A Full Recount Would Show that López Obrador Won Mexico’s Presidency by Mo	Laotra	Sun Jul-09-06 10:27 AM
BRAD BLOG: 2 New Suits Against Diebold & Friends, New Busby/Bilbray Stuff!	BradBlog	Thu Jul-13-06 02:41 PM
Mexico: Rightist “winner’s” Brother-in-law Wrote VOTE COUNT Software – WOW	autorank	Wed Jul-12-06 04:33 PM
LA Times asks the $50,000 Question, Bush: War Criminal?	Vyan	Sun Jul-02-06 10:17 AM
Bradblog: New lawsuit seeks immediate decertification of Diebold!!	Stevepol	Thu Jul-13-06 07:47 AM
“The Stolen Election of 2004” by Michael Parenti	mod mom	Fri Jul-14-06 07:28 AM
Greene Co OH ’04 Recount Irregularities Detailed Under Oath	mod mom	Sat Jul-08-06 03:38 AM
Salon: Mexico 2006: Florida all over again?	kpete	Fri Jul-07-06 10:41 PM
LIVE NOW: DU’s TruthIsAll on the Mike Malloy Show (+ post)	kster	Sat Jul-08-06 05:27 AM
Citizen Clinton Speaks Out: Former President Raises Cain – Almost	althecat	Thu Jul-06-06 01:12 PM
KY: Grand Jury Refers Election Probe to Special Panel	Wilms	Sun Jul-02-06 09:27 AM

Rolling Stone: Kennedy: company insiders are prepared to testify (2006)	ProSense	Sat Jul-01-06 12:48 PM
Washington Post, “A single person could swing an election.”	Botany	Thu Jun-29-06 01:35 PM
A call to investigate the 2004 election	ProSense	Wed Jun-28-06 10:53 AM
Long Version of Clinton’s REMARKS (thanks to MCM for finding!)	mod mom	Sat Jul-01-06 03:04 AM
Here we go again. Grand jury probes election inconsistencies in KY.	Stevepol	Sat Jul-01-06 06:57 AM
CA: Tally is Rising in Registration Fraud	Wilms	Wed Jun-28-06 08:20 AM

over 1000 metric tons of the deadly U238-isotope serryjw Fri Jun-23-06 06:11 PM New Report Shows 17 States at High Risk For Compromised Election Results sfexpat2000 Sat Jun-24-06 05:56 AM Hey, everybody! Las Vegas is going BANKRUPT!!! IdaBriggs Sun Jun-18-06 12:18 PM “Emergency Townhall Meetings” CA-50 Here we go! kansasblue Fri Jun-23-06 05:05 PM Scoop: Bush Election Theft Saga Heats Up In Ohio Wilms Tue Jun-20-06 07:15 PM Best sites & resources for election fraud NEWBIES ? IndyOp Sat Jun-17-06 10:22 PM

NYT Bob Herbert: Kerry ‘almost certainly’ won Ohio in 2004 drm604 Wed Jun-14-06 07:48 AM 1/2 of Bush victory margin in New Mexico in 2004 ghost votes MissWaverly Fri Jun-16-06 01:39 PM CA-50 2nd Edition, I look at the April 11th Special Primary FogerRox Mon Jun-12-06 10:12 AM Most charges dropped in phone jamming RW election fraud unpossibles Fri Jun-16-06 07:45 AM Greg Palast: African-American Voters Scrubbed by Secret GOP Hit List kpete Fri Jun-16-06 10:30 AM Courageous Schakowsky (D-IL): WAS 2004 ELECTION STOLEN? “ONLY ANSWER YES” IndyOp Fri Jun-16-06 12:19 PM It Only Takes One Man To Steal an Election (And It’s Not Who You Think) McCamy Taylor Thu Jun-15-06 08:58 AM Yurica Report in support of RFK article: A Vast Political Misfortune Ojai Person Wed Jun-14-06 07:20 PM AUTORANK Kennedy’s Challenge – Salon, Mother Jones & the Tortured Dialogue althecat Thu Jun-15-06 09:36 AM Massive voter suppression in South Carolina election today? IndyOp Wed Jun-14-06 02:29 PM DNC contacts Brad–they’re looking into Busby/Bilbray race in CA emlev Wed Jun-14-06 08:55 PM NYT Bob Herbert (via RawStory): Kerry ‘almost certainly’ won Ohio in 2004 eomer Mon Jun-12-06 06:43 PM Illegitimate election-Key RFK Source-Responds to Criticism of 04 Election kpete Thu Jun-15-06 06:29 PM NO, THIS IS **IT** FOLKS!: Bill Bored Sun Jun-11-06 10:14 AM From the ERD: RECORDS FOR 150,000 COLO. VOTERS MISSING rumpel Sun Jun-11-06 11:26 PM Dr. Ron Baiman: Something Smells Fishy in San Diego – cross post from GDP bleever Sun Jun-11-06 05:09 AM bradblog: BUSBY/BILBRAY ELECTION IN DOUBT Wilms Sat Jun-10-06 09:47 AM

