Your best shot -- the BEST election fraud or reform articles

[Zan_of_Texas]

Now that we start the next phase, it would be nice to have maybe a dozen or two articles that everyone knows about, everyone can find, and can be handed to everyone -- us, plus people who are NOT doing intense research, but just want more of an overview.

We can call it --

Election Fraud, Election Reform -- the Best of the Best.

The floor is open for nominations.

(Wait until I post the categories. ON EDIT -- OKAY, post away!)

Please only post one or two items per category at most -- the BEST. Best researched, best documented, best written, best to pass to other people.

[Zan_of_Texas]

1. Documents for election officials

1.

Ellen Theisen:
"Myth Breakers: Facts about Electronic Elections.
Essential Information
for Those Entrusted with Making Decisions
about Election Systems in the United States"
Second Edition, January 2005
http://www.VotersUnite.org/MB2.pdf

[Zan_of_Texas]

2. General articles on vulnerabilities of electronic voting or tabulating

1.
Ronnie Dugger:
"How They Could Steal the Election This Time,"
The Nation, Cover Story -- August 16, 2004 issue
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040816&s=dugger

2.
Pokey Anderson:
"Even a Remote Chance?"
Voters Unite -- January 10, 2005
http://www.votersunite.org/info/evenaremotechance.htm

[Zan_of_Texas]

25. State of Maryland tests Diebold.

3.
Stephanie Desmon:
"Md. computer testers cast a vote: Election boxes easy to mess with,"
January 30, 2004,
Sun (Maryland)
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-te.md.machine30jan30,0,4050694.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

This test by former National Security Agency experts showed that Diebold DREs could be attacked by someone with a modem and a laptop; they could enter the database, change vote totals, and exit without a trace.

[Chi]

30. Snohomish county e-vote study

EVIDENCE OF ELECTION IRREGULARITIES IN
SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WASHINGTON
GENERAL ELECTION, 20041


http://www.votersunite.org/info/SnohomishElectionFraudInvestigation.pdf

[Zan_of_Texas]

55. more

This is a nice short one, but has good articles that go with it too.

Teresa Hommel:
"Statement Against the Use of Money Allocated under the
Help America Vote Act for the Purchase of
Electronic Voting Systems for New York,"
October 18, 2004
http://www.wheresthepaper.org/NYCChearing10_18.htm

[Zan_of_Texas]

3. What happened in Ohio

1.
The Conyers Report:
"Preserving Democracy:
What Went Wrong in Ohio"
Status Report of the
House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff
January 5, 2005
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohiostatusrept1505.pdf

2.
Congressman John Conyers' letter to
Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell
detailing 34 questions about the Ohio election
(which Blackwell has declined to answer)
December 2, 2004
http://www.bpac.info/pdfdocuments/blackwellltr12204.pdf

3.
Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman:
"Ten preliminary reasons why the Bush vote does not compute, and why Congress must investigate rather than certify the Electoral College"
January 3, 2005
Free Press (Columbus, Ohio)
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1065

[Nothing Without Hope]

15. Should have more of the Fitrakis, Rosenfeld & Wasserman articles

They are an ongoing series and are all good. Some earlier ones might perhaps be dropped because superseded if small number of articles are to be chosen, but they are still valuable references for getting the sense of how the election fraud findings and investigations unfolded. I don't have all the links handy. I will try to dig them up if others don't put them out first.

[Zan_of_Texas]

24. This one focuses on Ohio and national.

4.

Michael Keefer:
"The Strange Death of American Democracy: Endgame in Ohio"
Global Research
January 24, 2005
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE501A.html

It condenses and digests an enormous amount of information, it's footnoted, and it's current.

