November 2004

Position of WheresThePaper.org
Observation of ballots and vote counting by all parties prevents fraud. Secrecy enables fraud to take place. If we can't openly prove or disprove that our elections are honest, then our elections are a sham.

Table of Contents

1. November News	7. Conspiracy
2. Ohio	8. People Who Should Know Better
3. Florida	9. Where is the Democratic Party?
4. Maryland	10. Laws, Counts, Recounts, Error Reports
5. New Hampshire	11. Before Nov. 2, Observers Guidelines
6. Ukraine	12. Before Nov. 2, News

1. November News

House Democrats' 15-page letter to Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, Dec. 2, 2004.

Cobb Expands Recount To Nevada, New Mexico November 30, 2004. Bush Wins New Mexico by 5,988 Votes AP, Nov. 24, 2004.

Reality Check -- to believe Bush won the election, you must also believe 10 unbelievable things. List created by the Voting Integrity Project.

Top 10 Questions About the Legitimacy of the 2004 Presidential Election
1. Systematic Voting Machine Irregularities
2. Highly Irregular Intervention by Federal Authorities
3. Impossible Vote Totals
4. Unfair Election Supervisors
5. Untrustworthy Vendors of Election Machinery
6. Unexplained Exit Poll Disparities
7. Unreliable Voting Machinery in Poor and Working Class Areas
8. Atypical Voting Changes from 2000 to 2004
9. Uncounted Ballots
10. Illegal Voter Suppression Activities

20 Amazing Facts about Voting in the USA

Vote Count Protests Blast Media Silence By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, Berkeley Daily Planet, Dec. 3, 2004.

The Election in Ohio ... and in Ukraine, Institute for Public Accuracy, December 2, 2004.

What were the odds that Bush would win? by Alan Waldman, Hartford Advocate, Nov. 25, 2004.

How The Bush Gang Stole Its Third National Election in a Row By William Hare, 11/29/04.

Votergate: More details emerge By Wayne Madsen, Online Journal Contributing Writer, Dec. 1, 2004.

In Ohio 2004, it's the People versus the Party of Hate & Terror and the Party of Duck and Run...but will the Democrats now stand and fight? by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press, Dec. 1, 2004.

Denver Rally 11/18, Photos

Conyers to Hold Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud By William Rivers Pitt, truthout Dec. 3, 2004.
Rep. John Conyers, Jr. of Michigan, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote to the GAO on Nov. 5, 2004, requesting an investigation into the Nov. 2 election. His letter was signed also by Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, and Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida who has brought two lawsuits (so far unsuccessful) to require verifiable election equipment in Florida. Conyers wrote again on Nov. 8, 2004; the letter was signed also by Nadler, Wexler, and Rep. Robert Scott of Virginia, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security; Rep. Melvin Watt of North Carolina, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, and Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey, original sponsor of HR2239, the "Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act" which would have required a verifiable election on Nov. 2.
Olver, Filner, Meeks and Lee join
Baldwin, Slaughter and Miller join
In a Press Release on Nov. 23, Conyers, Nadler , and 12 other Congressional Representatives announced that the GAO would investigate the 2004 election. However, the GAO issued a statement also on Nov. 23, 2004, saying that although they would investigate, they weren't an enforcement agency, and that specific allegations of voting irregularities should be addressed to state and local officials such as Secretaries of State or State Attorney Generals. 14 House Dems Demand GAO Election Probe, Buzzflash, Nov 23, 2004.

US Election: Democracy in Question by Ritt Goldstein, Nov. 18, 2004 by Inter Press Service.

What Really Happened.

Do Americans Have a Right to Vote?

Wyoming Secretary of State's Profile of Voters shows 106% turnout.

Litigating the Election By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout|Perspective, November 22, 2004

Not enough provisional ballots in Pittsburgh PA polling places Nov. 19, 2004.

Oklahoma vote counts change after publication. Tulsa World on Oklahoma Vote Totals: We Have No Idea Commentary, Nov. 30, 2004, by Mark Faulk

47 State Exit Poll Analysis Confirms Swing Anomaly November 11, 2004. By Jonathan Simon, Introduction by Scoop Co-Editor Alastair Thompson. "In the 12 critical states (CO, FL, MI, MN, NE, NV, NH, NM, OH, PA, WI, IA) the average discrepancy was a 2.5% red shift (= total movement of 5.0%), nearly twice that in the safe states."