Debunking the Debunker CrisisPapers Wed Jun-07-06 08:47 AM Howard Dean on Diebold: “These machines are a problem” kpete Sun Apr-23-06 02:55 PM Cramdown, Stripdown, Lockdown Democracy In The USA – By DU’s Own Autorank althecat Sat Apr-22-06 02:52 PM Phone records… people in election phone jamming called White House! AGENDA21 Tue Apr-11-06 11:03 AM 28,000 votes stolen from Kerry in Lucas County (Toledo); Noe @ Work Botany Sat Jun-10-06 03:26 AM WHAT in the Heck does this RFK, Jr. guy WANT anyway?? Man-o-man!!! Land Shark Wed Jun-07-06 05:50 PM Debate over Rolling Stone Article ignores what’s Important to USA Land Shark Tue Jun-06-06 05:23 PM Rolling Stone Editorial: A Call for Investigation (Election 2004) ProSense Sat Jun-10-06 08:55 PM Ken Blackwell must be stopped BobcatJH Wed May-10-06 09:43 PM 6th Circuit opinion (4-21-06) Holds Op-SCan & P-cards Unconstitutional!!! Land Shark Tue Apr-25-06 06:13 PM Scoop, NZ: The Theft Of The 2004 Presidential Election seafan Fri Jun-09-06 12:45 AM THIS IS **IT** FOLKS. garybeck Sun Jun-11-06 08:33 PM Dr Ron Baiman: “CLEARLY A CRIME WAS COMMITTED IN OHIO” mod mom Mon Jun-12-06 06:55 AM Candidate Clint Curtis Praises RFK Jr – Calls For Fed Investigation kpete Sun Jun-11-06 07:51 AM Machines change votes in Iowa BeFree Fri Jun-09-06 09:10 PM Results of Close Busby/Bilbray U.S. House Special Election in Doubt feelthebreeze Thu Jun-08-06 09:54 PM So Dark the Con of Ken:Blackwell Sins In ’04 Coming Back To Haunt Him Algorem Wed Jun-14-06 05:25 AM Brand new e-voting machines fail in early voting hours in Kern Co., CA. Cleita Thu Jun-08-06 12:14 AM Fitrakis responds to Tokaji’s analysis of RFK Jr: mod mom Mon Jun-12-06 08:58 PM Cliff Arnebeck’s response to Farhad Manjoo article: mod mom Thu Jun-08-06 11:14 AM Fitrakis responds to Manjoo’s Salon article: mod mom Thu Jun-08-06 09:21 AM USA TODAY: Spate of Lawsuits Target e-Voting Wilms Mon Jun-05-06 06:42 AM RFK, Jr & Salon’s Manjoo & DU Election Reformers Agree On: IndyOp Mon Jun-05-06 11:08 PM Bush – Most Hated President Ever Stole Both Elections WillYourVoteBCounted Mon Jun-05-06 02:56 PM Diebold video, 46 seconds, at “Current TV” website. Eric J in MN Wed Jun-07-06 09:48 PM Bobby Kennedy JR. on ’04 election theft in feature Rolling Stone article Amaryllis Thu Jun-01-06 06:41 AM Convicted Phone Jammer now teaching @ GOP Campaign School mod mom Wed May-31-06 11:27 AM Preemptive election theft: Is Turdblossom working the CA-45th? kpete Mon May-29-06 10:25 PM Paper Ballots, Hand Counted, are the “Gold Standard” Around the World Wilms Mon May-29-06 10:17 PM NM: Court Says That State Should Have Allowed (2004) Recount Wilms Mon May-29-06 08:43 PM 4 STEPS TO HOW THE GOP STOLE THE ’04 ELECTION (and will repeat again) mod mom Sun May-28-06 05:51 PM Gore: No Intermediate Step Between SCOTUS Decision and Violent Revolution Wilms Thu May-25-06 05:53 AM “2004 Presidential Election – Compendium of Attempts to Dismiss Vote Fraud papau Wed May-24-06 04:27 AM UNDISPUTED – HURSTI HACK IS BOTH NEW MATERIAL AND TOTALLY DEVASTATING kster Fri May-26-06 07:46 PM Exit Poll Margin of Error in North Carolina 2004 BeFree Tue May-23-06 04:11 PM Will MSNBC put this ON TV ? kster Tue May-23-06 03:35 PM ANOTHER 100+ Machines Fail in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh)! Amaryllis Wed May-17-06 01:51 PM Paul Weyrich GOP strategy: Our election wins increase as # voters decrease IndyOp Tue May-16-06 08:28 PM Its the Voting Stupid ! Blogged by John Conyers,Jr. Twist_U_Up Tue May-16-06 01:04 AM Update on David G. Mills’ Tennessee Lawsuit on the Unconstitionality of Pa Febble Mon May-15-06 09:32 PM New York Times — Black Box Voting study “biggest ever” patriothackd Sat May-20-06 05:12 AM BradBlog/John Gideon: Diebold’s Deliberate Security Vulnerability Wilms Fri May-12-06 05:26 AM Poll: 2004 Election Was Stolen; according to viewers of all news except Kip Humphrey Thu May-11-06 08:17 PM Harri Hursti Report II – Diebold touch-screens Steve A Play Sun May-14-06 09:24 AM May 10 – 4 Arizona Voters Sue Secretary of State WillYourVoteBCounted Thu May-11-06 04:30 AM Local Boards of Elections Blocking Thousands of New Yorkers from Voting eomer Wed May-10-06 03:06 PM BREAKING: SEC INVESTIGATION OF DIEBOLD UNDER WAY! BradBlog Wed May-10-06 09:40 AM AMERICAN BLACKOUT-a must see film: from FL to GA to Franklin Co OH mod mom Tue May-09-06 05:01 AM $13 Million No-Bid Sweetheart Deal with Diebold Draws Fire from activists Amaryllis Wed May-10-06 07:57 AM (Ohio) Vote counting goes on up north MelissaB Sun May-07-06 06:27 PM BBV: more dirt on Diebold, possible lawsuits, heroic officials lauded Stevepol Tue May-09-06 02:22 AM NEWLY DISCOVERED DIEBOLD THREAT DESCRIBED AS ‘N ATIONAL SECURITY RISK’ Amaryllis Fri May-05-06 08:31 PM WANTED: This person voted over 6,000 times on 11/2/04 garybeck Wed May-03-06 06:36 PM Brad: National media finally covers 2006 electoral meltdown Amaryllis Fri May-05-06 05:39 AM Brad: Indiana and West Va file legal actions against ES&S Amaryllis Sat Apr-29-06 01:26 PM Help with Ohio Parallel Election (contact info) mod mom Thu Apr-27-06 12:54 PM Blackwell Distributes Voter Lists with SS Numbers mod mom Tue Apr-25-06 10:16 AM (Bradblog) Friedman briefs Feingold on election fraud ! kansasblue Mon Apr-24-06 08:10 AM Clear paper ballot counter, transporter and storage box kster Mon Jun-05-06 09:12 PM Cramdown, Stripdown, Lockdown Democracy In The USA Wilms Mon Apr-24-06 06:18 AM Free Press uncovers evidence of ballot tampering in Warren County, Ohio Wilms Sun Apr-23-06 04:51 PM Wed Dec-31-69 04:00 PM HOPE? Slew of lawsuits hit the voting machine companies garybeck Fri Apr-28-06 10:34 AM FreePress: Evidence of Ballot Tampering in Warren Co Ohio in ’04 mod mom Wed Apr-26-06 07:16 PM Brad: OR SOS Bradbury sues ES&S; says “we will not be coerced” Amaryllis Fri Apr-21-06 02:09 AM Asked @125 judges if confident every vote counted…no hands went up Wilms Wed Apr-19-06 05:53 AM PA Lawsuit: John Gideon and Joe Hall Illuminate Wilms Mon Apr-17-06 06:55 PM Update from Alaska… Blue_In_AK Thu Apr-13-06 06:22 PM MUST READ! – E-VOTING 2006: The Approaching Train Wreck (+) kster Tue Apr-11-06 02:52 PM HOLT’S RESPONSE!: MARK IT UP! Bill Bored Thu Apr-13-06 09:07 PM Motion Filed Before Judge Carr Seeking Reconsideration in Recount Case eomer Sun Apr-09-06 09:38 AM Election Day troubles could be part of ‘international conspiracy’ kpete Sun Apr-09-06 09:58 AM With voting machine company now bankrupt, CEO speaks out: kster Sat Apr-08-06 11:58 AM Recount FIXED in Ohio for 04 Presidential Contest me b zola Thu Apr-06-06 04:43 PM Shocking Diebold Conflict of Interest kpete Fri Apr-07-06 04:05 PM No Voting Machines for Leon County: You Won’t Believe Why kster Tue Apr-04-06 07:35 AM Susan Sarandon calls for outside monitoring of US elections due to fraud Amaryllis Tue Apr-04-06 06:14 PM

(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)

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

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DIEBOLD ADMITS TO THE GEMS DEFECT (VIDEO CLIP)

On Oct. 17 2005, an ordinary citizen in Cleveland, Mr. Wright, asked 

what may turn out be the most important question of the year. What 

is Diebold’s explanation, he wanted to know, for the VBA Script hack 

of the GEMS central tabulator performed by Dr. Herbert Thompson? 

