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VoteFraud 2004 Master Link List

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The Discrepancy Between Exit-Polling and Tallies on Election Day:

• Steven Freeman, PhD, University of Pennsylvania: "Was the 2004 Presidential Election Honest? An Examination of Uncorrected Exit Poll Data; Part 1: The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy." Dr. Freeman describes the unusual exit-poll discrepancies in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, as “the odds on all three occurring together are 662,000-to-one.” November 23, 2004 revision of November 10, 2004 paper http://www.appliedresearch.us/sf/Documents/ExitPoll.pdf
•  MSNBC Countdown; November 23, 2004; “Zogby Vs. Mitofsky” (Keith Olbermann). Warren Mitofsky is considered the founder of the exit poll and works for the National Election Pool (NEP) who conducted the large-scale exit polling on election day, now refusing to release its “raw exit-polling data” necessary to determine voting patterns and possible vote fraud. John Zogby is widely regarded today as the nation's premier pollster, significantly more accurate, for example, than the Gallop organization, which trend to skew its polling to boost conservative numbers. Zogby says the legitimacy of the election cannot be determined without the NEP's "transparency." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6533008/
• MSNBC Countdown; November 24, 2004; Senator Lugar on the value of exit polling to verify election results, but only in the Ukraine http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6533008/
• Philadelphia Inquirer, November 24, 2004, op-ed "Errors in exit polls still a puzzle to many" by John Allen Paulos http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/10258265.htm?1c
• Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project, “Established (in December 2000) to prevent a recurrence of the problems that threatened the 2000 Presidential Election: http://www.vote.caltech.edu/Election2004.html
• Mystery Pollster; November 15, 2004; “Exit Polls: CalTech/MIT Report” by Mark Blumenthal who writes, “Two new reports on exit polls came to my attention over the weekend. Both reports were written by PhDs from high-powered institutions, and both contribute to the ongoing debate (or efforts to debunk) theories of vote fraud in this year’s election. Unfortunately, I am not sure either report brings us much closer to resolving the underlying controversy.” http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/exit_polls_calt.html
• UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count. This November 18, 2004 statistical study by the University of California's Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team shows an unexplained discrepancy between votes for President Bush in Florida’s counties where electronic voting machines were used versus counties using traditional voting methods. “Discrepancies this large or larger rarely arise by chance - the probability is less than 0.1 percent.” http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1118-14.htm
• The Hill, November 4, 2004, “Those faulty exit polls were sabotage’ by Dick Morris. The Republican advisor calls the exit polls in this year’s election “bogus,” without offering a shred of evidence for that statement. Nonetheless, Morris writes, “Exit polls are almost never wrong. They eliminate the two major potential fallacies in survey research by correctly separating actual voters from those who pretend they will cast ballots but never do and by substituting actual observation for guesswork in judging the relative turnout of different parts of the state. So reliable are the surveys that actually tap voters as they leave the polling places that they are used as guides to the relative honesty of elections in Third World countries.”  http://www.thehill.com/morris/110404.aspx
• Democracy Now; December 22, 2004; “Conyers Calls for Release of Exit Poll Data” http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/22/151206
• Mystery Pollster; December 27, 2005: “So: WHY Were the Exit Polls Wrong?” http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/12/so_why_were_the.html
