The 2004 US Elections:
The Mother of all Vote Frauds
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes
decide everything." - Joseph Stalin
Citizens who insist, election after election, that each vote is sacred
and then shrug at hundreds of credible reports that honest-to-God
votes were suppressed and discouraged aren't just being hypocritical.
They're telling the millions who never vote because "it doesn't matter
anyway" that they're the smart ones.
Come on. If Republicans had lost the election, this column would be
unnecessary because Karl Rove and company would be contesting every
vote. [Washington Post]
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April 7, 2004—Machines will produce 99.4 percent of the election
results for the upcoming 2004 presidential election. With all the
hoopla over voting machine "glitches," porous software, leaked memos,
and the creepy corporations that sell and service these contraptions,
and with all the controversy that surrounds campaign financing, voter
registration, redistricting issues, and the general privatization of
the election process, we are missing the boat on the biggest crisis
facing our democracy.
Americans aren't really voting. Machines are. Call it faking
democracy. [Online Journal]
Alex Pelosi's new film "Diary of a Political Tourist" catches a tipsy
Congressman Peter King making a comment at a White House function
before the election had been finished that, "It's already over. The
Election's over. We Won."
When Pelosi asks, "How do you know that?" King replies, "It's all over
but the counting. And we'll take care of the counting." [Common
Dreams]
Mov video of comment
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November 1, 2004 - When would-be-voters were asked whether the nation
was headed in the right direction, about 52-55% people have replied
negatively. Under this scenario, the leadership change is all but
assured. Mr. Bush and his campaign team may project an optimistic
outlook as they spoke before the media tonight, but I feel that while
Bush’s number is hovering around 47-48%, which is the same number for
Kerry, it does not bode well for the Republican candidate.
You wouldn't steal George, would ya?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/steal_election.html
Incumbents never make surges from their last horse race number.
Examples:
1956 Eisenhower's final horserace projection 59.5%, his actual vote
total 57.8%
1964: Johnson's final horse race projection 64%, his actual share of
the vote 61.3%
In 1972 Nixon's final horse race projection tally 62%, his actual vote
total 61.8%
In 1976 Ford's final horse race projection number 49%, his % share of
the vote 48.1%.
In 1980, Carter's final horse projection numer 44%, his real % of the
vote 41%.
In 1984 Reagan final horse race projection tally 59%, his real share
of the popular vote 59.2%.
In 1996 Clinton's final horse race number 52%, his actual share of the
vote 49.2%
The alleged miracle comeback of incumbent Harry Truman can not be
included in this study because Gallup issued it's "final" result 2
weeks before the election.
On November 2, 2004 President Bush defied both public opinion and
history to win the election
51 - 48.
How was this done? Simple...
Vote suppression/voter intimidation and deception. Shortages of voting
locations and ballot forms. Foreign monitors barred from polls.
Unmatched exit polls/actual results - actual results always skewed to
Republicans. Masses of e-Voting "glitches". Computers lost votes.
Presidential votes miscast on e-Voting machines throughout the US.
More recorded votes than voters. Republicans gained 128.45% in Florida
counties using optical scan voting machines while Democrats lost 21% -
some districts showed gains of over 400% while one, Liberty County,
gained over 700% for Republicans.Warren County officials locked down
the county administration building on election night and blocked
anyone from observing the vote count as the nation awaited Ohio's
returns. Bush had 'incredible' vote tallies. 7% turnout reported in
Cleveland precinct. In Cuyahoga County different towns had the exact
same number of "extra" votes. And on, and on...
Full details:
Pre-November 2
Dirty tricks return to the sunshine state
Phony letters tell people they cannot vote
58,000 Absentee Ballots Missing in Florida
New Florida vote scandal feared
Gallup Poll Racially-Biased
Electronic vote machine too easily corrupted
Purposely Corrupted Diebold Voting Terminals
Paid Bush supporters cause uproar
1 Million Kerry Votes Already Stolen
November 2
Late Ruling Allows GOP to Challenge Ohio Voters
Foreign monitors 'barred' from US polls
Six news groups sue Ohio elections chief
Voting list snafu causes problems in Marion County
Bogus calls target area Democrats
GOP doing all it can to keep minorities from voting
Is there inner-city election suppression in Ohio?
E-Voting Problems Crop Up
November 3
Group tallies more than 1,100 e-voting glitches
Residents turned away at polls
E-Voting machines give Bush 5% advantage
Exit polls and ‘actual’ results don’t match
CNN changes Ohio exit poll page
Errors plague voting process in Ohio, Pa.
November 4
Kerry Won. Here are the Facts.
Global monitors find faults
Vote Fraud - Exit Polls Vs Actuals
FRAUD!! in Ghanna Ohio
"More votes than voters: Now THAT'S a mandate!"
N.C. Computer Loses More Than 4,500 Votes
Presidential Votes Miscast on e-Voting Machines
November 5
Some observations of the 2004 election
Something looks very wrong in Florida...
Maryland e-voting controversy in presidential race
Bush’s tally was supersized by a computer glitch
Should America Trust the Results of the Election?
