Suffrage



"It's never free and fair when a group of unelected
people get to decide who's on the ballot." --George W. Bush


America Observed

Why foreign election observers would
rate the United States near the bottom. We demand that all new democracies grant
unhindered access to polling sites for
international observers, but only one of our
50 states (Missouri) does that. The
Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, a 55-state organization of which the
United States is a member, was invited by
Secretary of State Colin Powell to observe
the U.S. elections, yet its representatives
were permitted to visit only a few
"designated sites." Any developing
country that restricted observers to a few
Potemkin polling sites as the United States
did would be roundly condemned by the State
Department and the world.

Study debunks journalistic
image of rich 'Latte' Democrats,
poor 'NASCAR' Republicans

In Connecticut, one of the nation's richer
states, researchers found little difference
between the voting patterns of the state's
richest and poorest residents. In
Mississippi, the nation's poorest state, they
found dramatic income-related differences,
with rich voters twice as likely as poor to
vote Republican.

Up to 100K Los Angeles voters
likely won't have ballots counted

In addition to being the only county to
require the extra party-identifying step, Los
Angeles County is the only one not to print
candidates names directly on the ballot,
making a re-count virtually impossible.

The Winning Ticket: Hillary
and Diebold in 2008

If this election had been conducted in any
other country in the world, the Bush
administration would have immediately
dispatched an independent team of election
observers and demanded a recount. But not in
the good old USA, where stealing elections is
replacing baseball as the national
pastime. Would it surprise you to know that
(according to Black Box Voting) the Marketing
and Sales Director of the company that
tallies the votes (LHS) "was arrested,
indicted, and pleaded guilty to "sale / CND"
and sentenced to 12 months in the Rockingham
County Correctional facility, and fined
$2000." That would be LHS Sales Director
Mr. Ken Hajjar. Here's an excerpt from Bev
Harris's Black Box Voting web site:

"The Diebold ballot printing plant at the
time we got records on the overages (that is,
more ballots than needed for election; MW)
was being run by a convicted felon who had
spent four years in prison on a narcotics
trafficking charge. No, not New Hampshire's
voting machine programming exec Ken Hajjar,
who cut a plea deal in 1990 for his role in
cocaine distribution. This was another
convicted felon, John Elder, who ran the
Diebold ballot printing plant; he's now an
elections consultant."

Can You Count On These Machines?

Critics have spent years fretting over
corruption and the specter of partisan
hackers throwing an election. But the real
problem may simply be inherent in the nature
of computers: they can be precise but also
capricious, prone to malfunctions we simply
can’t anticipate.

Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004
election could have been stolen

In direct violation of standing federal
election law, 56 of Ohio's 88 counties have
since destroyed all or part of their 2004
election data. The materials were
additionally protected by a federal court
injunction in the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville
federal civil rights lawsuit (in which we are
attorney and plaintiff). To date, no state or
federal prosecutions have resulted from this
wholesale destruction of presidential
election records, including 1.6 million
ballots, cast and uncast, needed for
definitive auditing procedures. However, two
Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) election
officials have been convicted of felony
manipulation of an official recount.

Voices - BBV Exclusive: The Collapse of the Trust Me Elections Model

Voting machine manufacturers admit that using
their equipment requires citizens to suspend
any ability to make sure results are
accurate.

"There has to be faith in their local
election boards," said James Ries Jr.,
president of Microvote, one of the voting
machine providers for the moonshine
states. "It's one of those areas of a leap of
faith. That you really do have to have a
faith in your local jurisdiction, that they
are conducting equitable elections in the
best faith of the voters."

You have to trust your elections official,
but that's not all. The weakest link in the
human chain can destroy the integrity of the
election simply by swapping a memory card or
popping in a USB memory stick. The human
chain includes the programmers at the company
that manufactures the voting machine; the
subcontractors who maintain and service the
machines; each person who has access to the
voting machine warehouse (which may include
the janitor, the sheriff, and the
transportation crew); employees of the
elections division; and the designated
elections administrator.

Harris County's adjusted
votes stir security worry

But Behrman said he was shocked when he saw
German use a series of passwords and an
"encryption key"--a series of numbers on
a nail file-size computer memory storage
device--to reach a computer program that
said "Adjustment."

"A hundred percent of precincts reporting,
and everything had been distributed to the
press," he said. "Then and only then did I
see how they were going to do this, and
frankly I never thought it was possible.

"Basically it turns out, without regard to
any ballots that have been cast, you can
enter arbitrary numbers in there and report
them out in such a way that, unless you go
back to these giant (computer) logs and
interpret the logs, you wouldn't know it has
been done."

In the two hours it took to enter the 326
segregated votes, the election duo made and
corrected keystroke errors, Behrman said.

HR 811: Separating Truth From Fiction in E-voting Reform

HR 811 is not perfect. Few bills are. And
honest debate about a matter as important as
election integrity is always helpful to the
process. However, much of the ostensibly
pro-transparency criticism of HR 811 has
sadly taken a detour away from being useful
and descended into hyperbole, fear-mongering,
and uninformed posturing. Returning to the
substance of the bill and its actual
consequences is long overdue.

What would HR 811 do?

Real History Blog: Priorities - YES on HR 811

The bill in question, HR 811, the bill Rush
Holt put forward, offers a substantial hand
count of 100% of the ballots (defined as the
paper, not electronic, record, in the bill's
explicit language) in from 3-10% of the
precincts, depending on the margin of the
victory. The closer the victory, the more
ballots will be counted. The wider the
margin, the fewer ballots to audit to verify
the results. So Holt's bill offers my dream
solution - a system in which machine counts
and hand counts are used to count our votes.

Notes from the Underground Part 1

We can accept the election results and
totally dismiss the exit poll adjustments as
indicative of a flawed poll that should be
dismissed. Our argument here is no better
than in the first option. Its faith
based. That’s just the way it is but we’ll
discuss it a bit, feign erudition, and
impress you with our obscure knowledge of
polling methods and math.

Or we can face the reality and the dreadful
conclusion. There’s no way to tell if Bush
truly won the vote total in 2004 while there
are many reasons to doubt that he did. The
parallel measurement of the actual vote, the
exit poll, can only concoct a Bush victory
through egregious adjustments to its own raw
data for the big cities. Why would such
adjustments be required?

