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50 US Soldiers Killed in Last Five Days 11/14/2004 AntiWar
Fla. Panel Approves 2004 Election Results 11/14/2004 AP
Did lawyer-observers on Election Day miss fraud incidents? 11/14/2004 Hartford Courant: "And by my presence, along with other Democratic lawyers, I lent an air of legitimacy to the voting process, which, by and large, seemed fair enough. But one thing troubled me: who was checking to make sure the data contained in the digital memory cards actually matched the voters’ intentions marked on the paper ballots?"
The Ballots at the Back of the Bus - Most voters in Ohio chose Kerry; here’s how the votes vanished. 11/14/2004 In These Times
Ghosts of Florida 11/14/2004 Intelligence Squad: "Tom Grayman was in Jacksonville, Florida on Election Day 2004 and observed the administration of the vote in that heavily-African-American city. He has recently been interviewed on the topic of the 2004 election on Air America Radio’s "The Al Franken Show;" on "BET Nightly News;" and on NPR, Pacifica, commercial, and community radio stations in such markets as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Atlanta, Boston, St. Louis, and Washington, DC."
UPDATE ON FALLUJAH: Mujahideen Reject Ceasefire, Wipe Out US Column 11/14/2004 Jihad Unspun: "In a report in early this morning, Fallujah Mujahideen have rejected the US request for cease fire and have wiped the besieged American column on Al-Hadhrah street. After the American occupation forces made several military attempts to break the siege around their battalion that had been encircled by Mujahideen on Al-Hadhrah street for several days, they were unable to dislodge it. When those military attempts failed, they resorted to peaceful solution by requesting cease fire- using loud speakers to make sure that their plea is heard. Mujahideen subsequently rejected the American request and proceeded to wipe out the entire American column on Hadhrah street."
Investigate the Vote 11/14/2004 MoveOn
Investigate the Vote 11/14/2004 MoveOn
MAKING VOTES COUNT - About Those Election Results 11/14/2004 NYT
Dirty work at Philly polls 11/14/2004 OnLine Journal: "In Philadelphia, the Republican Party hired local people including down-and-out addicts as neighborhood poll watchers, paid the poll watchers to challenge their neighbors' voting, and sent visiting teams of burly enforcers in window-tinted vans in a mixed strategy of intimidation, pay and misinformation to suppress voting on November 2, according to a Brooklyn law student who worked as a poll monitor."
Recount Ohio 11/14/2004 recountohio.org
Recount Ohio 11/14/2004 recountohio.org
Stolen Election 11/14/2004 Robbed 2004: this site tracks various efforts to fight the fraud.
Mapping the election 11/14/2004 Tom Dispatch
Election Problems 11/14/2004 VotersUnite!: cited in the Conyers et al letter to the GAO as having 265 specific complaints. This is a growing list.
Troops Battle for Last Parts Of Fallujah 11/14/2004 Washington Post: "As senior Iraqi officials declared Fallujah liberated, U.S. forces on Saturday continued intense combat operations aimed at securing the last section of the city from an insurgent force fighting with surprising discipline, organization and the trappings of a professional army, American commanders said."
Saturday 11/13/2004
 Fiasco in North Carolina 11/13/2004 AP
Collective punishment, regrettable necessity 11/13/2004 Asia Times
Demos Election Newswire 11/13/2004 Demos USA: motherload list of election problems, but stops at Nov 3rd.
For some, Ohio still is not decided - Kerry voters demand investigation of count 11/13/2004 Enquirer, OH
US REQUESTS CEASEFIRE 11/13/2004 Jihad Unspun: "American occupiers employed loud speakers to request a cease fire in the city to begin negotiations. According to Islam Memo's correspondent, heavy US losses are the main reason behind the American request. In the mean time, the puppet Allawi government, in an effort to save face, announced that they want to save innocent lives. Interesting indeed considering the hospital were the first facilities to be taken out and it have been the US and their Allawi collaborators have are the ones who have prevented aid from reaching the city."
