ERD News - MCM Republican Theft 2006; Palast Retrospective 07.18.06

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Palast Sees All … and he’s watching…

Miller Knows All … and he’s thinking…

WITH TALENT LIKE THIS AND MOTIVATED TROOPS,
WE CAN’T LOSE. FREE, FAIR & TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS

Never forget the pursuit of Truth.
Only the deluded & complicit accept election results on blind faith.
Denying that 2004 was stolen is like denying global warming.

Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Tuesday June 18, 2006

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1. MCM: Miller Nails It – The Republican Strategy to Steal 2006

Once again, than you Mark. You’re better than 20 staffers. Nothing like an insightful and original mind, unfettered by bias and sentiment; willing to speak the truth.

Mark Crispin Miller: Huffington Post
How To Pre-empt a "November Surprise"

07.17.06
http://tinyurl.com/znmzk

If the GOP should lose the House and/or the Senate on Election Day, they will pick out a handful of the "closest" races--as many as they need to hang on to majority control--and start to scream like hell about ELECTION FRAUD.

That's right: the major perpetrators of such fraud will cast themselves as victims of the very crime that put them where they are, and charge the Democrats with having used the very tactics that the Bush Republicans have now perfected: legal/bureaucratic disenfranchisement, e-voting manipulation, hostile challenges to would-be voters, covert efforts at disinformation, countless ballots thrown away, and so on.

This is what we'll hear non-stop from Rush, O'Reilly, Hannity and Coulter; Hastert, Boehner, Sensenbrenner, Graham and Coburn; even Bush and Cheney and Karl Rove himself. This, of course, is how the Busheviks routinely operate; and yet I'm basing this prediction not just on their history as war-propagandists, but on the blunt admission of a certain high-placed GOP insider, who recently told Thom Hartmann that this is the party's plan, if they should lose control of either side of Congress.
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In other words, the Bush Republicans will certainly succeed--unless the Democrats, and others to their left, start working to pre-empt that strategy right now. The only way to foil that plan is to define the conflict truthfully and clearly, and to begin to do it now. However low the Bush regime may sink in the opinion polls, the Democrats, and all the rest of us, are simply cooked, if they do not stand up like vertebrates, and speak as patriots, and tell the nation the unpleasant truth: that these BushRepublicans are where they are today because they have committed vast election fraud, in 2000, and in 2002, and in 2004; and that they lately have committed it again in San Diego, and have more planned in Texas, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California and Virginia, and
Wherever else they have the system rigged, whether at the state or county lived. In short, it's time to cut the crap, stop worrying about the epithet "sore losers" (the Republicans would never let that stop them), and trot out all the evidence that the Establishment has thus far largely waved away.
MCM: Miller Nails It – The Republican Strategy to Steal 2006

Once again, than you Mark. You’re better than 20 staffers. Nothing like an insightful and original mind, unfettered by bias and sentiment; willing to speak the truth.

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2. DUer Responds to MCM's Article on Huffington Post;)

MCM on Huffington Post: Response to his article

Mark, OUTSTANDING, what a public and patriotic service. Of course this is what the Republicans will try. It stresses the need to make sure that the majorities are overwhelming. We also need exit polls and a bright and no-holds-barred legal team. The can have all the preppy riots they want, we need to fire back in a devastating fashion...punish them in court (legally of course).

Dean has been quite open about his total distrust and dislike for e-voting. He needs to amp up that rhetoric to include the fine words ELECTION FRAUD. A direct opprobrium to the vendors and the Republicans in the form of "Never again fellas, We know the game and we'll catch you this time" would help a great deal and freeze some of their plans.

Great post!!!!!!!!!!

Michael Collins
By: michaelcollins on July 17, 2006 at 09:57pm

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28. mine @ Huff Po:

So we'll see a re-play of the "Brooks Bros Riots of 2000" . A planned, staged event like all the others. These thugs couldn't be genuine if they tried.

