Election Fraud Blog

by Buzzflash.com columnist Maureen Farrell
Extracted from Top 10 ‘Conspiracy Theories’ about George W. Bush, Part 2.
See also… Top 10 ‘Conspiracy Theories’ about George W. Bush, Part 1

"There was one exact moment, in fact, when I knew for sure that Al Gore would Never be President of the United States, no matter what the experts were saying — and that was when the whole Bush family suddenly appeared on TV and openly scoffed at the idea of Gore winning Florida. It was Nonsense, said the Candidate, Utter nonsense. . .Anybody who believed Bush had lost Florida was a Fool. The Media, all of them, were Liars & Dunces or treacherous whores trying to sabotage his victory . . Here was the whole bloody Family laughing & hooting & sneering at the dumbness of the whole world on National TV. The old man was the real tip-off. The leer on his face was almost frightening. It was like looking into the eyes of a tall hyena with a living sheep in its mouth. The sheep’s fate was sealed, and so was Al Gore’s."
— Hunter S. Thompson, ESPN, Nov. 27, 2000

"[The Bush Family’s] sense of how to win elections comes out of a CIA manual, not out of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution."
— Former GOP strategist Kevin Phillips, BuzzFlash, Jan. 7. 2004

While some believe a coup began on Sept. 11, others will tell you it began with the 2000 election. Even though George Bush’s first cousin declared him the winner and his brother Jeb assured him he’d won Florida, many Americans remained unconvinced.

First there was the surreal sight of the Bush family on national TV, as staged and phony as Susan Smith’s tearful plea to return her "kidnapped" children. Then came the well-groomed thugs, sent on Enron and Halliburton planes to stop the Florida recount. But it wasn’t just James Baker’s ploys or the Supreme Court’s ruling that signaled something was amiss — it was the attitude of ordinary citizens who were more concerned about their "team" winning than about democracy itself.

Unless you rely solely on FOX news (the modern equivalent to "living under a rock"), the shenanigans that occurred in pre-election Florida are now old news, and have been dissected at length in documentaries, magazines and to some degree, in the mainstream press. A St . Petersburg Times op-ed later deemed the election "stolen," the Associated Press reported that Florida had "quietly" admitted "election fraud," and Vanity Fair devoted a sizable portion of its Oct. 2004 issue to exactly how Team Bush pulled it off. By the time CNN sued the state of Florida for its ineligible voters list in 2004, the underbelly of the beast was plainly visible.

But in Nov. 2001, when Greg Palast uncovered then Secretary of State Katherine Harris’ role in the shameful voter roll purge in Florida, the news was explosive. The New York Times — the paper that would later print front page disinformation to sell the war in Iraq — took a pass, however, until three years later, when it was too late to do anything about it.

At first, election irregularities were featured as anomalies, like when the Washington Post covered computer glitches that literally subtracted thousands of votes from Al Gore and gave them to a Socialist candidate. By the time similar problems were reported during the 2002 midterm and 2004 primary elections, people were understandably skittish, with e-voting failures having "shaken confidence in the technology installed at thousands of precincts" — with as many as 20 states introducing legislation calling for paper receipts on voting machines.

In early 2004, Mother Jones predicted that "Ohio could become as decisive this year as Florida was four years ago" and sure enough, Americans awoke the day after the election without a decisive winner. And though John Kerry later conceded, questions have since been raised by computer programmers, mathematicians, journalists and others. "Was the election of 2004 stolen?" columnist Robert Koehler asked, before addressing the many "numbers-savvy scientists are saying that the numbers don’t make sense."

There were warnings before the election, of course, with red flags being raised by researchers at prestigious Stanford and John Hopkins Universities. But despite Diebold’s CEO’s promise to deliver Ohio’s electoral votes to George W. Bush, Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell’s prominent role in the Bush/Cheney campaign, and the suspicious election night lock-down in Warren County, Ohio, many still believed election angst could be attributed to a super-sized case of "sour grapes."

When Christopher Hitchens, who is admittedly not a Kerry fan, also weighed in, however, that excuse flew out the window. "Whichever way you shake it, or hold it to the light, there is something about the Ohio election that refuses to add up. . . ," he wrote.

Rep. John Conyers and the Government Accountability Office also found widespread irregularities, and when statisticians picked apart the election results, Bush was not the legitimate winner. Pollster John Zogby compared the 2004 election to 1960’s suspicious contest, and University of Pennsylvania professor Steven F. Freeman put the odds that exit polls were that wrong, in that many states, at 250 million to one.

The evidence was so compelling, in fact, that NYU professor Mark Crispin Miller took it upon himself to tackle the proverbial suggestion "somebody should write a book." His extensively-researched yet largely ignored Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They’ll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) shines a crucial light on the "stealthy combination of computerized vote theft, bureaucratic monkey business, systematic shortages of viable equipment and old-fashioned dirty tricks. . . " that led to democracy’s last debacle, and will most likely lead to the next.

Ohio’s 2005 election also failed the smell test, and by late Jan. 2006, the Washington Post looked into allegations of election tampering — without the dismissive, lazy reporting usually afforded the subject. Describing tests conducted by Florida’s Leon County supervisor of elections Ion Sancho, using "relatively unsophisticated hacking techniques," the paper quickly uncovered how easy it is to steal an election. "Can the votes of this Diebold system be hacked using the memory card?" election officials asked test participants, and though two marked their ballots "yes" and six said "no," by the time they went through Diebold’s optical scan machine, the results read seven "yes" votes and one "no."

"More troubling than the test itself was the manner in which Diebold simply failed to respond to my concerns or the concerns of citizens who believe in American elections," Sancho said. "I really think they’re not engaged in this discussion of how to make elections safer."

Hmmm. You don’t say.

There is a reason, you see, that "None Dare Call It Stolen," and that reasons extends beyond the preponderance of evidence. "If electronic voting machines programmed by private Republican firms remain in our future, dissent will become pointless unless it boils over into revolution," former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts wrote. "Power-mad Republicans need to consider the result when democracy loses its legitimacy and only the rich have anything to lose."

James Madison predicted a similar scenario. "The day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility," he reportedly told the New York Post. "It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few."

Those would be the "one percenters." And chances are, you aren’t one of them.

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© Copyright 2004, Maureen Farrell

Maureen Farrell is a writer and media consultant who specializes in helping other writers get television and radio exposure.

Extracted from Top 10 ‘Conspiracy Theories’ about George W. Bush, Part 2. See also… Top 10 ‘Conspiracy Theories’ about George W. Bush, Part 1

From Scoop Independent News

Introduction: … Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of Media Studies at New York University. He has written articles for The Nation and the New Yorker and many books. He’s been on many different national radio and television shows, and we are extremely fortunate to have him with us here today. He is a real champion for election integrity and for getting the word out about what we need to do to save our Democracy.[Loud Applause]

Mark Crispin Miller: Well, thank you very much and thanks to both groups for doing all this great work and for making enough to bring me here for a book tour.

I want to start out by telling you a story, which some of you may have heard. And in fact much of what I have to say will probably not come as news to many of you, because I know you all are very well informed about these issues. Two years ago I got myself invited to a fund raiser for John Kerry, when he was just one of many aspirants to the Democratic party nomination for president. I got myself invited by the New York treasurer of his campaign, who shared my concern about the integrity of the electoral system, precisely, or I should say primarily, because of the use of electronic touch screen machines. This had been a profound concern of mine and of certain other people, since the passage of the HAVA Act. And this limited network of people were trying to do everything they could to get this on the national agenda, so I got a little face time with the senator.

It was at George Plimpton’s house. He came in. I was introduced to him. I looked up at him, he was very tall. And he looked down at me. I had about 5 minutes to try to convey the seriousness, the complexity of this problem to him, and with a sense of urgency. And so, you know, I think the cards were stacked against me because I’m sure I sounded psychotic, you know. (audience laughter) And as far as he was concerned, I probably looked psychotic,… short but psychotic…(audience chuckle) because he had never given this a thought. I think he didn’t know about it at all, but he did wear a look of grave concern, you know (smoothing his hair back in a John Kerry gesture, audience chuckle). He nodded thoughtfully for a moment. (Like Kerry, Miller crosses his arms and rests his left first finger on his chin with his face looking downward in a thoughtful pose.)

He thanked me for my effort to enlighten him. He was going to take this under advisement, you know. I could almost see my words go, you know, in one ear and out the other. I also met with Terissa Heinz Kerry and talked to her about it. And she at least seemed to get it. She was very exercised about it. But nothing came of this. And we all know what happened, well, I should say we all think we know what happened.

Concerning that, what we think happened, as you know I wrote a book about the Election 2004. And I wrote this book to give people a panoramic sense of what went down last year and to try to give people a view of the kind of mentality that drives the anti-democratic crusade. I wrote this book for one reason only, I’m not going to challenge the outcome of the last election, there is no constitutional way to do that. I wrote the book to jump start a national movement of radical electoral reform. And so, knowing as I did that the mainstream media is not going to take this seriously, I decided that I’ve got to get to as many prominent people as possible….So two weeks ago, I got myself invited to a fund raiser for John Kerry. (audience laughter.)

His political action committee was meeting in New York. They were going to have a dinner, and I was allowed to come in before the dinner. And in he came, tall as ever, and I had a very different perception of him this time. (audience chuckle.) Ok, I had the book held up, you know, for all to see, and he looked very interested. And I said, "You were robbed, senator!" And he said "I know" (and held his hands up to his head like he had a headache, as Kerry would do) just like that. "I know! (Miller makes the same hand gesture.) And he started to say, "I can’t find the evidence." I can’t persuade my colleagues to take this seriously. I certainly knew what he was talking about. But I had to say, it was more than refreshing to hear him say this. I was delighted. He said he just had a big argument the week before with [Senator] Christopher Dodd from Connecticut trying to tell Dodd that these voting machines are really not reliable. And Dodd just got mad. He didn’t want to hear about it. Dodd said: "We looked into this. There’s no story there!" He (Kerry) said, "Well is there evidence in your book?" I said, "Well, yeah, you know, there is really quite a lot of evidence." I told him what the Government Accountability Office Report said, the GAO Report. People in here have heard of it. Most people in this country have not, because this ground breaking report on the flaws and dangers of touch screen voting, by a very, very establishment government body, has gone almost completely unreported in this country. In fact, Kerry had not heard about it. [Kerry said]: "Oh really, the GAO report?"

So instead of saying, "What, is your staff in a coma?" (loud audience laughter and applause)….so because you can attract more flies with honey than with vinegar, I didn’t say that. (Audience laughter) I said, "Yeah, the GAO Report, you can just go on-line and get a copy." He was quite pleased. You could see…see that it was obvious that he was going to use this, these arguments. So I said, "Now senator, I believe that, in the spirit of these ground breaking investigations into Iran Contra and the BCCI in the Senate," which I happen to think is his best, his greatest work, "in the spirit of those investigations, you should really look into what happened last year. And you should make a larger inquiry into the state of American electoral apparatus. Because it’s in a shambles." And I cannot remember how I put this, I can only tell you what I was trying to say to him.

But I was being tactful, so I don’t know what I said. I was trying to say to him: "If you think you are going to get like 10 votes from the people you sold out last time, you know, if you don’t embrace this issue with both arms, you don’t have a prayer." So I didn’t say that either (audience laughter.) So I said, "There are a lot of people felt disappointed…" [Kerry] nodded. Now he wasn’t just wearing a mask of concern. He was really listening. He said, "Well I don’t know if I can be the one to do that because there is the sour grape factor," he said. OK. Well I understand that. I’m not a politician. It is very easy for me to say, "Do this, do that." But I said, you know, “Read the book. The book is very persuasive.” He said “I will. I’m really excited. I’ll read it this weekend. Thanks a lot.” He punched me on the arm. He gave me the thumbs up. (audience chuckle) Threw me a football, you know. (audience laughter) I caught the football. (laughter) We rough housed a little bit. (loud audience laughter.) The memory is very precious to me. (loud laughter)

So anyway, I was really happy. I thought this was a great thing. It didn’t occur to me that this was news exactly. But I did tell my friend, I emailed people that "Kerry thinks the election was stolen." And my book tour started Tuesday a couple weeks ago in New York. And I found that telling that story really went over. I mean, it really made people feel optimistic. Then I was on Democracy Now last Friday. Did any of you hear that? (audience applause) I was debating with Mark Hertzgaard who’s got a piece in the latest Mother Jones, seeking to throw cold water on the "wild theory" that the Republicans stole the election last year. And one of the things that struck me in his arguments …. he’s a friend of mine, OK, I have known him a long time. I don’t think this is his best work. (audience laughter). One of the things that struck me was that he was unduly swayed by the "say so" of Democrats.