Presidential ballots to be recounted 11/13/2004 Nashua Telegraph
Pentagon Envisioning a Costly Internet for War 11/13/2004 NYT: "The goal is to give all American commanders and troops a moving picture of all foreign enemies and threats - "a God's-eye view" of battle.
This "Internet in the sky," Peter Teets, under secretary of the Air Force, told Congress, would allow "marines in a Humvee, in a faraway land, in the middle of a rainstorm, to open up their laptops, request imagery" from a spy satellite, and "get it downloaded within seconds."
The Pentagon calls the secure network the Global Information Grid, or GIG. Conceived six years ago, its first connections were laid six weeks ago. It may take two decades and hundreds of billions of dollars to build the new war net and its components.
Skeptics say the costs are staggering and the technological hurdles huge.
Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet and a Pentagon consultant on the war net, said he wondered if the military's dream was realistic. "I want to make sure what we realize is vision and not hallucination," Mr. Cerf said."
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to Demand Ohio Recount 11/13/2004 Progress Reports
Potential Evidence of Fraud in Palm Beach County? 11/13/2004 ReDefeat Bush
Watchdogs demand vote accountability 11/13/2004 Seattl Post Intelligencer: "Harris, 53, and her organization were among the first wave of a spreading flood of election-activist groups nationwide that fear for the security of the voting process with the advent of computerized voting.
Ellen Theisen, a software technical writer who works out of her home in Port Ludlow, co-founded VotersUnite!, another national watchdog group, in April. She did so after learning about direct recording electronic, or DRE, voting machines, which lack a voter-verified paper trail."
Friday 11/12/2004
A Legitimate Recount Effort in Ohio 11/12/2004 Alternet: "Common Cause of Ohio and the Alliance for Democracy, a progressive coalition, Thursday announced they were launching a recount campaign for Ohio. Columbus, Ohio attorney Cliff Arnebeck, who represents both groups, said both the Green Party and Libertarian Party presidential candidates would seek a recount if the $110,000 filing fee could be raised. "Common Cause and the Alliance for Democracy are not partisan. The purpose of the recount is to verify the honesty of the process," Arnebeck said. "That is in the interest of anyone who would be declared the winner.""
Former alleged Black Panther awaiting extradition on charges 11/12/2004 AP: "TORONTO - A reputed former Black Panther wanted in the United States in the shooting of a police officer in 1969 will remain behind bars until his extradition hearing, an Ontario court ruled Monday."
Minnesotans kicked off voter registration lists asking why 11/12/2004 AP
Voting at HBCUs Hit Record Levels 11/12/2004 Black College Wire: many problems…
Axis of evil - Meet the new Republican senators. Five of them hope to make your worst nightmares come true. 11/12/2004 Boston Phoenix
$100,000 Reward for Evidence of Vote Fraud 11/12/2004 Buzzflash
The Ohio Factor: Did Homeland Security and the FBI interfere With the Vote Count? 11/12/2004 Democracy Now
Unofficial Audit of NC Election: Comprehensive Case for Fraud 11/12/2004 Democratic Underground
The Public Hearings and Rally About Election Fraud in Columbus, OH this weekend, Sat. 11/13-Please pass widely! 11/12/2004 Free4 Press, OH
Your Help Needed for Ohio Recount! 11/12/2004 Greens.org
Amid Charges of Vote Suppression, Activists Look for Larger Fraud 11/12/2004 New Standard
CIA plans to purge its agency - Sources say White House has ordered new chief to eliminate officers who were disloyal to Bush 11/12/2004 Newsday
Black Flags Are Deadly Signals as Cornered Rebels Fight Back 11/12/2004 NYT: "But the insurgents had gotten off an RPG round and disabled one tank; the other tank mysteriously stopped working as well.