Thank you Mark for inspiring Larry David to suggest RFK Jr read your book "Fooled Again". It has brought so much attention to THE issue (fraudulent elections) that all others issues (war, deficit, constitutional abuse, exposing CIA agents, response after Katrina etc.) resulted from.

I like your comment to Jim Lampley filling in on Ed Schultz: if it happens again, we are going to have to go Ukraine (and now Mexican) on them. Keep up the good fight!

[LittleClarkie]

9. waiting my turn delete

ahem.

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3. Mexico: God Bless Narco News – Courageous Journalism

I can’t say enough about this publication. Hard hitting, edgy, and highly sourced, Narco News lays it out on fraud in all forms in Latin America. They rock and rock hard on the beat of cheating the people of their liberties and loot. Good for them. This is a reprint of an article from a Mexican journalist. Great stuff. MEXICO IS WHERE IT’S AT, TEACHING US LESSONS FOR 2006 AND BEYOND.

The Results of Deception
It Is Critical for the Mexican People to Act as a Political Protagonist

By Gilberto López y Rivas
La Jornada
http://tinyurl.com/m2dkc

July 17, 2006

Whatever the legal and political conclusion may be to the accusation that electoral fraud has been committed against Andrés Manuel López Obrador, it is obvious that the crisis of legitimacy in democratic institutions is the most significant feature of the current political reality in Mexico. Two hypotheses have been confirmed: one arguing that basing the current system of political representation on neoliberal globalization and capitalism makes it fragile, and the other about how powerful constituents – partisan factions associated with the state – are capable of aborting the decision-making power of a public that cannot defend itself against political machinery designed to carry out fraud, coercion and manipulation. This political machinery was recently set into motion on July 2nd, by Vicente Fox’s administration and its network of state, business, corporate and intellectual accomplices.

The current General Council of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE in its Spanish initials) has been completely discredited by its conduct before, during and after the July 2nd elections and by its central role in the political cheating, both traditional and electronic. Despite its modern techniques, the IFE left many tracks pointing to its fraudulent behavior. The apparent fraud was so significant that indignant citizens have been denouncing the council’s president, Luis Carlos Ugalde, electoral crook who threatened the essence of the system of political representation: respect for the will of the people as expressed through the vote.

Previous accusations that surrounded the last-minute naming of nine civilian council members to the Federal Electoral Institute were also proven to be well founded. The accusations were based on concerns that the citizens named to the council had career histories, political mentors and corporate relationships that would lead them to handle their responsibilities in a partisan manner, in favor of the ruling-party candidate.

Will it be possible to trust the IFE’s vote count without knowing with absolute scientific certainty that its computers do not house an efficient and silent algorithm that rearranges quantities and produces percentages prepared in advance by the computer experts employed by Mexico’s most powerful constituents? For now, it is logical to suppose that as long as the current structure of the IFE administration exists, millions of citizens will refuse to participate in the electoral process.

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4. Mexico: Excerpts from Obradors Speech to 1.5 milion Mexicans!!!

Executive Intelligence Review has better estimates on the crowd. It’s not up to 1.5 million (the police admitted to 1.1 million so you know this is close). These are some of Obrador’s remarks. Not subject to copyright since a public speech; extended quotation.

From

EXCERPTS OF LOPEZ OBRADOR'S SPEECH ON JULY 16:
http://www.larouchepub.com/

"My profound appreciation to all of you, for your presence in this Second Informational Assembly. From the bottom of my heart, thanks to those who have come from the different regions of the country, marching, in caravans, or on their own, in all cases of their own free will and paying their expenses with their own resources.

"You and I know that this whole effort is not in vain. The causes that we are defending are of great historic significance for Mexico.

"You are here not only to support a person, but to defend the inalienable right of the people to freely elect their government. We are not only fighting for the recognition of our legitimate victory in the Presidential election, but for a higher cause, to enforce democracy in our country.

"We cannot accept a regression, a setback of democracy. We cannot accept that through illegality, money, and cheating, a group with privileges wants to impose an illegitimate president.

"We cannot accept the cancellation of the right of the people to a better life, through the democratic path.

