Electronic Writer

This is a great article! Avi Rubin is a Computer Science Professor at Johns Hopkins Univeristy who worked at a Precinct during this years 2004 Presidential Election. He re-tells his experiences, voices his concerns, and speculates about the implications of the voting machines.

This is a spectacular article!

http://www.avirubin.com/judge2.html

The Bible belt called, and Lord answered. He performed a miracle right here in the USA! To be more specific, there is this little article . . . .

Palm Beach County Logs 88,000 More Votes Than Voters

November 5, 2004, in the Washington Dispatch

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000715.html

What a touching story . . . .

November 7, 2004

George, John, and Warren (by Keith Olbermann)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240

Keith Olbermann for MSNBC reported yesterday that the telephone call made by John Kerry to concede the election does not represent anything binding or legal. He also recognized the Warren County, OH instance where they cited Homeland Security concerns and counted the votes behind locked doors.

I hope that this hits the mainstream and someone puts it to rest, or validates this.

There is an a letter that was sent and posted on www.bushflash.com/ supposedly from a DC Lawyer. She said that Kerry can un-concede the election as long as it is before the final counting of the votes in Ohio. She also asked that if you have any evidence of someone intimidating you, or having to wait more that 4 hours to vote, or anything else (there were allegations that in some neighborhoods populated mostly with African-Americans, that there were as few as 2 voting machines for an entire district, and that some voters were told to return on Wednesday to vote–that the deadline had been extended that long), that you should send an e-mail to a specific lawyer.

Please read it for yourself–it is on the homepage of www.bushflash.com (including the e-mail address). The writer behind BushFlash is verifying the validity of that e-mail.

In case you were wondering what the UK thinks of the Election, here is an editorial from a legitimate news source in the UK.

GOD HELP AMERICA

Published on November 5th in Mirror.Co.Uk

Warning: This editorial is not for the squeamish-of-heart . . . .

There are a couple of terrible reports showing up on the radar. I do not know if they are true, or not. I hope the mainstream media does their job and researches and either dispels this myth, or affirms the truth. Each of these articles has serious implications:

1.) Published on Saturday, November 6, 2004 by CommonDreams.org

Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked by Thom Hartmann

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

This Common Dreams article has a couple of important elements in it that raised warning signals for me. The first is that on television, the founder of BlackBoxVoting.Org had Howard Dean hack the result of a Diebold Machine in less than 90 seconds–without any traces. She provides the “How” for the conspiracy theory (or one of them). In addition, they uncover some common voting irregularities in Florida.

2.) Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio

Friday, November 5, 2004 Posted: 4:15 PM EST (2115 GMT)

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html

In this CNN article, a mainstream news organization actually provides an example of problems. Isn’t anyone else investigating this?

3.) Board awaits state followup

By ERIN MILLER

http://www.theeveningleader.com/articles/2004/11/06/news/news.01.txt

This is a smaller news source, but in The Evening Leader of St. Marys, OH, they reported that a former employee of ES&S (the company that programmed the voting machines) was working on the machines. I guess his presence on the system was prohibited by the election guidelines/policies. They are awating information about an investigation, but have not heard anything from Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell’s office.

This is another example of tampering. You cannot make a generalization from a specific example–it is a logical fallacy. As the evidence continues to stream in, however, perhaps the amount of evidence warrants an invesigation by the FBI?

4.) Black Box Voting

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

On the homepage of BlackBoxVoting.Org, they interviewed the independent company that tested the software on the voting machines. According to the report, the cosultants did not review the security or potential vulnerabilities within the systems. After the NASED (National Association of State Election Directors) received the report, they certified the machines anyway.

I wish that the group were a little more serious. The article has pictures of young adults (presumably the Web designers) embedded within their article asking silly spin-off questions. I guess they did not want to seem legitimate (one of the comments is a spin-off of the National Enquirer’s former advertisement). If the content of their article is potentially true, the implications are pretty bad.

5.) KERRY WON. HERE ARE THE FACTS. TomPaine.com

Friday Nov 5, 2004 by Greg Palast

http://www.gregpalast.com/



This article is pretty disturbing. Remember Katherine Harris? She was the famous Florida election supervisor that eliminated 179,855 votes erroneously from Florida in the 2004 elections. I guess they are called “spoiled” votes, and they are discarded for various reasons. Kenneth Blackwell’s office spoiled 1.96% (110,000) of Ohio’s votes. Greg Palast calls it a “Democracy-damaging” number. In addition, there were somewhere between 175,000 – 250,000 uncounted provisional ballots. The spoilage in New Mexico was 18,000 votes, and Bush won by 11,620. Most of the “spoiled” voters cast Democratic ballots.

6.) New Florida vote scandal feared

By Greg Palast Reporting for Newsnight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm

Here is another article by Greg Palast published at BBC.com. This was before the election. There were some e-mails that were intercepted with a list of names, and it was possible that it would be used as a target list to intimidate voters.

The interesting thing in this article is the rebuttle and the subsequent rebuttle. Also, someone anonymously hired a private investigator to film the voters in certain areas with a high concentration of African-Americans.

We now know that voter intimidation was a factor with the Republican Party resurrecting the Ku Klux Klan laws that were passed years ago to place party-designated challengers within the polling place.

If there is anyone with the power to investigate these allegations, please do so–and confirm or deny the rumors going around. I wish transparency would return to our society.

In a fervor, I knew NOT what I was doing. I lashed and whipped at the red swatch of color down the center of my country, and I said some un-savory things. Well, perhaps they were unsavory, but a better word would be “unfair,” or “derogatory.” My first post was, in short, problematic.

To those grandmas and farmers, I apologize for my overgeneralizations. Perhaps, it is fair to overgeneralize in the face of overgeneralizations. You know, the sort of “eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth” kinda thinking that spurned the Beowulf poet to bemoan the loss of generations of people.

Perhaps, I was tired of getting poked in the eye as “spending too much time worrying about things.” Well, SOMEONE has to keep their brain engaged about daily life. And, I am sorry, but connecting the dots has been easy for me. It is just in my nature.

Well, whatever the reason, I am sorry. I should not have overgeneralized and been hasty about my thoughts and words. Instead, I am going to try listening for awhile. It makes for a terrible blog–a blog about listening almost seems narcisistic. So, I will track what I hear on the blog. But, I am going to try listening to the conservatives for awhile. There are too many Liberals struggling with post-election blues. We had the leader, and heard the promises, and finally mobilized. We heard “We’re gonna win,” and “We cannot fail,” from our leader, and from the inner circle of my political world, and in a couple hours, we heard a different ending.

I concede.

It just feels kinda hollow after all that work.

This is a really nice article. I love the Chicken-Killing Dog analogy at the beginning . . . .

Molly Ivins: The Vioxx model of a corporate soul

By Molly Ivins

Published 11:24 am PST Friday, November 5, 2004

http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/ivins/story/11326181p-12240892c.html

A friend just sent me this link. I guess we are not alone with our thoughts.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/11/05/notes110504.DTL

Great writing, too!

Arianna Huffington just published a well-written article about the Democrat defeat. I haven’t weighed in on the remarks yet, but they are well worth the read.

Here’s the link:

Anatomy Of A Crushing Political Defeat

by Arianna Huffington

www.ariannaonline.com/blog