The company had moved 500 yards south. They regrouped in the pitch blackness and pushed on at about 11:30 p.m. without the tanks, trying to keep up with the rest of the front, but after moving 25 feet they were attacked again in what appeared to be a well-organized ambush.
Two more tanks came in, but one had a problem with its global-positioning system unit. There was an hour's delay. The 50 or so men of the First Platoon, which had taken casualties, started bickering. Then they moved forward, behind the tanks.
At 1:30 a.m., now roughly 700 yards south of Highway 10, they stopped and entered a house, intending to find a place to sleep. There was a huge boom inside. "Oh no! Oh no!" someone shouted. "My leg!" someone else screamed. "My leg!"
They looked further around the house and found tunnels underneath. They retreated and a tank fired rounds into the house, which caught fire.
They looked for another place to sleep."
Black Flags Are Deadly Signals as Cornered Rebels Fight Back 11/12/2004 NYT: "But the insurgents had gotten off an RPG round and disabled one tank; the other tank mysteriously stopped working as well.
The company had moved 500 yards south. They regrouped in the pitch blackness and pushed on at about 11:30 p.m. without the tanks, trying to keep up with the rest of the front, but after moving 25 feet they were attacked again in what appeared to be a well-organized ambush.
Two more tanks came in, but one had a problem with its global-positioning system unit. There was an hour's delay. The 50 or so men of the First Platoon, which had taken casualties, started bickering. Then they moved forward, behind the tanks.
At 1:30 a.m., now roughly 700 yards south of Highway 10, they stopped and entered a house, intending to find a place to sleep. There was a huge boom inside. "Oh no! Oh no!" someone shouted. "My leg!" someone else screamed. "My leg!"
They looked further around the house and found tunnels underneath. They retreated and a tank fired rounds into the house, which caught fire.
They looked for another place to sleep."
Answers to Boston Globe's Dismissal of Voter Fraud Story 11/12/2004 Redefeat Bush
Compilation of Voter Fraud Reports by J.L. Durfee
Reports on Election Tampering from Four States plus Multistate Problems 11/12/2004 REdefeatBush.com
93,000 Extra Votes In Cuyahoga County - Outrage In Ohio 11/12/2004 Rise 4 News
The Perfect Election Day Crime 11/12/2004 Tom Paine: "Across Ohio’s minority-rich cities, there were fewer voting machines than during past elections, including March’s presidential primary. As the number of voters grew by as much as 50 percent in some precincts, according to pro-Kerry field organizers, the number of voting machines on Election Day shrank by a third. Precincts that usually had five machines only had three.
The lack of voting machines was a disaster."
Major bugs found in Diebold vote systems 11/12/2004 UPI
Watt set to take key post of power
N.C. congressman is poised to be next head of black caucus 11/12/2004 Winston Salem Journal, NC: "When Congress convenes in January, U.S. Rep. Mel Watt, D-12th, is expected to emerge as a leading voice of black political power.
Watt, whose district includes parts of Winston-Salem, will likely take over as chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus."
Voters air Election Day complaints at hearing 11/12/2004 WKYC, OH
Thursday 11/11/2004
ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY LAUNCHES OHIO HONEST ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN - CALLS FOR OHIO RECOUNT AND INVESTIGATION OF VOTING IRREGULARITIES 11/11/2004 Alliance for Democracy: "Today, AfD founder Ronnie Dugger and National Co-Chair Cliff Arnebeck launched the Ohio Honest Elections Campaign during their appearance on Air America Radio. They called for a recount of every vote for President in Ohio."
Kerry campaign lawyers checking Ohio vote 11/11/2004 AP: "Hoffheimer said the goal is to identify any voting problems and quell doubts about the legitimacy of the Ohio election being raised on the Internet.
He said the Kerry campaign has compiled a list of more than 30 questions for local election officials. They are asking about the number of absentee and provisional ballots, any reports of equipment malfunctions on election night and any ballots that still listed third-party challenger Ralph Nader as a candidate."
