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  • Exit Polls and Voter Fraud: A User-Friendly Explanation
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Electronic voting machines were supposed to save us from the nightmare of hanging chads. The day after the election, a lot of Americans learned for the first time that most of these machines are owned by private companies who refuse to divulge exactly how they work; that computer security experts have been highly critical of them; that they’ve already experienced serious failures, and that many of them leave no paper trail for backup.(1) Since then, online forums have been jammed with claims (…)

  • Hearings on Ohio voting put 2004 election in doubt
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Highly-charged, jam-packed hearings held here in Columbus have cast serious doubt on the true outcome of the presidential election.
    On Saturday, November 13, and Monday, November 15, the Ohio Election Protection Coalition’s public hearings in Columbus solicited extensive sworn first-person testimony from 32 of Ohio voters, precinct judges, poll workers, legal observers, party challengers. An additional 66 people provided written affidavits of election irregularities. The unavoidable (…)

  • Make Democracy Real
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ted Glick
    I am fortunate to live in the Newark, N.J. area. Because of it I’m a member of the People’s Organization for Progress, a predominantly African American but multi-cultural organization led by its chair, Larry Hamm.
    Three days after the November 2 election POP held a fund-raising dinner. When Larry spoke as part of the program of speakers and poetry, the first thing he did was to lead the packed church basement in a chant of "power to the people," as he often does. He spoke of (…)

  • Franklin County : Voters Recount Irregularities
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    As thousands of provisional ballots will start to be counted Tuesday, more people are coming forward with stories about voting irregularities during the November 2 election.
    Dozens of people crowded into a hearing room at the Franklin County courthouse Monday night.
    It was the second public hearing since Saturday, and there was a panel made up of voting rights groups listens to every word.
    Voters and poll workers told story after story of voters being disenfranchised.
    "Finally, I was (…)

  • Reporter Greg Palast and Salon’s Farhad Manjoo debate the election results in Ohio
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Greg Palast: Sean Hannity called me a putz. Oh, my! And soft-porn-site scribe Frank Salvato put me in with the "black helicopter" conspiracy league. Golly!
    I can live with that. But when Salon disses my report of vote suppression in Ohio ("Was the Election Stolen?" by Farhad Manjoo), I have to respond. Manjoo went after my article, "Kerry Won," the latest in my series of investigations of our manipulated election system first published in America by ... Salon: "Florida’s Flawed (…)

  • Analysts blame the Island’s changing demographics, scandals for shift in political dominance
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    BY CELESTE HADRICK STAFF WRITER; Staff writer Michael Rothfeld contributed to this story.
    Despite their national success this month, Republicans aren’t doing as well in New York, particularly on Long Island.
    The Democratic candidate, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), beat President George W. Bush 58 percent to 40 percent and Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer trounced his Republican opponent Howard Mills 71 percent to 25 percent.
    On the Island, Bush did better than four years ago. But despite (…)

  • Mapping the Election
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tom Engelhardt
    Let’s start with an electoral map (scroll down) of the United States not long after George Bush beat a Massachusetts liberal for the presidency. If you take a quick glance at it, you’ll note that sea of blue stretching majestically from coast to coast with just a few isolated red states hanging off the northern border like the last ripe mangos of the growing season. Sound like the fabulous fantasy of some cockeyed Kerry supporter? Actually, it represents a distant reality (…)

  • Document reveals Columbus, Ohio voters waited hours as election officials held back machines
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bob Fitrakis
    One telling piece of evidence was entered into the record at the Saturday, November 13 public hearing on election irregularities and voter suppression held by nonpartisan voter rights organizations. Cliff Arnebeck, a Common Cause attorney, introduced into the record the Franklin County Board of Elections spreadsheet detailing the allocation of e-voting computer machines for the 2004 election. The Board of Elections’ own document records that, while voters waited in lines (…)

  • Fresh elections on agenda to avert strife in French Polynesia
    17 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ANGELA GREGORY
    France wants representatives on each side of the French Polynesian political impasse to meet in Paris and discuss calling fresh elections across the territory.
    Two leaders are both claiming to be the lawful head of government. France has officially recognised President Gaston Flosse, but his political foe, Oscar Temaru, and his supporters are occupying the presidential buildings in the capital, Papeete. There are fears of violence if the situation is not resolved soon. (…)

  • Vote Fraud Qs lead to: Did Kerry actually win the Primaries?
    17 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    With the emergence of a flood of computer ’glitches’ and questionable results in the Nov 2 election, vote fraud is not just a conspiracy theory, but something all responsible Americans know we must investigate and correct. To suggest that all of the glitches and statistical impossibilities, which always favored Bush, are mere coincidence is idiotic. One would have to be a blind fool to look the other way and hope for the best, especially after the first four years of BushCo.
    The (…)