Vote Recount to Settle Doubts? By Kim Zetter, Wired News, Nov. 17, 2004.

Steal Your Election

Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy by Steven F. Freeman, PhD, Nov. 11, 2004. Dr. Freeman presents a statistical analysis of the disparity between exit polling data and reported votes during the recent presidential election. He concludes that these disparities in three critical "swing" states could not have occurred by chance. Also here. Dr. Freeman's web site

Do Not Concede

Indiana, Vote machine error brings recount in Franklin County, By John Strauss, john.strauss@indystar.com, November 12, 2004. IndyStar.com. Democrats Seek Recount in Hill-Sodrel Race By Lauren W. Whittington, Roll Call, Nov 15, 2004.

Diebold to Settle E-Voting Suit AP, Nov. 10, 2004. Bev Harris is vindicated, but Diebold gets a slap on the wrist -- avoids a larger financial loss and exposure of their faulty voting systems at a trial -- and their stock goes up.

How To Take Back A Stolen Election Published Monday, November 29, 2004 by CommonDreams.org by Thom Hartmann.

'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida by Thom Hartmann, Nov. 18, 2004, CommonDreams.org.

Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked by Thom Hartmann, November 6, 2004, CommonDreams.org

The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy by Thom Hartmann, November 4, 2004, CommonDreams.org

Reporting of exit polls modified the numbers to match the vote tallies.

Kerry Won. . . by Greg Palast, November 4, 2004

Should America Trust the Results of the Election? Commentary by Shane Cory, November 5, 2004, From Washington Dispatch.com

Inside The Election Fraud Battle by Betsy R. Vasquez. Think Kerry Is Not Involved In This Fight? Think Again. Also: Fallujah = Operation Distract From Fixed Election.

Elections & Electronic Polling on Planetwork.

A voter who happens to be a Professional IT Auditor .

North Carolina anomalies . Summary of voting problems, Nov. 22, 2004. Director Page has few answers for state lawyer on voting discrepancies By Binyamin Appelbaum, Nov. 23, 2004.

Media Blackout on Election Fraud by Media News Group, Denver Post and 94+ Newspapers, Radio Stations, TV Stations: Corporate Profits vs Civil Rights, and the Vote. by Kali Autumn Lynn, The Denver Voice, Denver, CO. Nov. 26, 2004

$200,000 Reward for evidence of vote fraud in the presidential election.

Election Fraud in America by Michael Keefer, www.globalresearch.ca 30 November 2004

Election Angst Update: Clark Kent Vs the Media Wimps by Maureen Farrell, Buzzflash, Nov. 23, 2004.

Campaign 2004: Swing-State Election Results , By Bob Burnett, Berkeley Daily Planet, Nov. 23, 2004.

William Rivers Pitt: Saving Your Right to Vote Nov. 22, 2004.

Talk on Verified Voting Issues in NM. This slide presentation is very good. However, wheresthepaper.org reminds everyone of two things. First, democracy requires election technology and procedures that ordinary non-technical citizens can oversee. Unless the use of voter-verified paper ballots is coupled with routine 100% audits (recounts of the voter-verified paper ballots) and reconciliations, and a requirement for 100% computer accuracy, then the voter-verified paper ballots will not ensure election integrity. Second, the concept of a "close election" is related to paper-ballots and mechanical lever voting machines. With those old technologies, it requires armies of well-organized corrupt insiders to falsify an election. With computers, the Yale Study shows that a simple shift of a few votes per machine can throw the election outcome, and one corrupt insider or technician can create any margin of victory he or she wishes.

The Blue Lemur

Election Readiness: It Is Never Too Late For Transparency , Pre-Election Observation Report, October 2004 from Fair Election International. Among the observers' key recommendations are:

---- Non-Partisan Election Supervision. Partisan oversight and administration of elections is not the international norm, as it builds in the possibility for the perception of conflicts of interest. -- The delegation recommends that states establish independent and impartial bodies to administer, oversee, and certify elections.

---- Non-Partisan Observation of U.S. Elections. The delegation strongly endorses the recommendations of the OSCE, the Carter Center for Human Rights, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and other experts bodies that call for independent, non-partisan poll watchers, both domestic and international, to be welcomed at the polls and tabulation centers in 2004 and beyond. -- As a confidence building measure, the delegation recommends that states invite domestic and international observers to help create an environment of civic transparency.

