than three million votes. He regards the computer theft story as mere misdirection; and I can see why he thinks ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 92 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-43.htm
... unit, the European Unit, was established to work closely with pro-Europeans to rebut the anti-EU campaign in the press. The second stage witnessed the targeting of Conservative MPs by the parliamentary Conservative Group in Europe and party whips, plus the negotiation of a secret alliance with the 68-strong pro-European wing of the Parliamentary Labour Party to ensure a successful parliamentary vote. (10) Conservative Associations were targeted by Conservative Central Office, the Conservative Research Department and the Conservative Political Centre through constituency chairs, party agents and officers. The third stage of the campaign was a national one aimed at influencing the wider media. Geoffrey Tucker, a public relations expert who had worked for the Conservative Party, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 80 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-03.htm
