Now the evidence is mounting that the 2004 Presidential election was corrupted by the special interests that want to continue war, throwing more people into harm's way, and controlling every aspect of our lives.

1. MSNBC Reports Machine glitch gave Bush extra Ohio votes

Officials say 3,893-vote error did not affect state result
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:17 p.m. ET Nov. 5, 2004

"Problems in North Carolina, California - In one North Carolina county, more than 4,500 votes were lost in Tuesday's election because officials mistakenly believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did.

And in San Francisco, a voting software malfunction could delay efforts to declare the winners of four county supervisor races.

In the Gahanna precinct, multiple copies of each ballot were recorded: two on the machine and three to a removable cartridge, said Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections. When voting ends, each cartridge is taken to one of five zones in the county, where the results were loaded into a laptop. Those results were transferred by secure data lines to the county."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6418513/


2. Dirty Election: From Bellaciao.org

Friday 5th November 2004 :

Too many voting 'irregularities' to be coincidence

"Isn't it strange that all of these 'anomalies' in the exit polls and touchscreen machines always seem to favor Bush? There were many similar reports after the 2002 congressional elections, when the Republicans took control of Congress (which the evil cabal needed to prevent a real 911 investigation and to start the war free of consequences)."

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4175

3. Tompaine.com reports that Kerry won in Ohio and New Mexico.

"Most voters in Ohio thought they were voting for Kerry. At 1:05 a.m. Wednesday morning, CNN's exit poll showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio women by 53 percent to 47 percent. The exit polls were later combined with—and therefore contaminated by—the tabulated results, ultimately becoming a mirror of the apparent actual vote. [To read about the skewing of exit polls to conform to official results, click here .] Kerry also defeated Bush among Ohio's male voters 51 percent to 49 percent. Unless a third gender voted in Ohio, Kerry took the state.

So what's going on here? Answer: the exit polls are accurate. Pollsters ask, "Who did you vote for?" Unfortunately, they don't ask the crucial, question, "Was your vote counted?" The voters don't know.

Here's why. Although the exit polls show that most voters in Ohio punched cards for Kerry-Edwards, thousands of these votes were simply not recorded. This was predictable and it was predicted. [See TomPaine.com, "An Election Spoiled Rotten," November 1.]"

http://www.tompaine.com/print/kerry_won_.php

4. From CounterBias.com "The Case For Fraud"

"Here are grounds for suspicion. Electronic voting machines figured heavily in the final tabulation of the results in Ohio, Florida, and New Mexico. Moreover, in all three, paper audit trails do not exist. These states therefore offered the best, safest opportunity for manipulation of the final count."

http://www.counterbias.com/152.html

5. The News-Dispatch "Computer glitch still baffles county clerk" by Kristin Miller, Michigan City, Indiana

"LaPORTE - The day after a two-and-a-half-hour delay in counting ballots due to a glitch in a computer program, LaPorte County election officials are still trying to figure out what happened.

"Maybe there was a power surge," LaPorte County Clerk Lynne Spevak said. "Something zapped it."

At about 7 p.m. Tuesday, it was noticed that the first two or three printouts from individual precinct reports all listed an identical number of voters. Each precinct was listed as having 300 registered voters. That means the total number of voters for the county would be 22,200, although there are actually more than 79,000 registered
voters."

http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004/11/04/news/news02.txt


What makes this election so important is the needs of world peace and healing are not being met by the current administration. We have a half century of war as action and reaction. Please read - Rogue Superpower and take a stand for peace. It begins within each of us.

"But the truth is: from Hiroshima to Vietnam to Iraq, the United States of America has been the biggest and most ruthless perpetrator of bombings in the world."

http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/RogueSuperpower

Peace on earth to men of good will.


Informant: J. Nayer Hardin

Please go to this board to find all the latest in the voter fraud news. May I add that even if the voting outcomes are the same (which they are not), the right for all Americans to vote and have their votes counted legitimately is at stake here.

Laurel


2 pages now:
http://boomerchick.proboards23.com/index.cgi?board=discuss&action=display&num=1099658127

2 pages now:
http://boomerchick.proboards23.com/index.cgi?board=discuss&action=display&num=1099615171&start=15

Warren's vote tally walled off
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/11/05/loc_warrenvote05.html


Informant: elvis oner

Should the Kerry campaign and the DNC challenge the election fraud that many believe has taken place? Here's a page where you can email them and the Government Accountability Office too from a single form with one click, and pass the word to all your friends as well.

http://www.thepen.us/e-fraud.html

Speak out through the People's Email Network.


Informant: thepen_ab

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000715.html

Palm Beach County Logs 88,000 More Votes Than Voters

November 5, 2004 04:56 PM

According to the official election results posted on the Palm Beach County election website
[http://www.pbcelections.org/ElectionResults/2004/General/Gen04_dtl.htm 542,835 ballots were cast for a presidential candidate while only 454,427 voters turned out for the election (including absentee). This leaves a discrepancy of 88,408 votes cast for the presidential candidates.

Palm Beach County's supervisor of elections is Theresa LePore who is known for the 2000 Presidential Election and the notorious "butterfly ballot" that caused confusion among seniors and other Floridians.

Other election oddities http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm occurred throughout Florida with some counties registering a 400% increase in expected voter turnout among Republicans while Democrats supposedly experienced a -60% decline in expected support within certain counties. The 50+ counties experiencing the high percentage fluctuations in expected turnout used optical scan voting machines on November 2nd.

Vote discrepancies were also found in Gahanna, Ohio which gave an extra 4,000 votes to President Bush. The error was explained away by Franklin County administrators as a "glitch" in the electronic voting system.

Update: Palm Beach County has updated their numbers and added 91,802 absentee ballots and 1,041 provisional ballots. The vote totals for president increased by 1,543. To view an archived copy of the previous report, click here http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/pbcturnout.htm .

While Palm Beach County appears to have accounted for the discrepancy, this underscores the flaws in the system and data compilation.

For more information, see Shane Cory's latest commentary, Should America Trust the Results of the Election?
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_10500.shtml


Informant: Cort Greene

Darf man überhaupt fragen, wie fair die Wahlen in den USA waren?

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/mein/18755/1.html

Childhood leukemia risk doubles near powerlines in biggest-ever UK study

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/childhood_leukemia_risk_doubles_near_powerlines.html

The November 2 Exit Poll Scam
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE411A.html


From Information Clearing House

It Is a Rigged Game

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHI411B.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000715.html


From Information Clearing House

A national voting rights group said Friday it documented hundreds of voting irregularities affecting poor and minority voters in seven Southern states - from long lines and faulty equipment to deliberate voter intimidation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4598911,00.html


From Information Clearing House

You won't have heard of the British-American Project, but its members include some of the most powerful men and women in the UK. Officially it exists to promote the 'special relationship', but it has been described as a Trojan horse for US foreign policy. Even its supporters joke that it's funded by the CIA.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,1343704,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Kerry called for unity, but living with the enemy is not easy for his followers...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1344829,00.html



From Information Clearing House

President Bush promised in 2000 that he would lead a humble country, be a uniter not a divider, that he would make conservatism compassionate. He did not need to make such false promises this time.

http://snipurl.com/ag8e


From Information Clearing House

How do you attack God's minions without appearing Godless?

http://207.44.245.159/article7228.htm

Under the Geneva Conventions, occupying armies have a responsibility (i.e., a moral duty), to count the number of people killed on the other side. US forces in Iraq have not done so.

http://207.44.245.159/article7227.htm

STRESSING the US President had a "duty to lead", George W. Bush made clear yesterday he was prepared to launch more pre-emptive strikes to protect the US even if other countries continued to disagree with his policy.

http://207.44.245.159/article7230.htm

http://tinyurl.com/3ubdy


Informant: S.T.Ill Freeman

http://tinyurl.com/6cgdb


Informant: Bea Bernhausen

http://breakingnewsblog.com/robotics/archives/us_army_tests_battlefield_robot_armed_with_pump_action_shotgun/


Informant: S.T.Ill Freeman

http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm


Informant: Pam Loffredo

http://207.44.245.159/video1040.htm


Informant: Bea Bernhausen

Die Botschaft von Niederalteich

Klimaturbulenzen und Naturkatastrophen nehmen vor unserer Haustür sowie weltweit ständig zu. Das Steigerungsspiel "immer mehr, immer schneller" ist nicht beliebig verlängerbar, ohne die natürlichen Grenzen des Naturhaushaltes zu sprengen und ohne das Überleben dieser und kommender Generationen zu gefährden.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Art-Umweltpolitik/5334.php



2004: Größte Naturkatastrophe aller Zeiten

Rückversicherungen sind die Großhändler des Risikoschutzes. Deshalb treffen Wirbelstürme, Taifune, Erdbeben, Überschwemmungen, aber auch Terrorangriffe wie am 11. September diese Branche besonders hart. 2003 musste die Münchner Rück, die größte Rückversicherung der Welt, Verluste von beinahe einer halben Milliarde Euro melden. Auch 2001 und 2002 waren für die gesamte Branche verlustreich. 2004 sollten endlich wieder Gewinne eingefahren werden. Doch auch in diesem Jahr werden die Gewinne geringer ausfallen als erwartet. Schuld sind die jüngsten Naturkatastrophen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5565.php



Klimawandel - Was kann ich tun?

