JANUARY, 2005 LINKS and

NOVEMBER & DECEMBER, 2004 STOLEN ELECTION LINKS

(ARCHIVES)

If we Don’t defend democracy NOW, we won’t have to bother to defend it next election because it would already be too late.

 BEST HARD EVIDENCE SEEMS TO BE THESE LINKS

**Obvious Florida Vote Fraud - MUST SEE! - Data Charts comparing voter registration to 'actual' votes in Florida counties

**Vote Count in Florida altered on easily manipulated Optical Scan Machines - The obvious is here, also some Ohio Voting data

**Exit polls compared to actual results with Machine Tallies using Paper ballots vs Electronic Touch Screens

**Very big discrepancies in Florida Vote Totals - Compare the Electronic Machine Totals with counties that used easily changed Optical Scans

**Data for Florida 'Ballot Scanned' Counties - Very useful and revealing data in this chart, Nov. 10, Election Results based on Party Registration

**The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy - See the recent PDF file by Professor Stephen F. Freeman thoroughly analyzing data from the exit polls

**Understanding the Florida election results - Nov. 17 Weblog posting, Has over a dozen graphs illustrating the Voting patterns in Florida

*Why Did CNN Change Their Exit Poll Data for Ohio After 1:00 AM? - Two very revealing Red/Blue graphs copied from CNN at 1:05 AM & 6:41 AM

*Election Fraud Updates - Nov. 13, Story links updated daily, also see Graphs for "Lucas County Glitch" & Fishy Third Party Numbers in Minn.

*The 3893 extra Bush votes in one Ohio precinct - Nov. 13 post on DU by a graduate in computer science, the programming mistake that may have caused it

Bias in Florida Optiscan Vote vs Touch Screen Votes - Two newer graphs in PDF form to illustrate data from Florida Voting

Fraud Looks Probable - Vote Totals do not match Exit Polls where Electronic Voting Machines were used, Nov. 3, DU Underground

Cuyahoga County Precincts - Showing all precincts, Ballots Cast compared to Registered Voters, 30 are above 100% !

Graph of the 2004 Presidential Election Analysis, Florida by County By Voting Machine Type - Good analysis of some recent data

Voting & Party Registration in Florida - Very revealing alphabetical table showing the % Difference in Votes and Registration

eRiposte Election 2004 - Very good links here, also a good graph not seen elsewhere, Halfway down, Florida Election Results

Exit Polls vs Final Results - Comparing States With and Without Voter Paper Trails, Graphs show Only Bush's Counts Improved, on BradBlog Nov. 6

Exit Polls vs Machine Tally - The graphs that started a lot of analyses, Medium size and printable

An examination of the Florida Elections - Nov. 7 by Brandon Evans, Some New Graphs here & more info, statistics

Florida's Amazing Election 1 - Graphs showing the difference between the number of Registered Voters & Actual Voters on TOUCH SCREENS

Florida 2 - Graphs by Fla. county (A to H) showing the difference between the number of Registered Voters & Actual Voters on OPTICAL SCANNERS

Florida 3 - Graphs by Fla. county (J to W) showing the difference between the number of Registered Voters & Actual Voters on OPTICAL SCANNERS

Election Fraud Section - Features the complete GRAPH that shows the Exit Polls vs the actual votes in Florida, Many Links to Resources Here

 THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMENTARIES & EVIDENCE

****The Controversial SMOKING GUN Letter - Nov. 14, Jeff Fisher for Congress Website, WE BELIEVE WE HAVE THE SMOKING GUN OF THIS VOTER FRAUD
SCANDAL AND IT ALL POINTS BACK TO FLORIDA 2000 AND NOW 2004 . WE KNOW WHO DID IT, HOW THEY DID IT AND WHERE IT WAS STARTED FROM.

Jeff has specific evidence of a widespread vote fraud perpetrated through a Juvenile Detention / Rehab facility called Bay Point Schools In South Miami,
with connections to Mel Sembler and possibly Joe Klock, attorney to Katherine Harris.

These connections lead directly to Jeb Bush and of course the White House. By using Juvenile Detention & Drug Rehab facilities and under the guise of criminal
computer retraining, we believe Sembler has financed a well tested vote fraud scheme to assure his cronies Jeb & George Bush, among others, guaranteed elections.

Specific evidence includes copies of internal memo's and emails as well as testimony of the MIS Director of one Florida facility where much of the hacking was
perpetrated. The work was replicated and limited to one location to avoid easy detection.

By internally tampering with Diebold Optical Scanners as well as Diebold Electronic E voting machines, the hacking, (done from remote locations under the control
of Mel Stembler's facilities) , votes were altered, switched , deleted or destroyed in numerous Florida, Ohio and New Mexico counties and then switched
from John Kerry to George Bush.

It is very likely that other races have been effected as well such as Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina , etc.
WHERE POLL DIVERGENCES WERE NOTED IN RECENT POST ELECTION STUDIES.

***How to Hack the Vote: the Short Version - Nov. 17, Detailed article by a professional Computer Expert, includes graphs and actual instructions

**Let's Get Real - Nov. 16, Bush & company’s theft of the election was a crime so obvious that it requires more effort to deny than to affirm.

To let ourselves believe that the “election” was legitimate because this claim or that has been disproved (apparently) is to not honor reason. On the contrary,
a veritable sea of evidence, statistical as well as anecdotal and circumstantial, supports the claim that Bush, again, was not elected by the people.

To nod agreement that this was indeed an honest win is to forget how Bush was shoehorned into office in the first place; to ignore the ease with which electronic
totals can be changed without a trace; to suppress the fact that Diebold, Sequoia and ES&S—the major manufacturers of touch screen voting machines and central
tabulators—are owned and run by Bush Republicans, who have made no secret of their partisan intentions; to deny the value of the exit polls, which turn out to
have been “mistaken” only in the swing states; to downplay the weird inflation of the Bush vote in county after county, where the number of votes for president
was somehow higher than the number of voters who turned out; to ignore the bald chicanery of the Bush supporters who ran the central polling station in Ohio’s
Warren County and forced out the press and poll monitors so they could count the vote in secret; to forget the numerous accounts of vote fraud coast to coast
throughout the prior weeks of early voting; to overlook the fact that every single “glitch” or “error” that has been reported favors Bush; to ignore the countless
instances of ballots—absentee, provisional—thrown away or left uncounted; to forget that the civilian vote abroad (some four million Americans) was being
mishandled by the Pentagon (which had somehow become responsible for doing the State Department’s job); and to ignore the many dirty tricks reported—the
polling places quickly relocated at the last minute, the fake voter-registration drives, the thousands of Americans who found themselves not on the rolls, the
police road-blocks, the bullying pro-Bush poll workers, the machines that kept translating votes for Kerry into votes for Bush. And so on.


**Was It Hacked? - Nov. 18, Good overview of the situation, what has led up to this, in Orlando Weekly, Message Board

Despite mainstream media attempts to kill the story, talk radio and the Internet are abuzz with suggestions that John Kerry was elected president on Nov. 2 –
but Republican election officials made it difficult for millions of Democrats to vote while employees of four secretive, GOP-bankrolled corporations rigged
electronic voting machines and then hacked central tabulating computers to steal the election for George W. Bush.

The Bush administration's "fix" of the 2000 election debacle (the Help America Vote Act) made crooked elections considerably easier, by foisting paperless
electronic voting on states before the bugs had been worked out or meaningful safeguards could be installed.

Crying foul this time around isn't just the province of whiny Democrats. Consider that The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that "Verified Voting, a group
formed by a Stanford University professor to assess electronic voting, has collected 31,000 reports of election fraud and other problems."

**The stolen election of 2004: welcome back to hell - Nov. 5, How the Bush Election Machines were fraudulently manipulated in 2002 & 2004

*Kerry Won Ohio, Just Count the Ballots at the Back of the Bus - Nov. 12, How ballots were thrown away by Republicans, trashing "spoiled" ballots

*Kerry Won - It's my job to tell you who got the most votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was John Kerry.

***Computers Threw the Vote to Bush - Nov. 9 Letter to Bartcop.com, COMPLETELY lays out the facts behind the Stolen Election & rigged voting machines

*Another Rigged Election? - Nov. 9 Commentary on Buzzflash, Very good overview of what just occurred

*Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies - Nov. 9, Lot of good updated information and numbers/statistics HERE

*Stolen Election. America Hijacked. - Excellent commentary on buzzflash.com by Chuck Muziani, Reasons for Falluja offensive

*"SenderBerl is going to give you an important and grave responsibility. We are going to beg you to contact every Senator, Congressmen
(in the hope that some honest ones remain), every newspaper, every Internet site, and anyone else you deem relevant to tell them how
to prove the election fraud." (Excellent compilation of the HARD EVIDENCE) Read to CNN Red, White, Blue graphics halfway down page

A Stolen Nation - Excellent detailed summary, from the easily manipulated Voting Machines to who comes up with the numbers (TV Networks)

The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy - Privatizing the Vote Counters, Nov. 4 article on Commondreams.com by Thomas Hartmann

Florida Numbers compared to 2000 numbers - Something is wrong! Detailed analysis by Daily Kos Weblog on Nov. 3

Election Was Rigged and Stolen! - Where is the Outrage? When Will the Biggest Demonstrations in US History Happen? by Rob Kall

Exit polls and 'actual' results don't match, Evoting states show greater discrepancy - Nov. 3 article on Blue Lemur, one of the first postings

PROTESTS IN AMERICA AGAINST THE STOLEN ELECTION OF 2004

Protests Against Stolen Election Planned Across the Nation - Four pages of events scheduled, Details, By United for Peace & Justice

Twelve Students in NY Arrested in Protest Against Fraudulent Bush Win - Nov. 3 story on Newsday.com

Portland Protests Stolen Election - More than 100 protestors were met by police, Nov. 4 story in Seattle Times

San Francisco Marchers protest war, fraudulent election - Nov. 4 story from SFGate.com, about 2000 people marched

Students Rally in Copley, Massachusetts - They claim Bush Stole the Election, voiced other concerns

Protests Against the Stolen Election - Some Photos of the protests that are starting now are HERE

Beyond Voting Protests in over 30 cities - Democracy not Empire - Because Getting Rid of Bush is Only the Beginning!

Students at Colorado High School Protest Bush Fraud - 85 students camped out in the school library, Nov. 5, Yahoo! News

Outrage in Ohio: Angry residents storm State House in response to massive voter suppression and corruption - Nov. 5 on Michigan IMC

Hundreds March in Seattle In Anti-Bush And Anti-War Protest - Short Nov. 6 article with details and a photo

Election stolen, group suspects - Gathering of about 60 like-minded people at the University of Wisconsin for a "No Stolen Elections" meeting

Police Arrest 4 War Protestors - About 1000 protestors gathered in Los Angeles, Hollywood to rally against Bush's re-selection, 4 arrested

Quicktime Video of tanks at a Los Angeles antiwar protest November 9

JANUARY 10, 2005 LINKS

What Happened in Ohio - Jan. 10 by William Raspberry

Well, I don't want to overturn the election, either. But I would like to know if public officials and private citizens engaged in a significant and concerted effort
to steal the election in the event the wrong person seemed to be winning it. And if so, I'd like to know who the miscreants were, what they did and what heads
are going to roll.

Because if all we get are a few hearings and empty promises, it's a safe bet it'll happen again.


Many Americans Refuse to Concede 'Stolen Election' - Jan. 9 on Common Dreams

"The people of progressive politics who are despairing should remember what happened to Nixon after he was re-elected in the midst of Watergate," he said.
"We must make sure the crimes of this election are not lost in their impact. Bush can't steal an election and walk away without consequences."
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Even as Bush prepares for his inauguration, Sheri Myers said she will galvanize her protest by linking up with activists in other major cities and bringing them
to Washington.

"Nobody's giving up," she said. "Thousands of people are gonna come to Washington by the busload, because now we know how to do it. Nothing is stopping us.
These buses are gonna roll."


'Ballot king' was paid by Dyer, other politicians, lawyer says - Jan. 8 in South Florida Sun-Sentinel

The lawyer for Orlando's "ballot king" said Friday that his client was paid by Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and a who's who of Central Florida politicians to
gather absentee votes, an allegation that if true means they may have broken the law.

JANUARY 9, 2005 LINKS

The Washington Generals - Jan. 7 Commentary by Bryan Zepp Jamieson

The Democrats know the GOP stole the 2000 election, and they seem to have concluded that if they just agreed to GOP demands to eliminate the paper trail,
the GOP wouldn't steal the 2004 election. Idiots.

After a long and determined effort to get one senator, just one, to object to the certification of the electoral college vote based on the wide spread failures and
irregularities in the Ohio vote, a total of one – count ‘em, one – Democrat did so. Credit where credit is due: Barbara Boxer has more courage than the rest of the
Democrats in the Senate combined, and more character than the whole sorry lot in the Senate, even if you don’t bring down the curve by counting Dick Cheney.
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We have apparently moved on to the point where the "Will of the People can fall asleep and into corruption, crime, torture and downright evil."

I don’t know about the "Will of the People" but the Democratic Party sure has slid into the role of Pancho Sanchez with nary a wince. One hundred thousand
dead in Iraq, including nearly a thousand US troops (at the time), and the Democrats KNOW that Putsch lied about why we went to Iraq, lied about why we’re
still there, and is lying about just about everything else under the sun. The man is a pathological liar, supported by a cold and vicious pack of neo-fascists who
are contemptuous of Democracy, America, and Americans.
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Does anyone believe for one instant that this widely despised clown really won the election fair and square just two months ago? Sure, the economy has the
blind staggers, Putsch is promoting economic policies designed to cheat working people, and Iraq is a hideous mess. But that was all true back on the day of
the election. Nothing has changed.
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In the meantime, unless there is major reform of the election process, including adoption of the Oregon plan and Clean Campaign reform, don’t expect me to
discuss the coming campaigns. I won’t cover them for the same reason I don’t cover pro wrestling matches. It’s why bookies didn’t accept bets on how the Soviet
elections would go. American elections will be as much a sham and a farce as the Iraqi elections that Putsch is promoting in the face of all reason and sanity.


Thank Boxer, Tubbs Jones, Conyers and Others for Their Efforts - Jan. 7 Buzzflash News Alert

You can thank Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones by visiting their web sites.

We should also thank Rep. John Conyers, Jr. for his tireless efforts to bring the 2004 voting problems to light and thoroughly exposing Ohio Sec. of State Ken
Blackwell as the catalyst of the major voting problems in that state.

If you're still in the thanking mood, below are the 31 Congressmen and women who voted to support the objection by Rep. Tubbs Jones. Let them know their
efforts will not be forgotten.


In the Clearing Stands a Boxer...a letter from Michael Moore - Jan. 7

Congratulations to the tens of thousands of you who called, faxed, and e-mailed Barbara Boxer and other senators. You have shown the world, with the strength
of your convictions, that the movement toward a truly representative democracy will not be stopped in its tracks.

In Defeat, a Victory? - Jan. 7

As only the second time since 1877 that Congress has been forced to consider such a challenge, the protest did more than stall certification of the Electoral College
vote. It also marked Jan. 6, 2005, as a historic day. "We've breached the silence that has always prevented us from employing this statute," said Rep. John Conyers.

Electoral Vote Challenge Meets Venomous Response in Congress - Jan. 7

In special sessions of both chambers of Congress Thursday, Republican lawmakers met a handful of Democratic colleagues with vitriolic diatribes when the latter
raised concerns about electoral irregularities that took place during Ohio’s controversial November 2 election process.

JANUARY 7 & 8, 2005 LINKS

A Triumph of Grassroots Activism Against Dire and Unspeakable Odds - Jan. 6 The 'Boxer Rebellion' of January 6, 2005

Nor did Congressional Democrats cooperate with Republicans' plans for a devastating counter-protest against the evils of federalized voting standards. While
Republicans had carefully organized their canned, pre-written oratories to coincide with anticipated claims from progressives that George W. Bush had stolen the
November presidential election, and/or had personally masterminded a nationwide electronic-fraud conspiracy to siphon votes from his more articulate and
intelligent Democratic rival, in the final accounting only one or two Democrats alleged that election fraud had occurred on November 2nd, 2004, and that John F.
Kerry was therefore the nation's rightful President.

JANUARY 6, 2005 LINKS

Arnebeck letter to Congress re Presidential Electoral Challenge - Jan. 6 on Columbus, Ohio Free Press

Today, you are being asked to certify the reported votes of the Electoral College even though the status of the Ohio electors is still the subject of the meritorious
election contest. You are being asked to do so on the basis of one or more of the following three fallacies:

1) The faith-based neocon fallacy that vote counts do not have to be independently verified.

2) The fallacy that Karl Rove is a nice guy/clean campaigner, and those who suspect otherwise with respect to this election which Bush was expected to lose,
are conspiracy theorists.

3) The rule of power fallacy which exempts those in power from the rule of law and the rules of evidence.

A consortium of news organizations took the initiative to count all the Florida votes after the inauguration of George W. Bush. Thus, history now records the fact
that Albert Gore actually won the Florida popular vote had all votes been properly counted.

Based upon the evidence, uncontroverted by any sworn testimony whatsoever, if the Ohio litigation challenging the Ohio presidential vote is allowed to proceed,
it will promptly establish as a matter of fact that John Kerry won Ohio and Presidency.


Thursday, January 6th, 2005: A Moment of Hope For The Entire World! - Jan. 6 on contestthevote.org, Two Excellent News Articles and Commentaries

Today the people of the United States stood up against arrogance and fear...and both buckled. At the urging of tens of thousands of concerned citizens, California
Senator Barbara Boxer joined the House challenge of the Ohio Electoral College vote. The result was the televised broadcast of dozens of charges of voter fraud
to millions of watching Americans. Everyone could observe for themselves the attitude of denial taken by Republican representatives who were obviously
unprepared to say anything of substance, much like their President.

List of House Members who voted 'Yea' - Jan. 6 on the new Will Pitt weblog

Senator Barbara Boxer's Statement On Her Objection To The Certification Of Ohio's Electoral Votes - Jan. 6 on buzzflash

Every citizen of this country who is registered to vote should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth of their
community, their vote has as much weight as the vote of any Senator, Congressperson, President, cabinet member, or CEO of any Fortune 500 Corporation.