Here is the videotape showing Diebold Election Systems Chief Engineer 

Pat Green admitting that Diebold knew of the defect since 2004: 

http://www.bbvdocs.org/videos/GEMSDefect.mpg (8,860 KB) 

Black Box Voting has learned that the August 18, 2004 

CompuWare Report was hidden from the public by Ohio Secretary 

of State Ken Blackwell). Here is the tampering risk assessment, 

which Blackwell had in his hands BEFORE the Nov. 2004 election, 

but withheld from both the public and the Election Assistence Commission 

(the federal oversight committee charged with ensuring the security of 

elections in all states, not just Ohio: 

http://www.bbvdocs.org/reports/GEMS-RISK.pdf 

(full report: http://www.bbvdocs.org/reports/diebReasses081804.pdf)

This leads to the crucial question: If Diebold knew, and if Ken 

Blackwell knew, why wasn’t the Election Assistence Commission told, 

why were no other secretaries of state told, why didn’t Blackwell tell 

the Ohio election officials using GEMS, and why weren’t the mitigations 

deemed necessary by CompuWare ever implemented? 

FEC TO INVESTIGATE RAPPER "P. DIDDY" SEAN COMBS

But Ignores Blistering GAO Report on Insecure Voting Machines 

— No Scrutiny of Election Violations — 

According to a press release 

(http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/13160.html,

)issued by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a conservative 

“ethics” watchdog group that specializes in filing complaints against 

progressive politicians and groups, the FEC has notified the NLPC 

that it will take up a complaint against rapper Sean Combs for his 

2004 “Vote or Die Campaign.” The NLPC Web site says the case 

has been assigned “Matter Under Review number 5684.” The 

NLPC hypes the so-called investigation, though the FEC letter itself 

appears more tepid, almost a form letter: 

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/FECCombs.pdf 

Black Box Voting, a minority-governed nonpartisan elections watchdog, 

says the FEC has better ways to spend its time and your dime. The FEC 

claims they are not staffed for many investigations. If that’s the case, 

why is a P. Diddy investigation on their priority list at all? 

The FEC is not investigating Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell 

who withheld critical security information. Public records requests

submitted by Black Box Voting have revealed that neither Blackwell nor 

Diebold corrected the GEMS defects before the 2004 election. These

defects remain uncorrected in nearly 800 jurisdictions. 

The FEC is not investigating the findings of the General Accounting 

Office voting system security report, released Oct. 21, 2005, which 

cites multiple security problems with the voting systems currently in 

use. Among the problems cited by the GAO Report: flaws in voting 

system security, access, and hardware controls, weak security 

management practices by vendors, and multiple examples of 

failures in real elections.  Full GAO report:

http://www.bbvdocs.org/reports/GAOReport_ElectionSecurity_102105.pdf

The Help America Vote Act allocated $4 billion to buy voting machines 

that taxpayers never asked for, many of which have turned out to be 

defective. The FEC is not investigating. 

A false claims lawsuit filed by Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris 

and investigator Jim March recovered $2.6 million for California taxpayers 

from Diebold Election Systems because of its poor voting machine 

security and improper testing and certification. The FEC never investigated 

whether such false claims affect any of the other 31 Diebold states, 

even after the California secretary of state requested a criminal investigation, 

citing Diebold’s lies to state authorities. More on false claims suit:

(http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/6738.html)

In October 2005, Black Box Voting revealed documents showing that

 in 2002, Diebold made misrepresentations to the Georgia secretary of 

state. (http://www.bbvdocs.org/diebold/GA-falsehoods.pdf)

In August 2005, Diebold submitted a letter to the Arizona secretary of state

(http://www.bbvdocs.org/diebold/AZ-sos-moreland.pdf) 

which contained serious misrepresentations pertaining to a security 

problem called “the GEMS defect.” One would think that making false 

claims to three secretaries of state in four consecutive years (2002, 

2003, 2004, and 2005), might represent a concern, but the FEC is not 

investigating this. 

(full Georgia sales presentation:

http://www.bbvdocs.org/diebold/GApresentation.pdf)

The FEC is investigating Sean Combs for allegedly flying in a private 

jet while conducting a “get out the vote” drive. The complaint alleges 

that people who spoke at his rallies made statements beneficial to a 

candidate (John Kerry). What the FEC has never investigated is 

Republican Senator Chuck Hagel’s $5 million stake in Election Systems 

& Software, the company that counted Hagel’s votes 

(http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-3.pdf)

when he ran for office in 1996 and 2002. Nor has the FEC investigated 

Wally O’Dell, the Diebold CEO who promised to “deliver the votes to 

Bush in 2004.” 

VOTING MACHINE PROBLEMS AND PROCEDURAL VIOLATIONS HIT HARD NOV. 8 

2005 elections, casting doubt on Ohio and Detroit elections and revealing 

civil rights violations in Los Angeles. 

On Nov. 8, 2005 in Texas, new touch-screens could not choke out a 

result, so technicians for a vendor “manually retrieved” the votes from 

inside the computer. The FEC has asked no follow up questions about 

why a vendor’s technicians are handling votes at all, since they are not 

certified or sworn elections officials, nor has the FEC inquired how touch-

screens with no paper ballots that can’t find their own votes managed to 

pass testing and certification, or how a technician can reach into a touch-

screen to “retrieve” votes. 

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/13130.html

In Ohio, the Nov. 8, 2005 election produced staggeringly impossible 

numbers, but the FEC is not investigating why more votes showed up 

than voters, nor why the election reform ballot issue voting machine 

results were exactly opposite of the pre-election polls. 

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1559

In Detroit’s Nov. 8, 2005 election, procedures broke down in 26 precincts 

causing nine electronic ballot boxes to go missing. These were not all 

recovered until two days later. At that time, thousands of other bogus 

votes were counted. However, the FEC is not investigating. 

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/13139.html

Los Angeles citizens aren’t permitted to watch their votes being 

counted, a clear violation of California law. Black Box Voting was 

told the results “came out the same as expected” so we should not 

be concerned. Regardless of whether the votes “come out right,” 

hiding crucial vote-tallying processes is a civil rights violation, and 

powerful Los Angeles County Elections Registrar Conny Drake 

McCormack has a history with minority vote suppression and rights 

violations. 

Before taking the position in Los Angeles County, Registrar 

Conny Drake McCormack was the target of a Texas legislative 

effort referred to as the “Get Conny Drake bill,”(See footnote 1) 

an unsuccessful effort to find a way to fire elections officials who 

engage in voting violations targeting minorities. She had allegedly 

been withholding ballots in African-American districts. On another 

matter, regarding voting machines, she was found by the Department 

of Justice to have violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. She was 

also subjected to a two-year election fraud probe by Texas attorney 

general Jim Mattox on another matter. While still under investigation 

in Texas, Conny Drake McCormack took over elections in San Diego

(replacing Ray Ortiz after he was indicted), then became elections 

chief in Los Angeles County, where she has arranged for votes to 

be counted on a customized, home-brewed tallying system, hidden 

from public view. 

On Nov. 8, Black Box Voting observed Los Angeles County election 

workers conducting a bait and switch. 

(http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/13095.html)

While the press and the public were instructed to look in a window 

to a room containing optical scan machines, results actually came out 

of a different set of computers in another room, which was hidden from 

view. The press was told that the system is certified and tested, but Black 

Box Voting cannot find that the Los Angeles tallying system, customized 

under Conny Drake McCormack, was ever examined by federal testing 

labs or the state of California as required by law. Though she is now 

the most powerful elections official in California — and one of the most 

influential in the nation — the FEC is not investigating Conny Drake McCormack. 

