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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 09:33 AM
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Wednesday 12/29 Election/Fraud/Recount thread
In order to organize and document I thought it would be a good idea to have a daily thread to place items related to the recounts/fraud. This also make it easier to "catch up" when we are away from the computer for a while.

Please help us. If you see something that isn't here post it with a link to the thread and a thanks to the author. Thanks to everyone who is helping in this project.


Link to the thread from yesterday here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x202556
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 09:38 AM
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1. Howard Dean on Election Fraud, Reform and more!
"HD: I think we need to focus on election officials. County Clerks, Secretaries of State in particular, because the Republicans have been so partisan in exercising their responsibility to help people vote, they‘ve in fact tried to suppress turnout instead of encourage it. Secondly, we, I think we need to try to get laws passed, by referendum if necessary, that says that no voting machines in a particular state or jurisdiction may be used unless they can be recounted by hand. Oregon has such a statute because Bill Bradbury (Oregon’s Secretary of State) got one passed in 2001. We should try to state by state overhaul the election process both by referendum and by electing where possible Democratic Secretaries of State and County Clerks."

Read the rest at http://www.peopleforchange.net /

Dean always was ahead of the curve on recognizing election fraud as a real and present danger. His locally based strategy is right on, and indeed the only way available to us now that all three branches of the Federal Government are under Republican control. Of course, it also needs the movement charisma of people like Martin Luther King or Jesse Jackson, a whole Woodstock's worth of powerful groovy counter-culture and so on.


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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 03:14 PM
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8. Tuesday 12/28 Highlights
Recap of stories from Tuesday 12/28
(and a few from previous days)

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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 03:46 PM
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10. Welcome back, dzika!
I love what you do here!

:toast:
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 10:28 AM
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2. Calendar of Events Leading to Constitutional Challenge of Electors on 1/6
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Calendar of Events Leading to Constitutional Challenge of Electors on 1/6/05

12/28/2004 7:38:00 PM


Contact: Stephen Gaskill of ReDefeatBush, 202-257-9298, Web: http://www.redefeatbush.com

News Advisory:

ReDefeatBush founder David Lytel will hold a press conference at National Press Building Wednesday 12/29 at 11:00 AM in the Lisagor Room on ReDefeatBush's Activities between now and 1/20/05. See http://www.redefeatbush.com/briefing for more on strategy and tactics of the Constitutional Challenge including relevant Federal statutes and the written Challenge from 1/6/2000

12/29/04 Press Conference, National Press Building, Washington, DC, 11:00 AM

Lytel will show video segments from Ohio that provide visual confirmation for the assertion that the vote suppression and fraud surpassed the bounds of normal partisanship and crossed over into illegal activity, and distribute videotapes in BetaSP format to the first 25 television journalists to arrive. He will also distribute copies of the op-ed refused by the Washington Post editorial department but accepted by the advertising department to run in the paper Thursday or Friday at a cost of $11,358. More information is available in detail at http://www.redefeatbush.com/washingtonpissed . And he will announce large scale "Rallies for the Republic" in Boston on 1/3/05 and in San Francisco on 1/4/05, provide an update on the speakers outside the Capitol on 1/6, reveal more details about the composition of the legal team for the Constitutional Challenge, announce a postal solicitation for financial support to go to 20,000 Volvo owners in DC and SF and the creation of the Robert Morris Fund to collect contributions to go into our work on the constitutional challenge

1/3/05 Boston, MA (Location announced tomorrow) 7:00 PM

In cooperation with the Coalition Against Election Fraud, ReDefeatBush will hold a Rally for the Republic at which citizens can express in public their call to their Senators and Representatives in Congress to support the Constitutional Challenge. A short video on vote suppression in Ohio will also be shown. More information at http://www.rallyfortherepublic.org

1/4/05 San Francisco, CA (Location announced tomorrow)

A second Rally for the Republic to be held in San Francisco and focused on California's Congressional delegation. The video will also be shown. More information at http://www.rallyfortherepublic.org

1/6/05 Upper Senate Park, Washington, DC at Noon

Rev. Jesse Jackson, Green Party Presidential candidate David Cobb and Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik (invited) are expected to headline the Rally for the Republic in support of the Challenge inside the Capitol. To be netcast live on RadioLeft.com. More information at http://www.patrioticoutrage.org

1/20/05 Counter Inaugural, Washington, DC, day time

Historian Clay Jenkinson will do an enactment of Thomas Jefferson at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and ReDefeatBush founder David Lytel will interact with the crowd in the character of as Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America. To enable participants to spread out successfully over such a large territory ReDefeatBush will sponsor a shuttle bus service to run in a circuit from DuPont Circle to Malcom X Park (also known as Meridian Hill Park) to Franklin Park and from there to that Capitol Hill stage, around the Capitol then down to the Jefferson and Roosevelt Memorials and up 23rd and back to DuPont. It will stop at all the Metro stops it passes along the way. More information at http://www.redefeatbush.com

1/20/05 CounterInaugural Ball, Washington DC, evening

The ReDefeatBush Counterinaugural Ball will be held at Dream (1350 Okie Street, NE) beginning at 7:00. It will offer two hours of dinner buffet and open bar for $30for people under 30 and $60 for people over 30. There are VIP tickets for $150 and Penthouse access for $500. More details on the performers and celebrities expected to be in attendance will be announced closer to the event. The name ReDefeatBush will be retired and in its place a new name announced with an exciting and bold new mission. More information at http://www.counterinauguralball.org

1/20/05 Video on the Counter Inaugural 10:00 PM Eastern,

A team of videographers will capture performances, speeches, interviews, and crowd shots during the day and produce a fast documentary of the event to be shown at Dream at 10:00 PM and multicast over the Internet to a worldwide audience of unprecedented size. More information at http://www.counterinauguralball.org

http://www.usnewswire.com /

-0-

/© 2004 U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/


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meganmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 12:59 PM
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dupe - self-delete
Edited on Wed Dec-29-04 12:59 PM by meganmonkey
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meganmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 12:59 PM
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3. Kick!
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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 01:11 PM
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4. Action request
spirittoo - (fr. RRMB)
I imagine the working folks will have a chance to read this now. I know it is probably difficult to call during working hours, but if there are any of you out there that can, please do.

