Another Stolen Election
Investigate the
Vote! Dear MoveOn
member,
Questions are swirling around whether the election was conducted
honestly or not. We need to know -- was it or wasn't it?
If people were
wrongly prevented from voting, or if legitimate votes were mis-counted or not
counted at all, we need to know so the wrongdoers can be held accountable, and
so we can prevent this from happening again.
Members of Congress are
demanding an investigation to answer this question. The decision on whether or
not there will be an investigation could come as soon as Monday. Join us in
supporting the call for one now, at:
http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/
Then
please invite your friends and colleagues to sign, as well. We need to show
Congress that hundreds of thousands of Americans are serious about protecting
the integrity of the vote. We're all hearing the stories and wondering what's
true and what isn't. But at least two cases of serious problems are accepted
beyond doubt: In Broward County, Florida, electronic voting machines counted
backwards: as more people voted, the official vote count went down. In one
Columbus, Ohio suburb, election officials have acknowledged that electronic
voting machines credited Bush with winning 4,258 votes, even though only 638
people voted there.
http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/
Six
prominent members of Congress have called for an investigation. Representatives
Conyers (D-MI), Holt (D-NJ), Nadler (D-NY), Scott (D-VA), Watt (D-NC) and Wexler
(D-FL), have demanded that the U.S. General Accounting Office: immediately
undertake an investigation of the efficacy of voting machines and new
technologies used in the 2004 election, how election officials responded to
difficulties they encountered, and what we can do in the future to improve our
election systems and administration.
We've got to support their call by asking our own Representatives and
Senators to join them.
If you have a personal story of
disenfranchisement, tell us. These members of Congress have agreed to include
our stories and comments in their call for an investigation. Please sign now --
we'll deliver our compiled statements to them on Friday.
Even if you
don't have a personal story, your signature on our petition will still help
build support for an investigation.
To keep our faith in democracy, we
need to know the facts. Your signature, and your story if you have one, will
help.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
--Carrie, Joan, Lee, Marika,
Noah, Peter, Rosalyn, and Wes
The MoveOn.org Team
Chris Floyd: 'Game boy: How Bush cooked the electoral
goose'
By Chris Floyd, Moscow Times
We said it here over and over, going back to
2003: If the U.S. presidential election was close enough to be gamed, it damn
sure would be gamed. And the chunks of evidence now rolling in -- like so many
cracked shells of fact in a high tide of pompous drivel -- increasingly indicate
that millions of votes were indeed monkeyed with on the way to amassing George
W. Bush's teeny-tiny one percent majority last week.
It seems we were all
a bit too quick to concede the reality of Li'l Pretzel's "mandate." For example,
in county after county, state after state, unprecedented discrepancies between
the exit polls and the final result turned up -- in areas that used electronic
voting, that is, usually without a recountable paper trail. In almost every such
case, exit poll leads for John Kerry -- sometimes very substantial leads, beyond
the realm of statistical error -- were converted in the end to narrow victories
for Bush. Yet strangely enough, in those areas that relied on paper ballots --
utterly tangible records of voter intent -- the exit polls and final counts were
in virtual lockstep. Of course, for decades exit polls have been phenomenonally
successful in gauging the actual electoral outcome -- until the advent of
national elections involving Bush and his political puppeteer, Karl
Rove.
There was also the wild imbalance between party identification in
voter registration and the actual vote in key counties across the nation,
particularly in Florida. In the latter, counties where Democrats comprise more
than 70 percent of the voters suddenly showed Bush winning 50, 60, even 70
percent of the total. In Calhoun County, for example, an 82 percent Democratic
registration somehow morphed into a 63 percent Bush vote. To be sure, an
incumbent in wartime, running on a campaign of wild fearmongering and
deliberately stoked (or is it stroked?) sexual panic might peel away a few of
the other party's voters. Yet every single measure of the electorate this year
showed that partisanship was extraordinarily high and remarkably solid: Only a
sliver of party-identified voters crossed the line to vote for the other side.
So where did they come from, these astounding registration reversals that
produced, in discrete packets here and there, hundreds of thousands of extra
Bush votes that no one had expected?
