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David Swanson: US Wars Are Not Waged Out of Generosity or for Democracy

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It may be less than 150 monitors and observers, but a UN affiliated organization (the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)) will be in the US on Election Day to report on any perceived irregularities. According to The Hill, the delegation is coming at the request of US Civil Rights groups concerned about the massive national effort by the Republican Party to keep non-GOP voting groups from casting ballots:

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT vote Last week, BuzzFlash at Truthout wrote on "GOP Voter Registration Irregularities Generally Overlooked by Mainstream Media." What has began as a reporting of likely voter registration irregularities found in forms submitted to Palm Beach County, Florida, has become a national GOP scandal, involving state Republican Parties, the Romney Campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC).

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Brad Friedman reports on a remarkable story of seemingly systematic Republican voter registration fraud occurring nationally. Although he focuses on Palm Beach County, Florida, where the elections supervisor recently found more than 100 questionable registration irregularities submitted by a "vendor" for the GOP, Friedman exposes a much broader trend across the nation of Republican state parties and the Romney campaign abusing the voter registration system. Occasionally, pieces of this likely illegal manipulation of the voting process, get picked up by local mainstream press, such as the Palm Beach Post. It reported on the most recent Florida abuse: