NEW:Fake stamp' on Broward Cty absentee ballot. *Psy Ops*

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

on edit: 11/16/06 NYTimes editorial on e-voting fraud in Florida appears confirming my suspicions that the 'fake stamp in Broward' story was keyword psy-ops.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/16/opinion/16thur1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
(Editorial: Counting the Vote, Badly)
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original post-
A few days ago Air America Radio hosts were clucking over the zillion dollar rare BACKWARDS stamp used to mail in an absentee ballot in BROWARD COUNTY, Florida.

Coincidently, electronic voting machines COUNTED BACKWARDS in Broward County, Florida in 2004.

http://www.news4jax.com/politics/3890292/detail.html

Broward Vote-Counting Blunder Changes Amendment Result
November 4, 2004
(.....)
"The software is not geared to count more than 32,000 votes in a precinct. So what happens when it gets to 32,000 is the software starts counting backward," said Broward County Mayor Ilene Lieberman.

Today the Associated Press is telling us 'nevermind, the backwards stamp is a fake.'

Anyone else smell the 'fuzzy logic'-motivated psy-ops meant to muddle election fraud?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061115/ap_ ... rare_stamp[url]
[/url]

'Jenny' stamp on ballot is likely a fake

Tue Nov 14, 10:25 PM ET

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A stamp thought to be rare and valuable that was used to mail an absentee ballot now appears to be a fake, an expert said Tuesday.

The stamp thought to be the famous Inverted Jenny stamp was discovered as Broward County officials reviewed absentee ballots for the Nov. 7 elections. An official noticed the stamp was from 1936 and had an upside-down World War I-era airplane — the hallmark of an Inverted Jenny.

Broward elections officials on Monday showed the stamp to reporters and photographers before putting it back into a safe deposit box, said Mary Cooney, the elections office spokeswoman. Images were sent to stamp experts.

Peter Mastrangelo, director of the American Philatelic Society, said after reviewing a digital photo that the stamp appeared to be counterfeit.

A true Inverted Jenny could have been worth as much as $300,000, Mastrangelo said.

There was no name on the envelope, so the vote didn't count. Under Florida law, elections officials will retain the ballot with the stamp for 22 months, according to the Florida secretary of state's office. After that, any action is up to the county elections supervisor.

The 24-cent Jenny stamps were printed in 1918. Sheets were run through presses twice to process all the colors, and on one pass, four Jenny sheets went through backward. Inspectors caught the errors on three sheets and destroyed them, but somehow, a sheet of 100 stamps got through.

[professorpan]

Anyone else smell the 'fuzzy logic'-motivated psy-ops meant to muddle election fraud?

No.

[orz]

Wait.... so 'upside down' is the same thing as 'backwards' now?

Is every current newspaper article containing the words "backwards" and "vote" part of this scheme?


'Absolutely anything reported in the press that's remotely related to any other thing reported in the press. Psy Ops!!!'

[PeterofLoneTree]

"Anyone else smell the 'fuzzy logic'-motivated psy-ops meant to muddle election fraud?"

Yes.

[nopui]

So what, if anything, would preclude someone from filing a FOIA request and putting this matter to bed?

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Study linguistics and developmental psychology to see what I'm sure is being attempted here along with the earlier examples of keyword hijacking I've posted.

This is one of or both of these possibilites:
1) search engine manipulation aka 'Google bombing'
2) memory manipulation using 'mutual exclusivity' aka 'bias against lexical overlap.'

The goal is to steer brains away from the e-voting machines that went backwards in Broward County, Florida in November, 2004.

Tonight a Google search on the terms 'backwards voting Broward' result in many links to the e-voting scam so I conclude that the memory manipulation is the desired effect. Maybe search engines will be affected eventually, too, but not yet.

[u]Mutual exclusivity[/u] is the tendency to ascribe ONLY ONE MEANING to words, a tendency most common in children who are learning the many names of things in a complicated world.