• The Free Press, December 29, 2004; “The 2004 Presidential Election: Who Won The Popular Vote? An Examination of the Comparative Validity of Exit Poll and Vote Count Data” by Jonathan D. Simon, J.D. and Ron P. Baiman, Ph.D. Executive Summary:  There is a substantial discrepancy—well outside the margin of error and outcome determinative— between the national exit poll and the popular vote count. > The possible causes of the discrepancy would be random error, a skewed exit poll, or breakdown in the fairness of the voting process and accuracy of the vote count. >  Analysis shows that the discrepancy cannot reasonably be accounted for by chance    or random error. > Evidence does not support hypotheses that the discrepancy was produced by problems with the exit poll. > Widespread breakdown in the fairness of the voting process and accuracy of the vote count are the most likely explanations for the discrepancy. >  In an accurate count of a free and fair election, the strong likelihood is that Kerry would have been the winner of the popular vote.    Download the paper (PDF, File size: 1.5MB)    http://freepress.org/images/departments/PopularVotePaper181_1.pdf
• The DailyKos.Com; December 30, 2004;The “exit-poll discrepancy” has reached critical mass, according to TocqueDeville who cites Freeman, Simon, Baiman and more in  “The 2004 Election Was Stolen.” http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/30/223723/91
• Mystery Pollster; January 5, 2005: The "Smoking Gun" Part II (a must read for exit polling junkies is undoubtedly the exchange between Warren Mitofsky and Mickey Kaus responding to Blumenthal's blog the previous day, Smoking Gun, Part l) http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2005/01/the_smoking_gun.html
• San Francisco Chronicle; January 6, 2005; “Keeping Our democracy Alive: Did Voters Really Count in U.S. Election” by Steven F. Freeman. Freeman writes, “A 5 percent shift in a poll like this is extraordinary. Exit pollsters do not have to guess about who is actually going to vote, or whether they might change their mind. Exit polls can achieve larger samples cost-effectively: the national election-day sample had more than 13,000 respondents, meaning that it should have accurately forecast the result within plus or minus 1 percent...” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/06/EDGOQAL6VA1.DTL
• In These Times; January 20, 2005; “Democracy’s End” by Steven F. Freeman http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/democracys_end/
• Salon.Com; January 6, 2005; “More Fun With Exit Polls” by Farhad Manjoo: This politically-timed article is sub-headed, “New data gives ammunition to critics who believe the presidential election was stolen but still doesn't settle anything. (This article is not linked, and is available as an e-mail attachment by request)
• Evaluation of Edison-Mitofsky (Exit-Polling) Election System, January 19, 2005\Report  prepared by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for the National Election Pool: Finally, the long awaited raw precinct data is made available for crunching: http://www.exit-poll.net/election-night/EvaluationJan192005.pdf
• Mystery Pollster; January 19, 2005; Breaking News: NEP Releases Full Report http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/exit_polls/index.html and http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2005/01/breaking_news_n.html
• Washington Monthly, January 19, 2005: “Exit Poll Finale” by Kevin Drum: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_01/005483.php
• Open Letter to Warren Mitofsky and Larry Rosin from Representative John Conyers, Jr.; January 20, 2005. Conyers writes, “I have reviewed the internal report you issued yesterday concerning your exit polling in the 2004 election, and, unfortunately, it has not caused my concerns and questions regarding the significant discrepancies between your polling data and the final electoral results to diminish....” http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1112
• TomPaine.Com; January 21, 2005; “Debating Exit Polls” Dr. Steven Freeman responds to Russ Baker's article questioning the evidence of fraud in the 2004 election. Freeman to defend his groundbreaking study on the "exit poll discrepancies" from the naysayers and the know-nothing critics. Here, Freeman presents his creds and some pointed remarks to those ad-hocers who've called him "an amateur." Moreover, the good doctor lays out the case for calling the 2004 presidential election, particularly in Ohio, a sham!