Wirbelstürme in der Karibik, Flutkatastrophen in Asien, Abschmelzen der Polkappen an Nord- und Südpol – die Auswirkungen der globalen Erwärmung sorgen inzwischen fast täglich für Schlagzeilen. Als erste PR-Agentur Deutschlands hat sich deshalb die Hamburger Firma Ecoquest ( http://www.ecoquest.de ) verpflichtet, den eigenen Geschäftsbetrieb mit Hilfe der Klimaschutzinitiative Climate Partner ( http://www.climatepartner.com ) klimaneutral zu führen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5529.php



Klimaforscher sehen schwarz für die Zukunft

Wissenschaftler warnen auf Pekinger Konferenz vor Erderwärmung - Kyoto nützt kaum.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5547.php



Der Klimawandel erreicht Europa

Vorboten für den Klimawandel auch in Europa gibt es schon länger. So hat z.B. der Hitzesommer 2002 nach Berechnungen des Internationalen Roten Kreuzes in Westeuropa 35.000 Menschen das Leben gekostet. Jetzt sind die Klimaforscher alarmiert durch die Blauzungenkrankheit, die bisher nur in Afrika auftrat, aber seit einigen Wochen erstmals in Spanien Schafe, Kühe und freilebendes Rotwild befällt.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5539.php

Welcome to the "Fight the Fingerprint" Web Site!

We Stand Firmly Opposed to All Government Sanctioned Biometrics and Social Security Number Identification Schemes!

http://www.networkusa.org/fingerprint.shtml


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 7th, 2004

(When the polls closed in Chicago, American Free Press was at the Cook County clerk's office to see how the secretive private company that operates the voting machines in America's third largest city actually controls the counting of the votes.) The morning after Election Day, the Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards promised the nation that the Democrats would "make sure that every vote counts, and that every vote is counted."

Later in the day, as the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, conceded defeat to George W. Bush, his 9th cousin and fellow "Bonesman from Yale's elite secret society, The Order of the Skull & Bones, he said: "In America, it is vital that every vote count. Kerry and Edwards, however, conceded defeat before some 170,000 to 250,000 provisional ballots from the state of Ohio, which could have changed the outcome of the election, had been counted. As the public has been led to believe, the final tally came down to a near 50-50 split and it was the "swing state of Ohio that made the difference.

But how were the votes actually counted across the nation on November 2?

http://www.rense.com/general59/howaprivatecompany.htm

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"Skull and Bones will still keep control of the presidency"

The thing to notice is that Russert and Brokaw make out like Bush and Kerry had diametrically opposed policies. Both supported the war, the Patriot Act, big government and dozens of other issues.

http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/november2004/041104brokawrussert.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 7th, 2004

More than 4,500 votes have been lost in one North Carolina county because officials believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. Scattered other problems may change results in races around the state. Officials said UniLect Corp., the maker of the county's electronic voting system, told them that each storage unit could handle 10,500 votes, but the limit was actually 3,005 votes. Expecting the greater capacity, the county used only one unit during the early voting period. "If we had known, we would have had the units to handle the votes," said Sue Verdon, secretary of the county election board. Officials said 3,005 early votes were stored, but 4,530 were lost. Jack Gerbel, president and owner of Dublin, Calif.-based UniLect, said Thursday that the county's elections board was given incorrect information. There is no way to retrieve the missing data, he said.
"That is the situation and it's definitely terrible," he said.

http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/november2004/041104voteslost.htm

http://www.rense.com/general59/kekr.htm

From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 7th, 2004

http://www.infowars.com/print/election/darkest_days.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 7th, 2004

A female interrogator ran her fingers through a prisoner's hair and sat in his lap, a barber gave reverse mohawks and a detainee was forced to kneel so many times he was bruised, the U.S. government says in the most detailed accounting of eight abuse cases at its Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects. Those responsible for the abuse have been demoted, reprimanded or sent for more training, according to an 800-word U.S. military response to a written query from The Associated Press. Allegations of mistreatment at Guantanamo, where 550 terror suspects have been held for nearly three years, surfaced after the abuse scandal broke last year at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where pictures showed beatings and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners.

The details of abuse at Guantanamo come as lawyers for several prisoners challenge evidence presented by the government, saying some could have been obtained by force. Only four prisoners have been formally charged at Guantanamo, where most are held without charge or access to lawyers. The military has reported 34 suicide attempts among detainees, though none has been reported since January.

Guantanamo's new commander says lessons have been learned from past abuses cases and troops are treating detainees humanely with a rigorous system of checks and balances.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?I345257B9


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 7th, 2004

The CIA interrogated and beat Iraqi prisoners in a room where a handcuffed and hooded prisoner was kicked, slapped and punched shortly before he died last year at the Abu Ghraib prison, a US Navy Seal has testified.

Blood was visible on the hood worn by the prisoner, Manadal al-Jamadi, as he was led into the interrogation room at Baghdad International Airport in November 2003, the navy commando said at a military pre-trial hearing on Monday for another Seal accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners. Testifying under a grant of immunity, the witness, identified only by his rank as a hospital corpsman, said he kicked al-Jamadi several times, slapped him in the back of the head and punched him. Five or six other CIA personnel in the "romper room" laid their hands on the prisoner, he said, but did not provide details.

Sometime later, al-Jamadi was found dead in a shower room at Abu Ghraib less than an hour after two CIA personnel brought him into Abu Ghraib as a "ghost detainee", according to army Major-General George Fay's report on the notorious prison.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A9F456C8-5014-4291-8ABC-77E7763CC456.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 7th, 2004

The technology to implant microchips and track people's movements and even their bank accounts with these chips is now being publicly acknowledged. The below two articles from the CNN and CBS websites cause one to pause and think. I am a big supporter of truth and transparency on both global and personal levels, but microchips under the skin is an invasive procedure for which I have no interest. Some fear this technology may eventually lead to mass microchipping of the human population for reasons of "national security." This would clearly be a gross invasion of privacy. Notice how both articles below seem to be subtly trying to convince the public that this is a beneficial technology, already accepted by people outside of the US.

I have heard from several insiders that the cutting edge technology being developed in secret, unacknowledged "black projects" by our military and intelligence services is 10 years or more in advance of anything being sold to the public. Several years ago, I attended a lecture given by former Vice President Al Gore's science advisor in Washington, DC. He said that the gadgets and weapons being developed in top secret programs that he had been privileged to see were seriously disturbing to him. And this is someone who knows a lot about cutting-edge technology. Please help spread the news so that people are aware of what is going on in the world. Together, we can make a big difference.

With best wishes,
Fred

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/09/spain.club/

Technology gets under clubbers' skin

By Chetna Purohit
Wednesday, June 9, 2004 Posted: 1324 GMT (2124 HKT)

(CNN) -- Queuing to get into one nightclub in Spain could soon be a thing of the past for regular customers thanks to a tiny computer chip implanted under their skin.

The technology, known as a VeriChip, also means nightclubbers can leave their cash and cards at home and buy drinks using a scanner. The bill can then be paid later.

The system is also designed to curb identity theft and prevent fraudulent access to credit card accounts that is increasingly common in crowded restaurants and clubs.

Clubbers who want to join the scheme at Baja Beach Club in Barcelona pay 125 euros (about US $150) for the VeriChip -- about the size of a grain of rice -- to be implanted in their body.

Then when they pass through a scanner the chip is activated and it emits a signal containing the individual's number, which is then transmitted to a secure data storage site.

The club's director, Conrad Chase, said he began using the VeriChip, made by Applied Digital Solutions, in March 2004 because he needed something similar to a VIP card and wanted to provide his customers with better service.

"I believe we should use new technology to provide our customers with the best service and entertainment," Chase told CNN.

He said 10 of the club's regular customers, including himself, have been implanted with the chip, and predicted more would follow.

"I know many people who want to be implanted," said Chase. "Almost everybody now has a piercing, tattoos or silicone. Why not get the chip and be original?"