Spead the word. Ask Ohio AG why they will not enforce the law. Is it truth that they stated putting Katherine Blackwell under oath is harrassment?
I tried to locate an 800 number, but there was only one for consumer protection. If anyone knows of an 800 number for Ohio AG please post.

Ohio AG: 614 466 4320.
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 01:36 PM
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5. Chicago Sun-Times Ohio recount ends -- Jackson still fighting
December 29, 2004

BY JOHN SEEWER




TOLEDO, Ohio -- Election officials finished the presidential recount in Ohio on Tuesday, with the final tally shaving about 300 votes off President Bush's six-figure margin of victory in the state that gave him a second term.

The recount shows Bush winning Ohio by 118,457 votes over John Kerry, according to unofficial results. Ohio and its 20 electoral votes tipped the race to Bush.

The Kerry campaign supported the recount, but said it did not expect the tally to change the election winner.

A group of voters citing fraud have challenged the election results with the Ohio Supreme Court. The voters, supported by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, have cited irregularities including long lines, a shortage of voting machines in minority precincts and problems with computer equipment.


One more paragraph here: http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-ohio29.html
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 01:39 PM
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6. Wonkette (satire)
Ohio Recount: So Worth It!
Maybe we'll finally stop getting those "Why aren't you covering this?" emails:

Election officials finished the presidential recount in Ohio on Tuesday, with the final tally shaving about 300 votes off President Bush's six-figure margin of victory in the state that gave him a second term.

The recount shows Bush winning Ohio by 118,457 votes over John Kerry, according to unofficial results provided to The Associated Press by the 88 counties. Lucas County, home to Toledo, was the last to finish counting.

Of course, now we have to deal with "They stole the recount!" form letters and maps showing how the counties that went to Bush were former "slave counties"....

We lost, everybody. L-O-S-T. Just concentrate on your Canadian visa applications; if you screw that up, you can't blame Deibold.

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/campaigning/ohio-recount-so-worth-it-028532.php


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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 01:47 PM
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7. CNSNews.com "And the Winner Is ... Still Bush"
By David Thibault
CNSNews.com Managing Editor
December 29, 2004

(CNSNews.com) - The good news for Democrats, who still believe that President George Bush may have won the state of Ohio on Nov. 2 as a result of fraud, John Kerry picked up about 300 more votes in the state's presidential recount. The bad news for those Democrats: Kerry still lost the state to Bush by 118, 457 votes.

The Kerry campaign supported the recount that was formally requested by two fringe candidates, but the Democratic nominee long ago conceded the Ohio results, which were essential to Bush winning a second term.


>>snip
But recount the votes Blackwell did. And the second tally showed that each candidate picked up more votes - Kerry 734 and Bush 449 - most of them coming from previously disqualified ballots. On top of netting the extra 285 votes from the state procedure, Kerry gained about three dozen more when some of Ohio's counties changed their certified vote tallies.

"The intention was always to verify whether there were anomalies in the voting process," said Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik. "The purpose of the recount was not to change the outcome."


Entire story here: http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200412\POL20041229a.html

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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 03:44 PM
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9. Yahoo GOP Demands Voter List in Wash. County
GOP "demands" in Washington State

Again, a lesson to be learned.

To play their game you need to be ruthless!

Full story: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20041229/ap_on_re_us/governor_recount

snip>>>

By DAVID AMMONS, Associated Press Writer

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Republicans are demanding a list of voters in Washington state's most populous county as the party considers a court challenge of Democrat Christine Gregoire's razor-thin victory in the governor's race, officials said.



Legal Challenges Likely in Governor's Race


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All Election Coverage

A hand recount put Gregoire ahead by 130 votes out of 2.8 million cast. Previous counts had favored Republican Dino Rossi, an affluent former state senator.


Chris Vance, state Republican party chairman, said Monday officials will decide whether to challenge the recount results after studying the voter rolls from King County, a Democratic stronghold that includes Seattle.


"We're mostly posing questions," he said. "King County is where we saw the votes changing. King County is the one county that was allowed to take ballots that were declared dead in November and bring them back to life in December."



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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 03:53 PM
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11. Boston Globe: Group holds fast to Kerry cause with Beacon Hill vigil
By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | December 29, 2004

The election is long over. A new year is starting, and even most of the more ardent liberals are moving on. But in Louisburg Square this week, one determined group isn't quite ready to let go. About a half dozen supporters of John Kerry are holding vigil in front of his house, still hoping for a Kerry presidency.

The little knot of demonstrators, calling themselves the Coalition Against Election Fraud, stood shivering in the cold yesterday, hoisting signs and pressing fliers into the hands of bewildered passersby. Taxi drivers, neighbors digging cars out of the snow, and Beacon Hill residents who happened to be strolling by were subjected to earnest pleas to join the cause.

