"I am not here to cause trouble. I am here to tell the truth from my point of view. We do need people in the court house. I applaud people in court fighting for their rights. But the courts don’t really respect that action unless there is a mob at their front door step. That’s what you need. And when I talk about mob, I am not talking about a orderly group of citizens. I mean a group of people who’s backs are against the wall, they’ve had enough. Something has got to give, and that is the point we are at."

Lynn Landes

"According the Mr Blackwell if you vote in same country but the wrong precinct your vote is thrown away. Instead of saying vote in the next precinct which is often the next table, they said here fill out a provisional ballot. 155,000 provisional ballots thrown away, predominately in the black community."

Greg Palast

"The congress has failed in it’s oversight of the executive branch and the American people have failed in their oversight of the integrity of our political system."

Cynthia McKinney

"Why has this been delayed so long when the election has been over for six weeks? How is it that the state of Washington has already completed a recount and begun a second one before Ohio even begins? The answer is known- because of the partisan manipulation of Republican Sec. of State Blackwell. It is not merely that he is a Republican, it is that he served as the chair of the Bush-Cheney re-election effort. If we were to go to a sporting event and see one of the teams providing all the referees and umpires, we’d get suspicious! Well we’re suspicious now!"

"Today the presidential electors will cast their vote, and in Ohio over 100,000 spoiled and provisional ballots still remain uncounted."

Cobb testifies to Conyers that a Triad technician came and ’repaired’ a vote tabulating machine before the recount, "he had spare parts in his coat."

"The judges decision that yes the recount can happen, but it could happen probably when it won’t make any difference. The judge suggested that he might not have ruled the way he ruled if Kerry had asked for the recount.

But the Kerry - Edwards campaign filed to be only a party in the lawsuit brought by Cobb/Badnarik. Since Cobb/Badnarik got only 14,000 votes out of 5.5 million cast they wouldn’t be harmed by a later recount. If Kerry had tried harder, maybe the judge would have ruled differently."

"It is disappointing that the judge decided not to expedite the recount, he did say an interesting thing. He did say that perhaps if John Kerry had been present there would have been a showing of irreparable harm."

Mr. Speaker, I traveled to Ohio where John Conyers convened hearings, and I listened to citizen after citizen describe the Ohio election debacle. When there is a shortage of voting machines that leads to lines of up to 10 hours to cast a vote in precincts that are predominant minority and Democratic voters, forcing countless prospective voters to leave without voting, and where a number of Democratic precincts had fewer machines than were used in the primary election, despite the certainty of a much higher turnout in the hotly contested general election for President, it is clear that Ohio has failed to run a fair election.

When Mr. Blackwell arbitrarily and unreasonably refused to provide provisional ballots to voters who were in the right county but the wrong precinct, or to voters who requested but did not receive an absentee ballot in a timely manner, it is clear that Ohio has failed to run a fair election.

When a county in Ohio shows more votes cast than registered voters, or when another Ohio county shows an underfunded Democratic State Supreme Court candidate getting substantially more votes than the well-funded campaign of Senator Kerry, it is clear that Ohio has failed to run a fair election.

When Secretary of State Blackwell refused to recognize thousands of new voter applications because they are not on postcard-weight paper, it is clear that Ohio has failed to run a fair election."

"John Kerry ran a great three week campaign in Iowa and we all knew whoever won the first primary was gonna win the whole thing because of the way the primaries were compressed." ( wtf?!!!! )

Howard Dean

"One million African-Americans were disenfranchised in the last election, that’s not gonna happen in my America... not while I’m a candidate."
- John Kerry

"That’s amazing to me that he capitulated, there’s really no excuse for it because he knew... he has had Black Box Voting, the book, handed to him personally- repeatedly. He has no reason not to know- and he was looking every way but at these machines. He did nothing whatsoever to try to address procedures to solve this ahead of time."

Bev Harris

"Well Bev, they’re cousins." - Alex Jones

For some reason, there was no need for our government to prove this was a fair election, it was up to a few patriots fighting the system to prove there was fraud. That is proof in itself. All rational people understand that elections are supposed to be free and open, not counted in secret by Republican operatives. This election was a sham, and the media buried it- in other words, our country has been hijacked by warmongers- they own the media, the corporations and all three branches of government. Are you just going to sit there and allow the thieves in high places put your children in debt ($8 trillion total US debt) just because John Kerry rolled over? Recruiters are hounding poverty stricken high schools with offers of $10,000 signing bonuses and six months to spend it... is this the kind of America you want to leave your children?

imo the problem with America is not with the blind Republicans, it’s with the Democrats refusing to look into this fraud and realizing that yes indeed, John Kerry is the Benedict Arnold of the 21st Century. Are you really going to accept this mass killing, stealing of Iraqi oil, taking of our rights and freedoms, looting our economy, screwing the education system and the environment... are you just going to accept this because the Democrats were fooled into accepting George W. Bush’s distant cousin and Skull and Bones brother Kerry as their nominee. If we had a real democrat, we wouldn’t be looking at 4 more years of this ’spreading democracy’ bullshit.