Over 200 in DC Protest & Congressional Protest - Jan. 6 on Yahoo! News

About 200 protesters near the White House, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson (news - web sites), beat drums and urged Congress not to certify the results because
they said unreliable voting machines and partisan election officials had tilted the closely fought swing state of Ohio to Bush.

Democrat Lays Out Case Against Bush's Ohio Win - Jan. 5

"We have found numerous, serious election irregularities in the Ohio presidential election," the report said. "There are ample grounds for challenging the electors
from the state of Ohio."

Rally in Palo Alto protests election results - Jan. 5, Three photos here also

The group was protesting alleged voting irregularities during the election because a recount was not possible from electronic voting machines used in some
states, especially Ohio, where the vote was extremely close.

“It’s not an election if you can’t count the votes,” read one of several large banners carried by the protesters.

Un-Auguration Parade in Washington, DC, Jan. 20th - Organized by Citizens for Legitimate Government, Maps, Ride Board, Legal, Info, News

Take Back The Presidency.com - Updated November 2002, Info on the 2000 Election Theft, Truth of the Criminal Bush Regime as it Destroys Democracy again

JANUARY 5, 2005 LINKS

Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt, Bush Did Not Win The Ohio or National Vote - Jan. 5 Press Conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D. C.

WHAT: . Exit polls did not match the reported vote in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and 7 of 8 other key battleground states
. Voting machines with secret software owned by private, partisan companies subject to manipulation and which deprived citizens of their right to fair and
transparent elections
. Uncounted and provisional ballots negatively and disproportionately affected African American voters
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There is clear and compelling evidence that the election was stolen. By examining a very wide range of sworn testimonies from voters, polling officials and others
close to the administration of the Nov. 2 election; by statistical analysis of the certified vote by mathematicians, election experts and independent research teams
who have conducted detailed studies of the results in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere; from experts who studied the voting machines, tabulators and
other electronic equipment on which a fair vote count has depended; and from a team of attorneys and others who have challenged the Ohio results; the
freepress.org investigative team has compiled a portrait of an election whose true outcome must be investigated further by the Congress, the media and all
Americans -- because it was almost certainly not an honest victory for George W. Bush.

Crucial flaws in the national vote count, most importantly in the national popular vote, and in Ohio and Florida indicate John Kerry was the actual winner on
November 2, as reported in national exit polls. At the very least, the widespread tampering with how the election was conducted, and how Ohio's votes were
counted and re-counted, has compromised this nation's historic commitment to free and fair elections.


The Crime of November 2: How Bush stole Ohio (Part 2 of 2) - Jan. 5 on Columbus Free Press web site, by Fritakis, Rosenfeld, and Wasserman
( The article also lists the 45 most disturbing Election Day Problems )

A far-ranging catalog of 2004 election abuses has been published over the months at www.freepress.org, and is available for reference there and at other web
sites. It's a deeply disturbing indicator of a declining democracy that precious few mainstream media have covered even the fact that there is controversy over
this election, let alone the substance of the record that defines it as perhaps the most corrupt in our history.

In breaking news, the freepress.org team now has in its possession an official Franklin County Board of Election document entitled "Machine Assignments for
General Election 2004" showing the serial numbers of 76 machines, all in Democrat-rich Columbus, that were blacked out and kept in the warehouse or on trucks
during the election, while thousands of inner city voters stood in the rain. Conversely, none of the machines designated for Republican-dominated suburbs were
blacked out on the list and held back.

In our previous piece, we presented what we found to be ten of the largest vote-counting irregularities in the conduct of Ohio's election. Embodied in those ten
irregularities are more than enough votes to have shifted the Ohio tally from George W. Bush to John Kerry.
 

Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio - Jan. 5 Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff, Complete PDF Report available

Dissent to mar Bush election validation - Jan. 5     ( Congress meets about 1 p.m. on Thursday, January 6 )

Mr. Conyers, Mr. Jackson and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Ohio Democrat, are leading the House charge and say that three senators are considering joining
forces to contest the results, Roll Call reported this week.

'No Stolen Elections!' Delivers Petitions to Feingold - Jan. 5

A delegation from the local coalition No Stolen Elections! will deliver more than 800 letter petitions to U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold's Middleton office today, asking
him to take a stand against alleged election fraud.

Organizers said they are focusing on Feingold because of his votes against the Patriot Act and against the war.

JANUARY 4, 2005 LINKS

Dialing In For Democracy - Now Is Critical - Jan. 3 by Thom Hartmann

In nearly every case now documented, producing odds not of 50:50 but, according to credible statisticians, sometimes rising to 1:250,000,000, "irregularities" seem always to favor George W. Bush or other Republican candidates. These include:

machine errors

misplaced machines

unmailed absentee ballots

certification of more votes than registered voters in some areas, and dramatically low voter turnouts in other areas

modem-connected voting machines and tabulators

different standards for provisional ballot recounts in different areas

phony companies registering voters and then tearing up the registrations of people who checked one party but not the other

voting machines defaulting to a particular candidate or 'jumping' by recording a vote for one candidate when another's button was pushed

exit polls not corresponding with reported votes

voting elections officials creating what look like phony election machine poll tapes and tossing original, signed tabulations in the garbage.
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George W. Bush was made President of the United States in 2000 by fraud, and apparently has done it again.

And now, in 2004, we are again visited by a Stalinesque fusion of cronies funding and controlling the election apparatus, national media intimidated into silence,
and a populace so preoccupied with daily survival concerns - and uneasy about being identified as "troublemakers" by a new, highly centralized state security
apparatus - that they don't have the means or time to react.

Yet react we must.
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Electors have already met in the various states to vote, but that vote will not be opened until Thursday, January 6th. If Conyers' protest is matched by the protest
of at least one single senator, then the House and Senate retire to their respective chambers for a maximum of two hours to debate the legitimacy of the Ohio
(and, possibly, other) electoral slates. After two hours, with a maximum of 5 minutes for any member to speak, a vote is taken. If both the House and the Senate
vote by majority to sustain the challenge, then the presidential vote goes to the House of Representatives, where each state has a single vote.

Perhaps the most important step you can take today is to call your two senators at 1-202-224-3121 or 1-800-839-5276 and ask them to join Conyers in his protest
of the Ohio electors.

Make your call now. It's one of the last ways we can still reach our elected representatives without a Republican corporation in the middle.


House Democrats to Contest Electoral Vote Count - Jan. 4

A handful of House Democrats plan a long-shot effort to snarl President Bush formal re-election by preventing Congress from counting Ohio's pivotal votes
when lawmakers tally the electoral vote on Thursday.

Senators should object to Ohio vote - Jan. 4 by Jesse Jackson

If any senator joins him, the counting of the vote is suspended and the House and the Senate must convene separately to hear the objections filed, and to vote
on whether to accept them.

The grounds for the objections are clear: The irregularities in the Ohio vote and vote count are widespread and blatant.

Is There One Senator Who Will Stand Up for Black Voters? - Jan. 3 by Dave Lindorff on Counterpunch

Under the Constitution, it requires only one representative and one senator to initiate a challenge, which would then mandate an official inquiry into the state's
election, and delay certification of the national presidential election results.

David Lytel announced that Senator Barbara Boxer is on board for the January 6 challenge to the election - Jan. 3 post on DU


U.S. voters should protest fraud in presidential election - Jan. 4 Short Opinion

When machine providers won't share their programming code, no paper trail exists, election officials jerk around people trying to vote, unauthorized people have
access to the machines during the recount, election officials violate laws to deny investigators access to voters' rolls and the vote-counting environment and use unauthorized methods in recounts, and the official results differ from exit polls --- little trust in the fairness of the system should exist.

Ohio Republican Secretary of State brags about delivering Ohio for Bush in gubernatorial fundraising letter - Jan. 4, On Blue Lemur, Also read actual letter

More Trials and Tribulations for Ohio - Jan. 3

After the election, local political activists seeking a recount analyzed how Franklin County officials distributed voting machines. They found that 27 of the 30 wards
with the most machines per registered voter showed majorities for Bush. At the other end of the spectrum, six of the seven wards with the fewest machines delivered
large margins for Kerry. Voters in most Democratic wards experienced five-hour waits, and turnout was lower than expected"

Get Over It, Winners - Jan. 4 on Oped News

True, the “mainstream liberal media” has reported a successful recount in favor of Bush to definitively quell the troubled aftershocks pulsing through enfeebled, conspiratorial minds. What is more important, however, is what they are not reporting—the titanic struggle between Ohio’s Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell
(R) and a heroic force of democracy, Rep. John Conyers (D—Mich. In fact, Rep. Conyers may well be one of democracy’s last representative hopes in America.

2004 vote fraud documents - Jan. 4 The most important links to Seven documents, proof, & articles - from Bellaciao

If ours is a democracy too, then the following statement should be backed by these same people:

Americans have the right to be heard and their votes accurately counted at the ballot box.

