NSA Spying Reaches Back To Election?

Over at THE FREE PRESS, columnist Bob Fitrakis raises an interesting question:

Did the NSA help Bush hack the vote?

What are e-voting machines and central tabulators that pass the voting results over electronic networks from the internet to phone lines? No more than data easily spied on and tapped into. The Franklin County Board of Elections, for example, tells us that it was a “transmission error” in Gahanna Ward 1B, where 638 people cast votes and Bush, the Wonder Boy, received 4258 votes. It’s not magic, nor is it an accident or an act of God. If the vote total wasn’t so hugely illogical, no one would have caught it.

Bush and his cabal are notorious for collecting raw intelligence data and using it for their political gain. While many progressives accept the fact that our government manufactured an illegal war in Iraq and routinely violate human rights worldwide, many are reluctant to accept that they would spy on John Kerry and rig the election – which is very easy to do when the NSA does your bidding.

What part of the headline in the Columbus Dispatch: “Diebold vote machine can be hacked, test finds” don’t people understand? The electronic hacking and monitoring of votes by U.S. intelligence agencies has a long history, from mainframe computers in the 70s and 80s to DREs in the 80s and 90s. In face, W.’s father appears to be one of the first beneficiary of e-voting fraud with his victory of Bob Dole in the 1988 New Hampshire primary.

Most voting rights advocates are well aware of Al Gore’s infamous loss of 16,000 votes in the 2000 Florida presidential election, which allowed Bush’s cousin at Fox News to call the election for Dubya. How do we explain the bizarre “rob georgia” Diebold file that Bev Harris of Black Box Voting found on the internet after the stunning upset of Senator Max Cleland of Georgia.