Mutual exclusivity was noted when Sesame Street was first being designed for kids in the early 1970s. It was discovered that kids handle words very differently from adults giving them only the first definition they learned and thus not 'getting' word play and double entendre. Adults probably do this, too, even if to a lesser degree.

(And, Prof Pan, this doesn't have to be 'effective' to deduce that an effort is being made to use KEYWORDS in a benign narrative to somehow counter awareness of the same keywords in a not-so benign narrative. Government-sponsored propagandists and social engineers are obliged to do something and, just as ex-CIA whistleblowers like John Stockwell have said, will do things just for the sake of it even if it turns out to be ineffective or downright counter-productive. Stockwell writes on page 174 in his 1975 book, 'In Search of Enemies,' that Ghana ambassador Shirley Temple reamed a meeting of CIA executives for doing stupid things in one country while not taking into account how situations in other countries might be damaged. Typical beaurocratic problem.)

I'm sure 'mutual exclusivity' is what is being hoped for using the keyword hijackings I've found. And I've only posted a few here at RI where the readership tends to be more literate and able to discern multiple meanings and use metaphors. Did you know that many people can't? True. The college testing SATs recently removed the use of analogies, perhaps to accomodate this finding. And these are the people who would be most affected by decoys taking advantage of Mutual Exclusivity.


I think this tactic was deployed right after WWII using, for instance, 'Broken Arrow' which is the Pentagon's name for a nuclear accident. Scary to realize there is a standard codename for that, ay?

Broken Arrow keyword hijacking-
>A nuclear accident happened in 1950 and that's when a movie of that name came out.
>More nuclear accidents in the mid-1950s led to a TV series of the same name.
>A January, 1968 nuclear accident near the North pole preceded the release of a cheesy movie called 'Ice Station Zebra' about a very similar event.

Academics studying linguistics in children really dug in during the 1990s -

http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/AAI9949105/

Preschool children's use of the mutual exclusivity principle during extension of words applied to familiar and unfamiliar nonsolid substances
Karen Elizabeth Burk, University of Connecticut

Date: 1999
(.....)
Two experiments assessed children's interpretations of novel words applied to nonsolid substances. In particular, the principle of mutual exclusivity was tested. This principle holds that, if a child already knows a label for an object, then a new label for that object should be rejected. The present research extended the study of the mutual exclusivity principle to children's acquisition of words for nonsolid substances and tested for age-related changes in children's reliance upon mutual exclusivity.

Page 7 of this 18-page pdf paper about how children learn by naming things describes this, too -
http://courses.media.mit.edu/2003spring/mas963/bloom.pdf
(Mindreading, Communication and the Learning of Names for Things)

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

'Absolutely anything reported in the press that's remotely related to any other thing reported in the press. Psy Ops!!!'

Funny how you left out the significance of "backwards voting in Broward County."

orz, I recommend you read up on 'fuzzy logic,' something discussed after the mid-1960s.

The imprecise nature of emotional thinking and implanting predispositions have been known for decades.

Examples:
2001 - "bin Laden did 9/11 so we're getting Saddam."
1938 - "War with Hitler is coming so Martians did invade New Jersey."

Since so much of cognitive and behavioral science was financed by the CIA at the time (and still is) this probably is a tool in their disinformation arsenal.

Read Christopher Simpson's 1994 book called 'The Science of Coercion: 1945-1960' for a good history of the CIA co-opting all the behavioral sciences at the Ivy League research labs.

Fuzzy Logic -
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-fuzzy/

Two main directions in fuzzy logic have to be distinguished (cf. Zadeh 1994). Fuzzy logic in the broad sense (older, better known, heavily applied but not asking deep logical questions) serves mainly as apparatus for fuzzy control, analysis of vagueness in natural language and several other application domains. It is one of the techniques of soft-computing, i.e. computational methods tolerant to suboptimality and impreciseness (vagueness) and giving quick, simple and sufficiently good solutions. The monographs Novak 1989, Zimmermann 1991, Klir-Yuan 1996, Nguyen 1999 can serve as recommended sources of information.