Software flaw found in Florida vote machines
Election problems due to a software glitch
Warren's vote tally walled off
Group Finds Voting Irregularities in South
November 6
Evidence Mounts That Vote May Have Been Hacked
Massive Voter Suppression and Corruption in Ohio
November 8
Ohio Whitewash
November 9
Countinghouse Blues - Too many votes
Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies
None Dare Call it Voter Suppression and Fraud
November 10
7% turnout in Cleveland precinct?
The Mystery of the Cuyahoga County vote totals
Computer glitch baffles county clerk
Judge Rejects Suit Over Absentee Ballots
Florida "E-Touch" - "Optical Scan" discrepancies
November 11
The sorting and discarding of Kerry votes begins
Elections board to probe missing voting forms
Glitch causes Franklin Co. recount
GOP Wants Exit Polls Abandoned
Sworn testimony of voters
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Dr Stephen F. Freeman from the University of Pennsylvania calculated
that the odds of just three of the major swing states, Florida, Ohio
and Pennsylvania all swinging as far as they did against their
respective exit polls were 250 milllion to 1.
Exit Polls and Voter Fraud:
A User-Friendly Explanation
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IN mid-August [2003], Walden W. O'Dell, the chief executive of Diebold
Inc., sat down at his computer to compose a letter inviting 100
wealthy and politically inclined friends to a Republican Party
fund-raiser, to be held at his home in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. ''I
am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the
president next year,'' wrote Mr. O'Dell, whose company is based in
Canton, Ohio.
Here's how Ohio was delivered to Bush...
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MUST SEE VIDEOS
Votergate is an investigative documentary feature film uncovering the
truth about new computer voting systems which allow a few powerful
corporations to record votes in secret.
Video download page
11/11/04: MSNBC looks at 2004 election fraud.
7MB MOV video download.
The Myth of a Divided America
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Kerry has clearly shown he is not willing to take a stand on this
issue. And indeed you will find a great reluctance in the entire
government to address the fraud because of their fear that if the
present election is revealed to have been a fraud, the public will
start to question whether previous elections were equally fraudulent,
knowing that evidence to support such a conclusion is in abundance for
those who look.
The American people are at risk of waking up and realizing that they
did not in fact vote for the governments which have been in power over
them for decades, and did not in fact vote to approve any of the
disasterous fiscal and military policies the government has set, and
that in fact the majority of Americans have never agreed with much of
what has been going on. If the election is revealed to be a fraud,
Americans will rightly conclude that they are under no obligation to
obey the government any longer, to follow the government's dictates or
to surrender their money and children to a bunch of unelected thugs.
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Vote fraud protest photos 1
Vote fraud protest photos 2
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CHRONOLOGICAL ARCHIVE
How Democracy Works: A Lesson from the Ukraine
Candidates Want Second Ohio Recount
January 01, 2005
Re-Vote Ohio
Pollsters, Media Implicated in Vote Fraud
Vote challengers accuse Blackwell of trying to let 'clock run out'
Ohio GOP election officials ducking subpoenas as Kerry enters stolen
vote fray
December 31, 2004
Raw exit data, November 2, 2004
2004 FLASHBACK: The 2004 US Elections: The Mother of all Vote Frauds
Yanukovych quits as Ukraine PM
Protest Stolen Election 2004
Ohio's official non-recount ends amidst new evidence of fraud, theft
and judicial contempt mirrored in New Mexico
Candidates Want Second Ohio Recount
December 30, 2004
Jesse Jackson on why he thinks John Kerry really won the election.
TV Networks Officially Refuse to Release Exit Poll Raw Data;
Mainstream media finally displays true colors
Conyers to Object to Ohio Electors, Requests Senate Allies
Conyers calls on senators to open election discussion...
Ohio Judge to Remain on Vote Challenge
December 29, 2004
Ohio secretary of state hopes to dodge deposition in challenge of
presidential vote
December 28, 2004
Ohio Recount Ends, Shows Vote Closer
Troublesome Statements By One of Kerry-Edwards' Ohio Attorneys,
Explained
Damn these Hackers!
Kerry filing: Preserve Ohio recount evidence.
Ohio GOP election officials ducking subpoenas as Kerry enters stolen
vote fray
Ohio Official Refuses Interview Over Vote
December 27, 2004
Kerry Files Motion to Protect Ohio Vote Evidence
Ohio Official Refuses Interview Over Vote
vigil at Kerry's house
Iraq Rejects U.S. Talk of Adjusting Vote Result
Warren County recount - snookered? What Happened?
West-Leaning Leader Appears Headed for Win In Ukraine Vote
December 26, 2004
Second Ukrainian Election: Results Reversed in a Blowout for the
Liberal
All Exit Polls Give Yushchenko Major Lead d
Kerry votes switched to Bush and ballots pre-punched for Bush
Hacking the vote in Miami County
Another third rate burglary
American gulag?
It happened at Midnight
December 25, 2004
Ohio: A Crime Against Democracy
County recount gives win to Democrat
Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede?
December 24, 2004
Legitimacy of Ohio Vote Recount Called Into Question After Probe
Ohio legislature looks to make vote recounts more expensive
Video Supporting Ohio Vote Fraud Claim Revealed
December 23, 2004
Gregoire Wins By 130 Votes
New video suggests voting firm Triad sought to thwart recount of paper
ballots
Kerry to Enter Ohio Recount Fray
Blackwell Continues to Dodge Questions
Conyers: Vote firm had remote access to machines...
