Election Day in Iran: Meet the candidates
by Nicholas Hills
Iranians will head to the polls tomorrow to elect a new President. Iran has been a major player in the Middle East for decades and, considering the country’s loose remarks about nuclear energy and existential warfare throughout the past few years, all eyes will be directed on Iran come Election Day. This will also be the first vote for Iranians since the 2009 re-election of current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Who’s behind internet voting?
by Gerry Bello
The new push for internet voting is being spearheaded by charities, think-tanks and policy wonks that are in bed with right-wing fundamentalists, union-busters, unreconstructed cold warriors, semi-retired intelligence agents, child sex traffickers, militarists, and an odd progressive or two brought along for the apparent appearance of bi-partisanship. These forces, working together with an electronic election industry already fraught with ongoing allegations of fraud and partisanship, seem poised to push one more layer of obfuscation and unaccountability into an already deeply flawed system that is the American election system.
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Black Box Voting connects voting machine test lab with kickbacks, bid-rigging, bribery schemes
by Bev Harris
Next time you hear that voting machines are reliable and safe "because they have been tested and certified," think of this important article, which reveals proven corruption, payoffs and bid-rigging connected to Ciber, Inc., a firm that signed off on our voting machines. Ciber's okay was the foundation for federal acceptance of voting machines all over the USA.
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Voting rights act as needed as ever
by Jesse Jackson
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Voting Rights Act in the case of Shelby v. Holder. On the same day, across the street in the congressional rotunda, a statue honoring Rosa Parks will be unveiled. And one week later, the nation will celebrate the 48th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the march from Selma to Montgomery that helped spur President Johnson to champion the act.
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Why Obama will not stop the increase in catastrophic climate change
by Bob Sheak
President Obama has not lived up to his promises about curtailing global warming, the engine at the center of disruptive climate change. He and his administration acknowledge the problem exists, though they don’t stress the scientific evidence on trends that show that temperatures and greenhouse concentrations in the atmosphere in the U.S. and across the world are rising at an accelerating rate. At the same time, there were some notable but not-trend-breaking achievements during Obama’s first four years like new fuel efficiency standards for cars and small trucks, $36 billion allocated for renewable energy, the weatherization of one million homes owned by low-income homeowners, and the doubling of renewable energy from wind and solar partly supported by Department of Energy investments. Unfortunately, there are reasons to expect that the President will not do nearly enough in the next four years of his presidency to prevent further catastrophic climate changes or to prepare the society and world to cope with it all. This is certainly not his fault alone. There are significant constraints that limit what he can do. My point: He won’t do enough and, even if he wanted to, he can’t do enough.
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Election protection, electronic voting & the future of America democracy
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
The re-election of Barack Obama was made possible in part by the triumph of a new social movement---a great grassroots upheaval aimed at election protection and meaningful universal suffrage, that must include a transparent and reliable vote count.
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Story notes For television producer Shonda Rhimes
by Sheila Parks
Dear Ms. Rhimes:
You are one of the bravest, most extraordinary women on TV and you are going to help save us from election fraud.
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Timeline 2004 – One more look at the Ohio election
by Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., Author and Troy T. Seman, Editor
More than a year ago, a reporter named Craig Unger asked me a brilliant question about the 2004 presidential election in Ohio. Referring to reports that the counting of votes was rerouted through SMARTech computers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at precisely 11:14 PM EST, and the possibility that the vote count was altered thereby, he asked me about the forensic evidence we had photographed or otherwise uncovered in eighteen counties in Ohio. He asked me to look at the timeline. Did the counties in which we found evidence of fraud report their results before 11:14 PM, or after? And, if after, was the evidence consistent with an after-the-fact effort to get the election records to match an altered vote count?
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Dysfunction at Maricopa County Elections department disenfranchises tens of thousands
by Linda Brown
We saved hundreds of votes across the state, but there were not enough concentrated in any of the close races to claim that we saved any races. In 2008 we looked at close races to see if Maricopa County's 30,000 uncounted provisional ballots would have made a difference in any of them and we concluded they would not have changed the outcomes of any races.
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Romney may have lost, but the voting system is still broken
by Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis
Two weeks have passed since the night of the Rove meltdown and Romney's electoral loss. Like the days after a major sports championship, everybody has an opinion on two things: why victory was achieved this time and how victory can be achieved the next time. However, political reality is quite different than sports. Democracy is more than a game. And if our current democracy is a game, the people lost in 2012.
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Recent Election Issues Articles

Ohio's official non-recount ends amidst new evidence of fraud, theft and judicial contempt mirrored in New Mexico
  December 31, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

Impossible Phantom Votes in New Mexico
  December 30, 2004
  Warren Stewart

The 2004 Presidential Election: Who Won The Popular Vote? An Examination of the Comparative Validity of Exit Poll and Vote Count Data
  December 29, 2004
  Jonathan D. Simon, J.D. and Ron P. Baiman, Ph.D.

