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Stewart-Cousins vs. Spano New York senate race being Reversed by Recount

The stolen election of 2004 has made it into the Wikipedia

Democratic candidate for the house of reps says he has an ongoing FBI investigation, with evidence not only that the election was hacked, but that he knows who hacked it and how. Yes, I know it's not exactly an unbiased source.

Overtime Under Poor Leadership - a new book by a disgruntled Diebold employee. Anyone read it yet?

 

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TampaVote: Dispatches from the Ground
Bernestine Singley, volunteered as a Mobile Field Attorney with Election Protection in Tampa, Florida, to help combat wide-scale vote suppression in communities of color.


Heeding the Call: `Vote or Die'
The proportion of voters 18 to 29 years old did not change, because fired-up older voters came out in record numbers. But the estimated 21 million young people who voted was 4.6 million more than in 2000, according to the University of Maryland's Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.

Part of the reason Miami-Dade had a turnout of 73.4 percent was because of people like Sedrick Ham, an unemployed 21-year-old who has a brother in jail. "This war's not right," said Sedrick, who said he has been unable to find work at warehouses and carpeting companies. "Innocent people are dying over there, and there's no jobs in this area."

It was because of people like Derrick Walker, 21, a curbside ticket agent at the Miami airport and father of a 3-month-old daughter, who said he was angry that it seemed so easy for Bush to send working-class and poor men and women off to war. He was so angry it was worth missing four hours of work and maybe $50 in tips. "It's a sacrifice, but it's more important to vote than to worry about my little tip."

Some of the young black men said the civic campaign of hip-hop artists kept voting in their heads. "If Puff Daddy says it's serious to vote, I figured it must be," said Dontrell Pray, 19, a shelf stocker at a grocery store. Others, like Ham and Darrell Bilisle, 18, a high school senior concerned about teen pregnancy, poor school security, and the dropout rate, were brought to the polls by their mothers.


On Media and the Election
by Robert W. McChesney

Perhaps the most important function our media serves is to provide voters with the information they need to make sound decisions in the voting booth. If people don't know what they're voting for, our democracy is in serious trouble.
Unfortunately, it appears that we're in serious trouble.

This election has been marked by a staggering amount of voter ignorance. Polls show that voters -- especially Bush supporters -- were grossly misinformed about their candidate's position on a broad range of issues. Surveying supporters of the President, a University of Maryland PIPA/ Knowledge Networks poll found:
* 72% still believe that there were WMD's in Iraq.
* 75% believe that Iraq was providing substantial support for Al Qaeda.
* 66% believe that Bush supports participation in the International Criminal Court.
* 72% believe that he supports the treaty banning land mines.
The catch? None of these statements are true.

How do we know who our candidates are and what they stand for when the media fixates on polls, controversy and spin instead of the issues? How do we have meaningful elections when people don't know what they're voting for? Our Founders understood this; that is why they inscribed freedom of the press into the First Amendment of the constitution.
An iron law in commercial broadcasting is that you do not do programming that undermines the credibility of your sponsors. The result: more political ads and little-to-no critical journalism that exposes the spin and lies in these TV ads.

Now is the time to plug in and take action to create a better media system so that when the next big election comes along, Americans actually have a clue about what their candidates stand for. Pass this along, become an e-activist at www.freepress.net, and tell you friends to get involved. As Saul Alinsky put it, the only way to beat organized money is with organized people. Remember this, act on it, and we will prevail.


"How I Stole Your Election" by George W. Bush
The first thing I did to steal your election was to make friends with ALL the manufacturers and code-verifyers of the Electronic Voting Machines. They were really nice, especially Diebold who gave me $600,000 for my campaign. Wow, thanks dude!


WATCH THIS SPECIAL ELECTION FILM NOW!
Votergate is the investigative documentary feature film uncovering the truth about new computer voting systems, which allow a few powerful corporations to record our votes in secret. But Votergate is not just a warning. The film strongly concludes that elections are harder to defraud when voters turn out in big numbers.


Evidence of a Second Bush Coup?
Theoretically at least, it is conceivable that sophisticated CIA-style computer hacking ? known as ?cyber-warfare? ? could have let George W. Bush?s campaign transform a three-percentage-point defeat, as measured by exit polls, into an official victory of about the same margin.


Glitch could force NC to vote again
Counties will add totals from as many as 75,000 provisional ballots to their returns today. If the final margin in any race is within 4,532 -- the number of lost votes in Carteret -- the losing candidate can file a protest with the N.C. State Board of Election.


