by Carol Norris
Dear Members of Congress:
As you are no doubt aware, concerns about possible voter fraud abound. Irregularities have been well documented in many states, more than enough to raise legitimate questions. Is it widespread or in several isolated places? Might it change the outcomes of any of the races? What changes need to be made to protect our vote? We need you to investigate. But more than that, we need you to understand that this issue is not a partisan one. It’s not (...)
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An Open Letter to Congress: do Your Job, Investigate the Voter Fraud Allegations
15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Vote Interrupted. Were the absentee ballots lost or stolen? Either way, it’s a crime.
15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
BY BOB NORMAN
By the time you read this, you might know the identity of the next president. Or perhaps lawyers reign and the world’s fate is hanging, like so much chad, in the balance.
Either way, Broward County is screwed. It’s stuck with a dysfunctional elections office that was plagued by technological problems, ill-equipped early voting stations, and, worst of all, the disappearance of thousands of absentee ballots. The question lingers: Was that mysterious disappearance — which (...) -
Two N.C. Races Held Up by Voting Problems
15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By STEVE HARTSOE
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A Florida-style nightmare has unfolded in North Carolina in the 10 days since Election Day, with thousands of votes missing and the outcome of two statewide races still up in the air.
The fiasco has not reached the proportions of what happened in 2000 in Florida - in part because the presidential race was not close here. But election observers say North Carolina has been the site of some of 2004’s worst problems.
The biggest failure resulted from (...) -
Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried
15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsNew York Times
The e-mail messages and Web postings had all the twitchy cloak-and-dagger thrust of a Hollywood blockbuster. "Evidence mounts that the vote may have been hacked," trumpeted a headline on the Web site CommonDreams.org. "Fraud took place in the 2004 election through electronic voting machines," declared BlackBoxVoting.org.
In the space of seven days, an online market of dark ideas surrounding last week’s presidential election took root and multiplied.
But while the (...) -
Major bugs found in Diebold vote systems
14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
The voting machine controversy likely will linger after a look at the systems source code software from Ohio-based Diebold yielded reports of numerous bugs.
Diebold was one of three companies — including Election Systems & Software and Sequoia — that provided updated technology for the 2004 election.
Computer Science Professor Avi Rubin of John Hopkins University analyzed Diebold’s 47,609 lines of code and found it uses an encryption key that was hacked in 1997 and no longer is (...) -
Arafat’s death a major test for Bush
14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will test whether US President George W Bush intends to maintain his staunch support for Israel’s right-wing government at the risk of further alienating the US’s European allies and Muslim public opinion.
It will also provide an early insight into whether the hardline coalition that has dominated US foreign policy since September 11, 2001 - aggressive nationalists, neo-conservatives who support Israel’s governing (...) -
Don’t have a cow, man. Bush won, America lost, get over it!
14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Jane Stillwater
Sometimes I think politics is like watching the Simpson show. "I actually found a new Attorney General who is a worse civil rights abuser than John Ashcroft!" Who said that? Krusty the Clown?
And what about the 2004 election? An estimated NINE MILLION Americans cast questionably weird votes. Would Montgomery Burns be that evil? Would Homer Simpson be that dumb?
"If you want to find out if there are nine million fake votes," said my friend Joe, "just tally up the (...) -
U.S. use of depleted uranium under fire
14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By LORI MATSUKAWA
Alvin Clark, of Tacoma, developed aplastic anemia he believes is related to his exposure to depleted uranium dust after he was hit by friendly fire in Saudi Arabia.
Shells and armor used by U.S. tanks, gunships and helicopters are often made of depleted uranium because depleted uranium, or D.U., is a heavy metal, able to pierce armored vehicles or resist being pierced. But it’s also radioactive, a waste product of nuclear enrichment plants like Hanford.
A pentagon (...) -
Rocket the Vote
14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsby Naomi Klein
P. Diddy announced on the weekend that his “Vote or Die” campaign will live on. The hip-hop mogul’s voter-registration drive during the U.S. presidential elections was, he said, merely “phase one, step one for us to get people engaged.”
Fantastic. I have a suggestion for phase two: P. Diddy, Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio and the rest of the self-described “Coalition of the Willing” should take their chartered jet and fly to Fallujah, where their efforts are desperately (...) -
Veteran CIA terror hunter quits over gag
14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Shaun Waterman
A veteran CIA terror hunter has quit the agency, saying it gagged him for fear his exposure of intelligence failures would embarrass other U.S. agencies.
Michael Scheuer, a 22-year CIA veteran who headed its operations against terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, told United Press International that he was barred from publishing a critique he wrote in May "documenting management and leadership failures" in U.S. efforts to disrupt al-Qaida and capture or kill its leader, (...)