March 7, 2005

By Ernest Partridge, The Crisis Papers

The accumulated weight of evidence of election fraud – statistical, circumstantial, and anecdotal – has failed to move the mainstream media to report or investigate this evidence, or the Democratic party to acknowledge and protest the apparent Republican control of our elections.

This essay is not yet another account of that evidence, which I have spelled out extensively and which I firmly believe to be compelling.

Instead, I wish to deal with another indicator that our national elections no longer represent the will of the voters, but rather are manipulated to produce the outcome desired by the "winning" candidates and party. This indicator is the behavior of those who manufacture, program, and operate the paperless, unauditable machines (direct recording electronic: "DRE"), and those who benefit from this technology.

Perhaps this new electronic voting technology is as honest and reliable as the private election industry and the winning candidates tell us it is. However, they simply do not behave as if this were the case.

My contention might be illustrated by this parable:

Suppose that a drug-sniffing dog at an airport identifies a suspicious piece of luggage. The customs officer then locates the individual whose name is on the tag, and orders him to open it. Now suppose further that this person then proceeds to do one or more of the following:

a) He denies that the luggage is his.

b) He calls his lawyer who presents an injunction against further inspection of the luggage.

c) He claims that he is a diplomat, and thus not subject to luggage inspection.

d) He offers a bribe to the inspector if he will "forget the whole thing."

Might one not suspect that the traveler was trying to hide something?

The dog then gets back to work, and soon identifies another bag, and the owner of this parcel is identified and ordered to open the luggage for inspection. He does so willingly and without qualm, having packed the bag himself and thus knowing that there is no contraband therein. He is also aware that the dog has a record of 30% false positives.

Which of these two responses more closely resembles the behavior of the DRE manufacturers (Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia), of the Republican Congress, and of the Republican National Committee? Are the DRE manufacturers and the Republicans acting in a manner consistent with their claims that "e-voting" is both honest and accurate? Or are they behaving as if they have something to hide?

Here are a few indicators. Because there are so many, I will be brief. For details and documentation, follow the links:

• First and foremost: DRE machines use secret software and produce no separate record of the voting to allow auditing and validation of the votes. Thus, by design, it is impossible either to prove or disprove directly the accuracy of the vote totals of a DRE machine or the neutrality of the software. (However, there is abundant indirect evidence of e-voting fraud: statistical, anecdotal and circumstantial evidence. But that’s another topic).
• The manufacturers and programmers of DREs (all of whom have close ties with the Republican Party) insist that their software ("source codes") must be kept secret – for no apparent and defensible reason. (They claim to be concerned about copyright infringement. But music, essays, fiction, drama, etc., all are public by nature, and yet all are protected by copyright).
• The e-voting manufacturers also make ATM machines and automated gas pumps, both of which produce paper receipts. Yet they steadfastly resist demands that their "touch screen" voting machines produce printouts, which might then serve to validate the accuracy of the votes.
• DRE manufacturers will not allow "test hacks" of randomly selected machines. (Unauthorized hacks have proven DREs to be extremely vulnerable to fraudulent manipulation. So too a recent report by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office: a report that has been virtually ignored by the mainstream press).
• A bill by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) that would require validated printed paper receipts of the votes and random inspection of the DRE machines has been locked up in committee by the Congressional Republicans. A discharge petition, which would allow a vote on the bill, is unavailing, due to insufficient support by the Republicans.
• In 2000, computer programmer Clinton Curtis was asked by a GOP congressional candidate, Tom Feeney, to create a software program that would alter vote counts in favor of the Republicans. Curtis testified to this under oath, signed an affidavit, and took a polygraph test. Of course, Feeney, now a congressman, denies Curtis’ allegations, but unlike Curtis, Feeney refuses to state his denial under oath or to submit to a polygraph.
• In California, Stephen Heller, a temporary employee of Diebold Election Systems, obtained copies of memos indicating that Diebold may have used uncertified voting systems in the 2004 primary and suggesting that thousands of voters might be disenfranchised in subsequent elections. Heller’s "reward" for blowing this whistle? He was charged with three felony counts and, if convicted, could serve more than three years in state prison.
• In 2004, California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley decertified Diebold DRE machines. In a special recall election, Republican Arnold Schwarznegger replaced Democrat Gray Davis. Kevin Shelley was then harassed and forced out of office and replaced by Republican Bruce McPherson, who "conditionally" recertified the Diebold machines. (These are two types of machines: Optical scan with paper ballots, and "TSX" with touch-screens and no paper record. It is the paperless TSX machines that are especially vulnerable to undetectable manipulation and fraud." There is a heated debate within the election reform community as to whether Optical Scanning is an acceptable improvement over DREs, or whether, on the other hand, only hand counted paper ballots will do. But that’s a topic for another essay).
• The Alaska "flip-flop." The Republican state government of Alaska refused to release to the Alaska Democrats the Diebold database files from the 2004 election on the grounds that it was "a company secret." (These were records of a public election, mind you). After persistent requests, the state relented albeit under very restrictive conditions. But then, just two weeks ago, the state again denied the request, claiming that it was a "security risk" to the state of Alaska.
• December 20, 2005: Rather than obey a North Carolina law requiring that source codes be made public, Diebold withdrew its machines from the state elections.