So we’re talking about Warren County [Ohio]. You know how they declared a terrorist alert throughout the press before the vote count. His claim was, “Well I talked to a Democrat who was there, and he said: "Gee, I wish I could tell you that it was suspicious, but, you know, frankly there is nothing to it." It turned out the next day according to the FBI said that there was no terrorist alert, and then the Cincinnati Inquirer reported that this plan had been in the works for nine days. So I don’t care what a Democrat told him. Who is this democrat? Who cares? Why does that trump common sense? (Audience applause). I didn’t say any of this. But I says to myself, I says, ‘Well, if he wants to strut out Democratic authorities, I’ve got a great response.’ So I said, “Well as a matter of fact, Kerry thinks the race was stolen.” And I told the story. And Mark was very impressed. “Wow this is really big news. You really buried the lead. You should call a press conference. This is important.”

Well in fact that day, Democracy Now sent out a press release. "Breaking: Kerry Believes the Race was Stolen." So there was a lot of stuff on the internet. It was all over the place. And sites like Democratic Underground, long threads about it. Raw Story, in a website in D.C., called Kerry’s office to get a response. And a staffer of Kerry’s office made a statement that categorically denied that he had ever had this conversation with me. (Audience says "Whoa") "The only true thing in Mr. Miller’s account is that he gave the senator the book"…(audience gasps)..like a process server. He kind of pressed it on his arm and ran away…"You’re served!"

This was….the most galling thing to me personally was the fact that this implied that I had made this up to sell the book. "We know that Mr. Miller is trying to sell the book," they said. This really pissed me off. So I gave Raw Story my response. And the next day Robert Perry, a great reporter who has the website Consortium News, ran a piece based on what he was told by a guy named John Weiner, who was an old Kerry associate, who said to Perry: "John thinks the race was stolen, he said that to me too."

So, there is trouble in making things up. I don’t make things up. In this world, these days, you don’t have to make things up. (Audience laughter.) Do you know what I mean? You can’t. It is impossible to keep track of reality. So I tell this story to make a few larger points. It is not about Kerry per se. And it is not about my personal pique, about being treated so disrespectfully. This is not a personal issue. It is not even a partisan issue. It is a civic issue. It is a civic issue of profound importance. And I tell the story about Kerry partly to make clear that this is not a left versus right, or Democrat versus Republican issue. In fact, on this issue, it’s really the people at risk because of the collusion of the two parties. I think the collusion is passive. Some people have said that they know, they have made a deal, but I think that is unlikely.

If someone has the evidence, I’ll look at the evidence. But I don’t think that it is necessary for there to be a deal, because this has happened before. When you have a resolved, well organized, highly disciplined fascistic movement of some kind, (audience applause) right. (Audience applause) Let’s hear it for Fascism. (Sarcastically…Loud audience applause.) Calm yourselves. (Laughter) And they have a tremendous amount of social power and media influence, and they manage to get the press on their side for various reasons, those who would resist this, but who aren’t all that zealous about it, are simply going to deny that there’s a problem. Now why do the Democrats refuse to face this issue? Does it make any sense? Their existence as a party is threatened. They will cease to be, if this Republican party, the Bushevic party, (audience laughter) the theocratic Republican party, has it’s way, there will be no more Democrats. Now, one of the reasons that Democrats refuse to look at this, or read the evidence, or listen to it, is just corruption. Because a lot of democrats are in fact republicans. And in places like Ohio, rural Ohio….maybe you’ve had Bob Fitrakis come here and speak? …(audience confirms)…as he explains to me and he says in his writing, the democrats in rural Ohio are just as much a part of the status quo as the republicans. They are very close to the Republicans and they all serve at the pleasure of Ken Blackwell. So they all toe the line.

There was only one board of elections member, a democrat in the state, who blew the whistle. And that was Sheryl Eaton, who …(loud audience applause)… We love Sheryl, we know she exposed the deliberate subversion of the recount that was supposed to take place. And it has never taken place. And there are still 100,000 plus votes in that state that haven’t been counted to this day. She is the exception. Since a lot of Democrats just go along to get along and they figure, hey, you know, the two parties have divided the spoils. We can work it out. This is our turf. We’ve got the Sharks and the Jets, you know? We’ve got to divide it up. So why upset the apple cart? There is a lot of that.

But aside from that there is just plain old denial. Kerry was describing denial to me. Dodd wouldn’t have gotten angry if this thought did not frighten him. Because the implications of what happened last year are quite frightening….quite frightening. It doesn’t make any difference how brilliant a campaign you run. It doesn’t make any difference how smart your TV ads are. It doesn’t make any difference what a stellar profile your candidate has. You could run Jesus Christ for President, ok? You’re not going to win. You’re not going to win because this is not a functioning Democracy. America is no longer a Democracy. The last three elections have been stolen.

This refusal to confront the implications of what is going down has to do with deeply rooted ideological assumptions that we all have. Like "it can’t happen here." That’s the very important one. Like this is "The city on the hill." This nation was claimed by God. And what has happened to other countries can’t happen here, can’t happen here. So however copious and solid the evidence you have that it has happened here, you can’t get anywhere. It’s fascinating. You’ve got a moment in which pretty much everyone now finally agrees that the Bush regime lied, or deluded itself and the rest of us, to get us into a major war that we are losing. That’s really not a good thing. And people will face that. And the press will say yes that seems to be true. You’ve got a moment at which the people will say: yes, they did deliberately conspire to out a CIA agent who was responsible for keeping us safe from weapons of mass destruction, and they did it for petty political reasons. The people struggling to deny this are having an ever harder time. We accept this. We accept that they had to know that the attack was coming on 9/11 and they, at best, did nothing about it. (Audience applause.) We also accept that in the face of one of the worst natural disasters in our modern history, they did nothing and they continue to do nothing. All of this we accept. Right? All of this we accept. All this the press will admit "Yeah that’s true." OK. Progressives, everybody snarling foaming at the mouth…Bush is wicked, terrible. But somehow there is this magic circle drawn around "The Election." "Oh no, they wouldn’t do that! They wouldn’t to that!" Well, that’s what they would do first of all. In fact, that’s what they did do! That’s why they’re there. (Applause)

Understand this…I want to try to give you a sense of what we’re really up against, because I think it’s only if we face that, will we be able to deal with it. Ok, here it is folks. It’s about the elections. The electoral system is a mess. I think there are certain policies we should all pursue to improve the system. And we can talk about those policies. I want to give you a foretaste, because often people want to hear that. These are "take home points." We should go back to paper ballots. (Applause.) We should ban the participation of all private vendors in our electoral system. (Loud long applause.) So that means in Oregon, you know, you’ve got the paper ballots. You’ve got to get the software out of there, because as you know, using proprietary software to count the votes is like having a secret vote count. And so this is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. Anyone who defends this is a foe of American Democracy. It’s a simple as that. We also need a uniform federal standard for our election from coast to coast, from county to county, from precinct to precinct. We have to have….I’m going to say the dirty "B" word…we have to have an efficient, utterly non-partisan bureaucracy, on the order of the Post Office (it just delivers mail) to oversee our elections.

And I will add, that I would like to have as an ally in this fight any authentic conservative who believes in The Bill of Rights, way before I’ll accept the half hearted support of an Al Franken or somebody like that, or Mother Jones. The people, now this is us, not the Democratic Party, not the media, the people have got to fight back. We are at that point. And in order to do that we’ve got to make common cause with a lot of people we don’t ordinarily talk to. The Bush administration and the movement it represents is only one part of the Republican party. The Republican party is divided now. A lot of Republicans voted against Bush or just stayed home. In "Fooled Again" I gave a lot of examples. The very prominent Republicans of all kinds came out publically against Bush before the election and the press would never report on this trend, which was remarkable. But you had Bob Barr of Georgia, you can’t get much more right wing than that. You had John Eisenhower. You had General Tony McPeak of the Air Force, who was a pro-Bush military guy in 2000, now coming out for Kerry! You had Tom Clancy! You had Lee Ioacoca. You had an open letter signed by 169 tenured emeritus business professors deploring Bush’s economic policies. And the letter started at the Harvard Business School. You remember who went there? Bipartisan groups of diplomats, military men, moderate Republicans. A guy who ran a chapter of Republicans Abroad said he could not in good conscience support Bush. This guy [Bush] did not really win the election, because very few people really voted for him! (Audience applause.) Just read my book.

The thing is that it can happen here, and they knew it. And if we don’t reacquaint ourselves with their concerns, it will happen here, and have happened here for good. Because this is what we’re up against, ok? We are not up against conservatism. Bush is not a conservative president. Cheney is not a conservative vice president. The movement that we’re fighting is not a conservative movement. That is why it didn’t get all those Republican votes. I am not a conservative, but I respect conservatism. I see it as a coherent philosophy. I see it essentially as a philosophy that’s based on the improvement or at least the maintenance of THIS world. See. They believe in limited government, fiscal prudence, no foreign wars, all that kind of stuff. I can live with all of that. What does that have in common with this regime and its agenda? This is a guy who with all his tax cuts has spent more money than all of our other presidents combined. Did you know this? He has vastly expanded the police powers of this government, vastly expanded them. He has repealed Habeas Corpus. I mean, if on his say so, you’re a terrorist, they can come and drag you off to prison, and they don’t have to tell anybody that they did it. This is called disappearing people. This is unprecedented in our history. We don’t have freedom of assembly. We have First Amendment Zones. (Audience groan.) Freedom of Speech has been radically abridged. I mean, you know all that I am saying. Right? This is not conservatism. It is extremely radical. It’s much closer to Fascism. It has a great deal to do with the power of corporations. You can hiss all you want, and I am with you, but they are not going to listen. The fact that End Corporate Personhood is involved with this is really something that makes me very happy, because in a sense the idea that corporations should have the rights of persons, the status of persons, can be regarded, in a sense, as the worm in the apple here. I mean, things really started to go wrong in this country when corporations took on such power. Indeed as we have seen from the dangerous sway of the corporate manufacture of touch screen voting machines, corporations are reeking havoc on American Democracy, because corporations are driven by concern for only one thing, and that is their own profits. That’s money over the franchise, money over votes. This is something I think we can all agree on. We have to take a step further because there is something else at work here. It’s not just corporations. It’s not just the drive for profits. It’s not just corporate capitalism. As a matter of fact, certain large sectors of the corporate system are extremely unhappy with this president, like the insurance industry has done a big about face on global warming. Well for rational reasons. (Audience laughter.) Because they don’t want to go bankrupt!

So this is rational self interest at work. You read accounts of the financial get together in Datyl, Switzerland…it’s like a wake there now. They’re just miserable because this guy, this cabal, this movement is destroying the economy. They are on a suicide course. So even though they are infinitely pleasing to many corporate interests, you know, Haliburton and so on, especially their cronies, they are on a suicide course. They had an apocalyptic streak, that cannot be explained in economistic terms. Now people on the left tend to explain everything in economistic terms. It’s always about the money, follow the money. That’s true to a great degree. But it is not enough, because it does not account for the ferocious strain of anti-enlightenment activism that this regime represents. (Audience applause.)

Understand that this is a theocratic movement. It is not just a bunch of corporations, that know better, slyly manipulating the pieties of the masses. That is a leftist fallacy. Because we are talking about the energetic, political participation of a number of extremely right wing billionaires with enormous clout, people like Richard Mellon Scaif, and Howard Ahmanson. These are people who are extraordinarily active and productive on the political front and they make [George] Soros look like a piper. They spent far more money that he does. They spend it on propaganda; they spend it on political issues. Howard Ahmanson is the motive force behind the schism in the Episcopalian Church. He supports the Discovery Institute which is behind the spread of Intelligent Design. So to say there is religion over here and there are corporations over here is a mistake. It’s not that simple because there are points of convergence.

