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Green Candidate David Cobb’s interview with Amy Goodman on Ohio...
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/17/1525203#transcript
I believe it’s high time to give the Democratic party the boot. They aren’t doing squat.
P.

by Steven Rosenfeld November 20, 2004
Ohio’s 2004 presidential vote will be challenged as soon as next week in the state Supreme Court, a coalition of public-interest lawyers announced Friday.
The lawyers have taken sworn testimony from hundreds of people in hearings in Columbus and Cincinnati, and will use excerpts as well as documents obtained from county election officials and Election Day exit polls to make a case that thousands of votes were incorrectly counted or not counted on (…)

Two precincts had high undercounts, analysis shows
By Ken McCall and Jim Bebbington
Dayton Daily News
DAYTON | Two Montgomery County precincts had extraordinarily high numbers of ballots cast Nov. 2 with no presidential vote counted, and the county’s overall rates of such undercounts were highest where Democratic hopeful John Kerry did best.
Undercounts are ballots that do not register a vote for a particular race, in this case for president. Two precincts - one in Kettering and (…)

Electronic voting proves to be winner in election Fewer missed votes than with other methods
By Ken McCall and Lynn Hulsey
Dayton Daily News
In an election where talk of voting irregularities continues to heat up the Internet, electronic voting machines appeared to score a victory in Ohio.
In the Nov. 2 election, counties that used electronic voting machines had a dramatically lower rate of ballots that did not register a valid presidential vote, according a Dayton Daily News (…)

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/899
November 20, 2004
Ohio’s 2004 presidential vote will be challenged as soon as next week in the state Supreme Court, a coalition of public-interest lawyers announced Friday.
The lawyers have taken sworn testimony from hundreds of people in hearings in Columbus and Cincinnati, and will use excerpts as well as documents obtained from county election officials and Election Day exit polls to make a case that thousands of votes were (…)

The Resounding Silence Continues. How Much is Enough for the Media to Cover Votergate 2004?
By Anthony Wade
Silence. That is all we continue to hear from our media. There was a time in America when the media would actually practice journalism. They would investigate. They would corroborate. They would scrutinize. In modern day America , this must be proving to be too daunting for our faux media. It seems to be easier to create news, based on what is fed to them. It must be far simpler (…)

Since 11/2, there have been various stages of dealing with what happened. Anger, denial, claims of fraud, etc., etc. Blaming Kerry for "quitting." More recently, talk has shifted to procedural issues like how to fix the voting system (didn’t we DO this four years ago? Apparently not.)
What has become clear to me, reading between the lines and ignoring a lot of shit (sorry) is that THIS ELECTION IS NOT OVER. Floating around in various threads is the notion that several states are still (…)

Media downplays vote-counting problems By Media Matters
Washington Post columnist and editorial board member Anne Applebaum wrote a widely criticized column this week, suggesting that concerns over paperless electronic voting were unfounded because she doesn’t take a receipt when she uses an automated teller machine (ATM).
At least, we think that was her point; it was a little difficult to tell for certain.
In what CJR Daily called a "well-deserved smackdown to Anne Applebaum," the (…)

We need to use the exact same tactics back on them.
Automatically, at every turn of pen or lip:
"There were thousands upon thousands of instances of election fraud committed by Republican operatives and the electronic vote was manipulated to favor Republicans. There is an ocean of evidence to show it."
Preface everything with those two sentences. End everything with those two sentences. Repeat often. Mantra them right back. Long drawn out arguments do not penetrate into the two (…)

By Dave Stratman
The electoral campaign has finally crawled to its dreary and foreseeable end: the victory of George W. Bush, anti-"red state" hysteria and despair among Kerry supporters, and the effective end of the antiwar movement.
Those millions of Americans appalled at the continuing carnage in Iraq must step back from the electoral debacle and draw the right lessons from it, beginning by examining the role of the Democratic Party and the liberal agenda in the antiwar movement. (…)