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textEminem joins the black bloc in anti-Bush video! by djoma
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
textMaking Votes Count: Is a Theft of the 2004 Election Already Underway? by Democracy Now
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
text‘Smoking e-mail’ implicates Jeb Bush in vote suppression by PWW
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
textThe Vote Fallacy: Strategically Advancing Radical Politics in the 2004 Elections by Ben Grosscup
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
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by anti-Republican
This is how they get their guys elected.......
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 5:28pm PDT
textAmy Goodman's Democracy Now! Hosts Debate Between Norman Soloman and Kevin Zeese by Robert B. Livingston
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
textThe Washington Post Exposes Electronic Jim Crow to Late. by Lloyd Hart
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
textNew Florida vote scandal feared by BBC (reposted)
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
textSuppression, Fraud and Breakdown: Voting Problems Emerge in States Across the Country by Democracy Now
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
textRepublicans To Harass Ohio Votes INSIDE Polling Places by sources
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
textFlorida get out the vote effort focuses on women by WVWV
Intense Get-Out-the-Vote Effort Targets Florida's Unmarried Women; Women’s Voices. Women Vote and USAction Education Fund Combine Forces to Get-Out-The-Vote of Key, Targeted Voter Bloc...
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 1:15am PDT
textWTC Rescue Hero Sues Bush for Complicity in 9/11 by American Idol
Berg maintains that many prominent figures in politics, the military and the mass media consider the ‘Official Story’ of 9-11 to be untrue. But while the truth is emerging bit by bit, thanks to anonymous whistleblowers and researchers posting on the internet, to date no one with the stake in being a Senator, a Presidential candidate, or a media celebrity has found the courage to risk being ridiculed as a “tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist.” Berg points out that the only Senator who has ...
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 12:01am PDT
textOpen letter of sorts to Americans from an Iraqi about US elections by Baghdad Burning (reposted)
So elections are being held in America. We’re watching curiously here. Previously, Iraqis didn’t really take a very active interest in elections. We knew when they were being held and quite a few Iraqis could give an opinion about either of the candidates. I think many of us realized long ago that American foreign policy really had nothing to do with this Democrat or that Republican. It sometimes seems, from this part of the world, that democracy in America revolves around the presidential...
Posted: Mon, Oct 25, 2004 8:10pm PDT
text Early Voting in Palm Beach Co,FL is INSANE! by Calichick
I didn't believe it until I saw it. Lines....all you see is lines when you first enter the parking lot....
Posted: Mon, Oct 25, 2004 7:43pm PDT
textVoting for the “Green Team” on November 2 by Mark Stout
Tired of the “serial press conferences” that the corporate media calls “Major Party” debates? The Green Party is doubling in size and organization with each election cycle. We ask you to join us in the electoral arm of the growing movement for peace, racial and economic justice, environmental protection, and real democracy....
Posted: Mon, Oct 25, 2004 7:27pm PDT
textVote Fraud in Utah and Michigan by links
The helpful voice on the other end of the phone says, "Push 3, if you'd like to have an absentee ballot sent directly to your home." Convenient isn't it? A little too convenient for Pat Beckstead, elections coordinator for Davis County, who says voters taken in by that ruse will never see the ballot or have their vote counted....
Posted: Mon, Oct 25, 2004 6:50pm PDT
textFlorida Vote Fraud: Absentee Collection Scam by repost
People posing as election officials are visiting residents of several counties and offering to take absentee ballots....
Posted: Mon, Oct 25, 2004 6:47pm PDT
textRequired Reading for Non-Swing-State Voters by Denny Burbeck
The speech Ralph Nader gave at Creighton Univ. on 8/25/04 and a portion of the Q and A afterward. Please remember that in "safe states" you can vote your heart rather than your fears. (recommended: paste to wordpad)...
Posted: Mon, Oct 25, 2004 4:52pm PDT
textBush and the Media by Mumia Abu-Jamal
"To know how subservient, bootlicking and cowardly the media can be, one need only look at how the US media react..In part, this is natural since the media is controlled by capital. Another reason is the aura of fear created by the US media"...
Posted: Mon, Oct 25, 2004 8:24am PDT
textRadical Reference: Your Election Resource by Radical Reference
Got election questions? We can help....
Posted: Sun, Oct 24, 2004 8:36pm PDT
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