In the wake of the Madrid train bombings that killed 190 people in March, Chase said VeriChip could also boost security by speeding up checks at airports, for example.

He denied the scheme had any drawbacks. The VeriChip is an in-house debit card and contains no personal information. It is made of glass so poses no health risk, Chase said.

But Dr. Arun Patel, a general physician in Los Angeles, warned that placing an electronic device inside the body could be problematic.

"From a medical standpoint, obviously you worry about radiation with any electronic device," Patel said.


(The following article by Associated Press is posted on the CBS news website)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/17/tech/main563819.shtml


A Real Chip On Your Shoulder

MEXICO CITY, July 17, 2003

(AP) Borrowing from an idea that allows pet owners to track their dogs and cats, a U.S. company launched Thursday in Mexico the sale of microchips that can be implanted under a person's skin and used to confirm everything from health history to identity.

The microchips, which went on sale last year in the United States, could tap into a growing industry surrounding Mexico's crime concerns. Kidnappings, robberies and fraud are common here, and Mexicans are constantly looking for ways to stay ahead of criminals.

The microchip, the size of a grain of rice, is implanted in the arm or hip and can contain information on everything from a person's blood type to their name. Hospital officials and security guards can use a scanning device to read the chip's information.

In a two-hour presentation, Palm Beach, Florida-based Applied Digital Solutions Inc. introduced reporters to the VeriChip and used a syringe-like device and local anesthetic to implant a sample in the right arm of employee Carlos Altamirano.

“It doesn't hurt at all,” he said. “The whole process is just painless.”

Another chip user, Luis Valdez, who is diabetic, said the chip is “as innovative to me as the cell phone.”

Antonio Aceves, the director of the Mexican company charged with distributing the chip here, said that in the first year of sales, the company hoped to implant chips in 10,000 people and ensure that at least 70 percent of all hospitals had the technology to read the devices.

One chip costs $150 and has a $50 annual fee. The scanning device and related software is $1200. Users can update and manage their chips' information by calling a 24-hour customer service line.

Similar technology has been used on dogs and cats as a way to identify the pets if they are lost or stolen.

The VeriChip can track subjects who are within 5 miles, but officials want to develop a new chip that can use satellite technology to track people who are farther away and may have been kidnapped.

While the idea of using the chip to track people has raised privacy concerns in the United States, the idea has been popular with Mexicans, who have been contacting Aceves and asking when the new global positioning chip will be available. The company hopes to have the new anti-kidnapping chip developed by 2003.

http://www.lastingnetworks.com/alexvideos/moe128.wmv


Informant: Ozzy bin Oswald

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm


Informant: di

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-stun-gun-death,0,1305487.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

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Arizona: Police expand use of Taser

Arizona Republic

11/07/04

Tasers have replaced batons, chemical spray and physical restraint as the weapons of choice for Phoenix police. The electric stun guns are touted by law enforcement authorities as a safe, non-lethal alternative to using a gun in a violent confrontation. But an Arizona Republic analysis of police reports of Taser-related incidents from 2003 found that Phoenix police were far more likely to use the stun guns to make someone obey orders at a traffic stop than to bring down an armed robber. ... With medical examiners finding that Tasers may have played a role in the deaths of eight people around the country, ethical, legal and procedural concerns are being raised about the guns' use in situations involving drunken drivers, shoplifters, family fights and the mentally ill. At the heart of many of these concerns is the potential liability for a police department or city in an expensive wrongful-death suit...

http://makeashorterlink.com/?T1C8569B9

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boca Raton, FL ­ In the worst case scenario of worst case scenarios, voting machines across the country have returned preliminary results declaring that the next President of the United States will be Rev. Al Sharpton.

Sharpton, who briefly ran for the Democratic Party Nomination earlier in 2004 was shocked by the news, but reportedly ³thrilled² at the prospect of running a country. ³They told me that you couldn¹t run on a platform of ŒChicken and Biscuits for Everybody¹, boy I showed them,² said the Reverend via cell phone. ³It just goes to show, everybody likes a big piece of chicken.²

The news that the results were only temporary did nothing to deter Sharpton¹s enthusiasm. Already, both incumbent George W. Bush, and Democratic Nominee John Kerry were filing papers with the Supreme Court that challenged the legitimacy of the results. Court papers obtained for this report cited numerous reasons for the preliminary outcome to be thrown out, among them that (1) ³the Reverend Sharpton is not actually even on the ballot², (2) ³evidence of voter fraud was found at the many polling booths, namely that several machines were installed upside down², and (3) ³the millions disenfranchised white people's faith in partisan politics will be lost for ever².

The situation is made more chaotic by the recent health problems of Chief Justice William Rehnquist. If and when these challenges go to trial, all nine Supreme Court Justices must preside. A panel of eight Justices could very well end up divided, so an odd number is required. Matters were complicated by the announcement of Justice Clarence Thomas who is already on the record saying that ³there ain¹t no way ya¹ll are making me sit this one out.²

While the legal wranglers sort out the details, Al Sharpton, or ³Reverend 44² as he is asking to be called now, continued to comment on the situation via cell phone. ³Didn¹t ya¹ll learn from ŒThe Terminator¹? These electronic voting booths is too complicated. Now, if they looked more like slot machines, and instead of George Bush you got to pick out the double cherry or something, now that would be easier.² Sharpton predicted, ³Technology is going to be the death of white people. Ha Ha!²

While the nation sat in stunned silence, representatives from the Sharpton camp began to plan for the future. The Reverend was late to a hastily thrown together victory press conference because ³he was getting his hair did², but he did send on a message of hope through his press secretary and second cousin Willy. ³Keep hope alive America², the statement read. ³The chicken is in the mail!²

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i6896


Informant: billder

t r u t h o u t thanks our readers for their thoughtful submissions on their reaction to the election. We have received dozens of wonderful articles and can’t possibly run them all. We will soon launch a discussion list to allow our readers to express themselves. In the meantime we have decided to publish some of the stories in a blog form that you can access at: http://www.truthout.org/rblog.shtml. Check back often as we will add more in the coming days. Thank you again for your wonderful contribution.

Below are links to a powerful documentary and several revealing articles reported by major news media exposing serious problems with electronic voting machines. This is followed by excerpts from an excellent article which explains core problems within the elections system.

Washington Post - "In one North Carolina county, more than 4,500 votes were lost because officials misjudged the amount of data that could be stored electronically by a computer." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29190-2004Nov5.html

New York Times - An article titled "Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud," presents the troubling results of a detailed study by Johns Hopkins University. "We found some stunning, stunning flaws." "The systems....could be tricked by anyone with $100 worth of computer equipment." "Ballots could be altered by anyone with access to a machine, so that a voter might think he is casting a ballot for one candidate while the vote is recorded for an opponent."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/technology/24VOTE.html

Associated Press/ABC - "Voters nationwide reported some 1,100 problems with electronic voting machines on Tuesday, including trouble choosing their intended candidates."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=220927

Miami Herald - An article titled "Defective Software Lost Votes" states, "Attorneys scrutinizing the close vote on Amendment Four noticed that vote totals changed in an unexpected way after 13,000 final ballots were counted. Election officials quickly determined the problem was caused by the Unity Software." "The glitch was discovered two years ago, and should have been corrected by software manufacturer ES&S."
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10099198.htm

CNN - "An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html

USA Today - "Nearly one in three voters, including about half of those in Florida, were expected to cast ballots using ATM-style voting machines that computer scientists have criticized for their potential for software glitches, hacking and malfunctioning." "Most of the machines, including all of Florida's, lack paper records that could be used to verify the electronic results in a recount". "Over 20 percent of the machines tested by observers around the country failed to record votes properly."
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-11-03-evote-trouble_x.htm

These are only a few of the many problems that we know about. How many more votes were changed or disappeared that we don't know about? We will never know. For more powerful information on this, the excellent documentary Votergate takes us on a fact-finding mission across the US revealing stunning evidence of defects and outright fraud in electronic voting. Engaging interviews with whistleblowers and courageous Americans, including members of Congress and top elections officials, reveal critical information which the mass media has given very little coverage. Don't miss this powerful 30-minute documentary available free at http://www.votergate.tv

The Problem goes deeper. Below are excerpts from a riveting article which goes to the very core of the problem. The author's father and uncle uncovered serious elections fraud years ago and suffered severely for trying to reveal the truth. In 1992, they published the book Votescam which exposed major elections fraud, only to have it effectively banned. They both died young in the 1990s. Please pass on this powerful information which is so vital to the future of democracy. Invite all of your friends and colleagues to forward this message, and to join together in calling for election reform.