Election study finds widespread ballot-counting problems
Rep. Conyers blasts Triad voting firm over 'cheat sheets'
In Ohio, almost 1 in 50 votes for president don't count
Ohio Electoral Fight Becomes 'Biggest Deal Since Selma' as GOP
Stonewalls
December 22, 2004
Ohio electoral fight becomes 'biggest deal since Selma' as GOP
stonewalls
Ohio vote count battles escalate amidst new evidence of potential
criminal activity
Ohio judge moves to delay, dismiss election suit
Video Footage of African American voter suppression in Ohio
Democrats: Gregoire wins by 8 votes
Presidential Votes Miscast on E-Voting Machines Across the Country
Will Your Vote Count?
Conyers demands networks release exit poll data
Election protest aimed at vote fraud
December 21, 2004
Pinellas ballot box sat ignored in office
Time to separate the wheat from the chaff
BIG HALF-TRUTH: No Evidence of Election Tampering from Computer Repair
December 20, 2004
Ohio Recount Stirs Trouble
Attorney: ACORN Never Registered Hundreds Of Florida Voters
TVNL’S 2004 PERSON OF THE YEAR: BEV HARRIS
FLASHBACK: New Voting Systems Assailed
lection Official Thwarts Recount Using Phony Vote Totals
We've Been Had
Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed
December 19, 2004
Vote Fraud: Only Chumps and Compulsive Gamblers Keep On Playing in a
Rigged Game
Diebold to Pay $2.6M Due to Insecure Voting Machines
3 employees of body organizing next month's elections killed in
central Baghdad ambush
December 18, 2004
Way to Go, Ohio!
Ohio recount- Cuyahoga County ballots pre-sorted
Ohio Voters Refile Election Challenge
I'll bet the "New" Triad machines are clean...
Green Party's Cobb Says Kerry Is Thwarting Recount
Ohio vote count battles escalate amidst new evidence of potential
criminal activity
December 17, 2004
Voters Refile Challenge Of Presidential Results
What R the odds of PERFECT RECOUNTS in multiple counties
U.S.: A Call for a New Election
Well, here's why all the 3% counts are matching up in Ohio.....
about that dead battery
Verified election contest petition in the Supreme Court of Ohio
Ohio, Fairfield County, suspends recount...UPDATED WITH REPORT
Ohio Chief Supreme Court judge throws out election challenge case in
which he is named
AP Fails to Report Diebold Vote-Tampering Testimony & Moyers Conflict
of Interest
December 16, 2004
Ohio Justice Throws Out Election Challenge
New filing alleges Diebold also tampered with machines...
Testimony: Diebold tampered with voting machines
KERRY campaign demands recount tampering investigation...
Election Official Thwarts Recount Using Phony Vote Totals
House staffer says Conyers’ investigation continues; Conyers: No
comment on new suit
Berkeley Pries Open Votergate, Calls for Immediate U.S. Election
Investigation
18,659 Missing E-Votes
American democracy hangs by a thread in Ohio
Chaos in Cuyahoga? 49,000 Votes Disappear into the Ether ...then
found?
The lawyers for Green presidential candidate David Cobb and
Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik, along with
Kerry-Edwards 2004 have added election tampering to a civil suit filed
against the state of Ohio over problems with the state's recount
See also:
"Stolen Election" Flyer for posting around town
November 3, 2004 WhatReallyHappened Readers Letters
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This is the first update of the master link list since January
5th. New items are marked in red.
Please circulate far and wide. Thank you. -- John
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VoteFraud 2004 Master Link List
The Discrepancy Between Exit-Polling and Tallies on Election Day:
Steven Freeman, PhD, University of Pennsylvania: "Was the 2004
Presidential Election Honest? An Examination of Uncorrected Exit Poll
Data; Part 1: The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy." Dr. Freeman
describes the unusual exit-poll discrepancies in the battleground
states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, as “the odds on all three
occurring together are 662,000-to-one.” November 23, 2004 revision of
November 10, 2004 paper
http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/Documents/ExitPoll.pdf
· MSNBC Countdown; November 23, 2004; “Zogby Vs. Mitofsky”
(Keith Olbermann). Warren Mitofsky is considered the founder of the
exit poll and works for the National Election Pool (NEP) who conducted
the large-scale exit polling on election day, now refusing to release
its “raw exit-polling data” necessary to determine voting patterns and
possible vote fraud. John Zogby is widely regarded today as the
nation's premier pollster, significantly more accurate, for example,
than the Gallop organization, which trend to skew its polling to boost
conservative numbers. Zogby says the legitimacy of the election cannot
be determined without the NEP's "transparency."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6533008/
MSNBC Countdown; November 24, 2004; Senator Lugar on the value of exit
polling to verify election results, but only in the Ukraine
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6533008/
Philadelphia Inquirer, November 24, 2004, op-ed "Errors in exit polls
still a puzzle to many" by John Allen Paulos
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/10258265.htm?1c
Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project, “Established (in December 2000)
to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000
Presidential Election: http://www.vote.caltech.edu/Election2004.html
Mystery Pollster; November 15, 2004; “Exit Polls: CalTech/MIT Report”
by Mark Blumenthal who writes, “Two new reports on exit polls came to
my attention over the weekend. Both reports were written by PhDs from
high-powered institutions, and both contribute to the ongoing debate
(or efforts to debunk) theories of vote fraud in this year’s election.