''Who knows? Maybe we'll overturn the election," said Sheila Parks, a vigil organizer.

Parks said the group believes the election was fixed and wants to persuade the Massachusetts senator to oppose congressional approval of the electoral college results Jan. 6. That would set in motion the process of questioning George W. Bush's victory in November. Such a challenge has never been successful, and nobody in Washington expects one now.

More: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/kerry/articles/2004/12/29/group_holds_fast_to_kerry_cause_with_beacon_hill_vigil/


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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 03:57 PM
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12. YANG (YEI) ATTORNEYS THREATEN 'SEMINOLE CHRONICLE' WITH LEGAL ACTION
YANG (YEI) ATTORNEYS THREATEN 'SEMINOLE CHRONICLE' WITH LEGAL ACTION!

Language in Certified Letter from YEI Attorneys VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL to Previous Threat Letter from Feeney Attorneys!

After receiving a faxed letter from Congressman Tom Feeney's (R-FL) attorneys last week threatening legal action, The Seminole Chronicle has now received a second such letter, this time from the attorneys of Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI).

The language in both letters to The Chronicle is remarkably similar, and in some cases, virtually identical suggesting a collusion between the two different parties in an attempt to silence the local weekly in Feeney's hometown from reporting on the growing "vote-rigging" scandal...

FULL STORY (and side-by-side comparison of threat letters):
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001082.htm

(PLEASE NOTE: The BRAD BLOG has finally installed an RSS Syndication Feed at: http://www.bradblog.com/BradBlog.rdf where you may get immediate updates on all BRAD BLOG stories as they are posted, instead of just these DU alerts of the most significant breaking stories.)

Brad

---
Brad Friedman
THE BRAD BLOG - The uprising continues...
http://www.BradBlog.com
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 03:57 PM
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13. delete--Al-CIAda just posted
Edited on Wed Dec-29-04 03:59 PM by MelissaB
duplicate. sorry
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 04:05 PM
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14. OpEdNews: Assassins of Democracy, Votergate 2004 Continues
http://www.opednews.com/wade_122904_democracy_assassins.htm

I don't know how to cut and paste here. Can somebody help?
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Liberty Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 09:56 PM
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30. If you have Windows Explorer,
Left click on your mouse and drag it to highlight the material you want to copy. Click on "edit" at the top of the page, choose "cut" (or "copy"). Move your mouse to where you want the material to be, then click "paste." Voila!
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 04:15 PM
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15. Common Dreams: Rule One: Count Every Vote
Published on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 by The Nation
Rule One: Count Every Vote
by John Nichols

Politics is a game played by rules. And the most important rule regarding close elections is that you don't win by being conciliatory during the recount process. Indeed, the only way a candidate who trails on election night ends up taking the oath of office is by refusing to concede and then confidently demanding that every vote be counted -- even when the opposition, the media and the courts turn against you.

That is a rule that Al Gore failed to follow to its logical conclusion in 2000, and that John Kerry did not even attempt to apply this year. Both men were so determined to maintain their long-term political viability that they refused to fight like hell to assure that the votes of their supporters were counted. That refusal let their backers down. It also guaranteed that, despite convincing evidence that the Democrat won in 2000, and serious questions about the voting and recount processes in the critical state of Ohio in 2004, George W. Bush would waltz into the White House.

Maybe someday, if the Democrats really want to win the presidency, they will nominate someone like Christine Gregoire. Gregoire is the Washington state attorney general who this year was nominated by Democrats to run for governor of that state. She is hardly a perfect politician -- like too many Democrats, she is more of a manager than a visionary; and she is as ideologically drab as Gore or Kerry.

But Gregoire had one thing going for her, and that was her determination to win.

snip>>>

The fight may not be over yet. Rossi is crying foul. But the likelihood is that, in Washington state, the Democrat, not the Republican, will be taking the oath of office in January. There are two reasons why this is the case. First, Christine Gregoire got more votes. Second, she demanded that they be counted.


More: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1228-24.htm
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 04:38 PM
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16. Chief justice refuses to remove self from vote challenge
Posted on Wed, Dec. 29, 2004

Chief justice refuses to remove self from vote challenge

Associated Press


COLUMBUS, Ohio - Chief Justice Thomas Moyer of the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to remove himself from a case challenging the results of the presidential election.

Moyer also rejected a request by voters challenging the results for a speedy hearing and an order that election boards preserve evidence from the election.

-snip-

Moyer said there is no reason for him to remove himself since the challenge doesn't involve his own election and he has nothing to gain by a change in the results.

Citing fraud, 37 voters backed by Columbus attorneys Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis have challenged the results of the presidential race in Ohio. They point to long lines, a shortage of voting machines in predominantly minority neighborhoods and problems with computer equipment.

Link:
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/10523670.htm

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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 06:12 PM
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17. The Worst FOX Segment Yet - (An interview with David Lytel)

Reported by ellen at December 29, 2004 02:13 AM

The Worst FOX Segment Yet


That's saying a lot, I know. Was it Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity? No, it was Alan Colmes yelling at someone named David Lytel for 45 minutes for reasons I never quite figured out.

Apparently, Lytel has a website called www.redefeatbush.com which is organizing a protest of the Ohio electoral vote outcome on January 6. For some reason, this infuriates Colmes because, he said, it makes Democrats look like sore losers. Colmes was also insulted by remarks made about him on Lytel's website.

