More Compelling Evidence
Regarding 2004 Presidential Election Fraud

Smoking Gun

You may have seen the associated press story about the precinct in Cuyahoga county that had less than 1,000 voters, and gave Bush almost 4,000 extra votes.

But that turns out to be only the tip of a very ugly iceberg. The evidence discovered by some remarkably careful sleuthing would convince any reasonable court to invalidate the entire Ohio election.

In last Tuesday's election, 29 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, reported votes cast IN EXCESS of the number of registered voters - at least 93,136 extra votes total. And the numbers are right there on the official Cuyahoga County Board of Elections website:

Bay Village - 13,710 registered voters / 18,663 ballots cast..
Beachwood - 9,943 registered voters / 13,939 ballots cast...
Bedford - 9,942 registered voters / 14,465 ballots cast...
Bedford Heights - 8,142 registered voters / 13,512 ballots cast...
Brooklyn - 8,016 registered voters / 12,303 ballots cast ...
Brooklyn Heights - 1,144 registered voters / 1,869 ballots cast...
Chagrin Falls Village - 3,557 registered voters / 4,860 ballots cast ...
Cuyahoga Heights - 570 registered voters / 1,382 ballots cast ...
Fairview Park - 13,342 registered voters / 18,472 ballots cast ...
Highland Hills Village - 760 registered voters / 8,822 ballots cast ...
Independence - 5,735 registered voters / 6,226 ballots cast...
Mayfield Village - 2,764 registered voters / 3,145 ballots cast ...
Middleburg Heights - 12,173 registered voters / 14,854 ballots cast...
Moreland Hills Village - 2,990 registered voters / 4,616 ballots cast ...
North Olmstead - 25,794 registered voters / 25,887 ballots cast ...
Olmstead Falls - 6,538 registered voters / 7,328 ballots cast...
Pepper Pike - 5,131 registered voters / 6,479 ballots cast...
Rocky River - 16,600 registered voters / 20,070 ballots cast...
Solon (WD6) - 2,292 registered voters / 4,300 ballots cast...
South Euclid - 16,902 registered voters / 16,917 ballots cast ...
Strongsville (WD3) - 7,806 registered voters / 12,108 ballots cast ...
University Heights - 10,072 registered voters / 11,982 ballots cast ...
Valley View Village - 1,787 registered voters / 3,409 ballots cast ...
Warrensville Heights - 10,562 registered voters / 15,039 ballots cast...
Woodmere Village - 558 registered voters / 8,854 ballots cast...
Bedford (CSD) - 22,777 registered voters / 27,856 ballots cast...
Independence (LSD) - 5,735 registered voters / 6,226 ballots cast ...
Orange (CSD) - 11,640 registered voters / 22,931 ballots cast...
Warrensville (CSD) - 12,218 registered voters / 15,822 ballots cast...
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http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/BOE/results/currentresults1.htm#top is the official website of the Cuyahoga county election board, providing irrefutable evidence that the vote was off by at least 93,000. Kerry lost Ohio by approximately 130,000, so this is not an insignificant figure that can be ignored, particularly when there are numerous other indications of voter fraud in Ohio and elsewhere. I think the only possible alternative is to invalidate the entire Ohio election, if not the entire national election.

I'd say the game's up.America, it looks pretty much like you've been had.
Sincerely,
Teed Rockwell, Philosophy Dept., Sonoma State University

ZOGBY TRACKING POLLS

* flashback  November 2, 2004 | 5:51 p.m. ET
John Zogby's polling was generally considered the most accurate during the crazed 2000 election, and if he maintains that measure of reliability, you can go to sleep now.

Zogby's final tracking poll, state by state, released at 5:30 EST, suggests the prospect of a Kerry win by a margin of 311 Electoral Votes to 213, with only Colorado and Nevada too close to call (and representing just fourteen votes between them).

Oh and by the way, he has Mr. Bush winning the popular vote, narrowly - an irony of biblical proportions that one Democratic pollster rated a one-in-three chance just last week.

It should be noted Zogby is doing a lot of extrapolating.  In the two from Column A (Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania), two from Column B (Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin) states, he gives them all to Kerry.  But Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are listed as "trending Kerry" based on exit polling.  The smaller three states show Kerry up by 5-6%.