Touch-screen voting faces fuzzy future

"I don't know whether the security concerns
the (University of California) teams raised
can be remedied through software alone,"
Bowen said. "The teams identified problems
with the physical setup of the machines. If I
were a voting-system vendor looking to
provide the greatest possible security, I
would try to minimize the number of ports and
external connectors because I would be
concerned about someone plugging in. And in
that case, it would mean a redesign."

Senators to abandon '08
e-voting paper trail mandate

Democratic senators on Wednesday made another
push for banning electronic voting machines
that lack paper trails, but they've backed
away from doing so in time for next year's
presidential election.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chief
sponsor of a contentious bill called the
Ballot Integrity Act that proposes such
changes, said she fears requiring all states
to employ so-called voter-verified paper
records in their systems, with some primaries
only six months away, "could be an invitation
to chaos." Earlier this year, she called for
enacting such changes by 2008.

YouTube - Ron Paul .. The Time is NOW...

Ron Paul and Pokerface
Calling for a Revolution

In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio's 2004
Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed
or Missing

In 56 of Ohio's 88 counties, ballots and
election records from 2004 have been
"accidentally" destroyed, despite a federal
order to preserve them -- it was crucial
evidence which would have revealed whether
the election was stolen.

Mob Scene In Miami

The organizers in the RV outside, who
G.O.P. protesters have told Time were led by
hardball Washington strategist Roger Stone,
had phone banks churning out calls to Miami
Republicans, urging them to storm
downtown. (Stone could not be reached for
comment.) One of them was a fire fighter, Rob
Eltus, 45: "What Americans are finally seeing
is Republicans fed up."

Bush's long history of tilting Justice

Over the last six years, this Justice
Department has ignored the advice of its
staff and skewed aspects of law enforcement
in ways that clearly were intended to
influence the outcome of elections.

It has notably shirked its legal
responsibility to protect voting rights. From
2001 to 2006, no voting discrimination cases
were brought on behalf of African American or
Native American voters. U.S. attorneys were
told instead to give priority to voter fraud
cases, which, when coupled with the strong
support for voter ID laws, indicated an
intent to depress voter turnout in minority
and poor communities.

Diebold weighs strategy for voting unit

Voting machine makers such as Diebold;
Election Systems & Software, of Omaha, Neb.;
Sequoia Voting Systems, of Oakland, Calif.,
and Hart InterCivic, of Austin, Texas have
had the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002
as a sales catalyst. HAVA, with $3.9 billion
of funding, urged the nation to move past
punch card voting and hanging chads that
delayed the conclusion of the 2000
presidential election.

Do new Ohio recount prosecutions
indicate unraveling of 2004 election
theft cover-up?

...
The county's official central tabulator went
down mysteriously just prior to the
recount. Eaton said the Triad technician
installed his hard drive and told the
election officials that the recount would
match up perfectly if they didn't turn off
the computer.

Soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations watch

We should be “proud” that the federal
government didn’t cancel our elections?
That the Bush administration didn’t use
the war as an excuse to interrupt the
democratic process?

Setting the bar a little low, aren’t we?

As voters embrace change,
Pelosi vows cooperation

"I really don't think about having a
Democrat-led House and Senate, because I
don't think it's going to happen,'' Bush
told Rush Limbaugh last week.

Even on election day as the president flew
back to Washington, White House spokesman
Tony Snow cut off reporters who asked whether
Bush planned to phone Pelosi if control went
to the Democrats.

"We don't answer 'if control' questions,"
Snow said.

A monumental victory for the
election protection movement

In Ohio, an unprecedented project by five
statewide Green, Libertarian and independent
candidates dispersed scores of election
observers throughout the state, placing them
inside key county boards of elections and
precincts.

A classic case comes from central Ohio,
"scene of the crime" for the 2004 election.
In the 15th Congressional District, election
protection attorney Cliff Arnebeck was
initially turned away from voting due to lack
of "proper I.D," even though he presented a
valid Ohio driver's license and proof of his
current address.

Mystery Pollster: NBC's
Shuster on Exit Polls

VNS effectively fell on its sword in the
report. That is: even though their own data
indicated a vote counting problem, they chose
to bury this fact and instead attributed the
exit poll error to their exit polls and
presumed that the voting was correct. In
order to do so, they had to distort their
findings so much that they felt the could not
release their report to the general public.

Exit Polls for Kerry,
voting machines for Bush

Media blames Exit Polls, not paperless
ballot machines made by Republicans

Bush Junta denounced the
Ukrainian elections as illegitimate

Ah, the irony! The Bush Junta has denounced
the Ukrainian elections as illegitimate.
Apparently the conservative candidate has
claimed victory by a narrow margin but --
and we are not making this up -- the results
are under suspicion because the exit polls
gave a narrow victory to his liberal
challenger.

A Corrupted Election -- In These Times

The reliability of exit polls is so generally
accepted that the Bush administration helped
pay for them during recent elections in
Georgia, Belarus and Ukraine. Testifying
before the House Committee on International
Relations Dec. 7, John Tefft, deputy
assistant secretary of state for European and
Eurasian affairs, explained that the Bush
administration funded exit polls because they
were one of the “ways that would help to
expose large-scale fraud.” Tefft pointed
to the discrepancy between exit polls and the
official vote count to argue that the Nov. 22
Ukraine election was stolen.

Past Peak: Those Damned Machines: Cui Bono?

E-voting state by state: What you need to know

Many Americans will head to the polls for
November's midterm elections with less
certainty than ever about how -- or whether
-- their votes will be counted.

Two years after the controversy-plagued 2004
elections, four years after HAVA (the Help
America Vote Act) was passed, and six years
after the Supreme Court and America romanced
the hanging chad, experts are bracing for yet
another wave of challenges to regional
vote-counting systems.

One-third of us will use voting machines
that have never before served in a general
election.

Florida ballot terminals favor Republicans

The touch-screen gizmos seem strangely
attracted to Republican candidates. One voter
needed assistance from an election official,
and even then, needed three tries to convince
the machine that he wanted to vote for
Democrat Jim Davis in the gubernatorial race,
not his Republican opponent Charlie Crist.