For more information on things the FEC is not investigating, see investigations

(http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/1954.html) 

and News (http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/114.html)

at Black Box Voting (.ORG) 

(Footnote 1) Dallas Morning News, Mar. 31 1987: Elections Chief Resigning 

After Troubled Tenure 

…"bumpy roads … include Attorney General Jim Mattox’s continuing 

investigation into vote-fraud allegations … Ms. McCormack weathered 

investigations by the U.S. Justice Department, the Texas secretary of state’s 

office and the Dallas County district attorney’s office … legislation dubbed

the "Get Conny Drake (her maiden name) bill’ … Top Democratic officials 

called for her ouster. Roy Orr, a commissioner at the time, called her "a jerk 

at the wheel’ and "a typical bureaucrat.’ John Wiley Price, now a commissioner, 

called her a liar and a racist. 

———–

Black Box Voting is a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501c(3) elections watchdog. We 

are fighting for your right as a citizen to view and oversee your own voting

process. Our focus is on increasing your access to the elections process,

obtaining crucial public records to document what is going on in elections, 

and exposing procedural problems that corrupt the integrity of the election.

Black Box Voting is supported entirely by citizen donations. You can support

this important work by clicking here: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/donate.html

or by sending to 330 SW 43rd St. Suite K, PMB 547, Renton WA 98055

———–Black Box Voting

This story is from The Brad Blog.

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot Among the 9/11 "research community" there are those who "like" the "physical evidence" and those who "like" the "other evidence". My earlier post this morning…

Guest blogged by Winter Patriot

It has been almost four years now since 9/11 and the dust, literally and metaphorically speaking, has settled. It is long overdue that we as a nation take a look at the events of that day with dispassionate, analytical, objective, realistic eyes instead of just accepting the "official" 9/11 story at face value.

I mean, has anyone else noticed that the "official" 9/11 story just doesn’t pass the "smell test"? In fact, it reeks. See, the "official" story isn’t meant to be analyzed but simply taken at face value; this is because at even a cursory examination of the details it unravels VERY quickly. Let’s take a good look at some of the more salient points that tear the guts out of the"official" 9/11 story:

1. Just in watching the video footage of the "collapses" of the Twin Towers and WTC # 7 it is readily apparant they were controlled demolitions. You don’t have to be an engineer or an explosives expert to be able to plainly see the explosions, also the "squibs" of dust jetting out of windows near the blasts, and watch as each building comes down in nine seconds, freefall rate, a feat impossible by the laws of physics UNLESS esplosives were used to disintegrate everything holding the buildings up, i.e. a controlled demolition. The Twin Towers came down like they were made of butter, with ten floors "collapsing" per second. For a more detailed discussion as to how physics rules out everything BUT a controlled demolition as the cause of the "collapses", see:
http://www.serendipity.li/wtc.htm
…And from more of an engineering point of view, see:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2004/121104easilywithstood.htm
http://members.surfeu.fi/11syyskuu/soldier5.htm
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/thermite.htm
http://www.physics911.net/thermite.htm
…The type of explosives used was likely thermite, as that would account for the otherwise unexplainable large "hot spots" under the WTC rubble still hot weeks after 9/11. The amount of high explosive necessary to "collapse" each of the Twin Towers has been estimated at being at least 14 tons. See:
http://www.hawaii.indymedia.org/news/2003/12/3961.php
…In a clip of footage of the North Tower’s "collapse" that was also in the documentary ‘9/11: The First 24 Hours’, the tripod-mounted camera visibly shakes for a couple seconds from the tremor caused by the explosives going off in the sub-basement levels, then a few seconds later we can see explosions about level with the bottom of the pall of smoke, and then the entire building crashes down in nine seconds, a textbook "implosion" or controlled demolition.
Firefighters who survived 9/11 told of hearing, feeling and seeing explosions just before the "collapses". For video of them telling of the explosions, see:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911_firefighters.html
…And for other survivors telling of witnessing the explosions, see:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/veliz-bombs.htm
http://research.amnh.org/users/tyson/essays/TheHorrorTheHorror.html
…A WTC janitor named Rodriguez was almost killed by explosions on 9/11, but the 9/11 whitewash commission ignored his story because it contradicts the "official" myth they’re propagating. See:
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/ignoring_9-11.html
…Rodriguez could tell it was a cover-up and began speaking out about what he experienced. Now his life is likely in danger. See:
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/32348.htm
…The WTC security men on 9/11 told the WTC workers who were trying to leave after the first plane struck to go back inside the buildings! See:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,552730,00.html
…But the quickest way for someone to see that the "official" 9/11 story is a steaming turd sandwich is to simply watch the video footage of the "collapses" of the Twin Towers and WTC # 7 [hit by no plane and no significant debris but "collapsed" later in the day]. See for yourself:
http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/collapse%20update/#videos
http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/video%20archive/
http://www.globalresearch.ca.myforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=523
http://www.reopen911.org/pictures_and_videos.htm#Painful
http://wtc.macroshaft.org/mov/
http://www.wtc7.net/
http://www.911review.org/Wiki/Sept11Videos.shtml

2. Bush’s behavior on the morning of 9/11 was particularly damning. When Andy Card whispered in his ear that a second plane had hit the WTC then everyone concerned knew it could be no accident, so if the "official" story were true then Bush’s Secret Service chief would have had to assume that Bush was a possible target and the Secret Service [who have the "last word" in any matter regarding his safety] would’ve immediately spirited Bush away to a much safer, less-publicized location. But they didn’t. Instead, Bush was allowed to sit there and be read to by schoolkids for several minutes, then Bush gladhanded with teachers and posed for photos with them, and THEN Bush carried out his pre-scheduled press conference plugging the ‘No Child Left Behind’ act, not leaving that school for almost an hour. This can only mean: Bush and his Secret Service chief had to have known that Bush was not a possible target on 9/11; the ONLY WAY they could have known that is if Bush knew the 9/11 plans beforehand, ergo 9/11 was an inside job. Though Bush’s actions of that morning are well-documented (including a press conference!), nobody in the mainstream media dares to mention what Bush’s tarrying at that elementary school actually MEANS in terms of evidence.

