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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
Florida get out the vote effort focuses on women
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
WTC Rescue Hero Sues Bush for Complicity in 9/11
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
Open letter of sorts to Americans from an Iraqi about US elections
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
Early Voting in Palm Beach Co,FL is INSANE!
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
Voting for the “Green Team” on November 2
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
Vote Fraud in Utah and Michigan
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
Florida Vote Fraud: Absentee Collection Scam
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
Required Reading for Non-Swing-State Voters
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.
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Posted: Mon, Oct 25, 2004 4:52pm PDT
Bush and the Media
"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
Radical Reference: Your Election Resource
Got election questions? We can help....
Posted: Sun, Oct 24, 2004 8:36pm PDT
Non-U.S. Citizens Vote in U.S. Election
A group of Americans living in Sweden hold regional election for non-U.S. citizens who get to choose which party they would like to see win the U.S. Presidential election 2004. Whichever U.S. party (whether republican, green, socialist, or democratic) wins the regional election in Sweden is the one that these Americans are voting for!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 24, 2004 4:35pm PDT
More fraudulent precinct changes/registration scam
An unknown number of University of Pittsburgh students who signed a petition to legalize medical marijuana have had their party registrations and polling places switched -- adding to the number of college students apparently targeted by a voter registration scam...
Posted: Sat, Oct 23, 2004 2:29pm PDT
Ralph Nader Speech Full Text
The speech he 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.
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Posted: Sat, Oct 23, 2004 9:26am PDT
October Surprise & Senate Office Closings
The long awaited October Surprise is clearly on the horizon. Multimillionaire Senator Mark Dayton, Democrat, Minnesota, of the Target Corporation family, the 2d largest retailer in the US, closed his Washington office until after 11/2, and they all have received "hair-curling" briefings about alleged terrorist attacks pending in Wash, D.C....
Posted: Sat, Oct 23, 2004 6:30am PDT
StopSinclair.org to Protest at White House Friday
Delivers $9 million check from Sinclair to Bush, along with 150,000 signatures demanding halt of program...
Posted: Fri, Oct 22, 2004 1:40am PDT