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  • Voting Machines : 57 Rural Counties Affected - Vote Fraud Suspected
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rural Oklahoma Voting machines know how to count backwards.
    Bob Nichols
    (Oklahoma City) Rural Oklahoma Voting machines know how to count backwards.
    That looks like what the secretly programmed machines did for Sen. Kerry in President Bush’s easily won Presidential Election victory in Oklahoma.
    All 77 counties use the Optech Eagle voting machines and Tabulator’s made by ES&S, Sen Hagel’s republican company.
    The respectable, conservative "Tulsa World" newspaper reported Nov 3rd (…)

  • Congresswoman Louise Slaughter responds to Petition
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (28th District, NY), who joined fellow legislators calling for a GAO investigation into voting irregularities, has responded to communication from petition author Rick Gagliano.
    In a letter dated November 24, 2004 and received today by Gagliano, Slaughter says, "...I agree that an investigation into the voting irregularities must be launched."
    Te full text of the letter can be found on the Downtown Magazine website, at: (…)

  • Recount in Washington State Shows 42-Vote Margin
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Republican candidate for governor declares himself the winner, but his Democratic rival deems it a tie. A hand tally may be next.
    By Sam Howe Verhovek, Times Staff Writer
    SEATTLE - A microscopic margin of 42 votes, out of nearly 2.9 million cast, separated the two top candidates for governor in Washington state, according to the results of a recount released Wednesday - enough for the Republican to declare himself the victor but far from enough for his Democratic foe to concede.
    State (…)

  • Kuchma seeks to end discord; PM also backs vote if fraud proven
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    KIEV, Ukraine
    As Ukraine’s Supreme Court weighed the validity of presidential election results, outgoing President Leonid Kuchma said Monday that Ukraine could hold a new election to settle the escalating crisis.
    "If we really want to preserve peace and accord, if we really want to build a democratic state ... let’s hold new elections,” Kuchma said, according to the Interfax news service.
    Earlier Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said he would support another vote in two (…)

  • Feds to Investigate Voting Irregularies
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By LARRY MARGASAK
    WASHINGTON - Congress’ investigative agency, responding to complaints from around the country, has begun to look into the Nov. 2 vote count, including the handling of provisional ballots and malfunctions of voting machines.
    The presidential results won’t change, but the studies could lead to changes.
    The Government Accountability Office usually begins investigations in response to specific requests from Congress, but the agency’s head, Comptroller General David (…)

  • Jesse Jackson demands Ohio presidential recount,blasts GOP election officials
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Jesse Jackson demands Ohio presidential recount, blasts GOP election officials, and says Kerry supports the process by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman November 29, 2004
    COLUMBUS—Preaching to a packed, wildly cheering central Ohio citizen congregation, Rev. Jesse Jackson blasted the presidential election back into the national headlines Sunday. Jackson said new findings cast serious doubt on the idea that George W. Bush beat John Kerry in Ohio November 2. A GOP "pattern of (…)

  • New Ohio voter transcripts feed floodtide of doubt about Republican election manipulation
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
    COLUMBUS — A floodtide of evidence of questionable practices in the 2004 election is mounting fast against Ohio Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and Republican Franklin County Board of Elections (BOE) Director Matt Damschroder. New transcriptions of sworn voter testimony, presented below for the first time, confirm growing suspicions of widespread use of rigged machines. Voters experienced hostility from poll workers, refusal of (…)

  • Kerry Supports Ohio Vote Investigation, Jackson says & Fair Tally Rally in Columbus
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Smilin’ Ohioan reports a Democratic candidate "farther down on the ticket" is found to have 257,000 more votes than Sen. Kerry. A developement that dwarves the preliminary gap of 136,000, which should come down when the vote is certified on monday, because the provisionals have been, either tabled or tabulated- as reported by channel 3 news in Cleveland.
    It is not clear what is to be done with all the various precints reporting 100%+ turnouts, ie.-more votes recorded than registered (…)

  • Special Report : Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Madsen
    According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were actually technicians familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Unilect, and Danaher Controls voting machines. These technicians reportedly hacked the systems to skew the results in favor of Bush.
    The leak about the (…)

  • WHY is Exposure, Investigation Critical? Prosecute electoral fraud = Quell Fascism.
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Have republicans in both houses secured seats and hence majority status on the backs of voting machines?, instead of the backing of the People. Is their good fortune due more to faulty, partisan electronic malfeasence ? INSTEAD of selection made by the force of good ideas, positive path platforms and real, honest acceptance by committed, concerned constituents seeking genuine change. Alarm bells are rringing among the populace, with a recent poll saying 72% believe we are heading in the (…)