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  • The Exit Poll Discrepancies- Still unexplained, ignored by the media
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Steven F. Freeman, PhD
    University of Pennsylvania
    November 11, 2004
    stfreema@sas.upenn.edu
    Most Americans who had listened to radio or surfed the Internet on Election Day this year, sat down to watch election night coverage expecting that John Kerry had been elected President. Exit polls showed him ahead in nearly every battleground state, in many cases by sizable margins. As usually happens in close elections, undecided voters broke heavily toward the challenger, and the Democratic (…)

  • KERRY WON OHIO JUST COUNT THE BALLOTS AT THE BACK OF THE BUS
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Most voters in Ohio chose Kerry. Here’s how the votes vanished.
    by Greg Palast
    This February, Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s Secretary of State, told his State Senate President, "The possibility of a close election with punch cards as the state’s primary voting device invites a Florida-like calamity." Blackwell, co-chair of Bush-Cheney reelection campaign, wasn’t warning his fellow Republican of disaster, but boasting of an opportunity to bring in Ohio for Team Bush no matter what the voters (…)

  • Latino vote expert disputes exit polls
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Latino leaders are disputing election exit polls that indicate a more than 10 percent increase in support for George W. Bush in 2004 compared to 2000. They point to an exit poll designed to reflect Latino demographics indicating that the Latino vote stayed at 2-to-1 for the Democratic ticket.
    An exit poll by Edison Media Research for major media outlets, including AP, CBS, CNN and NBC, widely publicized its projection that the Latino presidential vote was 53 percent for Kerry to 44 percent (…)

  • Where’s the Bush Bravado Now?
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the face of mounting pressure for investigations (see links below) and movements to recount the vote - Ohio and New Hampshire are going forward with recounts - why haven’t we seen our mighty President Bush saying to the forces who stand for full disclosure, "Bring It On"?
    With the ample assistance of a total media lockdown on any concern over the election just past, the President hasn’t needed to so much as whisper about a potential meltdown of the electoral process, his legitimacy as a (…)

  • John Kerry sits on 51.6 million while third parties scramble for recount funds
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kerry Almost Doubles Bush’s Recount Funds Primary campaign funds give Kerry the edge
    By Alex Knott
    WASHINGTON, November 1, 2004 - Sen. John F. Kerry may have a $24.8 million advantage over President George W. Bush in pursuing any recounts that result from Tuesday’s election, according to the campaigns’ most recent financial filings.
    Under Federal Election Commission rules, both candidates are allowed to use remaining funds from their primary election committees to conduct recount (…)

  • An Open Letter to Congress: do Your Job, Investigate the Voter Fraud Allegations
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Carol Norris
    Dear Members of Congress:
    As you are no doubt aware, concerns about possible voter fraud abound. Irregularities have been well documented in many states, more than enough to raise legitimate questions. Is it widespread or in several isolated places? Might it change the outcomes of any of the races? What changes need to be made to protect our vote? We need you to investigate. But more than that, we need you to understand that this issue is not a partisan one. It’s not (…)

  • Vote Interrupted. Were the absentee ballots lost or stolen? Either way, it’s a crime.
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    BY BOB NORMAN
    By the time you read this, you might know the identity of the next president. Or perhaps lawyers reign and the world’s fate is hanging, like so much chad, in the balance.
    Either way, Broward County is screwed. It’s stuck with a dysfunctional elections office that was plagued by technological problems, ill-equipped early voting stations, and, worst of all, the disappearance of thousands of absentee ballots. The question lingers: Was that mysterious disappearance — which (…)

  • Two N.C. Races Held Up by Voting Problems
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By STEVE HARTSOE
    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A Florida-style nightmare has unfolded in North Carolina in the 10 days since Election Day, with thousands of votes missing and the outcome of two statewide races still up in the air.
    The fiasco has not reached the proportions of what happened in 2000 in Florida - in part because the presidential race was not close here. But election observers say North Carolina has been the site of some of 2004’s worst problems.
    The biggest failure resulted from a (…)

  • Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New York Times
    The e-mail messages and Web postings had all the twitchy cloak-and-dagger thrust of a Hollywood blockbuster. "Evidence mounts that the vote may have been hacked," trumpeted a headline on the Web site CommonDreams.org. "Fraud took place in the 2004 election through electronic voting machines," declared BlackBoxVoting.org.
    In the space of seven days, an online market of dark ideas surrounding last week’s presidential election took root and multiplied.
    But while the (…)

  • Major bugs found in Diebold vote systems
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The voting machine controversy likely will linger after a look at the systems source code software from Ohio-based Diebold yielded reports of numerous bugs.
    Diebold was one of three companies — including Election Systems & Software and Sequoia — that provided updated technology for the 2004 election.
    Computer Science Professor Avi Rubin of John Hopkins University analyzed Diebold’s 47,609 lines of code and found it uses an encryption key that was hacked in 1997 and no longer is used (…)