---- Paper Trail for Touch-Screen Voting. Transparency at the polls is critical and cannot be readily established without voter verification. The delegation recommends that every DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) machine in the U.S. be equipped with a mechanism for voter verification and a paper record. The delegation also recommends that open source coding be incorporated. -- In addition, front-end testing by an independent agency and parallel monitoring during elections should be adopted to achieve optimum transparency.

---- Universal Use of Provisional Ballots. In the immediate term, the delegation recommends that efforts to train poll workers on the correct distribution of provisional ballots are maximized and that to the extent possible, election administrators make adequate preparations for verifying and counting provisional ballots. -- In the longer term, provisional ballots should count for state and federal contests regardless of where the vote is cast; that was surely the intention of HAVA (Help America Vote Act of 2002).

---- Re-enfranchise Ex-Felons. The delegationšs concerns center on the permanent disenfranchisement of former felons, a practice that falls outside of international or even U.S. norms and is an unreasonable restriction that creates subcategories of citizenship. -- The delegation strongly recommends that those states that permanently disenfranchise felons (Florida, Virginia, Nebraska, Mississippi, Kentucky, Iowa, Arizona, and Alabama) amend their laws and practices to restore full citizenship to ex-offenders.

---- Public Financing for Elections. In circumstances where the amount a candidate spends is directly related to the likelihood of success, it is not surprising that voters may sense that politicians are more concerned with big campaign contributors than with individual voters. -- The delegation strongly recommends a system of public financing for candidates for the U.S. House and Senate.

---- "One of the surprising things we learned is that most voting jurisdictions have no mechanisms for non-partisan polling observation," said David MacDonald, a former Canadian Minister of Parliament. "The Democrats get to pick their poll monitor and the Republican pick theirs. But who represents the interests of the growing percentage of Americans who are Independents? A system needs to be put in place that allows for international and domestic non-partisan poll observation."

Jim's Diebold Page

USCountVotes - Mathematical Study of 2004 Election Results. Suggested Methods to Select the Counties that are Most Likely to Need Recounting of Ballots By Kathy Dopp, November 2004. response to criticism

Democratic Underground Forum
78. Proof CNN is tampering with the election to cover the fraud

E-Voting News and Analysis, from the Experts. Sometimes these experts in computers forget that democracy requires elections that ordinary citizens can observe. Once citizens have to "trust" someone else to tell them whether or not their ballot has been cast correctly, or counted honestly, the democracy is lost.

House Dems Seek Election Inquiry By Kim Zetter, Wired News, Nov. 5, 2004.

First-person election-day report by Ed Kennedy

By Karl W. B. Schwarz, Nov. 8, 2004.

Project Censored and the article Democracy Fails: Corporations Win By Peter Phillips, November, 2004.

My E-Day at the Legal Command Center in SF

Avi Rubin's Second Day as an Election Judge.

The Village Voice The latest election fraud warnings, Voter's Digest, by James Ridgeway, Nov. 3, 2004.

To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process, Report from 2001.

2. Ohio

Judge refuses to back county in attempt to stop recount Associated Press, Dec. 03, 2004. COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal judge on Friday ruled against a county's attempt to stop a presidential election recount, likely setting the stage for a county-by-county recount in the coming weeks.

Ohio certifies election results, but recount demands likely By Steven Thomma, Knight Ridder, Dec. 02, 2004

Kerry Team Seeks to Join Fight to Get Ohio County to Recount Washington Post, Dec. 1, 2004

Jesse Jackson demands Ohio presidential recount, blasts GOP election officials, and says Kerry supports the process by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press, Nov. 29, 2004.

Re-Vote, Not Recount, in Ohio A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION by Anne Pfeiffer, Nov. 29, 2004.

Moritz School of Law, Ohio State University. Some information on election law, and documents in lawsuits concerning the Nov. 2 election.

more data

The Cobb-LaMarche Campaign Website has up-to-date info on Ohio, and what to do.

Jackson plans rally with ministers to call for election investigation
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he plans a Sunday rally in Columbus with ministers from around Ohio to call for an investigation of election irregularities in the state. Jackson will be speaking: Sunday, December 5, 2004
Mt. Herman Baptist Church
2283 Sunbury Road
Columbus, OH
3:30 P.M.

Ohio Democrats Offer Support for Recount Effort By Brian Faler, Special to The Washington Post, November 24, 2004; Page A08.

Judge Denies Request for Ohio Recount AP, Nov. 24,2004.