3. What happened to the world’s most expensive Air Force on 9/11? How were the "hijacked airliners" allowed to fly from the time of the first one deviating from its flight plan to the one hitting the Pentagon for an HOUR AND TWENTY MINUTES through the most heavily-watched airspace in America, the Northeast, to meander to their targets one of which being the Pentagon (!) all with no interference from the Air Force whatsoever?? The one that hit the South Tower even had enough time to fly PAST its target all the way to Newark, New Jersey before turning around to head back to N.Y.C. to crash into the South Tower! N.O.R.A.D. monitors all domestic civilian air traffic on radar as does the F.A.A. and sees the same things on its radar screens the F.A.A. sees. The Northeast is littered with fighter bases each with at least two fighters and two pilots on standby ready to scramble 24 hours a day, every day regardless of anything else taking place. It is standard operating procedure to scramble fighters to check out an unresponsive airliner, and this scramble requires no higher orders than the airbase commander (since June of 2001 when Cheney changed the rules the actual shoot-down order itself has to come from higher up but there was PLENTY of time for that). So what happened on 9/11 to countermand the standard operating procedure? Every time before 9/11 and since when an airliner deviated from its flight plan or looked in some way like it MIGHT be hijacked, fighters were scrambled and off of the wing of the unresponsive airliner in a FEW MINUTES. In the eight-and-a-fraction months of 2001 before 9/11 this occurred sixty-seven times (each was harmless) and this is not an unusual amount either. So why not on 9/11? Some attribute the Air Force’s lack of response to the several highly-suspicious "exercises" the Air Force was carrying out on 9/11 (more about them later), and though that did shift a lot of aircraft to places other than the Northeast in a most incriminating manner, that still doesn’t account for the ones on standby at fighter bases in the Northeast that could have most certainly pounced on the "hijacked airliners" with plenty of time to spare; General Myers testified that the "exercises" did not hinder their readiness, in fact he said they enhanced it as one would expect during a time of exercises, when readiness is second only to actual wartime, so we can rule that out anyway, and we can expect Myers was being candid as in that position he would be thought to be "less culpable" for the "failure" if he had "conceded" the "exercises" had hindered their readiness; as for the most part it made him look even more suspicious rather than less, this was likely the truth, as what would be the motive for lying to appear even more susipicious? Besides, the very existence of the"exercises" and their nature are highly suspicious as we’ll address a little later, (as a cover for the real-world events) and conceding that should send up large red flags of caution to any "official" story apologists. So we are left with the question, just what are the odds of the world’s most expensive Air Force being totally asleep at the switch for one particular day in one particular year, the very day when they were needed the most? Maybe one in a million? For more information regarding the Air Force’s incriminating impotence on 9/11, see:
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/airf.htm
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/WrongQuestion.html
http://inn.globalfreepress.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=387
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0331-11.htm
http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/071204_final_fraud.shtml
http://www.welfarestate.com/wtc/af-scramble.txt

4. The "airliner" that crashed into the Pentagon didn’t hit it on the side from which it was approaching; no, instead it circled around and hit it in the part that was under renovation at the time with much less military personnel present. The part that was hit had just before 9/11 been heavily [structurally] reinforced so that a large fire there wouldn’t spread elsewhere in the Pentagon, and it was ALSO the part of the building farthest from where Rumsfeld and the top military brass were and are located. These amazing fortuitous "coincidences" were mentioned briefly in the mainstream media, such as an ABC affiliate:
http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/disinfo/deceptions/abc_nosurvivors.html
Also remember that the Pentagon, seat of the Department of Defense and well-equipped with surface-to-air missile (SAM) launchers fired no SAMs in its own defense! Not even one!! Also note that the "airliner" that crashed into it left no wings, no tail section, no fuselage, no luggage parts etc. on the Pentagon’s lawn as would have occurred if a real airliner crashed there. It didn’t even put a gouge in the lawn!! Within five minutes of the crash the F.B.I. was seizing the tapes of at least two civilian security cameras that happened to be pointing at the crash site, one being from a hotel’s parking lot and the other from a gas station. The tapes were never seen again. For more about the gas station camera’s tape, see:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1211_wirepentagon.html
Furthermore, the original hole in the Pentagon’s E-ring wall (not the larger section blown out a half hour later with explosives) was only about 16 feet in diameter, way too small. For some photos of the original hole and the remarkable gougeless lawn with no wings, no tail section etc., see:
http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm
http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/pentalawn.html
http://212.87.68.69/phpwebsite/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=26

5. There were no Middle Eastern names on any of the four flight manifests; read them over, you’ll find none. Furthermore, by everyone’s accounts the "hijacker pilots" were far too inept to even master flying Piper Cubs, let alone flying airliners like fighter jocks, pulling high G-force turns no real airliner will do.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/Ppuzzle.html

6. What about the "hijacker’s" passport that was "found" a few days after 9/11 near the WTC rubble? How did it survive the "collapse" and the fire so "intense" we were told it incinerated the passengers, the plane and even the plane’s ‘black boxes’?? (It didn’t; it was obviously planted in a hamfisted attempt to "reinforce" the "official" story). If the "official" story were true then we should start making airliners out of heavy laminated paper with a vinyl cover so they can be "indestructable" like that passport!! Besides, if the passport was "found" there wouldn’t it mean he used it in the boarding process, thus his name would’ve made it onto a flight manifest? The "official" story even contradicts itself. For an interview of a relief worker at Ground Zero regarding the reaction (disbelief) of many or most of the relief workers at the "discovery" of the passport, see:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2005/300305newrevelations.htm

7. What about the at least seven "9/11 hijackers" that turned up alive and well days AFTER 9/11, wondering why they were being wrongfully accused? Though this was widely reported in foreign media, the castrated American mainstream media largely ignored it, and even today can be heard to sing the chorus of the "nineteen hijackers" as if nothing ever contradicted it! For a few sources, including a BBC article, see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm
http://www.worldmessenger.20m.com/alive.html
http://911review.org/Wiki/HijackersAliveAndWell.shtml
http://www.welfarestate.com/911/

8. What about the obvious foreknowledge of whoever forewarned some prominent individuals like San Francisco mayor Willie Brown and some military generals to avoid flying and the WTC on 9/11? They promptly changed their plans and cancelled flights. For more information, see:
http://www.rense.com/general66/pre11.htm

9. What about the obvious foreknowledge of whoever placed record amounts of "put" orders on the stock of United Airlines, American Airlines and Morgan Stanley-Dean Witter (had HQ in the WTC) in the week just before 9/11? A "put" order is essentially betting that a particular stock is going to drop in value. Though the C.I.A. monitors the stock market for suspicious fluctuations and the S.E.C. can trace whoever placed the "put" orders, they choose not to pursue it. For more information, see:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/140605tenquestions.htm
http://newsmine.org/archive/9-11/questions/stocks-trades/9-11-trades.txt

10. The Air Force had at least five separate "exercises" (wargames) scheduled for 9/11 involving mock "hijacked airliners" and false radar injects. The C.I.A. and National Reconnaissance Office (N.R.O.) also both had "exercises" scheduled for 9/11, the N.R.O.’s involving the premise of "an airplane crashing into a building". The governor of Florida Jeb Bush declared a state of emergency for Florida four days BEFORE 9/11, he said to help to counter terrorism. For that, see:
http://www.welfarestate.com/nwo/updates/florida.txt
Remember when I mentioned the WTC security men who were making the WTC workers go back inside the buildings after the first plane struck? The WTC security was courtesy of a company owned by Marvin Bush, "W"’s cousin. See:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911security.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm
…The new owner of the WTC property (in the only time its ownership had changed hands in its history), Larry Silverstein just two months before 9/11 took out a HUGE insurance policy on the Twin Towers and WTC # 7. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (F.E.M.A.) had an "exercise" called Tripod II scheduled for 12 September in Manhattan and "just happened" to arrive in town on 10 September complete with a triage center, all ready for 9/11. As if all this isn’t enough, a company called Controlled Demolitions Inc., specializing in (controlled demolitions and) removal of debris from said demolitions [who was responsible for removing the rubble from the Murrah Bldg. in OKC] also "just happened" to be in Manhattan on 9/11. Their website:
http://controlled-demolition.com/
…The odds of all of this just being a string of coincidences is about one in a googolplex, mathematically impossible. For these and many other "coincidences" of 9/11 that if one wants to believe the "official" story one has to believe are just coincidences, see the "Coincidence Theorist’s Guide to 9/11" at:
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/coincidence-theorists-guide-to-911.html