What we have here is a movement intent on turning the United States into a Christian republic. Now they often say that the United States is a Christian republic, then you say to them, "As a matter of fact, it isn’t." Look at say the First Amendment, look at Article 6 which forbids a religious test for office holders, look at everything the framers ever said on the subject. Well they don’t want to hear that so they say, "Well, it’s a Christian republic." Does this sound familiar? "Mr. President, there is no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." "0h yeah? there is too." "Go back and find it." "Oh, wait. Here it is, here it is." See? We think they are lying through their teeth, but please believe me that Cheney still believes there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. If it were only lying, or or if it was only machiavellian manipulation, I promise you we would be better off than we are right now. What we are dealing with is pathological. You tell them, "Hey, there is no evidence for intelligent design," and they say "oh yes there is." They proclaim that there is. There is no evidence that abstainance based sex education does anything except raise pregnancy rates and raise rates of sexually transmitted diseases. They say "Nope…no…" Because it’s faith based.

They live in a faith based universe. I want you to grasp the enormity of this problem. We have all grown up in the shadow of the cold war. All of our politics were forged in the context of a post enlightenment moment. I mean the enlightenment is settled, ok? And now we have the clash between two great enlightenment doctrines, capitalism and socialism. Do you want to know something? That turned out to be a blip on the radar screen. We are right back where we were when the framers wrote the Constitution. We are right back there. They did this incredibly brave and intelligent thing. They forged a national charter that was the first in human history not to invoke the deity. They separated church from state. And this was not a plot by a handful of professorial smarty pantses, who were a lot less religious than the average Joe. This was on the one hand an innovation by brilliant Deists who were indeed Rationalists. But it wasn’t just that. Separation of church and state grew out of American soil. Because this was a nation of religious immigrants, and most believing American were grateful for the separation of church and state. You know that the Baptists for over a hundred years were arch- Jeffersonians? Because they understood that if there is a state church in this country it would be Episcopalian and they would be persecuted again. So it was in everybody’s interest to separate church from state. There is no reason to apologize for it. There is no reason to dance away from it. There is no reason to meet with Hillary and decide, "How we can look more religious?" Screw that! (Loud audience applause.)

When de Tocqueville came here in the 1830’s, he remarked on the fact that this country was the most religious country on the earth and he understood that the reason is because they separated church and state. The reason is because there is no coersion here. So religion thrives. Why can’t Democrats just say that? What’s wrong with that? Is there any problem? Now the fact that they don’t seem to have any faith in our revolutionary division, they don’t seem to have any understanding of what the framers wrote, they don’t really believe in American democracy, leaves us just extremely vulnerable to a highly organized, extremist movement that is intent on undoing all that. We don’t hear about it. Right? Like this business about the Supreme Court, we hear about Alito’s style, you know his style, what kind of person he is, we parse his record. We talk about what kind of demeanor he has and what kind of suit he wears, his life experiences, and so on. Maybe if we get really bold and specific, we’ll say, "They are going to repeal Roe vs. Wade." What they don’t understand is that Roe vs. Wade is only "Step One" for these people, right? Step one!

Do you know what the Constitution Restoration Act is? A few of you do. Go home and do a little google search on it. The Constitution Restoration Act would declare that God is the sovereign basis of American Law. Do you know what that means? That means that a judge could make decisions on the basis of the Old Testament and it couldn’t be reversed. So if you want to see a vision of the possible future as these people imagine it, go home and read the book of Leviticus, and see how many things you can be executed for doing. Heresy, for example, Astrology, Pre-marital sex … well, only the woman gets killed for pre-marital sex. This is directly and ferociously opposed to the whole American tradition. So when I said this is not a partisan issue, I really meant it. The American people don’t go for this, I promise you. A lot of Americans may have been hood-winked by Bush and so on, but understand that his strong support is now at 22% with a margin of error of 4 points. So it could be 18%. I estimate that at least Kerry won by 51 to 48%. Kerry won! And probably by more or would have, because between the votes that were thrown away, and the votes that were pre-empted, and the votes abroad, it’s a significant number.

The American, you know, people for all their, or all our shortcomings, for all the decadence that has been sponded by a consumer culture, which has had a seriously destructive effect on our ability to function in a democracy, for all that, the American people are not extremists. The American people are not theocrats. The Wall Street Journal just a few days ago ran an piece about the new phenomena of the Evangelical Churches trying to do something about global warming through their churches. So it’s time for us all to join hands with each other, all rational Americans who love our traditions got to join hands and insist on electoral reform which both parties seem not to want. Right? It’s not up to the Democrats. It is certainly not up to the media. It’s up to us. Now this is the kind of thinking we’ve become estranged from, as I say, because we’re mostly parked in front of the set, you know, with a big gulp and a bag of Doritos. And we’re thinking, "Oh gee, am I getting fat," or "Don’t I look great?" "Oh let’s watch reality TV" …getting into so and so’s life for a minute, unreality TV, you know.

But we have to get back to that. Do you know why? Because we don’t have any choice. There’s no choice. If we don’t get electoral reform in place, if we don’t reclaim the system from the Right, this experiment is over. If this experiment is over, the world could well be over. I think we should return to the best that our framers had to offer. And consider ourselves as noble and dedicated representatives of that tradition. We have nothing to apologize for, and everything to gain. Thank you.

• A Patriot Act by Mark Crispin Miller(11/21)
• Bush’s Brain– A Documentary about Karl Rove
• Bush Family Fortunes – The Best Democracy Money Can Buy – Greg Palast
• Control Room – Different Channels. Different Truths.
• The Corporation – The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
• Electile Dysfunction: Take Back Your Right to Vote Buzzflash (11/21)
• Fahrenheit 9/11 – examination of the Bush administration’s actions in the wake of the tragic events of 9/11.
• How Democrats and Progressives Can Win by George Lakoff (11/21)
• The Hunting of the President – The ten year campaign to destroy Bill Clinton
• Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky and the Media
• Michael Moore’s Books/Films
• Orwell Rolls in his Grave – 1984 is no longer a date in the future.
• OutFoxed – Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
• Super Size Me – the legal, financial and physical costs of America’s hunger for fast food.
• Thirst – Is water a human right or a commodity to be bought and sold in a global marketplace?
• There’s Something About W – A wry look at the policies of the Bush Administration
• Unconstitutional – The War On Our Civil Liberties from Robert Greenwald (11/21)
• Uncovered – The War On Iraq
• Unprecedented – The battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of Democracy in America
• The Yes Men – Changing the world one prank at a time

• Claim vs. Truth – Comparing right wing claims to the truth
• The 10 Worst Corporations of 2004 By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, AlterNet. (1/25/05)
• Bush Administration Lies Archives
• No Joke: Daily Show Viewers Follow Presidential Race
• Bush Lied And Our Soldiers Died
• Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq
• Former CIA agent says Bush to blame for 9/11
• What Liberal Media?
• The Top Ten Reasons to Boot Bush
• The World Upside Down
• Bush Jr.’s Skeleton Closet – A nice summary of his “moral strength”
• Losing the Battle with Terror
• Lie and You Thrive – Bush’s campaign “assetts” are his worst liabilities.
• Nader ’04 Impact Map – why Ralph, why?
• It’s hard to be a Democrat. (gotta read this one!)
• Bush was warned 40 times about Bin Laden between Jan. 20 and Sept. 11, 2001.
• Bush by numbers: Four years of double standards.
• One Thousand Reasons (to vote against Bush)
• Did the Bush administration know it’s Iraq claims were weak before the war?
• Disinformation and Lies of the Corporate Media
• If results matter, just look (Bush’s record)
• Is the media liberal?
• Are the blue states smarter?
• What’s the world got against the US? They hate freedom! That’s it!
• Bush: Worst President Ever? By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. Posted May 20, 2005.
• Is Fascism Really All That Bad? By Mark Drolette May 21, 2005
• BUSH’S IMPEACHABLE OFFENCES

2000 ELECTION THEFT:

• SILENCE OF THE MEDIA LAMBS: THE ELECTION STORY NEVER TOLD
• Did Bush steal the 2000 election? (Real Audio File)

The “Debates”:

• What debate? – a buzzflash editorial
• Substance Over Style
• Fair Expectations
• How to Debate George Bush – by Al Gore
• Media Matters for America Debate Coverage – very good!
• Top 10 Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know About the Debates

BUSH’S NATIONAL GUARD SERVICE:

• New Scrutiny of Bush’s Service
• Bush even more AWOL than we thought
• Recognizing who served
• Unexcused Absence – Forget 30 years ago, Bush is AWOL now!
• Are the CBS memos true fabrications?
• Media’s memo obsession has enabled conservatives to distract from Bush’s lies about service
• Smashing the Filter – The CBS memos should have been an opportunity for CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and NBC to launch their own investigations into Bush’s National Guard service
• Still Unreported: The Pay-off in Bush Air Guard Fix
• The Lynching of Dan Rather – On British TV, Dan Feared The Price Of “Asking Questions”
• Media Matters for America coverage of President Bush’s National Guard Controversy

(AK AZ CA CO FL GA IL IN IA MD MN MO NE NV NH NJ NM NC OH PA TX UT VA VT WA WI WY)

Alaska:

• 200% Voter Turnout in Alaska – Blue_In_AK on DU (Dec-21-05)
• AK: Democrats question (2004) vote results – Tabulation method…doubted – wilms on DU (Dec-21-05)
• State (AK) Refuses to Release Public Records-Claims Diebold Data is Proprietary – Wilms (Feb-07-06)
• State (Alaska) to turn over voting files from 2004 to Democrats – Blue_In_AK (Feb-11-06)
• “NO, YES, NO: Alaska Now Refuses Release of 2004 Election Data Citing Security Concerns!” – BradBlog (2/24/06)

Arizona:

• 27,878 Provisional Votes thrown out. by Wilms (1/30/05)
• ‘Serious problems’ found in AZ election results – garybeck (Wed May-25-05)
• Pentagon Seeks Power Over Elections in Arizona – Wilms (Jan-30-06)
• AZ: FBI seizes ballots in close ’04 legislative race – Wilms (Feb-03-06)
• 3. AZ: Maricopa County (Phoenix) – Huge Republican Election Fraud Scandal – kster (Feb-22-06)

California:

• Editorial: The new Palm Beach? (San Diego) (11/27)
• New analysis of California data – backs up Madsen’s claims – READ IT! from ClintCooper2003 on DU (12/6)
• Mocking democracy: San Diego Mayoral Race Results Certified from Rose Siding on DU (12/8)
• Citizens Request Recount in San Diego Mayoral Race – “Enron by the Sea” – raw story (Thursday August 18, 2005)
• California Election Protection Network – (10/04/2005)
• Why they went after Kevin Shelley and what it means for CA elections – Amaryllis on DU (Sun Nov-06-05)
• Crime Report: Los Angeles Denies Public Access to Central Tabulator – Einsteinia on DU (Wed Nov-09-05)
• Is Los Angeles Above the Law? – Einsteinia (Sat Nov-05-05)
• Brad: Something very rotten suddenly occuring in CA, plus more on OH – Amaryllis on DU (Fri Nov-18-05)
• California Citizens Coordinate Diebold Takedown – GuvWorld on DU (Dec-17-05 )
• Deborah Bowen (CA Dem4SoS) throws down gauntlet on secret vote counting! – Peace Patriot (Dec-31-05)
• SHIT!!! Diebold to be certified in CA … with yet-unstated conditions. – nicknameless (Feb-21-06)
• Despite Illegalities, Diebold Election Machines Certified In CA– GuvWurld ( Feb-19-06)
• Is The GOP “Shock-The-Vote Gang” Planning to Heist California? – AtLiberty (Feb-21-06)
• WOW! ** CA’s Sen Bowen Rips rethug SoS over Diebold Certification ** (3/1) – nicknameless (Mar-02-06)
• LEGAL ACTION TO BE FILED IN CALIFORNIA TO ‘HALT USE OR PURCHASE OF DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINES’ IN STATE! – BradBlog (3/20/2006)
• Choice Point in CA?! THOUSANDS already kicked off of voter rolls.– nicknameless (Mar-30-06)
• CA’s rethug SoS made a deal with bush to eliminate eligible voters!! – nicknameless (Mar-31-06)