Unfortunately, I am not sure either report brings us much closer to
resolving the underlying controversy.”
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/exit_polls_calt.html
UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote
Count. This November 18, 2004 statistical study by the University of
California's Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team shows an
unexplained discrepancy between votes for President Bush in Florida’s
counties where electronic voting machines were used versus counties
using traditional voting methods. “Discrepancies this large or larger
rarely arise by chance - the probability is less than 0.1 percent.”
http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1118-14.htm
The Hill, November 4, 2004, “Those faulty exit polls were sabotage’ by
***** Morris. The Republican advisor calls the exit polls in this
year’s election “bogus,” without offering a shred of evidence for that
statement. Nonetheless, Morris writes, “Exit polls are almost never
wrong. They eliminate the two major potential fallacies in survey
research by correctly separating actual voters from those who pretend
they will cast ballots but never do and by substituting actual
observation for guesswork in judging the relative turnout of different
parts of the state. So reliable are the surveys that actually tap
voters as they leave the polling places that they are used as guides
to the relative honesty of elections in Third World countries.”
http://www.thehill.com/morris/110404.aspx
Democracy Now; December 22, 2004; “Conyers Calls for Release of Exit
Poll Data” http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/22/151206
Mystery Pollster; December 27, 2005: “So: WHY Were the Exit Polls
Wrong?”
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/12/so_why_were_the.html
The Free Press, December 29, 2004; “The 2004 Presidential Election:
Who Won The Popular Vote? An Examination of the Comparative Validity
of Exit Poll and Vote Count Data” by Jonathan D. Simon, J.D. and Ron
P. Baiman, Ph.D. Executive Summary: There is a substantial
discrepancy—well outside the margin of error and outcome
determinative— between the national exit poll and the popular vote
count. > The possible causes of the discrepancy would be random error,
a skewed exit poll, or breakdown in the fairness of the voting process
and accuracy of the vote count. > Analysis shows that the discrepancy
cannot reasonably be accounted for by chance or random error. >
Evidence does not support hypotheses that the discrepancy was produced
by problems with the exit poll. > Widespread breakdown in the fairness
of the voting process and accuracy of the vote count are the most
likely explanations for the discrepancy. > In an accurate count of a
free and fair election, the strong likelihood is that Kerry would have
been the winner of the popular vote. Download the paper (PDF, File
size: 1.5MB)
http://freepress.org/images/departments/PopularVotePaper181_1.pdf
The DailyKos.Com; December 30, 2004;The “exit-poll discrepancy” has
reached critical mass, according to TocqueDeville who cites Freeman,
Simon, Baiman and more in “The 2004 Election Was Stolen.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/30/223723/91
Mystery Pollster; January 5, 2005: The "Smoking Gun" Part II (a must
read for exit polling junkies is undoubtedly the exchange between
Warren Mitofsky and Mickey Kaus responding to Blumenthal's blog the
previous day, Smoking Gun, Part l)
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2005/01/the_smoking_gun.html
Salon.Com; January 6, 2005; “More Fun With Exit Polls” by Farhad
Manjoo: This politically-timed article is subheaded, “New data gives
ammunition to critics who believe the presidential election was stolen
but still doesn't settle anything. (This article is not linked, and is
available as an e-mail attachment by request)
Evaluation of Edison-Mitofsky (Exit-Polling) Election System, January
19, 2005\Report prepared by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky
International for the National Election Pool: Finally, the long
awaited raw precinct data is made available for crunching:
http://www.exit-poll.net/election-night/EvaluationJan192005.pdf
Mystery Pollster; January 19, 2005; Breaking News: NEP Releases Full
Report http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/exit_polls/index.html and
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2005/01/breaking_news_n.html
Washington Monthly, January 19, 2005: “Exit Poll Finale” by Kevin
Drum:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_01/005483.php
Open Letter to Warren Mitofsky and Larry Rosin from Representative
John Conyers, Jr. by Representative John Conyers, Jr.—Conyers writes,
“I have reviewed the internal report you issued yesterday concerning
your exit polling in the 2004 election, and, unfortunately, it has not
caused my concerns and questions regarding the significant
discrepancies between your polling data and the final electoral
results to diminish....”