Fuzzy logic in the narrow sense is symbolic logic with a comparative notion of truth developed fully in the spirit of classical logic (syntax, semantics, axiomatization, truth-preserving deduction, completeness, etc.; both propositional and predicate logic). It is a branch of many-valued logic based on the paradigm of inference under vagueness. This fuzzy logic is a relatively young discipline, both serving as a foundation for the fuzzy logic in a broad sense and of independent logical interest, since it turns out that strictly logical investigation of this kind of logical calculi can go rather far. A basic monograph is Hajek 1998, further recommended monographs are Turunen 1999, Novak et al. 2000; also recent monographs dealing with many-valued logic (not specifically oriented to fuzziness), namely Gottwald 2001, Cignoli et al. 2000a; are highly relevant.

The interested reader will find below some more information on fuzzy connectives and a survey of a logical system called basic fuzzy (propositional and predicate) logic together with three stronger systems — Łukasiewicz, Gödel and product logic; a short discussion on paradoxes and fuzzy logic; some comments on other formal systems of fuzzy logic, complexity and, finally, a few remarks on fuzzy computing and bibliography.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

I was absolutely right. A NYTimes editorial on 11/16/06 is finally about electronic voting fraud in Florida.

So the 'fake stamp' story was generated several days ago to hijack the keywords into another narrative, probably with the motive of confusing people and minimizing the effect of this editorial's role in increasing awareness.

This is SPOOK WORK in MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/16/opinion/16thur1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Editorial
Counting the Vote, Badly

Published: November 16, 2006

Last week’s elections provided a lot of disturbing news about the reliability of electronic voting — starting, naturally, with Florida. In a Congressional race there between Vern Buchanan, a Republican, and Christine Jennings, a Democrat, the machines in Sarasota County reported that more than 18,000 people, or one in eight, did not choose either candidate. That “undervote” of nearly 13 percent is hard to believe, given that only about 2.5 percent of absentee voters did not vote in that race. If there was a glitch, it may have made all the difference. Ms. Jennings trails Mr. Buchanan by about 400 votes.

The serious questions about the Buchanan- Jennings race only add to the high level of mistrust that many people already feel about electronic voting. More than half of the states, including California, New York, Ohio and Illinois, now require that electronic voting machines produce voter-verified paper records, which help ensure that votes are properly recorded. But Congress has resisted all appeals to pass a law that would ensure that electronic voting is honest and accurate across the nation.

Fortunately, that may be about to change. With the Democrats now in control of both houses, there is an excellent chance of passing tough electronic voting legislation. Representative Rush Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, had more than 200 co-sponsors for a strong electronic voting bill before this month’s election, and support is likely to grow in the new Congress. In the Senate, Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who will be chairwoman of the Rules and Administration Committee, which oversees elections, plans to develop a similar bill.

The problems with elections go well beyond electronic voting. Partisan secretaries of state continue to skew the rules to favor their parties and political allies. States are adopting harsh standards for voter registration drives to make it harder for people to register, as well as draconian voter identification laws to make casting a ballot harder for poor people, racial minorities, the elderly and students. Some states have adopted an indefensible rule that provisional ballots cast at the wrong table of the correct polling place must be thrown out.

Congress has failed to address these and other important flaws with the mechanics of the election system. But this, too, may be about to change. Senator Feinstein is saying that providing fair access to the ballot will be among her committee’s top priorities in the coming year. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, plans to revise and reintroduce her “Count Every Vote Act,” which takes an admirably broad approach to overhauling the voting system.

Election reform has tended to be a partisan issue, with Democrats arguing for reform and Republicans resisting it. It shouldn’t be. Congressional Democrats should make fixing this country’s broken system of elections a top priority, and Republicans should join them.

[professorpan]

I was absolutely right. A NYTimes editorial on 11/16/06 is finally about electronic voting fraud in Florida.

So the 'fake stamp' story was generated several days ago to hijack the keywords into another narrative, probably with the motive of confusing people and minimizing the effect of this editorial's role in increasing awareness.