Colorado:

• Activists protest electronic voting Denver Post (11/21)
• Colorado protest pictures..spread these around the internet! Denver Voice (11/18)
• Major fraud in Colorado? from ClintCooper2003 on DU (12/12)

Florida:

• CLOSE TO EVIDENCE!!! – palm beach county, FL
• I Smell a Rat…odor of Republicanus floridius [by a polling expert]
• Were the absentee ballots lost or stolen? Either way, it’s a crime. (Broward County)
• Orange County discrepancy–8,400 VOTES!
• 8400 Vote Orange County Bush Jump – Absentee Ballots?
• Congressional candidate Jeff Fisher says Florida vote was hacked, and he knows who did it and how!
• Jeff Fisher – sounding real and real scary… Reader Beware
• Something Rotten in the State of Florida
• Broward machines count backward
• Very Odd Results in Florida
• Bush wins by 5% in Florida yet his Latino vote in Florida was down 15%!!!
• Palm Beach County Logs 88,000 More Votes Than Voters
• MiamiHerald.com: “Hackers rigging voting machines a real possibility”
• Busting the Dixiecrat myth
• Did Bush Lose… Again? (“optical scam” machines…debunks dixiecrat myth)
• Volusia County election records just got put on lockdown – Bev Harris (MUST READ!)
• Local couple travel to Florida to watch polls
• WAS IT HACKED? – Orlando Weekly News
• Berkeley’s published report is available to read. Oh-oh, Jeb. (at LEAST 130,000 extra Bush votes)
• ‘Stinking Evidence’ of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida
• Florida counties stonewall records requests. – update on blackboxvoting.org (11/22)
• Volusia County lawsuit alleges irregularities in Nov. 2, 2004 election – blackboxvoting.org (11/24)
• UPDATE: Florida litigation on voting issues, from Black Box Voting by Bev Harris (11/24)
• ***Election 2004: 73 SCHOOLS LOCKEDDOWN IN PALM BEACH *** Carl Brennan on DU (11/26)
• Miami Herald article shows that Kerry may have won Florida! from pointsoflight on DU – BRILLIANT! (11/29)
• Black Box Voting files lawsuit against Palm Beach County Elections Division (11/30)
• Dixiecrats or not, FL results unbelievable from ccarter84 on DU (12/1)
• Florida – Suit seeks to overturn election – from dzika on DU (12/2)
• Florida Election Anomalies and Voter Suppression – collection of links(12/2)
• Comparison of Democratic and Republican Populations and Vote Counts in Florida from 2000 to 2004 (12/5)
• FLORIDA – 33 OF 34 VOTED FOR KERRY BUT THE MACHINE CAME UP BUSH from TruthIsAll on DU (12/5)
• Who supervised the removal of 21 Florida e-voting machines in Broward County? BlueLemur (12/6)
• BUSTED? Pynchon thinks there’s something rotten in Volusia from sabra on DU (12/8)
• MAJOR FRAUD IN FLORIDA? from ClintCooper2003 on DU (12/12)
• Fraud(Default to Bush) documented in Florida touchscreen county machines by berniew1 (12/22)
• ‘New Times Broward-Palm Beach’ Jumps into Feeney, Yang (YEI), Curtis Fray! [UPDATED] – BradBlog (2/08/05)
• Whistle blower alleges U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney might have rigged South Florida Election from pbartch (2/19/05)
• S. Florida : Sorry, your votes won’t count. We made a mistake. from berniew1 (2/28/05)
• FL Optiscans vs. Touchscreens:Prob of 9.03% discrepancy-1 in 12.7 trillion – TruthIsAll (Sun Apr-17-05)
• FL Vote analysis: Using registration, machine type, NEP Party ID stats. – TruthIsAll (Sun Apr-17-05)
• Are these Florida Precinct Reports a smoking gun or not? – adolfo (Wed Apr-06-05)
• Discrepancies found in 35 percent of Miami-Dade precincts by garybeck (Fri May-06-05)
• Votes counted three times (Dade County) audit shows – IChing (Wed May-25-05)
• Optical scan machines hacked in Florida – rightfoot (Sun May-29-05)
• Palm Beach County fails BBV audit – twilight zone, basically – rightfoot (Wed Jun-08-05)
• Leon County Fla. Report on Hacked Machines – BeFree (Sat Jun-04-05)
• FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions in False Claims to Help Bush Win Fla. Votes in ’04 By Jason Leopold (Sat Sep-10-05)
• BREAKING: Florida Improperly Certified Diebold TSX – AmBlue on DU (Mon Nov-28-05)
• Leon County dumps Diebold!!! BBV Breaking News!!! – Einsteinia on DU ( Dec-16-05)
• Brad Blog: Volusia County, FL Dumps Diebold Too! – understandinglife (Dec-16-05)
• Watchdog Group Questions 2004 Fla. Vote (+) – kster (Feb-24-06)
• Miami Herald: Election official hammered for telling truth about Diebold – Amaryllis (Mar-08-06)
• “AP: 100,000 ERRORS REPORTED ON SEQUOIA VOTING MACHINES IN PALM BEACH, FL 2004 ELECTION!” – BradBlog (2/23/06)
• FL: Ion Sancho Initiates Legal Proceedings Against Diebold – Wilms (Mar-08-06)
• Gov. Jeb Bush, S.o.S. Sue Cobb threaten Leon Co. election takeover! – Steve A Play (Mar-08-06)
• St. Pete Times: “No conspiracy needed to support paper trail” -MSM, guys! – Amaryllis (Mar-13-06)

Georgia:

• Mark Crispin Miller: Secret ballot compromised in Georgia! – (Fri Jun-24-05)
• Congresswoman McKinney Reveals Shocking Data on Diebold and Elections in Georgia – Fly by night (Wed Jul-20-05)

Illinois:

• Chicago Tribune reporting many problems with Sequoia machines in Illinois – xray s (Mar-23-06)

Indiana:

• Computer glitch still baffles county clerk (affects Dem county in Indiana)
• Another screw-up in Indiana! Kerry losing thousands of votes to Bednarik.
• Voting machine glitch changes election
• 3 more counties report errors Franklin Co. equipment trouble wasn’t an isolated incident
• IN: Centralized Registration Database PROBLEMS. Test May 2nd. – autorank (Mar-20-06)

Iowa:

• Bush won Iowa by 10,000 (less than 1%–qualifies for a recount) by carolab on DU (11/18)

Maryland:

• Observers find 201 e-voting problems in Maryland by Grant Gross (11/23)
• In Response to Hursti Hack, MD Election Admin. Expresses ‘Great Concern’ – Wilms (Feb-08-06)
• UNCERTIFIED! (Maryland) – Bill Bored (Feb-18-06)
• Bradblog: VERY good news RE: Diebold in MD! Go get ’em, gov & MD house! – Amaryllis (Mar-06-06)
• TrueVote MD releases docs detailing Diebold failures, violations of law – Amaryllis (Mar-08-06)
• Maryland House votes to oust Diebold machines – FogerRox (Mar-10-06)
• Brad:MD House Votes 137 to 0 to Ban Diebold Touch-Screens in 2006! – Amaryllis (Mar-11-06)
• “Touch Screen Voting Isn’t the Right Answer” Balt.Sun-This is really good!– Amaryllis (Apr-01-06)

Minnesota:

• Major fraud in Minnesota? from ClintCooper2003 on DU (12/12)
• Please Help! Vote siphoning from Kerry to 3rd parties in Minnesota – IndyOp (Sat Jul-23-05)

Missouri:

• “Report of evidence sent to US Attorneys, Missouri Reps, State Auditor etc” Matt Fox, Ph.D. (11/29)

Nebraska:

• More Votes than Voters in Nebraska

Nevada:

• A CRY FOR HELP FROM BATTLE-STATION NEVADA by shraby on DU (11/20)
• nevada! please help on DU (11/21)
• BREAKING NEWS: Glibs to Recount NM and NV!!
• for everyone asking questions about the NV paper trail … from NVMojo on DU (11/30)
• JUDGE TO CHALLENGE BUSH ELECTORAL VOTES IN NEVADA from Karenca on DU (11/30)
• Inside the Nevada Numbers: Christmas Comes Early for the Republicans from ignatzmouse on DU (11/30)
• Why the “Greens” Dropped Nevada from Recount Efforts…Just So You Know. from KoKo01 on DU (12/5)
• Judge orders release of Nevada presidential election public records from Amaryllis on DU (1/25/05)
• NEVADA LEGAL SHOWDOWN from JoMama49 on DU (1/20/05)

New Hampshire:

• Presidential ballots to be recounted
• NH Recount shows Straight Dem Party votes miscounted! by FullCountNotRecount on DU (11/20)
• Recount finds few changes (bad news, but of course only 11 of 301 precincts were recounted..hmmm) (11/30)
• NH: Doing time for election fraud!!! NH Republican – autorank on DU (Dec-20-05)

New Jersey:

• Proposed law in NJ to outlaw paper ballots – FogerRox (Feb-10-06)
• NJ Appeals Court Reinstates Lawsuit Challenging Electronic Voting – Wilms (Feb-13-06)

New Mexico:

• Fishy New Mexico Numbers
• NM – Absentee and Provisional Ballot Rejection Rate – 50%+
• NM could flip for Kerry (it has tightened dramatically) 11/15
• weirdness in NM
• Bingo! “Prima Facie” for New Mexico from indigoblue on DU (11/29)
• BREAKING NEWS: Glibs to Recount NM and NV!!
• New Mexico Was Blue: 18,659 Missing E-Votes from ignatzmouse on DU (12/5)
• Strong evidence/doc. Kerry won New Mexico-Make sure Recount Happens from berniew1 on DU (12/22)
• THEY HAVE FILED LAWSUITS IN NEW MEXICO!!!! from pbartch on DU (1/25/05)
• New Mexico lawsuit update – garybeck – SolarBus.org (Thu Sep-29-05)
• Legal Battle for 2004 Recount Continues in New Mexico – by David Edwards (9/06/2005)
• BradBlog: Plaintiffs Suddenly Blocked in New Mexico ’04 Election Lawsuit – Nothing Without Hope on DU (Sat Nov-12-05)
• Looks like Bill Richardson (NM) has turned into a lion for paper ballot!! – Stevepol (Jan-29-06)

North Carolina:

• Unofficial Audit of NC Election: Comprehensive Case for Fraud by ignatzmouse on DU
• NC Unofficial Audit Part 2: Inside the Black Box by ignatzmouse on DU (11/22)
• Election problems due to a software glitch (11,283 x-tra for Bush in N.C )
• Fiasco in North Carolina
• NC Transfer Error Misses 12,000 Votes
• State to probe Gaston election – Charlotte Observer (11/19)
• NC Problems reported in the media by pointoflight on DU (11/22)
• Trail of Electronic Voting Uncovered: A Summary of NC Findings by ignatzmouse on DU (11/23)
• North Carolina’s ballot blues By JOYCE MCCLOY (11/27)
• A Florida Style Nightmare – North Carolina Citizens Demand Verified Voting Measures (11/28)
• North Carolina is contender for most fraud & glitches: new documentation from berniew1 (3/04/05) Video: Carteret Citizens whose votes were lost speak out – WillYourVoteBCounted (Wed Jul-27-05)
• Bradblog: Diebold certified in NC after all by former Diebold rep! – Amaryllis on DU (Thu Dec-01-05)
• Diebolding NC – the timeline,cronies, ties to NC corruption investigation – WillYourVoteBCounted on DU (Sun Dec-04-05)
• Red State NC Fights Back against Diebold! Another Lawsuit Filed! – KoKo01 on DU (12-13-05)

Ohio:

• OH Vote Suppression: 92,000 optiscan/punchcards didn’t record vote
• Ohio voters tell of Election Day troubles at hearing
• Slip-sliding away in Columbus
• Better Dead Than Red – The story Ken Blackwell didn’t want you to read.
• KERRY WON OHIO – JUST COUNT THE BALLOTS AT THE BACK OF THE BUS – Greg Palast
• A Legitimate Recount Effort in Ohio
• A report on the election from an Attorney that was “on the ground” in Ohio
• Errors plague voting process in Ohio, Pa.
• Unravelling the Mystery of the Cuyahoga County vote totals
• Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes
• Ohio Poll Worker on the Rigged Vote
• Why Did CNN Change Their Exit Poll Data for Ohio After 1:00 AM?
• And so the sorting and discarding of Kerry votes begins
• Who Counts in Ohio
• The Ohio Code – by Atrios
• The Perfect Election Day Crime
• GOP Vote Suppression: A Crime Against the U.S. Constitution
• Statistical Evidence: Ohio election rigged
• Notes from Ohio voter suppression hearing in Columbus 11/15
• Some ballots counted twice
• Document reveals Columbus, Ohio voters waited hours as election officials held back machines
• 93,000 Extra Votes In Cuyahoga County -Outrage In Ohio
• Possible Proof of fraud in one bit of testimony.
• Democrats take up fight over ballots
• Vote rigging by machine allocation in Franklin County, Ohio
• Sample Right-wing Voter Suppression Letter
• Precincts with only 21 votes in Cuyahoga, OH:218,981 less votes ’00 to ’04
• Hijinx in Ohio?
• Hearings on Ohio voting put 2004 election in doubt
• Lawyers to challenge election in Ohio
• Blackwell Violates Ohio State Law?
• Ohio Presidential Results to be Challenged by Stephen Rosenfeld (11/20)
• Hearings on Ohio voting put 2004 election in doubt by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman (11/18)
• Ohio counties w Registration exceeding 100% of the voting age by truehawk on DU (11/19)
• Election Day rolls include people who couldn’t—and shouldn’t—vote – Columbus Dispatch (10/24)
• Ohio hearings show massive GOP vote manipulation by Harvey Wasserman (11/21)
• One Ohio County (Cuhayoga) had 55,434 (at minimum) over votes. by jsamuel at DU (11/20)
• UPDATE: SOLID Proof of Vote Suppression in OH by markusd at dailyKOS (11/20)
• First hand reports by other Ohio volunteers by Ray Beckerman (11/18)
• How the Ohio election was rigged for Bush by Bob Fitrakis (11/22)
• Recount efforts in Ohio by Kerry intensify by Adam Stone (11/22)
• Cuyahoga County Ohio – List of 8k “Incomplete” Registration Cards…by sabra on DU (11/22)
• Blackwell sued over Cuyahoga vote tally by James Ewinger (11/27)
• More Interesting Ohio Data… please read by TennisGuy2004 on DU (11/23)
• 8,099 Cuyahoga ballots ruled invalid by Diane Solov (11/23)
• New Ohio voter transcripts feed floodtide of doubt about Republican election manipulation (11/25)
• More voting questions raised by Jon Craig (11/25)
• Widespread Election Fraud in Cleveland? by Bob Fertik (11/19)
• CUYAHOGA COUNTY: MASSIVE Punchcard machine outages by Chili on DU (11/28)
• Blackwell Denies Public Access to Poll Books in Trumbull County from rehema on DU (11/28)
• “Prima Facie” evidence of Ohio election fraud — Pacifica Radio from jamboi on DU (11/28)
• Kerry Supports Ohio Vote Investigation, Jackson says by Steven Rosenfeld (11/28)
• Re-Vote, Not Recount, in Ohio by Anne Pfeiffer (11/29)
• Dec. 4th Ohio Rally!
• Ohio tally fit for Ukraine (11/30)
• Kerry campaign joins the glib lawsuit in OH!!! from Wordie on DU (11/30)
• Kerry loses about 400 votes to 3rd parties in Cleveland? 1 in 10^50 odds from jfern on DU (12/1)
• Major vote suppression based on race…And its actionable. from pointoflight on DU (12/1)
• MUST SEE! Cliff Arnebeck Link on C-Span re: FRAUD!!! from Verve on DU (12/2)
• Conyers and Other Congressman to Hold Forum on Voting Irregularities in Ohio(12/3)
• Ohio Voter Turn Out Turned Off!!! from Ronbrynaert on DU (12/3)
• WHY HAVEN’T THEY COUNTED A QUARTER MILLION VOTES IN OHIO? Greg Palast (12/5)
• Kerry lost 369 votes at one Ohio polling place, 115 at another, hundreds at others on DailyKOS (12/2)
• BAD COUNTS CERTIFIED in Cuyahoga County OH from k8conant on DU (12/7)
• Graphics of Disenfranchisement, Turnout choked by too few machines – mirror of DU page (12/7)
• Ohio election fraud uproar blasting to new level by Steve Rosenfeld, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman (12/7)
• Video Highlights of Rep. Conyers’ “Ohio Voting Irregularities” Forum .wmv from crooksandliars.com (12/8)
• Documentation that Kerry Won Ohio; (the recount will prove it) from berniew1 on DU (12/9)
• Why history demands an Ohio revote by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis (12/10)
• Triad machines produce 101,506 more Bush Votes than expected in Ohio from IndyOp on DU (12/10)
• More votes than voters in Ohio – absentee votes inflated from BR_Parkway on DU (12/10)
• GROUNDS to OVERTURN the election in OHIO from k8conant on DU (12/11)
• Disturbing occurance in Warren County, Ohio from yankeefanatic3 on DU (12/12)
• Cuts in precincts add to voter lines – Akron Beacon (12/12)
• Blackwell Locks Down Ohio Voting Records from shraby on DU (12/12)
• Smoking Gun of Election Fraud is in Ken Blackwell’s Hand By Anthony Wade (12/12)
• Ohio Recount Affidavit – Richard Hayes Phillips (12/12)
• Ohio pre-certification oddities – vanishing votes etc. from harmonyguy on DU (12/12)
• A READABLE, CONVINCING summary of Ohio vote fraud analyses from IndyOp on DU (12/12)
• Ohio lockdown a case of prima facie election fraud? from pointsoflight on DU (12/12)
• Hacking the vote in Lucas County by Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D. (12/12)
• Update from Greene County Ohio – Sworn Affidavit from dzika on DU (12/14)
• OHIO sure knows how to count quickly!! from ClarkinMich on DU (12/14)
• Blackwell Refuses to Cooperate with House Judiciary Democrats from cyn2 on DU (12/14)
• “House Judiciary Ohio Forum Hears of Recount Fraud Plans” –Report from BreakForNews on DU (12/13)
• Ohio Electoral College Chooses Bush After Challenge Filed (12/13)
• Ohio Vote Fraud Battle Heats Up – Blackwell Is In Deep Trouble! from sabra on DU (12/13)
• Here is a specific Ohio law Blackwell violated–I need help getting arrest from Vote4Kerry on DU (12/14)
• Here are the Petition and Injuntion in the Arnebeck Case!!! from keithjx on DU (12/14)
• Witness says voting company tampered with machines after vote and tried to plant false information into Ohio recount (12/14)
• Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed By William Rivers Pitt (12/15)
• Rep. Conyers Seeks Federal Inquiry into Ohio Voting – Buzzflash (12/15)
• Ohio Justice Throws Out Election Challenge – Associated Press (12/16)
• What R the odds of PERFECT RECOUNTS in multiple counties from texpatriot2004 on DU (12/16)
• Ohio, Fairfield County, suspends recount…UPDATED WITH REPORT from mtnester on DU (12/16)
• Kerry-Edwards letter to Blackwell: Please Analyze the Words.. from Shalom on DU (12/16)
• In addition to TRIAD, Diebold hacks the recount. – rawstory (12/16)
• Chaos in Cuyahoga? 49,000 Votes Disappear into the Ether …then found? from Iceburg on DU (12/16)
• Ohio vote count battles escalate amidst new evidence of potential criminal activity by Bob Fitrakis (12/18)
• ES&S Machines in Mahoning County Defaulted to Bush! from emlev (12/22)
• Mercer County: Triad Mechanic Permitted to Disassemble Tabulator from Carolab on DU (12/22)
• Report from Recount Observer, Lucas County, Ohio from carolab on DU (12/22)
• Blackwell crimes in 2004 pres. race already an issue for 2006 gov. race… from EMunster on DU (12/22)
• Ohio’s Perfectly Paranormal Recount Results from rainbow4321 on DU (12/22)
• Ohio recount- Cuyahoga County ballots pre-sorted from mdb on DU (12/22)
• Coshocton Co. Results: Kerry to Gain 40,000+ in Ohio Hand Recount from dzika on DU (12/12)
• Arnebeck ALSO Requests Emergency Hearing to Impound Machines…. from EMunster on DU (12/22)
• Voters Refile Challenge Of Presidential Results – Associated Press (12/22)
• Blackwell’s office had secret slush funds and Perry County lawsuit from WiseFawn on DU (12/22)
• Conyers Letter to Triad asking for cheat sheets from Twist_U_Up on DU (12/26)
• Cuyahoga Cty – 2000 Bush Tallies Used to Fake 2004 Tallies? from 59sunburst on DU (12/27)
• Ohio Official Refuses Interview Over Vote – Associated Press (12/27)
• ODDS OF A FAIR VOTE IN COSHOCTON COUNTY, OH: 1 of 17,000 ! from TruthIsAll on DU (12/28)
• Ohio Recount -Officialy Over- Ends in Laughable Outcome from BreakForNews on DU (12/28)
• OHIO HAS 11,360 PRECINCTS from stella2cat on DU (12/30)
• Conyers to Object to Ohio Electors, Requests Senate Allies By William Rivers Pitt (12/30)
• The Strange Death of American Democracy: Endgame in Ohio by Michael Keefer (1/24/05)
• A NEW legal challenge in Ohio!!! from ClassWarrior on DU (1/25/05)
• Proof of Vote fraud has happened in Ohio before from phantomvotes on DU (1/25/05)
• LETTER: Four House Dems ask for Ohio criminal investigation from rawstory on DU (1/14/05)
• CONYERS AND OTHERS TO FILE AMICUS BRIEF IN OHIO SUPREME COURT by WilliamPitt (2/15/05)
• Ohio recount volunteers allege electoral tampering, legal violations and possible fraud – RawStory (1/26/05)
• FBI checking Clermont voting – Congressman claims tampering – By Reid Forgrave (2/09/05)
• EIRS case doc. of vote switching, dirty tricks, suppression in Ohio by berniew1 (2/07/05)
• S.O.S. in Ohio did not allow recount of 3% sample in DRE TS counties-why? by berniew1 (2/15/05)
• Ohio Attorney-General’s attack on election protection attorneys draws mountain of documentation on state’s stolen election (2/03/05)
• Green recount volunteers found signif. irregularities inmost Ohio counties by berniew1 (1/29/05)
• Ohio has a history of hacking the vote from brindis_desala on DU (3/10/05)
• researchers at Nashville conference-strong case Kerry won Ohio – berniew1 (Mon Apr-11-05)
• Fired Ohio Election Board staffer defiant over “retribution” – Bob Fitrakis (May 25, 2005)
• Attack on election board whistleblower and leaked Blackwell threats re-fire Ohio’s election theft scandal – by Bob Fitrakis (May 23, 2005)
• UPDATE: ‘Democratic’ Election Officials’ Feet Held to Fire in Hocking County, OH – BradBlog ( 6/9/2005)
• Something Rotten in Ohio By Gore Vidal, The Nation (June 14, 2005)
• Everything you ever wanted to know about CoinGate in Ohio (June 22, 2005)
• Evidence of Fraud and Disenfranchisement in Ohio, 2004 : A Partial List (June 22, 2005)
• Taka a look at what OHIO thinks about Bush and tell me Kerry lost it.. – TruthIsAll (Tue Jun-28-05)
• Ohio Democrats victims of break-in – MelissaB (Sat Jul-02-05)
• Voter registration data could provide the key to the 2004 Ohio election – Time for change (Tue Jul-12-05)
• 10,000 Registration Documents Shredded in Hocking County? -NoBushSpokenHere (Thu Jul-14-05)
• Too Close for Comfort – Paul Hackett Congressional Race – (August 03, 2005)
• GOP Ohio Miracle of the Moment! – BradBlog (8/2/2005)
• about those white stickers…… – garybeck (Wed Aug-24-05)
• Ohio Governor’s ethics violations expose money trail to stolen 2004 election – by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman (August 30, 2005)
• What if NY Times was right about massive Dem. increase in OH voter reg.? – Time for change on DU (Fri Jul-22-05)
• NVRI: Federal Judge Sets Expedited Schedule for Lawsuit (Ohio!) – eomer on DU (Sat Sep-17-05)
• DNC Report Conclusion of “No Widespread Fraud” in Ohio Election Disputed – Time for change on DU (Tue Sep-27-05)
• Eye On Ohio: The Informed Citizen’s Guide to the 2004 Election (11-30-05)
• OH: Republican Mole at Toledo Blade Spiked Coingate in Jan 2004 – autorank on DU (Thu Oct-06-05)
• Watergate-style money laundering indictments stoke Ohio’s stolen election by kster on DU (Fri Oct-28-05)
• Ohio Precinct-level Exit Poll Data Show Virtually Irrefutable Evidence of Vote Miscount sunshinekathy (Wed Nov-02-05)
• disconnect between the pre-election polls and the “reported” election results in Ohio on Issue 1 vs. Issues 2-5 – (Wed Nov-09-05)
• Update on purging of > 100 K voters from Cuyahoga Co. voter roles – Time for change (Wed Nov-09-05)
• State plans to investigate voting chaos; Tuesday’s problems are latest for Lucas County – OH – althecat (Thu Nov-10-05)
• Fitrakis & Wasserman discuss Ohio’s referendum electronic “defeats” – AtLiberty on DU (Sat Nov-12-05)
• The Staggeringly Impossible Outcome for Ohio’s ’05 Election – lizzieforkerry on DU (Sun Nov-13-05)
• The Role of Voter Registration Purging/Fraud in Kerry’s loss of Ohio – Time for change on DU (Wed Nov-09-05)
• Coup d’etat Redux in Ohio! – Einsteinia on DU ( Dec-12-05)
• OH: New Blackwell Directive: No More RANDOM recounts – mod mom on DU (Dec-16-05)
• Brad Blog: Bob Ney of Ohio’s Connection To Electoral Fraud – AtLiberty (Jan-10-06)
• The Gun Is Smoking! Election Archive Releases Analysis of OH! – Stevepol (Jan-21-06)
• Evidence of Fraud and Disenfranchisement in Ohio, 2004 : A Partial List – Wilms (Jan-19-06)
• Grand Theft Election Ohio.com – McCamy Taylor (Jan-21-06)
• Study of Provisionals in Cleveland – mod mom (Jan-25-06)
• FREE PRESS: OH GOP Poised to Gut Election Protection – mod mom (Feb-07-06)
• Revote in Ohio After More Votes Than Voters Recorded on Diebold Machines – Wilms (Feb-07-06)
• IMPORTANT: The Effects of PURGES in Franklin Co., Ohio: – mod mom (Feb-18-06)
• Hackett has election stolen then betrayed by Party – autorank (Feb-16-06)
• Hang On…: Cobb Demands Reinstatement of Ohio Recount Lawsuit – Wilms (Feb-23-06)
• We Need Help in Confirming Election Fraud in Cleveland 2004 – Time for change (Feb-25-06)
• Cleveland Audit Reveals Vote Count Discrepancy in Bush’s Favor–Need Help! – Time for change (Mar-03-06)
• Did 308,000 cancelled Ohio voter registrations put Bush back in the White – kster (Mar-03-06)
• The new face of apartheid: J. Kenneth Hackwell – Bob Fitrakis (March 30, 2006)
• An Analogous Event to the Warren County “Lockdown” – Colombia 1998 – Time for change (Mar-15-06)