For the full original article, see http://www.truthout.com/docs_03/102503C.shtml

A Brief History of Computerized Election Fraud in America (Excerpts)
by Victoria Collier

Squadrons of shiny new touch screen Trojan horses are being rolled into precincts across America. Not, as we are told, to make voting easier or more accurate. The real reason America is being flooded with billions of dollars worth of paperless computerized voting machines is so that no one will be able to prove vote fraud. These machines are not just unverifiable, they are secretly programmed. Their software is not open to scrutiny by election officials or computer experts. They are also equipped with modems accessible by computer, telephone, and satellite.

We the People are responsible for taking back the control of our democratic process. No one else will do it for us. We cannot afford to be naive, or uneducated at this time in history. In order to fully understand the extent of the corruption we are dealing with, and to avoid making dangerous mistakes based on ignorance, we must understand the history, and the power structure, behind vote fraud in America.

I grew up with two men who spent twenty-five years investigating vote fraud in America: James and Kenneth Collier, my father and uncle. Their book, Votescam: The Stealing of America was published in 1992 and immediately banned by the major book chains, which listed the book as "out of print" and actively worked to prevent its sale. Votescam chronicles the Collier brother's groundbreaking investigation into America's multi-billion dollar election rigging industry, and the corporate government and media officials who control it. [First five chapters available free online]

The Votescam investigation began in 1970, in -- surprise! -- Dade County, Florida, where Ken ran for Congress (with Jim as his campaign manager). Ken was rigged out of the election through a vote scam, which the Colliers later discovered was used throughout the country for decades. It went like this: The local newscaster would announce during the broadcast of election returns that the election "computer has broken down." Instead of giving official returns from the county courthouse, the networks would be running vote "projections" for the rest of the night.

Jim and Ken, who had garnered 30 percent of the vote, noticed that when the vote totals came back on the screen after the announcement, they had mysteriously lost 15 percentage points. They didn't get another vote for the rest of the night. When they examined the "official" election results from for the September primary, October run-off and November final election in Dade County, the record listed a total of 141,000 votes cast for the governors race in each election. The exact same number of total votes were cast for three elections with a different number of candidates running each time. The same identical figures were listed for the Senate race in the primary, run-off and final election. This, of course, is a statistical impossibility.

When they compared the "official" vote results with a print-out of the vote "projections" broadcast by the TV networks on the final election night, they found that channel 4 had "projected" with near perfect accuracy the results of 40 races with 250 candidates only 4 minutes after the polls closed. Channel 7 came even closer; at 9:31 pm, they "projected" the final vote total for a race at 96,499 votes. When the Colliers checked the "official" number . . . it was also 96,499.

The networks then made the astonishing claim that the results from a single voting machine somewhere in Dade County were run through a computer program in order to get these vote projections. Elton Davis was the computer programmer responsible for the magic formula that could convert one machine's vote results into near perfect projected vote totals for 40 races and 250 candidates. When Jim and Ken confronted Davis in his office at the University of Miami, he responded: "You'll never prove it, now get out."

Finally the networks claimed that members of the League of Women Voters were out in the field on election night, calling in vote totals to channels 4 and 7. When the Colliers confronted the head of the League, Joyce Deiffenderfer, she admitted that there were no LWV members out in the field that night. She broke down crying, saying "I don't want to get caught up in this thing.

When the TV networks claimed that the courthouse computer had broken down, and they would no longer be reporting actual vote totals, they were lying. They had never been reporting actual vote totals. The final shoe dropped months later when an official press release appeared from Dade data processing chief, Leonard White, which stated emphatically: The county computer at the courthouse was never down, and it was never slow.

This was the beginning. The Collier brothers had slammed their boat into the tip of a giant iceberg. As they continued to investigate, they were horrified to discover vote fraud collusion among key individuals in every branch and on every level of the American political system. Those who were not benefiting from the fraud were too afraid to fight it. Their search for justice led to dead-ends. Their lives were threatened. They were vilified as conspiracy theorists by the mainstream press . . . and yet they persevered.

The next quarter century was spent compiling a wealth of FBI documented evidence proving that elections in the United States have come under the tight control of a handful of powerful and corrupt people. Jim and Ken both died young during the 90's, as heroes to many thousands who heard them speak on the radio and at political meetings across the country. They helped to guide individuals and groups working for clean elections in their communities. The Collier's last hope was that Votescam would be used as evidence in a serious Congressional investigation into election fraud.

Many people still in power have yet to be held accountable for their role in aiding and abetting vote fraud. I'll give you two important examples. Famous Miami lawyer Ellis Rubin brought the original Votescam evidence to the Florida assistant State Attorney at the time, Janet Reno. The evidence included the shaved wheels of lever voting machines, forged canvass sheets, and pre-printed vote tally sheets. Reno refused to prosecute, claiming falsely that the statue of limitations had run out on the crime. Years later, Rubin would tell my father that behind closed doors Reno had stated that she could not prosecute. Why? Because she would bring down many of the most powerful people in the state.

Another notable Votescam criminal can now be found sitting on the bench of the highest court in the nation. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, while still a Federal Appeals Judge, single handedly destroyed what would have been an historic lawsuit filed against Justice Department lawyer Craig Donsanto, who had refused to prosecute the extensive vote fraud evidence brought to him by the Colliers. The evidence included videotape of the League of Women voters tampering with ballots in a close door vote "counting" session. The women were illegally punching holes in already cast ballots.

I'd like to offer a brief list of important lessons learned from twenty-five years of fighting vote fraud in the trenches.

1. Secret vote counting is illegal. Counting faster is not a justification for counting secretly.

2. Lever machines were the first to appear, and they were riggable in a number of ways. One could rig the lever machine itself, or the electronic scanning machines that counted the ballots. (See the Votescam video for footage of ballot rigging).

3. Computerized voting machines are the easiest to rig. Their software is not open to public scrutiny, or the scrutiny of Election Supervisors. There are nearly infinite ways to program the machines to count votes fraudulently. Since they are accessible by modem, they can be controlled from a remote, centralized location.

4. Voting machine companies operate with no federal oversight, certification process, standards or restrictions. Just two companies -- Election Systems and Software (ES&S) and Diebold Voting Systems -- now control about 80% of the vote count in the U.S.

5. Both the Democratic and Republican parties have been complicit in vote rigging for decades, to their mutual benefit. Vote rigging is NOT a partisan issue.

6. The corporate major media networks play a vital role in perpetrating and covering up vote fraud.

7. Election Day media polls are untrustworthy at best.

The gravest error of judgment these days comes from those vote reformers who honestly believe that the answer to the butterfly ballot and hanging chad problems in the 2000 election is to embrace the ballot-less computerized voting machine. With the ballot-less computer, there is no way to recount, no way to prove any discrepancy, inaccuracy or fraud. Just the fact that companies like ES&S and Diebold would even make a ballot-less machine should be cause for a Congressional investigation. (There are also many other reasons to investigate them. For a detailed examination of these sinister corporations, check out http://www.blackboxvoting.com )

A most grave error of judgment also comes from those who think that returning to a hand-counted paper ballot system is somehow impossible. An MIT/Cal Tech study done in 2001 shows that manually counted paper ballots are the most accurate system out of the 5 systems used in the last 4 presidential elections. They are totally verifiable, and first-world nations across the globe still use them, including Canada which counted their last presidential election in four hours.

The bottom line is that a computerized vote count is a secret vote count, and that's illegal. Technology cannot supercede the constitutional and mandatory provisions of election law, which require open and verifiable elections. There is no way to do a public vote count with computers. The count must be done by hand, in public, video-taped, aired live on television, and the results posted on the precinct wall -- just like they used to be. Ballots should be counted on the same day as the voting takes place, making it much more difficult to alter ballots. Hand counted paper ballots and eternal vigilance are the only hope left for us.

A long time writer and political activist, Victoria Collier continues to educate the public on the subject of vote fraud in place of her father and uncle. She is the editor of http://www.votescam.com Victoria is available for interviews and can be reached at 1-866-280-9090 and at editor@votescam.com

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Als am Samstag wieder darüber in der Zeitung Negativschlagzeile erschien, habe ich nachfolgendes wieder an Henkel und Allergikerbund geschickt. Henkel schrieb heute:

Sehr geehrte Frau Kirst,

vielen Dank für Ihre erneute Rückmeldung.

Aktuell kann ich Ihnen leider kein duftstofffreies Waschmittel anbieten. Ihre Anregung wird von uns selbstverständlich aufgenommen und ist auch von mir an die zuständigen Produkt - Manager und - Entwickler weitergeleitet worden.