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/letters_debating_exit_polls.php

• TomPaine.Com; January 28, 2005; “Letters: Debating Exit Polls, Part 2.” Baker counterattacks against “cocksure college professors.” http://www.tompaine.com/articles/letters_debating_exit_polls_part_2.php

• U.S. Counts Votes; January 28, 2005; 10 Phds, including Dr. Freeman, issue a 5-page response to the Mitofsky-Edison report, and, “invite all those who care about democratic processes in this country to join us in fully investigating and explaining what really happened in the 2004 Presidential election.” http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/USCountVotes_Re_Mitofsky-Edison.pdf
• eMediaWire Press Release; Jan. 31, 2005; Prominent Statisticians Refute 'Explanation' of 2004 U.S. Exit Poll Discrepancies in New Edison/Mitofsky Report and Urge Investigation of U.S. Presidential Election Results. “According to analysis by the group of senior statisticians, the new data just released by the exit-pollsters shows that the possibility that the overall vote count was substantially corrupted must be taken seriously. “Now we have statistical evidence that these reports were the tip of a national iceberg. The hypothesis that the discrepancy between the exit polls and election results is due to errors in the official election tally is a coherent theory that must be explored,” said statistician Josh Mitteldorf....” More: http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/emw203331.htm

Electronic Voting

• The Industry Standard, December 17, 2004. States that used electronic voting: http://www.thestandard.com/movabletype/datadigest/archives/000499.php
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, www.acm.org) regularly engages in “information policy” discussions. Here’s the ACM’s policy page: http://www.acm.org/usacm/, and their statement on electronic voting http://www.acm.org/usacm/Issues/EVoting.htm
• Black Box Voting. Bev Harris's group attempting to carry out a forensic examination of the election.  www.blackboxvoting.org
• The “master google link” as provided by the linguist-researcher of search-engine systems, John Paolillo, Indiana U. for “relevant hits on electronic vote searches:” http://www.google.com/search?q=diebold+exit+poll&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

·         Common Cause has taken up the issue of election fraud and the problems of electronic voting http://www.commoncause.org

·         USA Today, Nov 4, 2004, "Reports of electronic voting trouble top 1,000” http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/evoting/2004-11-04-1000-reports_x.htm

·         Mother Jones, Diebold's Political Machine, March 5, 2004: http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html

·         BradBlog, December 6, 2004,  "Programmer Built Vote Rigging Prototype at Republican Congressman's Request!” Clint Curtis, a 46-year old Florida computer programmer, signed an affidavit on December 6, 2004 swearing that in 2000 he designed and built a "vote rigging" software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman, now U.S. Congressman, Republican Tom Feeney http://www.tomfeeney.com/ of Florida's 24th Congressional District.  BradBlog has Curtis’s affidavit in pdf format. Here are links to the story, the blog's regular site, and its new supplemental site:
<http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001024.htm>
<http://www.bradfriedman.com/BradBlog/>
<http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/2004/12/original-brad-blog-whistleblower.html>

·         BradBlog, December 13, 2004, “Clint Curtis publicly names Republican congressman Tom Feeney for requested “electronic vote rigging” to stunned Judiciary Committee investigating Ohio election fraud,” http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/2004/12/breaking-update-clint-curtis-stuns.html

·         Mad Cow Morning News, December 14, 2004, “Fraud by Computer” in Florida” by Daniel Hopsicker. A recount of Florida’s votes on the state gambling initiative offered an opportunity to correlate what was found with what are so far just “theories” of how the Presidential election in Florida might have been stolen.  http://www.madcowprod.com/12142004.html

·        VotersUnite.org; copyright January 2005; “Myth Breakers: Facts About Electronic Elections” a 70-page research study by Ellen Theisen. This outstanding report thoroughly documents the lack of transparency that makes it impossible to validate tallies and the countless shortcomings of electronic voting in the 2004 presidential election: “Newspapers reported serious voting problems starting with the first day of early voting in the 2004 Presidential Election and continuing through Election Day and beyond.

Voters’ selections changed in front of their eyes on the touch screens of paperless voting machines. Electronic poll books failed to work properly. Tabulation equipment began subtracting votes after accumulated totals reached 32,000. Voting machines lost votes, miscounted votes, and mysteriously added votes. Machines broke down, froze up, paged through ballots backwards, and skipped past important races.

http://www.votersunite.org/MB2.pdf

Ohio Recount and Voting Irregularities in that state

• The Free Press; November 5, 2004, “Did Kerry Concede Too Soon?”, by Bob Fitrakis reporting from Columbus, “There are more than 92,000 “spoiled” ballots in Ohio, mostly in Democratic wards that could easily be hand counted, 155,000 uncounted provisional ballots, uncounted overseas military ballots and some uncounted absentee ballots....In Ohio, an estimated 14.6% of the votes are cast on e-voting machines, known for their glitches and susceptibility to hacking and fraudulent manipulation. Just this year, four Ohio counties purchased voting machines from the notoriously partisan Diebold corporation, whose CEO, Columbus resident and Bush fundraiser Wally O’Dell, pledged to help “Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President.” http://freepress.org/columns.php?strFunc=display&strID=981&strYear=2004&strAuthor=3
• TomPaine.Com; November 12, 2004; “The Perfect Election Day Crime,” by Steven Rosenfeld

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_perfect_election_day_crime.php

• Chicago Sun Times; November 30, 2004; “Something’s Fishy in Ohio” by Jesse Jackson, Sr. who calls for “a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to vote for all U.S. citizens and to empower Congress to establish federal standards and nonpartisan administration of elections.” http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse30.html

• House Judiciary Committee letter dated December 2, 2004 to J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State, outlining a long series of voting irregularities in Ohio during the Presidential election http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohblackwellltr12204.pdf