Released e-mails show Ohio lockdown pre-planned , Nov. 18, 2004. Warren County finished its vote count Nov. 15 without any results changing. Warren County drew national attention for its election night problems, from three-hour-plus lines at the polls to locking down the administration building during the vote count because of "terrorism" concerns. Federal and local homeland security officials said they didn't know of an increased threat in Warren County. County Commissioner Pat South said the decision to lock the doors election night was made during an Oct. 28 closed-door meeting (the Thursday before Election Day). But in e-mailed memos dated Oct. 25 and Oct. 26 - released Monday after an Enquirer public records request - other county officials were already detailing the security measures, down to the wording of signs that would be posted on the locked doors.

More Voting Questions Raised by Jon Craig, The Columbus Dispatch, Nov. 25, 2004.

Hearings on Ohio Voting Put 2004 Election in Doubt by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, SF Bay View, Nov. 24, 2004. Audio from the hearings can be found at http://www.theneighborhoodnetwork.org/Video.html . New Voter Transcripts Feed Floodtide of Doubt about Republican Election Manipulation

8,099 Cuyahoga ballots ruled invalid By Diane Solov, Cleveland.com The Plain Dealer, Nov. 23, 2004.

How the Ohio election was rigged for Bush by Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press, November 22, 2004

Ohio Presidential Results to be Challenged by Steven Rosenfeld, The Free Press, Nov. 20, 2004.

More Ohio voter suppression testimony prompts upcoming legal filing for statewide recount by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press, Nov. 20, 2004

Recount in Ohio a Sure Thing truthout, November 15, 2004.

Support for the Ohio Recount

Public Hearing on Election Irregularities and Voter Suppression, Columbus, OH Saturday, November 13, 2004, 1-4pm
New Faith Baptist Church, 955 Oak St., Columbus, Ohio, 43205.
Call 253-2571 or truth@freepress.org

Every Vote Will Be Counted by Dan Trevas, Ohio Democratic Party Communications Director, truthout.org, Nov. 9, 2004.

Ohio Election 2004 Audit

Computer error gave Bush 3,893 extra votes at Ohio polling station Nov 5, 2004

Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes By John McCarthy, Associated Press Writer. Nov 5, 2004.

Ohio Whitewash , Basic report from Columbus, November 4, 2004

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/results/index.html Ohio Secretary of State's Office and results

photos -- Nov 3, Ohio Residents Storm State House and report

Commonblog , Franklin County, Ohio

A week BEFORE the election, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman published Twelve ways Bush is now stealing the Ohio vote The Free Press, October 27, 2004.

3. Florida

Florida E-Vote Study Debunked By Kim Zetter, Dec. 07, 2004.
WheresThePaper.org comment: Elections have to be observable by ordinary citizens. Elections cannot be a "trust me" event, regardless of whether the companies or software or techies are trustworthy or not. This controversy with statistics is over the heads of many people, and it shames the legitimacy of our recent election that people were not allowed to simply observe the procedures including vote counting. If there was nothing to hide, why so much hiding? Secrecy is the smoke, fraud it the fire.

Lynn Landes: Florida vote counts . The difference between touch screen counties and ballot scan counties is immense when looking at the % of votes cast for Bush based on Republican registration, versus the % of votes cast for Kerry based on Democratic registration.

USCountVotes.org, mathematicians of many political colors examine the data showing differences between exit polls and publicized tallies.

Rights group sues over election results By James Miller, Staff Writer, November 24, 2004, News-Journal Online.

Lynn Landes: Florida vote counts . The difference between touch screen counties and ballot scan counties is immense when looking at the % of votes cast for Bush based on Republican registration, versus the % of votes cast for Kerry based on Democratic registration.

Felons list audit faults state By Gary Fineout, Miami Herald, Nov. 23, 2004. A new state audit criticized how Florida put together a central voter database and a felons list that was sent to election supervisors this year.

Buzzflash News Analysis of work by Michael Hout and others, and the UC Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team. UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count Nov. 18, 2004, and UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count, Research Team Calls for Investigation with links to the data. Both articles are dated Nov. 18, 2004.

Researchers: Florida Vote Fishy By Kim Zetter, Wired.com, Nov. 18, 2004.

Volusia County , Nov. 16, 2004. Bev Harris tries to get info in Volusia County.

Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies By Sam Parry November 9, 2004

2004 Presidential Florida By County By Voting Machine Type Election Analysis by Elizabeth Liddle.

Examination of the Florida Election Florida had 237,522 phantom voters!
Turnout=7,350,900
Total Votes=7,588,422

Voting and Party Registration for the 2004 Presidential Elections in Florida and tables showing more.