Ohio Recount: The Recount That Wasn't, a Chance to Reassure Voters Missed - Jan. 4 on Elites TV

If the recount had been conducted in strict adherence to Ohio state law, I have no doubt that this would have happened. Sadly, it does not appear that this was
the case and if anything, the way the recount was conducted lends more credence to the conspiracy theories floating around the blogosphere that there was
something wrong with the Ohio vote, something man-made and intentional.

Photos from the San Diego 5547 Vote March - From Ofoto - Click on each photo for a larger view

Information Quality Mandate for Election Reform - Twelve page PDF reprinted from DM Review October, 2001 Very thorough explanation of Voter's Rights

JANUARY 3, 2005 LINKS

The 2004 Presidential Election: Who Won The Popular Vote? An Examination of the Comparative Validity of Exit Poll and Vote Count Data - Dec. 29

Executive Summary:

There is a substantial discrepancy—well outside the margin of error and outcome determinative— between the national exit poll and the popular vote count.

The possible causes of the discrepancy would be random error, a skewed exit poll, or breakdown in the fairness of the voting process and accuracy of the vote count.

Analysis shows that the discrepancy cannot reasonably be accounted for by chance or random error.

Evidence does not support hypotheses that the discrepancy was produced by problems with the exit poll.

Widespread breakdown in the fairness of the voting process and accuracy of the vote count are the most likely explanations for the discrepancy.

In an accurate count of a free and fair election, the strong likelihood is that Kerry would have been the winner of the popular vote.          ( PDF File also )


A Media Blackout: Media Whites Out Voter Fraud - Jan. 3 post on Int. Labor Communications Assn.

Well Documented Fraud and Areas for Further Investigation:

1. The manufacturers of voting machines who have made them easy to hack and impossible to verify by a meaningful recount, as well as making clear their
loyalty to Bush.
2. The U.S. Congress and President, who have failed to make obvious corrections to our election system following the 2000 election, including requiring paper
trails and non-partisan officials.
3. The television networks that have refused to release the exit poll data and refused to cover the story, all companies with a clear - and in several cases, clearly
stated - interest in having Bush, rather than Kerry, control the FCC.
4. Bush-Cheney Ohio Campaign Co-Chair / Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, whose undisputed public actions before, during, and since the election have
served to disenfranchise thousands of citizens.
5. A group of Republicans, claiming to be from Texas, who made illegal calls in Ohio to scare off potential voters. (This, I think, offers a fun, human interest story
should an editor be in search of one).
6. Ohio judges who have refused to require that evidence be preserved and have refused to admit challenges to the election, including a judge whose own election
could be affected but who refused to recuse himself.
7. Election workers in various counties, hired by Blackwell, who failed to open polling places on time, failed to equitably distribute machines and workers, directed
voters to the wrong lines, resulting in the elimination of their votes, wrongly required identification, wrongly denied voters provisional ballots, shut observers out on
grounds of "homeland security," failed to randomly select precincts for the recount, etc.
8. Activists who sought to intimidate voters outside of polls or distributed flyers sending people to the wrong polling place or telling them the election was on the
wrong day.
9. Triad, a company that has admitted it tried to rig the Ohio recount.


Ten preliminary reasons why the Bush vote does not compute, and why Congress must investigate rather than certify the Electoral College (Part 1 of 2)  Jan. 3

Crucial flaws in the national vote count, most importantly in Ohio, New Mexico and Florida, indicate John Kerry was most likely the actual winner on November 2,
as reported in national exit polls. At very least, the widespread tampering with how the election was conducted, and how Ohio's votes were counted and
re-counted, has compromised this nation's historic commitment to free and fair elections.

Conyers to object to Ohio vote count, certification - Jan. 4

Jesse Jackson charged that some voting machines in Ohio were mysteriously changing votes from Kerry to Bush.
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Jackson called the voting irregularities and voter suppression in the 2004 presidential election a "well-planned and thought-out scheme" by Republicans.

"The integrity of our democracy is at stake," Jackson said.


Footprints of Electoral Fraud: Early Numbers - Jan. 2 post on DU

But how do we know the fix was in? Because the exit poll data also included the total number of respondents. At 9:00 p.m. EST, this number was well over 13,000;
by 1:36 a.m. EST on November 3 it had risen by less than 3 percent, to a final total of 13, 531 respondents—but with a corresponding swing of 5 percent from Kerry
to Bush in voters’ reports of their choices. Given the increase in respondents, a swing of this size is a mathematical impossibility.

The same pattern is evident in the exit polls of two key swing states, Ohio and Florida.


Politicians protest certifying of vote - Jan. 3

With Congress set to certify the presidential vote this week, U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and the Rev. Jesse Jackson tried Sunday to keep Ohio's election
in the spotlight.

Tubbs Jones, who campaigned side-by-side with Democrat John Kerry in Ohio, said she plans to protest the certification and ask members of the Senate -
particularly Kerry - to do the same, forcing a debate of the issue.


Report on the Sunday Jesse Jackson News Conference on the Theft of the 2004 Election - Jan. 2 on Wesley Clark Website

He described the November 2, 2004 election as a "train wreck of the Underground Railroad", with even more irregularities in Ohio this time than in Florida 2000.
He said over 30,000 names have been removed from the voter rolls. Blackwell, as chair of B/C in Ohio is the Katherine Harris of 2004. He wants us all to email or
call our senators now, before this Thursday, starting with John Kerry! He listed Sen. Clinton, Sen. Boxer and Sen. Reid as well. He is demanding a thorough
investigation of the machinery and wondered aloud how we, as a society, could have possibly allowed our voting machines to be from highly partisan
companies like Diebold, ES&S and Triad.

Smoking Gun? The CNN National Exit Poll site proves that Kerry won! - Dec. 30 post on DU Message Board

1) 59% of the 17% who did NOT vote in 2000 but who did in 2004 voted for Kerry. Just 39% for Bush.

2) 65% of those who did NOT vote for Bush or Gore in 2000 voted for Kerry. Just 13% for Bush and 16% for Nader.

3) 91% of those who voted for Gore, voted for Kerry.

4) 90% of those who voted for Bush in 2000, voted for Bush in 2004.


Republican Reed faces GOP wrath over recount decisions - Jan. 3, Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed said "There are some people who have been dismayed
that I wasn't a Katherine Harris who took the position, 'I'm a Republican, and by God that comes first.' "

Demonstrators Mobilize Under a Slew of Causes - Jan. 3 in Washington Post

The Jan. 20th inauguration -- shaping up to be one of the most heavily secured and expensive in history -- will be the scene of small and large demonstrations.
Organizers from dozens of local and national groups are planning marches, rallies and acts of civil disobedience on Inauguration Day and the days before and after.

Bush Asks Judge to Toss Ohio Election Suit - Jan. 3

President Bush's re-election campaign asked the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court on Monday to throw out a challenge of the election
in this swing state, saying the case resembles "a poorly drafted script for a late night conspiracy-theory movie."

Most Florida provisional votes rejected - Jan. 3

Two-thirds of all provisional ballots submitted in the general election were rejected, according to a Tallahassee Democrat analysis of reports provided by the
state's 67 county supervisors of elections. Most ballots were thrown out because the voter was not registered in that county.

More than 11 percent of the ballots were tossed aside because the voter was in the wrong precinct.

Ohio Recount Highlights Continuing Vote Trouble - Jan. 2

While the long recount in Ohio did not change Bush's victory there, it did shine a spotlight once again on the troubled presidential elective process. As a result
of problems uncovered in Ohio, Congress and the states must face the reality that reforms enacted in the wake of the 2000 fiasco in Florida have fallen far short
of completing the job.

Irregularities reported Nov. 2 in Ohio and many other states - including Florida, which supposedly cleaned up its act after the 2000 election - cry out for further
nationwide reforms, critics say. Congress did not go nearly far enough in 2002 in writing the Help America Vote Act and voting $3.8 billion for states to upgrade
their machines and processes, they add.


Updated: The Unexplained Exit Poll Data - Dec. 29, Updated PDF Documents of the University of Pennsylvania Professor, Stephen F. Freeman

JANUARY 2, 2005

Massive public drive to contact Senators before Jan. 6 - Jan. 1 from Vote Fraud News, Accurate List of Democratic Senators, Contact Info

Includes: How to make phone calls; how to send email-to-fax; using automated systems to send faxes, letters, and emails; samples letters; Declaration of Intent
for Senators and Representatives to sign on to; background information; news and information links about voting fraud in the 2004 election.

2004 U.S. Election Stolen - Jan. 2 by Diana Lee

Republicans and the mainstream media blamed the concoction of voter fraud theory on conspiracy nuts, bloggers or just Democratic supporters of Kerry.
Actually, the citizens that are fueling the spread of a stolen election are teachers, doctors, lawyers, and ordinary people who care about democracy enough
to scrutinize every complaint, error, and discrepancy. Like Cobb and Badnarik, many Americans feel that the issue is no longer just establishing John Kerry
as the rightful winner, but that their democracy is at stake. If Americans can't have a fair and just presidential election, how can they dare preach democracy
to other countries in the world?

Liberals hope Gregoire will repay support - Jan. 2

Now the left is hoping Gregoire repays the favor by striking a more progressive tone. At the very least, they hope a Gregoire administration will be more open
to supporting their issues than her campaign was.