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1112
Electronic Voting
The Industry Standard, December 17, 2004. States that used electronic
voting:
http://www.thestandard.com/movabletype/datadigest/archives/000499.php
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, www.acm.org) regularly
engages in “information policy” discussions. Here’s the ACM’s policy
page: http://www.acm.org/usacm/, and their statement on electronic
voting http://www.acm.org/usacm/Issues/EVoting.htm
Black Box Voting. Bev Harris's group attempting to carry out a
forensic examination of the election. www.blackboxvoting.org
The “master google link” as provided by the linguist-researcher of
search-engine systems, John Paolillo, Indiana U. for “relevant hits on
electronic vote searches:”
http://www.google.com/search?q=diebold+exit+poll&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
· Common Cause has taken up the issue of election fraud and
the problems of electronic voting http://www.commoncause.org
· USA Today, Nov 4, 2004, "Reports of electronic voting
trouble top 1,000”
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/evoting/2004-11-04-1000-reports_x.htm
· Mother Jones, Diebold's Political Machine, March 5, 2004:
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html
· BradBlog, December 6, 2004, "Programmer Built Vote Rigging
Prototype at Republican Congressman's Request!” Clint Curtis, a
46-year old Florida computer programmer, signed an affidavit on
December 6, 2004 swearing that in 2000 he designed and built a "vote
rigging" software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman,
now U.S. Congressman, Republican Tom Feeney http://www.tomfeeney.com/
of Florida's 24th Congressional District. BradBlog has Curtis’s
affidavit in pdf format. Here are links to the story, the blog's
regular site, and its new supplemental site:
<http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001024.htm>
<http://www.bradfriedman.com/BradBlog/>
<http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/2004/12/original-brad-blog-whistleblower.html>
· BradBlog, December 13, 2004, “Clint Curtis publicly names
Republican congressman Tom Feeney for requested “electronic vote
rigging” to stunned Judiciary Committee investigating Ohio election
fraud,”
http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/2004/12/breaking-update-clint-curtis-stuns.html
· Mad Cow Morning News, December 14, 2004, “Fraud by Computer”
in Florida” by Daniel Hopsicker. A recount of Florida’s votes on the
state gambling initiative offered an opportunity to correlate what was
found with what are so far just “theories” of how the Presidential
election in Florida might have been stolen.
http://www.madcowprod.com/12142004.html
Ohio Recount and Voting Irregularities in that state
The Free Press; November 5, 2004, “Did Kerry Concede Too Soon?”, by
Bob Fitrakis reporting from Columbus, “There are more than 92,000
“spoiled” ballots in Ohio, mostly in Democratic wards that could
easily be hand counted, 155,000 uncounted provisional ballots,
uncounted overseas military ballots and some uncounted absentee
ballots....In Ohio, an estimated 14.6% of the votes are cast on
e-voting machines, known for their glitches and susceptibility to
hacking and fraudulent manipulation. Just this year, four Ohio
counties purchased voting machines from the notoriously partisan
Diebold corporation, whose CEO, Columbus resident and Bush fundraiser
Wally O’Dell, pledged to help “Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the
President.”
http://freepress.org/columns.php?strFunc=display&strID=981&strYear=2004&strAuthor=3
TomPaine.Com; November 12, 2004; “The Perfect Election Day Crime,” by
Steven Rosenfeld
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_perfect_election_day_crime.php
Chicago Sun Times; November 30, 2004; “Something’s Fishy in Ohio” by
Jesse Jackson, Sr. who calls for “a constitutional amendment to
guarantee the right to vote for all U.S. citizens and to empower
Congress to establish federal standards and nonpartisan administration
of elections.”
http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse30.html
House Judiciary Committee letter dated December 2, 2004 to J. Kenneth
Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State, outlining a long series of voting
irregularities in Ohio during the Presidential election
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohblackwellltr12204.pdf
Truthout, December 7, 2004, “Conyers Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud
Coverage” by William Rivers Pitt http://www.truthout.org/cblog.shtml
The Free Press, December 13, 2004, Startling new revelations highlight
rare Congressional hearings on Ohio vote by Bob Fitrakis, Steve
Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/985
Truthout, December 13, 2004, “Conyers Alarmed at Efforts to Obstruct
Ohio Recount Effort, Calls Witness to Monday Hearing to Detail Such
Efforts” by William Rivers Pitt
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121404Z.shtml
OpEdNews.com, December 13, 2004, “Smoking Gun of Election Fraud is in
Ken Blackwell’s Hand” by Anthony Wade -- a well-written, strongly
worded indictment of “the Ohio Secretary of State, who was also the
State Chair of the Bush reelection campaign. Conflict of interest
anyone? Katherine Harris redux anyone?”
http://www.opednews.com/wade_121204_election_smoking_gun.htm
The Raw Story, December 13, 2004; “Witness (before Democratic
Judiciary Committee Hearing) says voting company tampered with machine
after vote and tried to plant false information into Ohio recount”
http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=490
Scoop, December 13, 2004, “Ohio Recount Affidavit - Richard Hayes
Phillips,” Another PhD University Professor analyzes the data and
concludes Ohio official results are not correct, signs affidavit.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00167.htm
Truthout, December 15, 2004, “Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed,”
by William Rivers Pitt
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/printer_121604Z.shtml
Washington Post, December 15, 2004, “Several Factors Contributed to
'Lost' Voters in Ohio” By Michael Powell and Peter Slevin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64737-2004Dec14.html?sub=AR
The Free Press, December 15, 2004, “"American democracy hangs by a
thread in Ohio" by Bob Fitrakis (The Free Press). Read about “the
triple play of vote fraud and disenfranchisement that makes December
13th 2004 a day that will live in infamy
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/1020
The Raw Story, December 15, 2004, “Triad firm accused of tampering
with Ohio data left some unofficial results on public webserver” by
John Byrne http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=496
TomPaine.Com; December 21, 2004; “Ohio: A Crime Against Democracy” by
Stuart Comstock-Gay, Executive Director of the National Voting Rights
Institute.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/ohio_a_crime_against_democracy.php
The Free Press; December 22, 2004; Rev. Jesse Jackson says, “Ohio
Electoral Fight Becomes 'Biggest Deal Since Selma' as GOP Stonewalls”
by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1015
· TheBlackCommentator.Com; December 23, 2004; “No Holiday for
Vote Thieves,” The BC offers commentary, analysis and investigations
on issues affecting African-Americans. This piece is a searing
indictment of criminal conspiracy by Republican Party officials and
other operatives to hack the electronic vote and to disenfranchise and
intimidate African-American voters in Ohio, such as the “Texas Strike
Force” telephone-goons in Columbus. Has a copy of the “National Voter
Registration Act and Criminal Penalties.”
