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Lists Fraud Controversy Resources (BetterWorldLinks.org) Provides links to sites monitoring the controversy related to possible fraud in the 2004 presidential election. 12-04 Resources for Those Who Believe the Election Results Were Invalid (Solarbus.org) Provides resources indicating irregularities or outright election fraud. 12-04 Materials Injunction Filed to Prevent Certification of the Ohio Electors (Supreme Court of Ohio) Provides a copy of the injunction. 12-04 News -10-01-04 E-Touch Machines Fail (Wired.com) " 'If election officials admit that the standards and certification process are bad, then public confidence in elections is threatened (and) participation in elections will go down,' Jones said. 'So the question is, do you talk about this? The answer seems to be, for a lot of people in the election community, no.' " 11-04 -11-18-04 Study: Irregularities in Voting in Florida Certain (CommonDreams.com - UC Berkeley, Michael Hout) "Irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000 excess votes or more to President George W. Bush in Florida." "Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases in support for President Bush between 2000 and 2004. This effect cannot be explained by differences between counties in income, number of voters, change in voter turnout, or size of Hispanic/Latino population." "In Broward County alone, President Bush appears to have received approximately 72,000 excess votes. We can be 99.9% sure that these effects are not attributable to chance." 11-04 -11-18-04 Study: Irregularities in Voting in Florida Certain (PCWorld.com) "Voting irregularities in three Florida counties that used electronic voting machines in this month's election may have awarded as many as 260,000 votes more to President George W. Bush than were expected, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley." " 'Something went awry with electronic voting in Florida,' says Michael Hout, a sociology professor, who led the research effort." 11-04 -12-31-04 Jackson: Kerry Won (MSNBC News) Meadows: "If the election were held again with these alleged problems solved, would Kerry win?" Jesse Jackson: "Of course I think that." 12-04 -News on Legal Findings and Cases Regarding Fraud (Consumer Protection for Elections) Provides news on progress by BlackBoxVoting.org and others in discovering irregularities in the 2004 election and prosecuting the offenders. 1-05 Election Irregularities in 2004 (ElectionArchive.org) Provides summaries of key sources of information. 01-06 News on Voting Irregularities (Votergate) Provides a variety of stories related to irregularities in the 2004 election campaign. 3-05 Updates on the Recount in Ohio (VoteCobb.org) Provides news on the recount effort in Ohio. 11-04 Papers -12-13-04 Cobb Reports Fraud to Judiciary (VoteCobb.org) "For the Record, my name is David Cobb and I am the 2004 Green Party presidential candidate." "Mr. Chairman, though our time is limited, I must bring to the committee's attention the most recent and perhaps most troubling incident that was related to my campaign on Sunday, December 12, about a shocking event that occurred last Friday, December 10." "A representative from Triad Systems came into a county board of elections office un-announced. He said he was just stopping by to see if they had any questions about the up-coming recount. He then headed into the back room where the Triad supplied Tabulator (a card reader and older PC with custom software) is kept. He told them there was a problem and the system had a bad battery and had 'lost all of its data'. He then took the computer apart and started swapping parts in and out of it and another 'spare' tower type PC also in the room. He may have had spare parts in his coat as one of the BOE people moved it and remarked as to how very heavy it was. He finally re-assembled everything and said it was working but to not turn it off." "He then asked which precinct would be counted for the 3% recount test, and the one which had been selected as it had the right number of votes, was relayed to him. He then went back and did something else to the tabulator computer." "The Triad Systems representative suggested that since the hand count had to match the machine count exactly, and since it would be hard to memorize the several numbers which would be needed to get the count to come out exactly right, that they should post this series of numbers on the wall where they would not be noticed by observers. He suggested making them look like employee information or something similar. The people doing the hand count could then just report these numbers no matter what the actual count of the ballots revealed. This would then "match" the tabulator report for this precinct exactly. The numbers were apparently the final certified counts for the selected precinct." Editor's Note: Cobb reported what had been reported to him by a person who claimed to be present during the visit by the Triad Systems representative. 12-04 -12-13-04 Court Challenge of Ohio Election Results (Akron Beacon Journal - Associated Press) "The Rev. Jesse Jackson and attorney Cliff Arnebeck of the Massachusetts-based Alliance for Democracy accused President Bush's campaign of 'high-tech vote stealing.' " "Jackson said the challengers noticed Bush generally received more votes in counties that use optical-scan voting machines and questioned whether the machines were calibrated to record votes for Bush." "The dissidents claim there were disparities in vote totals for Democrats, too few voting machines in Democrat-leaning precincts, organized campaigns directing voters to the wrong polling place and confusion over the counting of provisional ballots by voters whose names did not appear in the records at polling places.""The challengers allege unlawful ballots were added to the total and legally cast ballots were altered. Without listing specific evidence, the complaint alleges 130,656 votes for Kerry and John Edwards in 36 counties were somehow switched to count for the Bush-Cheney ticket." "The complaint also cites several reports of Election Day problems, including people who allegedly saw their vote 'hop' to Bush on touch-screen machines after they voted for Kerry." "If the court decides to hear the challenge, it can declare a new winner or throw out the results." 