[livvy]

37. I agree. This one was good.n/t

[Zan_of_Texas]

47. Another overview of Ohio.

Bloomington Peace Action Coalition:
"The Case for Fraud in Ohio Election 2004,"
http://www.bpac.info/OhioFraud.html

[Chi]

31. ANOTHER STOLEN ELECTION:

Two dozen papers by RICHARD HAYES PHILLIPS
Mostly county by county statistical analysis of Ohio.
(Ignore the page title, it's the right site)

http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/alpage.htm

[Zan_of_Texas]

4. What happened in NM

1.
Warren Stewart:
"What Are They Hiding in New Mexico?"
National Ballot Integrity Project
January 19, 2005
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0501/S00152.htm

[Zan_of_Texas]

5. What happened in FL

[Zan_of_Texas]

6. What happened in NC

[Zan_of_Texas]

7. What happened in other states, November 2004

[Zan_of_Texas]

8. General Voter suppression, Election Protection (national)

[Zan_of_Texas]

21. Greg Palast

Greg Palast:
"1.9 million black votes didn't count in the 2000 presidential election
It's not too hard to get your vote lost -- if some politicians want it to be lost"
San Francisco Chronicle
June 20, 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/20/ING2976LG61.DTL

[Zan_of_Texas]

9. What happened in the 2002 Mid-Term

1.
Andrew Gumbel:
"All the President's Votes?"
October 13, 2003
lndependent/UK
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1013-01.htm

[Jo March]

10. Great idea! A big kick for this thread! nt

[Zan_of_Texas]

11. Specific Vendors - Failures in 2004

Voters Unite.org has an extensive list of "mess-ups" by vendor.

[Zan_of_Texas]

12. Ownership of vendors, conflicts of interest

[Zan_of_Texas]

13. Reform proposals

Holt bill?
Paper Only?
Optical Scan with robust random auditing?
Other?

Here is one.

Bruce F. Cole:
"How To Fix a Broken Electoral System In Six Easy Steps,"
CommonDreams.org -- November 19, 2004
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1119-29.htm

[Zan_of_Texas]

14. Graphics, slide shows, radio, visuals, videos

Anything that helps show what's happening.

1.
US map of some of the 2004 election anomalies
http://www.votersunite.org/info/mapflyer2004.pdf

2.
Ohio map of some of the 2004 election anomalies
http://www.votersunite.org/info/mapflyerohio2004.pdf

3.
Votergate -- 30 Minute video, free online, of voting anomalies, etc. <http://www.votergate.tv>

[Zan_of_Texas]

48. Slide show for a general audience.

Peter Drekmeier and Amy Adams:
"Election Fraud 2004 SLIDE SHOW"
December 29, 2004
http://www.electionfraud2004.org/

[meganmonkey]

16. Here is a GREAT RESOURCE

It is a list of probably at least 200 links news articles and reports and analyses etc. of fraud and irregularities.

http://www.jqjacobs.net/bush/

Sorry, not really a particular category

[Zan_of_Texas]

40. Quantity is not the goal for this list.

For quantity, www.votersunite.org has over 3000 recent articles archived now, and they can be searched by state, by problem, etc.

The reason I started this thread is, as someone who educates the public, I can't hand the newbies a list of 200 or 3000 and say, "Okay, get started!"

They have to have some guidance, someone to start them with excellent overviews. Key articles.

And, some of the folks who have done 20 articles would do us all a favor to do a summary article.

[Nothing Without Hope]

17. Articles by Dr. Steven Freeman on the exit poll discrepancies

He is the expert statistician who has done the most work on determining whether the exit poll "discrepancies" are random, and if they are not, whether they indicate fraud. He is still working on later articles which state his findings indicating fraud, but some of the earlier work has been published and the link below (part of his own web site) gives this as well as what he has said in interviews.

http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/epdiscrep.htm

[Zan_of_Texas]

50. Freeman is working on a book.

Release date expected to be May 2005.

His main document re exit poll findings is no longer available freely on the internet, awaiting publication.

[Peace Patriot]

57. Freeman's first paper, "The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy" is...

...well worth reading, and was quite a breathrough in terms of expert attention to this issue. It's there at the url mentioned just upthread.

[garybeck]

18. I've been working on this

I'm putting together a "be the media" kit... it will all fit on a CD. it will have the videos, slideshows, essential docs and articles.