http://www.blackcommentator.com/119/119_cover_vote_thieves_pf.html
· The Free Press, December 24, 2004; Lawsuit Before the Ohio
Supreme Court, Summarized by Mary Anne Saucier:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1028
The Free Press; December 25, 2004; Hacking the vote in Miami County by
Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1038
Bellaciao; December 30, 2004: Ohio Recount a Sham, Public Protests
Needed: “Columbus, OH - A day after the conclusion of the flawed
recount of Ohio’s presidential vote, Green Party. presidential
candidate David Cobb called on Congress to challenge the legitimacy of
Ohio’s Electoral College delegation.
"The recount of Ohio’s presidential vote was conducted in clear
violation of both the spirit and the letter of the law. We can have no
faith in the results when both the initial election and the recount
were conducted in a haphazard and clearly illegitimate manner. Ohio’s
presidential electors are tainted by unresolved allegations of voter
suppression and the lack of a meaningful recount. Congress must reject
and challenge their votes," said Cobb.
One of the most significant problems with the recount was that few of
Ohio’s 88 counties randomly selected sample precincts for the recount
as required by Ohio law.
“The lack of random sampling calls into question the legitimacy of the
recount. A few counties did the recount properly and selected the
precincts at random. The vast majority of them, however, chose the
precincts in advance without the official observers witnessing or
participating in the selection. That’s like showing up at a poker game
with strangers and finding that you’ve already been dealt your hand,"
said Blair Bobier, Cobb-LaMarche Media Director. Access the complete
article at this link:
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4914
· The Free Press, January 8, 2005: Estimated vote count in Ohio
by Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D. (the researcher’s conservative
estimate gives Ohio’s 20 electoral votes to John Kerry).
http://www.freepress.org/images/departments/Vote_Count_Ohio.pdf
Arkansas 2004
The Free Press, January 24, 2005; Arkansas in 2004: Did Bush Really
Win?
by Max Standridge;
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1119
New Mexico
The Free Press, January 18, 2005; “What Are They Hiding in New Mexico”
by Warren Stewart, National Ballot Integrity Project.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1100
The organized and collected links of other Clearing Houses
SolarBus "A Stolen Election? website “documenting what could be the
highest crime in the history of our country"
http://www.solarbus.org/stealyourelection/index.html
ShadowBox (Clearinghouse w/many links), "Evidence of Election Fraud"
http://shadowbox.i8.com/
Natural Law Party Essex, November 28, 2004, Comprehensive Exit Polling
data, US v Ukrainian Exit Polls: Whose Election Results Do You Believe
And Why?
http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATvotefraud2004.htm
Op-EdNews.com, November 15, 2004, “Evidence of Electoral Fraud in the
2004 U.S. Presidential Election: A Reading List” by Michael Keefer. A
vast clearinghouse of links.
http://www.opednews.com/keefer_111504_readings.htm
Carol Brouillet’s “Stolen Election Page” at her website
http://www.communitycurrency.org/Election.html
· Scoop (Clearinghouse) has a long list of links to articles
about the VoteScam story in the print and electronic media:
http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup
· Nightweed.com 20 Amazing facts About Voting in the USA if
you still don't think the election was a fraud, read this.
http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html
Official Hearings & Investigations, Congressional Statements
CNN.com, November 24, 2004, “GAO to investigate election complaints”
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/23/election.investigation/
Truthout.org, December 8, 2004 “Conyers Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud
Coverage” William Rivers Pitt at his blogging best:
http://www.truthout.org/cblog.shtml
· BradBlog, December 13, 2004, “Florida computer programmer
Clint Curtis publicly names Republican congressman Tom Feeney for
requested “electronic vote rigging” to stunned Judiciary Committee
investigating Ohio election fraud,”
http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/2004/12/breaking-update-clint-curtis-stuns.html
· MSNBC News Countdown, December 15, 2004, “Conyers’
“prepared” to contest Ohio Electoral Vote (With Keith Olbermann)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240
· Salon.Com; December 21, 2004; “Investigating Ohio” by Tim
Grieve who interviews Rep. John Conyers on the electoral travesty in
Ohio. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/122204W.shtml
· The Free Press, January 6, 2005; Senator Barbara Boxer, D-CA
and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-OH contested the election
by Free Press staff.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1069
· Rep. Maurice Hinchey’s January 6, 2005 statement challenging
the Ohio electors:
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny22_hinchey/morenews/electoralvote010605.html
· The Free Press, January 7, 2005; Progressive Democrats lead
historic voting rights protest as Congress ratifies flawed 2004
Electoral College tally by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey
Wasserman http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1070
·
Pre-Election Journalistic Prophecy
In These Times, Voting Machines Gone Wild!, by Mark Lewellen-Biddle,
December 11, 2003
http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=490_0_1_0_C
Common Dreams, “All The President’s Votes” by Andrew Gumbel, October
13, 2003 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1013-01.htm
Democracy Now, Will Bush Backers Manipulate Votes to Deliver G.W.