Florida Voting Profiles have a discrepancy between touchscreen and paper voting.

On the Front Lines in Florida

4. Maryland

Group Finds Problems With Voting Machines , AP, Nov. 24, 2004. TrueVoteMD found 201 failures of electronic voting systems in 6% of Maryland's voting precincts, but Linda Lamone, state elections head says that there are problems with any voting system because "you've got people involved in running the election."

5. New Hampshire

New Hampshire Recount, Act One, Russ Baker, The Nation, Nov. 23, 2004. [I]n an age of technological overkill, old-fashioned paper ballots are still the best guarantee of the integrity of the democratic process.in an age of technological overkill, old-fashioned paper ballots are still the best guarantee of the integrity of the democratic process.

Nader-requested recount in N.H. moving slowly By Erik Stetson, Associated Press, 11/19/2004

Recount New Hampshire

6. Ukraine

Nation-Building Is Not Conservative by Rep. Ron Paul, Dec. 14, 2004.

Ukraine Parliament Calls Election Invalid AP, November 27, 2004.

US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev by Ian Traynor, November 26, 2004, The Guardian.

Crowds blockade Kiev government BBC News, Nov. 26, 2004.

Ukraine Court Delays Results in Vote Dispute By C. J. Chivers, The New York Times, Nov. 26, 2004.

US Rejects Tally, Warns Ukraine by William Branigin, Washington Post, Nov. 25, 2004.

Zogby vs. Mitofsky Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Nov. 24, 2004.

Ukraine Liberal Calls for Strike, Civil War Warning. Reuters, Nov 24, 2004.

Republican Challenges Presidential Election Based On Exit Polls by Greg Palast, from The New York Times, Nov. 23, 2004.

7. Conspiracy

LATEST ELECTION FRAUD NEWS! including In sworn affidavit, programmer says he developed vote-rigging prototype for Florida congressman; Congressman's office silent. Dec. 6, 2004. In interview, programmer details what led him to file vote-rigging affidavit 12/7/2004.

Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for "vote switching" software By Wayne Madsen, Online Journal Contributing Writer Dec. 6, 2004.

Kerry betrayed democracy -- three views by Robert Bleier, Dec. 2, 2004.

Kerry Threw the Election. Ben Frank makes a lot of sense.

Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election By Wayne Madsen, Nov. 25, 2004, Online Journal.

Election Company Has Long Criminal History by Daniel Hopsicker, Nov. 24, 2004. Mad Cow Morning News.

8. People Who Should Know Better

Democracy requires an informed public. The major media's failure to report findings of election irregularities weakens our democracy. Media Matters reports: Media largely ignored Berkeley study on Florida voting irregularities.

Lynn Landes reports that the "Election Verification Project" has lost its way. Coalition's Support of Voting Machines Causes Confusion , The Free Press, Nov. 20, 2004. See also Guardian Unlimited

Statement by the Election Verification Project. Kim Alexander, California Voter Foundation President, participated in their news conference on Nov. 18, 2004, in Washington, D.C., where the Project provided a preliminary analysis of electronic voting problems in the Nov. 2 election, and discussed proposed solutions and reforms. Other participants included Chellie Pingree, Common Cause; Lillie Coney, Electronic Privacy Information Center; Matt Zimmerman, Electronic Frontier Foundation; and David Dill and Will Doherty, Verified Voting Foundation. The Project's suggestions are excellent.

However, WheresThePaper.org feels uneasy about some positions taken by the Project. Saying that "While there was no nationwide meltdown..." suggests that the election was adequate for a democracy. Saying that "... the fact that votes cannot be verified or recounted show us how vulnerable our democracy will be in the future if there is a disputed or unclear result" suggests that an unverifiable election is clear enough for today. Saying that their warnings and media scrutiny "alerted election officials about the need to take additional security measures" suggests that adequate security was in place. In fact none of these suggestions is true. We have no way of knowing or confirming whether or not the publicized election outcome expressed the will of the people.