"We cannot allow them to take away our right to hope. Therefore, I repeat, the general objective of this movement is the defense of democracy."

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"I am absolutely certain that, if a recount of the votes is carried out, it shall be demonstrated that we won cleanly, legally, and legitimately in the July 2 elections.

"From this public plaza, I call on the candidate of the right to act in a responsible manner and accept, without any pretexts, the review of the tally sheets and the vote-by-vote recount in all of the polling stations of the country. If he maintains that he won, he has no reason to refuse. I recommend that he consider that all the waters of the oceans cannot erase the stain of a fraudulent election. I remind him, also, that Mexico, our great country, and its people, do not deserve an illegitimate President of the Republic, without moral or political authority."

"What is at stake is democracy and the political stability of the country. No one should be afraid of having the election cleaned up, resolved, and justified before the eyes of Mexico and the world.

"For the political, economic, and financial stability of the country—vote by vote, polling station by polling station!

"To contribute to social peace—vote by vote, polling station by polling station!

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5. Mexico: Who are the protesters?

Workers and their families, intellectuals, politically aware embers of the upper middle class. People more upset at the loss of economic security and the violation of democratic freedoms than they are lobbying for a cushy life as one of the paid hands around the ranch of American. The animals who now rule Mexico have a very special way of dealing with unions and strikes (see story below).

Workers World:
Vote or no vote, Mexicans are fighting back

By Dante Strobino
Mexico City, Mexico

Published Jul 17, 2006 7:48 PM
http://tinyurl.com/hawax

While the contested presidential election in Mexico remains the focus of intense struggle, accumulated social conflicts continue to go unresolved. EZLN ‘Other Campaign’ supporters march through<br>the Mexico City streets on Election Day, July 2.


EZLN ‘Other Campaign’ supporters march through
the Mexico City streets on Election Day, July 2.
WW photo: Dante Strobino

The teachers’ union in Oaxaca, along with hundreds of thousands of supporters, continues to fight back. Flower merchants and supporters in Atenco who refuse to leave their market so Wal-Mart can build a store there are raped, killed and imprisoned.

Some 65 miners in the Pasta coal mines of Conchos, Coahuila, are killed due to unsafe conditions ignored by Secretary of Labor Francisco Salazar. Workers in Sonora shut down the nation’s largest copper mines. And workers at the Villacero steel plant, Latin America’s largest steel bar manufacturer, continue their four-month strike.

Although the votes were cast on July 2, as of July 10 there was still no clear winner in the presidential race. The Federal Electoral Institute’s (IFE) official count on July 6 gave right-wing National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderón a 0.57 percent lead over the left-leaning advocate of the poor, Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador. This razor-thin margin is being contested by López Obrador.

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6. USA: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement.

Felony disenfranchisement started after the Compromise of 1876. Blacks voted at higher percentages then than at any other time. Something had to be done, now that Southern whites had a green light following the withdrawal of federal authorities. Voila – take over the government, arrest black people as fast as you can, and then pass laws that say people with felonies cannot vote. The rationale for this is not something that needs to be inferred. The framers of the new voting patterns in the south spoke openly of denying blacks the right to vote in this fashion. These laws are still around in the South but the politicians don’t have the guts to say why they’re really there. .6 million or more black males in Florida, .3 million in Virginia (shame shame shame state of Jefferson), and so forth. The attached is a wonderful summary with separate sections. Book mark it, use it, understand it…BECAUSE NO SINGLE TYPE OF ELECTION FRAUD HAS A GREATER IMPACT ON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. NONE….

LOSING THE VOTE

The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States

The Sentencing Project
http://www.hrw.org/reports98/vote/

OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY

The expansion of suffrage to all sectors of the population is one of the United States’ most important political triumphs. Once the privilege of wealthy white men, the vote is now a basic right held as well by the poor and working classes, racial minorities, women and young adults. Today, all mentally competent adults have the right to vote with only one exception: convicted criminal offenders. In forty-six states and the District of Columbia, criminal disenfranchisement laws deny the vote to all convicted adults in prison. Thirty-two states also disenfranchise felons on parole; twenty-nine disenfranchise those on probation. And, due to laws that may be unique in the world, in fourteen states even ex-offenders who have fully served their sentences remain barred for life from voting.