12-04 -12-19-04 Challenge of Election (Boston Independent Media Center) "Across the US electors in at least five states, for the first time in history, turned the heavily scripted and ritualized electoral college proceedings into a forum for political action. Frustrated by the relative inattention to wide spread real voting violations now numbering in the tens of thousands, Electors called for congressional investigation and legislative action." "Vermont electors, on the record and in front of TV cameras and a number of statewide media outlets, expressed their concerns for our democracy with '57,000 complaints already received by the Congressional Judiciary Committee, we call on Congress and especially our Vermont Congressional delegation to investigate.' They enumerated credible violations affecting hundreds of thousands of voters across the US, Elector Jeffrey Taylor reports." "Massachusetts Electors who introduced the motion said they will use this to lobby Congressional members to take action now such as objecting to the vote. The motion passed by acclimation called on Congress to: 'Act to commit Congress to investigate all voting complaints that might have any validity that they receive, Act to commit Congress to remedy any voting rights violations or electoral fraud verified by its own agents or through the courts, File in Congress and commit their resources to passage of systemic remedies.' ” 12-04 -12-19-04 Legal Challenge of Ohio Vote Intensifies (FreePress.org - Fitrakis, Rosenfeld, and Wasserman) "The epic legal battle over Ohio's presidential vote count is back in the state Supreme Court, with an election challenge claiming George W. Bush was wrongly declared the winner on Nov. 2 and seeking a court-ordered reversal of that victory." 12-04 -Editorial: Kerry's Last Flip-Flop (ConsortiumNews.com - Parry) "John Kerry may have written his own political obituary with a pathetic letter to his supporters saying that he won’t back a protest by African-American House members against voting fraud in Ohio. Instead, he urges his supporters to call Republican leaders and demand that they reform the electoral system." 12-04 -Editorial: Summary of Fraud Allegations, With Data (Alternet.org - Freeman) "The question is whether the official count is an accurate reflection of ballots cast. In a system where campaign managers serve as election supervisors, where voting machines provide no assurance that votes are counted as cast, and where counts and "recounts" are conducted in secret, we must rely, unfortunately, on indirect evidence, such as exit polls, to ascertain the veracity of this official count as a measure of actual ballots cast." 1-05 -Evidence of Fraud: Highlights (ElectionFraud.org - Drekmeier and Adams) Provides highlights of evidence of fraud in the 2004 presidential election. 12-04 -Evidence of Fraud:10 Key Highlights (FreePress.org) Provides 10 key points of evidence of fraud in the 2004 presidential election. 12-04 -Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio (Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff - Conyers) Provides a complete report on the voting irregularities reported to the Committee in Ohio. "This report, therefore, makes three recommendations: (1) consistent with the requirements of the United States Constitution concerning the counting of electoral votes by Congress and Federal law implementing these requirements, there are ample grounds for challenging the electors from the State of Ohio, (2) Congress should engage in further hearings into the widespread irregularities reported in Ohio, we believe the problems areserious enough to warrant the appointment of a joint select Committee of the House and Senate to investigate and report back to the Members, and (3) Congress needs to enact election reform to restore our people’s trust in our democracy. These changes should include putting in place more specific federal protections for federal elections, particularly in the areas of audit capability for electronic voting machines and casting and counting of provisional ballots, as well as other needed changes to federal and state election laws." With regards to our factual finding, in brief, we find that there were massive and unprecedented voter irregularities and anomalies in Ohio. In many cases these irregularities were caused by intentional misconduct and illegal behavior, much of it involving Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, the co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio." 12-05 -Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio - Summary (Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff - Conyers) "We have found numerous, serious election irregularities in the Ohio presidential election, which resulted in a significant disenfranchisement of voters. Cumulatively, these irregularities, which affected hundreds of thousand of votes and voters in Ohio, raise grave doubts regarding whether it can be said the Ohio electors selected on December 13, 2004, were chosen in a manner that conforms to Ohio law, let alone federal requirements and constitutional standards." 