The countless books on not only the stolen election of 2000, but of 2004 as well, and of the Repubs$' hack computer companies' suppression of Democratic and minority and poor voters, on arguably a far more systematic and sinister nature[than in 2000, 2002, or 2004] in both the 2006 and 2008 national "elections" [Barack *Obama, probably really DID win the State of Missouri, and its electoral votes in 2008, and but for the vast voter suppression apperatus, most nearly-to-totally aimed at Democratic, Poor, and Minority Voters, Obama really won, according to election integrity experts, mathematicians, and others, more like 59%-61%, at the very least, of the total national vote count] really leave me grating, at the utter ongoing gaul, of the TV and Major 'News$' media heads$ criticism, ongoing, of the Iranians and their electoral processes, which apparently, did allow countless foreign and other non-partison observers, all over and throughout Iran, for its latest elections[*the Iranian Government's final vote tabulations were held "in secret," it is said, but that is apparently, ONLY for the final and official vote figures and numbers' announcement, though I might have that one incorrect], ... with this being, a far cry from the "American" State of Ohio's electoral process, according to Dr. Mark Crispen Miller's book, Fooled Again: The Real Case For Electoral Reform.
The following was taken from Chapter 2 of that book, "Taking Care of the Counting" :
Contrary to a prior understanding, [J.Kenneth] Blackwell also
kept foreign monitors away from the Ohio polls. Having been
formally invited by the State Department on June 9th, ob-
servers from the Organization For Security and Cooperation
in Europe(OSCE), an international consortium based in Vienna,
were here to witness and report on the election. The mission's
two-man teams had been approved to monitor the process in
11 states -- but the observers in Ohio were kept out. "We
thought we could be at the polling places before, during and
after" the voting, says Soren Sondergaard, a Danish member
of the team. Denied admission to polls in Columbus, he and
his partner went to John Kenneth Blackwell, who refused
them letters of approval, on the basis of a very narrow reading
of Ohio law. The two observers therefore had to "monitor" the
voting at a distance of 100 yards away from each polling
place. While not illegal, Blackwell's refusal was improper and,
of course, suspicious. (The Conyers Report does not deal with
this episode.) While it did not, of course, directly cut the
Kerry vote, the attempted blackout indicates that Blackwell,
and the Bush/Cheney campaign, had much to hide.
Election Day in Ohio saw lots of weird things happening to
voters, and to the vote, in county after county -- a broad
range of electoral anomalies, not one of which resulted in
a loss[of votes] for Bush. (29)
And we still try to put the election "onus of honest VOTE-COUNTING," only on Iran, today, or such nations as The Ukraine, in late 2004 and early 2005?!