Here's a partial list of what I have so far

freeman doc
slideshow
votergate movie
DU movie (the one released today 1/25)
ohio suppression movies
article on TIA's margin of error report
something from Chuck Herrin
black box voting PDF book
Conyers 100 page report
video of congress contesting the vote
the one-page voting fact sheet on solarbus.org


I'm going to include a few articles from Fitrakis, Hartmann, Palast, etc. but I haven't decided which ones yet.


If anyone has ideas of other docs to add, and/or which of the articles to include, please let me know. I'll keep filling the CD with bits and bytes until it's full and then I'll start giving away copies.

Someone's donated a bit of money to help make this happen so I can give some away and even ship them for free. So I want it to be as complete as possible.

Thanks,
Gary

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ELECTION FRAUD AND REFORM CENTER
your home for updated information on the fight for Democracy in America
http://election.solarbus.org
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[marions ghost]

38. great idea...to do a CD compilation

http://www.jqjacobs.net/bush/

might be helpful

[Calvinist Basset]

19. I was in the library today.

There, I came across some magazine called "American Spectator" (I think that was the title, I'd never heard of it before). It was apparently a right wing rag. In any case, there was an article on election fraud and it kept referencing blogger "conspiracy theories." The thing that ticked me off is that the author (whose name I forget--John Hunt, maybe?) kept "explaining away" all the issues we've raised here--especially that "anomalies," though undesirable, have "always happened." He went on to make this crappy remark about how liberals could have discovered the truth just by picking up a "new fangled device called the 'telephone'" and spoken to election officials about the suspect circumstances reported on the internet (and he was particularly gleeful to point out that Democrats were in charge in Cuyahoga, OH).

Anything I can present to refute such nonsense is fine with me!

[BeFree]

20. We've hit a nerve!

If American Spectator is dissing us it can only mean one thing, we are under their skin. Take it as a complement, the AS was in deep on Clinton's impeachment.

Let's be real... we are ten-percenters. The ten percent who believe. This thread and others like it will help arrange the info enough so that someone with great skill can write a succint report detailing the fraud in a way that anyone who reads it will join us in believing. I can hardly wait for that report.

[NationalEnquirer]

46. Don't read that crap!

Seriously, its a waste of time. Those republicans are all now "right-thinking" robots, except for maybe Pat Buchanon, although when push comes to shove, he lines up too.

[merh]

22. I don't have any to add, I just want to thank you for this thread.

I do appreciate it and have bookmarked it.

Also, have you seen the article dicussed in this thread?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x304358

[Amaryllis]

23. Anything by Chuck Herrin.Hard to dismiss a republican computer security

expert as conspiracy theory! This is one of the best I've seen to give to anyone, repub or person who doesn't believe therer was fraud:
http://www.chuckherrin.com/ConservativeEmpathy.htm
also see his article on paper ballots.
Poke around his website; all his stuff is the best.

[truckin]

28. I agree, The Conservative/Empathy article by Chuck Herrin is the best

single article that clearly states why so many believe that our election process is broken.

[Zan_of_Texas]

26. Kick.

Come on, you all MUST have some excellent articles. The ones you give your friends, the ones you refer back to.

How about it?

[Zan_of_Texas]

27. kicking, in hopes we won't have to reinvent the wheel daily.....

:kick:

[Pendulum]

29. kick

[Amaryllis]

32. See this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss//duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=306983&mesg_id=306983

[Zan_of_Texas]

43. Right. Myth Breakers is essential. Already got that in Post #1.

[Amaryllis]

33. How They Could Steal the Election This Time by Ronnie Dugger predicted

more or less the theft of the 2004 elections.

How They Could Steal the Election This Time

by RONNIE DUGGER



On November 2 millions of Americans will cast their votes for President in computerized voting systems that can be rigged by corporate or local-election insiders. Some 98 million citizens, five out of every six of the roughly 115 million who will go to the polls, will consign their votes into computers that unidentified computer programmers, working in the main for four private corporations and the officials of 10,500 election jurisdictions, could program to invisibly falsify the outcomes.