Did We Bounce An Election in New Mexico? - Jan. 1

Had the New Mexico Secretary of State chosen to spend a little more time on undervote issues she might have noticed the curious fact that 85% of these apathetic
voters chose to express their lack of concern on electronic voting machines - the ones without a paper trail. She also might have noticed that the undervote rate is
roughly the same in the congressional and judicial races on the ballot, suggesting the possibility that entire ballots may have been blank rather than just the
presidential selections. How do we know these machines did not lose entire ballots, as paperless voting machines have been shown to do in other elections?


Pro-Democracy, Count Every Vote Rally on Monday, January 3rd in Columbus, Ohio - Jan. 1

Location: Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, Capitol Theatre, 77 S. High Street, in downtown Columbus, across from State Capitol.

Admission: Free

Sponsored by: Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Progressive Democrats of America, CASE Ohio, DoNotConcede, MoveOn.org, United for Peace and Justice, International
Labor Communications Association (AFL-CIO), Cleveland Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO), the NAACP National Voter Fund and other national and local groups to be
announced, and by Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, State Senator Joyce Beatty, and others.


Mainstream Media Fails to Report Watergate-Style Burglary at Ohio Democratic Offices Twenty-One Days Before November Election - Dec. 29

What if it was not the National Republican Party, but the Ohio Republican Party that was behind this hypothetical burglary? Would you still consider it substantial
news that one of the largest state-based organs of the National Republican Party had broken into Democratic Party Headquarters in Toledo to steal sensitive
electronic information regarding election security issues?

How Democracy Works: A Lesson from the Ukraine - Nine photographs of the Ukranian People Demanding a Re-Vote, with Links to related stories

Distribution of Voting Machines in Ohio counties - The official fax that itemized by county the distribution of Ohio voting machines

Official 2004 General Election Results for New Mexico, by county - Available here in Adobe PDF form

JANUARY 1, 2005 LINKS

Re-Vote Ohio - January 1, 2005

The issue facing us now, however, is not the election of Bush, Kerry, or even the Green or Libertarian presidential candidates. The issue is that we do not know
who won Ohio.
And as the people of the Ukraine have shown us, a re-vote is possible.
Indeed, there are 48 million voters in the Ukraine and only 5.5 million in Ohio, so the process would be ten times easier.
How Could a Fair Re-Vote Take Place?
If the voting processes are so fundamentally flawed, you ask, how could we trust a new re-vote?

Simple. A paper ballot can be easily produced with the names of the presidential candidates on it.

Every voter will hand in one piece of paper with a check mark next to one candidate’s name, and another piece of paper with his or her name, address, and
other necessary voter registration information.
These two piles will be kept in case a recount is needed.


Vote-by-Mail: The Real Winner is Democracy - January 1, 2005 ( HERE IS EVIDENCE THAT VOTING WITH PAPER BALLOTS IS THE MOST TAMPER-PROOF )

Vote-by-mail provides an automatic paper trail. Every vote-by-mail ballot is read by reliable optical scan machines, and the paper is available should a hand
recount become necessary. Mailed ballots are not forwarded by the post office, and the constant updating of voter rolls provided by returned ballots allows
Oregon to have accurate and updated voter rolls without the risk of partisan purges.

Pollsters, Media Implicated in Vote Fraud - January 1, 2005

“As the story develops,” Gary Beckwith, an Internet journalist with The Solar Bus, wrote, “no one has been able to explain why the media is avoiding it
like the plague.”

Conyers investigation, however, has revealed why Americans are not hearing about vote fraud and the problems with exit polling data on the nightly news:
the big news networks are deeply involved.

Immediately after the election, American Free Press reported that the Associated Press had direct access to the mainframe computer that tallied the votes in
Chicago and Cook County-as it tallied the votes on Election Day. This provides evidence that the mainstream media consortium that replaced the disgraced
Voter News Service (VNS) has remote access to the machines that count the votes.


Rallies for the Republic in Boston Monday and San Francisco Tuesday - Dec. 31

Preparations are underway for a public forum on Wednesday afternoon at the Boston Capitol at which Deutch will publicly question some of the key witnesses
to activities that may have surpassed the boundaries of normal partisanship and crossed over into illegal activity in Florida. In his preparation Deutsch has the
assistance of Wayne Madsen, an experienced analyst and investigator who previously worked for the National Security Agency. For the benefit of Members of
Congress considering supporting the challenge.
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On Tuesday ReDefeatBush founder David Lytel will be at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco at 7:00.
On Thursday January 6 there will be a Defend Democracy, Support the Challenge rally at noon in Upper Senate Park with Green Party Presidential candidate
David Cobb, Rev. Jesse Jackson (invited), voting rights activists Granny D, Deutch, and others.
ReDefeatBush has a quarter page advertisement scheduled to run on the Federal Page of the Washington Post on Monday and this week is putting out a 20,000
piece mailing asking for financial support for its activities.

Come Alive in '05: Rally for the Republic in Boston, Columbus, San Francisco and Washington - January 1, 2005

Help isn't just on the way, it's here. The addition of soon-to-be-former Congressman Peter Deutsch to our cause and our group of collaborators is a tremendous
step forward. Once the voracious but easily bored media monster tires of the tidal wave tragedy and attention returns to Washington we now have a widely known
and respected advocate to present what happened in Florida to the Congress, the media and the American people in a rigorous, convincing and methodical way.


Vote challengers accuse Blackwell of trying to let 'clock run out' - January 1, 2005

"If George Bush indeed won this election, there would be no one with a greater interest in proving that to be the case," Mr. Arnebeck said at a news
conference yesterday. "They want the clock to run out. They want to win by default."

Congress Dropped the Ball in 2001, Will They Do So in 2005? - Dec. 31, A Buzzflash Reader Contribution: A short message about January 6 and our Congress

Let's hope there's one senator with intestinal fortitude to speak the truth: our democracy was stolen in 2000 and in 2004. No one should be given public office
if their margin of victory was achieved by suppressing and intimidating the voters for the other candidate. No one. Ever.

One word: Preposterous - Dec. 31 Commentary in the Seattle Post-Intelligence online

Absolutely preposterous. Dino Rossi's call for a rerun of the governor's election has no basis, at least so far.
Gregoire was right to reject the request for a new election. It's one more sign that she is well suited for the office.



We are soliciting contributions to a new Robert Morris Fund, which can accept contributions beyond the $5,000. Morris financed the first American revolution
and we're asking you to finance the next one. You can see what we buy to help you decide how much you can contribute.

And if you are still not convinced to give us your financial support read this list of 30 things we have done for you since election day. If you want us keep doing
more of what we're doing, please contribute to pay for the lawyers and stages and everything else.

DECEMBER 31 LINKS

Ohio's official non-recount ends amidst new evidence of fraud, theft, and judicial contempt mirrored in New Mexico - Dec. 31

But the end comes amidst bitter dispute over official certification of impossible voter turnout numbers, over the refusal of Ohio's Republican Supreme Court
Chief Justice to recuse himself from crucial court challenges involving his own re-election campaign, over the Republican Secretary of State's refusal to testify
under subpoena, over apparent tampering with tabulation machines, over more than 100,000 provisional and machine-rejected ballots left uncounted, over
major discrepancies in certified vote counts and turnout ratios, and over a wide range of unresolved disputes that continue to leave the true outcome of Ohio's
presidential vote in serious doubt.

Candidates Want Second Ohio Recount - Dec. 31

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Two third-party presidential candidates asked a federal court Thursday to force a second recount of the Ohio vote, alleging county election
boards altered votes and didn't follow proper procedures in the recount that ended this week.

Evidence of Fraud and Disenfranchisement in Ohio: A Partial List - Dec. 31

This post is intended as a resource tool for those doing factual research on the Ohio election 2004, specifically relating to issues of (a) fraud, (b) disenfranchisment,
(c) voter suppression, (d) recount obstruction, and (e) vote machine tampering. It makes no pretense at comprehensiveness, but is merely an attempt to compile
links which have been posted on this site which either (1) are themselves primary sources of evidence, or (2) summarize, analyze, or point to, such sources.

Put PRESSURE on your SENATOR !!!! - Dec. 30, On Indymedia Portland, Links and Comments by readers

The Senators who shall receive the greatest focus from Conyers in this matter are Biden, Bingaman, Boxer, Byrd, Clinton, Conrad, Corzine, Dodd, Dorgan, Durbin,
Feingold, Harkin, Inyoue, Jeffords, Kennedy, Kerry, Lautenberg, Leahy, Levin, Lieberman, Mikulski, Nelson (FL), Jack Reed, Harry Reid, Rockefeller, Sarbanes,
Stabenow, Wyden and Obama.

Cobb Calls On Congress to Reject Tainted Electoral College Votes - Dec. 30

"The recount of Ohio's presidential vote was conducted in clear violation of both the spirit and the letter of the law. We can have no faith in the results when both
the initial election and the recount were conducted in a haphazard and clearly illegitimate manner. Ohio's presidential electors are tainted by unresolved
allegations of voter suppression and the lack of a meaningful recount. Congress must reject and challenge their votes," said Cobb.