Freundliche Grüße
Beate Buss 10.1.05
Henkel Wasch- und Reinigungsmittel GmbH
Consumer Relations
Fon: 0800 111 2290
Fax: 0211 798 2453
Internet: http://www.henkel-waschmittel.de


Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

nachfolgenden Artikel fand ich heute in der Zeitung. Sie erinnern sich an meinen Beitrag wegen parfümiertem Waschmittel, Nov. 2004. Man lese den 1. Satz des 2. Abs. genau:

"Am einfachsten wäre es, den Kontakt mit den Allergieauslösern zu meiden....! Hier wäre Ihr Ansatz, wenn verantwortungsbewusstes Vorgehen zum Wohlergehen der Menschen noch etwas zählen würde. Wobei ich insbesondere auf die Kinder hinweisen möchte, die ohne dass sie etwas dagegen tun können, die Duftstoffe bereits durch wohl wollende mütterliche Fürsorge mit parfümierten Waschmitteln in der Wiege zu spüren bekommen!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Marianne Kirst 8.1.05
cc: an Allergikerbund und Henkel

Frankfurter Neue Presse - Ratgeber - 08.01.2005

Duftstoffe oft Ursache von Kontaktallergien

Duftstoffe sind nach Nickel die häufigste Ursache einer Kontaktallergie. Mehr als eine Million Menschen in Deutschland reagieren nach Angaben des Ärzteverbandes Deutscher Allergologen (ÄDA) mit rauer, geröteter oder schuppender Haut und Juckreiz auf wohlriechende Substanzen. Hält der Kontakt mit dem Allergieauslöser länger an, können auch Bläschen, Knötchen und schmerzhafte Einrisse auftreten.

Am einfachsten wäre es, den Kontakt mit den Allergieauslösern zu meiden. Allerdings werden allergieauslösende Duftstoffe heutzutage vielen Kosmetika und Haushaltsreinigern zugesetzt. Sie können auch in Lebensmitteln, Getränken und Tabak enthalten sein, räumen die Experten ein.

Seit dem 1. Juli haben es Allergiker etwas leichter. Seitdem müssen EU-weit 26 allergene Duftstoffe auf den Verpackungen von Kosmetika deklariert werden. Dadurch können Allergiekranke vor dem Kauf kontrollieren, ob ein Stoff enthalten ist, auf den sie mit Hautproblemen reagieren. Leider bietet auch die neue Bestimmung Betroffenen aus Sicht der Allergologen keinen vollständigen Schutz, denn viele Duftstoffe würden weiterhin nicht genau deklariert: Ein Parfüm enthält manchmal hunderte verschiedener Duftstoffe, die auf den Packungen nicht einzeln aufgeführt werden können.

Bei Verdacht auf eine Duftstoffallergie sollten die Auslöser von einem auf Allergien spezialisierten Arzt festgestellt werden. Dazu wird ein Hauttest mit einem speziellen Duftstoff-Mix durchgeführt. Zumindest für die Behandlung einer akuten allergischen Reaktion stehen wirksame Arzneimittel zur Verfügung. (ddp)

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Sehr geehrte Frau Buss,

oh, oh, das gibt mir aber zu tiefst zu denken, wenn der Allergikerbund Ihrer Entwicklung zugestimmt hat.

Tja, bei leeren Kassen steht die Gesundheit der Menschen hier auch nicht mehr im Vordergrund, sondern der Preis - leider! Nun gut, die Ärzte werden sich über die Zunahme der Allergiker freuen können. Leid tun mir wirklich die Kinder in dieser Gesellschaft, die armen Würmchen erkranken zunehmend an Allergien, welch eine Last auf ihnen schon in jungen Jahren liegt! Die Reizsymptome nehmen zu, da darf man sich nicht wundern, wenn auch mehr Menschen zu MCS-Patienten werden.

Eine Bestätigung, wie brutal und skrupellos die Industrie vorgeht aus reinen Gewinnmaximierungsgründen. Weil ein paar Menschen dieses parfümierte Zeug erstrebenswert finden, müssen Abertausende leiden oder sich wieder auf die Suche nach Alternativen begeben! Eine bedauerliche Entwicklung, die sich in dieser Gesellschaft abzeichnet!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Marianne Kirst

cc: iv@daab.de (Deutschen Allergie und Asthmabund e.V., Mönchengladbach, Tel. 02161-10207)

----- Original Nachricht ----
Von: Henkel <vinfo.waschmittel@henkel.com>

Sehr geehrte Frau Kirst,

vielen Dank für Ihre nette e-mail.

Schön, dass Sie uns Ihre Meinung zu unseren Düften im Persil Sensitive und Perwoll mitgeteilt haben.

Entsprechend dem Wunsch vieler Persil Sensitive-Kunden nach einer nicht "neutral" riechenden, sondern leicht duftenden Wäsche haben wir die Rezepturen der Produkte Persil Sensitive Megaperls® und Persil Sensitive Gel mit einem leichten Duft ausgestattet.

Unverändert blieb dabei die Anforderung, für Personen mit besonders empfindlicher Haut einschliesslich bestimmter Hautallergietypen das bestmögliche Produkt zur Verfügung zu stellen... Die weiterhin besonders gute Hautverträglichkeit der Persil Sensitive Megaperls® und Persil Sensitive Gel Rezepturen wurde im Rahmen eines Tests mit Mitgliedern des DAAB (Deutscher Allergie- und Asthmabund e.V.) überprüft und bestätigt.

Wir wissen, dass wir mit der Einführung eines Duftes nicht den persönlichen Wünschen, Anforderungen oder Bedürfnissen aller Kunden entsprechen können.

Wenn Sie auch weiterhin nur ein unparfümiertes Waschmittel verwenden möchten oder können, so können wir Ihnen leider kein Alternativ-Produkt aus unserem Hause anbieten.

Freundliche Grüße
Beate Buss

Henkel Wasch- und Reinigungsmittel GmbH
Consumer Relations
Fon: 0800 111 2290
Fax: 0211 798 2453
Internet: http://www.henkel-waschmittel.de



Zur Weiterleitung an den Vorstand von Henkel

Mir stinkt’s – Henkel und seine parfümierten Waschmittel!

Gratuliere, Henkel hat wieder eine Kundin verloren! Beim Kauf von Kosmetika achte ich darauf, dass die Produkte dermatologisch getestet und „duftlos“ sind. Dass dies so ist, bestätigt sehr dankbar meine makellose Haut!

So geschah es in der Alltagshetze der letzten Tage, dass ich noch schnell das Feinwaschmittel Perwoll Classic aus dem Hause Henkel gekauft habe. Dummerweise habe ich in der Eile natürlich nicht auf die „Zutaten“ geachtet. Doch nur einmal damit Wäsche gewaschen, blieb mir nichts anderes übrig, als nach kurzem Tragen bereits sämtliche Kleidungsstücke erneut ohne jegliche Waschzusätze in klarem Wasser so lange zu waschen, bis endlich die extrem starke Duftnote aus der Wäsche raus war! Meine Augen waren gereizt von dem Duft. Sogar mein wohlriechendes Parfüm, wie mir vor vielen Jahren ein Gentleman ins Ohr hauchte, ein Geruch von „Tabak und Heu – sprich verruchen!“ läge in der Luft, sogar dieses Parfüm war machtlos gegen den aggressiven Duft, den nun meine Wäsche ausstrahlte! Ich werde das Feinwaschmittel jetzt wohl an einen „Liebhaber“ dieses Duftes verschenken müssen. Dass ich auch ohne die neuen „wohlparfümierten“ Persil Megaperls sensitiv leben muss, ist mir klar geworden. Denn nicht nur meine Körperhaut soll sich weiterhin in der „Wäsche“ wohl fühlen, sondern auch meine Nase! Auch sind rote Augen einfach nicht sonderlich attraktiv und der Hauch des Verruchenen passt einfach besser zu mir!

Sicher wird das Haus Henkel eines Tages auch bemerken, dass es einem konsumschädigenden Irrtum unterlegen ist. „Ach, dass der Mensch so häufig irrt und nie recht weiß, was kommen wird,“ sprach einst Wilhelm Busch. Parfümierte Wäsche für Leute, die sich nicht regelmäßig waschen oder sich kein eigenes Parfüm mehr leisten können? Irgendwie erinnert mich dies an Sozialismus und Kernseifenduft!

Doch etwas Positives hat auch duftende Wäsche – es ist eine gesunde Basis für intelligente Konkurrenzunternehmen, allergikerfreundliche unparfümierte Produkte herzustellen, denn fast in jedem Haushalt lebt heutzutage mindestens ein Allergiker, der dankbar danach greift!

