{"id":66124,"date":"2004-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/11\/10\/votergate-et-lhumeur-depressive-de-lamerique\/"},"modified":"2004-11-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T00:00:00","slug":"votergate-et-lhumeur-depressive-de-lamerique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2004\/11\/10\/votergate-et-lhumeur-depressive-de-lamerique\/","title":{"rendered":"Votergate et l’humeur d\u00e9pressive de l’Am\u00e9rique<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Votergate et l’humeur d\u00e9pressive de l’Am\u00e9rique<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t10 novembre 2004 Les \u00e9lections pr\u00e9sidentielles se sont d\u00e9roul\u00e9es dans une ambiance in\u00e9dite et selon un sch\u00e9ma tr\u00e8s inhabituel : Toute la campagne pr\u00e9sidentielle au coude \u00e0 coude des sondages, sans possibilit\u00e9 d’un partage donnant un vainqueur ; un d\u00e9but de vote o\u00f9 l’analyse g\u00e9n\u00e9rale fut que Kerry allait l’emporter, sans doute de fa\u00e7on assez nette ; puis un renversement de cette tendance, au profit de GW.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’int\u00e9r\u00eat sur les conditions du vote \u00e9tait \u00e9vident, notamment avec ces bruits divers annon\u00e7ant des fraudes. Le candidat \u00e0 la vice-pr\u00e9sidence Edwards avait annonc\u00e9 une bataille l\u00e9gale pour le recomptage dans l’Ohio, mercredi matin (le 3 novembre), au quartier-g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des d\u00e9mocrates \u00e0 Boston (\u00ab Nous avons attendu quatre ans, nous pourrons bien attendre vingt-quatre heures de plus<\/em> \u00bb). Quelques heures plus tard, alors qu’aucun \u00e9l\u00e9ment nouveau fondamental n’\u00e9tait apparu, Kerry reconnaissant sa d\u00e9faite, et, dans ce contexte, on est fond\u00e9 \u00e0 appr\u00e9cier que c’est un peu vite et que c’est \u00e9trange. L’int\u00e9r\u00eat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du syst\u00e8me passait devant les int\u00e9r\u00eats partisans, certains jugeant qu’une nouvelle contestation (Ohio-2004 \u00e0 la place de Floride-2000) pourrait entra\u00eener une paralysie mettant en cause le syst\u00e8me lui-m\u00eame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tSur le site DemocracyNow, le 8 novembre<\/a> : \u00ab Many of John Kerry’s supporters were stunned last Wednesday when their candidate conceded the presidency to Bush. Just hours earlier, his running mate John Edwards told a rally of their supporters in Boston that they would not stop until every vote was counted, a reference to the hundreds of thousands of provisional ballots in the key state of Ohio that some Democrats believed could have tipped the balance. But it’s not just the provisional ballots.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tDepuis, des contestations sont apparues<\/a>, mais de fa\u00e7on tr\u00e8s officieuse, sur les r\u00e9seaux d’Internet, dans les milieux de l’opposition et de la dissidence civique. La cause est extr\u00eamement solide, puisqu’elle repose sur la manipulation du comptage des voix qui est dans les mains de trois soci\u00e9t\u00e9s priv\u00e9es dont les PDG sont des donateurs de la campagne de GW Bush. Le fait le plus spectaculaire \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard est un extrait d’une lettre de Walden O’Dell, pr\u00e9sident de Diebold qui est une des trois soci\u00e9t\u00e9s g\u00e9rantes du syst\u00e8me de comptage, qui vit dans l’Ohio, qui a d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 re\u00e7u au ranch de GW, et qui assura l’ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re de son engagement d’\u00ab aider \u00e0 ce que l’Ohio donne au Pr\u00e9sident ses votes \u00e9lectoraux<\/em> \u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPour l’instant, l’affaire continue \u00e0 ne pas sortir (sauf exception, voir plus loin) dans la grande presse, celle qui est capable d’influer sur l’orientation politique, de peser pour qu’un scandale r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 par ailleurs (par les dissidents d’Internet) prenne une dimension et un \u00e9lan irr\u00e9sistibles. L’une des sp\u00e9cialistes de cette affaire, Bev Harris, qui dirige l’organisation blackboxvoting.org<\/a> r\u00e9clamant la r\u00e9forme du syst\u00e8me \u00e9lectoral, affirme que des consignes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 donn\u00e9es dans la grande presse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2. Even the journalists are pretty horrified. My source said they’ve also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time, and he was calling from somewhere else. He was trying to figure out how to get the real news out on vote fraud.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb This is a person I’ve worked with off and on for nearly two years, and the voice was so somber it really bothered me.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb At any rate and perhaps, especially important due to the tipoff above, there are things you can do to take back America.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tJusqu’ici, il semble qu’il n’y ait eu, comme \u00e9cho de cette pol\u00e9mique dans les grands m\u00e9dias US, qu’une \u00e9mission au JT de NBC, le 8 novembre, par le journaliste Keith Olbermann<\/a>. Le m\u00eame Olbermann a tenu d’ailleurs a r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 Harris que ses remarques sur les contraintes dans la presse n’ont pas cours \u00e0 la NBC<\/a>, o\u00f9 la question du Votergate<\/em> est suivie de pr\u00e8s.