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An Open Letter to Former Naderites Running Scared in 2004* An Open Letter to Former Naderites Running Scared in 2004*...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 4:20pm PDT
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
Oklahoma candidate for U.S. Senate warns of "rampant" lesbianism The Republican Senate candidate from Oklahoma warned of "rampant" lesbianism in some schools in the state in a tape released Monday by his Democratic opponent. The remark by former congressman Tom Coburn drew a skeptical response from state educators. "I don't believe that," said Keith Ballard, executive director of the Oklahoma State School Boards Association. He said the group's attorneys "haven't said anything to me about that."
In the tape released by the ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 3:35pm PDT
States 'can postpone' U.S. elections Both President Bush and some State's - including Florida, New York and California - can potentially postpone the election in "emergency circumstances".
Over the last 4 months, three Congressional Research Service reports addressed election postponement, their findings unsettling - Congress appears duly "concerned"....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:37pm PDT
* Political Right - Left And The Middle * By definition one would assume that - - Right - - is correct. Or is it?
The political right is neither right in its conduct, nor in its intention nor in its supposed knowledge of the world and people. The political right and their talking heads in the Christian mass media know so little about so much....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 11:03am 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
Man threatens to run down controversial election figure Police have arrested a man who threatened to run over US Representative Katherine Harris, the former Florida secretary of state critics blame for much of the 2000 presidential election debacle....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:32am 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
Voter Verifying Campaign Launched; Higher Minority Voter Turnout is Goal Voter verification is the thrust of a new nationwide voter education effort being launched by the non-partisan NAACP National Voter Fund (NVF), designed to generate the largest minority voter turnout in any presidential election....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:43am PDT
Red Sox Victory More Than Baseball The Red Sox Victory tonight in the 2004 Worl Series, is a forecast of significant transformations to come......
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 11:36pm 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
Let a Thousand Cameras Roll - Keep the Election Honest With Video. A grassroots media uprising begins to swell around Election Day....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 5:11pm PDT
TERRORIZING the FIRST AMENDMENT ALLEGED COURTHOUSE BOMBER WINS FREE SPEECH CASE...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 11:40am PDT
The founding fathers described a plan that might shorten the war. The war might be shortened with a "changing of the guard" on election day....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 10:04am PDT
Global War Tribute Iraqi oil is lost to the world market. Instead of the rosy promises of the neoconservatives who wanted to turn Iraq into America's private gas station, the opposite is happening.. The whole world has to pay for the disappeared oil on account of US crimes against the Iraqi people....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 8:19am 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
Why the news blackout on Hasan Akbar? Hasan Akbar is the African-American Muslim U.S. Army sergeant who is accused of having killed two officers and wounded 14 others in a fragging incident at a base in Kuwait a few days after the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. His trial apparently started on Monday, but there's been virtually no current news coverage....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 3:46am PDT
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