Ohio GOP election officials ducking notices of deposition as Kerry enters stolen vote fray
  December 28, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

Another third rate burglary
  December 25, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Hacking the vote in Miami County
  December 25, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Update from the Ohio Frontlines
  December 24, 2004
  Cynthia L. Butler, Esq.

Lawsuit Before the Ohio Supreme Court
  December 24, 2004
  Summarized by Mary Anne Saucier, Columbus, Ohio

Kerry votes switched to Bush and ballots pre-punched for Bush
  December 24, 2004
  Dr. Werner Lange

Uncounted votes in Cuyahoga County
  December 24, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Provisional ballots in Cuyahoga County
  December 24, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Uncounted votes in Summit County
  December 24, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Uncounted votes in Hamilton County
  December 24, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Default settings in Mahoning County
  December 23, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Ohio electoral fight becomes 'biggest deal since Selma' as GOP stonewalls
  December 22, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

Observations from an election observer
  December 22, 2004
  M.J. Willow

TV Networks Officially Refuse to Release Exit Poll Raw Data; Mainstream media finally displays true colors
  December 22, 2004
  Gary Beckwith

Election results in Southwestern Ohio
  December 21, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Voting Rights Groups 'Block' Talk of Machine-Free Elections
  December 20, 2004
  Lynn Landes

Statistics from Warren County
  December 20, 2004
  Clint Cooper

The greatest story never told
  December 20, 2004
  Robert Lockwood Mills

The United States of Ukraine?: Exit Polls Leave Little Doubt that in a Free and Fair Election John Kerry Would Have Won both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote
  December 19, 2004
  Ron Baiman

Certifiable election results
  December 19, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Sinclair Broadcasting's Long History of Journalistic and Corporate Deception
  December 19, 2004
  Jason Leopold

Ohio vote count battles escalate amidst new evidence of potential criminal activity
  December 18, 2004
   Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

American democracy hangs by a thread in Ohio
  December 15, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

Startling new revelations highlight rare Congressional hearings on Ohio vote
  December 13, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

New Ohio voter transcripts
  December 12, 2004
  Free Press staff

The One-Two Punch of Racism: Whitewashing the Voter Fraud Issue
  December 10, 2004
  Greg Moses

Rigging the vote in Lucas County
  December 10, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Uncounted votes in Montgomery County
  December 10, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Why history demands an Ohio revote
  December 10, 2004
  Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis

Ohio election fraud uproar blasting to new level
  December 7, 2004
  Steve Rosenfeld, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Dirty work at the Philly polls
  December 3, 2004
  Margie Burns

Voter Suppression: STEALING VOTES IN OHIO URBAN AREAS (full documentation)
  December 3, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

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

Warren County, Ohio: most successful voter registration drive in American political history, or stuffing the ballot box
  December 1, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Jesse Jackson demands Ohio presidential recount, blasts GOP election officials, and says Kerry supports the process
  November 29, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Kerry Supports Ohio Vote Investigation, Jackson says
  November 28, 2004
  Steven Rosenfeld

Hope for the Homestretch
  November 28, 2004
  Paul Rogat Loeb

Favoritism in the suburbs
  November 27, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

New Ohio voter transcripts feed floodtide of doubt about Republican election manipulation
  November 25, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Election officials gave wrong information about provisional ballots - revealed in affidavit.
  November 25, 2004
  Neil F. Schoenwetter, Jr.

US tells Ukraine to recount votes on fradulent election!
  November 25, 2004
  Dr. J. Alva Scruggs

Not counting the votes
  November 24, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Stealing votes in Columbus
  November 23, 2004
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Making every vote count
  November 23, 2004
  Christopher T. Hicks

How a Republican election supervisor manipulated the 2004 central Ohio vote, in black and white
  November 23, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

More Ohio voter suppression testimony prompts upcoming legal filing for statewide recount
  November 20, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Ohio Presidential Results to be Challenged
  November 20, 2004
  Steven Rosenfeld

Franklin County, Ohio voting machine assignments, and other information
  November 20, 2004
  Free Press staff

