Electronic voting machines were supposed to save us from the nightmare of hanging chads. The day after the election, a lot of Americans learned for the first time that most of these machines are owned by private companies who refuse to divulge exactly how they work; that computer security experts have been highly critical of them; that they’ve already experienced serious failures, and that many of them leave no paper trail for backup.(1) Since then, online forums have been jammed with (...)
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Exit Polls and Voter Fraud: A User-Friendly Explanation
18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Hearings on Ohio voting put 2004 election in doubt
18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Highly-charged, jam-packed hearings held here in Columbus have cast serious doubt on the true outcome of the presidential election.
On Saturday, November 13, and Monday, November 15, the Ohio Election Protection Coalition’s public hearings in Columbus solicited extensive sworn first-person testimony from 32 of Ohio voters, precinct judges, poll workers, legal observers, party challengers. An additional 66 people provided written affidavits of election irregularities. The unavoidable (...) -
Think again pro warmongers
18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsIraq veteran speaks out against war; Former Marine tells ND crowd his experience reshaped his perspective
By Patrick M. O’Connell / Tribune Staff Writer
SOUTH BEND — Rob Sarra is not a pacifist.
Sometimes, the former U.S. Marine sergeant regrettably believes war is a necessary evil.
"But when military power is used, it better be for a ... good reason," Sarra said. "And this was not it."
Sarra is talking about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, where in 2003 he experienced firsthand both (...) -
Make Democracy Real
18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Ted Glick
I am fortunate to live in the Newark, N.J. area. Because of it I’m a member of the People’s Organization for Progress, a predominantly African American but multi-cultural organization led by its chair, Larry Hamm.
Three days after the November 2 election POP held a fund-raising dinner. When Larry spoke as part of the program of speakers and poetry, the first thing he did was to lead the packed church basement in a chant of "power to the people," as he often does. He spoke (...) -
Franklin County : Voters Recount Irregularities
18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
As thousands of provisional ballots will start to be counted Tuesday, more people are coming forward with stories about voting irregularities during the November 2 election.
Dozens of people crowded into a hearing room at the Franklin County courthouse Monday night.
It was the second public hearing since Saturday, and there was a panel made up of voting rights groups listens to every word.
Voters and poll workers told story after story of voters being disenfranchised.
"Finally, I (...) -
Reporter Greg Palast and Salon’s Farhad Manjoo debate the election results in Ohio
18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Greg Palast: Sean Hannity called me a putz. Oh, my! And soft-porn-site scribe Frank Salvato put me in with the "black helicopter" conspiracy league. Golly!
I can live with that. But when Salon disses my report of vote suppression in Ohio ("Was the Election Stolen?" by Farhad Manjoo), I have to respond. Manjoo went after my article, "Kerry Won," the latest in my series of investigations of our manipulated election system first published in America by ... Salon: "Florida’s Flawed (...) -
Powell Movement
18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsThat’s what Jon Stewart’s Daily Show called the resignation of Colin Powell. A Powell movement. (They didn’t even touch the possible pun on Colin.)
That’s how bad it has become. The Bush national security team is now so bad that it is a joke. The Daily Show noted that Powell was the administration’s “most influential moderate.” He was, at the same time, Stewart noted, also its “least influential moderate.” (See Letterman’s Top 10 comments on Powell below.)
It’s clear to me that the (...) -
Analysts blame the Island’s changing demographics, scandals for shift in political dominance
18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
BY CELESTE HADRICK STAFF WRITER; Staff writer Michael Rothfeld contributed to this story.
Despite their national success this month, Republicans aren’t doing as well in New York, particularly on Long Island.
The Democratic candidate, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), beat President George W. Bush 58 percent to 40 percent and Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer trounced his Republican opponent Howard Mills 71 percent to 25 percent.
On the Island, Bush did better than four years ago. But despite (...) -
Mapping the Election
18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Tom Engelhardt
Let’s start with an electoral map (scroll down) of the United States not long after George Bush beat a Massachusetts liberal for the presidency. If you take a quick glance at it, you’ll note that sea of blue stretching majestically from coast to coast with just a few isolated red states hanging off the northern border like the last ripe mangos of the growing season. Sound like the fabulous fantasy of some cockeyed Kerry supporter? Actually, it represents a distant (...) -
A mental health crisis is emerging, with one in six returning soldiers afflicted, experts say
18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Esther Schrader
WASHINGTON - Matt LaBranche got the tattoos at a seedy place down the street from the Army hospital here where he was a patient in the psychiatric ward.
The pain of the needle felt good to the 40-year-old former Army sergeant, whose memories of his nine months as a machine-gunner in Iraq had left him, he said, "feeling dead inside." LaBranche’s back is now covered in images, the largest the dark outline of a sword. Drawn from his neck to the small of his back, it (...)