Pennsylvania:

• Dirty work at Philly polls
• You think democracy is dead in OH? Get a load of PA! – Bill Bored (Jan-26-06)
• We lost a Big One in PA today…And I can’t figure out how… – Junkdrawer (Mar-04-06)
• Sequoia E-Vote Systems Found ‘Hackable’ in PA, Testing Shut Down After Machine Failures! – BradBlog (3/30/2006)

Texas:

• Problems in Texas With E-Slate and Straight-Party Vote from TexasLawyer on DU (11/30)
• Kaufman County Election Scandal by Greg Moses (12/27)
• Widespread vote machine fraud in Texas-Austin,Houston,SanAntonio from berniew1 on DU (1/15/05)
• High court observers see (Texas) redistricting case as pivotal – papau on DU (Dec-14-05)
• Brad:New voting machine co. whistleblower speaks out; TX primary afftected – Amaryllis (Mar-13-06)
• BREAKING: E-MACHINES FAIL! TX PRIMARY RECOUNT HALTED BY SEC OF STATE! – BradBlog (Mar-22-06)

Utah:

• 33,000 ballots lost in shuffle – Utah County
• Utah Election Auditor discovers Diebold real and potential problems – papau (Mar-19-06)

Vermont:

• Vermont Does Hand Counts! Please READ – interesting! – by TennisGuy2004 on DU (11/21)

Virginia:

• Trouble with voting Machines in Virginia – M_Demo_M on DU (Tue Nov-08-05)

Washington:

• Republicans file suit to limit King County recount Seattle Post-Intelligencer (11/21)
• “Serious problems in King County Elections Department” – (11/23)
• Snohomish county, Washington – evidence of systematic machine fraud from tex-wyo-dem on DU (1/20/05)
• USCountVotes: Evidence of Election Irregularities in Snohomish County, WA – eomer (Fri Apr-15-05)
• GOP challenges rights of hundreds of voters (WA) – cal04 on DU ( Sat Nov-05-05)

Wisconsin

• Error nets Bush 100 extra votes – By GREG J. BOROWSKI (June 7, 2005)
• Wisconsin Approves the Vote-PAD Assistive Device – kster (Feb-18-06)

Wyoming:

• There are even major irregularities in Wyoming! by pointsoflight on DU (11/25)

• An Open Letter to … the US Media Who are Trying to Whitewash  the 2004 Election Scandal
• Poll: Voters Relieved by Decisive Election – corporate media is at it again – “Decisive Election” HA!
• Keith Olbermann Blog at MSNBC first to break election theft on mainstream media!
• WATCH THIS OLBERMANN clip online. Yup. It was STOLEN (windows media)
• Black Box – what role did the tv news play?
• Data and Disinformation in the Mainstream Media About Election “irregularities”
• The Randi Rhodes Show – on Air America
• More Key Reporting by Media on Election Problems
• Beyond “conspiracy theories,” election irregularities get scant media attention
• Conservatives rail against MSNBC’s Olbermann for reporting election irregularities
• Media Accused of Ignoring Election Irregularities by Mark Jurkowitz
• MEDIA CONTACTS– nice huge list
• AP has written a crap report about the vote count. We need to debunk it.
• The NYT belittles the second theft of an election, as they did the first – Brad Friedman (11/20)
• Media largely ignored Berkeley study on Florida voting irregularities – MMFA (11/22)
• Bush Cartel Brazen Hypocrisy -U.S. Calls on Ukraine to Probe Election (11/22)
• Election Angst Update: Clark Kent Vs the Media Wimps by Maureen Farrell (11/23)
• Media Blackout on Election Fraud by Media News Group (11/26)
• NY Times Actually Recognizes E-Voting Concerns Exist! from Brad Friedman (11/28)
• Newsweek Recognizes E-Voting Problems Too! from Brad Friedman (11/28)
• AP Article about FRAUD!!!! (On Yahoo & Guardian) from meganmonkey on DU (11/29)
• Activists continue to challenge Ohio ballots on CNN! (11/29)
• Newsweek technology columnist puts positive spin on BBV audits…from SleepingDragon on DU (12/1)
• DEMAND THAT CNN RE-CHECK THEIR FACTS on the Election Fraud Report from KaryninMiami on DU (12/5)
• New round of challenges expected as Ohio certifies vote – Associated Press (12/6)
• Underreported election fraud news stories – 11- 2 to present. 106 articles from tommcintyre on DU (12/6)
• US Election Theft is main stream news….IN DENMARK! from Ojai Person on DU (12/7)
• As Questions Keep Coming, Ohio Certifies Its Vote Count – NY Times (12/7)
• Isn’t the Ohio Recount More Newsworthy Than Ukraine’s? from By Matt Hutaff (12/7)
• Groups Seek to Address Voting Troubles – Associated Press (12/7)
• Two Candidates Request Recount in Ohio – Associated Press (12/7)
• OUR PLEA TO THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA from Alizaryn on DU (12/8)
• Jackson Vows to Continue Ohio Vote Probe – Associated Press (12/8)
• Doubts Persist About Election Results – Associated Press (12/10)
• Mark Crispin Miller takes on NYT for Silence on Voter Fraud: ’bout time!!! from jamboi on DU (12/12)
• Silencing the vote By: David Lytel, Baltimore Sun (12/9)
• Kerry Lawyer Seeks Ohio Ballot Inspection – Associated Press (12/12)
• Ohio Electors Vote Despite Challenge – Complaint Alleges 130656 Kerry votes in 36 counties switched to Bush – AP (12/13)
• Ohio Official Refuses Interview Over Vote – Associated Press (12/27)
• NEWSWEEK ! — Jesse Jackson on why he thinks Kerry WON THE ELECTION from IndyOp on DU (12/30)
• Did the “Liberal Media” Get the 2004 Election All Wrong? By Gene C. Gerard (1/26/05)
• VANITY FAIR’s Christopher Hitchens thinks the OHIO VOTE WAS STOLEN by Kos (2/08/05)
• The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election—because it could have changed the election (02/05)
• Another dynamite election fraud article: today’s Washington Spectator – Fly by night (Fri Apr-15-05)
• The Silent Scream of Numbers — Robert Koehler’s “Nash-ional” column – Fly by night (Wed Apr-13-05)
• NEW KOEHLER COLUMN: CITIZENS IN THE RAIN – Wiley50 (Wed May-04-05)
• FEAR OF RIFFRAFF By Robert C. Koehler (Thu Jun-09-05)
• Gatekeepers: Why even (phony) “left” media silent on stolen election. by Amaryllis (Sun May-08-05)
• Guest Viewpoint: Help stop irregularities in voting – By Carol McBrian (May 31, 2005)
• What’s the Matter With Ohio? By PAUL KRUGMAN – NYT (June 17, 2005)
• Harper’s Forum – What Went Wrong in Ohio (Monday, July 25, 2005)
• Why the Democrats Will Keep Losing – By Steven Hill, Mother Jones Magazine (June 10, 2005)
• Corporate Media & Voting Systems Ownership: Follow the Money – Amaryllis (Mon Aug-01-05)
• What They Did Last Fall by PAUL KRUGMAN (August 19, 2005)
• Don’t Prettify Our History By Paul Krugman (Monday 22 August 2005)
• 2004 Election Ranked #3 on List of Stories Ignored by Mainstream Media – Winter Patriot on the BradBlog (9/22/2005)
• Ballot and Soul : Democracy needs a revolution every generation By ROBERT C. KOEHLER (October 6, 2005)
• Michael Shnayerson, Vanity Fair: The Election 4/04 – AtLiberty on DU (Wed Oct-12-05)
• What does Judy Miller have to do with Bush’s reelection? MelissaB on DU (Sat Oct-29-05)
• A Crime Without a Name By ROBERT C. KOEHLER (November 10, 2005)
• (Brad Friedman) MSM to American Democracy: Drop Dead – MelissaB on DU (Fri Nov-04-05)
• Election theft Makes “top ten” stories ignored by media in 2005 – kster on DU (Thu Dec-01-05)
• Mark Crispin Miller: Why Won’t The Media Touch My Book? – althecat (Jan-25-06)
• Internet conspiracy theorists, take a bow. The Great WahPoo Acknowledges U – wilms (Jan-24-06)
• Goodbye Terry Gross, we never knew ye—on liberal media denial – MelissaB (Jan-23-06)
• AP picks up Sancho story today ! This is MSM reporting, guys! Don’t faint. – Amaryllis (Mar-05-06)
• Florida newspaper finds thousands of mysterious entries in voter database – seafan (Mar-07-06)
• High-tech voting hits snags – Chicago Tribune (March 21, 2006)
• WaPo: “How to steal an election” (Steve Freeman) Is MSM getting it? – Amaryllis (Mar-28-06)
• Election Whistle-Blower Stymied by Vendors (From the Washington Post!) – MelissaB (Mar-28-06)
• USA TODAY Front Page Report is a Big Step – Senator (Mar-28-06)