• Truthout, December 7, 2004, “Conyers Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud Coverage” by William Rivers Pitt http://www.truthout.org/cblog.shtml
• The Free Press, December 13, 2004, Startling new revelations highlight rare Congressional hearings on Ohio vote by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/985
• Truthout, December 13, 2004, “Conyers Alarmed at Efforts to Obstruct Ohio Recount Effort, Calls Witness to Monday Hearing to Detail Such Efforts” by William Rivers Pitt http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121404Z.shtml
• OpEdNews.com, December 13, 2004, “Smoking Gun of Election Fraud is in Ken Blackwell’s Hand” by Anthony Wade -- a well-written, strongly worded indictment of “the Ohio Secretary of State, who was also the State Chair of the Bush reelection campaign. Conflict of interest anyone? Katherine Harris redux anyone?”  http://www.opednews.com/wade_121204_election_smoking_gun.htm
• The Raw Story, December 13, 2004; “Witness (before Democratic Judiciary Committee Hearing) says voting company tampered with machine after vote and tried to plant false information into Ohio recount” http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=490
• Scoop, December 13, 2004, “Ohio Recount Affidavit - Richard Hayes Phillips,” Another PhD University Professor analyzes the data and concludes Ohio official results are not correct, signs affidavit. http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00167.htm
• Truthout, December 15, 2004, “Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed,” by William Rivers Pitt http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/printer_121604Z.shtml
• Washington Post, December 15, 2004, “Several Factors Contributed to 'Lost' Voters in Ohio” By Michael Powell and Peter Slevin http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64737-2004Dec14.html?sub=AR
• The Free Press, December 15, 2004, “"American democracy hangs by a thread in Ohio" by Bob Fitrakis (The Free Press). Read about “the triple play of vote fraud and disenfranchisement that makes December 13^th 2004 a day that will live in infamy http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/1020
• The Raw Story, December 15, 2004, “Triad firm accused of tampering with Ohio data left some unofficial results on public webserver” by John Byrne http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=496
• TomPaine.Com; December 21, 2004; “Ohio: A Crime Against Democracy” by Stuart Comstock-Gay, Executive Director of the National Voting Rights Institute. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/ohio_a_crime_against_democracy.php
• The Free Press; December 22, 2004; Rev. Jesse Jackson says, “Ohio Electoral Fight Becomes 'Biggest Deal Since Selma' as GOP Stonewalls” by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman. http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1015

·        TheBlackCommentator.Com; December 23, 2004; “No Holiday for Vote Thieves,” The BC offers commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting African-Americans. This piece is a searing indictment of criminal conspiracy by Republican Party officials and other operatives to hack the electronic vote and to disenfranchise and intimidate African-American voters in Ohio, such as the “Texas Strike Force” telephone-goons in Columbus. Has a copy of the “National Voter Registration Act and Criminal Penalties.” http://www.blackcommentator.com/119/119_cover_vote_thieves_pf.html

·        The Free Press, December 24, 2004; Lawsuit Before the Ohio Supreme Court, Summarized by Mary Anne Saucier: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1028

• The Free Press; December 25, 2004; Hacking the vote in Miami County by Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D. http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1038

• Bellaciao; December 30, 2004: Ohio Recount a Sham, Public Protests Needed: “Columbus, OH - A day after the conclusion of the flawed recount of Ohio’s presidential vote, Green Party. presidential candidate David Cobb called on Congress to challenge the legitimacy of Ohio’s Electoral College delegation.

"The recount of Ohio’s presidential vote was conducted in clear violation of both the spirit and the letter of the law. We can have no faith in the results when both the initial election and the recount were conducted in a haphazard and clearly illegitimate manner. Ohio’s presidential electors are tainted by unresolved allegations of voter suppression and the lack of a meaningful recount. Congress must reject and challenge their votes," said Cobb.

One of the most significant problems with the recount was that few of Ohio’s 88 counties randomly selected sample precincts for the recount as required by Ohio law. 

