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Report from an Election Protection Volunteer
The typical pattern, according to Election Protection
folks, is that the county has only a couple people
working at each of these polling stations, despite the
fact that there are waits of up to six hours day after
day....
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 8:26pm PST
US journalist punched, arrested
US journalist punched, arrested by officer outside Florida voting office...
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 6:19pm PST
Robert Fisk: "Bin Laden's Vote is For George Bush"
As the newest videotaped message from Osama bin Laden is broadcast four days before the election, we speak with veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, who has interviewed bin Laden three times. Fisk also discusses Iraqi civilian casualties, kidnapped humanitarian worker Margaret Hassan, Palestinian leader Yasser Araft's ailing health and much more....
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 2:12pm PST
Report to indymedia.us for Nov. 2 fraud coverage
Amy Goodman had someone from indymedia.us on this morning. A lot of us will be focused on local issues, but it will be difficult to get up to the minute coverage of regional reports of voter intimidation and fraud that many of us will be looking for , via all the local IMCs....
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 12:17pm PST
Eminem's Mosh Music Video - Directed by GNN's Ian Inaba
For those of us without cable TV - or heck is MTV even broadcasting this?...
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 11:26am PST
Judge Bars Challengers From Ohio Polls
A federal judge in Cincinnati early Monday morning issued an order barring political party challengers at polling places throughout Ohio Tuesday.
US District Judge Susan Dlott found that the presence of challengers inexperienced in the electoral process would impede voting.
She ruled that application of Ohio's statute allowing challengers at polling places is unconstitutional.
Dlott ruled on a lawsuit by a black Cincinnati couple who said Republican plans to deploy challengers to lar...
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 8:38am PST
Theresa LePore has journalist arrested, tackled for photographing voters outside precinct
A widely published investigative journalist was tackled, punched and arrested Sunday afternoon by a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy who tried to confiscate his camera outside the elections supervisor's headquarters....
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 7:43am PST
Vázquez and Leftist Coalition Wins Presidency, Legislative Majorities in Uruguay Election
Coalition of guerrillas, socialists, trotskyists, social democrats celebrate victory; Uruguay's two traditional major parties lose for the first time since independence from Spain....
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 11:32pm PST
Why Do Americans Need a Machine to Vote?
So they can have a consumer product involved in the process of being screwed. You know so it feels normal like going to the mall and shopping. Just kidding. Really....
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 7:56pm PST
Moore to have cameras outside polls
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Filmmaker Michael Moore plans to have hundreds of cameras outside polling places in Ohio and Florida on the U.S. election day to watch for attempts to suppress voter turnout....
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 10:13am PST
Zombie Election
Zombie: A company that remains in business even though it is technically bankrupt and almost surely headed for the graveyard. A revived or reanimated corpse. One who looks or behaves like an automaton....
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 1:20am PST
Steven Hawking to lead London anti-war protest on US election day
Stephen Hawking, Britain's most eminent scientist, has become the latest prominent opponent of the Iraq war by agreeing to take the lead role in a ceremonial protest to coincide with the United States presidential election....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 10:23pm PDT
Voters claim abuse of electoral rolls
An Observer investigation in the United States has uncovered widespread allegations of electoral abuse, many of them going uninvestigated despite complaints of what would appear to be criminal attempts to manipulate voter lists.
The allegations, which come just two days before Americans go to the polls in one of the most tightly contested elections in a generation, threaten to plunge Tuesday's count into a legal minefield and overshadow even the elections of 2000....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 10:21pm PDT
Eminem: Incitement to Vote?!
The new video for Eminem's song "Mosh" was released online and on MTV this week. The video was produced by the Guerrilla News Network.
The lyrics of the song "Mosh" advocate for political pressure as a means to enact change, but change in name only......
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 3:36pm PDT
Bush Attempts To Overturn Decades of Legal Precedence & Block Voting Rights Lawsuits
Bush administration lawyers are now attempting to overturn decades of legal precedence by claiming that under the Help America Vote Act only Attorney General John Ashcroft -- and not individual voters - have a right to ask federal courts to enforce voting rights....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 12:45pm PDT
This American Life Special Report: Vote Fraud
Stories of election year chicanery appear in the paper every day. TAL contributor Jack Hitt compiles a list of the most egregious accounts, double checks the facts, and gives his election eve rundown of the dirtiest tricks to look out for this November 2....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 12:38pm PDT
Successful Businessman, Osama bin-Laden, Endorses Dear Old Friend, George W. Bush
In a touching display of personal friendship, Osama bin-Laden took time off of his busy schedule to endorse long time family friend and business associated, George Bush....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 9:26am PDT
BTL:Election Protection Coalition Charges GOP-Connected Groups with...
...Voter Suppression and Intimidation Campaign ~ Interview with Elliot Minceberg, People for the American Way Foundation, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 4:59am PDT
an anarchist analyssi of RNC 2004
I don't agree with everything in this piece (i don't agree that united for peace and Justice [the organziers of 500,000 person mass march on Sunday] should be dismissed as just a group of liberals), however this piece has some real insight as to where our movement stands as we enter a new period....
RNC REDUX: Anarchist Analysis of the 2004 RNC Protests
by Alexander Trocchi, CrimethInc. International News Agent Provocateur...
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 2:16am PDT
Desperate Bush Seeks to Suppress Hispanic Turnout with Harsh Negative Attack on Choice
Desperate to suppress turnout among minority voters, President Bush has recycled with a Spanish translation an attack ad rated as the worst of the campaign by a USA Today focus group, NARAL Pro-Choice America said today....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 12:27am PDT