MIAMI -- Judge Rejects Suit Over Uncounted Absentee Ballots
Election officials will not be forced to count absentee ballots delivered after 7 p.m. on Election Day, regardless of what problems caused late mailings, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Soooooo, if you want to suppress votes in a district, just mail them their absentee ballots late and the courts will say it's okay to ignore them when they get sent back late.


12,000 Votes In Gaston County Uncounted
Page says officials failed to release the votes from the machine on which they were stored into the database where votes were tallied. She says the votes are still in the computer system.


7% turnout in Cleveland precinct ?
55 precincts in Cleveland show a turnout of less than 40%. Several show a turnout of less than 20%, and one even shows a turnout of 7%. That's right, SEVEN PERCENT. Despite reports of very strong ground efforts, record turnouts, and long lines throughout Cleveland, 60, 70, 80, even 90+% of the people who took the time to register didn't bother to show up?!? Or did they? Was there massive voter suppression in these precincts? Were voters in these precincts forced to vote via provisional ballots, ballots that are not audited in Ohio, so that we have no way of knowing how many were cast?


Here's the dead giveaway of the election fraud
the 11th hour turnaround
These things always start out with our guy winning in the exit polls then they results magically "turn around" late into the race.
There is a reason for that - you can't steal votes up front. You have to know how many to steal. If you don't steal enough, then you have to go back in and steal aggregiously. This is probably what happened with the Ohio small districts.
So you have to steal at about 60 - 80 results range. too early and you might do it wrong, too late and the numbers look too wrong.

Presidential Results and Discussion (democraticunderground.com forum)


BASED ON EXIT POLLS, THE PROBABILITY KERRY WOULD LOSE OH AND FL: 0.15%


That's less than 1/6 of one percent!

To put it another way, the chances are 1 out of 667 that Bush would win BOTH states.

Assuming a 2% MoE for the exit polls (they are much more accurate than standard polls), the probabilities are:

Ohio Exit Poll:
Kerry 52 - Bush 48
Prob (Kerry wins OH)= 97.7%

Florida Exit Poll:
Kerry 51 - Bush 48
Prob (Kerry wins FL)= 93.5%

Then
Prob (Kerry loses FL and OH) =0.15% = (1-.977)*(1-.935)

Prob(Kerry wins OH or FL or Both)= 99.85% = 1 -.15%

How did I calculate the probs?
Simple. Feed the data into the Excel Normal Distribution function:

Since the MoE = .02, the Standard Deviation is .02/1.96 = .01

Prob (Kerry wins OH)= NORMDIST(0.52,0.5,0.01,TRUE) = 97.7%

Prob (Kerry wins FL)= NORMDIST(51/99,0.5,0.01,TRUE) = 93.5%

 

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John Hopkin's University professor "accidentally" downloads the DIEBOLD SOURCE

Green Party ordering recount in Ohio - they need $110,000 to fund it though.

 

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NO, GEORGE, YOU WILL NEVER BE MY PRESIDENT!
In explanation, in case you still don?t understand, and for the record, - here?s a short list of your unpardonable offenses:

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You committed a clearly impeachable act by manipulating and distorting intelligence information to further your preconceived plans for war.
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You exploited the nation?s anguish on 9/11 to justify a war you had planned long before that date.
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You spent more than a year trying to prevent an independent inquiry into the causes of the attacks on 9/11.
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You withheld and falsely classified information that would allow the American people access to vital information about the attacks of 9/11.
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You sent the Sec. of State to the United Nations with fabricated evidence to support your false claim that war against Iraq was urgent.
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By invading and occupying Iraq, you violated the United Nations Charter, to which the United States is a signatory.
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You waged an illegal and immoral war against a non belligerent nation, killing 100,000 of its civilians, and maiming thousands more.
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You sent American and coalition military men and women into harm?s way without adequate war plans, without adequate armor and equipment, without adequate plans for the occupation, and without an exit strategy.
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Your unnecessary war of choice in Iraq has resulted in the deaths of nearly 1200 soldiers and in serious injury to thousands more.
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You knowingly violated the Geneva Convention by allowing torture and abuse at prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
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You unlawfully detained prisoners taken in the war against Afghanistan without charges or legal counsel at Guantanamo Bay.
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You unlawfully detained thousands of people in the US without charges or access to legal counsel under the Patriot Act, ? and have not convicted a single one of any crime.
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You arranged for personal benefactors and friends to earn huge profits from your war.
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You ignored and refused to investigate the outing of a CIA agent, whose husband had exposed your fabrication for war.
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Your invasion of Iraq has led to unending chaos and violence within the country and endangers the stabilization of the entire Middle East.
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Your war has significantly increased membership in worldwide terrorist groups, making our country and the world far more unsafe.
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You made our country the most feared and reviled in the world, and our President the most hated in history.


