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  • The Vietnam Election Turnout was good as well
    1 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No amount of spin can conceal Iraqis’ hostility to US occupation
    By Sami Ramadani
    On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war. Under the heading "US encouraged by Vietnam vote: Officials cite 83% turnout despite Vietcong terror", the paper reported that the Americans had been "surprised and heartened" by the size of the turnout "despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign (…)

  • Iraqi in Baghdad: "The Election Was Shoved Down Our Throats"
    1 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Today we get an Iraqi’s thoughts on the elections. We reached him just before the program. This is Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar at his home in Baghdad.
    GHAZWAN AL-MUKHTAR: I do not believe that the election is legitimate, the election is held under the occupation. The occupying power has modified the basic rules in Iraq as to who is an Iraqi and who is not. The election was shoved down our throat because all the major parties, including Allawi’s party, requested that the election be postponed. That (…)

  • Bush Told Black Caucus He "Didn’t Know Anything About" Voting Rights Act Renewal
    1 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Bush Told Black Caucus He "Didn’t Know Anything About" Voting Rights Act Renewal, Congressmen Say Black Congressmen Riled By Bush Ignorance Of Voting Rights Act By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor January 31, 2005 President Bush told the congressional black caucus he “didn’t know anything about” renewal of the seminal 1965 Voting Rights Act last Wednesday, RAW STORY has learned. According to several of the 43-member strong Democratic caucus, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) asked (…)

  • Prominent Statisticians Urge Investigation of U.S. Presidential Election Results
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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.
    President Bush won November’s election by 2.5% yet exit polls showed Kerry leading by 3%. Which was correct?
    "There are statistical indications that a systematic, nationwide shift of 5.5% of the vote may have occurred, and that we’ll never get to the bottom of this, unless we gather the data we need for mathematical (…)

  • Vote Machine Fraud documented in Florida Coastal Counties- Hearings to be Held Feb 1 & 3
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The biggest Democratic counties in Florida are Palm Beach, Broward, and Dade. Each of these counties had dozens of precincts where vote-switching was reported. Most involved switches from Kerry to Bush, but there a few reported cases of votes switching from Kerry to a minor candidate or no vote. (Recall that non-votes were likely to be switched to Bush. A smaller number of reports documented votes switched from Betty Castor to Mel Martinez in Florida’s U.S. Senate race. Poll workers and poll (…)

  • Real Freedom Still Far Off
    31 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Real Freedom Still Far Off Eric Margolis January 30, 2005 Will today’s elections for 7,785 unknown candidates in violence-racked Iraq mark the dawn of genuine Mideast democracy, as U.S. President George W. Bush claims, or be another step deeper into the bloody quagmire in Mesopotamia?
    First, no election held under a foreign military occupation resulting from an unjustified war is legal under international law. During the Cold War, elections staged by the Soviets after invading (…)

  • Election Fraud Update: Experts Respond to Mitofsky’s Exit Poll Report
    30 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Count Votes Response to Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 Report http://exit-poll.net/election-night/EvaluationJan192005.pdf
    Background
    After last November’s presidential election, there were numerous reports of irregularities. Reported problems[1] included: voting machine shortages ballots counted and recounted in secret lost, discarded, and improperly rejected registration forms and absentee ballots touch-screen machines that registered "Bush" when voters pressed "Kerry" (…)

  • Because There is No Cause: Iraq, its Elections and the Peace/Anti War Movement
    29 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Into History’s Cauldron
    By Manuel Valenzuela
    In an immoral war with no cause, in an aggressive invasion without reason, in a dehumanizing occupation with no justification, those pawns fighting the battles implemented by elite warmongers and corporatists in power have no enthusiasm to risk their lives, sacrifice their minds and endanger their bodies to the horrors befalling men fighting their fellow men. Yet today, in the lands of deserts ancient and wise, where once glorious rivers (…)

  • Bush Inauguration Protest Video
    29 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Check Point "Dubya" is a clip from "Mandate?" a half hour documentary of the 2005 Inauguration protests.
    Check Point "Dubya" focuses on constitutional violations by security forces and the brutal over use of pepper spray at the 14th & Penn. parade route check point.
    – http://fluxview.com/v/Fluxview-News...
    "MANDATE?" PREMIERES AT THE TIME’S UP BIKE SPACE
    On Thursday, February 3rd at 7 PM, "Mandate" will make its New York City
    premiere at the Time’s Up Bike Space at 49 East (…)

  • Election Fraud Smoking Gun: The Ohio Recount was a Sham
    28 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ‘Why were there stickers on ballots in Clermont County, Ohio?’
    By Larisa Alexandrovna | RAW STORY Staff
    Serious new election tampering allegations have emerged from an Ohio county, where witnesses allege that stickers were placed on presidential election ballots, RAW STORY has learned.
    Several volunteer workers in the Ohio recount in Clermont County, Ohio have prepared affidavits alleging serious tampering, violations of state and federal law and possible fraud. They name the (…)