OUTRAGE IN OHIO:
ANGRY RESIDENTS STORM STATE HOUSE!
MASSIVE VOTER SUPPRESSION & CORRUPTION
- DEMOCRACY FAILURE

David Solnit
Hundreds of angry Ohio residents marched through the streets of  Columbus, Ohio's Capital, this evening and stormed the Ohio State House, defying orders and arrest threats from Ohio State Troopers.

"O-H-I-O, Suppressed Democracy Has Got To Go!" they chanted.  After troopers pushed and scuffled with people, nearly a hundred people took over the steps and entrance to the State's giant white column capital building and refused repeated orders to disperse or face arrest.

People prepared for arrests, ready to face jail, writing lawyers phone numbers on their arms, signing jail support lists and discussing NON-COOPERATION and ACTIVE RESISTANCE (linking arms, but not fighting back).

A freshly painted banner held on the steps read,
"ONE VOTE DENIED = DEMOCRACY IN TROUBLE! 
100'S OF 1000'S OF VOTES SURPRISED = DEMOCRACY FAILED".

An unprecedented massive grassroots voter registration and get out the vote effort and widespread opposition to Bush went up against the massive coordinated Republican effort to suppress, intimidate and possibly steal millions of votes.

In addition to the voter suppression and intimidation is the fact that Bush campaign co-chair Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell is in charge of the election and vote counting.

But much deeper questions about fundamental flaws in the system hang in the air.

New York Times - An article titled "Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud," presents the troubling results of a detailed study by Johns Hopkins University. "We found some stunning, stunning flawsŠ The systems.... could be tricked by anyone with $100 worth of computer equipmentŠ Ballots could be altered by anyone with access to a machine, so that a voter might think he is casting a ballot for one candidate while the vote is recorded for an opponent."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/technology/24VOTE.html

As Mike Ruppert writes in [his book]
Crossing The Rubicon"
www.fromthewilderness.com

"That profits of crime and war, which are destructive of human life, of labor, of happy, healthy neighborhoods (whether in the US or in Afghanistan, Africa and Iraq) are in effect a keystone of the global economy and a determinant of the success in a ruthless competition, is a compass needle for human civilisation.  One cannot expect to follow the recipe for roadkill stew and produce a crème brulee."

Criminals do not obey laws.  Criminals do not believe in "democracy."

Criminals do not "permit" elections.

It is foolish, then, to expend one's energies in "clean" election activities, and expect good results.  To quote one of George W. Bush many recent Freudian non-slips, "we make elections."  The 2004 presidential election was just one more "manufacture."

How John Kerry Un-Won The Presidency

How Bush-Cheney stole the 2000 election was a matter of obvious historical fact, confirmed by post-facto mainstream media reports of a Gore win, and detailed by numerous investigators such as Greg Palast in his book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy."  Voters complained about old machines and paper ballots.

Then came the "black box voting" machines.  (for detailed analysis of black box voting, read the work of Bev Harris: [www.blackboxvoting.org]

In the 2002 mid-term elections, the Republicans "shocked" Democrats by solidifying their power in Congress, using the same fraudulent methods, along with new and improved black box technology.

"The technology had a trial run in the 2002 mid-term elections.  In Georgia, serviced by new Diebold systems, a popular Democratic governor and senator were both unseated in what the media called 'amazing' upsets, with results showing vote swings of up to 16% from the last pre-ballot polls.  In computerised Minnesota, former Vice President Walter Mondale -- a replacement for popular incumbent Paul Wellstone, who died in a [suspicious] plane crash days before the vote -- was also defeated in a large last-second vote swing.  Convenient 'glitches' in Florida saw an untold number of votes intended for the Democratic candidate registering instead for Governor Jeb "L'il Brother" Bush.  A Florida Democrat who lost a similarly 'glitched' local election went to court to have the computers examined -- but the case was thrown out by a judge who ruled that the innards of America's voting machines are the 'trade secrets' of the private companies who make them."

In 2003, black box voting also helped oust Governor Gray Davis and installed Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Democratic stronghold of California.

The probability of a fix was obvious throughout the 2004 presidential campaign.  Corporate media polls continued to predominantly favour Bush, never dipping his rating below 48%, despite his trouncing in three straight debates with Kerry, and despite mushrooming war scandals.  This was in stark contrast to independent surveys that showed Kerry with commanding leads.  Kerry momentum, and massive Kerry/anti-Bush voter turnout, was evident on election day, and confirmed by exit polls with dominant Kerry numbers.