Green Party to ask for a recount in Ohio tomorrow
Just heard on KPFK in Los Angeles the Green Party candidate saying that in all likelihood the Green Party will be formally asking for a recount in Ohio tomorrow! Way to go GREENS!!!! Send an email of support. Send money!!


VOTE FRAUD Links - a DU Compendium
Hundreds of links!

 

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47 state exit poll statistical analysis confirms swing state anomaly.

MicroVote, an electronic voting machine manufacturer, admits that the independent testing authorities for e-voting are a sham.

SF BayView: "They did it again, they stole another election" - apparently not only did the GOP steal the presidential election (along with some senate/house races), they stole the election in Afghanistan, and have written plans to steal the election in Iraq.

Bev Harris has indications of fraud in at least 30 states

Recount to occur in 9 Indiana counties because straight Democratic tickets went as Libertarian there.

 

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The fraud is going on right now in Ohio!
Vote Theft Round 2: And so the sorting and discarding of Kerry votes begins
Are the provisional ballots in Ohio being thrown out? A new rule for counting provisional ballots in Cuyahoga County, Ohio was implemented on Tuesday, November 9 at approximately 2:30 in the afternoon, according to election observer Victoria Lovegren.

The new ruling in Cuyahoga County mandates that provisional ballots in yellow packets must be 'Rejected' if there is no 'date of birth' on the packet. The Free Press obtained copies of the original 'Provisional Verification Procedure' from Cuyahoga County which stated 'Date of birth is not mandatory and should not reject a provisional ballot.' The original procedure required the voter's name, address and a signature that matched the signature in the county's database.

Lovegren described the clerks as 'kind of disturbed' after the new ruling came down. She said that one of the clerks told her, 'This is new. This just came down. They just changed it in the last thirty minutes.' According to Lovegren, 80 yellow-jacketed provisional ballots piled up in the hour and 45 minutes she observed. By Lovegren's tally, three provisional ballots were rejected because the registered voters' registration had been 'cancelled.' The rest, she said, were being discarded because of no date of birth.

In 2000, an estimated 9% of Ohio's provisional ballots were rejected and not counted, according to Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. Many election observers are predicting the number will be much higher this year due to directives from Blackwell's office

 

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"The worst voter apathy is apathy towards irregularities" -- Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.../A43630-2004Nov11.html

Looks like Blackwell wants to check on Bubba's "moral values" as well.

 

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And now.... Indiana?

BROOKVILLE, Ind. - Election equipment counted straight-party votes for Democratic candidates as Libertarian votes, an error that could affect election outcomes in as many as nine counties, the Richmond Palladium-Item reported today.


Download the video of Keith Olbermann if you missed his report!
MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann presented 16 minutes of straight-up reporting on a range of vote irregularities in Ohio, Florida and elsewhere, capped by an interview with Congressman Conyers.


Power trumps exit polls
It may be possible to mortally wound the Bush administration without ?flipping? the election ? a tall order. If ?at least 30 states? were subjected to GOP fraud, then hundreds of individual operatives were involved in the crimes. The more perpetrators, the better the fishing. Untying one knot could cause the whole conspiracy to unravel in a chaos of recriminations and crime-compounding cover-ups. Remember Watergate.

The networks, the ?horse race? impresarios who fed the public a daily campaign diet of dueling polls rather than issues and facts, have disgraced themselves in their eagerness to discredit the Mother of All Political Surveys, the presidential exit polls. This is their Electiongate, too. The aborted November 2 exit poll finally engaged 150,000 real voters, face to face, about a subject they cared enough about to show up for: voting. The usual commercial poll involves 800 to 1500 respondents, drawn from the dwindling minority of people who agree to speak to pollsters on the phone ? sometimes as few as 20 percent of those called.

BC calculated that Kerry was penalized up to three percentage points by flawed commercial polls in the lead-up to the election, especially the Gallup Poll, whose electoral model projected that Blacks would make up only 7.5 percent of the turnout. Black participation had hovered around 10 percent in the last two presidential elections, and reached 11 percent in 2004.When the exit polls came in, we felt vindicated.)