The result could be the failure of an American presidential election and its collapse into suspicions, accusations and a civic fury that will make Florida 2000 seem like a family spat in the kitchen. Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's Labor Secretary, has written, "Automated voting machines will be easily rigged, with no paper trails to document abuses." Senator John Kerry told Florida Democrats last March, "I don't think we ought to have any vote cast in America that cannot be traced and properly recounted." Pointing out in a recent speech at the NAACP convention that "a million African-Americans were disenfranchised in the last election," Kerry says his campaign is readying 2,000 lawyers to "challenge any place in America where you cannot trace the vote and count the votes" .

The potential for fraud and error is daunting. About 61 million of the votes in November, more than half the total, will be counted in the computers of one company, the privately held Election Systems and Software (ES&S) of Omaha, Nebraska. Altogether, nearly 100 million votes will be counted in computers provided and programmed by ES&S and three other private corporations: British-owned Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, California, whose touch-screen voting equipment was rejected as insecure against fraud by New York City in the 1990s; the Republican-identified company Diebold Election Systems of McKinney, Texas, whose machines malfunctioned this year in a California election; and Hart InterCivic of Austin, one of whose principal investors is Tom Hicks, who helped make George W. Bush a millionaire.

About a third of the votes, 36 million, will be tabulated completely inside the new paperless, direct-recording-electronic (DRE) voting systems, on which you vote directly on a touch-screen. Unlike receipted transactions at the neighborhood ATM, however, you get no paper record of your vote. Since, as a government expert says, "the ballot is embedded in the voting equipment," there is no voter-marked paper ballot to be counted or recounted. Voting on the DRE, you never know, despite what the touch-screen says, whether the computer is counting your vote as you think you are casting it or, either by error or fraud, it is giving it to another candidate. No one can tell what a computer does inside itself by looking at it; an election official "can't watch the bits inside," says Dr. Peter Neumann, the principal scientist at the Computer Science Laboratory of SRI International and a world authority on computer-based risks.

More
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040816&s=dugger

[Zan_of_Texas]

35. Dugger's article is listed in post 2.

He is great. He was writing about this stuff when we were knee high to grasshoppers (1989).

[Amaryllis]

39. Missed it. Here is link to Dugger's 1988 article in New Yorker on e-voting

http://www.votefraud.org/ronnie_dugger_dangers_computerized_voting.htm

[marions ghost]

34. "an American tsunami"...

I nominate this as "best to pass on to other democrats/liberals."
Connects election theft to the big picture.
---------------------------------------------------------------

Should The Left Ignore The 'Stolen Election'

......... by Bertell Ollman January 26, 2005

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=7110

In the course of his very rich article, "The Non-Election of 2004" (Z Magazine, Jan., 2005), Noam Chomsky sought to minimize the importance of the fact that the 2004 presidential election was stolen. And if there is still any doubt in the anti-Bush camp that this past election was stolen, it is - in my view - chiefly because most opinion formers (including writers in the "New York Times", the "Nation" and the "Village Voice") have (mis)understood "stealing" on the model of robbing a bank, where someone has to catch the winning candidate piling boxes of unopened ballots into the back of his pick-up truck before one can say it has occurred. Stealing an election, however, is more like stacking a deck of cards where a devious sleight of hand ensures that the same party wins every time.

The relevant question, then, is whether the well publicized scandals over electronic voting, the numerous problems people had in registering and casting their ballots, the irregularities in counting votes, the politically biased actions of the secretaries of state in the key states of Florida and Ohio, the unwillingness of Republican politicians at all levels of government to address these problems over the last four years, the huge discrepancies between the "official" vote count and usually reliable exit polls, and the fact that practically all of the admitted incidents of blocked, lost, changed, and added votes favored Bush - the question is whether all this constitutes a "stacking of the political deck". If so, there should be no doubt in anybody's mind that the country that likes to bill itself as "the world's foremost democracy" has just gone through a stolen election.