Marianne Kirst


Duftstoffe sind eine häufige Ursache für Kontaktallergien
http://www.asthma-info.at/Dezember04.html

I see that more is going on in Yellowstone and animals, we have seen massive die offs now Bears are freeking out and headed east, scientist shaking there head in wonder, the animals have been showing erratic behaiviors for this past year, and also all these earthquakes and volcanoes and whicked weather.

Anyway, Gods creatures are catching on to something we are still searching for, they know something we can not understand yet, we have all these news and computers and research and analissis, and here the animals simply sence it!

We seem to be so complicated being humans, we think we are so intellegent, yet the animals who are not educated and can not talk, well ANIMALS, they are Gods creatures too, and some how threw the energys of life it has a sence that something big is happening, the flow of Nature, Harmany has been all shook up!

So Sad, Valerie Fine

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=97&contentid=1624


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

We've compiled the latest and all articles on the voting fraud situation and thought it best to send it out to you! As mutually concerned citizens for our democracy and our right to vote and have our votes be counted, we thought you would appreciate! Please check back as we're updating daily and you can check here for links and ongoing news regarding the legitimacy of our voting process. If you choose to be active in helping restore our voting rights, you'll find the links for those organizations, also. Please pass it on!

Article and thread by Anthony Wade:
http://boomerchick.proboards23.com/index.cgi?board=discuss&action=display&num=1099720398

Two threads devoted to links, articles, and information:
http://boomerchick.proboards23.com/index.cgi?board=discuss&action=display&num=1099658127
http://boomerchick.proboards23.com/index.cgi?board=discuss&action=display&num=1099615171&start=0

Knowledge is power and activism is democracy in action.

Peace,

Laurel

http://michiganimc.org/feature/display/7476/index.php
http://michiganimc.org/feature/display/7637/index.php


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." -- Samuel Adams


From: Biophilos

The re-election of George W. Bush, whose administration has shown a profound disregard for fundamental rights, means our work is now more essential than ever.

The fact is, without a vigorous, spirited movement for freedom, their unrelenting assault on civil liberties could change the face of our democracy.

With you at our side, the ACLU is ready, willing and able to lead that movement.

In the months ahead, they will come after our freedoms under cover of the war on terror. They will stage a full-court press in support of their dangerous social issues agenda. With their political opponents weakened and with the knowledge that they will never have to face the voters again, they see a golden opportunity. They won't let it go to waste. We expect them to move rapidly on everything from funding religion to escalating assaults on abortion to outlawing same-sex marriage.

Over the past four years, the ACLU and its members have shown that we can be successful defending freedom even in the most inhospitable climate. We have built bipartisan support for challenging the Patriot Act and inspired a chorus of voices questioning many of its damaging provisions. We have challenged the Patriot Act in court and won. We have squelched government programs designed to spy on Americans. We have won legal victories curtailing executive power. We have defeated the first-ever federal abortion ban in court.

This fight is far from over. Here at the ACLU we will continue to stand by the values of justice and liberty for all.

To put it simply: We refuse to surrender our freedom. I hope you will pledge to do the same.

Together we will stay the course, meet all challenges, and beat back every attempt to restrict our civil liberties.

Sincerely,

Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director, ACLU

P.S. You may have seen our full page advertisement in the New York Times today. This is just the beginning of a bold campaign to protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Please go to http://www.CivilLibertiesNow.org to stay involved with the fight.

Nov 05, 2004

by Scoop Co-Editor, Alastair Thompson

Within parts of the U.S. progressive community there is already widespread concern that electronic voting fraud may provide an explanation for the astonishing 8 million vote gain made by George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential U.S. election.

Already there a variety of odd phenomena which have aroused suspicions about this possibility:

For example:

- In Florida Bush received a million extra votes, while Kerry received only 500,000 extra votes, in spite of a massive Democratic Get-Out-The-Vote(GOTV) and registration campaign in that state;

- In Florida's Broward County, a democratic stronghold and heavily black community, unauditable voting machines recorded a 33% (70,000+) vote gain on Bush's 2000 results and a much smaller gain to Kerry - again Broward was the scene of a massive GOTV campaign;

- In several places voters reported
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/4154/ voting for Kerry but noticing the machine record their vote for Bush;

- Recollections, reported here at Scoop.co.nz in 2003, that there is evidence of vote fraud in Florida in 2000 involving security holes in voting systems;

- Observations that many of the security flaws reported in mid 2003 in vote counting systems remained in place for the 2004 count last night (see. http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ for details.)

But by far the most wide source of public suspicion about the results came from the stark difference between the exit polls, which showed strong Kerry leads in many battleground states including Ohio and Florida, and the actual results in those same states. Bush achieved a 5% margin of victory in Florida and came very close to winning Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Add in the fact that the reported exit poll results were changed in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and there was a recipe for suspicion brewing in the online internet vote fraud community last night.

In order to attempt to get a firmer hold on the extent of vote fraud if it did occur Faun Otter (a veteran of the U.S. based vote fraud investigative community) conducted the following preliminary analysis comparing the initial exit poll results (note this link takes you to the revised results) vs actual results.

Analysis Of Exit Polls Vs. Supposed Ballot Counts
Method,

Grab one site which lists the exit polls before they were "corrected."

(Correction is the procedure by which the exit polls are retrofitted to match the figures provided by the vote counting machines. It is easily done by changing the exit poll results, such as the 2.00 a.m. flip-flop of the Nevada exit poll scores which was done without any change to the sample size. A slightly less obvious sleight of hand is to alter the weighting. Weighting is the name for a multiplier used to correct sample subgroups to match the proportions in the whole of a state population. Thus an exit poll can be 'corrected' by saying something to the effect,

"Oh well, the vote results show we must have under sampled Republicans and therefore we'll multiply that subgroup of the exit poll sample by 1.5 to make our results fit the figures the ballot counting machines are spitting out.")

Here is one list as an example of raw (pre-correction) exit poll data:

http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=386

[Note another list was published on Scoop.co.nz HERE - Scoop editor]

Then take a look at the results by state, such as on this chart:

http://news.yahoo.com/electionresults

There is a bit of math involved but don't worry, I taught market research at a University - a place where Republicans fear to tread, according to the media's own polls! The Bush people argue that the exit polls are skewed by the methodology employed. It is odd that they don't say what that error producing part of the methodology might be. A skew means a systematic error is introduced by the test protocol and causes a consistent shift in one direction.

IF this was true, then all the exit polls would show the same sort of shift from 'actual' results.

The GOP offer an alternative argument that the exit polls are not large enough samples and therefore the results are off by a large random error.

IF this was true, then the exit polls should scatter on either side of the actual result, especially if the final result is close to 50/50.

So what do we actually see when comparing exit polls with actual results?

There is skew - but ONLY in states which the Republicans had previously stated to be target states in play. The skew is in the same direction every time; that is to say in favor of Bush.

The exit poll results are not scattered about the mean as the alternative theory predicts.

They are all on the Kerry side of the vote counts as issued by the states except for a hand full of states which hit amazingly close to the exit poll figures.

Here are the figures. They list the four contemporaneous and uncorrected exit polls. Kerry is listed first and Bush second in each pair of figures. Published = the figure presented as the vote count as of 10.00 a.m. EST on 11/3/04


Arizona
Poll one 45-55 Final 45-55 Published 44-55
Colorado
Poll one 48-51 2nd 48-50 3rd 46-53 Published 46-53

Louisiana
Poll one 42-57 Final 43-56 Published 42-57

Michigan
Poll one 51-48 Published 51-48 Published 51-48

Iowa
Poll one 49-49 3rd 50-48 Final 49-49 Published 49-50

New Mexico
Poll one 50-48 2nd 50-48 3rd 50-48 Final 50-49 Published 49-50

Maine 3rd poll 55-44 Published 53-45

Nevada:
3rd poll 48-49 Published 48-51

Arkansas:
3rd poll 45-54 Published 45-54

Missouri
Final 46-54 Published 46-53

These tracking polls were right where you would expect them to be and within the margin of error. However, if we look at some other states, the figures are beyond curious. either the exit polls were wrong or the vote count is wrong:


Wisconsin
Poll one 52-48 3rd 51-46 Final 52-47 Published 50-49
Pennsylvannia
Poll one 60-40 3rd 54-45 Final 53-46 Published 51-49

