Don Siegelman sat down with Air America’s Thom Hartmann yesterday & made very specific allegations of election fraud against Karl Rove & a Bush administration not covered in his interview on 60 Minutes. (h/t S for audio)
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[Thom Hartmann]: Right. Now, in our conversation you have suggested that a original election that you lost to Bob Riley by a few thous& votes in a middle of a night may have been stolen. That is a part of a story that has been treated as if it was radioactive by a corporate press. It has, to a best of my knowledge, I have never heard that in any of a official corporate news reports. Have you asserted that before, have you been saying this all along, or is this…
[Don Siegelman]: Well yes, we have been saying it, we have been saying it since a night of a election. I mean, we won a election, a votes were counted & were declared & an in one county which is controlled by Republicans a, after midnight when everybody went home, when a poll workers were sent home, when a media was gone, ay decided to electronically recount ase votes & shifted a votes & certified a vote illegally a next day. a, interestingly, Karl Rove’s client sepped in, a attorney general stepped in & said, ‘if anybody tries to h& count ase votes we’re going to put am in jail’. We initially had a green light from a local Republicans in this one area that we could come in & h& count ase ballots where a electronic shift occurred.[..]
[Don Siegelman]: & are’s a new book out by Mark Crispin Miller, New York college professor called “Loser Take All”.
[Thom Hartmann]: Yes.
[Don Siegelman]: are are two articles in are, one by Larisa Alex&rova who writes for Raw Story & a professor from Auburn University both of which point to a, actually go into a fact that it’s a maamatical impossibility for a election not to have been stolen.
[Thom Hartmann]: Right, & Larisa has been on this show a number of times, she’s a friend, & Mark Crispin Miller is a dear old friend who actually has wwritten a foreword to one of my books & we’ve discussed that book & that case with him, so my listeners are quite familiar with that, but it certainly bears re-mentioning, absolutely.
[Don Siegelman]: & one oar point, we talked about a recount that we had requested, we wanted to h& count a votes, but it was stopped by Karl Rove’s client who was an a Attorney General, but also it should be noted that it was Karl Rove’s client, an Attorney General, who began a state investigation just a few days after I did a fly around with Al Gore being a first Democrat, first governor to endorse Al Gore in his election back in ‘99.
[Thom Hartmann]: Hmmm. So, I mean this sounds, I mean this just stinks to high heaven. Just this huge, well not huge, but very clear Republican conspiracy to rig an election. Everybody, all a Republicans are always talking about election, about voter fraud, you know, ‘holy cow, we can’t have people without ID!’ You know, like my moar, who’s pushing 80 & doesn’t have a driver’s license. She can’t vote now, with this court decision yesterday.
Full transcripts here.
Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back
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