Another voter who went Democrat across the
board kept finding Republicans listed in the
summary screen. He made repeated attempts
until, finally, the machine registered his
votes correctly, and he cast his ballot.

Can This Machine Be Trusted?

The U.S.'s new voting systems are only
as good as the people who program and
use them. Which is why next week could
be interesting.

The TV Ad Sen Jon Kyl Doesn't Want You To See

Electronic Voting Machines Could Skew Elections

Cheryl Kagan, a former Maryland Democratic
legislator, was shocked when she opened her
mail Wednesday morning.

Inside, she discovered three computer
discs. With them was an anonymous letter
saying the discs contained the secret source
code for vote-counting that could be used to
alter the votes cast through Maryland's new
electronic voting.

Former delegate gets
purported Diebold code

Diebold Election Systems Inc. expressed
alarm and state election officials
contacted the FBI yesterday after a
former legislator received an anonymous
package containing what appears to be
the computer code that ran Maryland's
polls in 2004.

Cheryl C. Kagan, a longtime critic of
Maryland's elections chief, says the fact
that the computer disks were sent to her -
along with an unsigned note criticizing
the management of the state elections board -
demonstrates that Maryland's voting system
faces grave security threats.

OUR RIGGED ELECTIONS

The Elephant in the Polling Booth

By Mark Crispin Miller | October 1, 2006
To say that this election could go either way
is not to say that the Republicans have any
chance of winning it. As a civic entity
responsive to the voters' will, the party's
over, there being no American majority that
backs it, or that ever would. Bush has left
the GOP in much the same condition as Iraq,
Afghanistan, the global climate, New Orleans,
the Bill of Rights, our military, our economy
and our national reputation.

Terrorism Trumps Release of Election Review

A consortium of the nation's most prestigious
news organizations has stalled the release of
its presidential election ballot analysis,
citing commitment to coverage of September 11
as the cause. -November 2001
So far, even the limited inspection of
ballots has yielded astonishing
results. Three precincts in two counties
have shown consecutive runs of Bush votes
that qualify as virtual statistical
impossibilities.

Why Smoke is Coming out of My Ears

Why Smoke is Coming out of my Ears or
My Reaction to The Princeton Center's
Nine-Minute Video

Major Problems At Polls Feared

In the Nov. 7 election, more than 80 percent
of voters will use electronic voting
machines, and a third of all precincts this
year are using the technology for the first
time. The changes are part of a national
wave, prompted by the federal Help America
Vote Act of 2002 and numerous revisions of
state laws, that led to the replacement of
outdated voting machines with computer-based
electronic machines, along with centralized
databases of registered voters and other
steps to refine the administration of
elections.

Mexican officials to burn ballots

No date was set for the burning.

Saving the ballots likely wouldn't have
helped Lopez Obrador's case. The Federal
Electoral Tribunal rejected most of his
complaints and his demand for a full vote
recount, and awarded the presidency to
Calderon. Its decision cannot be appealed.

Hacking Diebold Voting Machines

Montgomery to Extend Voting Hours After
Election Glitches

Evidence of Election Fraud Grows in México

As the U.S. media distorts the aftermath of
the July 2 election, evidence suggests there
may be an attempted theft in progress.

Worst Ever Security Flaw Found
in Diebold TS Voting Machine

The Open Voting Foundation
Press Release -- July 31, 2006
For Immediate Release

Our Worst Fears Confirmed

The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
has 75,000 members. When surveyed, 95% of
those who responded stated that a paper
record for all voters was a must.

Hagel's Electronic Theft of a U.S. Senate
Seat was a Dress Rehearsal for Bush's Theft
of the Presidency

VoteTrustUSA - The Diebold Bombshell

Basically, Diebold included a "back door" in
its software, allowing anyone to change or
modify the software. There are no technical
safeguards in place to ensure that only
authorized people can make changes.

Election Night Projections
Cover For Vote Rigging Since 1964?

Bill Headline was VNS's executive
director during the notorious 2000
Bush - Gore presidential election.
According to information on a University
of Miami webpage, Headline started his
career as an Air Intelligence Officer
in the U.S. Navy from 1955 to 1957.
Seven years later, in 1964, he was
hired at CBS

Narco News: A Full Recount Would Show
that López Obrador Won Mexico’s Presidency by
More than One Million Votes


A Full Recount Would Show that López Obrador
Won Mexico’s Presidency by More than One
Million Votes The Tip of the Iceberg of the
Crimes Committed by Mexican Electoral
Authorities Is the Fraudulent Vote Count of
2006

RFK Jr., Florida Law Firm to File
Federal Whistleblower Suits Against
Two Voting Machine Companies!

First Case to be Filed Next Week, According
to Attorneys Scheduled to Meet with
U.S. Dept. of Justice Officials This Week
7/2/2006 6:34PM

A Single Person Could Swing an Election

Electronic Systems' Weaknesses May Be
Countered With Audits, Report Suggests June 28, 2006

Why the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
article alleging the election was
stolen is substantially right and
the critics substantially wrong,
part 1

Real History Blog: Can You
Protect Your Vote? You Can!

June 22, 2006

New security glitch found in Diebold system

Elections officials in several states are
scrambling to understand and limit the risk
from a "dangerous" security hole found in
Diebold Election Systems Inc.'s ATM-like
touch-screen voting machines.

SEC INVESTIGATION OF
DIEBOLD UNDER WAY!

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Announces 'Informal Inquiry' into Accounting
Practices of ATM, E-Voting Giant!

Congress tries to keep smaller parties down

The bill, H.R. 4694, ironically known as the
"Let the People Decide Clean Campaign Act,"
would give public funds to candidates for the
House and would forbid candidates from taking
private funds such as contributions from
individual donors.

The bill provides funds only for candidates
of the two major parties and would
essentially ruin the campaign efforts of
independent candidates and those from the
smaller parties.
The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, the
U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
established by HAVA, and the Carter-Baker
National Commission on Federal Election
Reform were all created after the 2000
election to improve the electoral
process. All of these efforts, however, have
been detrimental to the prevention and
detection of election fraud and error due to
their advocacy of the use of electronic
voting machines.