Ordinarily, I would re-listen to my tape of this segment, then try to recap and analyze what each side had to say. But, frankly, it was so upsetting to me, I can't stand to hear it again. Colmes started off the interview angrily accusing Lytel of having a bad attitude and it went downhill from there. I hardly got a clue about what Lytel was trying to say because Colmes kept interrupting him and shouting at him and then shouting more that Lytel hadn't answered the question. When the segment was over, I was literally shaking in my chair.

Putting aside my personal discomfort, the real shame of it, in my view, is that this important and interesting issue never got discussed. As I wrote in a comment to Deborah's post about Lytel's appearance on Hannity & Colmes last week where, apparently, Lytel was also attacked, I don't know where I stand on the issue of voter fraud in Ohio and what should be done. But the subject deserves a thorough and fair airing and Colmes' hostility to doing so puzzles and dismays me. In fact, I have heard the topic discussed fairly on Colmes' show (with Greg Palast) so what Colmes' problem with Lytel was, I simply don't get. Is it the protest Colmes hates? The fact that Lytel insulted him? Whatever Colmes' reasons, what could be more important to our democracy than the question of whether or not the person in the White House was fairly elected? Don't tell me it doesn't deserve the same amount of open-minded consideration as putting the Christ back in Christmas.


Link:
http://www.newshounds.us/2004/12/29/the_worst_fox_segment_yet.php
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 06:22 PM
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18. Who Won The Popular Vote? Comparative Validity of Exit Poll and Vote Count

December 29, 2004

Who Won The Popular Vote? An Examination of the Comparative Validity of Exit Poll and Vote Count Data

by Jonathan D. Simon, J.D. and Ron P. Baiman, Ph.D.
December 29, 2004


Executive Summary:

  • There is a substantial discrepancy—well outside the margin of error and outcomedeterminative— between the national exit poll and the popular vote count.
  • The possible causes of the discrepancy would be random error, a skewed exit poll, or breakdown in the fairness of the voting process and accuracy of the vote count.
  • Analysis shows that the discrepancy cannot reasonably be accounted for by chance or random error.
  • Evidence does not support hypotheses that the discrepancy was produced by problems with the exit poll.
  • Widespread breakdown in the fairness of the voting process and accuracy of the vote count are the most likely explanations for the discrepancy.
  • In an accurate count of a free and fair election, the strong likelihood is that Kerry would have been the winner of the popular vote.


Download the paper (PDF, File size: 1.5MB)
http://freepress.org/images/departments/PopularVotePaper181_1.pdf

Link to The Free Press
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1054


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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 06:36 PM
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19. A Roundup Of The Recent Events Surrounding Election Fraud in Ohio
December 29, 2004

It Ain't Over Till It's Over
A Roundup Of The Recent Events Surrounding Election 2004's Ohio Recount and Voting Machine Fraud Situation

By Lisa Rein

Here's What You Can Do now to help influence the situation.

Index



Download this report and all its documents (video and mp3 excluded) as a zip file.

Link:
http://video.lisarein.com/election2004/ohioreport/recount.html

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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 06:41 PM
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20. Federal Standards Needed to Reduce Voter Fraud

Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 05:30 PM

Federal Standards Needed to Reduce Voter Fraud
By Makebra M. Anderson, NNPA


WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The patchwork of local and state voting laws should be replaced with a single federal standard that would make it easier to detect and reduce voter fraud, community leaders say.

“It has been almost impossible to monitor the voting process the way the system is set up. People were turned away from polls, electronic machines didn’t carry the vote as people wanted it to be carried and numbers didn’t meet the reality of the number of voters that came out,” said Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX.). “This is not about Kerry or Bush. It’s about the birthright of Americans to vote – a constitutional right.

Lee’s remarks were made at a hearing on Capitol Hill called by Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.). The hearing was held last week to look to allegations of voter fraud in Ohio, a battleground state that determined the eventual winner.

“We have to find out where the fraud and misconduct has taken place and who did it, so we know how to repair it. We’re in phase one. Finding out what went wrong and where our laws need to be built up,” said Conyers. “One of the things that have come up is the need for one piece of equipment for every state.”

continued...
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1373&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 06:50 PM
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21. Gregoire to be certified as governor, but Rossi won’t concede

12/29/2004

Gregoire to be certified as governor, but Rossi won’t concede

The Associated Press


OLYMPIA — Democrat Christine Gregoire, the three-term state attorney general who fought America's tobacco industry, Internet porn and schoolyard bullying, becomes Washington's governor-elect Thursday, by a scant 129 votes out of more than 2.8 million cast.

But a legal challenge could be right around the corner, perpetuating the longest, closest governor's race in state history. Her Republican rival, Dino Rossi, isn't conceding yet.