No, Hugh, the fake stamp story happened.

This is SPOOK WORK in MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

It is SPOOK WORK in your MIND.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

No, Hugh, the fake stamp story happened.
.....
It is SPOOK WORK in your MIND.

Puh-leeeeze. This story stinks so badly I can't stand it. This is a classic case of The Magician's Other Hand, something you purport to know something about, PP.

How did this 'fake stamp' even REALLY happen? It makes no sense when you look at it.
It is SO OBVIOUSLY a set-up when you ask yourself some questions, PP.

What is the liklihood that someone opening piles of absentee ballots would say "Hey, that's a RARE 1918 INVERTED JENNY!" -???????

Who would actually "make" a fake rare stamp?

Why would they then mail it in on an absentee ballot?

Who would even NOTICE IT on a mailed-in absentee ballot?

How many mailed-in absentee ballots are processed?

How are they opened? Manually?

This CNN article has all the telltale signs of a set-up media event complete with a VIDEO. Now how did that happen, you might wonder--
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/14/stamp.ballot.reut/index.html?eref=rss_latest

Experts: Rare stamp on ballot probably fake
POSTED: 3:22 p.m. EST, November 14, 2006
.....
Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom, a member of the Florida county's Canvassing Board, said he spotted the red-and-blue stamp, along with two stamps from the 1930s and another dating to World War Two, on an envelope used to mail an absentee ballot for last week's election.

Video clip:
(Watch how old stamp caused an uproar -- 1:17)
[url]javascript:cnnVideo('play','/video/tech/2006/11/14/barron.rare.stamp.wfor','2006/11/21');[/url]

[professorpan]

This CNN article has all the telltale signs of a set-up media event complete with a VIDEO. Now how did that happen, you might wonder--

Wow, a cable news station using actual VIDEO technology? What's next -- will newspapers start featuring photographs?

It is SO OBVIOUSLY a set-up when you ask yourself some questions, PP.

What is the liklihood that someone opening piles of absentee ballots would say "Hey, that's a RARE 1918 INVERTED JENNY!" -???????

Did you even take the time to watch the newfangled video clip? If you did, you'd see that the ballot envelope has several obviously old stamps on it, in addition to the fake inverted Jenny. It immediately would stand out because most people use a single stamp.

Who would actually "make" a fake rare stamp?

Oh, I don't know. A publicity-hungry prankster, perhaps?

Why would they then mail it in on an absentee ballot?

Obviously, to create a buzz.

Who would even NOTICE IT on a mailed-in absentee ballot?

Maybe one of the many people processing the ballots?

How many mailed-in absentee ballots are processed?

I'm not familiar with Florida election laws, but in most state the absentee ballots are supposed to be couned just like regular votes.

How are they opened? Manually?

I'd assume, yet. But why does that matter? The stamp(s) are on the OUTSIDE of the envelope.

If you could learn to avoid jumping to conclusions, and take some time to evaluate your examples before getting riled up about them... ah, but I've only suggested that about forty or fifty times now...

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Note that the 11/11/06 story below plays up the rule-abiding election process with a priceless stamp locked away in a ballot box. Too bad Jimmy Stewart wasn't available to play the part of the democracy-loving Broward County Commisioner.

No mention of the backwards-counting machines of 11/2004. Why?

Who put all those old stamps on an envelope?
Or did they?

How was it discovered like an unexpected Ace in the poker game of politics by the very Broward County Commissioner his oh-so-august-and-honorable self just five days before the NYTimes points at election fraud in Florida?

The NYTimes highlights doubts about electronic voting in a Congressional race between
Buchanan and Jennings in Sarasota County.

The serious questions about the Buchanan- Jennings race only add to the high level of mistrust that many people already feel about electronic voting.

Is it a coincidence that the 'Upside Down Jenny' stamp is discussed by a spokesperson for the Secretary of State named Jenny Nash? Did her name give someone the idea for this psy-ops diversion?

Whatever her name, Jenny Nash has been covering up election fraud in Florida since atleast 2002, when she was spokeperson for Florida's Republican Sec. of State, Jim Smith.

