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    Stolen Future: The Untold Story of the 2000 Election
    Stolen Future: The Untold Story of the 2000 Election
    Stolen Future: The Untold Story of the 2000 Election
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    Stolen Future: The Untold Story of the 2000 Election

    By Stephen Singular

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    "This is an important book with new, deep reporting. It is chock-full of information, insights, and analysis that will intrigue both current readers and future historians." —Dan Rather, 24-year anchor of CBS Evening News and former White House correspondent

    In Stolen Future, investigative reporter Stephen Singular conducts a breathtaking historical excavation of a still-controversial "cold case": the disputed, nail-biter 2000 election in Florida.

    Remember the infamous "hanging chads?" The outcome of the election was, amid uproar and rancor, ultimately decided by the Supreme Court. But what really caused those thousands of votes to be invalidated? Determined to find out, Singular dug deep — and uncovered shocking secrets about the extent to which our trusted election mechanisms can be compromised.

    But his story was never told. Instead, it was suppressed, ignored, and then buried. Until now, that is — just in time to be a part of current heated discussion regarding US election fraud.

    Time and again over the years we have seen proof that our machinery for choosing leaders is shamefully vulnerable to manipulation and chicanery.

    Since the 2000 debacle, standards have actually declined, as electoral authorities across the country abandoned not just punch cards but also reliable and re-countable hand-marked paper ballots — in favor of the false promises of technology. They have bet our democracy and our future on totally opaque black-box electronic devices that can be "hacked" by both outsiders and insiders.

    This is an issue that should keep you up at night. And after reading Stolen Future, a real-life thriller, you will never take the security of your vote for granted again.

    "The attack on democracy described in this fascinating account is entirely plausible. If it happened, it changed the course of history." —Philip B. Stark, professor of statistics at the University of California and advisor to the US Election Assistance Commission

    "This story raises issues that really matter." —Douglas W. Jones, professor of computer science at the University of Iowa and co-author of Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhoWhatWhy
    Release dateOct 23, 2018
    ISBN9781732921900
    Stolen Future: The Untold Story of the 2000 Election
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    Stephen Singular

    Stephen Singular is a New York Times bestselling author of many books, including Shadow on the Mountain, A Death in Wichita, and When Men Become Gods. His book Talked to Death was nominated for an Edgar Award and made into the Oliver Stone film Talk Radio. Singular has appeared on Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Court TV, and Anderson Cooper 360.

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      Stolen Future - Stephen Singular

      When Donald Trump became president-elect I went back into my computer files and dug out something I’d written more than a decade earlier: an unpublished feature story about what might have been in America, when there was a chance to create an entirely different future for the country, if only…

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      The Ghost of MAGA Future

      I spent my 50th birthday with an enraged captain of industry. It was early November 2000, during the chaos following that year’s presidential election, and business dealings had thrown us together for the evening. He was drinking, relaxing, and talking very freely. I was listening in shock and revulsion. He was an extremely successful executive who’d made tens of millions of dollars and who knew some of America’s most powerful people. I was a journalist with a nose for ugliness. He was a Republican and the Republicans were celebrating a victory for George W. Bush, though Al Gore had won the popular vote by more than 500,000 ballots. The industrialist was livid because Gore was challenging the vote count in Florida, instead of conceding the White House. He hated Gore because Gore was a Democrat and an environmentalist, and he hated Gore’s boss, President Bill Clinton. He called both men names used to describe people having sex with animals.

      He told me that folks like him had lost control of the country to those who were not like him. By that he meant not white, not rich, not as smart, not Christian, not Republican, and, frankly, just not important. People like him had stomached all of this they could and were going to take back America — by force if necessary. Anyone standing in their way might get crushed. His words were not a casual speech made over cocktails, but a declaration of war: if I were not a person like him, I should be prepared for trouble.

      For weeks, months, and years afterward, I was haunted by that evening. This man had everything — wealth, power, connections — but he was utterly angry and fearful. He nakedly showed me the emotions of people like himself and what underlay their thinking and actions. The haunting deepened in December 2000, when the US Supreme Court stopped the counting of the disputed ballots in Florida and handed the Oval Office to George W. Bush. It grew deeper still when, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the government quickly acted to dampen our civil liberties; to dramatically increase domestic surveillance of Americans; to go to war in Afghanistan; to boost military spending by the biggest hike in two decades; and to prepare for the invasion of Iraq. It was reinforced in November 2002, when the Republicans, already in control of the Supreme Court and the presidency, won both houses of Congress. In two short years, people like the industrialist had indeed taken over the

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