Many secretive behaviors suggest that something was being hidden. State and local governments and Boards of Election chose to use unverifiable electronic voting systems even after this problem was brought to their attention more than a year ago; people were prevented from observing the tallying of votes; local Boards of Election refused to require posting of tally sheets in precincts before sending ballots to central tabulating locations; Boards of Election refused to comply with FOIL requests in an open and honest forthcoming manner, etc. Given the widespread single-party administration of elections, this lack of openness condemns the integrity of the election. This lack of openness means that people who assert that fraud took place are within their rights to suspect anything, because when a government hides what it does, in fact fraud, stealing, etc. is often taking place. Public servants should not only be honest, they must avoid the appearance of dishonesty. This idea is not new. Legitimacy and credibility of representative democratic government has always required open election processes. Secrecy in the procedures of elections, especially vote counting, is a constant when a system of tyranny poses as democracy by holding sham elections.

9. Where Is the Democratic Party?

Kerry Team Seeks to Join Fight to Get Ohio County to Recount Washington Post, Dec. 1, 2004

Kerry clutches to hopes of recount victory by Adam Stone, North County News, Nov. 24, 2004.

As of Nov. 18, the Democratic Party acted as if they didn't know that the election was tainted, and that challenges were being conducted.

Ohio hearings show massive GOP vote manipulation, but where the hell are the Democrats & John Kerry? by Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press. Nov. 17, 2004

10. Laws, Counts, Recounts, Error Reports

Election Protection's Election Incident Reporting System

Determine whether your provisional ballot was counted

National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) charts comparing state recount provisions:

Recounts Part 1, Recounts Part 2

Recount time table

Automatic Recounts

11. Before November 2, Observer Guidelines

Should American citizens who love democracy have known something was wrong? We wanted to observe the ballot handling and counting, and by our presence help prevent any kind of problems. We should have been invited in and trained by election officials. We should have been organized in advance by the political parties, and by good government groups. Instead, little institutional preparation was done, and ad hoc groups tried to fill in the gap. There was plenty of attention outside the polling place, making sure voters had access to the ballot. But who was watching the ballots and the counting procedures?

Guidelines for Monitoring the Vote-Counting Server from Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org.

Observers Needed! from wheresthepaper.org.

TechWatch from VerifiedVoting.org.

10 Security Steps from California Voter Foundation.

What to Look For from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Before November 2, News

Break-in At Ohio Democratic Campaign Headquarters October 12, 2004. The Toledo Blade, by the Blade Staff.

The Plutocrat as Populist By Nicholas Confessore, July 2, 2001. Historical perspective on the Democratic Party.

Karl Rove, 1970

BlackBoxVoting.COM IS NOT BEV HARRIS' SITE. Bev Harris' site is www.BlackBoxVoting.org. However, the allegations in this report sound plausible. Some larger questions about the report are: Is there no newspaper willing to investigate and reveal the truth? Is there no law enforcement agency willing to investigate? Is there no political party willing to make a stink?

The Bush Gitch

2004 Voter Info Compendium from buzzflash, 10/28/04.

Why is Election Integrity a Women's Issue? from NOW.

TOP 25 PLACES TO WATCH E-Voting and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, Compiled by Kim Alexander, President, California Voter Foundation

Evote tests get failing grade Kim Zetter, Wired.com, Nov. 1, 2004

New Florida vote scandal feared By Greg Palast Reporting for Newsnight, BBC News, Oct. 26, 2004. A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.

42 percent of American voters were concerned about tampering with evote machines. "Paper Or Touch Screen?" by Laura Donnelly, published by TomPaine.common sense, October 07, 2004.

Sucking Democracy Dry, The End of Democracy, Losing America's birthright, the George Bush way. By Rick Perlstein, The Village Voice, October 19, 2004.

CalVoter urged use of paper ballots and published info on the rights of voters to request paper ballots .

Journalist Lynn Landes brought lawsuits to halt use of evote machines , Oct. 18, 2004.

Press Release.
Article
Washington Monthly article shows Bush supporters do not know his positions on international issues. Kerry left off some absentee Ballots By Barry M. Horstman, The Cincinnati Post, Oct. 20, 2004.

RNC in Blatent Violation of Court Consent Decree, Says Advancement Project US Newswire, Oct. 27, 2004.

Problems with touchscreen voting systems "For many years, I have joined several other tabulation workers in personally certifying the accuracy of tabulated votes in Wayne County, Indiana. This year, I cannot conscientiously sign my name to the results."

I see dumb people. They're everywhere. They walk around like everyone else. They don't even know that they're dumb. Those who say "Don't vote" seem not to understand that the meatballs who assume office will wield power over nonvoters as surely as they will over the people who voted them in. You may not be interested in voting, but the results of voting are interested in you, to paraphrase one of our oppressors' heroes: Leon Trotsky.