Morally challenged but professionally competent former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris got it right before (like John Kerry) he got it wrong: ?That an exit poll is always right is an axiom of politics. It is easier to assume that a compass is not pointing north than to assume that an exit poll is incorrect. It takes a deliberate act of fraud and bias to get an exit poll wrong. Since the variables of whether or not a person will actually vote are eliminated in exit polling, it is like peeking at the answer before taking the test,? said Morris, correctly. Then he flipped out. ?But these exit polls were wrong. And the fact that they were so totally, disastrously wrong is a national scandal. There should be a national investigation to unearth the story behind the bias.?

Amazing. Like the networks, Morris cannot acknowledge the truth that is obvious to Black voters everywhere. Since official returns must be right, he reasons, the exit polls must have been rigged. Who was the puppeteer of hundreds of exit pollsters at locations all across the country? Dick Morris doesn?t say. Because there is nothing to say.

David Swanson, former spokesman for the Dennis Kucinich presidential campaign and now media coordinator for the AFL-CIO associated International Labor Communications Association (ILCA), notes that

?the exit polls were accurate within their margin of error in many states but were surprisingly far off in a number of swing states, and always off in the same direction, showing more support for Kerry than was found in the official counts. Warren Mitofsky, co-director of the National Election Pool, told the News Hour with Jim Lehrer that ?Kerry was ahead in a number of states by margins that looked unreasonable to us.? Mitofsky speculated that perhaps more Kerry voters were willing to participate in the exit poll, but did not suggest any reason for that speculation other than the difference between the exit polls and the final counts.?

As Swanson says, it?s all ?circular reasoning? ? an attempt to avoid the obvious, and all the more maddeningly ironic since, by Dick Morris?s reasoning, Mitofsky is the guy best-placed to ?rig? the exit polls in Kerry?s favor. Instead, he ordered them shut down, for presidential choice purposes. Swanson?s article cites University of Pennsylvania Professor Steven F. Freeman, whose November 9 study of the exit poll and official tallies in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania finds the figures totally incompatible. ?The likelihood of any two of these statistical anomalies occurring together is in the order of one-in-a-million. The odds of all three occurring together are 250 million to one,? the MIT Ph.D calculated. ?As much as we can say in social science that something is impossible, it is impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote counts in the three critical battleground states of the 2004 election could have been due to chance or random error.?


Washington Post's Sloppy Analysis
Rather than a rural surge of support, Bush actually earned more than seven out of 10 new votes in the 20 largest counties in Florida. Many of these counties are either Democratic strongholds ? such as Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach ? or they are swing counties, such as Orange, Hillsborough, and Duval.

Many of these large counties saw substantially more newly registered Democrats than Republicans. For example, in Orange County, a swing county home to Orlando, Democrats registered twice as many new voters than Republicans in the years since 2000. In Palm Beach and Broward combined, Democrats registered 111,000 new voters compared with fewer than 20,000 new Republicans.

However, in these three counties combined, Bush turned out about 10,000 more new voters than Kerry, a feat made all the more remarkable given that Kerry improved Democratic turnout in these counties by 21 percent.


Green & Libertarian Presidential Candidates to Demand Ohio Recount
The candidates also demanded that Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican who chaired the Ohio Bush campaign, recuse himself from the recount process.

 

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Detailed analysis of North Carolina Absentee, election day, and overall trends shows evidence of massive fraud in both the Senate and Presidential races: http://www.democraticundergrou...&address=203x45003

 

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It looks like Indiana has some voting problems with Fidlar's optical scan systems:

Election equipment counted straight party votes for [Democratic] candidates as Libertarian votes, in an error ?that could affect election outcomes in as many? as 9 [counties]. [Democrats] discovered the error in Franklin Co. on 11/9 after noticing a final tally they couldn?t ?decipher.? Fidlar, the [county?s] election equipment vendor, then notified election officials of the error on 11/10. The Franklin Co. Elections Board held an emergency meeting 11/11 and the ballots will be counted again 11/12. GOP Chair Bob Jewell: ?Hopefully (the recanvassing) won?t change the outcome of the election.? Fidlar has machines in 9 [Indiana counites], including 2 in the 9th [congressional district] where Baron Hill [D] lost by fewer than 1.4K votes to Rep. Mike Sodrel [R]. Fidlar officials have said Franklin Co. ?is the only county where a database error occurred? (Howey Political Report, 11/12). (emphasis and un-abbreviations added