While felony disenfranchisement laws should be of concern in any democracy, the scale of their impact in the United States is unparalleled: an estimated 3.9 million U.S. citizens are disenfranchised, including over one million who have fully completed their sentences. That so many people are disenfranchised is an unintended consequence of harsh criminal justice policies that have increased the number of people sent to prison and the length of their sentences, despite a falling crime rate.

The racial impact of disenfranchisement laws is particularly egregious. Thirteen percent of African American men—1.4 million—are disenfranchised, representing just over one-third (36 percent) of the total disenfranchised population. In two states, our data show that almost one in three black men is disenfranchised. In eight states, one in four black men is disenfranchised. If current trends continue, the rate of disenfranchisement for black men could reach 40 percent in the states that disenfranchise ex-offenders.

Disenfranchisement laws in the U.S. are a vestige of medieval times when offenders were banished from the community and suffered ‘‘civil death.” Brought from Europe to the colonies, they gained new political salience at the end of the nineteenth century when disgruntled whites in a number of Southern states adopted them and other ostensibly race-neutral voting restrictions in an effort to exclude blacks from the vote.

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7. CO: Help parolees rebuild their lives – Let them vote, it’s their right

As mentioned previously, felony disenfranchisement is a vestige of the reversal of Reconstruction – the power grab whereby whites took the vote from blacks by stripping their right to vote as a result of felony convictions. No debate on this. Those who passed the laws stated this as the purpose.

Now here’s a real life story. I figured that my spectacular (but probably accidental ;)) success as a precinct captain in the 2005 Governor’s election might get a letter read. So I wrote Warner, who I liked as Governor (much more conservative than I but did a fine job). I said basically, my dear governor, who dearly wants to be President, show some flair and sign off on the restoration of voting rights for the 250 plus black males who have lost their vote in Virginia. Only 10% of less had any violence involved in the convictions. You’d make a big hit as an “out of the box” leader and you would correct a serious injustice, one of the worst in our state right now. Guess what, it was read. How do I know? I got a letter back from Governor elect Kaine, my man;). It said, “Mark” had asked him to write back and explain that Virginia, under Warner, had a fast track system of restoration of voting rights (only 5% of the possibles, he failed to mention) and they were real proud of it. Cya at the inauguration. Give me a break! Its f’ing racist, it denies several hundred thousand men their right to vote, it’s based on the worst form of racism. Screw ‘em both. I’ll always vote for a Democrat but that doesn’t mean I have to respect those who fail to act when THEY KNOW THAT THEY SHOULD. Grow spine fellas. And don’t expect to lead a great country when you lack the guts to help 250,000 Virginians WHO HAVE PAID THEIR DEBT TO SOCIETY.

Denver Post: perspective
Allowing parolees to vote would rebuild lives

By Neema Trivedi and Jenny Rose Flanagan

Colorado is moving into a lively and important election season, but more than 28,000 citizens of the state will be barred from participating because of felony convictions. Like every American, they have much at stake in the upcoming elections, but they will have no voice unless current law is changed.

Felony disenfranchisement laws vary significantly from state to state. Maine and Vermont allow people in prison to vote. But Florida, Kentucky and Virginia bar people from the polls even after serving their full criminal sentences. Twelve states and the District of Columbia restore the right to vote to individuals upon release from prison. In Colorado, people with felony convictions are denied the right to vote while in prison and on parole.

What this means is that many Colorado residents who have done their time in prison are still unable to register and vote when they re-enter society. Nearly 7,000 of those who are disenfranchised in Colorado because of felony convictions are living, working and raising families alongside the rest of us. Though they pay taxes and are concerned about the future of their communities, they have no say in the way their lives are governed.

In his 2004 State of the Union address, President Bush noted, “America is the land of second chances, and when the gates of the prisons open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.” A better life includes the right to vote and the ability to participate meaningfully in civic life.