-snip-

Does all this mean that the stolen election should replace the lack of a "real election" as our major concern? Not at all. But, rather than being a minor side show and a tactical dead-end, this stolen election (we can never repeat these words often enough) is an American tsunami, whose waves have not only ruined millions of ballots but pulled off a corner on the operations of a social and economic system that is inherently biased and unjust. Surely, it is our task - and opportunity - to complete the job, which is to explain this cataclysm in a way that helps the dazed survivors see that the robbery goes beyond Bush and the G.O.P., beyond Kerry and the Democrats, and even beyond all the biases and outright fraud in the electoral system, to include the capitalist relations of unequal wealth and power that structure all of the above. Yes, it's possible to begin with what happened on election day and to move with only a few middle steps to all the rotteness that Chomsky so relentlessly and thoroughly brings out about American society… and more.

-snip-

Bush's stolen election is but the tip of the iceberg, but it is the tip that is now showing, and tens of millions of people can see it, many for the first time, and they are raging (if still too silently) about it. The Left must be part of this protest and accompanying debate, widening and deepening both - making the connections, making the connections - however we can. And don't forget the Ukraine. Rather than trying "to restore voters faith in elections", and rather than playing down the dispute over Bush's victory as missing the main point, our's must be a POLITICS OF DELIGITIMATION that seeks to undermine whatever's left of people's faith in American elections in order to help build a real democracy that is OF, BY and FOR all the people.

[marions ghost]

36. Other articles here....

http://www.jqjacobs.net/bush/

[Melissa G]

41. This completed project needs to stay on the front page of D U

We need this info someplace accessible that we can easily refer folks to.

[Zan_of_Texas]

53. That was good!

[dmac]

42. Another great one I hand out is

Armando's Challenge -

http://hamburgsteak.sandwich.net/mirrors/EyeOnOhio/

(I also hand out Chuck Herrin's Empathy article which has already been mentioned).

[Zan_of_Texas]

44. Oh, that's a new one to me!

It's Ohio, and national. Kind of like the Keefer article, but different. Lots of info.

Okay, let me put it in similar format to the earlier ones.

Daily Kos Online Community in response to Armando's Challenge:
"Eye on Ohio: The Informed Citizen's Guide to the 2004 Election,"
December 2004
http://hamburgsteak.sandwich.net/mirrors/EyeOnOhio

[berniew1]

45. Documentation: widespread vote machine fraud and dirty tricks in 20 states

Widespread systematic vote machine fraud, and dirty tricks and suppression of minority registration and voting in at least 20 states in 2004 Election: summary of some of the documentation

Although it was thought that voting inTouchscreen machine counties produces no paper trail, this was not the case this year since the widespread problems found in the 2000 election resulted in 60 non-partisan organizations interested in fair elections forming a consortium in 2004 to provide an election incident reporting system(EIRS) for reporting election irregularities. Thousands of such irregularities were reported in several swing states, especially in touchscreen counties, thus providing a paper trail for election irregularities down to the precinct and even machine level in many cases. From this and other investigations, including the Ohio recount effort, vote machine fraud and systematic dirty tricks and suppression to reduce minority votes has been documented in most states investigated. It is also clear that this was a systematic effort, not isolated local events.

http://www.flcv.com/ussumall.html

[L. Coyote]

49. Links to hundreds of good articles since October

Http://www.jqjacobs.net/bush/

[Senator]

51. Frames/Memes for ALL reform and reformERRRs

We are suggesting 3 themes/frames/memes to be included in any and all election reform efforts. They are intended to change people's thinking about elections in general. (Not least of which, the real target, our own thinking on the left.)

God bless us on the left, but try as we might (and we do), we cannot (and never have been able to) teach/inform our way to success with the general public. There are just too many of our fellow Americans who have been trained to NOT WANT any more information.

Using these themes will help you break down resistance and more quickly change minds. (We've seen it happen. You will too.)

1st - An election is a survey, not a contest.

Just like the census, an election tries to measure an objective reality: the will of the electorate. There's no reason (maybe cost) why we couldn't conduct them in the same way, with bonded agents going door-to-door collecting private ballots from voters.

The point(of view) being made(changed) is that an election is about the voters (not votes - ever). Candidates, campaigns, Parties, officials, equipment manufacturers, are all nearly-irrelevant. There is only one principle/interested-party/owner and that is the electorate as a whole.

