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  • In Cleveland as in Kiev
    13 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004
    In the Ukraine, citizens are in the streets protesting what they charge is a fixed election. Secretary of State Colin Powell expresses this nation’s concern about apparent voting irregularities. The media give the dispute around-the-clock coverage. But in the United States, massive and systemic voter irregularities go unreported and unnoticed.
    Ohio is this election year’s Florida. The vote in Ohio decided the presidential race, but it was marred (…)

  • Ohio Election Investigation Thwarted by Surprise Blackwell Order
    12 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Friday December 10 two certified volunteers for the Ohio Recount team assigned to Greene County were in process recording voting information from minority precincts in Greene County, and were stopped mid-count by a surprise order from Secretary of State Blackwell’s office. The Director Board of Elections stated that “all voter records for the state of Ohio were “locked-down,” and now they are not considered public records.”
    The volunteers were working with voter printouts received (…)

  • The Ohio Recount Will Go Forward
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1207-27.htm
    John C. Bonifaz, founder and general counsel of the National Voting Rights Institute, presented this speech before the "Fight for Democracy" rally in Columbus, Ohio, on December 4, 2004:
    We serve as co-counsel for presidential candidates David Cobb and Michael Badnarik in their demand for a full recount of all votes cast in Ohio for President in the 2004 general election.
    In a democracy, votes must count and every citizen’s vote must be (…)

  • Blackwell breaks law- Locks Out Ohio Recount Volunteers
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ohio Election Investigation Thwarted by Surprise Blackwell Order
    Dayton, Ohio Friday December 10, 2004
    On Friday December 10 two certified volunteers for the Ohio Recount team assigned to Greene County were in process recording voting information from minority precincts in Greene County, and were stopped mid-count by a surprise order from Secretary of State Blackwell’s office. The Director Board of Elections stated that “all voter records for the state of Ohio were “locked-down,” and now (…)

  • Quantum Physics: ElectShun2004 NOT Written in Stone, Keep Working to FIX It!
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    summary:
    We have entranced ourselves and fallen under a self-created spell if we imagine that the past exists in a solid, objective way. To quote Wheeler “It is wrong to think of that past as ‘already existing’.....the past has no existence except as it is recorded in the present.”
    When we become convinced that the past exists in a solid way, we solidify it in our imagination as being that particular way, which will thereby create compelling evidence that proves the rightness of our (…)

  • Doubts Persist About Election Results
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RACHEL KONRAD
    As the Electoral College prepares to certify President Bush’s re-election on Monday, concerns persist about the integrity of the nation’s voting system - particularly in Ohio, where details continue to emerge of technology failures, voter confusion and overcrowded polling stations in minority and poor neighborhoods.
    Few mainstream politicians dispute Bush’s victory, and the incumbent’s 3.5 million-vote margin nationwide was wider than any of the reported problems, which (…)

  • NY POST: ILLEGAL NANNY KOS KERIK AT HOMELAND
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ILLEGAL NANNY KOS KERIK AT HOMELAND
    http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/32657.htm
    By DEBORAH ORIN and ZACH HABERMAN
    December 11, 2004 — Former city top cop Bernard Kerik, who was set to take over the reigns as secretary of homeland security, shocked the nation last night when he withdrew his name from consideration because of a problem with an apparently illegal nanny.
    Two lawyers working with Kerik on his upcoming confirmation as secretary uncovered that at one point last year (…)

  • Statewide Recount to Start in Alaska Senate Race
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Fairbanks-based group dropped off an application Wednesday with the Alaska Division of Elections for a recount of the U.S. Senate race.
    The state has five days to schedule a recount, Godkin said. In this case, he expects it would begin Monday and take three to four days to complete. Group files application for state recount of Senate race
    http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/5890308p-5802207c.html
    By RACHEL D’ORO The Associated Press
    (Published: December 9, 2004)
    Joe Sonneman, (…)

  • Cobb to address rally at Ohio Statehouse on Monday
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GREEN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO ADDRESS PUBLIC RALLY MONDAY AT OHIO STATEHOUSE AS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS CAST VOTES "UNDER A CLOUD OF SUSPICION". Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb will address recount volunteers, the public and protesters who will gather outside the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, on Monday, December 13, the day that presidential electors meet in all state capitals to cast their votes. Cobb will make his address at approximately12:15 p.m. on the High Street sidewalk (…)

  • Uncivil Unions
    10 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    To say civil unions are analogous to marriage is like saying a date with Andy Rooney is the same as a date with Tom Cruise. Yet, many people, even in the gay community, erroneously believe that civil unions are simply marriage by another name. Civil unions are not a synonym for marriage, but second-class citizenship by another name.
    On substance, civil unions leave same-sex couples lacking the same federal rights and benefits married couples enjoy. Without marriage, same (…)