From the 11/06/02 Washington Post-
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... i_94008945

Exit poll woes aside, even Florida, the bellwether for how the elections would go this time around, seemed to be without major problems. Nationally, vote counting was largely uneventful too. The legions of poll watchers that swarmed Miami-Dade county to make sure there were no counting shenanigans didn't see major problems. "It was a smooth election, straight across the state, with only very minor glitches," Jenny Nash , a spokeswoman for Republican Florida Secretary of State Jim Smith told The Washington Post.

Here's the first appearance of the 'fake voting stamp' story from CBS (long CIA history) with help from the Miami Herald, too (long CIA history) -

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_315165931.html

Nov 11, 2006 4:56 pm US/Eastern
Rare Stamp May Be On Envelope In Sealed Ballot Box

(CBS4) FT. LAUDERDALE A rare stamp worth at least $200,000 was used to mail an absentee ballot but the envelope was placed in a box that by law cannot be opened.

The famous “Inverted Jenny” stamp was discovered by Broward County Commissioner, John Rodstrom while he was reviewing absentee ballots. There was no name written on the written on the envelope, voiding the vote.

What looked like a small stamp collection on one envelope caught Rodstrom's eye about 8 p.m. Tuesday. At least one was from 1936, Rodstrom said. Then he noticed one had an upside-down World War I-era airplane, the hallmark of an Inverted Jenny.

"I was a stamp collector when I was little," Rodstrom told The Miami Herald. "I recognized it."

Rodstrom discussed the stamp with the other members of the canvassing board and a stamp-collecting Broward County sheriff's deputy overheard them talking about the possible Jenny.

He said the stamp would be very valuable if it turned out to be real. But it was too late.

"By that time we had already sealed the box. And once you seal the box, under the election law you can't unseal it," Beller said.

Elections officials will retain the ballot for 22 months, Jenny Nash, a spokeswoman for the Florida secretary of state's office, told The Associated Press. After that, any action is up to the county elections supervisor.

The 24-cent Jenny stamps were printed in 1918, said Maynard Guss, president of the Sunrise Stamp Club.

Stamp sheets were run through presses twice to process all the colors, and on one pass, four Jenny sheets went through backward, Guss said. Inspectors caught the errors on three sheets and destroyed them, but somehow, a sheet of 100 stamps got through.

Stamp collectors have spent 88 years trying to find them all.

This Jenny, if proven to be authentic, may not be as valuable as it once could have been. When the absentee ballot was mailed, the stamp was canceled, reducing its value, Rodstrom said.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Decontextualization rides again.

Yes, PP, it is only as it appears on the surface portrayed by our reliable media with no history of distorting election news and with nothing but mundane details signifying nothing.

Right.

I'm only mildly curious what the 1:17 video clip actually shows since it won't run for me.
Anything worth the hype of "watch the uproar"?
Or just pointless amplification of the Magician's Other Hand?

Anyway. Back to 'Backwards Jenny Nash' and election fraud and media cover-up.

'Backwards' Jenny Nash and Diebold have been stealing elections in Florida for years.
Here's Jenny Nash telling the world in 2004 how reliable Diebold is -

http://www.kioskmarketplace.com/article_printable.php?id=14036

E-voting hits all-time high in '04,
but skeptics voice concern
by Tracy Kitten, reporter * • 22 Nov 2004

According to David Bear, spokesperson for Diebold Election Systems, Diebold receives approval percentages in the mid- to high- 90s for its e-voting machines. Bear and Jenny Nash, of the Florida Department of State, said the flexibility of touchscreens, where language, accessibility and various ballot options (for counties that have numerous ballot styles) are concerned, makes them attractive to elections officials.

In a nutshell, touchscreens are more convenient for voters. Nash added that "people in Florida are familiar and comfortable with them."
(.....)
In Florida, where a lot of media coverage was focused, Election Day came to a close with relatively few noted problems, according to Jenny Nash, press secretary for the Florida Department of State.