We've often spoken here of the fact
that more than one-third of all American votes were counted this year on
machines owned, programmed, installed -- and in some cases even inspected -- by
private companies whose bosses are major Bush financial donors and campaign
officials. Some of the main players in the virtual-vote game were originally
bankrolled by a single Bushist tycoon, Howard Ahmanson, who spent decades
pushing "Christian Reconstructionism" -- i.e., complete theocratic rule of
society and government by Christian mullahs who advocate, among other delights,
death by stoning for homosexuals. Studies by leading scientists at Stanford,
Johns Hopkins and other bastions of the "reality-based community" showed that
these corporate e-vote systems are eminently -- even laughably -- hackable,
either from the inside, by the Bushist companies themselves, or from the
outside, by, say, "information warfare" specialists at the CIA or Pentagon, as
investigative journalist Robert Parry notes. Nor would this hackery require
placing gremlins in the thousands of voting machines operated by the Bushist
firms; the final tabulations are actually made by a handful of central computers
drawing together totals from outlying precincts, as analyst Thom Hartmann
reports. Thus one little aptly placed "worm" could poison the well of an entire
state.
Meanwhile, legions of phantom voters stalked polling booths
across the land. In one key Ohio county alone -- carried by Bush -- the number
of votes cast outstripped the number of actual registered voters by 93,000 -- a
pattern repeated in numerous e-voting precincts. Yet another Ohio county sealed
its vote count from public scrutiny after Bush's Homeland Security commissars
told terrified local officials that their suburban area had suddenly become a
terrorist target of "the highest order," MSNBC reports.
Bush's limp
mandate was also engorged with a double dose of electoral Viagra: voter purges
and voter suppression. As intrepid investigator Greg Palast notes, key states
controlled by Bushist officials conducted mass purges of qualified voters from
the rolls, utilizing an array of arcane laws, obscure regulations and -- as in
Florida 2000 -- race-specific lists of supposed convicted felons, drawn up by
private corporations using deliberately vague criteria that guaranteed false
"matches" with legitimate voters, disenfranchising thousands of people -- the
majority of them law-abiding African-Americans. Meanwhile, an unprecedented
voter suppression operation flooded low-income areas with bogus "official"
letters and phone calls warning the poor they could be imprisoned for voting if
they had unpaid bills or outstanding debts.
Even when these targeted
minorities were able to get to the polls, they had to run a gauntlet of
antiquated machinery that produced a massive amount of "spoiled" votes by
mangling ballots, leaving those infamous chads unpunched and otherwise failing
to register the voter's choice. Official U.S. government studies confirm that
the majority of this "spoilage" does indeed occur in minority precincts; in
2000, for example, more than 1 million African-American votes were simply thrown
in the trash. With this year's higher turnout straining the thin resources of
such precincts, experts say the spoilage rate will be even higher.
Of
course, given Bush's strong support among the vast Deluded-American community,
he might have won the election anyway, even without all this criminal
katzenjammer. But now we'll never know. His "mandate" -- miniscule as it is --
will be forever tainted by doubt, smeared with the vicious sleaze and contempt
for democracy that has marked every aspect of his malevolent
reign.
Annotations
GOP Doing All It Can to Keep Minorities from
Voting
Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 2, 2004
Evidence of a Second Bush Coup?
Consortiumnews, Nov. 6,
2004
An Election Spoiled Rotten
Greg Palast.com, Nov. 1,
2004
Democracy Spoiled
Harvard University Civil Rights
Project, July 12, 2002
Bush's Incredible Vote Tallies
Consortiumnews, Nov. 9,
2004
Worse than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral
Disaster
Truthout.org, Nov. 11, 2004
The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy
CommonDreams, Nov. 4,
2004
Electronic Voting Angst
MSNBC, Nov. 7, 2004
Exit Poll Variance
Scoop, Nov. 4, 2004
Evidence Mounts That Election May Have Been Hacked
CommonDreams,
Nov. 11, 2004
Congressmen Call for Vote Inquiry
U.S. House of
Representatives Judiciary Committee, Nov. 8, 2004
Vanishing Act: Disappearing the Republic at the Touch of a
Button
CounterPunch, Sept. 26, 2003
Broward County (Fla.) Machines Count Backwards
Palm
Beach Post, Nov. 5, 2004
Surprising Pattern of Florida's Election Results
US Together, Nov.