(Ed. Note: Studies show that parolees who vote are less likely to offend than those disenfranchised…and nobody needs a study to figure that out. Get it together legislative nitwits and change these laws.)

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8. GA: John Nichols of the Nation has insight on the weirdo – Ralph Reed

Nichols is very interesting and generally dead on. Reed, it seems, wants to get the scandal behind him thinking he can eek out a victory. Hey somebody write Nichols and tell him how Reed is going to do it. It’s no secret.

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10. CA: 50th Congressional District – Manual Recount, Brad Friedman TruthOut

You go Brad. Let’s win this one. No other reason to do it!

Manual Hand Count Requested in Busby/Bilbray Race!
Registrar Quotes Fees for Count as High as $130,000!
BradBlog.com

Friday 07 July 2006
http://tinyurl.com/ouat8

A 'Buck a Vote' for hand count of paper ballots, trails in US house election which used uncertified voting machines ... fees far exceed those charged by other counties.

Late Wednesday afternoon, a "Manual Hand Count Request under the Election Recount Provision" was filed at the San Diego County Registrar of Voters office by by CA-50 voter Barbara Gail Jacobson. The request is for a full manual hand count of all paper ballots and paper trails in the recent June 6th Busby/Bilbray special U.S. House election in which programmed, election-ready Diebold voting machines were sent home with poll workers for days prior to the election in apparent violation of new laws and provisions by both state and federal authorities.

As California state election code requires that a candidate be named on whose behalf such hand count requests are filed, Jacobson named Republican Brian Bilbray in her filing. Bilbray is the candidate who was announced as the winner in the race by SD County Registrar Mikel Haas.

Jacobson's manual hand count request, as filed, is posted in full here.

The breaches in security for the exceedingly hackable Diebold voting machines and the subsequent decertified use of such systems in the important "bellwether" election have prompted a number of Election Integrity organizations to declare "No Confidence" in the results of the election as reported by Registrar Haas. Haas himself has even admitted that storage of such machines in poll workers' cars cannot be considered secure as required by state and federal law.

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11. Greg Palast Articles: 2000 Forward...TOP Investigative Reporter Working

GREG PALAST


When Greg Palast, an investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering, turned his skills to journalism, he was quickly recognized as, "The most important investigative reporter of our time" in Britain, where his first reports appeared on BBC television and in the Guardian newspapers.

Author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast is best known in his native USA as the journalist who, for the Observer (UK), broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black Florida citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election, thereby handing the White House to his brother George. His reports on the theft of election 2004, the spike of the FBI investigations of the bin Ladens before September 11, the secret State Department documents planning the seizure of Iraq's oil fields have won him a record six "Project Censored" for reporting the news American media doesn't want you to hear. "The top investigative journalist in the United States is persona non grata in his own country's media." He returned to America to report for Harper's Magazine.

Palast's Sam Spade style television and print exposés about elections manipulations, War on Terror and globalization, as seen on BBC’s Newsnight and Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!

Penguin will release his new book, Armed Madhouse, in June 2006.

Palast, who has led investigations for government on three continents, has an academic side: the author of Democracy and Regulation, a seminal treatise on energy corporations and government control commissioned by the United Nations based on his lectures at Cambridge University and the University of Sao Paulo.

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12. Exposing Bush Familhy Finances-Best Democracy Money Can Biuy

BUSH FAMILY FINANCES: BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY

The London Observer
Sunday Nov 26, 2000
Gregory Palast examines the sources of the $500m that boosted Bush's bid for the White House.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=15&row=2

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13. Florida's Flawed Voter Cleansing Program -

FLORIDA'S FLAWED "VOTER-CLEANSING" PROGRAM - SALON.COM'S POLITICS STORY OF THE YEAR
Monday Dec 4, 2000
Salon.com's Politics Story of the Year. Florida Republican leaders hired a private firm to vet the rolls for felons which wrongly kept thousands, particularly blacks, from casting ballots.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=55&row=2

