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Friday, November 5, 2004 |
"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 manipulation of 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.
We need: Lawyers to enforce public records laws. Some counties have already notified us that they plan to stonewall by delaying delivery of the records. We need citizen volunteers for a number of specific actions. We need computer security professionals willing to GO PUBLIC with formal opinions on the evidence we provide, whether or not it involves DMCA complications. We need funds to pay for copies of the evidence."
Ecademy: "A computer error involving one voting-machine cartridge gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct.
Franklin County's unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry's 260 votes in Precinct 1B, which votes at New Life Church on Stygler Road. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct."
If this can happen on one machine, it can happen on thousands of them.
10:28:22 PM 
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Now the wimps are breaking loose, you know, the democrats maintaining that Bush won fair and square. No he didn't! Not only thousands of irregularities were observed, but the chance that the electronic voting machines were rigged is very great. Statistical analysis of the counties points to unusual results in certain precincts and counties. And the great thing for neocons about this is that it will be practically impossible to check this. A fair election in the future is further away than ever, especially if Bush decides to enforce laws that would make it impossible to challenge voting results.
Anyway, have a laugh first with the Daily Show.
America has been cheated again.
Salon: "More than 4,500 votes may be 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 local races around the state.
At least 72,000 provisional ballots are still to be counted, with four counties not yet reporting those figures.
In Mecklenburg County, which includes Charlotte, a discrepancy was reported in the number of early votes cast. Before the election, the county election office said 102,109 people voted early or returned valid absentee ballots. Unofficial results from election night showed 106,064 of those votes."
"Outrage in Ohio: Angry residents storm State House in response to massive voter suppression and corruption.
But even before election day, the Baltimore Chronicle reported November 1 that 'Through a combination of sophisticated vote rustling - ethnic cleansing of voter rolls, absentee ballots gone AWOL, machines that 'spoil' votes - John Kerry begins with a nationwide deficit that could easily exceed one million votes'."
Guardian: "If there is to be any sort of serious political future for the Democrats, they have to do far more than merely trade on the shortcomings of the incumbents - and there will be opportunities galore in the witching years ahead (a military mire, a fiscal China syndrome and, hullo, right before inauguration, a visit from al-Qaida).
The real challenge is to voice an alternative social gospel to the political liturgy of the Godlies; one that redefines patriotism as an American community, not just a collection of wealth-seeking individuals; one that refuses to play a zero-sum game between freedom and justice; one in which, as the last populist president put it just a week ago, thought and hope are not mutually exclusive. You want moral values? So do we, but let them come from the street, not the pulpit. And if a fresh beginning must be made - and it must - let it not begin with a healing, but with a fight."
"The Democratic Party is not the only vehicle for change. Historically, that party's finest moments have come when it was pushed into action from outside by popular movements, from the labor movement to the civil rights movement to the women's movement to the gay-rights movement. Such movements--independent of the Democratic Party but powerfully influencing it--must foster and increase their strength. The Nation will support these movements.
We must all stand and fight."
11:27:31 AM
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