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Open Letter to Mike Jacobsen of Diebold:
Two weeks ago I asked John Kerry to pull America out of the water. http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_15689.shtml
Now I am asking you, Director of Global Communications for Diebold — and the one that I now realize has the real power — to begin to fix America’s reputation that that has been tarnished by Diebold’s poorly designed voting systems, suitable for soiled diapers.
America is in the commode. Reach in. Our hand is up and we are (…)

by Mark Williams
US Democrat John Kerry is asking county elections officials to allow his witnesses to inspect the 92,000 ballots cast in Ohio in which no vote for president was recorded, a Kerry lawyer said.
The request is one of 11 the Kerry campaign made in a letter sent over the weekend to Ohio’s 88 county boards of election, which will begin recounting presidential ballots this week.
"We’re trying to increase the transparency of the election process," Donald McTigue, the lawyer (…)

Democratic Leader Says Kerry Supports Investigation
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Rev. Jesse Jackson is back in Columbus to protest the outcome of the Ohio vote in last month’s presidential election.
Jackson says the irregularities from the November election range from scanners used in the voting machines to the way some provisional ballots were rejected, NBC 4’s Mike Gormely reported.
"I’m asking for a full investigation into the voting irregularities," Jackson said. "Especially the voting (…)

By BILL POOVEY
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Regina Wilson wasn’t entirely surprised to see her ex-husband, a guardsman bound for Iraq, on television Wednesday challenging Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with a tough question.
"He is always like that," she said. "I don’t think he understands the concept of biting one’s tongue. It wouldn’t matter if it was (President) Bush himself standing there. He would have dissed him the same."
Army Spc. Thomas Wilson, a 31-year-old member of a Tennessee (…)

House Democrat accuses Ohio of stonewalling recount
by John Byrne
Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich) accused Ohio election officials of efforts to “stonewall” and “obstruct” the recount in the state in a press release Sunday.
The release, which was first reported by The Brad Blog, was confirmed to RAW STORY Sunday evening by House Judiciary spokesperson Dena Graziano.
Conyers suggests that the top elections official, Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell (who was also (…)

– Conyers Issues Blackwell Alert! Accusations of "Stonewalling", Wonders if they are "trying to hide" something! PLUS: Arnebeck Summons Curtis to Buckeye State! Events Now Moving Very Quickly on the Ground!
The office of Congressman John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, has just rushed an alert out to the media in regards to recount efforts on the ground in Ohio. The release quotes Conyers as asking publicly if Ohio election officials are now attempting (…)

by Justin Raimondo
It was a Maalox moment for Donald Rumsfeld. At a forum held with U.S. troops in Kuwait who are headed to Iraq, the barrage of friendly fire soon scored a direct hit when a scout with the Tennessee National Guard, one Specialist Thomas Wilson, rose, and, his voice confident and clear but with an undertone of bafflement, asked:
"We’ve had troops in Iraq for coming up on three years and we’ve always staged here out of Kuwait. Now why do we soldiers have to dig through (…)

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 (…)

by Vikram Dodd and Clare Dyer
Fresh allegations about a regime of torture and humiliation inflicted on detainees by their American captors at Guantánamo Bay have been made by a Briton still held there, according to Foreign Office documents seen by the Guardian.
The claims by Martin Mubanga, from London, are the latest to surface from the prison where the US holds 550 Muslim men it claims are terrorists in conditions that have sparked worldwide condemnation.
Mr Mubanga, 31, alleges that (…)

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 (…)