“The lack of random sampling calls into question the legitimacy of the recount. A few counties did the recount properly and selected the precincts at random. The vast majority of them, however, chose the precincts in advance without the official observers witnessing or participating in the selection. That’s like showing up at a poker game with strangers and finding that you’ve already been dealt your hand," said Blair Bobier, Cobb-LaMarche Media Director. Access the complete article at this link: http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4914

·        The Free Press, January 8, 2005: Estimated vote count in Ohio by Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D. (the researcher’s conservative estimate gives Ohio’s 20 electoral votes to John Kerry). http://www.freepress.org/images/departments/Vote_Count_Ohio.pdf

Arkansas 2004

• The Free Press, January 24, 2005; Arkansas in 2004: Did Bush Really Win?
  by Max Standridge; http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1119

New Mexico

• The Free Press, January 18, 2005; “What Are They Hiding in New Mexico” by Warren Stewart, National Ballot Integrity Project. http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1100

The organized and collected links of other Clearing Houses

• SolarBus "A Stolen Election? website “documenting what could be the highest crime in the history of our country" http://www.solarbus.org/stealyourelection/index.html
• ShadowBox (Clearinghouse w/many links), "Evidence of Election Fraud" http://shadowbox.i8.com/
• Natural Law Party Essex, November 28, 2004, Comprehensive Exit Polling data, US v Ukrainian Exit Polls: Whose Election Results Do You Believe And Why? http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATvotefraud2004.htm
• Op-EdNews.com, November 15, 2004, “Evidence of Electoral Fraud in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election: A Reading List” by Michael Keefer. A vast clearinghouse of links. http://www.opednews.com/keefer_111504_readings.htm
• Carol Brouillet’s “Stolen Election Page” at her website http://www.communitycurrency.org/Election.html

·         Scoop (Clearinghouse) has a long list of links to articles about the VoteScam story in the print and electronic media: http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup

·         Nightweed.com 20 Amazing facts About Voting in the USA   if you still don't think the election was a fraud, read this. http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html

Official Hearings & Investigations, Congressional Statements

• CNN.com, November 24, 2004, “GAO to investigate election complaints” http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/23/election.investigation/
• Truthout.org, December 8, 2004 “Conyers Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud Coverage” William Rivers Pitt at his blogging best: http://www.truthout.org/cblog.shtml

·         BradBlog, December 13, 2004, “Florida computer programmer Clint Curtis publicly names Republican congressman Tom Feeney for requested “electronic vote rigging” to stunned Judiciary Committee investigating Ohio election fraud,” http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/2004/12/breaking-update-clint-curtis-stuns.html

·         MSNBC News Countdown, December 15, 2004,  “Conyers’ “prepared” to contest Ohio Electoral Vote (With Keith Olbermann) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240

·         Salon.Com; December 21, 2004; “Investigating Ohio” by Tim Grieve who interviews Rep. John Conyers on the electoral travesty in Ohio. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/122204W.shtml  

·         The Free Press, January 6, 2005; Senator Barbara Boxer, D-CA and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-OH contested the election by Free Press staff. http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1069

·         Rep. Maurice Hinchey’s January 6, 2005 statement challenging the Ohio electors: http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny22_hinchey/morenews/electoralvote010605.html

·         The Free Press, January 7, 2005; Progressive Democrats lead historic voting rights protest as Congress ratifies flawed 2004 Electoral College tally by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1070

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Pre-Election Journalistic Prophecy

• In These Times, Voting Machines Gone Wild!, by Mark Lewellen-Biddle, December 11, 2003 http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=490_0_1_0_C
• Common Dreams, “All The President’s Votes” by Andrew Gumbel, October 13, 2003 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1013-01.htm
• Democracy Now, Will Bush Backers Manipulate Votes to Deliver G.W. Another Election?, by Amy Goodman and the staff of Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/04/159216

·         Counterpunch, May 8/9, 2004, "Why I Will Not Vote in 2004" by Carolyn Baker http://www.counterpunch.org/baker05082004.html

·         Greg Palast, “An Election Spoiled Rotten,” November 01, 2004 http://www.tompaine.com/articles/an_election_spoiled_rotten.php

U.S. Media Blackout on the 2004 Election

·        Counterpunch, January 3, 2005; “Missing in Action: The Media and the Ohio Recount,” by David Swanson. When forced to talk about ethics, media big shots often insist that they draw no conclusions. They endlessly reported Dick Cheney's claims that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, but it would not have been their place to label that a "conspiracy theory." When it comes to election fraud in Ohio and other U.S. states, on the other hand, the media has jumped straight to reporting that it's all a "conspiracy theory" before ever reporting any of the facts http://www.counterpunch.org/swanson01032005.html