There is much more, which you might find here and here. But this much suffices to make my point.

What we find, then, is an industry and a political party which, on the one hand, insists that the totals from electronic voting machines are entirely accurate and honest, though these same machines are so designed that they preclude any independent evidence to support these claims. On the other hand, this same industry and party steadfastly resist any and all attempts to introduce reliable methods of validation, much less the most reliable system of all: hand counted paper ballots.

Persistent suspicion and charges of fraud are damaging to the industry and the GOP. If they are as innocent as they claim to be, why don’t they just eliminate these damaging suspicions by offering proof, and then allowing, and even encouraging, paper records, independent audits, and exit polls?

Despite a near-total embargo by the mainstream media of news, analysis, investigation and commentary on ballot security and allegations of fraud, combined with an astonishing indifference to the issue on the part of the Democrats and their allies, public doubts about the security and accuracy of elections and hence of the legitimacy of the Republican control of the White House and the Congress, simply will not go away. In fact, these concerns appear to be increasing and will likely continue to increase, as the credibility and public approval of the Bush regime continues to drop.

Here’s a thought experiment for those who insist, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the past three elections were above reproach and doubt. Put this confidence aside for a moment and just imagine, hypothetically, that the elections of 2000, 2002, and 2004 were all fixed, and that the coming election of 2006 will be fixed. Then ask yourself: if this were so, how would the behavior of the industry and the GOP be in any way different from what it is now?

Then ask, if the elections are honest and accurate, why don’t the industry and the Republicans act like it? In short, if they are innocent, why do they willingly persist in appearing guilty?

These questions must be asked by the Democrats, loudly and persistently, for as Karl Rove and the GOP propaganda machine knows so well, repetition is the key to successful persuasion of the public. Satire and ridicule are also very much in order. We must "pile it on" until continuing silence by the GOP and by the compliant mainstream media becomes unendurable.

And if the e-voting establishment – party and industry – are ever forced, however reluctantly, to enact reforms consistent with their protestations of innocence, what might they do?

Here is a list of proposals that any honest voting machine industry and political party should be willing to endorse:

a) Publish the source codes. (The copyrights can be fully protected.)

b) Include printers with all machines. Stipulate by law that in case of recounts, the paper receipts are to be the official ballots of record.

c) Require independent audits – of local balloting, and of regional compiling of election returns.

d) Allow examination and "test hacks" of machines, selected randomly.

e) Outlaw all data inputs (by direct line, wireless, or UV) to voting machines and compilers with the exception, of course, of the "inputs" by the voters.

f) Rigorously enforce and prosecute election fraud laws.

If the industry and the Republicans won’t agree to these assurances, then they must present a plausible explanation as to why they decline to do so. Absent that explanation, we citizens of this alleged democracy under an alleged rule of law must demand that every vote be counted and verified, and we must be supplied with proof that this has been accomplished. Furthermore, every individual who has engaged in election fraud must be tracked down and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We are entitled to no less than this.

Dr. Ernest Partridge is a consultant, writer and lecturer in the field of Environmental Ethics and Public Policy. He publishes the website, The Online Gadfly and co-edits the progressive website, The Crisis Papers. He is at work on a book, Conscience of a Progressive, which can be seen in-progress here. Send comments to: crisispapers@hotmail.com.