Rule by Theft: Reconstructing the Crime 11/11/2004 Black Commentator: "Conyers is compelled to go through the motions of requesting help from the General Accounting Office, which is obligated to assist the Congress in carrying out its duties. However, the true engines of resistance to Bush’s crime accompli are the grassroots investigators, technicians and numbers crunchers busily in search of patterns of anomalies in the corrupted election returns – numbers that should not be there – and answers to how the tallies might have been engineered. These are the people who will craft the technical indictment against the Bush men. Bev Harris is at the center of the rebellion. On Monday she renewed her call for “lawyers, computer people, statisticians” and “funds to pay for copies of the evidence.” For non-specialists, Harris has other assignments."
Green Party has raised more than $70,000 towards $113,000 Ohio recount 11/11/2004 Blue Lemur
Left Wing Claims Exit Polls Were Accurate, Bush Stole Election 11/11/2004 Christian News Service
Bush Victory's Lesson to the World 11/11/2004 Consortium News: "One Albanian told me that she had struggled for democracy for much of her life and suffered beatings by state security forces for speaking out for freedom. During those dark days, the United States had been the brightest beacon of hope, inspiring activists to keep fighting, she said.
But now, in the United States, she was learning about voter intimidation and other irregularities during a briefing at the national call center of the Election Protection Coalition in Arlington, Virginia.
Her voice shook as she recounted reports of black voters being challenged by Republican lawyers at polling places, of minorities asked for two forms of identification when only one was needed, of polling places moved to police stations in minority precincts, of hundreds of electronic voting malfunctions, and of polling stations lacking enough provisional ballots.
The Albanian parliamentarian, flipping through page after page of her notes, was stunned by the bigger picture of disenfranchisement aimed at minority voters. “How could this happen here?” she asked me. “How could this happen in America?”"
How They Tried to Suppress the Black Vote in South Carolina 11/11/2004 Counterpunch
The Irony of Arafat 11/11/2004 Dissident Voices: "But at a crucial turn, he betrayed both principle and pragmatic politics by accepting the 1993 Oslo agreements, which left him not an independent leader of an emerging state but a subordinate to Israel in charge of policing his own people but with few other powers. The irony of the tragedy is that this fatal mistake is the one thing for which he is lauded in the halls of power in the United States."
No Embeds at Landstuhl 11/11/2004 Editor & Publisher: "Far from the battleground, and the eyes of reporters and cameramen, more than 400 wounded U.S. military personnel have been airlifted to Germany for medical treatment since the start of the Fallujah offensive."
EFF E-voting 11/11/2004 Electronic Freedom Foundation
Long Lines in Columbus 11/11/2004 Equal Vote
Iraq's new patent law: A declaration of war against farmers 11/11/2004 Grain: "When former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) administrator L. Paul Bremer III left Baghdad after the so-called "transfer of sovereignty" in June 2004, he left behind the 100 orders he enacted as chief of the occupation authority in Iraq. Among them is Order 81 on "Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety." [1] This order amends Iraq's original patent law of 1970 and unless and until it is revised or repealed by a new Iraqi government, it now has the status and force of a binding law. [2] With important implications for farmers and the future of agriculture in Iraq, this order is yet another important component in the United States' attempts to radically transform Iraq's economy."
Green and Libertarian Presidential Candidates to Demand Ohio Recount. 11/11/2004 Green Party
RIGHTS-CHILE: Secret Report on Testimony from Torture Victims Triggers Debate 11/11/2004 IPS: "Sexual abuse, including rape using animals, burns from cigarettes, welding torches and acid, ripping off fingernails with pliers, immersion in water, cooking oil or petroleum, and being forced to watch other detainees, often family members, being tortured."
Iraqi Farmers aren't Celebrating World Food Day 11/11/2004 Mindfully: "A new report [1] by GRAIN and Focus on the Global South has found that new legislation in Iraq has been carefully put in place by the US that prevents farmers from saving their seeds and effectively hands over the seed market to transnational corporations. This is a disastrous turn of events for Iraqi farmers, biodiversity and the country's food security. While political sovereignty remains an illusion, food sovereignty for the Iraqi people has been made near impossible by these new regulations."