1965 Voting Rights Provisions to Expire

Ohio Official Invested in Vote Machine Co. --

Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, who
is seeking the Republican nomination for
governor, said he discovered the shares
for Diebold Inc. while preparing a required
filing for the Ohio Ethics Commission.

"While I was unaware of this stock in my
portfolio, its mere presence may be viewed as
a conflict and is therefore not acceptable,"
he said in a letter included in his filing.

Workers accused of fudging '04 recount

Prosecutor says Cuyahoga skirted rules
April 6, 2006

ohio voting fraud

"If I was going to make a point about the
complete terror of electronic voting
machines, I would register a ridiculously
huge number of votes for one candidate in
order to force a National dialogue. And I've
shown above that SOMEBODY DID THIS."

McPherson gives conditional
OK to Diebold voting machines

February 17, 2006

http://archive.democrats.com/search.cfm?term=stolen%20election

Voting Systems Lawsuit Reaches U.S. Supreme Court

February 1, 2006

An Old School Republican on the
'Evidence of a Stolen Election'

Paul Craig Roberts Discusses Election 2004,
'Power-Mad Republicans' and the Dangers of
their Electronic Voting Machines
January 19, 2006

The Gun is Smoking - 2004 Ohio
Precinct-Level Exit Poll Data Show Virtually
Irrefutable Evidence of Vote Miscount

State secretary defends purchase of voting machines

A Brewer campaign worker had to call Capitol
police to have the protestors moved back so
Brewer could give her speech - a speech which
boasted of the state getting rid of the last
punch card ballots as part of her
accomplishments since being elected in 2002
but one that never mentioned the Diebold
contract. But Brewer, responding to media
questions, called the noisy protestors
"anarchists" and said they were off base.
"I don't think there is a problem with the Diebold equipment," she said.
Tucson, Arizona January 5, 2006

New tests fuel doubts about vote machines

A top election official and computer experts
say computer hackers could easily change
election results, after they found numerous
flaws with a state-approved voting-machine in
Tallahassee. -December 15, 2005

12-13-05: Devastating hack proven

"On Dec. 13, Hursti proved that the entire
system can be compromised without producing
error messages and without leaving a trace,
using nothing but a memory card."

Voting machine deadline nears

Counties could face federal
sanctions without state OK.
The El Dorado County registrar of voters
faces a Jan. 1 federal deadline to retool
more than 110 polling places. Yet Secretary
of State Bruce McPherson has not certified
some of the controversial machines Schultz
plans to buy from Diebold Elections Systems.
November 27, 2005

Monterey County, CA Registrar
Admits New E-Voting Machine
Technology 'Faith-Based'!


In Radio Interview, Demonstrates New Sequoia
Touch-Screens, Secret Software, Asks Voters
to 'Trust Him' on Accuracy and Reliability!
October 24, 2005

Furor Grows Over Internet Bugging

October 20, 2005

GAO Report Finds Flaws in Electronic Voting

October 21, 2005

Why can't the left face the
Stolen Elections of 2004 & 2008?

October 18, 2005

Carter says Gore won 2000 election

Paper Trail Urged as E-Voting Fix

Gore's Victory
November 12, 2001
Texas Safe Voting
The 2000 election is still an open sore on
the body politic. That was clear from the
outraged reaction to my mention last week of
what would have happened with a full
statewide manual recount of Florida.
In his recent book "Steal This Vote" - a very
judicious work, despite its title - Andrew
Gumbel, a U.S. correspondent for the British
newspaper The Independent, provides the best
overview I've seen of the 2000 Florida
vote. And he documents the simple truth: "Al
Gore won the 2000 presidential election."

Carteret citizens advise:

"We're still upset about our lost votes in
the 2004 election, and we want to see some
positive action taken that will ensure no
American will ever again have such a problem
in the future."

"We urge legislators to pass S 223 and H 238
promptly, so that every voting machine will
provide a Voter Verified Paper Ballot, and
nothing less."

E-voting machines rejected

State says Diebold failures in massive mock
election could translate to problems at polls
"There was a failure rate of about 10
percent, and that's not good enough for the
voters of California and not good enough for
me," Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said.
7/29/2005 09:27 AM
Top secret documents obtained by Black Box
Voting -- As state after state has passed
cookie-cutter mail-in voting legislation,
here's what's been flying under the radar:
Diebold's new Vote Remote Suite.

As we add more to this, you'll see that
components of VoteRemote are already in use,
as shown by accounting entries with completed
billings for VoteRemote services.

Most of the VoteRemote technology has been
around for 40 years (basic mail processing
automation, like envelope stuffing and bar
coding). What is new for elections is
Diebold's automation of signature comparison.

Note that the VoteRemote suite interacts with
the Voter Registration database, which
happens to have party affiliation, and that
you can selectively set the tolerance for
signature comparison to reject lots, a few,
or hardly any voters.

2PV

Two Pass Verification:
Make Electronic Voting Work
in a Less Secure Digital Age
Cases of voter fraud becoming considerably
worse in county --Jun 24, 2005
In Ohio, Secretary of State Blackwell issued
an order in the weeks following the election
that all 2004 election records, paper and
electronic, were to be sealed from public
access and inspection. As of this book's
publication date, those records remain
unobtainable.

The controversy surrounding the voting
machines remains extremely fierce in part
because major manufacturers such as Diebold,
ES&S, Triad, and others are controlled by
partisan Republican companies with secret
proprietary software. This unfortunate lack
of transparency calls all U.S. elections into
question.
"Today, Iran is ruled by men who suppress
liberty at home and spread terror across the
world. Power is in the hands of an unelected
few who have retained power through an
electoral process that ignores the basic
requirements of democracy," Bush said in a
statement released by the White House.
Kaptur alerts colleagues of unfolding scandal
Brown says illegalities put presidential
election in question
DELAND -- County Council members didn't need
a recount Monday, but they figured one day
voters might.

