Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Tuesday 8/09/05

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Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Tuesday 8/09/05

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Please "Recommend" for the Greatest Page (it's the link just below). Atlanta Journal Constitution: Tens of Thousands March Supporting Voting Rights Act

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1. Atlanta Journal Constitution: Voting Rights -- 10's of Thousands March

THIS IS WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT—VOTING RIGHTS!!!


Reps. John Lewis and Maxine Waters, Harry Belafonte,
Rev. Jackson, Democratic House Leader, Nancy Pelosi

VOTING RIGHTS ACT: RENEWAL OF GOOD FAITH

By BOB KEMPER in Washington, TOM BAXTER in Atlanta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/05/05

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/0805/05natrav.html

Supporters and critics of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 agree on just one thing: It worked.

The law was adopted amid the violence and bloodshed of the civil rights movement to abolish racism at the ballot box and guarantee black Americans the right to vote.

Black voter turnout since then has varied with the perceived importance of each election, and the last two presidential elections set records for minority participation. Meanwhile, the number of African-Americans elected to public office has increased sixfold.
Key provisions of the Voting Rights Act are up for reauthorization in 2007, though with its 40th anniversary Saturday, the act is already the subject of intense congressional maneuvering. The Rev. Jesse Jackson will lead a march in Atlanta on the anniversary and has launched a national petition drive to urge the White House to extend the provisions of the law.

"We know there's a scheme afoot to make the Voting Rights Act invalid by rebooting the Supreme Court," Jackson said Thursday at a news conference in Atlanta on plans for the march. "We deserve better."


Rev. Jackson on another day, January 6, 2006 speaking in Washington DC, Lafayette part, at an “unauthorized “ rally. He outlined the “new voting rights movement incorporating election fraud activists. Also attending the Voting Rights Rally and March were the late Rev. Moss, Cliff Arnebeck, Rep. Maxine Waters, Green Pres. Candidate David Cobb, and Kim Gandy, NOW President.


Voting Rights activists march from the White House to the Senate urging Senators to reject the Ohio electors.

THE NEW VOTING RIGHTS MOVEMENT INCLUDES A RAINBOW COALITION

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2. It’s ALL NOE, ALL THE TIME: America’s best paper: The Toledo Blade

News from America’s greatest news organization, The Toledo Blade



COIN TRADES OFFERED HUGE UPSIDE FOR DEALERS
BUT STATE'S PROFIT WAS OFTEN LIMITED TO A PERCENTAGE

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050808/NEWS24/508080361

By CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK
BLADE STAFF WRITER

COLUMBUS - Money flows in one direction and then shifts back to the other; everyone takes a percentage along the way, draining the profit from the deal.

It happens in most any industry of buying and selling. It happens every day on Wall Street. It was happening with the state's investment in rare coins.

This deluge flowed from an unregulated wellspring of $50 million that the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation gave to coin dealer Tom Noe to invest.

Like a river that cuts through the landscape, Mr. Noe's money trails, gleaned from records released by the state over the last several weeks, were not straight-flowing propositions but meandering. The state's money supplied private coin dealers with plenty of cash, but left the state with less for its own investment.

Mr. Noe said in a March interview with The Blade: "I share the wealth. I'm not a pig. I let a lot of people play."

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3. CoolAqua Blog: Oldie but a goodie--Noe Scandal Score Sheet

One you may have missed: GeneGate, good Lord, what will the Buckeye State come up with next? Tom Noe’s plans to clone himself to maximuse Republican fund raising.

OHIO'S GOP FINANCIER TOM NOE NOW UNDER INVESTIGATION BY UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOR ETHICS VIOLATIONS

COOL ACQUA BLOG

http://coolaqua.blogs.com/coolaqua/2005/06/ohios_gop_finan.html

First Coingate, then HedgeGate, Now GeneGate and TurnPikeGate?
Tom Noe, Ohio's Republican fundraiser who is currently under investigation for taking money from Ohio's Bureau of Workers Compenstion to finance a wide variety Ohio GOP and National GOP candidates, apparently had another interest other than coin collecting; gentically engineered crops.

The situation is so bad that AP reports that "Ohio Republicans who received campaign contributions from Toledo-area coin dealer Tom Noe can't give the money back fast enough now."

The most recent revelation is that Tom Noe had to step down as a University Regent due to a conflict of interest in a personal investment in a University of Toledo startup, Hi-Genomics, where he was both an investor and a university regent, and was apparently attempting to sway negotiations in the new startup for his own personal financial gain

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4. BradBlog: Brad Friedman Nails Republican Election Fraud Trolls

BradBlog’s Brad Friedman: America’s Fake “Voting Rights Group”

Brad Friedman’s on the case. When the Republican disinformation campaign targets election fraud by democrats, you know that it’s a preemptive strike (their style). What do they have to hide? Better yet, what don’t they?



ACVR, AMERICA'S FAKE 'VOTING RIGHTS' GROUP, ENLISTS FAKE 'DEMOCRAT' TO SHILL FOR FAKE 'ELECTION FRAUD' REPORT!