Once again, criminals do not "permit" elections.  They make them.  This time, the Bush forces had years of unencumbered time to orchestrate it, from Ohio (where its notorious secretary of state is the head of the Bush re-election campaign), and, of course, Jeb Bush's Florida.

The Triumph Of The Bush Machines
But there is one overriding fact that has been left out most of the ridiculous post-election punditry that renders all other analyses completely irrelevant.  It is also the reason why the smiles on the faces of Bush crime family members are so bright, as they watched the returns on election night.

Air America Radio's Mike Malloy gave the most succinct and passionate explanation on Wednesday, November 3, 2004.www.mikemalloy.com]

"The American vote count is controlled by three major corporate players, Diebold, ESS, Sequoia, and a fourth, SAIC, Science Applications International.  All four are hard-wired into the Bush power structure, the Bush crime family."

They have been given millions of dollars by the Bush regime to complete a sweeping computerisation of voting machines that were just used in the 2004 election. The technology involved had a trial run during the 2002 mid-term elections.  Georgia had Diebold machines in every precinct.  As a result, a popular Democratic governor and senator were both in an "amazing" 16% swing.

Diebold's Walden O'Dell, a top Bush fundraiser, publicly committed himself to delivering his home state Ohio's votes to Bush.  At Diebold, the election division is run by Bob Urosevich.  Bob's brother, Todd, is a top executive at "rival" ES&S.  The brothers were originally staked by Howard Ahmanson, a member of the Council For National Policy, a right-wing steering group stacked with Bush true believers.  Ahmanson is also one of the bagmen behind the extremist Christian Reconstruction Movement, which advocates the theocratic takeover of American democracy.

The 4 companies are interconnected; they are not "competitors."  Ahmanson has large stakes in ES&S, whose former CEO was Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.  When Hagel ran for office, his own company counted the votes, and his victory was considered "an amazing upset."  Hagel still has a million dollar stake in ES&S.

Sequoia is the corporate parent of a private equity firm, Madison Dearborn, which is partner in the Carlyle Group.
http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html Meanwhile, SAIC is referred to a "shadowy defense contractor."  They got into the vote count game both directly and through spinoffs by its top brass, including Admiral Bill Owens, former military aide to Dick Cheney, and Carlyle Group honcho Frank Carlucci and ex-CIA chief Robert Gates.  SAIC's history of fraud charges and security "lapses" haven't prevented it from becoming one of the largest Pentagon and CIA contractors, and will doubtless encounter few obstacles in its entrance into the vote counting business.

The mad rush to install these unverifiable computers is driven by the Help America Vote Act, signed by Bush!  The chief lobbying group pushing for the act (while we dumb asses sat out here and thought, 'That sounds like a good idea!') was a consortium of arms dealers including Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin.

When you hear people saying, 'take a deep breath, we will pull through this,' 'we need to work harder,' 'we need to organise' -- no.  We will not.  It's over.

Unless electronic vote tabulation is history, and these companies are driven out of business, it's their country.  Not ours.

Larry Chin, Online Journal Associate Editor.
http://onlinejournal.com/evoting/110504Chin/11-05-04_Chin.pdf

Nader/Camejo Challenge Electronic
Voting Results in New Hampshire


November 5, 2004
To The Secretary of State of New Hampshire:

The Nader/Camejo campaign requests a hand recount of the ballots in the presidential election in New Hampshire.  Numerous voting rights activists have requested that we seek a recount of this vote.

We have received reports of irregularities in the vote reported on the AccuVote Diebold Machines in comparison to exit polls and trends in voting in New Hampshire.  These irregularities favor President George W. Bush by 5% to15% over what was expected.  Problems in these electronic voting machines and optical scanners are being reported in machines in a variety of states.

We are requesting that the state undertake this recount or a statistically significant sample audit of these vote counts.

We would like to make sure every vote counts and is counted accurately.

Sincerely,

Ralph Nader.
http://www.votenader.org/media_press/index.php?cid=400 up!

The Zogby Polls, which usually are pretty accurate, had Kerry winning a clear majority, not just a plurality, and sweeping the Electoral College.  Exit polls, which are even more accurate, had Kerry winning going away, especially in the key "Battleground States" of Ohio and Florida, both of which inexplicably ended up in Bush's column at the end.