At a special meeting, the council narrowly
killed a contract that would have brought
touch-screen voting machines to Volusia.
WikiPedia on Instant Runoff Voting
The silent scream of numbers The 2004
election was stolen--will someone please
tell the media?
My Election 2004 bad dream
Tue, Apr. 26, 2005
The Silence of the Vote Scams

Vote Fraud Theorists Battle Over Plausibility
25th April 2005
Was Election 2004 a Fraud?
Prominent Statisticians Refute 'Explanation'
of 2004 U.S. Exit Poll Discrepancies in New
Edison/Mitofsky Report and Urge Investigation
of U.S. Presidential Election Results
Lawsuit Challenges Berkeley Election
Officials in Measure R Recount
Sham Recount Process on Diebold E-voting
Machines -- January 12, 2005
The Strange Death of American Democracy:
Endgame in Ohio
24 January 2005
Ohio AG Seeks To Sanction
Attorneys Over Vote Challenge
Challenge Withdrawn Last Week
January 19, 2005
Conyers to Ohio election chief:
Please help Congress reform voting
An Open Letter from John Conyers,
Jr. Concerning the Election Challenge
The "Crime of November 2": The human side of
how Bush stole Ohio, and why Congress must
investigate rather than ratify the Electoral
College (Part Two of Two) January 5, 2005
Ten preliminary reasons why the Bush vote
does not compute, and why Congress must
investigate rather than certify the Electoral
College (Part One of Two) January 3, 2005
Official challenge on Bush vote
January 6, 2005
Challenging Expectations About
the Opposition to Bush
January 6th
Just eight days after a circuit judge ordered
elections officials to make the list public,
Florida Department of State has withdrawn
their list of over 47,000 ex-felons they
wanted removed from the voter rolls. The list
was so flawed that Supervisors of Elections
across the state were asking why they should
use it.
Five Senators and Eight House
Members to Challenge Election
Editorial: Don't certify Ohio results
January 5, 2005
There is clear and compelling evidence
that the election was stolen.
In nearly every case now documented,
producing odds not of 50:50 but, according to
credible statisticians, sometimes rising to
1:250,000,000, "irregularities" seem always
to favor George W. Bush or other Republican
candidates.
Dissent to mar Bush election validation
January 5, 2005
Preserving Democracy:
What Went Wrong in Ohio
Status Report of the House Judiciary
Committee Democratic Staff
5 January 2005
No Stolen Elections! Delivers Petitions To
Feingold Activists Want Feingold To Challenge
Election College Certification
January 5, 2005
Ohio Republican Secretary of State brags
about delivering Ohio for Bush in
gubernatorial fundraising letter
On behalf of a group of Ohio voters, attorney
Clifford Arnebeck filed an emergency motion
for an expedited emergency hearing and to
prevent voting companies and Ohio officials
from further tampering with voting machines
in the state during the recount, RAW STORY
has learned.
"As you are aware, the American citizenry has
voiced a collective lack of faith in
government to carry out fair election
procedures," Conyers writes. "It is important
that the Judiciary Committee access raw voter
poll data so that discrepancies between those
numbers and certified election results can be
investigated...Without the raw data, the
Committee will be severely handicapped in its
efforts to show the need for serious election
reform in the United States."
Ohio Recount: The Recount That Wasn't, a
Chance to Reassure Voters Missed
Two-Thirds Of Provisional
Ballots Rejected Last Year
January 3, 2005
Candidates Want Second Ohio Recount
December 31, 2004
Ohio Official Kenneth Blackwell Refuses Legal
Interview Over Vote Controversies
Edged out of the closest governor's race in
state history, Republican Dino Rossi urged
his opponent to accept a revote, saying the
uncertainty surrounding the back-and-forth
election was bad for the state.

Rossi made the plea for a revote after eight
weeks of confusion and three vote counts. A
revote would have to be approved by the
Democrat-controlled state Legislature.
Chief justice refuses to remove self
from vote challenge -Dec. 29, 2004
Moyer also rejected the voters' requests for
a speedy hearing and an order that elections
boards preserve evidence from the election.
Ohio GOP election officials ducking subpoenas
as Kerry enters stolen vote fray
December 28, 2004
Analysis: Election 2004: Troublesome
Statements By One of Kerry-Edwards'
Ohio Attorneys, Explained
GREAT GOP GAG Gift!! Official 2000
Palm Beach County Butterfly Ballot
Damn these Hackers!
Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has
requested a protective order to prevent him
from being interviewed as part of an unusual
court challenge of the presidential vote.
December 27, 2004
Vigil at Kerry's house
Iraq Rejects U.S. Talk of
Adjusting Vote Result
Dec 26, 2004
The Republican Leadership’s
Problem With Democracy
Dec 26, 2004
Hacking the vote in Miami County
December 25, 2004
Another third rate burglary
Thieves shattered a side window overnight at
Lucas County Democratic headquarters in
Toledo, stealing computers with sensitive
campaign information and jeopardizing the
party's ability to deliver crucial votes on
Election Day.
December 25, 2004
Coming Up For Air
Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede
Election Challenge likely on Jan 6th
Warren County recount -
snookered? What Happened?
Video Supporting Ohio
Vote Fraud Claim Revealed
23 December 2004
Kerry votes switched to Bush
and ballots pre-punched for Bush
December 24, 2004
Voting rights groups 'block'
talk of machine-free elections
Ohio Voting Rights Activists Call Electoral
Fight The "Biggest Deal Since Selma"
December 23rd, 2004
Ohio electoral fight becomes 'biggest
deal since Selma' as GOP stonewalls
December 22, 2004
Michigan Congressman Seeks Exit Poll Data
December 22, 2004
Video Footage of African American
voter suppression in Ohio
Berkeley Pries Open Votergate,
Calls for Immediate U.S.
Election Investigation
December 16, 2004
According to the Electoral Count Act of 1887,
one senator and one House Representative are
required to contest an election prior to
inauguration. We have the representatives. We
still need a senator. Let Senator Boxer know
that we want her to be that senator by
signing our petition.
Several Factors Contributed
to 'Lost' Voters in Ohio
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Ohio Electors Vote Despite
Challenge 12-15-04
Ohio Recount: County Election Board Chair
Disputes comments from spokesperson for Ohio
Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell 12/14/04
Judge Affirms Green Party Right to
New Mexico Presidential Recount
December 13, 2004
John Kerry's Recount
Letter to Ohio Counties
Kerry moves to a "Hands On"
approach to Ohio Recount
13 December 2004
House Judiciary Ohio Forum Hears of Recount
Fraud Plans David Cobb tells Conyers Forum of
Preparations for Recount Fraud 13 December 2004
Ballots Wrongly Denied
in Wash. Gov. Race
December 14, 2004
Vote for Edwards instead of
Kerry shocks Minnesota electors
December 14, 2004
David Cobb, the unsuccessful Green Party
presidential candidate, aired startling
allegations at the Democratic House Judiciary
Committee’s Columbus hearings Monday,
alleging that a voting company representative
tampered with voting equipment in an
unspecified county last Friday and attempted
to plant false information into the Ohio
recount.
... “The Triad Systems representative
suggested that since the hand recount had to
match the machine count exactly and since it
would hard to memorize the several numbers
which would be needed to get the count
exactly right, that they should post this
series of numbers on the wall where they
would not be noticed by observers such as to
make them look like employee information or
something similar.
Smoking Gun of Election Fraud
is in Ken Blackwell’s Hand
The Secretary of State of Ohio, who has an
obvious conflict of interest by being the
State Chair for the reelection of George
W. Bush, has now violated the law to stop a
recount that could prove that Bush actually
lost Ohio, and thus the entire presidential
election.
Ohio Vote Fraud Battle Heats Up
By Katherine Yurica
Dec 13, 2004
Over the weekend, Kerry asked the county
elections officials to allow his witnesses to
visually inspect the 92,000 ballots cast in
Ohio in which no vote for president was
recorded.