Ohio
Poll one 52-48 2nd 50-49 3rd 50-49 Final 51-49 Published 49-51

Florida
Poll one 51-48 2nd 50-49 3rd 50-49 Final 51-49 Published 47-52

Minnesota
Poll one 58-40 3rd 58-40 Final 54-44 Published 51-48

New Hampshire
Poll one 57-41 3rd 58-41 Published 50-49

North Carolina
Poll one 3rd 49-51 Final 48-52 Published 43-56

Taking the figures and measuring the size and direction of the poll to supposed vote count discrepancy, we find the variance between the exit poll and the final result:


Wisconsin
Bush plus 4%
Pennnsylvannia
Bush plus 5%

Ohio
Bush plus 4%

Florida
Bush plus 7%

Minnesota
Bush plus 7%

New Hampshire
Bush plus 15%

North Carolina'
Bush plus 9%

In summary election results appear to have been tampered with to give Bush some unearned electoral votes.

http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=100380&list=/home.php


Informant: Lotus

Berlin (dpa) - In US-Gefängnissen im Irak wird nach Angaben irakischer Ärzte weiter gefoltert. Der Chefarzt eines psychiatrischen Krankenhauses in Bagdad, Hashim Al-Zainy, sagte am Freitag in Berlin, zwar dürfe sein Personal nicht in die amerikanischen Gefängnisse, viele Entlassene kämen aber traumatisiert in seine Klinik. Die Ärztin Maysem M. Abdul-Wahab sagte: «Es ist in unserer Kultur eine große Schmach, als Mann von einer Frau gedemütigt zu werden.» Es dauere Jahre, bis die Opfer wieder Vertrauen fassten. Ohne internationale Hilfe könnten die Folteropfer kaum versorgt werden. «Die Menschen, die wir behandeln, haben keine Familie, keinen Besitz und keine Ziele mehr für die Zukunft.» Die beiden Ärzte nehmen an diesem Samstag an der Tagung «Folter und Humanität» des Vereins Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges (IPPNW) in Berlin teil. Die internationale humanitäre Organisation setzt sich weltweit für eine präventive Medizin ein. In Not- und Kriegssituationen hilft sie mit medizinischem Personal, Leiden zu mindern. Auf der Tagung werden neben den irakischen Ärzten auch deutsche Psychiater und Wissenschaftler referieren.

© Copyright 1998-2003 NetDoktor.de - All rights reserved

http://www2.netdoktor.de/nachrichten/index.asp?y=2004&m=11&d=6&id=116138

Can anyone but a fool now believe John Kerry was not planning to throw this election from the start? Any doubts should have been ditched Wednesday morning after he stabbed his running mate in the back, the latter whom boldly promised no concession would be quickly forthcoming mere hours before. Millions of Democrats - Kerry supporters - feel intense betrayal from "their" candidate's inability to keep a simple but essential promise: to assure that every person's vote would count, to not give up until all votes were tabulated. A huge percentage of the electorate is today disillusioned, not just because a wholly criminal element is assured more years to work its evil, but that their hundreds of millions of dollars, tens of thousands of hours of labors, creativity, honesty, hope, was flushed down the hole by a short, entirely premature, possibly never necessary phone call by John Kerry. George W. Bush & John Kerry, fraternal members of a most-secret brotherhood, Skull & Bones, with bizarre rituals and sinister oaths we have only glimpses of. Would such brothers really oppose each other?

Kerry has single-handedly shattered the hopes of tens of millions. Is this accidental? Is this an unavoidable consequence of trying to "heal the divide" amongst Americans?

http://www.rense.com/general59/brothers.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 5th, 2004

The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election.

http://www.infowars.com/print/election/diebold_committed.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 5th, 2004

Voters said they intended to select John Kerry but when the computer asked them to verify the choice, it showed them instead opting for President Bush

Voters nationwide reported some 1,100 problems with electronic voting machines on Tuesday, including trouble choosing their intended candidates. The e-voting glitches reported to the Election Protection Coalition, an umbrella group of volunteer poll monitors that set up a telephone hotline, included malfunctions blamed on everything from power outages to incompetent poll workers. But there were also several dozen voters in six states — particularly Democrats in Florida — who said the wrong candidates appeared on their touch-screen machine's checkout screen, the coalition said. In many cases, voters said they intended to select John Kerry but when the computer asked them to verify the choice it showed them instead opting for President Bush, the group said.

Ralph G. Neas, president of People for the American Way Foundation, which helped form the coalition, called the summary screen problem "troubling but anecdotal."

http://makeashorterlink.com/?M411610B9


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 5th, 2004

It may be a while before the results of the presidential race in Pennsylvania are announced. Aside from some question about provisional ballots, a judge in Allegheny County has reportedly impounded an entire voting machine. As many as 60 polling places in our area ran out of provisional ballots, which voters use if they can't prove that they're registered. Apparently some precincts let those voters go ahead and vote on machines -- even if they couldn't prove that they were actually registered.

The move provoked a court-challenge by the Republicans -- and late tonight, Common Pleas Judge Lawrence O'Toole impounded one of the voting machines from Litchfield Tower at the University of Pittsburgh.

http://www.infowars.com/print/election/judge_impounds_machine.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 5th, 2004

A voter advocacy group monitoring the use of electronic voting machines in Maryland reports a number of software glitches occurred during yesterday’s presidential election, but state election officials said the allegations were baseless. The software running on the touch-screen machines used across the state failed to record some votes correctly, jumped to other pages on the ballot without being prompted by the voter and inadvertently omitted some political races, according to TrueVoteMD, a nonpartisan citizens’ group focused on protecting voting integrity. “We have received hundreds of calls from across the state,” said Bob Ferraro, the group’s co-director, said Tuesday afternoon.

The group set up a voter hotline and deployed 600 poll watchers throughout Maryland to monitor its new touch screen voting machines manufactured by Diebold Inc. of North Canton, Ohio.

http://www.wtonline.com/news/1_1/daily_news/24878-1.html


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - November 5th, 2004

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD411A.html


Informant: Skinny

http://www.newstarget.com/002076.html


Informant: Skinny

I just wanted to send you a brief note to tell you about an exciting victory that was just won by Oceana Europe http://europe.oceana.org/

You're probably already familiar with the issue of how the sonar used by US and other naval military vessels can interfere with the natural mechanisms that dolphins and other cetaceans use to navigate underwater. This can lead to these dolphins losing their way and becoming stranded on shore -- a potentially fatal risk.

(If not, here's a link to a report we've prepared on the subject that you can read online:

* Oceana report on military sonar and cetacean strandings
http://europe.oceana.org/downloads/stranding_of_cetaceans.pdf

Definitely check it out!)

Oceana Europe has been tackling this issue head-on, and this week they won a really important victory: they have convinced the government of Spain to stop the US and other navies from using this sonar equipment in the Canary Islands, where over 80 cetaceans, mostly beaked whales, have been stranded during military exercises over the last 20 years -- one of the highest numbers of strandings anywhere in the world. http://europe.oceana.org/english/news/congratulates_bono_for_moratorium.htm

Our European staff played such a key leadership role in this issue that the Spanish government even consulted with them when writing the speech to announce the decision to that nation's Congress! Their accomplishment shows how much respect Oceana is gaining around the world, thanks in no small part to your ongoing support.

I wanted to tell you about this victory so that you could see the progress we're making around the world on preserving and defending the oceans and the life within them. It's a big challenge, but with the commitment of dedicated people like our European team and citizens like you around the world, I know that we'll succeed!

For the oceans,

Jason Lefkowitz
http://www.oceana.org/index.cfm?sectionID=5&fuseaction=12.detail&staffID=126
E-Activism Manager
Oceana

http://hometown.aol.com/ten13society/Howstupidarewe.html


From Information Clearing House

Bush will now celebrate by putting Falluja to the torch:
http://207.44.245.159/article7222.htm

What will he do with his second term? The one thing you can rule out is that he will seek to heal political divisions...

http://comment.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=579187&host=6&dir=140
http://snipurl.com/afjr


From Information Clearing House

The evangelical churches became instruments of political organisation. Ideology was enforced as theology, turning nonconformity into sin, and the faithful, following voter guides with biblical literalism, were shepherded to the polls as though to the rapture.

http://207.44.245.159/article7220.htm


Religious right relishes chance to push agenda :

Abortion and gay marriage to be targeted as moral crusaders demand election payback...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1343992,00.html
http://snipurl.com/afjq


From Information Clearing House

A Russian parliamentarian taking part in international monitoring of the U.S. presidential elections has said that the elections were held in violation of U.S. law and that that he was shocked after seeing how the elections were held.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/11/03/russianobserver.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Election 2004: Americans Endorse War, Religious Fanaticism And State Terrorism

“Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell.

http://207.44.245.159/article7216.htm


What few people in America understand, despite the astute observations of millions of individuals around the world, is that we are living in an empire, and we are no longer living in a democracy.

http://207.44.245.159/article7217.htm

I believe the story of the day is not that Bush won the election but real possibility that the Bushies committed election fraud to maintain power. Considering how many people have fought and died for the right to vote, we should be in the forefront of defending this basic democratic right no matter how we feel about Kerry and the Democratic Party.