``No concession,'' said Rossi spokeswoman Mary Lane. ``There are just too many questions, too many problems. As of right now, we don't believe this has been a proper or well-run election.''

continued...
http://cgi.bellinghamherald.com/cgi-bin/breakingnews/showstory.cgi?id=20041229153111&date=nil&ty=news_update
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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 06:53 PM
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22. The Nashua Advocate Reports on Media Blackout of the "Watergate of Ohio"
Edited on Wed Dec-29-04 06:54 PM by Al-CIAda
Wednesday, December 29, 2004

News: Election 2004: Mainstream Media Fails to Report Watergate-Style Burglary at Ohio Democratic Offices Twenty-One Days Before November Election

The Nashua Advocate Reports on Media Blackout of the "Watergate of Ohio"
See story, entitled "Mainstream Media Fails to Report Watergate-Style Burglary at Ohio Democratic Offices Twenty-One Days Before November Election," here --

http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com /

This story -- and the lack of any reporting on it -- is cause for legitimate outrage.
The News Editor
The Nashua Advocate
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 07:54 PM
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23. Contact Information for 7 Key Senators
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 07:56 PM
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24. Ideas For Those Who Can Make Financial Contributions
December 29, 2004

Ideas For Those Who Can Make Financial Contributions


Attorney, Cliff Arnebeck, Esq. Cliff Arnebeck Arnebeck Law Office 1351 King Avenue 1st Floor Columbus, OH 43212 614-481-8416 (indicate it is for Ohio election Litigation Fund) ( to wire funds ): Ohio Election Litigation Fund National City Bank, Columbus Routing #: 041 000 124 Account #: 982307158 Arnebeck@aol.com ( email your notice of contribution )

Bob Fritrakis, Free Press
http://freepress.org/store.php#donate
"CICJ Election Protection" ( this option is for Court Litigation ) It is Option #2 on the page. It is a 501(c)(3) Organization Can donate online, or via mail

Fair Elections :
Home page: www.fairelections.us/
Donations Page: www.fairelections.us/article.php?id=67
Contact Info Page: www.fairelections.us/article.php?id=27
The contact info page has phone numbers, and mailing addresses...etc. Gary Krane is the contact person for this Organization; he is raising funds for the Ohio contest of the election litigation. General Email: coordinator@FairElections.us

( There may be information updates soon on their site )
..Dot


Link:
http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/ideas-for-those-who-can-make-financial.html
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 07:59 PM
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25. Important Ohio Action Memo from Progressive Democrats of Illinois
December 29, 2004

Important Ohio Action Memo from Progressive Democrats of Illinois


I know you are getting millions of e-mails, sorry for another but I wanted to add some info and I wanted to encourage you to keep up the pressure on Congress, we only have 1 week to go!!! There is an urgent need for some donations to the Ohio legal battles go to www.Freepress.org and click on the Donate word on the right column. There is also an urgent need for funds to get the suppressed voters to Wash, DC go to www.donotconcede.com . Then there is a need for funds for the Jan 6th rally at www.patrioticoutrage.com . I hope everyone is seriously thinking about either the Jan 3rd Columbus, OH rally, 2pm, (indoors), go to www.rainbowpush.org for more info and/or the Jan 6th rally, 10am outside the Capitol Bldg. for the Challenge, go to www.patrioticoutrage.com ! If you want transportation info go to www.51capitalmarch.com or if in Illinois e-mail me at drlora@ameritech.net
Senator Byrd got many visits today and I think he is 1 of the Senators who will come through for us. Please try to call him at the 1-800-839-5276 but if his office is closed then fax him at 1-202-228-0002, make sure you add why the major media is blocking this story! Byrd is an older guy, as we all know, he may still be deluded about the independence of the press in America. I can tell because his aide, Ms. Barth has asked for faxed copies of real news articles on the fraud from the major press, especially the NYT and the Wash Post. She does not want electronic copies, if you have any laying around please fax them to her at 304-343-7144 and then fax a letter to the other number above, try to keep it to 2 pages or less!!!

Many of the Senators offices are closed that is why we are going to local actions, they are having vigils outside Kerry's home every day in Mass, we are going to Obama's going away party tomorrow night here in Chicago to give him a message and pass out flyers! So the phone calls are probably not going to get through to the Senators until Jan 3rd. So I am asking everyone to start faxing the Senators and then on Jan 3rd you can go back to calling, 1-800-839-5276!

Please make the letters short, just tell them that you no longer trust the integrity of our Democracy, you and 40 million other Americans, per Zogby, believe that this election was stolen in a widespread electronic coup! Ask them to sign the challenge so that we can start the process of real election reform in this country by having a national debate. Tell them that we will need a full House Judicial Committee investigation and then criminal investigations as warranted from there. Tell them that you are sick and tired of having elections where you can not trust the outcome, tell them PAPER BALLOTS counted at the precinct level are the absolute safest, no more giving our Democracy away to the corporations; ALL THE MACHINES CAN BE HACKED, DISTRIBUTED POORLY and MALFUNCTION as per the hundreds of thousands of reports of irregularities that have poured in since Nov 2nd! We do not have to prove all the fraud, we just have to tell them how we feel knowing that America is really a dictatorship, where a small group of individuals can steal the Presidency over and over! Write 1 letter and just change the heading for each Senator. Thank you for all of your work to Defend our Democracy!