The request was one of 11 items that Kerry
asked for as part of the recount that Ohio's
88 county boards of elections will begin this
week.

When contacted Monday by The Associated
Press, many boards officials said they hadn't
heard about the weekend request by Donald
McTigue, the lawyer handling the recount for
the Kerry campaign.
Cleveland Paper Cites Voter Problems
Dec 11, 2004

Voting Rights Groups 'Block'
Talk of Machine-Free Elections
by Lynn Landes
December 11, 2004
OHIO GROUNDWAR HEATS UP!
13th December 2004

Why history demands an Ohio revote
by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis
December 10, 2004

Recount angers local GOP chief
Friday, December 10, 2004

Statewide Recount to Start
in Alaska Senate Race
11th December 2004
Election reform needed: U.S. system would
fail certification elsewhere
December 11, 2004
Dems say GOP made deceptive voter calls
Ariz. among states reporting complaints
Dec. 11, 2004
Blackwell Locks Out Recount Volunteers
December 10, 2004
The Ballots at the Back of the Bus
Most voters in Ohio chose Kerry;
here’s how the votes vanished.
November 14, 2004
"VOTER BILL OF RIGHTS"
Voter Confidence and Increased
Accessibility Act of 2003
(Introduced in House)

HR 2239 IH

H. R. 2239 To amend the Help America Vote Act
of 2002 to require a voter-verified permanent
record or hardcopy under title III of such
Act, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 22, 2003 Mr. HOLT introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on House Administration
Democratic Party chief arrested
December 10, 2004
Hoodwinked
Why is Florida's voting system so corrupt?
August 24, 2004
Until recently, the major American corporate
infomedia networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox,
and AP) relied on a consortium known as the
Voter News Service for vote-counting and exit
poll information. But following the scandals
and consequent embarrassments of the 2000 and
2002 elections, this consortium was
disbanded. It was replaced in 2004 by a
partnership of Edison Media Research and
Mitofsky International known as the National
Election Pool.

The National Election Pool's own data-as
transmitted by CNN on the evening of November
2 and the early morning of November 3-suggest
very strongly that the results of the exit
polls were themselves fiddled late on
November 2 in order to make their numbers
conform with the tabulated vote tallies.
The Florida programmer who alleged that a
legislator commissioned him to write a
vote-rigging prototype said Tuesday that his
software could easily be used to change the
totals of votes from optical scan readers as
well.
Footprints of Electoral Fraud:
The November 2 Exit Poll Scam
By Michael Keefer
Stolen Election 2004
By Carol Sterritt
Electoral College, the
Fraud is in the Pudding
The Ohio Recount: Reluctant
Officials and Few Rules
December 8, 2004
Prof. says vote numbers don't add up
By Rob Zaleski
December 8, 2004
The Conyers Hearing
Blog by William Rivers Pitt
University researchers challenge Bush win in
Florida 'Something went awry with electronic
voting in Florida,' says the lead researcher
By Dan Verton
Election Fraud in Ohio Investigated
by the US Congress
US Congress, 2 December 2004
2004 voting problems detailed
By Frank Davies
WHISTLEBLOWER AFFIDAVIT: Programmer Built
Vote Rigging Prototype at Republican
Congressman's Request! CLAIM: Rep. Tom
Feeney (R-FL) Asked Company to Create E-Vote
Fraud Software! *** A BRAD BLOG EXCLUSIVE!
PLEASE CREDIT! ***
VB vote fraud prototype
Volunteer Opportunities in
Ohio - Concrete Information
December 6, 2004
John R. MacArthur: Ohio voters: Timid
Kerry stopped counting too soon
Providence Journal
December 7, 2004
Election errors lead to changes
Pinellas' Deborah Clark announces
improvements in the wake of three
errors connected to Nov. 2.
December 7, 2004
DNC to Investigate Ohio
Voting Irregularities
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Congressman Kucinich is seeking to ensure
that voting is a right secured for all
Americans.
http://alaskarecount2004.org/
MIS-TRUTH: AP Report Suggests Ohio
Courts Won't Overturn The Results
if Kerry Wins The Recount
Democrats launch investigation of voting
problems in Ohio - December 6, 2004
Texas to Florida: White House-linked
clandestine operation paid for "vote
switching" software --By Wayne Madsen
FBI Refuses Complaint Alleging
Ohio Voter Fraud - Dec. 03, 2004
FBI probe may involve more than
vote fraud allegations 12/04/2004
Voter Fraud in Florida and Ohio:
Kerry Won the Election by
at least 1,7 Million Votes
by Brad Menfil
Kenneth Blackwell Bio
Bush's Ohio Valley
Why has he stopped campaigning here?
Oct. 21, 2004
Video and Transcript of Keith Olbermann's
Interview With Ohio Secretary of State
Kenneth Blackwell
Hundreds demand recount at Ohio Statehouse
By JOHN McCARTHY, Associated Press Writer
A Closer Look At The Red/Blue Cultural Divide:
It Is Mostly Hokum
By John W. Dean
Dec. 03, 2004
Voting in the USA -
20 Amazing Facts
by Angry Girl
Nightweed.com
Jesse Jackson demands Ohio presidential
recount, blasts GOP election officials, and
says Kerry supports the process
Ukrainian Court Orders New Vote for
Presidency, Citing Fraud
December 4, 2004
Lawyer in OH Recount Suit:
We Have Evidence of Fraud
Dec 2nd, 2004
"Hey, listen, I'm old, if you need someone to
stand at the front of the line, I will gladly
volunteer. The news media would love to
cover the shooting of an old lady protesting
fraudulent elections. Probably on page 36 at
the back of the paper. "
Voters to challenge US election
Wednesday December 1, 2004
Votergate 2004? Research Studies Uncover
Potential Massive Election Fraud
The 2004 election in the Ukraine was built on
a massive propaganda and public relations
campaign, supported by the US, with money
payoffs by Washington for political parties
and organizations committed to Western
strategic and economic interests.
Parliament Says Votes in Ukraine Were Not Valid
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
November 28
Election 2004: 73 SCHOOLS
LOCKED DOWN IN PALM BEACH
Khashoggi was bailed out with a
$4 million check from Peter Munk
Media Blackout on Election
Fraud by Media News Group
Denver Post and 94+ Newspapers,
Radio Stations, TV Stations
New Ohio voter transcripts feed floodtide of
doubt about Republican election manipulation
November 25, 2004
Electoral fix: never mind the Ukraine, both
the UK and the US are anti-democratic states
Voting Machines Count Backwards in Okla.
Nov 27 2004
SC orders more touch-screen voting machines

