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Richie Robb: Republican Elector From West Virginia Says He Won't Vote For Bush If President Bush wins West Virginia, one of the state's five Republican electors says he might not vote for Bush to protest the president's economic and foreign policies....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 3:44pm PDT
Fun with voters in Ohio 
Voters in Lake County, Ohio received the following in their mail recently....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 1:34pm PDT
‘Smoking e-mail’ implicates Jeb Bush in vote suppression The Sarasota Herald Tribune obtained a “smoking e-mail” proving that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was “personally involved” in ramrodding a new voter purge list for the 2004 election, even though the data firm that prepared it warned of its many “flaws.”
In an exchange of e-mails last May 4, Jeff Long of the Florida Secretary of State’s office wrote that the firm “recommended to the Gov. that they ‘pull the plug’ on the CVDB (Central Voter Database) primarily because they weren’t comfortable with...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:41am PDT
Republicans marshal “poll watchers” to suppress working class vote The Republican Party has announced plans to place thousands of recruits in polling places in many closely contested states on Election Day. These so-called “poll watchers” will be tasked with challenging the credentials of would-be voters in predominantly Democratic urban centers....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:40am PDT
Secret Document Suggests GOP Preparing to Challenge Black Vote in Florida Investigative reporter Greg Palast exposes a secret document within the Republican Party in Florida that contains nearly 1,900 names and addresses of voters in the predominantly black and Democratic areas of Jacksonville. The so-called "caging list" could be used to block and harass African-American voters....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:15am PDT
A letter in the interest of the America we love 
A letter in the interest of the America we love...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 5:33am PDT
Voters still without ballots in a jam Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore said she had mailed out 128,000 ballots through Monday. Requests made through Sunday have been taken care of and about 7,000 are being mailed out each day, she said.
Hood's cheery optimism wasn't shared by party officials or those worried that they won't get their ballots soon enough to mail them back to arrive before Tuesday's 7 p.m. deadline. They spoke darkly of election office phones that constantly ring busy, questions that go unanswered, sample ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 9:30pm PDT
Absentee ballots 'lost' in Florida Nearly 58,000 absentee ballots for the US presidential election may never have reached Florida's Broward County voters, who had requested them more than two weeks ago, election officials said.
State police are investigating the matter, they said.
Hundreds of people have called the county elections office to complain that they never got their ballots. The phone system was so overwhelmed some frustrated voters could not get through....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 9:26pm PDT
Their dirty tricks to disenfranchise voters AN OFFHAND remark that George W. Bush made during the second presidential debate told the whole story. When asked whether he’d decided on any new appointees for Supreme Court, Bush joked that he hadn’t “picked anybody yet. Plus, I want them all voting for me.”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 7:26pm PDT
Bush Campaign Comes Out for Kerry Yes, Bush Can, an independent group dedicated to communicating Bush
policies directly to the public, has abandoned its campaign and is
officially endorsing John Kerry for President....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 6:50pm PDT
Eminem joins the black bloc in anti-Bush video! Eminem's new video to his song 'Mosh' sees him join the black bloc and storm some grand building. Once inside, however, the bloc forms an orderly queue to register to vote!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 7:13am PDT
Making Votes Count: Is a Theft of the 2004 Election Already Underway? We speak with New York Times editorial writer Adam Cohen about voter suppression and fraud in the 2004 election. From U.S. soldiers being told to use non-secret ballots to the Pentagon counting the votes of the military and U.S. citizens living abroad. From partisan secretaries of state overseeing the election to Homeland Security preventing new U.S. citizens from registering and much more....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 6:25am PDT
‘Smoking e-mail’ implicates Jeb Bush in vote suppression The Sarasota Herald Tribune obtained a “smoking e-mail” proving that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was “personally involved” in ramrodding a new voter purge list for the 2004 election, even though the data firm that prepared it warned of its many “flaws.”
In an exchange of e-mails last May 4, Jeff Long of the Florida Secretary of State’s office wrote that the firm “recommended to the Gov. that they ‘pull the plug’ on the CVDB (Central Voter Database) primarily because they weren’t comfortable with...
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 5:58pm PDT
The Vote Fallacy: Strategically Advancing Radical Politics in the 2004 Elections While election seasons are widely seen as times when the polity practices politics, this is an illusion; electoralism that accepts the premises of representative democracy is conceptually distinct and incompatible with practicing true politics....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 5:54pm PDT
How They Get Votes 
This is how they get their guys elected.......
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 5:28pm PDT
Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! Hosts Debate Between Norman Soloman and Kevin Zeese Amy Goodman's hard-hitting independent radio program Democracy Now! hosts a debate between Norman Solomon and Kevin Zeese in her latest program, Monday, October 26, 2004....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 4:16pm PDT
The Washington Post Exposes Electronic Jim Crow to Late. The Washington Post has just published an online video showing that the "back door" on the Deibold touchscreen electronic computer voting system is wide open....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 4:13pm PDT
New Florida vote scandal feared A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 3:38pm PDT
Suppression, Fraud and Breakdown: Voting Problems Emerge in States Across the Country Voters in states across the country have already begun to vote as millions more prepare to head to the polls next week to vote in the 2004 presidential election. We take a look at voter suppression and fraud with a lawyer with the Voting Rights Project, focusing on voter protection, a journalist with the London Independent and an international monitor who was part of a team that has prepared a Pre-Election report....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 9:07am PDT
Republicans To Harass Ohio Votes INSIDE Polling Places TThe Republican Party has announced plans to place thousands of election challengers in Ohio polling places next week. It says it is only trying to prevent fraud. But there is a real danger that these challengers could be used to block eligible voters from casting their ballots or, just as bad, to drastically slow down voting in some parts of the state. Election officials must be vigilant about ensuring that partisan challengers do not disrupt the voting....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 8:57am PDT
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