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14. "Disappaeared" Gore voters...method to the "mistakes"

A BLACKLIST BURNING FOR BUSH

The London Observer
Sunday Dec 10, 2000
The more you look the more disbarred and 'disappeared' Gore voters you find. You'd almost think it was deliberate.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=4&row=2

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15. The company that "disappeared" Gore voters-a GOP favorite

SCRUB HELPS SHRUB
The Nation
Monday Feb 5, 2001
The company that the Florida secretary of state contracted with in 1998 to help purge the state rolls of ineligible voters is well connected to GOP circles.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=74&row=2

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16. The Theft of the Presidency (Video)

"THEFT OF THE PRESIDENCY"
BBC-TV Newsnight
Thursday Feb 15, 2001
This is the transcript of Gregory Palast's appearance on BBC News' Newsnight on February 16, 2001. View the full video here.

Video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/palast.ram
Article: http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=29&row=2

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17. US Civil Rights Commission looks at FL 2000 - "the Horror"

INQUIRY INTO NEW CLAIMS OF POLL ABUSES IN FLORIDA (BY JULIAN BORGER AND GREGORY PALAST)
The Guardian (London)
Saturday Feb 17, 2001
The US civil rights commission was yesterday investigating allegations by the BBC's Newsnight that thousands of mainly black voters in Florida were disenfranchised in the November election because of wholesale errors by a private data services company.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=30&row=2

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18. The Silence of the Media Lambs: The Election Story Never Dies

SILENCE OF THE MEDIA LAMBS: THE ELECTION STORY NEVER TOLD
www.tompaine.com
Thursday May 24, 2001
Investigative reporting about voting rights violations in the US have been page one news---in Britain.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=33&row=2

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19. Greg Palast Gives Clear Early Waring on HAVA - Way out front (wow)

THE WRONG WAY TO FIX THE VOTE
The Washington Post
Sunday Jun 10, 2001
If you liked the way Florida handled the presidential vote in November, you'll just love the election reform laws that have passed since then...

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=84&row=2

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20. 57,7000 Florida Voters "purged" prior to 11/02 - the culprits are IDed

THE GREAT FLORIDA EX-CON GAME
HOW THE 'FELON' VOTER-PURGE WAS ITSELF FELONIOUS
Harper's Magazine
Friday Mar 1, 2002


In November the U.S. media, lost in patriotic reverie, dressed up the Florida recount as a victory for President Bush. But however one reads the ballots, Bush's win would certainly have been jeopardized had not some Floridians been barred from casting ballots at all. Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state - Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, both protégées of Governor Jeb Bush- ordered 57,700 "ex-felons," who are prohibited from voting by state law, to be removed from voter rolls. (In the thirty-five states where former felons can vote, roughly 90 percent vote Democratic.) A portion of the list, which was compiled for Florida by DBT Online, can be seen for the first time here; DBT, a company now owned by ChoicePoint of Atlanta, was paid $4.3 million for its work, replacing a firm that charged $5,700 per year for the same service. If the hope was that DBT would enable Florida to exclude more voters, then the state appears to have spent its money wisely.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=122&row=2

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21. Democrats.com & BuzzFlash Interview Palast - Excellent Stuff

DEMOCRATS.COM CHAT WITH GREG PALAST
Democrats.com
Friday Mar 8, 2002
Hosted by Bob Fertik with David Lytel

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=126&row=2

BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS GREG PALAST
Buzzflash.com
Monday Mar 11, 2002
We are honored to post our second interview with Greg Palast, an investigative reporter for the BBC and the Observer (sister paper of the Guardian).

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=127&row=2

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22. Investigative Reports - Directory

EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG
Sunday May 12, 2002
This phone-book sized compendium of killer investigative reports published by Disinformation Press begins with a shorter version of Greg's essay on the World Bank and IMF found in The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=152&row=2

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23. deleting and following directions this time

oopsie

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24. Was waiting for you over there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1659729&mesg_id=1661017

Just trying to please...He thinks they'll do as much as they can get away with. In this case, they think that they may keep it close. 2004 stuff...they'll call the wins "surprises" but they only have so many of those. Then they'll take on races in specific areas where they can cry foul, and they will. Now, they have a new tool and you heard it here first.