12-05 11-15-04 Evidence Mounts That Vote Was Hacked (CommonDreams.org) "The State of Florida, for example, publishes a county-by-county record of votes cast and people registered to vote by party affiliation. Net denizen Kathy Dopp compiled the official state information into a table, available at http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm, and noticed something startling." "While the heavily scrutinized touch-screen voting machines seemed to produce results in which the registered Democrat/Republican ratios matched the Kerry/Bush vote, and so did the optically-scanned paper ballots in the larger counties, in Florida's smaller counties the results from the optically scanned paper ballots - fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking - seem to have been reversed." "In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry." "In Dixie County, with 4,988 [sic] registered voters, 77.5% [sic] of them Democrats and a mere 15% [sic] registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush." "The pattern repeats over and over again - but only in the smaller counties where, it was probably assumed, the small voter numbers wouldn't be much noticed." "And, although elections officials didn't notice these anomalies, in aggregate they were enough to swing Florida from Kerry to Bush. If you simply go through the analysis of these counties and reverse the 'anomalous' numbers in those counties that appear to have been hacked, suddenly the Florida election results resemble the Florida exit poll results: Kerry won, and won big." Editor's Note: The number of registered voters in Dixie County, above, is incorrect. The Florida Elections Commission has posted the number of registered voters to be 7,495, making Republicans 19% of the registered voters and Democrats 81% of registered voters. According to CBS News, the number of votes for each candidate are correct. See "2004 Presidential Election Results and Party Affiliation by Florida County" on this Web page. 11-04 12-15-04 Election Contested in Ohio (Los Angeles Times) "Arnebeck, a Democratic lawyer here and co-chairman of a self-styled national populist alliance, is petitioning the state's highest court to throw out official results that favor President Bush and instead hand Ohio's 20 electoral votes — and thus the White House — to Kerry. Or, at least, order a revote." 12-04 2004 Presidential Election Party Affiliation by Florida County (Florida Election Commission) Provides party affiliation by Florida county. Please note the party affiliation in Dixie County, for example, and compare those numbers with the results on voting. According to the Florida Elections Commission, 7,495 are registered Democrats and 1,454 are registered Republicans. The final vote was 1,959 for Kerry and 4,433 for Bush, the opposite of what one would expect. 10-04 2004 Presidential Election Results and Party Affiliation by Florida County (USTogether.org) "EXPECTED votes would normally vary from the ACTUAL votes due to increased voter turnout or other factors. What seems very odd in these numbers is that the increase in ACTUAL votes from EXPECTED votes has a striking pattern of being so much higher for REPs than that for DEMs in counties using optical scan voting machines." 10-04 2004 Presidential Election Results by Florida County (CBS News) Provides final results by Florida county. Please note the vote in Dixie County, for example, and compare that vote with party affiliation. According to the Florida Elections Commission, 7,495 are registered Democrats and 1,454 are registered Republicans. The final vote was 1,959 for Kerry and 4,433 for Bush, the opposite of what one would expect. 10-04 A Guide to Ohio and New Mexico Recounts (AudittheVote.org) "After the widespread publicity surrounding irregularities in the 2000 presidential election, there has been a general misconception across the country that the 2004 elections occurred with little trouble. Through early voting, on November 2, and in the weeks since election day, widespread reports of machine malfunction, voter intimidation and suppression, partisan election officials, and vote counting difficulties have made it clear that many votes have gone uncounted or not been counted as cast." "In a majority of states, particularly in Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Maryland, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina and Indiana, there has been evidence of problems in the election that may have affected the outcome." 4-05 Congressman Feeney Named in Election Fraud (SeminoleChronicle.com) "Republican Congressman Tom Feeney of Oviedo asked a computer programmer in September 2000, prior to that year's contested presidential vote in Florida, to write software that could alter vote totals on touch-screen voting machines, the programmer said." "Former computer programmer Clint Curtis made the claim Monday in sworn testimony to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee investigating allegations of voter fraud in the 2004 presidential election involving touch-screen voting in Ohio." "The company also says Curtis' claims are based on a grudge he has with the company. O'Quinn said he's also being motivated by money." "The Justice Through Music Project, a nonprofit organization that engages young people about political issues, has offered $200,000 for proof of election fraud in 2004." "Curtis said he has not pursued that money, which has not been offered to him." 4-05 Discrepancies in Ohio and Florida (MSNBC News - Olbermann) "Here’s an interesting little sidebar of our system of government confirmed recently by the crack Countdown research staff: no Presidential candidate’s concession speech is legally binding. The only determinants of the outcome of election are the reports of the state returns boards and the vote of the Electoral College." Olbermann then started reporting substantial discrepancies and oddities in the election results. "...the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that officials in Warren County, Ohio, had 'locked down' its administration building to prevent anybody from observing the vote count