Another Election?, by Amy Goodman and the staff of Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/04/159216
· Counterpunch, May 8/9, 2004, "Why I Will Not Vote in 2004"
by Carolyn Baker http://www.counterpunch.org/baker05082004.html
· Greg Palast, “An Election Spoiled Rotten,” November 01, 2004
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/an_election_spoiled_rotten.php
U.S. Media Blackout on the 2004 Election
· Counterpunch, January 3, 2005; “Missing in Action: The Media
and the Ohio Recount,” by David Swanson. When forced to talk about
ethics, media big shots often insist that they draw no conclusions.
They endlessly reported ***** Cheney's claims that Saddam Hussein was
behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, but it would not have been
their place to label that a "conspiracy theory." When it comes to
election fraud in Ohio and other U.S. states, on the other hand, the
media has jumped straight to reporting that it's all a "conspiracy
theory" before ever reporting any of the facts
http://www.counterpunch.org/swanson01032005.html
Miscellaneous Articles
· Online Journal; November 5, 2004, “Kerry Won” by Greg Palast.
Palast wrote the book on 2000’s stolen election in Florida, “The Best
Democracy That Money Can Buy.” Now he can write another book.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/110504Palast/110504palast.html
· Texas Safe Voting; November 3, 2004, Watch incriminating
video of the Texas Secretary of State's closed-door meetings to
certify voting machines. http://safevoting.org/
· The MadCow Morning News, Nov. 15, 2004, "The Big Fix 2004" by
Daniel Hopsicker http://www.madcowprod.com/mc6912004.html
· Counterpunch, November 24, 2004, "Hypocrisy sans Irony:
Double Standards on Exit Polls" by (former Spencer, NY native) Dave
Lindorff http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff11232004.html
· MSNBC Bloggerman, December 21, 2004; “Time to Separate The
Wheat From The Chaff,” by Keith Olbermann
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/
· TheBlackCommentator.Com; December 23, 2004; “No Holiday for
Vote Thieves,” The BC offers commentary, analysis and investigations
on issues affecting African-Americans. This piece is a searing
indictment of criminal conspiracy by Republican Party officials and
other operatives to hack the electronic vote and to disenfranchise and
intimidate African-American voters in Ohio, such as the “Texas Strike
Force” telephone-goons in Columbus. Has a copy of the “National Voter
Registration Act and Criminal Penalties.”
http://www.blackcommentator.com/119/119_cover_vote_thieves_pf.html
· Op-EdNews; December 28, 2004: Assassins of Democracy:
Votergate 2004 Continues” by Anthony Wade: One of my favorite writers,
from the text, “I have heard from operatives on the right that this is
all “conspiracy theory”. The use of the term is meant as a pejorative,
to discredit anyone who supports such a notion. In reality though, the
only part I really took issue with was the word “theory”. This is
changing though. As more and more testimony comes in and the assassins
keep scrambling for cover it is becoming obvious that the theory is
crystallizing. When you have a man as compromised as Blackwell,
seeking a legal way to not tell the truth, it appears obvious that we
have moved beyond the realm of theory. When you see all mainstream
media blackout such an important story and then refuse Congress to
keep their exit poll data secret until after the inauguration, the
land of theory has been left behind. As for conspiracy, it doesn’t
bother me either. Most assassinations are conspiratorial by nature.
http://opednews.com/wade_122904_democracy_assassins.htm
· Truthout; January 17, 2005; Why We Must Question Our
Elections by Arlene S. Ash, Ph.D.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/printer_011805Y.shtml
Miscellaneous Google Links “VoteFraud 2004” Presidential Election
· http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=491
· http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4761
· http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2004/Dec/EEN41b5f8f70cbf8.html
Contextual Analysis
PravdaRU, December 20, 2004; “The Great American Treason” by David R.
Hoffman, Legal Editor of PravdaRU.
http://pravda.us/mailbox/22/101/399/14741_treason.html
“Debunking” Articles
· The Raw Story, “November 8, 2004, “Odds of Bush gaining 4% in
all exit polling states 1 in 50,000; Evoting/paper variance not found
to be significant” by John Byrne. Former MIT mathematics professor
David Arick says there are four possible reasons for the “Bush gains:”
(1) Significantly greater lying or refusal to speak to pollsters in
Bush voters versus Kerry voters; (2) Consistent/systematic errors in
weighting demographic groups; (3) A surge of Bush voters after 4 p.m.,
in all states; (4) Systematic tampering/hacking of reported vote
totals, in Bush’s favor. http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=405
The New York Times, November 12, 2004,”Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by
Blogs, Are Quickly Buried” by Tom Zeller, Jr. Yup, it’s those
bloggers, playing journalists again!
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F13FA3D5B0C718DDDA80994DC404482
Note: This article may now require a $2.95 archival fee from The New
York Times. It’s not worth it. To request a print copy of the article:
The New York Times, November 12, 2004, “Mostly Good Reviews for
Electronic Voting” by John Schwartz (with Tom Zeller Jr. contributing
to the article). No link available. Note: This article may now require
a $2.95 archival fee from The New York Times. The piece is virtually
worthless, except as an example of shoddy, shallow and manipulative
“journalism.” Shame, shame, shame on the Old Gray Lady! To request an
unlinked print copy of the article:
The Mystery Pollster; November 17, 2004; “The Freeman Paper” a
critique by Mark Blumenthal, with numerous comments including Steven
Freeman’s detailed response.