Miscellaneous Articles

·        Online Journal; November 5, 2004, “Kerry Won” by Greg Palast. Palast wrote the book on 2000’s stolen election in Florida, “The Best Democracy That Money Can Buy.” Now he can write another book. http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/110504Palast/110504palast.html

·        Texas Safe Voting; November 3, 2004, Watch incriminating video of the Texas Secretary of State's closed-door meetings to certify voting machines. http://safevoting.org/

·        The MadCow Morning News, Nov. 15, 2004, "The Big Fix 2004" by Daniel Hopsicker http://www.madcowprod.com/mc6912004.html

·        Counterpunch, November 24, 2004, "Hypocrisy sans Irony: Double Standards on Exit Polls" by  (former Spencer, NY native) Dave Lindorff http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff11232004.html

·        MSNBC Bloggerman, December 21, 2004; “Time to Separate The Wheat From The Chaff,” by Keith Olbermann http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

·        TheBlackCommentator.Com; December 23, 2004; “No Holiday for Vote Thieves,” The BC offers commentary, analysis and investigations on issues affecting African-Americans. This piece is a searing indictment of criminal conspiracy by Republican Party officials and other operatives to hack the electronic vote and to disenfranchise and intimidate African-American voters in Ohio, such as the “Texas Strike Force” telephone-goons in Columbus. Has a copy of the “National Voter Registration Act and Criminal Penalties.” http://www.blackcommentator.com/119/119_cover_vote_thieves_pf.html

·        Op-EdNews; December 28, 2004: Assassins of Democracy: Votergate 2004 Continues” by Anthony Wade: One of my favorite writers, from the text, “I have heard from operatives on the right that this is all “conspiracy theory”. The use of the term is meant as a pejorative, to discredit anyone who supports such a notion. In reality though, the only part I really took issue with was the word “theory”. This is changing though. As more and more testimony comes in and the assassins keep scrambling for cover it is becoming obvious that the theory is crystallizing. When you have a man as compromised as Blackwell, seeking a legal way to not tell the truth, it appears obvious that we have moved beyond the realm of theory. When you see all mainstream media blackout such an important story and then refuse Congress to keep their exit poll data secret until after the inauguration, the land of theory has been left behind. As for conspiracy, it doesn’t bother me either. Most assassinations are conspiratorial by nature. http://opednews.com/wade_122904_democracy_assassins.htm 

·        Truthout; January 17, 2005; Why We Must Question Our Elections by Arlene S. Ash, Ph.D. http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/printer_011805Y.shtml

Contextual Analysis

• PravdaRU, December 20, 2004; “The Great American Treason” by David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of PravdaRU. http://pravda.us/mailbox/22/101/399/14741_treason.html

“Debunking” Articles

·        The Raw Story, “November 8, 2004, “Odds of Bush gaining 4% in all exit polling states 1 in 50,000; Evoting/paper variance not found to be significant” by John Byrne. Former MIT mathematics professor David Arick says there are four possible reasons for the “Bush gains:”  (1) Significantly greater lying or refusal to speak to pollsters in Bush voters versus Kerry voters; (2) Consistent/systematic errors in weighting demographic groups; (3) A surge of Bush voters after 4 p.m., in all states; (4) Systematic tampering/hacking of reported vote totals, in Bush’s favor. http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=405

• The New York Times, November 12, 2004,”Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried” by Tom Zeller, Jr. Yup, it’s those bloggers, playing journalists again! http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F13FA3D5B0C718DDDA80994DC404482 Note: This article may now require a $2.95 archival fee from The New York Times. It’s not worth it. To request a print copy of the article: citizenj@twcny.rr.com
• The New York Times, November 12, 2004, “Mostly Good Reviews for Electronic Voting” by John Schwartz (with Tom Zeller Jr. contributing to the article). No link available. Note: This article may now require a $2.95 archival fee from The New York Times. The piece is virtually worthless, except as an example of shoddy, shallow and manipulative “journalism.” Shame, shame, shame on the Old Gray Lady! To request an unlinked print copy of the article: citizenj@twcny.rr.com
• The Mystery Pollster; November 17, 2004; “The Freeman Paper” a critique by Mark Blumenthal, with numerous comments including Steven Freeman’s detailed response. http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/the_freeman_pap.html
• Washington Post; November 21, 2004, “Exit Polls Can't Always Predict Winners, So Don't Expect Them To” by Richard Morin. The Post's director of polling argues “the exception makes the rule.” No link available. Somewhat more worthy of consideration than the Times’ articles, but not worth an archival fee. To request a print copy of the article: citizenj@twcny.rr.com
• McCullough-Plassman, December 2, 2004; A Drexel University PhD and a SUNY Binghamton PhD offer “A Partial Critique of the (UC Berkeley Research Study), ‘The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support of Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections,”’ http://election04.ssrc.org/research/critique-of-hmcb.pdf

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Where’s John Kerry?

