BELLACIAO - 37 Reasons to Ignore Election Fraud and the Ken Starr Rodeo - Bellaciao collective

Aha! This is quite useful, if you want to know why people would be arguing with you over the idea that the election was stolen.

BELLACIAO - 37 Reasons to Ignore Election Fraud and the Ken Starr Rodeo - Bellaciao collective

The great American treason - PRAVDA.Ru

Wow , Pravda hits hard. Nice job!

The great American treason - PRAVDA.Ru

The Diebold Variations

I love these Diebold "ads".

The Diebold Variations

Resolution for Immediate Election Investigation (Berkeley)

Resolution for Immediate Election Investigation

t r u t h o u t - FOCUS: American Democracy Hangs by a Thread in Ohio

t r u t h o u t - FOCUS: American Democracy Hangs by a Thread in Ohio

Goodness, things are really getting crazy out there. Ohio is basically a state of mayhem at the moment. How many lawsuits are there?

John Conyers, D-MI: "At the outset of this hearing, I would like to announce that 10 members of Congress, including myself, have written to (Ohio) Gov. Taft asking him to either delay or treat as provisional the vote of Ohio's presidential electors," Rep. John Conyers, the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee said at the outset. "The closer we get to Columbus and the Ohio presidential election, the worse it looks. Each and every day it becomes increasingly clear that the Republican power structure in this state is acting as if it has something to hide."

t r u t h o u t - FOCUS: Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed

This is quite an article.

t r u t h o u t - FOCUS: Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed: "    Wednesday 15 December 3004
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BRAD BLOG TOO

Some big news here about today's meeting in Ohio of the House Judiciary Dems. Mr. Curtis spoke at this meeting as you can read here:
BRAD BLOG TOO

NPR : Ohio Voting Irregularities

Tavis Smiley Show had a story on Ohio, mostly just repeating what we have all been saying for the last several weeks. I thought it was worth posting though because NPR has not really covered this so far.

NPR : Ohio Voting Irregularities

Greene County Lockdown and more

This is a very interesting article. There are so many fascinating things going on right now, our heads are swimming. Yet, we must push on. Talk of "moving on" and letting this pass are silly. We tried that last time, and where did it get us? This time we cannot give up or move on. We cannot decide to change this for next time, we have to change now.

t r u t h o u t - FOCUS: William Rivers Pitt | The Greene County Lockdown

BRAD BLOG TOO

The BRAD BLOG is keeping a good update on the Curtis/Yang/Feeney matter as well as what's going on in Ohio.

BRAD BLOG TOO

Zogby Polling Seeks Damage Control After Election Day Flub -- 12/09/2004

This is an interesting article. What's most annoying is Sabato's claim that "There is absolutely no chance that the election was stolen..."

What hogwash! There's no way to tell, from what we have available to us, whether it was or wasn't stolen. The problem is that information that would prove or disprove claims of fraud is unavailable for a variety of reasons. Until we can prove that it was not stolen, the chance that it was is still there, and it's something to get upset about, as far as I'm concerned.

Zogby Polling Seeks Damage Control After Election Day Flub -- 12/09/2004

Voting Forum

Here's a special page dedicated to the Conyers hearing 12/8/04.

Voting Forum: "Congressman Conyers hosted a forum on the Ohio Voting Irregularities.
A participant list and statements submitted for the forum are listed below."

20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

I admit freely that I took this top 20 list from several other sites, including Truthout. Many other Web sites list this same top 20 list, so I thought I'd add to the fold.

Did you know....
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold


2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html


3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html


4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886


5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html


6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php


7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html


8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html


9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html


10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm


11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm


12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml


13. Jeff Dean, Diebold's Senior Vice-President and senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf


14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf


15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html


16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here <http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov>.)
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190


17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml


18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=950
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm


19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10544-2004Oct29.html


20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
http://www.yuricareport.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,97614,00.html
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/tens_of_thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/

truthout, Conyers Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud Coverage

William Rivers Pitt blogging live from the Conyers hearings. This was quite an event. It aired on C-Span.

truthout, Conyers Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud Coverage

Thom Hartmann / Coastal Post

Here's Thom Hartmann's article, "The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy." I think his talk about the commons is really important because if anything should be truly held in common, the vote should be part of that, in my opinion.

Coastal Post Online

wbai.org

This article was interesting. The letter listed several irregularities that have been mentioned in the past as well as some that I have not heard. Not sure what to make of the letter at this point, but anyhow, there it is.

wbai.org: "(by Don DeBar, Dec 3, 2004) The White Plains office of the FBI
today refused to accept a complaint detailing allegations of
compound felonies of voter fraud, conspiracy and other offenses in
connection with the Ohio conduct of last month's presidential
election."

Black Box Voting, again

This group is really trying hard, and we must give them credit where credit is due. They are really going to do whatever possible to get the public records they have requested, and they have just filed suit against Teresa LaPore and Palm Beach County, FL:

Go Bev Go

bring out the mini sad violin, you'll need it for this one (A news article about Bev and the Gang crashing LePore's going-away party--at a publicly-funded event)