Raw exit data from November 2 US Election - Dec. 30, Click on a link here for a PDF file of Exit Poll Data for each US region

Ohio Judge Denies Knowing Of Presidential Election Fraud Plot - Dec. 30

In court documents, the voters had sought to have another judge hear the case. One of the reasons they cited was that Moyer had "wittingly or unwittingly
acquired knowledge of deliberate national and statewide election fraud."

Jazz Funeral For Democracy: January 20 in New Orleans - The Jazz Funeral for Democracy is a wake and funeral for the principles upon which America once stood.

Led by a coalition of groups and individuals distressed about issues including, but not limited to, the occupation of Iraq and other military aggression, corporate
control of America, the rollback of individual liberties, state sponsored homophobia, election fraud, the poisoning of the environment, and the class warfare
instituted by the Bush Administration.

Defend Our Democracy! - Rally in Boston on January 3, then Call Upon Congress to Stand Up! on January 6

Two third-party presidential candidates asked a federal court Thursday to force a second recount of the Ohio vote, alleging county election boards altered
votes and didn't follow proper procedures in the recount that ended this week.

Protest Stolen Election 2004 - I propose that there be spontaneous demonstrations on Tuesday, January 4th at 7 PM all over America.
There will be a PROTEST IN AUSTIN, TEXAS ON THE SOUTH CAPITAL GROUNDS, AT 7 PM TUESDAY, JANUARY 4TH.

The presidential vote totals have been systematically altered to benefit G. W. Bush and install him, for another four years, as the President of the United States.

Below I have collected an incredible amount of documentation to prove that the election held to determine the next President was stolen on November 2, 2004.
I STRONGLY encourage you to check this out for yourself but in the mean time, one important detail that the news media want to keep quiet is that the election
is not final until it is certified by Congress when they meet on January 6, 2005. We do not have to simply roll over and allow this theft to be finalized.

DECEMBER 30 LINKS

John Kerry really won the election - Dec. 30 Interview with Jesse Jackson by Newsweek magazine

Q. - So you think Blackwell stole the election for Bush?

It was under his domain to have enough machines; the machine calibration, tabulation issue. You could rig the machines. We have reason to believe
it was rigged.

Q. - What is your evidence?

Based on distrusting the system, lack of paper trails, the anomaly of the exit polls. In Ukraine, there’s an exit poll gap, they say, "Let’s have another election."

Q. - If the election were held again with these alleged problems solved, would Kerry win?

Of course I think that. If we deal with the anomalies, a fair random count, the urban-suppressed vote, Kerry would get at least 60,000 more votes. At least!
I believe that. I don’t know that.

Q. - Is it possible that election will be overturned?

I don’t know. All we want is a fair count and a transparent election. We can live with the result. We’re fighting the odds but we will not faint in the face of the odds.


Conyers to Object to Ohio Electors, Requests Senate Allies - Dec. 30, In a letter dispatched to every Senator, which will be officially published by his office
shortly, Conyers declares that he will be joined in this by several other members of the House.

"As you know," writes Rep. Conyers in his letter, "on January 6, 2005, at 1:00 P.M., the electoral votes for the election of the president are to be opened and
counted in a joint session of Congress. I and a number of House Members are planning to object to the counting of the Ohio votes, due to numerous
unexplained irregularities in the Ohio presidential vote, many of which appear to violate both federal and state law."

Democrat Declared Washington Governor-Elect - Dec. 30, After three vote tallies and nearly two nerve-racking months of waiting, Democrat Christine Gregoire
was declared Washington's governor-elect on Thursday.

Update on New Mexico vote recount - Dec. 30 post on Margie Burns weblog.

The costs are supposed to be paid, but there is not one iota of law saying that 100 percent of the cost is to be paid up front.

There are still many unanswered questions about provisional ballots, missing votes and the integrity of voting machines which don't produce a paper trail.
The people of New Mexico deserve to know that their votes will be counted fairly and accurately.

North Carolina Board Orders New Election for Ag Post- Dec. 29, An electronic voting machine error in Carteret County eliminated 4,438 votes that were cast early.

Group holds fast to Kerry cause with Beacon Hill vigil - Dec. 29, Parks, a vigil organizer, said the group believes the election was fixed and wants to persuade
the Massachusetts senator to oppose congressional approval of the electoral college results Jan. 6.

DECEMBER 29 LINKS

Republican Calls for Revote in Washington Race - Dec. 29, Republican Dino Rossi on Wednesday urged his Democratic rival in the closest governor's race in
state history to join him in calling for a revote.

GOP Demands Voter List in Washington County - Dec. 29, Republicans are demanding a list of voters in King County.
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State officials will certify the statewide hand recount on Thursday, declaring Gregoire, a three-term attorney general, the victor.

Rule One: Count Every Vote - Dec. 27 Short article by John Nichols in the online Nation Magazine

As Christmas approached, the pressure on Gregoire to back off was intense. But the Democratic gubernatorial candidate and her supporters continued to press
for a full review of the ballots -- paying more than $700,000 for another count and going to court to defend the principle that every voted counts and every vote
must be counted.

Two days before Christmas, with a go-ahead from the state Supreme Court, Gregoire got a full count. That reversed previous results and gave her a 130-vote
lead over Rossi.


Impossible Phantom Votes in New Mexico - Dec. 29, Buzzflash Reader Contribution

It seems that such questions are of little concern to Secretary of State Vigil-Giron, who recently commented that "We don't spend a lot of time on undervote issues,
I'm just speculating that some voters are just not concerned with the presidential race." Whether or not you find it easy to believe that more than 1 voter in every
20 decided not to vote for president this November, it hardly helps to know that, in the same election, over 2,000 votes somehow managed to be counted without
a ballot being cast.

"Phantom Votes Are Not Possible" says New Mexico's Secretary of State - Dec. 29

Analysis shows that there are 2,087 phantom votes reported across the state and present in the certified results.
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Another of the 250 precincts with phantom votes is Dona Ana County, Precinct 106, with 325 absentee votes resulting from 107 absentee ballots cast.

New Mexico Recount Goes Back to Court - Dec. 28

Attorneys for Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb will file a Notice of Appeal on Tuesday from a District Court decision which rejected Cobb's request
to start the New Mexico recount without paying the entire cost of it in advance.

The Mass Media Blackout Of Organized Election Fraud Is A Crime Against Our Freedom - Actual sign on the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California
 

DC Rumor Mill    (Seen on www.bartcop.com  December 29)

There will supposedly be a senator to back up Maxine Waters this time and rumor has it - the senator is a Republican!

DECEMBER 28 LINKS

Faking democracy: American's don't vote, machines do, & ballot printers can't fix that - April 7, 2004 by Lynn Landes on OnlineJournal.com

Machines will produce 99.4 percent of the election results for the upcoming 2004 presidential election. With all the hoopla over voting machine "glitches,"
porous software, leaked memos, and the creepy corporations that sell and service these contraptions, and with all the controversy that surrounds campaign
financing, voter registration, redistricting issues, and the general privatization of the election process, we are missing the boat on the biggest crisis facing
our democracy.

Americans aren't really voting. Machines are. Call it faking democracy.

And no one seems to be challenging it.


Damn these Hackers! - Dec. 24 post on DU Message Board, With map of Ohio showing which electronic voting machines were used, by county

If that Map is correct and the central tabulators are only in three counties, then there is a good chance any recount hope lay in a full hand recount.

Per signed affidavit at http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121604Z.shtml the Tabulation software has been compromised.

This makes it impossible for a 3% sample recount to determine if the tabulation software was operating correctly at the time of the original counting. In addition
the new software possibly added could be programmed to count accurately for the first 3-5% of the vote totals and then still feed you what ever numbers the
programmers want after 50% or 75% or 100% have been counted. That's just the way it is. You know this technology at least as well as I do People. Hard drives
are so small. I could fit one in my pocket just as easy as you can. I could swap one out with a simple screw driver just as easily as you. If I installed a wireless
card to my computer OR YOURS there is a good chance I can control the system without your knowledge. Or any one for that matter. Wouldn't even have to be in
the building.

Just the fact that he had the opportunity to remove possible evidence from the central tabulator is a gaping security hole. A lot of computers can be networked
and controlled with a device that can fit in the palm of your hand and can be installed with out the use of a screw driver. wake up and fight these Hackers. Even
if this Battle is lost (and I don't think it is) the war will be with us forever if we do nothing.


The Mother of all Vote Frauds - Has great information along with Links, Graphs, Videos, All about the 2004 Stolen US Elections

On November 2, 2004 President Bush defied both public opinion and history to "win" the election 51 - 48.

How was this done? Simple...

Vote suppression/voter intimidation and deception. Shortages of voting locations and ballot forms. Foreign monitors barred from polls. Unmatched exit
polls/actual results - actual results always skewed to Republicans. Masses of e-Voting "glitches". Computers lost votes. Presidential votes miscast on e-Voting
machines throughout the US. More recorded votes than voters. Republicans gained 128.45% in Florida counties using optical scan voting machines while
Democrats lost 21% - some districts showed gains of over 400% while one, Liberty County, gained over 700% for Republicans. Warren County officials locked
down the county administration building on election night and blocked anyone from observing the vote count as the nation awaited Ohio's returns. Bush had
'incredible' vote tallies. 7% turnout reported in Cleveland precinct. In Cuyahoga County different towns had the exact same number of "extra" votes. Etc. etc.