• SmirkingChimp.Com, November 11, 2004, 'Think Kerry is not involved in this fight? Think again' by Betsy R. Vasquez: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=18651&mode=nested&order=0
• Democracy Now, November 17, 2004, “Why Isn't Kerry Using $50M Unspent Campaign Money to Fund Recounts? http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/17/1525203
• BenFrank.Net, November 26, 2004, “Kerry’s Silence Indicates Complicity with Vote Fraud” http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=272
The Ithaca Journal, November 27, 2004; “Demand Recount” a letter by Irene Stein, Chair of the Tompkins County Democratic Party, urging readers “to urge the Kerry Campaign to call for recounts and investigate the widespread voting irregularities that have been reported.” http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20041127/opinion/1656649.html
TomFlocco.Com; December 13, 2004; “Will Kerry fund real probe if House member seeks Ohio elector challenge?”  by Tom Flocco http://www.tomflocco.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=103
MutantEggplant.Com; December 16, 2004 update, “An Unofficial Guide to the Presidential Election 2004: Exit Polls and Kerry General Strategy,” http://www.mutanteggplant.com/ElectionGuide.htm
BreakForNews; December 24, 2004; Kerry Preparing Grounds To Unconcede: Election Challenge Likely on January 6^th If you haven't been following John Kerry closely, get ready to hear of surprising developments. The vote-defrauded, potential president-in-waiting has just indicated through his lawyer that the validity of George Bush's reelection is no longer a given.” http://BreakForNews.com/articles/Kerry/PreparingGroundsToUnconcede.htm

·        MSNBC; December 27, 2004: “Kerry’s lead lawyer on the ground in Ohio: does the re-election warrant the public trust?” (Keith Olbermann); In announcing that the Kerry-Edwards group would join the bid in Federal District Court in Ohio to preserve all "evidence" from the election and recount there, Mr. Hoffheimer said, on behalf of the senators, that such preservation was necessary because, "Only then can the integrity of the entire electoral process and the election of Bush-Cheney warrant the public trust."

·        MSNBC; December 27, 2004: “Conspiracies theorized, or conspiracies invoked?” (Keith Olbermann); Same Kerry lawyer, Daniel J. Hoffheimer, after several Web columnists and bloggers joined Olbermann in questioning the bluntness of the phrase (one even wildly claiming this was a precursor to a Kerry "un-concession"), Hoffheimer changed his tone, emailing Keith: “There are many conspiracy theorists opining these days. There are many allegations of fraud. But this presidential election is over. The Bush-Cheney ticket has won. The Kerry-Edwards campaign has found no conspiracy and no fraud in Ohio, though there have been many irregularities that cry out to be fixed for future elections." Olbermann notes, “The problem is, of course, that it was not some great, conspiracy-based, tin-foil-hat, piece of linguistic gymnastics, to infer from the conclusion to Mr. Hoffheimer's Thursday statement, that the Kerry-Edwards campaign did not believe that "the integrity of the entire electoral process and the election of Bush-Cheney" warranted the public trust. It is, in fact, to use Mr. Hoffheimer's phrase, "the plain meaning" of the first statement. How do I know that? To borrow Chairman Sam Ervin's answer to that same question, as posed by John Ehrlichmann at the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973: "Because I can understand the English language. It's my mother's tongue." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

VoteFraud  2000 -- A Stolen Presidential Election

·         CLG (Citizens For Legitimate Government), "Yes, Gore Did Win." This website documents the 2000 vote fraud story, including the corporate media’s crucial role in falsification and omission of the truth. http://www.legitgov.org/index_hot_April5.html

Contacting the Congress

• Online Directory for the 108^th Congress: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
• Petition to 13 US Senators Not to Certify the Election: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/senatorsnocertify

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