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAu niveau international, on doit signaler l’article de Gaby Wood, dans The Observer du 7 novembre<\/a>. L’int\u00e9r\u00eat de cet article (\u00ab Those New York blues In a city where 75 per cent of inhabitants may never have met a Republican, they’re a little depressed<\/em> \u00bb) est que le sujet n’est pas sp\u00e9cifiquement le Votergate<\/em>, mais que la question du Votergate<\/em> appara\u00eet comme un des \u00e9l\u00e9ments de la d\u00e9pression psychologique am\u00e9ricaine depuis les \u00e9lections, notamment \u00e0 New York, que l’auteur d\u00e9crit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Every state, every county, gets to opt for its own system – some use punch cards, some use levers, others use computers that leave paper trails, still more use touch-screens that don’t. In Oregon only postal votes are accepted. If the 2000 election became famous for Florida’s hanging chads, this one has a sinister vote-rigging intrigue to match.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The first inkling that the Diebold electronic system was malfunctioning came during the 2000 elections, and the signs were unmistakable: a poll worker in Florida noticed that more than 9,000 votes had been cast for the Socialist Party candidate.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Since then, Bev Harris, the woman behind the election reform website blackboxvoting.org, has been travelling the country showing people how ‘astonishingly easy’ it is to hack into the Diebold system the most commonly used of the electronic devices (one of her demos includes a film of a chimpanzee hacking an election).<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The machines leave no paper trail and allow for no audit. In the past few days, Black Box have demanded nationwide computer logs and launched what they describe as ‘the largest Freedom of Information action in history’.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Why the suspicion? Walden O’Dell, the chief executive of Diebold, lives in Ohio, the make-or-break state. He is a Republican fundraiser who has been a guest at George Bush’s ranch. Last year, he pledged his commitment to ‘helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President’. Also last year, days after a trade fair in which his TruVote system was highly praised for its ability to produce paper receipts, an Ohio accountant named Athan Gibbs was killed in a car crash. Since Gibbs was Diebold’s only significant competitor, a far-fetched theory is afloat that his death may not have been entirely accidental.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb While Democratic speech writers and columnists kick themselves over the idea that the entire country is somehow impenetrably Republican, the conspiracy theorists have a point. In the states that went to Bush, 43 per cent of people voted for Kerry. Bush has been busy gloating over his ‘political capital’, but has he really got such a mandate? The race was, in fact, incredibly close – close enough to make partisans believe it was stolen. Call it denial or call it optimism; at least some crazy people out there think there may be a future. <\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tIl est int\u00e9ressant que Votergate<\/em> soit plac\u00e9 dans ce contexte g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la d\u00e9pression de l’humeur d’une partie importante des Am\u00e9ricains. A cet \u00e9gard, Votergate<\/em> est autant un sympt\u00f4me qu’un fait \u00e9ventuellement transformable en scandale. Votergate<\/em>, c’est la pourriture du syst\u00e8me pouss\u00e9 \u00e0 son extr\u00eame, habitude (pousser \u00e0 l’extr\u00eame) de l’\u00e9quipe GW-Rove d’ailleurs. Votergate<\/em> existe-t-il ? Vu le pass\u00e9 de l’\u00e9quipe GW-Rove, construit uniquement sur le mensonge et la manipulation, tout cela dans l’innocence de la construction virtualiste, il serait tout simplement stup\u00e9fiant et rocambolesque que rien n’ait \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9par\u00e9 pour l’\u00e9lection. Votergate<\/em> est compl\u00e8tement dans la logique des choses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe comportement d\u00e9mocrate renforce cette appr\u00e9ciation, notamment le d\u00e9sistement de Kerry. Cela vaut d’autant plus qu’il faut noter que le 3 au soir, apr\u00e8s son d\u00e9sistement, Kerry est politiquement mort. Simon Serfaty, du CSIS, annonce dans l’\u00e9mission C dans l’air du 3 novembre, sur Arte en d\u00e9but de soir\u00e9e<\/a>, que \u00ab plus personne, en ville, ne parle plus de Kerry, tout le monde parle d\u00e9sormais de Hillary Clinton pour 2008<\/em> \u00bb. Pourtant, cinq jours plus tard Kerry fait dire qu’il sera sans doute candidat en 2008<\/a>. L’hypoth\u00e8se est que son d\u00e9sistement tr\u00e8s (trop) rapide fut obtenu \u00e0 l’insistance de la direction d\u00e9mocrate, qui voulait \u00e9viter un drame Ohio-2004, par solidarit\u00e9 de syst\u00e8me et par crainte de cons\u00e9quences tr\u00e8s graves, comme elle avait obtenu au d\u00e9but de la campagne que Kerry ne condamne pas la guerre en Irak ; en contrepartie, Kerry aurait obtenu des promesses de soutien pour 2008.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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