Group Files Suit To Overturn Rejected Ballots
Cuyahoga County Has Most Provisional Ballots In State
November 27, 2004
A watchdog group sued Friday to try to stop
Cuyahoga County's elections board from
rejecting thousands of provisional ballots
until they are hand checked against voter
registration cards.
Fundamental flaws put
our voting system at risk
Feds to Investigate Voting Irregularies
Nov 27, 10:52 AM EST
WHY WE MUST NOT “GET OVER IT”
November 24, 2004
Rights group sues over election results

What Were the Odds That Bush Would Win?
WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THE RECOUNT?
Lynn Landes' lawsuit
Did Dubbya rig the election?
Michael Meacher
Monday 29th November 2004
'Invisible ink' used at polling stations
David Charter
November 26, 2004
While Ukrainians poured into the streets of
their capital Kiev to protest a presidential
election they say was stolen by that
country’s current regime, here in the U.S. a
little-known election company called Sequoia
Pacific, responsible for putting our own
‘current regime’ in power four years ago,
was for the second Presidential election in a
row at the center of controversy last week...
votergate.tv Documentary
More On Senator Hagel's Ties To
Election Systems & Software (ES&S)
"We caught the whole thing on videotape," she
said. "I don't think you'll ever see anything
like this - Bev Harris having a tug of war
with an election worker over a bag of
garbage, and he held onto it and she pulled
on it, and it split right open, spilling out
those poll tapes.
The Denver Voice
11/20 Denver Election
Protest Rally
Peter Coyote on voter fraud
Blogosphere: Election Fraud?
(Updates Pt.2)
No changes in final Warren Co. vote count
E-mails released Monday show lockdown
pre-planned - November 16
When fascism comes . . .
By Michael Hasty
November 20, 2004
Presidential Election: Hearings on Ohio
voting put 2004 election in doubt
November 18, 2004
Election officials in one Ohio county found
that about 2,600 ballots were double-counted,
and two other counties have discovered
possible cases of people voting twice in the
presidential election.
US Election: Democracy in Question
November 18, 2004
Inter Press Service
<<<< Newsclip Autopsy >>>>
FOCUS: VOTERGATE
8,099 Cuyahoga ballots ruled invalid
November 23, 2004
The bulk of the 8,099 invalidated ballots
were determined to have been cast by
nonregistered voters or registered voters who
cast their ballots in the wrong precinct
Why Kerry Conceded Defeat despite Electoral Fraud
Speaking out against voter fraud would carry
an implicit challenge to the myth of American
democracy.
(E-)Voting : Blogosphere: Election Fraud? (Updates)
A hand recount of ballots cast using optical
scanning technology gave a Democrat enough
extra votes to bump a Republican from victory
in a county commissioner's race.
Across Ohio’s minority-rich cities, there
were fewer voting machines than during past
elections, including March’s presidential
primary. As the number of voters grew by as
much as 50 percent in some precincts,
according to pro-Kerry field organizers, the
number of voting machines on Election Day
shrank by a third. Precincts that usually had
five machines only had three.

The lack of voting machines was a disaster.
Harvey Wasserman of Bexley said he tried to
vote absentee with the same home address he
has used for 18 years but was told he
couldn't because his absentee application had
the wrong address.

"But the notice telling me I had the wrong
address arrived at the right address," he
said. "I wonder, how many of these absentee
ballots were rejected for no good reason?
Judge eyed on ballots
November 10, 2004
...attention gathered on one batch in which
the disqualified ballots all were Democrat
and those that qualified were Republican,
Herrera said.

Glitch could force state to vote again

Gerbel said the machines flash a warning
message when there is no more room for
storing ballots. "It was either ignored or
overlooked," he said.
Cuyahoga County Precincts - Revised!
Why did Kerry throw
in the towel so soon?
Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies
November 9, 2004
Judge Rejects Suit Over
Uncounted Absentee Ballots
Ohio Whitewash
Basic report from Columbus
November 4, 2004
An error with an electronic voting system
gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in
suburban Columbus, elections officials said.
Why did the exit polls show Kerry winning the
election, but the vote showed Bush winning?
None dare call it voter suppression and fraud
Stolen Election?
The American vote-count is controlled by
three major corporate players: Diebold, ES&S,
and Sequoia with a fourth, Science
Applications International Corporation,
coming on strong.
E-Voting Tests Get Failing Grade
Group tallies more than 1,100 e-voting glitches
E-Voting Problems Crop Up
Voting list snafu causes problems in Marion County
An Election Spoiled Rotten
Foreign monitors 'barred' from US polls
Two voting companies & two brothers will
count 80 percent of U.S. election using both
scanners & touchscreens
The Web wonders if electronic
voting machines stole the election.
By Josh Levin Nov. 3, 2004
Global monitors find faults
By Thomas Crampton
November 3, 2004
Never Say Die-bold: So You Don't Think
the Bush Campaign Stole This Election?
Think Again --By Jackson Thoreau
The Maryland State Board of Elections,
defending the e-voting scheme, claims to be
using a voting system that meets all voting
system standards established by the federal
government and states that attaching a
printer to the voting system would be a
violation of Maryland election law.