3, 2004
Kerry
Won
TomPaine.com, Nov. 4, 2004
Voter
Suppression: It Can't Happen to Me
Liberal Slant, Oct. 21, 2003
The Ohio
Code
Eschaton, Nov. 9, 2004
Warren County (Ohio) Vote Tally Walled
Off
Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 5, 2004
How a Private Company Counts Our
Votes
American Free Press, Nov. 4,
2004
Could The Associated Press Rig an Election?
Ecotalk, Oct. 22,
2004
E-Voting: How it Can Put the Wrong Candidate in Office
Common
Dreams, Sept. 3, 2003
The Theft of Your Vote is Just a Chip Away
Thom Hartmann, July 31,
2003
Mishaps Run Deeper Than New Machines
San Diego
Union-Tribune, Feb. 7, 2004
Diebold's Political Machine
Mother Jones, March 3,
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Diebold's source code found
(Nov 10)
"Dr. Avi Rubin is currently Professor of Computer Science
at John Hopkins University. He 'accidently' got his hands on a copy of the
Diebold software program--Diebold's source code--which runs their e-voting
machines. Dr. Rubin's students pored over 48,609 lines of code that make up this
software. One line in partictular stood out over all the rest:
#defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4"
All commercial programs have provisions to
be encrypted so as to protect them from having their contents read or changed by
anyone not having the key... The line that staggered the Hopkin's team was that
the method used to encrypt the Diebold machines was a method called Digital
Encryption Standard (DES), a code that was broken in 1997 and is NO LONGER USED
by anyone to secure programs. F2654hd4 was the key to the encryption.
Moreover, because the KEY was IN the source code, all Diebold machines would
respond to the same key. Unlock one, you have then ALL unlocked. I can't believe
there is a person alive who wouldn't understand the reason this was allowed to
happen. This wasn't a mistake by any stretch of the imagination."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/10/1172/9052
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Blazing!
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By Susan
Jones
CNSNews.com Morning Editor
November 11, 2004
(CNSNews.com) - An anti-Bush political action committee is bringing its
displeasure with the president's re-election practically to the White House
doorstep on Thursday.
In a noontime rally in Lafayette Park (across from
the White House), the group called "ReDefeatBush" will lead a demonstration
against what it calls "the suspicious mismanagement of the 2004 election and the
escalation of the war" (the fighting in Fallujah).
In a press release,
ReDefeatBush said it wants to "expose the crimes against democracy committed in
Ohio and Florida and show them as part of a pattern designed to benefit
Bush...and to get Americans to face the truth about Iraq and about the huge
deception of every war since World War I." The deception is that "more war will
bring peace," the group said.
"There is compelling evidence that the
voting irregularities last week were not random," said ReDefeatBush founder
(more . . . http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200411\POL20041111c.html )
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Stolen Election
Together, the likelihood of
Florida and Ohio both seeing such differences from their exit polls to the final
results are statistically impossible.
http://StolenElection.net
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"The Constitution can only end in Despotism as
other Forms have done before it, when the People shall have become so corrupted
as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
-- Ben
Franklin
"Democracy is a form of government that
substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt
few."
--George Bernard Shaw
"A vote is the instrument and symbol of a
freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his
country."
-- Ambrose Bierce
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be
achieved by understanding."
-- Dr. Albert Einstein
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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never
will."
-- Frederick Douglass
"The two greatest obstacles to democracy
in the United
States are, first, the widespread
delusion among the poor that we have a
democracy, and second, the chronic terror
among the rich, lest we get
it."
-- Edward Dowling
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a
revolutionary act."
--George Orwell
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"War is at best barbarism...It's glory is all moonshine. It is
only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the
wounded, who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is
hell."
-- William Tecumseh Sherman
"War loves to prey upon the young."
-- Sophocles
"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear
of your own."
-- Antonio Porchia
"It was a thought that built this whole portentous war
establishment, and a thought shall melt it away."
-- Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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