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Re-posted from Democratic Underground

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

Please help these organizations and recount efforts:

• BlackBoxVoting: Help America Audit — 5 Things You Can Do Immediately
• 2004 Vote Fraud Petition – Please sign!
• BlackBoxVoting.org
• HelpAmericaRecount.org
• VotCobb.org
• RecountOhio.org
• DemocraticUnderground.com
• Investigate E-Voting Machines – send a letter to your reps.
• Keep Ohio Recount Non-Partisan: Ask Secretary Blackwell to Step Aside
• SIGN UP HERE: Join VOTE FRAUD WORK (write, organize, research, kick) Team on Democratic Underground
• MEDIA CONTACTS– nice huge list
• 7 Items for your Tool Kit — to Get the Vote Back! by Zan_of_Texas on DU (11/22)
• Alliance for Democracy (action resource!) (11/28)
• John B. Kenney (hunger strike-donations) (11/28)
• Investigate the Vote – MoveOn.org (11/29)
• Dec. 4th Ohio Rally!
• “You Stole My Vote” 51 Capital March SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12TH 2004 at Noon Everywhere!
• It’s up to us (List of links for next week’s Media Blast) from DoYouEverWonder on DU (11/30)
• Voting in 2004: A Report to the Nation on America’s Election Process on commoncause.org (11/30)
• Stolen Election 2004 – Action Alerts !! (13/4)
• Easy online activism. Let’s do it!! from Carl Brennan on DU (12/7)
• RED HANDS MOVEMENT – Find or announce a rally, DL flyers, etc. (12/10)
• VotersUnite.org- Take Action: Participate in Project Myth Breaker (12/10)
• Open Letter to the Electoral College – Petition (12/12)
• Voting Rights Kit for Taking Action or download the kit from PDA.org (12/12)
• What Can We the People Do About Election Fraud? (4/27/05)
• Sign MoveOn’s Petition to Repair the Vote!
• Save Our Elections! – Common Cause
• HELP find the smoking gun…
• Join US CountVotes ! – this VERY important organization needs your time and money to save our democracy!
• Instructions and sample letter for FOIA requests from USCV
• SUPPORT INDEPENDENT WORLD TELEVISION!
• SolarBus.org list of “Nation Sites and Organizations”
• SolarBus.org list of “State Groups”
• National Election Reform Conference in Portland Sept. 30 – Oct. 2
• Reform OHIO Now!
• Citizens’ Audit | Parallel Election – we need to do this!!
• California Election Protection Network – (10/04/2005)
• Sign the Voter Confidence Petition in Support of H.R. 550
• Support the vote – PAD

(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)

• 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)

Corporate America controls the media and we get manufactured news.

Corporate America now controls the voting machines and we get manufactured elections.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ”

– Margaret Mead – US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 – 1978)

READ THIS FIRST

• Election Fraud Beginner’s Guide
• What’s Wrong with the News?
• Learn How the Broadcast News Media Deceives You!
• The 14 Characteristics of Fascism – flash video
• AmericanFascism.com
• Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression
• Media manipulation – From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

January 24, 2005
By Ernest Partridge, The Crisis Papers

Like biologists with evolution and atmospheric scientists with global climate change, those who warn us that our elections have been stolen and will be stolen again must now be wondering, "just how much evidence must it take to make our case and to convince enough of the public to force reform and secure our ballots?"

The answer, apparently, is no amount – no amount, that is, until more minds are opened. And that is more than a question of evidence, it is a question of collective sanity.

In his new book Fooled Again, Mark Crispin Miller not only presents abundant evidence that the 2004 election was stolen, but in addition he examines the political, social, and media environment which made this theft possible.

When I first read the book immediately after its publication, I confess that I was a bit disappointed. What I had hoped to find was a compendium of evidence, from front to back. To be sure, Miller gives us plenty of evidence, meticulously documented. But evidence tells us that the election was stolen. Miller goes beyond that to explain how and why it was stolen, and how the culprits have managed, so far, to get away with it.

So on second reading, I find that it was my expectation and not Miller’s book that was flawed. We have evidence aplenty, to be found in John Conyers’ report, and the new book by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, in addition to the Black Box Voting website among numerous others. Soon to be added is Prof. Steven Freeman’s book on the statistical evidence of election fraud. What we don’t gain from these sources is an understanding and appreciation of the context in which this crime was committed. This we learn from reading Miller’s book.