I noticed that, for once, none of the network anchors really discussed either type of poll, though CNN has been accused of jiggering its report of exit poll results.  In an excuse switch reminiscent of Iraq being blamed for possessing weapons of mass destruction, suddenly the blame for the voting-booth conversion to Bush is being placed upon the desire of the common man to stamp out homosexual marriage.  As comedienne Judy Tenuta likes to say: "It could happen!"  Yeah...right.

Dick Morris, ex Clinton political consultant, wrote an article for The Hill, read by a great many Washington insiders, in which he said, "This was no mere mistake.  Exit polls cannot be as wrong across the board as they were on election night."

It seems clear to me that Bush didn't win fairly.  I think Kerry actually won the election and allowed Bush to steal it.  In retrospect, it appears to me that Al Gore did the same thing, albeit less abjectly.  But, this time Bush got caught with his hand in the ballot box.  I've just had a heel-of-the-hand- thumping-forehead "aha" experience.  How could I, of all people, have missed something so obvious? 

Yes, I have noted rampant vote fraud in the past and expected it this time, as well.  I have witnessed it first hand at the local level.  I have read many credible reports from others at all levels, concerning past vote fraud.  Yet, I did not believe it was so blatant... so massive as what obviously just occurred.  How could I possibly expect others to see it now if I didn't see it coming?  How could I be so...dumb? 

Now comes the hard part:  How do we make clear that free elections in America were a thing of the past as long as 4 years ago?

Expect the upcoming mid-term election in 2002 to produce more of the same miraculous Republican victories and give Bush the 60-Republican Senate edge that he needs to advance any legislation without danger of Democrat filibuster.

The smell left over from Election Day is bad enough, all by itself, but there is evidence, lots of evidence, of vote fraud on a scale not seen since the heydays of Communist Russia.

How on earth did despicable Democrat Tom Daschle get beaten?  Mind you, the only Senators I would be more pleased to see go are Hillary, Feinstein and the execrable Charles Schumer, but it seems extremely unlikely that Daschle's constituents would have voted him out of office in a fair election.  Is it just coincidence that Daschle has been a particularly nettlesome thorn in George W. Bush's side for the past four years?

The problems in Ohio on election day are starkly outlined by attorney Ray Beckerman in his Basic Report from Columbus: "Touch screen voting machines in Youngstown OH were registering "George W. Bush" when people pressed "John F. Kerry" ALL DAY LONG."  One precinct in suburban Columbus reported that nearly 4,000 votes were "accidentally" credited to Bush.  Mr. Beckerman also reports that lines in predominantly-Democratic precincts were 5-10 hours in length, versus near nonexistent in Republican strongholds, for the simple reason that precincts expected to line up in the Republican column had 5 times as many voting machines as others. 

Beckerman outlines a number of other irregularities in one of this election's two key "battleground" states, the one that gave the election to Bush, just as Florida did 4 years ago with a healthy assist from the US Supreme Court.  Is all of this simply coincidental in an election where the disputed votes decided the outcome?

The other key battleground state, Florida, reported similar problems:  "Several dozen voters in six states - particularly Democrats in Florida - who said the wrong candidates appeared on their touch-screen machine's checkout screen... In many cases, voters said they intended to select John Kerry but when the computer asked them to verify the choice it showed them instead opting for President Bush..." (Globe and Mail, 11/3/04).  More coincidence?

But, the machines don't have to be obviously in error to be rigged.  Ronnie Dugger, in How They Could Steal the Election This Time, several months ago described the November 2004 election machinery:  "36 million (votes) will be tabulated completely inside the new paperless, direct-recording-electronic (DRE) voting systems, on which you vote directly on a touch-screen... you get no paper record of your vote... you never know, despite what the touch-screen says, whether the computer is counting your vote as you think you are casting it or, either by error or fraud, it is giving it to another candidate.  No one can tell what a computer does inside itself by looking at it; an election official 'can't watch the bits inside,' says Dr. Peter Neumann, the principal scientist at the Computer Science Laboratory of SRI International and a world authority on computer-based risks...  "The 4 major election corporations count votes with voting-system source codes (which) are kept strictly secret..."