11. The Bush regime’s actions in the time since 9/11 have shown to be a cover-up. The steel debris from the WTC was all quickly shipped out to China and India to be melted down. Isn’t that destruction of evidence? If the "official" story were true then wouldn’t they want to analyze the steel to see just how "fire" caused these buildings to "collapse"?? And if the steel debris is so "unimportant" then why did F.E.M.A. put a GPS locator tracking device on each semi hauling it to the scrapyard (and thence overseas) and tell the drivers not to stop anywhere or deviate from the route at ALL or they would be fired? There was of course a government cover-up at the Pentagon crash site as well. See:
http://www.911review.com/coverup/pentagon.html
…The tapes of the New York firefighters’ radio communications from 9/11 were classified for years until about a month ago when a court finally ruled that the N.Y. Fire Dept. had to turn the tapes over to the public, but not after first telling the N.Y.F.D. they can edit out any parts they deem "painful" or "embarrassing" [in other words, anything that contradicts the "official" story]. Soon after 9/11, when surviving N.Y. firefighters started mentioning that they heard and felt explosions just before the WTC "collapses", they were all quickly placed under a gag order to not speak about anything they saw, heard or felt on 9/11. The F.A.A. air traffic controllers who were on duty on 9/11 are under a similar gag order to not speak of anything they heard or saw on their radar screens on 9/11. Sound like a blatant cover-up? That’s because it IS. As part of this cover-up and in response to the growing disbelief at the "official" explanation for the WTC "collapses" and the rest of the "official" myth, the Hearst-owned magazine ‘Popular Mechanics’ purged its editorial staff and writers replacing them with hacks and wrote [a ridiculous straw-man-beating contest of] an "article" that purports to "debunk" theories other than the "official" 9/11 myth. Written by Benjamin Chertoff, the cousin of DHS director Michael Chertoff, this article fails to address the REAL questions raised by those having legitimate doubts of the "official" fable and certainly the only ones who thought the article actually "debunked" anything were those who already would believe ANYTHING if it has the "official" stamp on it anyway regardless of evidence to the contrary. For discussions debunking the ‘Poopular Mechanics’ Chertoff straw man article, see:
http://www.reopen911.org/ericreubt.htm
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/pop_mech/reply_to_popular_mechanics.htm
…Bush steadfastly opposed even letting a 9/11 commission be formed, only relenting when he was allowed to handpick its members and dictate its scope and focus (narrow, with a predetermined outcome). Even THEN Bush refused to testify in front of it, instead insisting his "testimony" be behind closed doors, to two selected members, NOT under oath, with his weasel attorney Alberto Gonzales and Dick Cheney present, with no tape recording made and the notes taken were confiscated immediately afterwards and destroyed. Now does that sound like a man with nothing to hide?

12. In the late 1990s a group of right-wing nutcases (Cheney-Wolfowitz-Rumsfeld-Feith-Perle et al) called the "Project for the New American Century" or P.N.A.C. laid out their plans for what they thought would secure American global dominance for the long term. Part of that plan was a scheme to build an oil pipeline running from the Caspian Sea oil fields across Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan to Pakistan and a port. The P.N.A.C. also unsuccessfully badgered Clinton to invade Iraq in 1998 because of its massive oil resources as the world’s second-largest oil producer! They openly stated in a paper in September 2000 called "Rebuilding America’s Defenses" that the American public would not support huge increases in defense spending and a more aggressive military posture without some large, catalyzing, galvanizing event like "a new Pearl Harbor". When "W" came to power these madmen became his top advisors. In July 2001 they gave an ultimatum to the government of Afghanistan (the only holdout in their pipeline scheme), saying "Either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold or we’ll bury you under a carpet of bombs". The Afghan government refused, so on 11 September of that year the C.I.A. and highest levels of the military and Bush regime carried out their 9/11 false flag operation, blaming it on "Al Qaeda" and using it as an "excuse" to invade Afghanistan (and tried to use it as an "excuse" to invade Iraq!) and have basically been using it as an excuse for everything else since. 9/11 is their Reichstag fire. For more information about the pernicious machinations of the P.N.A.C., see:
http://www.americanfreepress.net/12_24_02/America_Pearl_Harbored/america_pearl_harbored.html
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/PHarbor.htm
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/weiner6.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/leopold02192003.html

So you might ask, "How did they do it?". On this of course I can only speculate and make an educated guess, so here’s my best guess:

First let’s address the matter of the so-called "nineteen hijackers with plastic knives". Well, we already know as mentioned above that at least seven of them (some say nine or more) turned up alive days later wondering why they were being wrongfully accused, so we can safely say these men were uninvolved. Their passports were stolen abroad by the C.I.A. and collected so they could "add" their identities to the pool of patsies. For more information, see:
http://911review.org/Wiki/HijackersPatsies.shtml
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/hey_stupid.htm
… As for the others, we know at least five of them (including Mohammed Atta) were living on the Pensacola Naval Air Station and received very limited flight instruction there. This makes them much more likely to have been C.I.A. assets than "Islamic terrorists". For more information about the "hijackers" living and taking rudimentary flight training at Pensacola N.A.S., see:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/050407hijackersmilitarytraining911
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0208/S00085.htm
http://infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/pensacola_link.htm
…In standard C.I.A. compartmentalization, they were kept uninformed of the details of the larger plan, and their job was basically to leave a "trail" of (not-very-believable) "evidence" like taking rudimentary flying lessons (and doing very poorly by the way). Even the government admits their "trail" wasn’t very believable. See:
http://welfarestate.com/911/#17
…For information about the fake "last letter from Mohammed Atta", see:
http://welfarestate.com/wtc/fake-letters.txt
…For information regarding the fake "bin Laden" "confession" video, see:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape2.html
http://welfarestate.com/wtc/faketape
http://911blimp.net/vid_fakeOsamaVideo.shtml
…For special effects experts telling how fake "bin Laden" "confession" tape was easy to make, see:
http://www.rense.com/general18/ez.htm
…For information regarding the fake "Barbara Olson phone call from Flight 77", see:
http://www.geocities.com/subliminalsuggestion/olson.html
…In April of 2002 the F.B.I .backpedaled and admitted that the so-called "9/11 hijackers" left no paper trail whatsoever. See:
http://rense.com/general24/paper.htm
http://news.theolympian.com/specialsections/TerrorinAmerica/20020430/15779.shtml
…At the same time the F.B.I. admitted it also has no evidence actually linking the accused "9/11 hijackers" to 9/11. See:
No_Evidence_/fbi_admitsno_evidence_.html" target="_blank">http://www.americanfreepress.net/051302/FBI_AdmitsNo_Evidence_/fbi_admitsno_evidence_.html
http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/Middle_East/FBI_Admits:_No_Evidence_Links_’Hijackers’_to_9-11
…Shortly after 9/11 the C.I.A.’s patsy "hijacker" fakes were almost certainly killed off. Their purpose had been mainly to "flesh out" the "identities" of several of the "hijacker" patsies enough to make it appear halfway believable unless you looked directly at the matter, which was long enough to get troops into Afghanistan. They had nothing to do with boxcutters or actually hijacking any planes.