Troublesome Statements By One of Kerry-Edwards' Ohio Attorneys Explained - Dec. 28, "Clear Statement of Surrender Alienates, Confuses Kerry-Edwards Supporters"
(Six Sections with a CONCLUSION at the end)

But if the story shifts, Kerry will pounce.

Only a very great fool would fail to do so, or fail to recognize that Kerry -- whatever he is or is not -- is not nearly foolish enough, or insufficiently ambitious enough,
to pass up the Presidency of the United States if, at some future point, it is handed to him on a proverbial silver platter.

Exit Polls and Voter Fraud: A User-Friendly Explanation - November 18, Great article by Sean Sabitini, Sums it all up clearly, State-by-state and overall issues

What does it all mean? It means that Kerry conceded too soon. These figures by themselves may prove nothing, but they raise a tremendous red flag.
And now analysts are identifying voting patterns in Florida that border on the impossible.
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What needs to be done? First, we need to shake off the notion that widespread voter fraud could never happen in America. Computer hacking may be a
relatively new phenomenon, but crooked elections are not. And corruption is as old as politics. Then, we have to discover the truth.
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The fight goes on, because this is not just about just about who wins today. It’s about ensuring the integrity of the American electoral system. Republicans will blame
it all on conspiracy nuts and sore losers, but it doesn’t matter. In the digital age, we have to make e-voting secure and honest, or we can kiss democracy goodbye.

DECEMBER 27 LINKS

What Are They Hiding??? TV Networks Officially Refuse to Release Exit Poll Raw Data; Mainstream media finally displays true colors - Dec. 27

The truth is, it's not just conspiracy nuts, or bloggers, or even just Democratic supporters of Kerry. It's a growing number of people who want to know what really
happened on November 2nd. It's teachers, doctors, lawyers, all kinds of people who care about their Democracy just as much as the people in Ukraine do. And
a recent survey showed that even without the media coverage, 20% of Americans believe the election was stolen.
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It's hard to believe that the media would cover up something like this, considering that many reporters probably voted for Kerry and would want the people to
know if the election was stolen.
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The media is supposed to report the facts, whatever they are, not withhold them. When the media stops reporting and starts withholding, it ceases to be the media.


Ohio Official Refuses Interview Over Vote - Dec. 27, Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has requested a protective order to prevent him from being interviewed
as part of an unusual court challenge of the presidential vote. ( WHAT IS HE HIDING? )

Ohio GOP election officials ducking subpoenas as Kerry enters stolen vote fray - Dec. 28

Richard Congianese, Ohio Assistant Attorney General, is seeking a court order to protect Blackwell from testifying under oath about how the election was run.
Blackwell, who administered Ohio's November 2 balloting, served as co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign.

James R. Dicks, Miami County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, also filed a motion to block subpoenas in ten key Ohio counties. Other local election officials
slated to be deposed, such as in Claremont County, have also refused to answer attorney questions.

Kerry Files Motion to Protect Ohio Vote Evidence - Dec. 27 on Truthout.org, The purpose of the motions is twofold: A) To preserve all ballots and voting machines
pertaining to the Yost matter for investigation and analysis; and B) To make available for sworn deposition testimony a technician for Triad Systems.

Kaufman County, Texas Election Scandal - Dec. 27, With virtually all nine voting boxes counted, she was about 200 votes ahead.
"Y'all better get back over here," is what Tony Crow told Ivan Johnson over the telephone not too long after ten o'clock. "They're about to steal the election
away from Brenda."

Conspiracies theorized, or conspiracies invoked? - Dec. 27 on MSNBC Keith Olbermann Blog
Be sure to read the article below it "Kerry lawyer: does the re-election warrant the public trust?"

The Green Party says that 86 of the 88 counties violated Ohio voting law and pre-selected what were to be randomly chosen precincts for hand recounts.
It claims that only one county (Coshocton) ran a full hand recount of all of its votes, and, oopsie, its certified total number of votes rose from 16,000 on election
night, to 17,000 after the recount (evenly split, we might add, between Bush and Kerry, but indicating 6% of all votes disappeared).

Ohio State Lawmakers look to prevent future recounts - Dec. 26, State lawmakers will look at ways to make it harder and more expensive to get election recounts.

Ohio Voting Rights Activists Call Electoral Fight The "Biggest Deal Since Selma" - Dec. 23, Interview on Democracy Now! Radio with Harvey Wasserman

As far as I’m concerned, Ohio is not a democracy. And we believe based on the exit polls that there is no way on earth that George W. Bush carried the
state of Ohio, therefore, the election. If he loses Ohio, he loses the election.

Warren County recount - snookered? What Happened? - Dec. 23 post on DU

(Even IF the 3% number was to be based on the number of registered voters, the figure is STILL in error since there were 125165 registered voters.)

Maryland E-voting approved with only scant security review - October 28, 2004, Informative story about Diebold machines (Pre-Election) from news.com

As U.S. voters prepare to head to the polls Tuesday, weak and outdated federal voting standards have emerged as a major cause of e-voting security concerns

DECEMBER 26 LINKS

The Republican Leadership's Problem With Democracy - Dec. 26, Commentary by Steven Crockett, Co-Host of Democratic Talk Radio

In the last two Presidential elections, Republican Secretaries of State in key swing states (Florida in 2000 and Ohio, Florida, etc. in 2004) have seemingly manipulated
voting rolls and regulations before Election Day. They seemed to have sabotaged legal vote recounts after Election Day in the 2000 Florida and 2004 Ohio races. In
those two situations, the Republican Secretaries of State were serving as Bush statewide campaign officials while they were seemingly twisting voting regulations to
benefit Republicans seeking office.
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Many of these Republican leaders have used Republican dominance of our federal courts to keep legally cast votes from being counted. Republican dominance
of all branches of the federal government has kept investigations into vote fraud from being undertaken in most cases and carefully controlled in many others.

The powerful alliance of our largest media corporations with Bush Republicanism has stifled awareness of the vote fraud issue for most casually informed Americans. Republican buzz words like “conspiracy theory” have routinely been substituted for real investigative journalism. Non-fact based criticism of exit polling has been
substituted for real mathematically based analysis of fishy vote totals. The media has been harping on the fictional “Bush mandate” and “morality voting” when real journalism would be examining the serious threat to American Democracy in vote fraud and not having legal votes counted.


Another third rate burglary - Dec. 25 from FreePress.org

It was, and still is, my professional opinion that the election in Lucas County was rigged. I speculated that someone may have gained access to the central
counting devices for the optical scanners without anybody at the precinct level knowing about it. The vote totals for candidates could be altered in this manner.
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I have no way of knowing if the burglary at the Democratic headquarters was directly connected to voter suppression activities. But I cannot imagine another motive.


Senator Diane Feinstein will propose end of Electoral College - Dec. 26, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said this past week that when Congress returns in January,
she will propose a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a one-person, one-vote system for electing the nation's
president and vice president.

Hacking the vote in Miami County - Dec. 25 by Richard Hates Phillips, PhD.

Moreover, as has been widely reported, even with the addition of 18,615 new votes, Bush's percentage was almost unchanged (65.80% to 65.77%), and Kerry's
percentage was exactly the same (33.92%). This led some observers to believe that the optical scanner had been programmed to come out that way, to provide
the desired 16,000-vote plurality.

Kerry votes switched to Bush and ballots pre-punched for Bush - Dec. 24

Pre-punched ballots; touch-screen vote switching; more absentee votes than absentee voters; unfair provisional voter deletions; change of voting sites on
Election Day; voter suppression; voter intimidation; double voting; malfunctioning machines; recalibrated machines; evidently rigged machines; and even
25 million negative votes registered in some races in Mahoning County!

Those were among the problematic incidents shared at a 3-hour public hearing on vote irregularities in the Mahoning Valley, Ohio.

It happened at Midnight - Nov. 17 posting on Daily Kos Weblog, Accompanying graphs

We KNOW Rove was on the phone pressuring the media to call for Bush.. I just didn't catch how fast the switch was.
In one hour Bush gained 62 EC votes and the Presidency.

New Mexico Recount News

State of New Mexico Won't Recount Votes; Court Denies Two Candidates' Request - Dec. 23, "The law seemed clear," Cobb said. "In fact the law is clear, and I
think it's an example of Bill Richardson and the ruling elites of New Mexico simply making a decision that the law won't be followed and the Supreme Court
going along with them."

Democracy for New Mexico - Dec. 18, News Updated Often, Details on the 'Count Our Vote Rally' in Albuquerque

How the New Mexico recount was stopped by raising the bar impossibly high - Dec. 15, According to the Institute on Money in State Politics website,
Ms. Vigil-Giron's 6th largest campaign contributor in 2002 was one Ken Carbullido, vice president of Election Systems and Software (ES&S).

New Mexico Progressive News - Updated often, News on the Inaugural Protest, Rallies, Governor Richardson proposing voter reforms

DECEMBER 25 LINKS

Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede - Dec. 24, Election Challenge likely on January 6th, "If you haven't been following
John Kerry closely, get ready to hear of surprising developments. The vote-defrauded, potential president-in-waiting has
just indicated through his lawyer that the validity of George Bush's reelection is no longer a given."