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/the_freeman_pap.html
Washington Post; November 21, 2004, “Exit Polls Can't Always Predict
Winners, So Don't Expect Them To” by Richard Morin. The Post's
director of polling argues “the exception makes the rule.” No link
available. Somewhat more worthy of consideration than the Times’
articles, but not worth an archival fee. To request a print copy of
the article:
McCullough-Plassman, December 2, 2004; A Drexel University PhD and a
SUNY Binghamton PhD offer “A Partial Critique of the (UC Berkeley
Research Study), ‘The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change
in Support of Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections,”’
http://election04.ssrc.org/research/critique-of-hmcb.pdf
· Online Journal; January 7, 2005: Electronic Voting: Did
networks fake exit polls, while AP 'accessed' 2,995 mainframe
computers? by Lynn Landes
http://onlinejournal.com/evoting/010705Landes/010705landes.html
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Where’s John Kerry?
SmirkingChimp.Com, November 11, 2004, 'Think Kerry is not involved in
this fight? Think again' by Betsy R. Vasquez:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=18651&mode=nested&order=0
Democracy Now, November 17, 2004, “Why Isn't Kerry Using $50M Unspent
Campaign Money to Fund Recounts?
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/17/1525203
BenFrank.Net, November 26, 2004, “Kerry’s Silence Indicates Complicity
with Vote Fraud”
http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=272
The Ithaca Journal, November 27, 2004; “Demand Recount” a letter by
Irene Stein, Chair of the Tompkins County Democratic Party, urging
readers “to urge the Kerry Campaign to call for recounts and
investigate the widespread voting irregularities that have been
reported.”
http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20041127/opinion/1656649.html
TomFlocco.Com; December 13, 2004; “Will Kerry fund real probe if House
member seeks Ohio elector challenge?” by Tom Flocco
http://www.tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=103
MutantEggplant.Com; December 16, 2004 update, “An Unofficial Guide to
the Presidential Election 2004: Exit Polls and Kerry General
Strategy,” http://www.mutanteggplant.com/ElectionGuide.htm
BreakForNews; December 24, 2004; Kerry Preparing Grounds To Unconcede:
Election Challenge Likely on January 6th If you haven't been following
John Kerry closely, get ready to hear of surprising developments. The
vote-defrauded, potential president-in-waiting has just indicated
through his lawyer that the validity of George Bush's reelection is no
longer a given.”
http://BreakForNews.com/articles/Kerry/PreparingGroundsToUnconcede.htm
· MSNBC; December 27, 2004: “Kerry’s lead lawyer on the ground
in Ohio: does the re-election warrant the public trust?” (Keith
Olbermann); In announcing that the Kerry-Edwards group would join the
bid in Federal District Court in Ohio to preserve all "evidence" from
the election and recount there, Mr. Hoffheimer said, on behalf of the
senators, that such preservation was necessary because, "Only then can
the integrity of the entire electoral process and the election of
Bush-Cheney warrant the public trust."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6667405/#041227a
· MSNBC; December 27, 2004: “Conspiracies theorized, or
conspiracies invoked?” (Keith Olbermann); Same Kerry lawyer, Daniel J.
Hoffheimer, after several Web columnists and bloggers joined Olbermann
in questioning the bluntness of the phrase (one even wildly claiming
this was a precursor to a Kerry "un-concession"), Hoffheimer changed
his tone, emailing Keith: “There are many conspiracy theorists opining
these days. There are many allegations of fraud. But this presidential
election is over. The Bush-Cheney ticket has won. The Kerry-Edwards
campaign has found no conspiracy and no fraud in Ohio, though there
have been many irregularities that cry out to be fixed for future
elections." Olbermann notes, “The problem is, of course, that it was
not some great, conspiracy-based, tin-foil-hat, piece of linguistic
gymnastics, to infer from the conclusion to Mr. Hoffheimer's Thursday
statement, that the Kerry-Edwards campaign did not believe that "the
integrity of the entire electoral process and the election of
Bush-Cheney" warranted the public trust. It is, in fact, to use Mr.
Hoffheimer's phrase, "the plain meaning" of the first statement. How
do I know that? To borrow Chairman Sam Ervin's answer to that same
question, as posed by John Ehrlichmann at the Senate Watergate
hearings in 1973: "Because I can understand the English language. It's
my mother's tongue." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/
VoteFraud 2000 -- A Stolen Presidential Election
· CLG (Citizens For Legitimate Government), "Yes, Gore Did
Win." This website documents the 2000 vote fraud story, including the
corporate media’s crucial role in falsification and omission of the
truth. http://www.legitgov.org/index_hot_April5.html
· BuzzFlash.Com, December 15, 2004, “Theft of the Election,
Redux. Why 2000 was Prelude to 2004 -- and the Democratic Party Got
Mugged a Second Time,” BuzzFlash news analysis
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/12/ana04030.html
Contacting the Congress
Online Directory for the 108th Congress:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Petition to 13 US Senators Not to Certify the Election:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/senatorsnocertify
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