Now let’s move to the morning of 9/11. On that morning when each of the four (doomed) real airliners took off, for each of the four a remotely-piloted drone also took off, mirroring its airliner’s flight plan but at a considerably higher altitude. Three were smallish in size, about like a large fighter (it is highly likely that at least one if not three were in fact remotely-piloted obsolete A-3 Skyraiders taken from storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, the Air Force’s boneyard). The other one was a remotely-piloted Air Force fuel tanker aircraft (based on the Boeing 757 airframe, the tankers having been produced since the late 1970s). All were presumably painted up in United Airlines and American Airlines livery. All the drones were flown by controllers on board an Air Force E-3A Sentry A.W.A.C.S. aircraft. For more information on remotely-piloted drone technology, see:
http://212.87.68.69/phpwebsite/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=25
http://911review.com/means/remotecontrol.html
http://www.public-action.com/911/robotplane.html
http://www.sysplan.com/Radar/CTS
http://www.sysplan.com/Radar/FTS
http://pratyeka.org/wtc/wot/plissken.htm
…Anyway, at a certain point in each real airliner’s flight, N.O.R.A.D. contacted the pilot of each and told him of a [fake] "terrorist threat" to some unspecified airports, and to turn off his transponder and head out over the Atlantic to loiter there in a racetrack pattern until it could be determined which airports were "safe" for landing. So the civil airline pilots do as they’re told, and as each real airliner peels off to begin heading to the Atlantic, its "mirroring" drone turns and begins to head for its target. Meanwhile, fighter pilots patrolling over the Atlantic as part of the Air Force’s aforementioned "exercises" see [eventually] four unidentified blips on their radar (which are the four real airliners with their transponders off). N.O.R.A.D. then contacts the fighter pilots and tells them the unidentified blips are really "drones" that are simulating "hijacked airliners", and they are cleared to shoot them down, so they do, and if those fighter pilots are still alive today (doubtful), then they probably still think they were shooting down drones for target practice on 9/11. The real airliners are in small pieces on the bottom of the Atlantic. Then a smaller drone hits the North Tower (hence the early reports of a "small plane" hitting it, and the thing in the Naudet brothers’ ameteur footage that is definately NOT a Boeing 757). For the Naudet brothers’ ameteur video footage see:
http://www.serendipity.ptpi.net/wot/north_tower.htm
…Seventeen minutes later, when the media’s cameras are on the scene, the fuel tanker drone crashes into the South Tower (hence the huge Hollywood action movie fireball, and the early reports by eyewitnesses that said the "airliner" that hit the South Tower had no windows). For mention of the "no windows", see:
http://www.aulis.com/news85.htm
…Then a smaller drone hits the Pentagon (hence the early reports of a "small plane" hitting it, and the absence of an airliner’s wings, tail section, fuselage etc.). The fourth drone (also smaller) was likely intended for the Capitol Building or the White House, but since the other three hit perfectly this "insurance" drone was not needed, so another fighter pilot, this one from the North Dakota Air Nat’l. Guard was told by N.O.R.A.D. that the drone was a "real hijacked airliner" that was headed for Washington D.C. so he is ordered to shoot it down. So he does (near Shanksville, Penn.) and if he’s still alive today (again doubtful), then he probably still thinks he saved the Capitol Building or the White House.

As for the explosives that were in the WTC, these were most likely installed years before, back in the aftermath of the 1993 WTC van bombing as a secret clause of the insurance companies just in case another bombing or an earthquake etc. ever made the Twin Towers unstable they could be evacuated and brought down right into their footprints with no risk of them toppling over onto other buildings (you know how insurance companies loathe undue risk). They were wired to be set off from the mayor’s emergency command center in the concrete bunker on floor 23 of WTC # 7 building, itself rigged with explosives. So on 9/11, when the fire in the South Tower started dying, and their "reason" for a "collapse" with it, they set off the South Tower’s charges and "collapsed" it right down into its footprint. Exactly thirty minutes later the North Tower’s charges went off and it too "collapsed". Later in the day they set the timer on the charges in WTC # 7 (or remote-detonated it, one of the two) and brought it down as well, destroying the evidence in the command center.

So we have reviewed twelve points that individually disprove the "official" 9/11 story, and taken together shred the "official" story into confetti. As emotion is the enemy of reasoning, I know it may be hard to accept on an emotional level that our own government that milked 9/11 for every possible drop of political clout they could get are the ones responsible, but emotion has to take a backseat to cold reasoning. The truth isn’t always pretty, but it is the truth nevertheless and everyone should be made aware of it.
For more websites and pages relating to the 9/11 inside job, see:
http://www.serendipity.li/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
http://www.911review.org/
http://www.reopen911.org/
http://911review.com/
http://www.question911.com/
http://www.911weknow.com/
…For former Labor Dept. official Morgan Reynolds saying he thinks 9/11 was most likely an inside job, see:
http://www.pej.org/html/print.php?sid=2736
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050613-102755-6408r.htm
http://mayday.blogsome.com/2005/06/14/inside-job/
…For British former MI5 agent David Shayler saying 9/11 was an inside job, see:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/270605insidejob.htm
…For the general in charge of Russia’s air force stating that the "official" 9/11 story is an impossibility, see:
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/airf.htm
…For Larry Silverstein, owner of the WTC, mentioning in an interview in 2002 that he had WTC # 7 "pulled" (demolitions parlance meaning "demolished"), see:
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/911%20Cover-up/wtc7.htm
…For information about the Los Angeles county citizens grand jury in November 2004 reviewing six solid hours of 9/11 evidence and unanimously deciding that the Bush regime was behind it, see:
http://rense.com/general59/9111g.htm

Miriam Raftery

"Enron by the Sea" shows strange electoral anomalies – a 4 percent shift – ODDS OF SUCH A DISCREPANCY OCCURRING BY CHANCE ALONE ARE LESS THAN 7/100 OF 1%, STATISTICIANS REVEAL.

San Diego Democratic mayoral candidate, Donna Frye, may have been robbed of her mayoral seat in the July 25 local election as citizens’ audit parallel election vote shows shift of 4 percent, Raw Story has learned.

Frye, who served three years as a council woman in San Diego, California, previously ran as a write-in candidate in November 2004, but was deprived of San Diego’s top seat due to the city’s Registrar of Voters, Sally McPherson, blocking the count of 5,547 ballots on which voters had written Frye’s name, yet failed to also fill in bubbles. The disputed ballots would have given Frye a victory by 3,439 votes.

Enron by the Sea

Republican Dick Murphy assumed the mayoral office as a result of the uncounted ballots, only to resign amid multiple scandals that have engulfed San Diego’s City Council.

His successor, Acting Mayor Michael Zucchet, a Democrat, held office for less than a day before being indicted on charges of conspiracy, extortion and wire fraud related to accepting payments from a Las Vegas strip club operator in exchange for relaxing the City’s "no touch" policy.

The mayoral musical chairs, coupled with the indictments of several city council members on charges of bribery, as well as a city deficit running close to $2 billion, has earned the city the infamous nickname of "Enron by the Sea."

Following Zucchet’s indictment a special election was held on July 25 of this year to name a successor. The official count showed that Frye had captured over 45 percent of the vote – double the amount of any other candidate. San Diego law, however, requires a run-off election between the two top vote-getters if no candidate receives at least 50 percent of the vote. The run-off race is set for November of this year. The election, however, was scheduled to replace Murphy regardless of the outcome of Zucchet’s trial.