2nd - It's the "ERRR," stupid!

Count every vote! -- ERRR!!! -- Count every vote! -- ERRR!!!

Forgive my stupid illustration, but see how easily we can be nudged away from our most powerful moral position and into their pre-gamed arena of discussing only vote-counts, ballots, machines, chads, etc...

This is not simply a bolstering of the first meme (it may seem so, but only because your mind doesn't need changing). We must always speak of voters, and never votes, because unless we do so such things as suppression become "separate issues." We can't allow this.

Victims of poll-tax-lines and "missing" registrations are voters. With the same right to be "surveyed" as everyone else.

3rd - Election manipulation is a capital crime.

(Ok, ok, stop screaming. The sentence can be commuted, all right?)

Yes, this is extreme. Even a bit looney. But it gets your attention, right? That's the power. That and the fact that it's a simple, completely moral proposal.

Election theft is far worse than cop-killing. Worse than 9/11 or any incident of terrorism. It is literally High Treason.

It undermines the only moral principle on which the nation was founded and continues (in theory) to rest. That gov't power can only be derived from the consent of the governed.

So what's so extreme? The truth is that we've been extremely lax in defending our most important of rights. We need to be "born again" as Fundamentalist Americans. That's the way to curb fascism.
------

Why not propose the death penalty for election manipulation? Propose that elections be carried out like the census? Propose that anyone who showed up at a poll, or filled out a registration, be allowed to vote even after election day?

They're just proposals. We can couch them as "ultimate goals." That makes what we're really trying to get done now seem like the "middle road."

But most importantly, it shifts the debate in our general direction. For a change.

____
www.thedeanpeople.org

[rhite5]

54. I like your idea of boiling the concepts down to "memes"

I think this is an approach worth developing.

The sheer quantity of good written materials is too overwhelming.

[Amaryllis]

52. What could reverse 132 years of democrats in GA? Diebold! This is great:

I mean it's a great article. The info is good but the situation isn't great; it sucks.

http://www.solarbus.org/stealyourelection/articles/0128-georgia.pdf

[SophieZ]

56. kick

:kick:

[SpaceBuddy008]

58. STEAL our Vote STEAL Our Future-Primary Evidence

January 31, 2005

Evidence of Fraud and Disenfranchisement in Ohio, 2004 : A Partial List

This post is intended as a resource for those doing factual research on the Ohio election 2004, specifically relating to issues of (a) fraud, (b) disenfranchisment, (c) voter suppression, (d) recount obstruction, and (e) vote machine tampering. It makes no pretense at comprehensiveness, but is merely an attempt to compile links which have been posted on this site which either (1) are themselves primary sources of evidence, or (2) summarize, analyze, or point to, such sources.
The links are listed in reverse chronological order of posting.

They are numbered in reverse numerical order; the first 2 digits of each link refer to the year of posting. (I.e. “0410" is the 10th post in 2004).

http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2005/01/evidence-of-fraud-and.html
*****
January 31, 2005
Audio: Speeches from Rally for the Republic, Faneueil Hall, Boston, MA, Jan 3, 2005
Robin Weingarten Campaign volunteer in Ohio, CAEF member.

Greg Greenway - One Man, One Woman, One Vote Musician

Fay Morrison Ayer Selectwoman, witness to voter intimidation and touch screen fraud in FL and OH

Tom Barbera Waltham Elector whose motion asking for the investigation and remedy of election violations was passed unanimously by all twelve Massachusetts Electors

Jeff Taylor Vermont Elector who passed a motion with the other Electors in his state for the investigation and remedy of election violations

Grace Ross CAEF member, Truth In Elections member.