MSNBC Vote Fraud Video (Must See) -- 11.11.04 11/11/2004 MSNBC
Vote Theft Round 2: And so the sorting and discarding of Kerry votes begins 11/11/2004 OpEd News: "Are the provisional ballots in Ohio being thrown out? A new rule for counting provisional ballots in Cuyahoga County, Ohio was implemented on Tuesday, November 9 at approximately 2:30 in the afternoon, according to election observer Victoria Lovegren.
The new ruling in Cuyahoga County mandates that provisional ballots in yellow packets must be 'Rejected' if there is no 'date of birth' on the packet. The Free Press obtained copies of the original 'Provisional Verification Procedure' from Cuyahoga County which stated 'Date of birth is not mandatory and should not reject a provisional ballot.' The original procedure required the voter's name, address and a signature that matched the signature in the county's database."
Kerry campaign scrutinizes Ohio 11/11/2004 Plain Dealer, OH
Investigate Votergate 11/11/2004 SF Bay View: "What’s coming out about election suppression and fraud goes way past whether it’s too late to find enough votes to save Kerry. Post-mortems are important, but we have a genuine opportunity to reveal the Karl Rove vote suppression strategy.
Fighting for fair elections is fundamental not just for the future, but for the present. Bush won no mandate."
They did it again, they stole another election by Junious Ricardo Stanton 11/11/2004 SF Bay View
Activists demand election probe 11/11/2004 SF Examiner: "Citing uncounted provisional ballots, faulty voting systems and racially based voter suppression, about 60 people rallied outside the federal building Wednesday to call for an investigation into last week's presidential election.
Organizers said similar demonstrations in other U.S. cities were taking place this week. Chanting "Count every vote, every vote counts," the demonstrators spoke out against what they called systematic voter suppression, specifically in low income and African-American-dominated precincts in swing states."
Rage Against the Machines - The Web wonders if electronic voting machines stole the election. 11/11/2004 Slate
Who Counts in Ohio? 11/11/2004 Truth Out: "To make Kerry's odds even tougher, the man running the game - Secretary of State Ken Blackwell -also co-chairs the Ohio committee to re-elect George Bush. A former mayor of Cincinnati, Undersecretary of HUD, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, Blackwell is one of the national GOP's most prominent African-American officials and a leading candidate to replace Bob Taft as Governor of Ohio. More to the point, he publicly spearheaded Republican efforts in the state to reduce the number of his fellow African-Americans whose votes would go to the Democrats
In some cases, the courts over-ruled him, and - much to their credit - most black voters stood up to his harassing tactics. But Blackwell never stopped trying.
As chief election officer, he decreed that voters, if challenged, could cast provisional ballots only at their correct precinct. Previously, they could vote anywhere in the county in which they were registered. When a lower court over-ruled him, he appealed the decision and got his restriction reinstated. This might, in part, explain why Ohio now has some 100,000 fewer provisional ballots than many Democrats expected."
Wednesday 11/10/2004
Growing Collection of Vote Fraud links: ATTN Global Media 11/10/2004 Axis of Logic
Internet buzz on vote fraud is dismissed 11/10/2004 Boston Globe
The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy 11/10/2004 Buzzflash: by Dr. Stephen F. Freeman, University of Pennsylvania
VOTING MACHINES AND THE UNDERESTIMATE OF THE BUSH VOTE 11/10/2004 CalTech: "1. A series of claims have been made in recent days alleging that discrepancies between exit poll results and the presidential vote in certain states provides evidence of malfeasance in those states. These claims seem to be concentrated on states using electronic voting systems.
2. Exit polls predicted a significantly greater vote for Kerry nationwide than the official
returns confirmed, but there is not any apparent systematic bias when we take this same
analysis to the state level.
