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Following are some very basic facts which show that votes need to be recounted in Florida.
In advance, excuse the long summary; however, this is the key information/analysis that the Kerry team, the FBI, and the Judiciary Committee need to get through their heads to demand a recount in Florida as soon as possible.
1. Out of 67 counties in Florida, 52 used optical scan machines. The following three vendors, Diebold, Sequoi, and Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&E) had these (…)

Steven F. Freeman, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
November 10, 2004
stfreema@sas.upenn.edu
Most Americans who had listened to radio or surfed the Internet on Election Day this year, sat down to watch election night coverage expecting that John Kerry had been elected President. Exit polls showed him ahead in nearly every battleground state, in many cases by sizable margins. As usually happens in close elections, undecided voters broke heavily toward the challenger, and the Democratic (…)

Worst Voter Error Is Apathy toward Irregularities By Donna Britt The Washington Post
Friday 12 November 2004
Is anyone surprised that accusations of voter disenfranchisement and irregularities abound after the most passionately contested presidential campaign in memory? Is anybody stunned that the mainstream media appear largely unconcerned?
To many people’s thinking, too few citizens were discouraged from voting to matter. Those people would suggest that not nearly enough votes for (…)

Ooops! Optical scan equipment...nine counties...but don’t worry—it’s just another ’glitch.’ Big brother is looking out for your interests.... http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/193880-4433-093.html Glitch causes Franklin Co. recount Star report November 11, 2004
BROOKVILLE, Ind. - Election equipment counted straight-party votes for Democratic candidates as Libertarian votes, an error that could affect election outcomes in as many as nine counties, the Richmond (…)

Election Results Challenge Our Faith in America and Its People
by LILIAN FRIEDBERG
http://www.opednews.com/friedberg_111104_america.htm
Like most urban intellectuals, I have been profoundly disturbed by the turns taken in the USA-in the fields of education, the economy, jobs, the environment, social security, health care, the loss of civil liberties and, not least of all, foreign policy.
Like most of us on the left, I was confident that we would turn the tide by voting the current (…)

The "mainstream" media has fallen down on the job by failing to cover efforts since November 2 to ensure that all votes in the presidential election are accurately counted. The conclusion by John Kerry that an investigation could not possibly reverse the election may quite possibly have been premature. But the question that both activists and the media should be asking is not whether there was enough fraud and errors to decide the election, nor even whether there was more than is usual, but (…)

Rick Gagliano | 11/12/04 Is the sizzle off the steak, or are we on a break? Today feels like a typical Friday in some ways, in others it is quite unusual. It’s gotten quiet in my email box, though citizens across America continue to sign the petition at a steady, measured pace not unlike that of a growing, advancing army.
The media still has not picked up on the petition, though I note that all efforts - including Moveon.org’s petition to Congress, Ralph Nader’s call for a recount in (…)

By Isabel Conway in Amsterdam and Stephen Castle in Brussels
The Dutch film-maker whose brutal murder sparked a spiral of racial violence in the Netherlands was cremated yesterday amid appeals for an end to a spate of attacks on mosques, schools and churches.
On a bitterly cold Amsterdam night, the public heeded calls from municipal leaders not to turn up en masse but to follow the ceremony at home on TV.
Theo van Gogh, a descendant of the 19th-century artist, was shot, stabbed and had (…)

By Pepe Escobar
"The bombs being dropped on Fallujah don’t contain explosives, depleted uranium or anything harmful - they contain laughing gas - that would, of course, explain [Pentagon chief Donald] Rumsfeld’s misplaced optimism about not killing civilians in Fallujah. Also, being a ’civilian’ is a relative thing in a country occupied by Americans. You’re only a civilian if you’re on their side. If you translate for them, or serve them food in the Green Zone, or wipe their floors - (…)

Lora Chamberlain wrote:
Hello to All,
I am Dr. Lora Chamberlain in Chicago of the Illinois Progressive Democrats. I am helping the League of Pissed Off Voters, CASE and other citizens groups in Ohio with their public hearings about election fraud and a rally for a full criminal investigation into any and all election fraud during this past election on Nov.2nd.
Reach Out, a citizen action group in Ohio is sponsoring the rally on Sat. 11/13th at the Capitol Square in downtown Columbus, (…)