Fax to: ARK: Pryor-D 202-228-0908 / Blanche-D 202-228-1371 CA: Boxer-D 202-228-3972 / Feinstein-D 202-228-3954 CONN: Dodd-D 202-228-1683 / Lieberman-D 202-224-9750 DE: Carper-D 202-228-2190 / Biden-D 202-224-0139 FLA: Nelson-D 202-228-2183 HI: Akaka-D 202-224-2126 / Inouye-D 202-224-6747 IL: Durbin-D 202-228-0400 / Obama-D 202-228-1372 and 312-427-6401 IN: Bayh-D fax, 202-228-1377 / Lugar-R 202-228-0360 IOWA: Harkin-D 202-224-9369 LA: Landrieu-D 202-224-9735 MD: Mikulski-D 202-224-8858 / Sarbanes-D 202-224-1651 MAINE: Snowe-R 202-224-1946 MASS: Kerry-D 202-224-8525 / Kennedy-D 202-224-2417 MI: Stabenow-D 202-228-0325 / Levin-D 202-224-1388 MN: Dayton-D 202-228-2186 MT: Baucus-D 202-228-3790 NV: Reid-D 202-224-7327 ND Dorgan-D 202-224-1193 / Conrad-D 202-224-7776 NJ: Corzine-D 202-228-2197 / Lautenberg-D 202-228-4054 NM: Bingaman-D 202-224-2852 NY: Clinton-D 202-228-0282 / Schumer-D 202-228-1218 OH: Voinovich-R 202-228-1382 / DeWine-R 202-224-6519 OR: Wyden-D 202-228-2717 RI: Chafee-R 202-228-2853 / Reed-D 202-224-4680 SD: Johnson-D 202-228-5765 VT: Jeffords-I 202-228-0776 / Leahy-D 202-224-3476 WASH: Cantwell-D 202-228-0514 / Murray-D 202-224-0238 WVA: Rockefeller-D 202-224-7665 / Byrd-D 202-228-0002 WI: Feingold-D 202-224-2725 / Kohl-D 202-224-9787

In Solidarity for Democracy to Return to America,
Dr. Lora in Chicago
drlora@ameritech.net

Link:
http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/important-ohio-action-memo-from.html
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 08:29 PM
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26. Clear Channel refuses to air Right to Vote ad, and 6 other ads
My Fight With Clear Channel

A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Robert Millman

Like a lot of people, I think our country is in trouble. Fundamental issues about war and social equity are largely ignored by the main stream media.

I decided I had to do something about it, for myself and my family's sake, and set out to create a series of thirty second audio recordings, Issue Ads to frame basic questions about our country. With the help of my wife and several like minded friends I produced seven "Paid Radio Moments," and contacted WGY, the big AM radio station in Albany, New York. It should be no surprise that WGY is a Clear Channel station.


Read the rest here: http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/12/con04574.html

WGY refuses to air issue ads - article in Gazette Reporter
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/12/con04573.html

For links to the text of the radio ads and downloads to hear them
go to the original thread here by DemReadingDU: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x208478


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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 08:43 PM
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27. The 2004 Popular Vote Needs Thorough Investigation

12/30/04

By William Hare

The 2004 Popular Vote Needs Thorough Investigation


With so much current focus on the outrageous fraud perpetrated by Republicans in Ohio relative to the 2004 presidential election, including the current move on the part of Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell in eluding the issuance of a subpoena, it is important also to direct attention to the popular vote.

A recent study revealed that, after tabulating exit poll forecasts on the presidential popular vote, the median result was Kerry 51% and Bush 48%. This is the reverse of the figures proclaimed to be official, embodying a substantial 3-percent shift. Once again we are being asked to believe that the exit polls badly misfired just as they did in tabulating anticipated state results.

It is interesting to note that Dick Morris conceded that the current testing mechanisms are so advanced that discrepancies of the kind the corporate media asks us to swallow are inconceivable. Morris cites instead a Kerry campaign scheme that skewed the exit poll results. Remember the difference between a “good conspiracy” and a “bad conspiracy.” Certain media hypocrites who denounced any scrutiny of the 2004 voting results by progressives have no trouble embracing Morris. Progressives are accordingly labeled “spreadsheet conspiracy theorists.”

The logical question to ask would be this: Would Karl Rove engage in a one-step or two-step strategy? A Rove one-step ploy would involve trampling the voting process in a few states to secure victories in Ohio and Florida, which would deliver game, set, and match to his candidate. After the verbal pummeling Rove and company received four years ago after Bush trailed Al Gore by better than 500,000 votes in the popular category it would be foolhardy, if the system were to be tampered with at all, to fail to rectify a situation that could result in the Republican candidate chosen initially by a one-vote Supreme Court majority losing the popular vote for the second election in succession.

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http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001005.php
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 08:55 PM
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28. We are not alone


Thursday, December 30, 2004

We are not alone

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

-snip-

The Montana Supreme Court resolved an election dispute for a state House race after the first count showed the people's vote tied. The court tossed out "one or more" disputed ballots, giving the Democrat the win. This resulted in a 50-50 party tie in the Legislature. Under state law, that will give control of the Legislature to the Democrats. (The House member promises to introduce a bill requiring hand recounts next time.)

-snip-

Yesterday the North Carolina Board of Elections ordered a new statewide election for the hotly contested agriculture commissioner race. This came about because one county's voting machine eliminated 4,438 votes when the difference between the winning candidate and the challenger was only 2,287 votes.

The list goes on: Ohio's presidential recount is complete, but questions continue about the role of a partisan secretary of state. That election is under litigation, too. But the secretary -- backed by a state attorney -- has refused to testify about how the election was run.

Link:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/205764_messyed.html
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 09:47 PM
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29. ILCA : Presidential Election 2004: CBC Attacks Ohio Voter Disfranchisement
(International Labor Communications Association)

Posted by : DavidSwanson on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 05:25 PM
CBC Attacks Ohio Voter Disfranchisement
By Ron Walters, NNPA

I have seldom seen tears come to his eyes.

But there was Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., sitting in front of Detroit Rep. John Conyers, expressing his pain at the indignity of having to fight to legitimize the right to vote all over again, urging the Congressional Black Caucus to go to Ohio and hold hearings on the massive evidence coming out of voter disenfranchisement coming out of that state.