• Solar Bus – Election Justice Center – documenting what could be the highest crime in the history of our country.
• Election 2004 and Election Reform – Shadowbox.i8.com
• ELECTION FRAUD in 2004 (12/27)
• Election Fraud and Irregularity Headlines (1/28/05)
• Votescam: 40 years of election theft investigated.
• Velvet Revolution
• Ohio Honest Elections Campaign
• 2004 Election Results and Discussion– on Democratic Underground.com
• Black Box Voting.org
• VotersUnite.org
• The Free Press – Speaking Truth to Power
• Greg Palast
• TruthOut.org
• CommonDreams.org
• USCountVotes.org
• 2004 Election Fraud – What Really Happened?
• Citizens for Legitimate Government
• TruthIsAll.net
• Research and Commentary on the 2004 US Presidential Election (Steve Freeman)
• Mediastudy.com : Academic Papers & Studies Questioning 2004 Voting Anomalies & MORE (11/30/05)

Blogs:

• The Nashua Advocate
• Election Fraud Blog
• The Brad Blog
• Daily Kos
• Ohio Election Fraud
• The Huffington Post – look for Jim Lampley, John Conyers…
• Mark Crispin Miller Blog

• How to Hack the Vote: the Short Version (it’s really THAT easy)
• The Case of the Diebold FTP Site – A nice summary of Diebold software flaws
• Nearly all of Diebold’s Board and it’s officers donated to Repubs
• seeVote – a better e-voting system?
• Republican White Hat Hacker Disses Diebold Big Time – Kos
• Election Worker Refuses to Lie for Voting Software Company
• “Bay Point Schools, Cal Tech, and the CyberNET connection.”
• Electronic Voting: The Stolen Election of 2004
• Hot!! Jeb Bush>Jeff Fisher>Straight School>FBI Cybernet bust.
• E-voting Security by Avi Rubin
• Confessions of a Republican hacker ChuckHerrin.com (11/21)
• Voting Machines Gone Wild! by Mark Lewellen-Biddle (12/11/03)
• E-voting rollout is slow going By William Welsh (10/25)
• Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire – Electronic Voting and the Legitimacy of the 2004 Presidential election -DU (11/30
• Voting machine test results ‘off-limits’ to the public (12/5)
• Sum of a Glitch – Evidence shows that machines might be the real swing voters this November (August ’04)
• How to hack an electronic voting machine….. from VTGold on DU (12/8)
• Sham Recount Process on Diebold E-voting Machines from AmerDem on DU (1/24/05)
• E-Voting to be Gone Sooner Than you Think by Land Shark (2/12/05)
• The Diebold dilemma – Toldedo Blade (9/03/03)
• Follow the money, find the truth: More voting machine company connections by Amaryllis (2/05/05)
• Largest investors in electronic voting are defense contractors?!? from AtLiberty on DU (3/15/05)
• Means, Motive, Opportunity – BBV EXPOSED! – tommcintyre (Tue Apr-12-05)
• Voting Machines Violate Constitution – Amaryllis (Thu Apr-28-05)
• Remote Hack of Diebold Systems Analysis – RedEagle (Thu May-05-05)
• Electronic vote switching: EIRS analysis shows 12:1 ratio of K/E to B/C by Time for change (Fri May-20-05)
• Nirvana! Automated Voting Fraud! by Filius Nullius (Sun May-08-05)
• Cynthia McKinney on the Diebold Hack…as Diebold Flips Out… – BradBlog (6/29/2005)
• A Brief History of Computerized Election Fraud in America (Truthout) (Sat Jun-25-05)
• Diebold $10,000 (legal?)bribe of GOP Franklin County(Ohio) BOE uncovered – farmbo (Sat Jul-16-05)
• Scanners are not simple calculators! – mirrera (Sat Aug-06-05)
• EXACTLY WHAT YOU DON’T WANT: YOUR ELECTIONS ON DIEBOLD’S SERVER – helderheid (Tue Aug-09-05)
• $7.5M Awarded to Study Electronic Voting at Johns Hopkins Univ: -cyberpj (Tue Aug-16-05)
• DIVERSE LOCATIONS SWITCHED KERRY TOUCHSCREEN VOTES TO BUSH – TruthIsAll (Thu Aug-11-05)
• More Trouble for Diebold, This Time in Georgia… – Brad Friedman (9/27/2005)
• Diebold’s Tough Luck, VR’s Promise, and a New Ad for America from the Velvet Revolution… – BradBlog (9/23/2005)
• DIEB-THROAT Weighs in on Diebold’s Stunning 15.5% Wednesday Stock Plunge – BradBlog (9/22/2005)
• DIEB-THROAT : ‘Diebold System One of Greatest Threats Democracy Has Ever Known’ – BradBlog (9/15/2005)
• A Quick-ish DIEB-THROAT Follow-up… – BradBlog (9/18/2005)
• Clint Curtis Rebuilds Prototype!! This must get out!! – by KerryReallyWon on DU (Wed Sep-07-05)
• EAC has interpreted HAVA to require paper records for recounts! – Bill Bored on DU (Sat Sep-17-05)
• Paper trails are NOT the answer – Mark Crispin Miller (9/20/2005)
• A MUST READ — Bob Fleischer: Software IS a Problem – AtLiberty on DU (Fri Sep-23-05)
• Panel: E-voting vulnerable By Anne Broache, CNET News.com (10-07-05)
• Touchscreen Voting Increases Annual Election Costs by 40% (Mon Oct-10-05)
• GAO REPORT CONFIRMS CONCERNS ABOUT SECURITY OF ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES! – BradBlog (10/20/2005)
• With Diebold,you tweak to ‘get the reports you need’ – Algorem on DU (Fri Nov-11-05)
• MSM locally Quotes voter: Sequoia E-voting makes us “another Florida” – Land Shark on DU (Fri Nov-11-05)
• RawStory: Diebold insider alleges company plagued by technical woes… wilms on DU (12-07-05)
• Bradblog: Potential securities fraud class action lawsuit against Diebold – amarylis on DU (12-07-05)
• Wally O’Dell, Diebold CEO, resigns! – garybeck on DU (12-15-05)
• Best website I’ve ever seen on voting system company sleaziness… – amaryllis on DU (12-13-05)
• Voting system said to fail – kster on DU (Dec-16-05)
• Who’s counting the votes ? – kster on DU (Dec-17-05)
• HuffPo – Avi Rubin: The Dirty Little Secrets of Voting System Testing Labs – Wilms on DU (Dec-17-05)
• The Harri Hursti Hack And Its Importance To Our Nation – AtLiberty (Feb-09-06)
• (Lynn Landes) Voting Systems Lawsuit Reaches U.S. Supreme Court – Wilms (Feb-07-06)
• “I Saw it Hacked”….Eye witness to election fraud – autorank (Jan-25-06)
• BradBlog >> EXCLUSIVE: SECURITIES FRAUD LITIGATION FILED AGAINST DIEBOLD, – sabra (Dec-16-05)
• Diebold Reserves Right to “Manipulate the Data” Before Releasing it! – Amaryllis (Feb-10-06)
• Pressure on Diebold and the Stolen 04 Election on Daily Kos – mod mom (Feb-13-06)
• Now the Onus is on Counties and Diebold to Risk Multi-Million $ Lawsuits – Wilms (Feb-20-06)
• Designed for “Failure”? Discovery of Diebold’s Bugs & Cryptographic Key – nicknameless (Feb-24-06)
• Diebold Whistleblower Facing Three Felony Counts – freedomfries (Feb-27-06)
• BRADBLOG: AZ Election Official’s Diebold Tirade Caught on Tape – mod mom (Feb-27-06)
• DIEBOLD – 2008 “The fix is in” – Moscow Times – kster (Mar-04-06)
• “Why do Diebold’s Touch-Screen Voting Machines Have Built-In Wireless Infrared Data Transfer Ports?” – BradBlog (2/22/06)
• Hart InterCivic Whistleblower Warned of Texas, Ohio E-Voting ‘Fraud’ Concerns in 2004! – BradBlog (3/13/2006)
• Star-Telegram front page: computer “glitch” — election – antigop (Mar-09-06
• Diebold ExpressPoll 4000 – MGKrebs (Mar-11-06)
• Brad Blog: Wingnuts Concerned Re E-Voting- Hugo Chavez May Own Sequoia – Humor_In_Cuneiform (Apr-02-06)

