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Stemfraude Verkiezingen VS 2000 - deel 5

Door Daan de Wit
Hoe je het ook wendt of keert: Gore zou de Amerikaanse presidentverkiezingen hebben gewonnen als er eerlijk was geteld. Dat staat te lezen in een ongewoon hard artikel van MSNBC. De Volkskrant kopt daarentegen vandaag, weggemoffeld in een klein artikeltje op pagina 4: 'Bush lijkt terecht president VS'. In ons voorlaatste deel van deze serie, gepubliceerd op 231001, vertelden we hoe de powers that be de einduitslag van de hertelling wisten op te schorten. Vandaag is definitief de waarheid bekend: '[...] it put the wrong man in the White House', aldus de laatste zin van het MSNBC-artikel van Eric Alterman met de titel 'Buried truth of a flawed election'.

Niet alleen de Volkskrant giert uit de bocht met haar berichtgeving over deze zaak, ook CNN slaat een flater: '(The award for most egregious misrepresentation goes to CNN.com for its headline that the results “showed George Bush winning even with a statewide recount.” It showed nothing of the sort.)' 'As the Associated Press report put it, “In the review of all the state’s disputed ballots, Gore edged ahead under all six scenarios for counting all undervotes and overvotes statewide.” In other words, he got more votes than George Bush. Gore won under a strict-counting scenario and he won under a loose-counting scenario. He won if you count “hanging chads” and he won if you counted a “dimpled chad.” He won if you counted a dimpled chad only in the presence of another dimpled chad on the same ballot — the so-called “Palm Beach” standard. He even won if you counted only a fully-punched chad. He won if you counted partially filled oval on an optical scan and he won if you counted only a fully-filled optical scan. He won if you fairly counted the absentee ballots. No matter how you count it, if everyone who legally voted in Florida had had a chance to see their vote matter, Al Gore would be sitting in the Oval Office today.'

Hoe zou de wereld er nu hebben uitgezien, met Gore aan het roer van de VS? Misschien is dat ook de vraag geweest die vooraf ging aan de diefstal van het presidentschap door Bush. Want met Gore waren we misschien niet in de huidige bloeddorstige oorlogssituatie beland. Wat zou Gore hebben gedaan met alle voorkennis en aanwijzingen? Zou hij de aanslag hebben voorkomen? Hoe zou hij hebben gereageerd als de aanslag toch had plaatsgevonden? Zou Gore bereid zijn geweest de voordelen te zien en te nemen van een wereldwijde oorlog?* Voordelen op het gebied van het afkalven van de democratie in naam van de democratie, het afleiden van binnenlandse problemen, het toenemen van de wapenproductie, het uitzicht op het beheersen van olie- en drugsstromen in Afghanistan en omstreken. Gore: 'Wij zijn een natie van wetten en de presidentsverkiezingen van 2000 zijn voorbij'.
En ook al laat iedereen -de pers voorop- zich een rad voor ogen draaien door de huidige gespannen situatie: 'As recently as last week, according to the Gallup Organization, nearly half of Americans surveyed remain convinced that President Bush either “won on a technicality” or “stole the election.”'

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