To his credit, Rep. Conyers not only responded, but was somewhat ahead of Jackson by calling the hearing in the first place. And he also committed himself and the CBC to going to Ohio and other places to continue the fact-finding role they were pursuing.

The hearing was packed with individuals, many of whom had important information on the degree of voter disenfranchisement. They told of results in the voting data in some counties that did not – could not -- have been reconciled with the initial exit polls. They told of voter purges in the Cleveland area that accounted for the mystery that Cyuhoga County, where Cleveland, is located had no more people registered in 2004 than in 2000, while Franklin County where Columbus is located, had far more people registered this time than in 2000.

>>snip

Well, they fooled us once, shame on them, and now they have fooled us again, shame on us. Shame on us for believing that all of this is accidental. Shame on us for allowing the people we vote for to turn their back and walk away from challenging the system to count our votes. Shame on us for not mounting a means to protest loudly what has happened in our name and most importantly in the name of Democracy. Shame on us for allowing the massive double-standard to exist, where the American president stands before the world and criticizing the result of elections in the Ukraine, when his own house is filthy. And just shame on us for having the audacity to call people out to vote and then allow the system to corrupt the innocence faith they have invested in the political system to work in a fair and unbiased manner

More here: http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1372&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

BTW-This is an excellent read. I would love to have posted the entire article here.
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 10:15 PM
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31. Republican seeks revote in Washington governor's race

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Republican seeks revote in Washington governor's race
DAVID AMMONS, Associated Press Writer


Republican Dino Rossi on Wednesday urged his Democratic rival in the closest governor's race in state history to join him in calling for a revote.

"The uncertainty surrounding this election process isn't just bad for you and me -- it is bad for the entire state," Rossi said, reading from a letter he said he sent to Democrat Christine Gregoire. "People need to know for sure that the next governor actually won the election."

-snip-

Gov. Gary Locke said he strongly disagrees with Rossi's call for another election. "The people have voted, and all votes properly cast were counted," said Locke, a Democrat

-snip-

Rossi had been using the title "governor-elect," and his family even toured the Governor's Mansion.


Link:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/12/29/national2148EST0739.DTL
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 10:22 PM
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32. Group holds fast to Kerry cause with Beacon Hill vigil


By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | December 29, 2004

Group holds fast to Kerry cause with Beacon Hill vigil


The election is long over. A new year is starting, and even most of the more ardent liberals are moving on. But in Louisburg Square this week, one determined group isn't quite ready to let go. About a half dozen supporters of John Kerry are holding vigil in front of his house, still hoping for a Kerry presidency.

The little knot of demonstrators, calling themselves the Coalition Against Election Fraud, stood shivering in the cold yesterday, hoisting signs and pressing fliers into the hands of bewildered passersby. Taxi drivers, neighbors digging cars out of the snow, and Beacon Hill residents who happened to be strolling by were subjected to earnest pleas to join the cause.


''Who knows? Maybe we'll overturn the election," said Sheila Parks, a vigil organizer.

Parks said the group believes the election was fixed and wants to persuade the Massachusetts senator to oppose congressional approval of the electoral college results Jan. 6. That would set in motion the process of questioning George W. Bush's victory in November. Such a challenge has never been successful, and nobody in Washington expects one now.

Link:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/kerry/articles/2004/12/29/group_holds_fast_to_kerry_cause_with_beacon_hill_vigil/
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 10:44 PM
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33. Rossi's letter calling for new election

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Rossi's letter calling for new election


Here is the text of Republican Dino Rossi's letter to Democrat Christine Gregoire urging a new election for governor of Washington:

Dear Attorney General Gregoire:

The secretary of state will certify you as governor-elect tomorrow (Thursday). Although you will be certified, with all the problems that have plagued this process, there won't be many people in our state who believe with certainty that you actually won the election. The uncertainty surrounding this election process isn't just bad for you and me, it is bad for the entire state. People need to know for sure that the next governor actually won the election.

-snip-

Additionally, I don't believe you'll find many people in this state who think the hand recount was more accurate than the first two counts. Even some Democratic elections officials have said hand counts are less accurate. So we're now in a situation where nobody really knows who won this election.

-snip-

The law allows me to contest the election. An election contest would bring every questioned aspect of this election before the Legislature or a court for review. It would take many weeks, perhaps months, to complete. At the end, even if the results were to change back in my favor, the state would have suffered from the long, drawn-out process.

For several weeks, former Secretary of State Ralph Munro has argued that this election will never be seen as legitimate and that the best option is to put it back into the hands of the voters for a revote. If our roles were reversed, if you had won twice and I had only won in the less-accurate hand recount, I would support a revote. I would not want to enter office with so many people viewing my governorship as illegitimate.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/12/29/state2201EST7304.DTL

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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 10:58 PM
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34. 2004 Election Fraud and Irregularity Headlines
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 11:43 PM
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35. Kick it for anyone else who has been away from DU all day
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-29-04 11:54 PM
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36. Great thread, Melissa.
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 02:18 AM
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37. County Panel Rebuffs GOP Bid in WA; Canvassing Board Says No to Rejects

Columbian December 29, 2004

County Panel Rebuffs GOP Bid ; Canvassing Board Says No to Counting Rejected Ballots


The Clark County canvassing board met Tuesday afternoon and became the 39th and final county to reject a long-shot bid by Republicans to shake loose more Dino Rossi votes before resorting to a lawsuit.