Diebold’s Un-Accu-Vote

Now, a nonpartisan citizens’ group that conducted a parallel election has requested a recount of 11 precincts. This time, the issue isn’t unmarked bubbles, but the accuracy of Diebold Accu-Vote optical scan voting machines and the Diebold GEMS central tabulator used to count votes.

The Citizens Audit Parallel Election (CAPE) asked voters exiting polls to vote again and sign a log book attesting to the accuracy of their second vote. Sealed parallel election ballots were counted at KGTV’s studio with a TV camera crew filming the counting process.

Nearly 50 percent of all voters participated in the parallel election, which included five polling places representing 11 precincts. The sample included more conservative than liberal precincts, with participation as high among Republicans as among Democrats. The tandem election results showed what most feel to be startling results.

"There is a shift of four percent of the vote, consistently," Joe Prizzi, (engineer and physicist,) reported at a press conference held by CAPE in front of City Hall. Frye received 50.2 percent of the votes cast in the parallel election – enough for an outright victory if those results reflect the outcome citywide. CAPE also found that the official count added approximately 2 percent to each of Frye’s two Republican opponents, Jerry Sanders and Steve Francis.

In addition, CAPE examined the only other ballot measure, a proposition over a war memorial cross on public land. The proposition’s vote total also appeared to have been padded by 4 percent in the official election tally, which was certified Friday August 19 by San Diego County’s newly appointed Registrar of Voters, Republican Mikel Haas.

Math is non-partisan

A team of statisticians from California State University- Northridge – have analyzed the data from CAPE, concluding that the probability of luck or chance as the cause of the observed four percent deviation is less than one in 1,300 – or .000678.

Activists suspect fraud. "I am troubled by the prospect that we are losing our democracy very quickly. We’ve been voting on machines that were never intended to be tools of democracy," said Brina-Rae Schuchman, media spokesperson for CAPE, noting that Diebold machines utilize "secret software."

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Delivering the election – not just in Ohio

The nation’s first parallel election was conceived by Ellen Brodsky, an election official in Coconut Creek, Florida. Held at a single precinct during a May 2005 special election on a gambling initiative, the Florida parallel election drew a 67 percent participation rate and revealed significant discrepancies, leading to revelations of programming issues with touch-screen voting machines.

San Diego’s far broader parallel election was the brainchild of Judy Alter, an emeritus professor in the department of world arts and culture at UCLA who participated in the New Mexico recount after the 2004 presidential election. In Santa Fe, Alter detected a shift of third-party candidate votes into the Bush/Cheney column.

"That pattern has now been identified in eight states," Alter told Raw Story in an exclusive interview, adding that numerous other indications of electronic fraud have been found. "This is why I’m leading Study California Ballots, because we have to actually count," Added Alter.

CAPE filed a request with the Registrar on August 16 to recount the 11 precincts included in San Diego’s parallel election. The request was filed by Schuchman on behalf of Donna Frye, although the Frye campaign was not consulted.

The San Diego Registrar has seven days to call a meeting of all candidates and other interested parties to devise procedures for the recount. "If any discrepancies are found, California law requires that a citywide recount of all precincts be conducted," Alter said.

Asked about CAPE’s recount request, Registrar Mikel Haas, responded, "They have every right to do this. We’re going to run this by the book." He declined, however, to state how much the partial recount would cost, although noting that cost would depend upon procedures agreed on in the upcoming meeting.

Alter is less confident that Haas will play it by the book, stating that "I believe he is overcharging us." She also believes CAPE should only be assessed $400 ($100 for each of the four election employees) per day. "Now he’s going to charge us $2,500–and he’s telling us that he’s charging us for electricity and the room for the meeting he is going to call, and for all the expenses to staff it," Alter contends.

Citizen Arrested for enacting his rights

CAPE isn’t the only group to accuse Haas of withholding public information. Jim March of Black Box Voting and a Republican maintains that the Registrar refused his request during the election to obtain audit logs, which would show whether records were kept of each user who accessed the Diebold GEMS central tabulator.

In an interview with the East County Californian before the election, Haas stated that he would allow citizens to observe the central tabulator counting votes. But on election night, March found the tabulator screen had been placed eight feet away, behind glass and readable only through binoculars, literally. According to March, an activist who was with him brought binoculars and was able to clearly make out the screen. March’s request to have the screen moved closer was refused, so he entered the secured tabulating room.

March was arrested and charged with a felony count of obstructing an election official. The charge was later dropped. "This was a violation of my civil rights," said March, who plans to sue County election officials for violating his right under California law to observe an election and his right to access public records.

Computer experts hired by Black Box Voting to penetrate voting systems in Leon County, Florida (with permission of an election official) demonstrated the ease of reprogramming Diebold optical scan voting machines and changing votes through the Diebold central tabulator – the same voting systems used in San Diego during the recent election.

Informed of these facts, Haas nonetheless allowed hundreds of San Diego poll workers to keep voting machines at home overnight – including programmable memory cards protected only by seals that could easily be removed with pliers and resealed.

March and other observers contend that San Diego’s central tabulator was hooked up to the Internet on election night. An Internet connection would violate Diebold’s own procedures manual, which states: "The GEMS server should not be connected to any network that has an external Internet connection." State certification required that manual procedures be followed.

"If that manual isn’t followed, it’s an illegal installation," says March. "They ran a completely illegal election."

Caught with tabulater plugged in

Asked by this reporter if the central tabulator was hooked up to the Internet, Haas replied, "Yes. That’s so we can get our results out to the Internet, so people can see. It’s firewall protected."

But after being informed that hooking the tabulator up to the Internet would potentially render the election illegal, Haas backpedaled and said he may have been mistaken about the tabulator’s Internet connection. "I’m not that technical," he noted, then suggested that perhaps the machine was transmitting results to a secondary unit.

Activists plan to monitor the recount, but the potential for problems remain. "We are very worried about tampering," Alter admitted. "That’s why we want the count videotaped."

Those fears evoke comparisons to Clermont County, Ohio, where Raw Story reported that a recount of the 2004 presidential election revealed that stickers were placed over the Kerry/Edwards oval on opti-scan ballots. Those ballots were then fed into machines after the hand recount. Witnesses have stated that beneath the stickers, the Kerry/Edwards oval was selected.

Subtler forms of tampering might include substituting entire batches of ballots, described Alter, who plans to monitor the recount.

Soon, San Diego’s Registrar hopes to eliminate the opti-scan system entirely and retrofit warehoused TSx touchscreen machines with paper trails–if the new Republican Secretary of State, Bruce McPherson, opts to recertify the TSx system previously decertified by Democratic Secretary of State Kevin Shelley.

McPherson is lobbying Republican Governor Schwarzenegger to veto SB 370, which would make paper trails the official votes of record. SB 370 has already passed the State Senate and is now about to pass the Assembly. Sources close to the McPherson confirm that he is still lobbying the governor to veto.

Alter, meanwhile, is organizing citizen volunteers to hold parallel elections statewide for the fall special election called by Governor Schwarzenegger.

"I’m not stopping," the election reform advocate concludes. "This is just a moving train."

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Mr. Prizzi as currently affiliated with an academic institution. Prizzi, an engineer and physicist, is not.

from the raw story