3. Analysis of deviations between the exit polls and the official returns show no particular
patterns for states using electronic voting; nor does this analysis reveal any patterns for
states using other forms of voting systems.
4. We conclude that there is no evidence, based on exit polls, that electronic voting
machines were used to steal the 2004 election for President Bush."
Voter Intimidation in Tampa - Dispatches from the Gound 11/10/2004 Counterpunch: "Florida law requires Spanish-speaking poll workers in this precinct. There are two Latina women present, but I can't get their attention. Señora hunches me in the side and shakes her head at my efforts. When I say they will help us, she nearly spits her disgust. No, she says, they are the same ones who refused to help her before.
"Ellas estan como los otros (waving at the whites seated at the table). No quieren los negros, (pointing to me) y los moreños (pointing to herself) a votar! They are like the others. They don't want blacks and browns voting.""
Kerry may have given up, but Internet backers have not 11/10/2004 Cox News
BBV: Help America Audit -- 5 Things You Can Do Immediately 11/10/2004 Democratic Underground: "I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2. Even the journalists are pretty horrified. My source said they've also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time, and he was calling from somewhere else. He was trying to figure out how to get the real news out on vote fraud.
This is a person I've worked with off and on for nearly two years, and the voice was so somber it really bothered me.
At any rate -- and perhaps, especially important due to the tipoff above, there are things you can do to take back America."
Diebold, electronic voting and the vast right-wing conspiracy 11/10/2004 Free Press: published 2/04, very informative - "In the early 1980s, brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich founded ES&S’s originator, Data Mark. The brothers Urosevich obtained financing from the far-Right Ahmanson family in 1984, which purchased a 68% ownership stake, according to the Omaha World Herald. After brothers William and Robert Ahmanson infused Data Mark with new capital, the name was changed to American Information Systems (AIS). California newspapers have long documented the Ahmanson family’s ties to right-wing evangelical Christian and Republican circles.
In 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported, “. . . primarily funded by evangelical Christians – particularly the wealthy Ahmanson family of Irvine – the [Discovery] institute’s $1-million annual program has produced 25 books, a stream of conferences and more than 100 fellowships for doctoral and postdoctoral research.” The chief philanthropists of the Discovery Institute, that pushes creationist science and education in California, are Howard and Roberta Ahmanson.
According to Group Watch, in the 1980s Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. was a member of the highly secretive far-Right Council for National Policy, an organization that included Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, Major General John K. Singlaub and other Iran-Contra scandal notables, as well as former Klan members like Richard Shoff. Ahmanson, heir to a savings and loan fortune, is little reported on in the mainstream U.S. press. But, English papers like The Independent are a bit more forthcoming on Ahmanson’s politics."
Latin America quick to dance to China's tune 11/10/2004 FT: "Last year commodity exports from Argentina and Brazil helped Latin America produce a $3.3bn (€2.6bn, £1.8bn) surplus in its trade with China, contributing to a 50 per cent increase to $28.8bn in overall bilateral trade."
Spanish overtures rebuffed in Washington 11/10/2004 FT: "Relations between the US and Spain's Socialist government hit a new low this week when President George W. Bush invited José María Aznar, Spain's former prime minister, to the White House for a private, 40-minute chat.
In a pointed snub to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who succeeded Mr Aznar and who incurred the wrath of the US by withdrawing Spanish troops from Iraq, President Bush has not yet returned Mr Zapatero's courtesy call last week to congratulate him on his re-election victory."
The League of Pissed Off Voters 11/10/2004 IndyVoter
Countdown - Keith Olbermann 11/10/2004 MSNBC: "“There was litigation over pockets of voters,” he continued, on the subject of Ohio. “There was far more litigation than was indicated in the news programming.” He should know - he was on the clock and on the set working for CBS News throughout the campaign, and straight through to 6 AM in the hours after the vote. “So when you look at provisionals and absentees and then those pockets of votes, yeah, there probably is enough of a margin if things broke for Kerry that he could turn the state. Is it likely? No. But it is not impossible.”"