Sheila Parks Vice Presidential candidate for the Green Party, Historian, Liberal talk show host

Donna Palermino Activist and Attorney, to speak on the legal aspects of the challenge, member CAEF

David Lytel Part of the 2000 & 2004 challenges to Congress against the certification of Electoral College votes for reasons of election fraud and civil rights violations

Pat LaMarche Vice Presidential candidate for the Green Party, Historian, Liberal talk show host

John Bonifaz General Counsel of the National Voting Rights Institute and Co-counsel for Presidential Candidates David Cobb and Michael Badnarik in their demand for a meaningful recount of 2004 in Ohio

Jonathan Simon Activist and Attorney, Collaborator with Steven Freeman on 2004 exit poll analysis

Greg Greenway -- offeratory

(from the Coalition Against Election Fraud web site.) www.caef.us

http://www.nostolendemocracy.typepad.com/

also see
http://www.bushflash.com/fh.html

from this compilation of multi-media to initiate quantum leap & build critical mass of enlightenment

http://www.bushflash.com/media.html

Moving Pictures are moving!

[tommcintyre]

59. kick

[Joe Chi Minh]

60. It's difficult

not to be impressed by the penetrating syntheses of the Dem's legal eagles, such as Conyers and Arnbeck, isn't it. Which is not, of course, to downplay the work of the many expert investigators and analysts who provided the material that they brought together and shaped into a legal WMD. The best of these, I think, was Conyer's last one.

[tommcintyre]

61. kick

[tommcintyre]

62. kick before its lost forever in archiveland

Anything new?

[WeHoldTheseTruths]

63. Here's some more.

Peace Patriot created this summary on Feb. 21.
" HELDERHEID, this is for you! Quick summary of 2004 Election Fraud!"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x331151

Note that post #66 in that thread points to any problems with clicking on or copying the URLs in documentation. It also adds a few.

Sorry I don't have time right now to sort them by catagory.

[kster]

64. Written Feb, 2004, but fits right into Feb, 2005

http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0204web/vote.html

[Zan_of_Texas]

65. Select Bibliography - here it is. Apologies to those left off.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY - ELECTION REFORM ISSUES
February 2005


Ellen Theisen:
"Myth Breakers: Facts about Electronic Elections.
Essential Information for Those Entrusted with Making
Decisions about Election Systems in the United States,"
Second Edition, January 2005
http://www.VotersUnite.org/MB2.pdf

Bruce F. Cole:
"How To Fix a Broken Electoral System In Six Easy Steps,"
CommonDreams.org
November 19, 2004
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1119-29.htm

Ronnie Dugger:
"How They Could Steal the Election This Time,"
The Nation, Cover Story
August 16, 2004 issue
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040816&s=dugger

Teresa Hommel:
"Statement Against the Use of Money Allocated under the
Help America Vote Act for the Purchase of
Electronic Voting Systems for New York,"
October 18, 2004
http://www.wheresthepaper.org/NYCChearing10_18.htm

Stephanie Desmon:
"Md. Computer Testers Cast a Vote: Election Boxes Easy to Mess With,"
January 30, 2004
Sun (Maryland)
This test by former National Security Agency experts showed that Diebold DREs could be attacked by someone with a modem and a laptop; they could enter the database, change vote totals, and exit without a trace.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-te.md.machine30jan30,0,4050694.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

Pokey Anderson:
"Even a Remote Chance?"
Voters Unite
January 10, 2005
http://www.votersunite.org/info/evenaremotechance.htm

Chuck Herrin:
"How to Hack the Vote: the Short Version,"
http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevotedemo.htm

Chuck Herrin:
"Empathy Training for Compassionate Conservatives: Why the Democrats Are Still Whining About the Election (and Why Maybe We Should Be, Too),"
http://www.chuckherrin.com/ConservativeEmpathy.htm

Endorsement of Over 2000 Technologists
for a Voter-Verified Audit Trail
Verified Voting.org
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/endorse.php?in=1&etype=Technologists

Rick Dawson and Loni Smith McKown:
"Will Your Vote Count?"
WISH-TV Indianapolis - An I-Team 8 Investigation
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/category.asp?C=49590&nav=LymHKrIq
One notable portion of the series is:
"Excerpts from Interviews with MicroVote Executives"
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647598&nav=0Ra7Jxq2

The Public Accountability Initiative:
"Partisanship and Conflicts of Interest in the Electronic Voting Industry,"
http://www.publicaccountability.org/election.html

Lynn Landes:
"Voting Systems Organizations and Companies,"
Extensive Notes
http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineCompanies.htm

