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______________ Prior to reading Carmichael’s submission today, read the following article: Voting Official Seeks Terrorism Guidelines _______________ BUSTER PREPARES TO CANCEL THE ELECTION George Bush appointed DeForest B. Soaries (affectionately known as “Buster”) to head the nascent, amorphous and relatively Orwellian federal agency, The Election Assistance Commission (EAC). What does this agency do? According to Buster, the new agency is “a clearing house.” Okay, then what does that mean? Buster does not seem to know exactly what his job is, either. Oh, one other minor point, Buster is now busy conferring with Homeland Security’s Tom Ridge in order to devise the appropriate steps he must take in order to cancel the 2004 presidential election in case of a national security crisis or threat of a crisis. Who is Buster Soaries? He is an Afro-American Republican apparatchik based in his pulpit at the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, New Jersey. After receiving degrees from Fordham and Princeton, Buster has collected honorary degrees from five other academic institutions. After praying together with Buster a few years back, Christine Todd Whitman, a graduate of Wheaton College (former missionary school) appointed Buster to the office of Secretary of State for New Jersey. In 2002, Buster was persuaded by the powers that be to stand as the Republican candidate to oppose Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), who is one of the strongest critics in congress of paperless voting machines – those devices that are usually sold by rock-ribbed Republicans who are seeking to profit directly from the democratic process. Buster ran a very vigorous campaign for Congress appealing strongly to the Republican and evangelical right, but Holt persevered and defeated him. No problem. George Bush needed a compliant robot for the job of heading up the new EAC, and he looked no further than Buster. Apparently, the two men enjoy praying together. The latest news is that Buster is deeply concerned that he might be required to cancel the federal election this year, and he is seeking guidance from Tom Ridge in promulgating the appropriate regulations for just such a bureaucratic nightmare. Earlier, Buster was flummoxed when his $800,000,000 budget did not include a line item for publishing his edicts and the regulations of his new and powerful agency in the Congressional Record. Why on earth would anybody wish to obscure the electoral workings of a new federal agency like the EAC? At any rate, Buster is attempting to comply with the law by publishing the electoral regulations of his agency, but when that will be done is not known at this time. Buster attended a meeting recently to discuss a plethora of questions that have emerged around the use of electronic voting machines. He appealed to the e-voting industry for more credibility. The following day Buster told the salesmen that he had never meant to “provide disincentives for your line of work”. Apparently, something transpired to convince Buster that the electronic and computerized voting machine salesmen were going to help him in his task. More enigmatically, Buster was asked whether it would be possible to verify and audit e-votes from this year’s election. He said, “No.” Elaborating, Buster said that he did not have an answer for all of the security questions, but that he would hope to have answers sometime possibly by December, and he left the impression that the answers might not be available until next year. Great, that will be not only after the election is over, but also the Electoral College will have met and the Inauguration will probably be history. I wonder whether Buster realizes the perplexities of his Orwellian tasks. Now that Bush and Cheney are marshalling their forces to implant their pet next political automaton, Rep. Porter Goss (R-FL), in the office of the Director of Central Intelligence, they will be able to rest more easily in spite of their recently dismal poll results. With Goss at the CIA and Ridge at Homeland Security and Buster at the EAC, if the election proves unwinnable AND unriggable – they can always cancel it – or postpone it indefinitely until the American people collectively return to their post-911 trauma of believing every word either of them chose to say. That might be a long wait, but, hey, if the election is cancelled, or indefinitely postponed, why worry? From my perspective, Buster Soaries is a tremendous danger to America’s increasingly tenuous claim to being a democracy. He is a religious fanatic, who has delivered fire and brimstone sermons to the faithful in New Jersey inflating the attendance at his right-wing Baptist Church from 1,500 to 6,000. He is poised to displace Clarence Thomas from his high seat as the culprit who connived in the rigging of the 2000 presidential election. According to published reports, Thomas’s wife received $60,000 in payments from the Bush Transition team prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Florida recount. With friends like Thomas, Scalia, Goss, Ridge and Buster – Bush and Cheney are openly plotting their dissolution of voting in America and its replacement with a theocracy populated by the likes of Buster Soaries just as predicted by Jonathan Westminster in his brilliant and chillingly prophetic book, The 15% Solution. A final thought. A boyhood companion of George Bush from Midland, Texas, General Tommy Franks recently mooted the Orwellian possibility of suspending American elections during the war against terror. Buster Soaries is putting Franks’ and Orwell’s thoughts into official US policy. Are you comfortable with that? SOURCE MATERIALS Soaries kicks off bid to unseat Democrat Holt – Politics New Jersey DeForest Soaries had never heard of the Election Assistance Commission when the White House asked him to be its chairman. In the six months since, he has come close to quitting. – WTOP News America Votes | Plenty of heat at hearing on touch-screen votes – Philadelphia Inquirer Election panel chief wants firms to aid poll workers – Verified Voting Budget For ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION – GAO
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