The board claims paper receipts offer a false
sense of security because they do not
guarantee that the results recorded in the
machine are the same results printed on the
receipt.
States with electronic voting machines gave
Bush mysterious 5% advantage; bloggers do the
math that broadcast networks fail to follow
In Jacksonville, to determine if Republicans
were using the lists or other means of
intimidating voters, we filmed a private
detective filming every "early voter" - the
majority of whom are black - from behind a
vehicle with blacked-out windows.
While the Democratic Party capitulated to the
theft of the 2000 election, and the entire
political and media establishment pretends
that the Supreme Court intervention in Bush
v. Gore is ancient history, tens of millions
of working people regard the Bush
administration as illegitimate and unelected,
and are rightly concerned that a new effort
to steal a presidential election is underway.
If voters say they are pro-life, the form
says, "Ask if they are registered to vote. If
they are pro-choice, say thank you and walk
away."
The form also tells canvassers, "If anyone
asks who you are working for, it's 'Project
America Vote.' "
Still Seeking a Fair Florida Vote
By Jimmy Carter
Politics and sleaze envelop Orlando
As the presidential campaign approaches its
showdown, the Republicans in the state run by
George Bush's brother are up to their tricks
again
Blackwell ends paper chase
Some could be unable to vote because of flap
over registration forms
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
John Buchanan's new site:
Fixing America
Top Five Risks to
Eligible Voters in 2004
No paper for Md. anti-touchscreen voters
E-lective Alarm

The technical director of Hopkins'
Information Security Institute warns in a new
report that computerized voting is critically
flawed. But proponents are downplaying the
risk.
Are we on the verge of another stolen
election? Is anything being done about it?
Will computers eat their votes?
Machines crash, lose results, leave no paper
trail Critics see a train wreck ahead
and not just in Florida
By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden
location, a second set of votes is
created. This set of votes can be changed, so
that it no longer matches the correct
votes. The voting system will then read the
totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only
seconds to change the votes, and to date not
a single location in the U.S. has implemented
security measures to fully mitigate the
risks.
The main problem with the Electoral College
is that it builds into every election the
possibility, which has been a reality three
times since the Civil War, that the president
will be a candidate who lost the popular
vote.
International Election Monitoring Group
Headed By Impeached U.S. Judge; Group Warns
of Election Catastrophe
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A team of international
observers will monitor the presidential
election in November, according to the
U.S. State Department.
If, on November 2, Kerry is ahead in key
battleground states, then Bush will announce
an imminent terrorist threat in California
and maybe Washington state.

By 5 p.m. EST (2 p.m. on the Pacific
Coast), Bush HQ will know whether Kentucky
and Indiana—key states—are lost. If it
looks like they are going down the drain,
then the White House will flash the go-ahead,
and the U.S. Northern Command (which has
military jurisdiction over the U.S.) will,
along with the Homeland Security Department
and California authorities, declare an
imminent terrorist threat.

Polls will remain open, but everyone will
be trying to get out of urban centers as fast
as they can.

Hand Count


Town meeting form of government, which is
mainly confined to the six New England
states, decides questions of government,
including the annual operating budget, town
by-laws, or other laws with an actual show of
hands. If the vote is close, there are
provisions in most towns for a secret paper
ballot. In some cases the town meeting
moderator could ask voters to stand.
Media suppresses news of Bush's moves to
cancel US elections
What would you say if you knew that
congressmen, congresswomen, senators, and
state election officials have all received
invitations to take a cruise on the Potomac
River, courtesy of the Election Center?
During this cruise, attendees are invited to
enjoy classes on “The Media: Fighting
Back--Getting the Story Straight,”
“Election Litigation, Election Ethics, and
“Why Our Voting Machines Can’t be
Tampered With.”
U.N. monitors sought for U.S. presidential election
World body unlikely to send observers
According to the staff of one candidate, who
were present in her office on election night,
Ms Townsend inexplicably halted the count for
about an hour while two Sequoia employees
were observed typing at a computer terminal
with access to the ballot tabulation
software.
It's no secret that the new voting
technology--paperless, electronic voting
machines--has increased the risk of fraud and
incorrect totals. You have only to read the
daily newspapers to see story after story of
possible tampering and elections gone wrong.
Diebold GEMS central tabulator
contains a stunning security hole
by Bev Harris Aug. 30, 2004
It only takes a few lines of buried code to
lose the occasional ballot or to shift the
count.
"This is all part of some politically
motivated thing that tries to scare people to
somehow think their vote is not going to
count," Bush said. "That's hogwash, hogwash."
Diebrave, Dievalorous, Diebold!
A Security Analysis of the Secure
Electronic Registration and Voting
Experiment (SERVE)
Scientific American: Ballot Breakdown
Flaws continue to hamper computerized voting
Grave concerns over the security of
electronic voting machines in the United
States means the heart of American democracy
is at risk, writes SecurityFocus columnist
Scott Granneman.

Black Box Voting

At least two sets of memos discuss using cell
phones to intercept and transmit vote data.
Bev Harris: Diebold End-
Runs Around Certification
17 September 2003
Bev Harris

High-tech election gear about to go?

Even chads are looking good to Broward
leaders, who are considering dumping their
electronic voting machines for a lower tech
system. -- Erika Bolstad
Sep. 24, 2003
The Greatest Cover-Up Of All:
Vote Fraud In America
by James J. Condit Jr.
Gaffe casts doubts on electronic voting
Monday, September 15, 2003
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