If the recount was fraudulent, does that have implications for the validity of the first count in Ohio? The Kerry campaign
knows full well that it does. That's why their latest statement questions the "integrity" of the "entire" electoral process.
And the election of Bush/Cheney.

For Kerry, a fraudulent recount in Ohio could be an open door into to the Oval Office. Already, John Conyers is confident
that a few U.S. Senators will join House members on January 6 to question the November 2 election.

If the Ohio recount is shown fraudulent, the domino effect could carry him (Kerry) through that door without claiming
victory or even unconceding.
 

The Kerry campaign moves against Triad - Dec. 24, Audio of News report on Break For News.com, In MP3 Format

No Holiday for Vote Thieves - Dec. 23, The Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus is confident that at least a few U.S. Senators will join House members
on January 6 to question the fairness of the November 2 election.

Conyers plans challenge on January 6 - Video for Windows Media Player of the Dec. 15 Olbermann MSNBC show with Mr. Conyers discussing his FBI charge

Conyers & others may challenge Bush "election" on January 6 - Audio in MP3 Format, with news of Conyers decision and commentary on Webb "suicide"

Making elections better, and stopping divisiveness, too - Dec. 25, "Instant runoff voting (IRV) fixes the shortcomings of elections. San Francisco has adopted
ranked-choice, or instant runoff, voting."

Protesters seek more inauguration permits - Dec. 25, This week's controversy reignites a longstanding clash over how to balance security and free speech.

DECEMBER 24 LINKS

I do not concede my vote. The 2004 election is not over - Dec. 23 post on DU Message Board  A MUST-READ MESSAGE!

Nationwide abusive tactics of voter suppression, voter intimidation and vote manipulation have stained our democracy by victimizing poor, elderly,
disabled and minority voters on November 2, 2004.

To declare George W. Bush the victor in the November 2nd election without contesting the election would be a crime. Technically it may not
be against the law but it would be immoral. A majority of the Senate saying the election outcome is legitimate will not make it so. There has
been a visceral reaction to the abusive tactics and the vulnerability of our tabulation system with its code and software shrouded in secrecy.
Abuse and secrecy are not noble goals for a democracy.

I am just an ordinary citizen who has never before been an activist and I am not alone. There are millions of other citizens just like me who
refuse to walk away from this issue. We will not stand for a stolen election. We will not sit down and shut up. We are an intelligent and
technologically literate citizenry who will continue to speak truth to power even if the Senate decides to certify the election.


Grassroots Organizations to Hold Pro Democracy Rally in Ohio - Dec. 24, Progressive Democrats of America & Rainbow/PUSH Coalition will participate

"Pro Democracy Count Every Vote Rally,” in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, January 3, 2005.

The rally, which will be held at the Capitol Theater, 77 S. High Street, across from Ohio State Capitol, begins at 2 p.m.

Voting Problems in Ohio Spur Call for Overhaul - Dec. 24, Ohio has become this year's example for every ailment in the United States' electoral process.

Kerry bowed out too soon, Jackson says - Dec. 24, "When he pulled the plug, the national media left as well" Jesse Jackson said.

Feeney attorney threatens hometown paper with legal action - Dec. 24, Congressman Tom Feeney's (R-FL) attorneys have sent a letter threatening the editors
of Florida's Seminole Chronicle intimating possible legal action.

The Vote Count Goes On - Dec. 24, We hold to a simple principle: if a registered voter casts a ballot in good faith, that vote should count.

Ohio Voting Bombshell - Dec. 21, As the Colliers noted in Votescam, the computers that spoke in November 1988 held in their inner workings small boxes that
contained secret codes that only the sellers of the computers could read. The programs were regarded as “trade secrets.”

DECEMBER 23 LINKS

Kerry to Enter Ohio Fray - Dec. 23 on truthout.org

Kerry will be filing a request for expedited discovery regarding Triad Systems voting machines, as well as a motion for a preservation order to protect any and
all discovery and preserve any evidence on this matter.

The ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued a followup letter to the president of Triad Election Systems Thursday,
noting that he had confirmed that Triad Election Systems had remote access to voting machines controlled by local Board of Elections

John Conyers issued a letter to Triad - Dec. 24, In the letter, displayed below and on the following pages, Conyers makes note of these "cheat sheets" which the
company's president admitted to. He asserts that the sheets—which allow local officials to ignore actual ballots in the recount—"is an invitation to completely
ignore the purpose of the recount law." (Four pages of the documentation are also here)

Seven weeks after Nov. 2 here is what we know - Dec. 24, Voter fraud, tampering and intimidation in urban districts.
"This has fundamentally shocked people's sense of whether any election can be accurately counted," said Daniel Hoffheimer, counsel to
Mr. Kerry's Ohio campaign...

Then there are the ugly details, which the mainstream media still seems afraid to confront -- even when Kerry himself steps in (via Truthout)

Audit the Vote - Dec. 24, News headlines on the voting fraud updated Daily, also Take Action here by writing to Congress and a Newspaper

Video Supporting Ohio Vote Fraud Claim Revealed - Dec. 23, Interview with a Triad Employee, Watch the Video in Windows Media Player or Quicktime

New video suggests voting firm Triad sought to thwart recount of paper ballots (SEE LINK ABOVE) - Dec. 23, Triad says the purpose of the "cheat sheet"
was so the counters would know if they missed an overvote.

Triad Systems: Bush Vote Fraud Company in Ohio - Dec. 23

Triad is owned by a man named Tod Rapp, who has also donated money to both the Republican Party and the election campaign of George W. Bush.
Triad manufactures punch-card voting systems, and also wrote the computer program that tallied the punch-card votes cast in 41 Ohio counties last November.

Gregoire Wins in Washington By 130 Votes - Dec. 23, Gregoire took a 130-vote lead over Republican Dino Rossi when King County announced its results
Thursday afternoon from the recount tally.

Blackwell Continues to Dodge Questions - Dec. 23, "Given Mr. Blackwell's lack of cooperation and the problems which have plagued the recount, we have to
wonder whether he is an incompetent elections administrator or whether he is deliberately obstructing the recount process. It is very clear that he has a conflict
of interest and should have stepped aside weeks ago"

Voting Fraud News - Dec. 22, from Black Voter Network, News Links Updated Often, The election results in Butler, Warren, and Clermont counties should be
challenged, for they call into question the results for the entire State of Ohio."

Bush-Cheney Vote Fraud Conspiracy: The Evidence - Dec. 22

An exhaustive investigation has turned up a link between current Florida Republican Representative Tom Feeney, a customized Windows-based program
to suppress Democratic votes on touch screen voting machines, a Florida computer services company with whom Feeney worked as a general counsel and
registered lobbyist while he was Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, and top level officials of the Bush administration.

Electors call for national voting reforms - Dec. 22

Breaking with tradition, electors in at least five states have called for a congressional investigation of voting violations during the Nov. 2 election for president.
Electors in Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, California, and North Carolina registered their concerns as they cast their votes last week.

In Ohio, almost 1 in 50 votes for president don't count - Dec. 22, Nearly 97,000 ballots, or 1.7 percent of those cast across the state, either did not record a
preference for president or could not be counted because the voter selected more than one presidential candidate.

The Election, Part 2: Fraud, Intimidation, and Suppression - Dec. 22

When you filter out the unproven, the half-proven, and the sheer nonsense among the various assertions, there is still a core there which is unambiguous,
which is serious, and which is Fraud. Specifically, it has been established at this point that there were, in the battleground states, organized and deliberate
voter suppression efforts, many of which relied on the deception of voters in order to render their votes either invalid or uncastable.

Indymedia.us - Good info here on the "Block Bush Insurrection Rally" in the December 22 and December 21 articles

Election study finds widespread ballot-counting problems - Dec. 20, A review of election results in a 10-county sampling revealed more than 12,000 ballots that
failed to record a vote for president, almost one in every 10 ballots cast. The unofficial audit by Scripps Howard News Service uncovered malfunctioning voting
machines, improperly designed ballots and poor accounting procedures around the nation.

Vote Fraud - Updated Dec. 17, Vote Fraud in the News, Archive of Must-Read Articles

Election fraud: Quietly undermining democracy - Updated on Dec. 13, Lots of Links to articles on the 'Stolen Election' and Vote Fraud in General

The CounterInaugural Ball will be Huge! - More info on the planned actions of January 20

DECEMBER 22 LINKS

Ohio Republican Justice denies an expedited hearing - Dec. 23, He also lays out the framework by which he might dismiss the case.

Ohio electoral fight becomes 'biggest deal since Selma' as GOP stonewalls - Dec. 22

As Republican officials stonewall subpoenas and subvert the recount process, Rev. Jesse Jackson has pronounced Ohio's vote fraud fiasco "the biggest
deal since Selma" and has called for a national rally at "the scene of the crime" in Columbus January 3.

Another major national demonstration will follow in Washington on January 6, as Congress evaluates the Electoral College. Should at least one US
Representative and one Senator challenge the electors' votes, a Constitutional crisis could ensue.

Washington State Democrat Gregoire wins by 8 votes - Dec. 2