If, in fact, the last two presidential elections have been stolen, and if in addition there is a preponderance of evidence to support this claim, then this is the most significant political news in the 230 year history of our republic.

So what is the response of the allegedly "opposing" party to the issue of election fraud? Virtual silence. And of the news media? More silence. Case in point: the media response to Mark Crispin Miller’s Fooled Again. As he reports: "There have been no national reviews of Fooled Again. No network or cable TV show would have the author on to talk about the book. NPR has refused to have him on… Only one daily newspaper – the Florida Sun-Sentinel – has published a review."

Force the question of election fraud and demand an answer, and the most likely response will be a string of ad hominem insults – "sore losers," "paranoid," "conspiracy theorists" – attacks on the messenger and a dismissal of the message. We’ve heard them, many times over.

Persist, and you might get as a reply, not evidence that the elections were honest and valid (there is very little of that), but rather some rhetorical questions as to the attitudes and motives of the alleged perpetrators and to the practical difficulties of their successfully accomplishing a stolen national election. Questions such as these:

• How could the GOP campaign managers believe that they could get away with a stolen election?
• Why would they dare risk failure, and the subsequent criminal indictments and dissolution of their party?
• What could possibly motivate them to subvert the foundations of our democracy?

The answer to the first two questions is essentially the same: they believed and they dared because they controlled the media and thus the message. Miller’s sub-text throughout his book is that the great electoral hijack has been accomplished with the cooperation, one might even say the connivance, of the mainstream media, without which the crime could never have succeeded.

Immediately following the election, the critics were shouted down with such headlines as these: "Election paranoia surfaces; Conspiracy theorists call results rigged" (Baltimore Sun), "Internet Buzz on Vote Fraud is dismissed" (Boston Globe), "Latest Conspiracy Theory – Kerry Won – Hits the Ether" (Washington Post), and in the "flagship" newspaper, the New York Times: "Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried." (Miller, 38.)

Even more damaging than the slanted "reports" in the media, was the silence. The Conyers investigations? Ignored. The scholarly statistical analyses of exit poll discrepancies? Ignored. Evidence that Bush cheated in the debates with a listening device? Dismissed. The recent GAO report on e-voting vulnerabilities, and the Florida demonstration hacking of computer vote compilation? Ignored. And most appalling of all: the media blackout last week of Al Gore’s eloquent speech, warning of the threat to our Constitution and our liberties posed by the Bush regime.

And all this merely scratches the surface of media malpractice. For more, read the book.

The motivation to steal the election, says Miller, combined religious (or quasi-religious) dogma and self-righteousness and a perception of the opposing Democratic party, not as the loyal opposition, but as the enemy – deserving not defeat, but annihilation. ("You are either with us or against us," says Bush). Together, this adds up to what Miller calls "The Requisite Fanaticism." He writes:

It is not "conservatism" that impelled the theft of the election, nor was it merely greed or the desire for power per se… The movement now in power is not entirely explicable in such familiar terms… The project here is ultimately pathological and essentially anti-political, albeit Machiavellian on a scale, and to a degree, that would have staggered Machiavelli. The aim is not to master politics, but to annihilate it. Bush, Rove, DeLay, Ralph Reed, et al. believe in "politics" in the same way that they and their corporate beneficiaries believe in "competition." In both cases, the intention is not to play the game but to end it – because the game requires some tolerance of the Other, and tolerance is precisely what these bitter-enders most despise… (Miller 81-2.)

Reiterating a theme that is prominent in his writing, Miller points out that the psychological pathology most conspicuously at work in the right’s demolition of politics is projection: the attribution in "the enemy" of one’s own moral depravity:

The Bushevik, so full of hate, hates politics, and would get rid of it; and yet he is himself expert at dirty politics: an expertise that he regards as purely imitative and defensive. Because his enemies, he thinks, are all "political" – dishonest, ruthless, cynical, unprincipled – he is thereby "forced" to be "political" as well, in order to "fight fire with fire." As we have seen, this paranoid conviction of the Other’s perfidy suffuses and impels the propaganda campaigns of the right, and it was especially important in Bush/Cheney’s drive to steal the last election. Indeed it was their firm conviction that they had to steal the race, in order to frustrate the Democrats’ attempt to do it first. (Miller, 82.)