'DEM' ACVR SUPPORTER ALSO A BUSH/CHENEY SUPPORTER

(UN)AMERICAN CENTER FOR AGAINST VOTING RIGHTS CONTINUES CAMPAIGN OF LIES ON BEHALF OF GOP...

Brad Friedman http://bradblog.com/
The "Roger Ailes" blog does some fine Googling on the supposed American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR) "Democrat" who was used in last week's flurry of hoax Press Releases to promote their hoax report on "Election Fraud" in the 2004 Election attempting to hoax America into believe that "paid Democrat operatives were far more involved in voter intimidation and suppression activities than were their Republican counterparts during the 2004 presidential election."

Nonetheless, the Rightwing Blogosphere keeps attempting to flog the story, despite so much documented evidence to show that the ACVR's a complete scam run by high-level GOP operatives hoping to distract from the real Election Fraud and myriad of Irregularities last November committed by their paymasters from Team Bush/Cheney.

After finally finding a "Democrat" that the ACVR could quote from in hopes of misleading and distracting from the fact that the self-proclaimed "non-partisan" group of high-level GOP operatives is actually anything but, it turns out that the use of this "Democrat" is simply more disinformation from these disdainful anti-American, democracy-hating ratfuckers. They're still hoping to spoof the country into believing they are "Voting Rights" advocats rather than pure, unabashed Republican operatives (in the worst sense of the word) hoping to distract from the mountain of GOP "Election Irregularties" last November and further disenfranchise millions of more American voters through their insidious schemes to keep potential Democratic voters from being able to actually cast a vote on Election Day.

THANKS BRAD. WE DU APPRECIATE THIS HERE AT 2004 ERD!!!

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5. Cincinnati Enquirer: What’s Happening in Clermont – Shocking!

Wow, Clermont County, Ohio. Isn’t that where a “humidity” crisis stopped the 50-50 vote count after 88% of ballots were in and, magically, the election turned out to be a 52-48% win for the Republican. What a coincidence! Wonder what these folks do when it's humid?



CLERMONT SECOND ON LIST OF BUSTED METH LABS
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050808/NEWS01/508080329/1056/NEWS01

The Associated Press

CLEVELAND - Clermont County is near the top of the surge in methamphetamine abuse in Ohio, law enforcement officials say.

Between 2001 and 2004, 105 meth sites - clandestine labs, chemical caches or residue dump sites - were uncovered in Clermont County, the Plain Dealer newspaper reported Sunday.

That's second only to Summit County, which had 186 sites in that period.

The number of sites statewide has grown from 92 in 2001 to 352 last year, according to statistics from the Ohio Attorney General's office. "You've heard about crack, you've heard about heroin," said Akron police Lt. Mike Caprez. "I've seen all those things take their course, and this has them both beat."

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6. Kick.

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7. "Rank" has a new job

We all seem to find out niches.

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8. SAN FRANCISCO Mock election to help test, choose voting technology

for the disabled.

Ilene Lelchuk, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, August 2, 2005

The Department of Elections is inviting San Francisco residents to stop by City Hall for a mock election through Aug. 12 to help the city test and choose between two voting systems that will be more accessible for people with disabilities.

Using two kinds of touch screens, volunteer testers can pretend to vote for their favorite flower, animal and San Francisco attraction, and then rate how easy it was to cast their votes.

Under federal law, the city has until January to have at least one accessible machine for each polling place. The current voting system uses paper ballots that voters complete with a pen and then feed into optical scan machines at each precinct to tally the votes.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/02/BAG2EE1HS01.DTL&hw=election+San+Francisco&sn=010&sc=627

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9. Voter Confidence Resolution passed in Arcata, CA

Here is a story of citizens who chose not to be complacent: In Arcata, California, the local citizenry created a "Resolution of Voter Confidence." (led by Dave Berman, whose actions show that one person can truly make a difference!) The full text of the Resolution is posted below this story.

"The Voter Confidence Resolution is a common sense statement saying privatized election machines and secret vote counting ensure inconclusive outcomes. Under these conditions we will never have unanimous agreement about election results," says Dave Berman, co-founder of the Voter Confidence Committee of Humboldt County, Calif.

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The Resolution also states that the Consent of the Governed, defined in the Declaration of Independence as the self-evident truth from which Government derives 'just Power,' is no longer being sought through elections in America. Unverifiable votes, privatized source code, and secret vote counting ensure inconclusive outcomes. Since the results are inherently uncertain, the Resolution states, there is no basis for confidence.

Around the U.S., election reform advocates are actively organizing and lobbying their City Councils to pass the Voter Confidence Resolution as well.

The resolution adopted by Arcata has been developed at Dave Berman’s blog, <http://guvwurld.blogspot.com/> , and is presented as a template to be customized somewhat by other participating communities. However, the following points are the framework for the Resolution, which when used around the country will generate a cumulative impact as more and more resolutions pass:

-cont.

http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/9525.html

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10. Recommended!