Stewart v. Blackwell in Oh 6th District Federal Court

ACLU wins against the "master of disaster" Blackwell...but, two tings 1) Blackwell is told to put in all touch screens (Diebolds) through out the state and 2) they tie the decision to Bush v Gore which was never supposed to be done (but I'm not a lawyer, I just play one on TV). The rational they use is equal protection. They say, hey, touch screens are better than punch cards, so if you vote w/a punch card, it's a denial of your rights. The possibility is now there for a "loser" in any state with touch screens plus other devices (which this court wrongfully says are all inferior in accuracy) to ask that the election be nullified. They'd have a recent Fed Court decision to rely on, they could say that it was in a case the ACLU won, and so forth. BTW, Blackwell was thrilled to lose and be told to do Diebold, which he had mostly anyway.

So they can cry actual fraud or they can use this lame decision in Federal Court...they probably have a program to find optimum locations by matching up close races, past voting problems, and friendly (Federalist Society) judges.

Sweet huh?

[EFerrari]

25. "Damn you, Khan"

K&R

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26. Kahn says to himself...

"I think I'll call those
hysterical episodes "Kirking out."

[Algorem]

27. Adding up facts on Blackwell action

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/sam_fulwood/index.ssf?/base/opinion/115321148751350.xml&coll=2

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Sam Fulwood III
Plain Dealer Columnist

Tony McCarty of Columbus is disgusted by my re peated accusations that GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell tried to suppress Ohio's black vote in past presidential elections.

"As a concerned citizen, I would greatly appreciate it if you would base your columns on facts instead of smearing a person's character and accusing them of serious public crimes," McCarty wrote in an e-mail.

Well, sir, I'm delighted to offer you - and all of the others who didn't ask so nicely - an explanation, though I doubt anything I say will convince you.


To refresh my memory, I asked Plain Dealer newsroom researcher Cheryl Diamond to help review and double-check the news stories leading up to and immediately following the 2004 election that involved Blackwell's many troubling decisions...

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/sam_fulwood/

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29. OH: Misleading Title on Analysis of Cuyahoga Primary

Check out the title vs the content in this Plain Dealer article. Title blames officials but article says Diebold failed to warn against too thick of lines.

Election report blames officials
Missed details grew into ballot failure
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Joan Mazzolini
Plain Dealer Reporter
For nearly three months, the biggest mystery of Cuyahoga County's May 2 primary debacle has been whether blame goes to the optical scanning machines that were unable to read thousands of absentee ballots or the company that printed the ballots.

But Monday, results of a scanner test solved the mystery with a new culprit: The Board of Elections itself, which used a ballot layout that was unreadable by the scanners.

But the Denver-based company hired to find out why the machines failed, SysTest Labs, also points the finger at Diebold Inc., the maker of the scanners.

Diebold did not warn its customers that placing too-thick black lines on ballots could create problems, SysTest found.



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30. OH: Af Am Plain Dealer Writer nails Blackwell based on facts

Adding up facts on Blackwell action

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Sam Fulwood III
Plain Dealer Columnist
Tony McCarty of Columbus is disgusted by my re peated accusations that GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell tried to suppress Ohio's black vote in past presidential elections.

"As a concerned citizen, I would greatly appreciate it if you would base your columns on facts instead of smearing a person's character and accusing them of serious public crimes," McCarty wrote in an e-mail.

Well, sir, I'm delighted to offer you - and all of the others who didn't ask so nicely - an explanation, though I doubt anything I say will convince you.


To refresh my memory, I asked Plain Dealer newsroom researcher Cheryl Diamond to help review and double-check the news stories leading up to and immediately following the 2004 election that involved Blackwell's many troubling decisions.

Here's a bit of what we found:

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31. Kick to the top,

and thanks to all.

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