"That makes it unanimous," said assistant elections director John Pearson of the secretary of state's office, which urged counties to turn down a request by the Republican Party to count hundreds of rejected ballots, including 24 in Clark County.

The ballots were ruled invalid Nov. 17 because absentee voters either didn't sign the return envelope or the signature on the envelope didn't match the one on file.

Voters were notified and had two weeks after Election Day to fix the problem. Most Clark County voters who received such notices responded, elections supervisor Tim Likness said, but 446 did not.


Link:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13649820&BRD=985&PAG=740&dept_id=226958&rfi=6
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 02:49 AM
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38. San Francisco Bay View - No holiday for vote thieves

10/29/04

No holiday for vote thieves
by Glen Ford and Peter Gamble, publishers of BlackCommentator.com


The dean of the Congressional Black Caucus is confident that at least a few U.S. senators will join House members on Jan. 6 to question the fairness of the Nov. 2 election. John Conyers Jr., the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told Salon.com he doesn’t believe the Senate will repeat its performance of four years ago, when Black lawmakers sought in vain for one senatorial objection to “official misconduct, deliberate fraud and an attempt to suppress voter turnout by unlawful means” in Florida, as Congressman Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., put it at the time.

“No, I think the Senate is going to go along with an inquiry this time,” said Conyers. “I don't think they would embarrass themselves to let this happen two times in a row … I just don't think the Senate would get caught in that position.” Conyers is careful not to name names, claiming he hasn’t spoken directly to a single senator, but adding, “There are Republicans who support what I'm doing who haven't been willing to come forward.”

Conyers is the indispensable person among the righteous Grinches who are casting a shadow over the Republicans’ holiday. Through his hearings in the Capitol and Ohio – unsanctioned and unattended by Republicans – and his engagement of the Government Accountability Office to study election “irregularities,” the 75-year-old Detroit lawmaker has thrown an institutional spotlight on GOP crimes and misdemeanors. How “high” these crimes can be connected is another story, but there is no doubt that massive violations of a variety of laws occurred on the ground. Conyers prefers to call them “things that went wrong” in swing states like Ohio:

“It depends on what part of the state we're going to examine. In Hocking County, a private company accessed an election machine and altered and tampered with it in the absence of election observers. It disturbed a deputy chair of the election in the county so much that she has given a sworn affidavit that has been turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and we're in the process of running that down.


Link:
http://www.sfbayview.com/122904/votethieves122904.shtml
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 02:54 AM
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39. TN: THE THIRD GATHERING TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY
THE THIRD GATHERING TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY
SUNDAY, 01/02/05, 2:00-5:00 PM


BENTON CHAPEL, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

BE THERE!!!

OUR THIRD GATHERING

This Sunday, January 2, 2005, will mark the third Gathering To Save Our Democracy in Nashville. Our two previous gatherings, held on the steps of the Tennessee State Capital, have been well attended by people from throughout Tennessee and other states, and have generated some much-needed media coverage for the 2004 election fraud/theft issue. We have received coverage on Channel 5, WPLN, the Nashville Tennessean and other media. (We have also done two 30 minute public affairs programs on the election theft on two large Nashville radio stations and an hour-long public service program which included a discussion of the election theft was broadcast this past Sunday on five East Tennessee radio stations.) We want to continue to build momentum and support for free and fair elections here in Tennessee by scheduling this third Gathering To Save Our Democracy this coming Sunday (01/02/05). This third Gathering will help us garner more media attention and help us move forward to pursue remedies to the threats which our election process now faces.

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http://nostolendemocracy.typepad.com/blog/2004/12/3rd_gathering_t.html
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 03:16 AM
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40. January 5th Freedom Ride From Columbus to Washington

December 30, 2004

January 5th Freedom Ride From Columbus to Washington


On January 5 at between 4:00 and 5:00 AM a very special bus trip will embark from Columbus, Ohio to Washington D.C. The organizers are calling it "Freedom Winter" in reference to the "Freedom Ride" in Mississippi which took place at the height of the Civil Rights movement 40 years ago.


Voters from Ohio who were disenfranchised on election day or ho had to make extraordinary efforts to vote or who were subjected to un-equal treatment at the polls will be traveling to the nation's capitol to participate in a press conference and to lobby select members of congress and the senate to encourage a congressional-level challenge to the 2004 electoral results.

Radio and television journalist will also be traveling on the bus along with a few of the organizers. The plan is to leave in the wee hours on the 5th to arrive in D.C. shortly after noon. The press conference will be held at the National Press Club in the afternoon and lobbying appointments are being scheduled for both before and after the media event.

Hotel rooms are being reserved for night of the 5th for all participants and there will be a rally the following day when congress officially re-convenes to certify the votes of the electoral college. The bus will return to Ohio that evening.

The cost of the bus and the hotel stay and possibly two meals for each participant will be covered by funds raised by the organizers. There may be some time on the 6th to visit some of the museums on the Capitol Mall as well.

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http://nostolendemocracy.typepad.com/blog/2004/12/january_5th_fre.html

*Note: the bus in the picture is for demonstration purposes only - the actual color and texture of your bus may vary.
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-30-04 05:05 AM
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41. Rally For The Republic at Boston's Faneuil Hall
Rally For The Republic at Boston's Faneuil Hall
Coalition Against Election Fraud and Redefeat Bush
Monday, Jan 3 - 7-9:30 p.m.




Link:
http://nostolendemocracy.typepad.com/blog/2004/12/rally_for_the_r_1.html


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