Votergate 2004; We Don't Need Paper to Prove Fraud, But We Do Need Money and Leadership, NOW. 11/10/2004 OpEd News: "As a former C.P.A and auditor, I have used statistical sampling throughout my career with great confidence. With electronic record keeping, it's easy to create a program to falsify the books. But there are ways to uncover that. Auditors have developed statistical ways to cut right through corruption in companies. You don't even need a paper trail. These statistical approaches can be used with almost 100% accuracy to uncover fraud.
With the votergate 2004 it's a numbers game just like it is with corporate accounting, even easier. All you're talking about is one number-- total votes for each candidate."
Most provisional ballots rejected; voters often in wrong precinct 11/10/2004 Palm Beach Post, FL: "The vast majority of provisional ballots — voters' last chance to have their voices heard — were rejected, a review of the presidential election results from across the state found."
Better Dead Than Red - The story Ken Blackwell didn't want you to read. 11/10/2004 Scene
430,000 poor and disabled people dropped from Medicaid in Tennessee 11/10/2004 Wilmington Star,TN
Investigate Electronic Voting Machines 11/10/2004 Working Assets: "All in all, more than 30,000 complaints have been gathered from across the country, and the Internet is heating up with rumors and innuendo that the results of the election were somehow tampered with. In the midst of such turmoil, it's crucial that an independent authoritative investigation be undertaken to sort this all out."
Tuesday 11/9/2004
Fanning the flames of resistance 11/9/2004 Asia Times: "Although the troubles in Iraq have only drawn a cautious official response from Muslim countries, including the Arab League asking the US not to invade Fallujah, a far deeper impact has been made on Muslim masses across the globe, where increasingly they are becoming motivated to take up arms in support of the Iraqi resistance. The Koran through its teachings supports Muslims helping people in a state of siege or intense oppression, regardless of religion.
Asia Times Online has learned from sources in Saudi Arabia that as many as 10,000 Saudi youths might be in or going to Iraq. And with the strong presence of organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in such countries as Syria and Jordan, it can be safely estimated that jihadis from these countries are also flooding into Iraq, or are preparing to do so."
GRAND THEFT AMERICA: Fraud & Mistabulation > Election 2004 11/9/2004 Brad Blog
Another Rigged Election? The Elephant in the Voting Booth 11/9/2004 Buzzflash: "Citing concerns about potential terrorism, Warren County officials locked down the county administration building on election night and blocked anyone from observing the vote count as the nation awaited Ohio's returns. County officials say they took the action Tuesday night for homeland security, although state elections officials said they didn't know of any other Ohio county that closed off its elections board. Media organizations protested, saying it violated the law and the public's rights. The Warren results, delayed for hours because of long lines that extended voting past the scheduled close of polls, were part of the last tallies that helped clinch President Bush's re-election." -- The Cincinnati Enquirer
Election Fraud - How You Can Help and What You Can Do 11/9/2004 Buzzflash
Election stolen, group suspects - 60 meet at UW, plan next steps 11/9/2004 Capital Times, WI: "A problem, Manski said, is trying to coordinate national and local efforts. He said he would participate in a conference call today with a coordinating committee. A public meeting and hearing are being organized for Sunday in Columbus, Ohio."
2004 Election Feedback 11/9/2004 Democrats.org
Voting Fraud in the 2004 Presidential Election 11/9/2004 IdeaMouth
'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Nov. 9 11/9/2004 MSNBC: Scroll way down for this scam - "And number one, the “Florida Times-Union” newspaper of Jacksonville. Its editors apologized for having on the front page of last Tuesday‘s special election issue, printed a phone number that the paper said was for an emergency line for voting problems. It was in fact a sex talk service."