"Florida started using the touchscreen voting in 2002," Nash said. "Literally, in Florida, there is an election somewhere every week … and we've had hundreds of successful election systems using this method. We've never had reports of equipment malfunctions (or votes being lost)."

Florida has been using optical-scanning machines, which scan and tally paper ballots, since 2000.

Nash said 15 of Florida's 67 counties used touchscreens this year, and approximately half of the state's voters reside in those 15 counties. The majority of the state, she added, uses touchscreens from Sequoia Voting Systems and the Electronic Systems & Software iVontronic machine. One of Florida's counties, Duval County, uses a touchscreen from Diebold Election Systems. And most counties in Florida use optical scanners from all three companies, Sequoia and ES&'s and Diebold, Nash added.

Florida has been using the Diebold scanning machines since 2002. And 30 counties currently use the Diebold optical scanning machines, she said.
(.....)
Nash said she doesn't see why any paper during a vote is needed, however, since all of the machines used in Florida are "rigorously" tested and certified by the Florida Department of State; and all of the machines are capable of printing an audit trail at the end of the day.

"Florida not only has one of the most rigorous certification processes in the nation, but prior to each and every election, a pre-election logic and accuracy test is conducted on every voting machine that will be used in the election," Nash said. "After testing, the machines are then sealed and that seal is not broken until Election Day."

Nash added that "Florida voters should have complete confidence in these voting systems, due to the rigorous certification process and pre-election testing."

[PeterofLoneTree]

Two guys are sitting across from each other in a newsroom somewhere, or anywhere in America. One's the set-up guy who inserts the news items into whatever medium they're using (Radio, TV, Print, etc). The other's the producer who decides which items are to be used.

The set-up guy, with the voting irregularity story in front of him asks, "You want me to go with the Florida voting story"?

The producer, thinking the set-up guy is referring to the rare stamp story, says, "Nah, fergit that. That ain't important." And the story gets spiked.

Now that's a fictional representation, but having worked in the newsrooms of radio stations, and having worked in the production planning department of a flat rolling steel mill for 17 years, those kinds of incidents happen all the time. Now those two guys in the newsroom maybe aren't trying to confuse themselves or each other, but I'd bet that somebody somewhere is hoping they do.

Hugh, I'll tell you something. Stay with these themes. As will I. MSM manipulation of the news is so abhorrent to me I hardly know how to begin to describe it.

I will admit that sometimes my scepticism has its humorous results. O.J. Simpson is back in the news again I see, so when I saw the Reuters headline "Pricey O.J. to put the squeeze on demand", I right away said, "AHA! More 'celebrity disinfo' like Blake and Jackson and Bryant". Uh, er, ...it's actually an article about how tight supplies of oranges are going drive up the price of orange juice.

"Of course I read the MSM. I want to know what government wants me to think is the real news."

[orz]

orz, I recommend you read up on 'fuzzy logic,' something discussed after the mid-1960s.

Well, there's fuzzy and then there's FUZZY...

Hugh, an election is an event involving a large number of people... ie all the people helping organise it, and all the voters. People are weird. When enough people are participating in the same activity, some of them are going to do weird things or experience weird things done by others. When weird things are deemed interesting enough, newspapers will write about them in order to fill up that troublesome space between adverts.

Just because an event has significance, doesn't mean everything related to that event was caused by it, or done for a reason related to the significant thing about the event.

Cooincidences DO happen, amazingly enough. To refuse to accept that is to be insane.

Consider: would it be possible for a journalist to write an article involving the elections and the idea of something going backwards without you declaring Keyword Hijacking? What would it take to convince you this was NOT the case?

I can accept the broad premise that the press merrily report trivial 'human interest' stories around the issues of the day to avoid having to tell people anything meaningful about them, but when you're SO SURE that a bizzare story about fake stamps was totally cooked up to deliver a specific message like this, without any evidence other than the articles themselves, and without any proof that the events reported did not actually happen, then you are simply entering the realm of the paranoid.