• The Election Model – by TruthIsAll (probably what REALLY happened on Nov.2nd)
• Electoral College Meta-Analysis (election.princeton.edu) (very, very good!)
• Again History Is Made On DU – EXIT POLL THEORY Bounces Back
• A Must Read ** Breakthrough ** – EXIT POLL ANALYSIS FOR 47 STATES
• GOP Wants to End Exit Polls – Gee, I wonder why?
• “… exit polls were adjusted to reflect official vote tallies.”?
• Exit Polls Right, Tallies Wrong?
• Exit Polls vs. Reported Results
• Footprints of Electoral Fraud: The November 2 Exit Poll Scam – by Michael Keefer
• Cal Tech exit polls (corrupted) & Freeman-U of Pa exit polls (uncorrupted)
• Complete US Exit Poll Data Confirms Net Suspicions:Full 51 State Early Exit Poll Data
• THIS IS THE TRUE FRAUD-FREE ELECTION RESULT
• Exit Polls MATCHED Pre-Election polls within 1/7th of ONE percent
• 8.1 million Gore voters didn’t bother voting this month
• News Groups Will Delay Future Exit Polls (…to buy more time to alter them?)
• US Election: Democracy in Question – John Zogby, Ralph Nader
• National Election Pool is a secret consortium with intelligence ties
• Mirror of Zogby’s 5pm Election Day Prediction submitted by Jesse Stewart (11/21)
• New analysis of Ohio exit polls. – TennisGuy2004 on DU (11/22)
• Errors in exit polls still a puzzle to many John Allen Paulos (11/24)
• Bush-Cheney Campaign Headquarters: What They Don’t Want You To Know by Wayne Madsen (7/27/04)
• Pre-election State Polls vs. Exit Polls vs. Actuals: ONE Graph. Look Close by TruthIsAll (11/24)
• ONE OUT OF 4.5 BILLION! by TruthIsAll (11/25)
• How could exit polls have been so wrong? by Eric Fried (11/26)
• An Ongoing E-mail Arguement with Mitofsky by truehawk on DU (11/26)
• The exit polls WERE adjusted to the election results from John Helge on DU (11/28)
• Final Tallies Minus Exit Polls = A Statistical Mystery! by John Allen Paulos (11/24)
• 15 QUESTIONS FOR THOSE WHO WOULD DISPARAGE EXIT POLLING. by TruthIsAll on DU (11/28)
• Why is it that exit polls since 1988 have ALL overstated the Dem vote? from TruthIsAll on DU (12/5) Analysis Reveals Dramatic Evidence of Election Tampering By Webb Mealy, PhD (12/5)
• THE PROBABILITY IS ZERO from TruthIsAll (12/5)
• Pre-election advice on Exit Polls from Edison Media !!! from k8conant on DU (12/5)
• Electoral-vote.com’s map based on exit polls from latteromden on DU (12/7)
• Edison – Mitofsky Exit Polls Method Statment and the questionnaire (.pdf) used from sabra on DU (12/8)
• Zogby Polling Seeks Damage Control After Election Day Flub from sabra on DU (12/9)
• Zogby Defense: ‘My Polling Was Very, Very Good’ from blitzburgh55 on DU (12/12)
• WTF!? Exit Polls Were Correct for Other Races from BlueDog2u on DU (12/12)
• Eliminating Exit Polls … a new strategy? from sunnystarr on DU (12/12)
• Kerry: Exit polls (50.6%/311EV) MATCHED pre-election polls (50.52%/322EV) from TruthIsAll on DU (12/12)
• IT’S GRAPHIC: KERRY VOTE TALLIES VS. EXIT POLLS from TruthIsAll on DU (12/14)
• SMOKING GUN? 2000 EXIT POLLS ACCURATE TO WITHIN 0.17%. STRAWMAN DOWN! from TruthIsAll on DU (12/24)
• TV Networks Officially Refuse to Release Exit Poll Raw Data by Gary Beckwith (12/24)
• THE SMOKING GRAPH: GORE (tight) VS. KERRY (wide) EXIT POLL DEVIATIONS from TruthIsAll on DU (12/24)
• THE NATIONAL VOTE/EXIT POLL TIMELINE AND THE OHIO/FLORIDA EXIT POLL DISCREPANCIES. from TruthIsAll on DU (12/26)
• CONFIRMING DR. BAIMAN: THE NATIONAL EXIT POLL SAMPLE PROBABILITIES from TruthIsAll on DU (12/26)
• ExitPollz.org (12/30)
• SMOKING GUN? THE CNN NATIONAL EXIT POLL SITE PROVES THAT KERRY WON! from TruthIsAll on DU (12/30)
• Mitofsky 4 Zone Data (individual .pdfs)
• Mitofsky 4 Zone Data (all .pdfs zipped)
• National Election Poll: Analysis of Voter Demographics from TruthIsAll on DU (1/25/05)
• Freeman disputes critique of his analysis of exit poll discrepancy from Amaryllis on DU (1/25/05)
• Coincidence?100% paper-ballot OR is MOST accurate (within 0.40%) Exit Poll from TruthIsAll on DU (1/24/05)
• GRAPH: Exit Poll Deviations Weighted by State Voting Method Mix from TruthIsAl on DU (1/20/05)
• Mitofsky on Nightline:”26 of 30 deviations to Bush” Wrong. It was 30 of 30 from TruthIsAll onDU (1/25/05)
• Exit pollsters to release election report to media (but not to public) from dzika on DU (1/20/05)
• THREE PROBABILITIES from TruthIsAll on DU (1/25/05)
• THE 2000 STATE EXIT POLLS WERE ALMOST PERFECT from TruthIsAll on DU (1/25/05)
• I HAVE JUST UPDATED THE EXIT POLL ANALYSIS: THE RESULTS ARE ASTOUNDING. from TruthIsAll on DU (1/15/05)
• Bush’s win was a historical anomaly– is this evidence of fraud? from spooked911 on DU (1/25/05)
• 1/23 UPDATE: NATIONAL EXIT POLL DEMOGRAPHIC STATISTICS from TruthIsAll on DU (1/23/05)
• Mitofsky’s background and an outrageous endorsement! from RaulVB on DU (1/26/05)
• Despite what you may have heard, the exit polls were right By Steve Freeman and Josh Mitteldorf (2/15/05)
• BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS: MITOFSKY’S “RELUCTANT BUSH RESPONDER” THEORY by TruthIsAll (2/12/05)
• THE MOST DEVASTATING STATISTIC OF ALL: 17% OF THE VOTERS WERE NEW by TruthIsAll (2/10/05) Response to Tokaji Critique of USCV Edison/Mitofsky Exit Poll Discrepancies – uscountvotes.org (2/04/05)
• Naysayers, its time to take your strawmen elsewhere. 9 phd’s call for election investigation! (2/15/05)
• THE BARE TRUTH WHICH SHOULD HAVE FLIPPED OUT THE DEMOCRATS BY NOW. – TruthIsAll (1/29/05)
• ULTIMATE PROOF KERRY WON: COMPARE THE NATIONAL EXIT POLLS -1996,2000,2004 from TruthIsAll on DU (2/20/05)
• FASTEN SEAT BELTS. THIS IS THE CLINCHER. from TruthIsAll on DU (03/28/05)
• THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIO: KERRY WON BY 7 MILLION VOTES from TruthIsAll on DU (3/28/05)
• Exit Poll Deviations vs. Governor’s Party and Straight Party Voting Option from Bill Bored on DU (3/22/05)
• 100% ABSOLUTE PROOF: FINAL NEP OVERSTATED BUSH VOTE BY AT LEAST 2 MIL. from TruthIsAll on DU (03/21/05)
• A TIA MEA CULPA: THE “SIMPLE” NEP EXPLANATION IS WRONG… from TruthIsAll on DU (2/30/05)
• The Exit Polls were heavily biased against Kerry- here’s why. from BernieW1 on DU (3/09/05)
• UPDATED: MY COLLECTION OF EXIT POLL THREADS from TruthIsAll (3/13/05)
• IF THIS PRELIMINARY NEP WEIGHT WAS CORRECT, WHY WAS IT CHANGED? from TruthIsAll (3/13/05) A Mathematical proof: Exit polls are accurate from TruthIsAll (3/10/05)
• The Nat Exit Poll Crime Line: 7:58pm(K) to 12:22am (K) to 2:04pm (B) from TruthIsAll (3/10/05)
• Kerry won Nat. Exit Poll (11027 respondents) posted on CNN @ 7:58PM from TruthIsAll (3/06/05)
• Exit Poll Electoral Map – is this right? from garybeck (2/23/05)
• NATIONAL EXIT POLL: PRELIMINARY TO FINAL – WHAT HAPPENED? from TruthIsAll (2/26/05)
• 2002 Senate Election Fraud Probability Analysis: re-written for clarity from TruthIsAll (Sat Jul-26-03)
• THE 13047 NATIONAL EXIT POLL CONFIRMS THE STATE EXIT POLLS (WITHIN .06%) ! – TruthIsAll (Sun Apr-24-05)
• Truth: 0 to 13,047; Fiction: 13,048 – 13,660 – TruthIsAll (Tue Apr-19-05)
• U.S. General Election Poll-7:37pm,11/02/04: “Estimates NOT for on-air use” – TruthIsAll (Mon Apr-18-05)
• Bush Exit Poll Job Approval: A smoking gun? – TruthIsAll (Mon Apr-18-05)
• This Jan 3 post on the IMPOSSIBLE Bush 43%/37% NEP weight is NOT from me! – TruthIsAll (Sun Apr-17-05)
• National Exit Poll Analysis: Using FACTUAL Historic Data – TruthIsAll (Mon Apr-11-05)
• ELECTION 2004: THE COMPLETE GRAPHICAL REFERENCE – TruthIsAll (Sun Apr-03-05)
• Collective Bellaciao, France: Science proves that vote fraud is real! – MelissaB (Sun Apr-03-05)
• From Selection 2000 to 2004 (NEP): Voted, Died, Reborn, Did Not Vote – TruthIsAll (Fri Apr-01-05)
• The Nat Exit Poll Crime Line: 7:58pm(K) to 12:22am (K) to 2:04pm (B) – TruthIsAll (Mon Mar-07-05)
• Kerry won Nat. Exit Poll (11027 respondents) posted on CNN @ 7:58PM – TruthIsAll (Sun Mar-06-05)
• The Oregon Smoking Gun – TruthIsAll (Fri Mar-04-05)
• HOW KERRY WON OHIO BY 51-48%… – TruthIsAll (Fri Apr-29-05)
• A PUZZLE FOR DUERS: THE NATIONAL VS. STATE GENDER DEMOGRAPHIC MATCH-UP – TruthIsAll (Sat Apr-30-05)
• Kathy Dopp’s Most Recent Post Concerning Lizzie Liddel’s Criticism of USCV – davidgmills (Sun May-01-05)
• The Reluctant Gore Responder (RGR) -TruthIsAll (Sun May-01-05)
• THESE NUMBERS TELL THE WHOLE STORY – TruthIsAll (Fri May-06-05)
• 1988-2000 Exit Poll Deviation trend was moving to ZERO – until 2004 – TruthIsAll (Thu May-05-05)
• LET’S MOE DOWN THE LAST FEW NAYSAYERS ONCE AND FOR ALL – TruthIsAll (Wed May-04-05)
• IS rBr STILL BREATHING? THE REQUIRED BUSH % OF REFUSERS IS IMPOSSIBLE! TruthIsAll Sat (May-21-05)
• Mitofsky invented reluctant Bush responder scam for Bush Sr. in ’92! tommcintyre (Sat May-21-05)
• STATE / NATIONAL EXIT POLL ANALYSIS BY REGION by TruthIsAll (Sun Apr-24-05)
• I can’t believe this sh*t from Mitofsky…again. by MelissaB (Sat May-14-05)
• NON-RESPONSE BIAS? HERE’S WHY IT HURT KERRY MORE THAN BUSH.. by TruthIsAll (Sat May-14-05)
• PROBABILITY ANALYSIS PROVES: THE RBR HYPOTHESIS IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE! by TruthIsAll (Sat May-14-05)
• RBR and Rove by Carolab (Tue May-10-05)
• BYE, BYE rBr: IMPLAUSIBLE VOTER TURNOUT SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS by TruthIsAll (Mon May-09-05)
• IT COMES DOWN TO THIS: WHERE DID BUSH FIND 13 MILLION NEW VOTES? KISS… by TruthIsAll (Tue May-10-05)
• Even assuming rBr, it takes a MIRACLE to reverse Kerry’s 51-48% margin by TruthIsAll (Sat May-07-05)
• Yes, the Reluctant Republican Responder (3%) was a KERRY voter! by TruthIsAll (Fri May-06-05)
• The UK and Ukraine have very accurate exit polls…interesting. (Fri May-06-05)
• Reluctant Republican Respondents….who voted for Kerry by davidgmills (Fri May-06-05)
• A non-statistician’s view of the E-M exit poll controversy – Time for change (Sun May-22-05)
• CNN changed their Exit poll numbers – chrisclub (Thu Jun-02-05)
• EXIT POLL QUESTION: Party IDs vs. MOEs – Bill Bored (Fri Jun-17-05)
• 15% OF GORE VOTERS (7.65 MM) SUFFERED FROM ALZHEIMER’S IN 2004 – TruthIsAll (Mon Jun-27-05)
• ELECTION 2004 BY THE NUMBERS – TruthIsAll (Tue Jun-28-05)
• Ohio Exit Poll Raw Data – minvis (Fri Feb-18-05)
• It’s a shutout: FRAUD 3 , rBr 0 – TruthIsAll (Tue Jul-05-05)
• Exit poll vs. current Bush Approval – chrisclub (Wed Jul-06-05)
• EXIT POLL RESPONSE OPTIMIZER: KEY RESULTS – TruthIsAll (Sat Jul-09-05)
• EXIT POLL ANALYSIS THREADS – 7/12/05 UPDATE -TruthIsAll
• EXIT POLL ANALYSIS – ESSENTIAL DU THREADS – TruthIsAll (Thu Jul-14-05)
• Here’s where the “hypothesis” is refuted again… – LightningFlash (Sat Jul-02-05)
• To believe Bush won, you must believe this. – TruthIsAll (Sun Jun-26-05)
• Bushco stopped stealing votes after they had it in the bag. – TruthIsAll (Sat Jul-30-05)
• Exit Polls show Shrub not winning 1994 Gov race.. Any DU Scoop? – Melissa G (Mon Aug-08-05)
• RETURN OF THE CLINCHER: Kerry wins 120 of 120 scenarios – TruthIsAll (Tue Jun-21-05)
• To Believe that Bush won….. – TruthIsAll (Fri May-13-05)
• Dear Dr. Dean: – TruthIsAll (Wed Jun-29-05)
• Freeman vs Mitofsky debate! – Melissa G on DU (Mon Sep-26-05)
• Time Line of Exit Poll Irregularities Election 2004: Dopp and Freeman – Stevepol on DU (Sat Oct-22-05)
• Steve Freeman Summary of Debate – Melissa G on DU (Thu Oct-20-05)
• New Math PROOF that ESI/Mitofsky Logic is Invalid (Not Correct) – sunshinekathy on DU (Sat Oct-29-05)
• 1.1 for Elections. TIA, Even “Plainer” English. Law of Large Numbers,etc – autorank on DU (Dec-17-05)
• Exit polls 2004 discrepancies made quick & EASY for the math impaired ! – Amaryllis (Mar-08-06)