And the Leader of the Free World Is

BARACK OBAMA , whose advantage is largely based on his overwhelming success with African Americans (winning them 90%-3%)  Latinos (68%-27%) and 18 to 34 year olds (59%-38%). And speaking of overwhelming , the desire for CHANGE by the Middle Class in America.

Electoral Fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election – affecting vote counts to bring about a desired election outcome , whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate , decreasing the vote share of the rival candidate , or both.

Voter intimidation and coercion

• Intimidation of voters that prevents them from voting , such as by Voter Suppression.
• Disrupting voting in polling stations in areas with unwanted political tendencies with bomb threats to or other sabotage including ballots , ballot boxes or voting machines.
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   Physical tampering

  • Ballot stuffing , also called “ghost voting.”
  • Theft or destruction of ballot boxes.
  • Destroying election material in order to annul results for individual polling stations or even whole constituencies.

   Physical tampering with voting machines

  • Change the software of a voting machine to shift votes between candidates. 
  • Altering or replacing the hardware of the voting machine such as inserting a circuit board using a Man In The Middle Attack technique to manipulate recorded votes. 
  • Altering voting machines to favor one candidate over another, for example by jamming a button or changing the sensitive area of a TouchScreen.
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• • Inflation or deflation of voters lists

  • Registering false voters such as the deceased or even fictitious persons

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  • During tabulation in the polling place
  • Bribery , corruption or threatening of election officials.
• • Destroying all ballots if the balance was not as desired.
  • Tampering with tabulation software 
  • Marking more candidates than allowed.
  • Counting electronic ballots of voting machines [memory cards] more than once if they contain votes as wanted by the fraudster. Or to let them disappear in case of unwanted votes – stealing a whole ballot box.
  • Obstructing vote counting.
  • Double marking. A corrupt election official covertrly marks an unvoted box in an area where the maximum number of votes has already been cast. Since this ballot is then considered overvoted , it is discarded , throwing out the voter’s vote.

If The Free World Could Choose Its Leader

Barack Obama has stirred an excitement around the globe unmatched by any American politician in living memory. Polling in Britain, Germany, France and Russia shows that Obama would win by a large majority, with the outcome repeated in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. If November 4 were a global ballot, Obama would win it convincingly. If the free world could choose its leader, it would be Barack Obama.

The crowd of 200,000 that rallied to hear him in Berlin in July did so not only because of his charisma, but also because they know he, like the majority of the world’s population, opposed the Iraq war. McCain supported it, peddling the lie that Saddam was linked to 9/11. Non-Americans sense that Obama will not ride roughshod over the international system but will treat alliances and global institutions seriously: McCain wants to bypass the United Nations in favour of a US-friendly League of Democracies.

If Americans choose McCain, they will be turning their back on the rest of the world, choosing to show us four more years of the Bush-Cheney finger.

This is a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start, a fresh start the world is yearning for.