Even if they aren't obviously in error or secretly rigged, these new machines can still have their tabulations changed, with nobody the wiser.  One of my favorite Internet columnists, Devvy Kidd, two weeks ago predicted "monstrous problems that will make Florida 2000 pale in comparison."   Quoting from the December 1996 issue of Cincinnatus News Service, a vote fraud newsletter, Devvy went on to note, "The missing link in the vote fraud investigation has been found.  The November 1996 issue of Relevance Magazine reveals that two-way hidden modems are being built into the ever growing number of computerized optical scanner/direct recording voting machines in use all across the country from New England to California... these hidden modems are accessible by remote cell phone technology... these voting machines can be accessed and manipulated from a central super computer without a phone line connected to the wall, and without the local precinct workers knowing that anything is happening at all."  I wonder why Dan Rather didn't tell us about this?

Diebold, Inc., is one of the country's biggest suppliers of paperless, touch-screen voting machines.  Diebold's CEO, Walter O'Dell, wrote a letter four months ago soliciting major-league campaign contributions for Bush, in which he said, "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."   Diebold is based in Canton, Ohio.  Coincidence?

Convinced yet?  I am.

This election was a foregone conclusion, as some noted beforehand.  Greg Palast, Harper's editor who investigated American vote fraud on behalf of the BBC, reported on November 1 that upwards of one million votes, expected to be cast overwhelmingly for Kerry, would not be counted "because, in important states like Ohio, Florida and New Mexico, voter names have been systematically removed from the rolls and absentee ballots have been overlooked - overwhelmingly in minority areas..." 
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* flashback  November 2, 2004 | 5:51 p.m. ET
John Zogby's polling was generally considered the most accurate during the crazed 2000 election, and if he maintains that measure of reliability, you can go to sleep now.

Zogby's final tracking poll, state by state, released at 5:30 EST, suggests the prospect of a Kerry win by a margin of 311 Electoral Votes to 213, with only Colorado and Nevada too close to call (and representing just fourteen votes between them).

Oh and by the way, he has Mr. Bush winning the popular vote, narrowly - an irony of biblical proportions that one Democratic pollster rated a one-in-three chance just last week.

It should be noted Zogby is doing a lot of extrapolating.  In the two from Column A (Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania), two from Column B (Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin) states, he gives them all to Kerry.  But Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are listed as "trending Kerry" based on exit polling.  The smaller three states show Kerry up by 5-6%.
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Notes from the Trail ...


Can We Laugh Yet?
by Steve Bhaerman aka SwamiBeyondananda

NO!   It's still not funny. 

Even though Swami Beyondananda told us right away the election results could be blamed on "voting irregularities" (constipated people went for the current regime at a rate of 2-1), and even though he has proposed an official change in the Democrats' theme song from "It's My Party, and I'll Cry If I Want To" to "I Concede Clearly Now," it's still not funny.   Even though we hear from reputable reporters like Greg Palast and Thom Hartmann that there was likely some funny business around voting machines and vote counting, it's still not funny.

When my friend Rita Abrams sent me an email about a sad song she was writing, "I'm In a Blue State," I smiled, but only briefly.  The best way to sum up my state of heart this past week is the way I felt the day Martin Luther King was assassinated.  I was in my first year as a teacher in Washington, D.C. at the time, and I came home to hear the tragic and disheartening news.  That night I went out with two older teacher friends who had been part of Freedom Summer in 1964 and got good and drunk.

This time I did nothing to alter the sobering state I - and the country - was in.  Those folks who went to Ohio and all of the other swing states this season to try register Democrats and swing the swing vote, they were the Freedom Riders 40 years later. 

Those folks in '64 didn't fail, they succeeded.  And we will too.  But the death of Martin Luther King was a serious setback, as is Bush's self-declared "mandate" (hey, I thought he opposed homosexual liaisons).  But as the Swami tells us, now is not the time for despair.  We've got 4 years to look forward to, so let's save some of our despair for when we really need it.
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>> The evidence is clear, but those who will attend to it will be few, as the implications are too much for most people to contemplate.
Yes this is very intense. The rigged voting machines from 2000 ... interesting ... there was no question of their validity in mainstream media that i saw.
Basically the election coverage i saw was of how it was a close call, the various tactics of the election campaigns, and interviews with concerned international leaders and 'real' americans.

OH GOD. it was all a farce. talky talk about this and that, be concerned about that, go for it girls and boys, we own the paperless voting machines!

WOW. if only the entire world had demonstrated against those paperless voting machines.  if nothing else, and indeed to focus on getting rid of those