Here are some links that I hope prove useful and informative.

chango412


http://www.votescam.com
A site created before the recent elections with lots of well-researched data

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604Z.shtml
The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/3/52213/1921
Florida numbers vs 2000 - something is wrong

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/11/ana04025.html
Why Did CNN Change Their Exit Poll Data for Ohio After 1:00 AM?

The CNN Exit Poll data on the CNN web site was later changed. Why?
Please note the time stamp of 1:05 AM.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm
"If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines"

http://www.ecotalk.org/AP.htm
Could the Associated Press (AP) Rig the Election? (Check updates at bottom)
by Lynn Landes 10/22/04

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
Black Box Voting has taken the position that fraud took place in the 2004 election through electronic voting machines. We base this on hard evidence, documents obtained in public records requests, inside information, and other data indicative of manipulationof electronic voting systems. What we do not know is the specific scope of the fraud. We are working now to compile the proof, based not on soft evidence-- red flags, exit polls -- but core documents obtained by Black Box Voting in the most massive Freedom of Information action in history.

http://www.alternet.org/story/16474
The Theft of Your Vote Is Just a Chip Away
By Thom Hartmann, AlterNet. Posted July 30, 2003.

http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/social_change_agents.htm


Informant: Terry Melanson

http://www.stern.de/computer-technik/computer/index.html?id=531820


Nachricht von Bernd Schreiner

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/printme.php?eid=58173


Informant: Bigraccoon

From Wayne Nash

11-5-4

I don't want rain on the parade but I am getting quite a few emails from various sources citing possible irregularities with the voting process. So, I did a little research myself on the net to see what I could find. As a political scientist I could not resist.

Regardless of the veracity of any claim to possible irregularities I suggest that this question of legitimacy of the process needs to be addressed if everyone casting their vote is to feel that their vote is being properly counted. No one can feel disenfranchised in a real democracy. Otherwise, you end up with a dictatorship and not a democracy at all.

Unless BOTH sides feel the system is verifiable then you may end up with a banana republic 'democracy'. This is not question of who won the election. It is a matter of much greater importance; the legitimacy of the democratic process itself.

Here are a couple of sites which address the issue:

1. http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/
2. http://www.electoral-vote.com/

On this last web site I found this interesting bit of information:

"Various people sent me mail saying that it is awfully fishy that the exit polls and final results were substantially different in some places. I hope someone will follow this up and actually do a careful analysis. Does anyone know of a Website containing all the exit poll data? If we go to computerized voting without a paper trail and the machines can be set up to cheat, that is the end of our democracy. Switching 5 votes per machine is probably all it would take to throw an election and nobody would ever see it unless someone compares the computer totals and exit polls. I am still very concerned about the remark of Walden O'Dell a Republican fund raiser and CEO of Diebold, which makes voting machines saying he would deliver Ohio for President Bush. Someone (not me) should look into this carefully. The major newspapers actually recounted all the votes in Florida last time. Maybe this year's project should be looking at the exit polls. If there are descrepancies between the exit polls and the final results in touch-screen counties but not in paper-ballot counties, that would be a signal. At the very least it could be a good masters thesis for a political science student. The Open voting consortium is a group addressing the subject of verifiable voting."

Could there be a possible problem here? Let's see...

* In states where there were paper ballots the results exactly matched the exit polls.

* In states where there were only electronic 'touch-screen' paperless voting machines Bush showed an inexplicable 5-8 point or more difference from the polls, contradicting otherwise accurate exit polls.

* The software used in these voting machines is so sophisticated that you can't even check out the programming because it disappears leaving nothing to verify, no source code, no nothing.

Below are 3 articles explaining how these E-voting programs work. The man who published these articles is apparently an expert on this E-voting subject and a computer scientist.

Article 1
http://www.southbaymobilization.org/newsroom/articles/04.0303.ADeafeningSilence_article.htm

Article 2
http://www.southbaymobilization.org/newsroom/articles/04.0618.SecretAgentPrograms_article.htm

Article 3
http://www.southbaymobilization.org/newsroom/articles/04.0701.EVoting_TheNewCloseUpMagic_article.htm

Another site takes the subject seriously...
http://www.rense.com/general59/steI.HTM

Highlight:

* SoCalDem has done a statistical analysis... ...on several swing states, and EVERY STATE that has EVoting but no paper trails has an unexplained advantage for Bush of around +5% when comparing exit polls to actual results.

* In EVERY STATE that has paper audit trails on their EVoting, the exit poll results match the actual results reported within the margin of error.

* Analysis of the polling data vs actual data and voting systems supports the hypothesis that evoting may be to blame in the discrepancies.

* The media was a bit taken aback that the results didn't match the exit polls AT ALL. Most of the commentators were scratching their head in disbelief at the results. The media has gracefully claimed they "just got it wrong."

Some examples?

WISCONSIN:

Kerry leads Female voters by 7%, Bush leads male voters by 7%. Male vs. Female voter turnout is 47% M, 53% F. That means Kerry statistically has a 7% edge in exit polling in Wisconsin.

Actual results however show Bush ahead by 1%, an unexplained difference of 8%.

NEVADA:

Kerry leads in the exit polls by a clear margin, but is still behind in the reported results. This state is even closer.

Actual is just 1% favor of Bush. Exit polls show Kerry with a wider margin. Women favored Kerry by 8% here out of 52% of total voters. Men favored Bush by just 6% out of 48% of total voters. Actual reported results don't match exit polling AT ALL in Nevada.

Easy Programming?

According to the programmer cited above here is how easy it is to "make magic" ...

We need COUNTERS - (B) = Bush; (K) = Kerry; (V) = Vote; (T) =Tally


More- http://www.rense.com/general59/rig.htm


Informant: intruthwetrust

Submitted Apologies to the World
http://sorryamerica.net-hh.de


Informant: ItalysBadBoy

To: Urgent Response Network
From: No Stolen Elections!

While hundreds of thousands of votes in Ohio have yet to be counted and reports of voter disenfranchisement throughout the country - particularly among minority, immigrant, young, and low-income Americans - continue to pour-in and questions are left to be answered about the massive gap between early polling data and the final total in Florida - a state where half of the voting populous used touch-screen machines that leave no paper trail, John Kerry just conceded the presidential election.

KERRY MAY HAVE CONCEDED THIS ELECTION, BUT WE WILL NEVER CONCEDE OUR RIGHT TO A FAIR AND JUST DEMOCRATIC PROCESS!

Thousands of people in nearly 40 cities took to the streets yesterday. No one has the authority to undermine our rights, to silence our voices and our vote. There are many unanswered questions about the integrity of this election and we need to continue to demand answers. We urge you to continue your efforts to protect voters’ rights and push for investigations into voting irregularities, and to transform your frustration, depression, and outrage into action.

FOUR THINGS YOU CAN DO TO DEMAND DEMOCRACY

1) MONITOR OHIO. Watch the situation in Ohio and be ready to respond to calls of support from Ohio groups. Read the reports by
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ and by Greg Palast
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won.php alleging that Ohio's touchscreen machines skewed the election. See also
http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR110304.htm

2) MEET-UP with members of your community. Have a community meeting to create a space to speak-out and discuss voting irregularities in your community, what happened nationally, and where do we go from here to demand accountability. Post your meeting on-line at http://www.Nov3.US - click on "Directory of Local Actions."

3) CONNECT with the Urgent Response Network:
1. Sign the Pledge of Action, and check your email for alerts
2. Check this and related websites regularly
3. Sign up to receive text-message alerts on your cell phone
4. Call 917-779-0013 for an automated voice mail message

4) INFORM YOURSELF about and advocate for the full platform of voting rights, election, and structural reforms that will democratize America.
Go to http://www.Nov3.Us and click on "Defend Voting Rights,"
"Reform Our Elections," and "Deepen Our Democracy," for some great places to start.

Again, stand by, be vigilant, and don’t forget that all of your efforts for peace, justice, and democracy are going to create positive change in the long run . . . . AND MARK YOUR CALENDARS: JANUARY 20, 2005, INAUGURATION DAY, WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW THE NATION OUR MOVEMENT IS STRONG!


Informant: Planttrees