there." "The State of Ohio confirms that of all of its 88 Counties, Warren alone decided such Homeland Security measures were necessary. Even in Butler County, reports the Enquirer, the media and others were permitted to watch through a window as ballot-checkers performed their duties." "Nobody in Warren County seems to think they’ve done anything wrong. The newspaper quotes County Prosecutor Rachel Hurtzel as saying the Commissioners 'were within their rights' to lock the building down, because having photographers or reporters present could have interfered with the count." "You bet, Rachel." "Thus the majority of the media has yet to touch the other stories of Ohio (the amazing Bush Times Ten voting machine in Gahanna) or the sagas of Ohio South: huge margins for Bush in Florida counties in which registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans 2-1, places where the optical scanning of precinct totals seems to have turned results from perfect matches for the pro-Kerry exit poll data, to Bush sweeps." 11-04 Editorial: U.S. Campaign in Kiev (Guardian Unlimited - Traynor) "Ukraine, traditionally passive in its politics, has been mobilised by the young democracy activists and will never be the same again." "But while the gains of the orange-bedecked 'chestnut revolution' are Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes." "Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box." "Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, he repeated the trick in Georgia, coaching Mikhail Saakashvili in how to bring down Eduard Shevardnadze." 12-04 Election Results in Southwestern Ohio (Phillips) "Three contiguous counties in southwestern Ohio, all traditionally Republican counties, gave unexpectedly large margins to George W. Bush over John F. Kerry on election night. All three counties experienced a huge increase in voter turnout. In all three counties, Bush received a higher percentage of the vote than he did in the 2000 election, and Kerry received a lower percentage of the vote than Al Gore did in 2000. This study analyzes how it happened." "These election results are not credible. Voter turnout was up substantially (8.27%), yet Kerry got 10% fewer votes than Gore. Exactly." 12-04 Essay - Perlman: Psychological Resistance to Facing Election Fraud (SmirkingChimp.com) "It would be a sign of health, freedom, and conscious evolution if more people could muster up the courage to face the painful truth of what is happening in our country and support the great work of those courageous souls--who are not nuts or conspiracy theorists, but evolved, conscious, healthy leaders taking personal risks and sacrifices to elevate our democracy, restore our integrity and ultimately to increase our security on the world stage ... if we let them." 4-05 Hacking the Vote (ChuckHerrin.com) Chuck Herrin, a computer security specialist, shows how easy it was to "hack" the vote in the 2004 election. 11-04 Ohio Recount (MSNBC News) "Election boards all across Ohio have started counting "provisional ballots" in the presidential election. These are the ballots that were given to voters who believed they were registered but whose names didn't appear on the precinct list on election day." "There is another number that will eventually come into play in the Buckeye state... and that's the number of 'spoiled ballots.' The Green/Libertarian coalition, through recountohio.org, has already raised enough money to pay for a statewide recount." "However, there is one other number that has been the talk of the Net... and that's the number of 'tallies' that might have been hacked or changed by somebody who left some nefarious 'code' on the Windows systems tabulating the county by county vote.""But, given that 70% of Ohio used punch cards... most of the state does have a 'paper trail.' And the recount, when it happens, should settle these allegations once and for all." 11-04 Ohio Recount Proceeds (CommonDreams.org) Describes the process for the electoral vote and why all votes must be counted. 12-04 Report: Blackwell Locks Out Recounters (FairnessbyBeckerman.com) Beckerman has reported that Blackwell has locked out persons attempting to recount the Ohio vote. 12-04 Statistical Analysis of Voting Anomolies (USCountVotes.org) "A group of independent mathematicians, statisticians and computer professionals has formed a new, volunteer scientific research project to objectively investigate the accuracy of elections in America." 12-04 Summary of Major Voting Irregularities in 2004 Election (TruthinVoting.org) Summarizes six key voting irregularities. 4-05 U.S. House Members Challenge Ohio on Vote Irregularities (U.S. House of Representatives) Provides a detailed and documented set of irregularities in the Ohio vote and requests a formal response to the appearance of outright election fraud by the Ohio Secretary of State or local elections officials. Kenneth Blackwell, the Ohio Secretary of State, served a double role as the senior official in charge of conducting the elections for the state and also as co-chairman of the Bush re-election campaign. 9-05 Voting Irregularities Found in Ohio and Florida (Phillips) Summarized irregularities in voting patterns found by Dr. Richard Phillips that he claims make John Kerry the winner of the 2004 election. 12-04 Voting Irregularities Summarized (VotesMustCount.com) Provides sources of information and summaries of voting irregularities for the 2004 presidential election. 8-05 Projects -Volunteer: Help With a Manual Recount in Ohio (Green Party - Cobb) "No matter what your political party, if you believe that the price of a robust democracy is eternal vigilance, then we need your help with the Ohio vote recount." 11-04 Ohio Recount Project (StolenElection2004.com) Provides opportunities to assist with recounting the vote in Ohio. 12-04

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