Electronic Voting Angst (Keith Olbermann) 11/9/2004 MSNBC: "Bev Harris, the Blackbox lady, was apparently quoted in a number of venues during the day Monday as having written “I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2… My source said they’ve also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time.”
I didn’t get the memo."
Cynthia McKinney: “We Need Narco News, and It Needs Us” 11/9/2004 NarcoNews
Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster By William Rivers Pitt 11/9/2004 Truth Out
Druggists refuse to give out pill 11/9/2004 USA Today: "Some pharmacists, however, disagree and refuse on moral grounds to fill prescriptions for contraceptives. And states from Rhode Island to Washington have proposed laws that would protect such decisions.
Mississippi enacted a sweeping statute that went into effect in July that allows health care providers, including pharmacists, to not participate in procedures that go against their conscience. South Dakota and Arkansas already had laws that protect a pharmacist's right to refuse to dispense medicines. Ten other states considered similar bills this year."
Monday 11/8/2004
ACLU Voting Rights 11/8/2004 ACLU
New Black Sheriff in Fla. overcame Voter Intimidation 11/8/2004 Black America Web
Republican Election Theft Roundup 11/8/2004 BOP: "Folks, this is THE news story right now: the numbers don't add up, the voting machines were rigged, and they're trying to steal the presidency again.
This story isn't in Big Media and word is, for whatever reason, the inside-the-beltway crowd won't touch it.
So push it hard in the blogs, talk to your neighbors, email it to your grandma, and send it to your local media.
Kerry's concession speech carries NO legal weight. Results aren't final until they are certified by the state election boards. Once Bush is coronated again, we're out of luck.
We have a VERY SMALL WINDOW to make sure the votes count. And, no one else is doing it: it is up to us.
Roll up your sleeves, and go forth to save American democracy."
An Examination of the Florida Elections 11/8/2004 Brandon Adams
Sequoia Gives Away Electronic Voting Machines in Swing State Before November Election 11/8/2004 Buzzflash: "I’m a lawyer researching Sequoia Electronic Voting systems used in Washington state. They are also used in the swing state of Nevada (in all counties) thanks to federal grants."
Stolen Election. America Hijacked. 11/8/2004 Buzzflash
CAMPAIGN TO GET KERRY TO UN-CONCEDE - please distribute 11/8/2004 EcoTalk: "Anyone who thinks that he should unconcede should give reasons why - whatever they noticed, particularly in Red Republican Governed States using electronic machines- and send them directly to Cameron KERRY, John Kerry's brother at his law firm at the address: CKerry@Mintz.com"
Election Forensics: What They Can -- and Can't -- Tell Us 11/8/2004 EFF
Kerry's Concession Broke Promise That Every Vote Be Counted; Greens Warn of Democrat Surrender to Bush's 'Mandate' 11/8/2004 Green Party
Text of Follow-up Letter from Reps. Conyers, Nadler, Wexler, Scott, Watt and Holt to GAO Comptroller Walker Requesting Investigation of Voting Machines and Technologies Used in 2004 Election 11/8/2004 House.gov
A Media Blackout: Media Blacks Out Voting Problems 11/8/2004 ILCA AFL/CIO
DEAN WINS! The incredible story of how Howard Dean became President of the United States. 11/8/2004 New Haven Advocate
Evolving Nature of Al Qaeda Is Misunderstood, Critic Says 11/8/2004 NYT
Iraq quagmire has echoes of brutal Algerian eight-year war 11/8/2004 The Australian
Evangelicals Say They Led Charge For the GOP 11/8/2004 Washington Post: "But the untold story of the 2004 election, according to national religious leaders and grass-roots activists, is that evangelical Christian groups were often more aggressive and sometimes better organized on the ground than the Bush campaign. The White House struggled to stay abreast of the Christian right and consulted with the movement's leaders in weekly conference calls. But in many respects, Christian activists led the charge that GOP operatives followed and capitalized upon."
"There
is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and
security to all, but especially to Democracies as against despots:
suspicion." -- Demosthenes
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