Voters Unite.org:
"Malfunctions and Miscounts, Sorted by Vendor,"
http://www.votersunite.org/info/messupsbyvendor.asp

Bertell Ollman:
"Should The Left Ignore The 'Stolen Election,'"
January 26, 2005
ZNet
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=7110


OHIO, NEW MEXICO, N.C., WASHINGTON STATE, THE NATION - 2004

EIRS:
"Election Incident Reports"
Over 40,000 reports for November 2004, including map of frequency
https://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRMapNation&tab=ALL

Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman:
"Ten preliminary reasons why the Bush vote does not compute, and why Congress must investigate rather than certify the Electoral College,"
Free Press (Columbus, Ohio)
January 3, 2005
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1065

Michael Keefer:
"The Strange Death of American Democracy: Endgame in Ohio,"
Global Research
January 24, 2005
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE501A.html

Daily Kos online community in response to Armando's Challenge:
"Eye on Ohio: The Informed Citizen's Guide to the 2004 Election,"
December 2004
http://hamburgsteak.sandwich.net/mirrors/EyeOnOhio

Congressman John Conyers' letter to
Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell
detailing 34 questions about the Ohio election
(which Blackwell has declined to answer),
December 2, 2004
http://www.bpac.info/pdfdocuments/blackwellltr12204.pdf

The Conyers Report:
"Preserving Democracy:
What Went Wrong in Ohio"
Status Report of the
House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff,
January 5, 2005
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohiostatusrept1505.pdf

"Executive Summary of Conyers Report,
Preserving Democracy"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010605Y.shtml

Warren Stewart:
"What Are They Hiding in New Mexico?"
National Ballot Integrity Project
January 19, 2005
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0501/S00152.htm

Joyce McCloy:
"North Carolina's Ballot Blues,"
Raleigh News and Observer
Nov 26, 2004
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/story/1867424p-8200319c.html

Paul R. Lehto, J.D., and Jeffrey Hoffman, Ph.D.:
"Evidence of Election Irregularities in Snohomish County, Washington
General Election, 2004,"
http://www.votersunite.org/info/SnohomishElectionFraudInvestigation.pdf


EXIT POLLS

Josh Mitteldorf, PhD, Kathy Dopp, MS in mathematics,
Steven F. Freeman, PhD, Brian Joiner, PhD, Frank Stenger, PhD,
Richard G. Sheehan, PhD, Elizabeth Liddle, MA (UK), PhD candidate,
Paul F. Velleman, PhD, Victoria Lovegren, PhD, Campbell B. Read, PhD:
"Response to Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 Report,"
US Count Votes
http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/USCountVotes_Re_Mitofsky-Edison.pdf



VOTER SUPPRESSION; VOTING WHILE BLACK

Greg Palast:
"1.9 million black votes didn't count in the 2000 presidential election.
It's not too hard to get your vote lost -- if some politicians want it to be lost,"
San Francisco Chronicle
June 20, 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/20/ING2976LG61.DTL


THE 2002 MID-TERM ELECTION

Andrew Gumbel:
"All the President's Votes?"
October 13, 2003
Independent/UK
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1013-01.htm


ONE OF THE FIRST WARNING BELLS - 1988

Ronnie Dugger:
"Annals of Democracy -
Counting Votes,"
November 7, 1988 issue
The New Yorker Magazine
http://www.votefraud.org/ronnie_dugger_dangers_computerized_voting.htm


VISUAL

"Votergate,"
30-Minute video, free online, of voting anomalies, etc.
http://www.votergate.tv

US map of some of the 2004 election anomalies
http://www.votersunite.org/info/mapflyer2004.pdf

Ohio map of some of the 2004 election anomalies
http://www.votersunite.org/info/mapflyerohio2004.pdf

Peter Drekmeier and Amy Adams:
"Election Fraud 2004 SLIDE SHOW,"
December 29, 2004
http://www.electionfraud2004.org/

Billionaires for Bush:
"Block the Vote Heroes" Online Playing Cards
http://billionairesforbush.com/cards.php#4