This is just a brief sampling of Miller’s astute political and psychological analysis of the "why" and the "how" of the stolen elections of 2000, 2002 and 2004. That analysis, which takes up about a third of the book (Chapters 3 and 4), adds an invaluable dimension to our understanding of the political disaster that has befallen our Republic, and that analysis suggests guidelines in the struggle to avoid the theft of the upcoming elections of 2006 and 2008.

I have written at length about what might be done if we are to restore the ballot box to the voters. These crucial steps come immediately to mind, as I read Miller’s Fooled Again.

Briefly, we need a media, we need an opposition party, we need an aroused public, and we need a miracle. But take heart: history tells us that political crises have a way of producing miracles.

The mainstream media (MSM) must be discredited and an alternative media established in its place. The internet offers a voice to an opposition that is excluded from the mainstream, and a few independent publications and broadcasts remain, however feeble in comparison to the MSM. If a sizeable portion of the public deserts the mainstream, and directly informs the publishers and broadcasters why they are doing so, the media, and particularly their sponsors and advertisers, will take notice. Recently, some of the media have become more critical of the Bush regime and the GOP Congress, but it is, by and large, too little and too late.

So either the commercial media must resume the role of watchdog of government power, as intended by Jefferson and Madison, or it must be made irrelevant. The Russian dissidents late in the Soviet era have given us an example: if you have no media, create one, even if it is suppressed by the government. It was called "Samizdat" – a painstaking process of typing several carbon copies of forbidden manuscripts on condition that the recipients would do likewise. Similarly, the Iranian dissidents during the reign of the Shah copied and distributed audio tapes of revolutionary speeches. In the computer age, there are huge advantages: Internet publication and, f the Internet is taken from us, CDs and minidiscs. For now, the Internet is our Samizdat.

The Democratic party is the only potentially effective opposition party in sight. But at the moment, it is a toothless tiger. We must tell that party that it must either lead the struggle to restore electoral integrity or step aside. When the Clintons, Cantwells, Liebermans and Feinsteins run for re-election, they must be opposed in the primaries by authentic progressives. Even if those progressives lose, but with a creditable showing, the "establishment" Democrats will nonetheless get the message. Next time you get a solicitation notice from the DNC or the Senate or Congressional Campaign Committees, tell them "no dice" unless they deal with the election fraud issue. Then tell them that instead of a contribution, you are purchasing Miller’s book and donating it to the local library.

As for the public, remember that more than half the public is awake, aware, and opposed to the Bush regime. Of these, a small but significant minority is convinced that election fraud is a serious problem. But that dissenting public lacks a voice, cohesion and leadership. This is a recipe for potentially sudden change: like fuel and oxygen, lacking the third necessity – heat of ignition. A message, from a Tom Paine or a Jefferson, or leadership from a Washington, a Gandhi, a Mandela or a Sakharov, can ignite the fire that will consume this evil regime. Or not. That depends on whether concerned citizens sit by and wait for others to act, or instead take some initiative and join the struggle – writing to Congress, talking to any and all associates that will listen and perhaps a few that won’t, contributing to alternative media, copying and distributing dissenting essays, and generally raising hell.

And finally, miracles: they are, by nature, unpredictable. Some possibilities: A few corporate and financial elites will finally come to realize that where Bush is leading, they don’t want to follow, and they will join the opposition. (There are a few intimations of this already). Similarly, perhaps a few journalists, and even some Republicans, will finally if belatedly decide that they would prefer not to live in a dictatorship. Bushenomics is bound to lead to an economic collapse that is certain to wake up the public. And even now, some state Attorney General or some District Attorney may be preparing an indictment for election fraud against an e-vote company executive that could break this conspiracy wide open.

But don’t wait for miracles to happen – make them happen.

If we are to take back our country, we must first take back our vote. Mark Crispin Miller’s book will tell you what has happened, how and why it has happened, and what must be done about it.

Will we, the people, take up the challenge? On that question rests the fate of our republic, of our liberties, and of "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

Dr. Ernest Partridge is a consultant, writer and lecturer in the field of Environmental Ethics and Public Policy. He publishes the website, The Online Gadfly and co-edits the progressive website, The Crisis Papers. He is at work on a book, Conscience of a Progressive, which can be seen in-progress here. Send comments to: crisispapers@hotmail.com.