Coalition's Support of Voting Machines Causes Confusion
  November 20, 2004
  Lynn Landes

Hearings on Ohio voting put 2004 election in doubt
  November 18, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Closing the Circle: The Corporatization of Elections
  November 17, 2004
  Greg Coleridge

Subordinating nation's secular values to zealots' will
  November 12, 2004
  Pierre Tristam

The Public Hearings and Rally About Election Fraud in Columbus, OH this weekend, Sat. 11/13-Please pass widely!
  November 12, 2004
  Dr. Lora Chamberlain

Slip-sliding away in Columbus
  November 11, 2004
  Carolyn M. Sherman

Green and Libertarian Presidential Candidates to Demand Ohio Recount
  November 11, 2004
  Blair Bobier and Stephen Gordon

An End To Mourning
  November 9, 2004
  Todd Huffman, M.D.

November 3rd action
  November 6, 2004
  Mark Huntress

The Bible, The Constitution, and the James Carville Experiment
  November 5, 2004
  Tom Luffman

Basic report from Columbus
  November 5, 2004
  Ray Beckerman

Waiting to vote
  November 5, 2004
  James K. Galbraith

Confessions of a political Know-Nothing in the wake of the 2004 elections
  November 4, 2004
  Mark Anderson

Let the spin begin
  November 4, 2004
  Free Press staff

Back Stabbers Cost Kerry in Ohio!
  November 4, 2004
  Tom Luffman

The Last Battle
  November 4, 2004
  Sheila Samples

Republican America! Republican Forever!
  November 3, 2004
  Am Johal

Is there inner-city election suppression in Franklin County, Ohio?
  November 2, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis

Michael Moore in Columbus
  November 1, 2004
  Tom Luffman

No love in the Heartland: Kerry gets mocked in Pa. school election
  November 1, 2004
  Jamie Pietras

Ten reasons for Greens to vote for Kerry
  November 1, 2004
  Don St.Clair

Twelve ways Bush is now stealing the Ohio vote
  October 27, 2004
  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

GW Bush Before the Iraq War
  October 24, 2004
  Larry S. Rolirad

MISOGYNY
  October 24, 2004
  David Podvin

Foreign Policy Forecast: If Bush Wins | If Kerry Wins
  October 18, 2004
  Muqtedar Khan

Hope for the homestretch
  October 15, 2004
  Paul Rogat Loeb

FactCheck.org says Cheney got it wrong
  October 8, 2004
  Jason Leopold

Do the Hokey Pokey
  October 6, 2004
  Philip J. Rappa

Hope for the homestretch
  October 2, 2004
  Paul Rogat Loeb

Addressing Republican issues with John Kerry
  October 1, 2004
  Free Press staff

Gallup Polls- Conditioning for Vote Rigging?
  September 28, 2004
  Stephen Crockett and Al Lawrence

Too Many Cameras and Not Enough Truth: John Kerry Dodges the Press
  September 14, 2004
  Joshua Frank

Nader 2000 Leaders United To Defeat Bush
  September 14, 2004
  Nader 2000 Leaders United To Defeat Bush

Shut up and color: the politics of bullying
  September 7, 2004
  Paul Rogat Loeb

Kerry, Nader and the Greens need to kill the circular firing squad
  August 15, 2004
  Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis

Don’t Believe the Hype; Terrorist Warnings Just Another Way Bush Will Steal Election
  August 9, 2004
  Jason Leopold

President of Greater Stark County AFL-CIO speaks out on Bush’s visit in Canton, Ohio
  August 1, 2004
  Dan Sciury

I'll Follow Kucinich to Kerry, Sorry Ralph
  July 28, 2004
  David Swanson

Badnarik Doubles in Recent National Poll
  July 28, 2004
  Libertarian Party

‘A green world is possible’ planned in New York City during the Republican National Convention
  July 28, 2004
  Green Party

An open letter to progressives: vote Kerry and Cobb
  July 24, 2004
  Eleven prominent progressives

A street fighting man? How Kucinich can win
  April 21, 2004
  Josh Frank

Scary, Scary John Kerry
  March 25, 2004
  Josh Frank

With all deliberate stupidity: US self-isolation makes Iraq a virtual non-issue in the elections so far
  March 22, 2004
  Daniel Patrick Welch

To support or not to support; the Nader question
  March 16, 2004
  Josh Frank

Halliburton, VP Cheney's Former Company Faces Second Criminal Probe In Four Years
  February 24, 2004
  Jason Leopold

The Lone Ranger of Righteousness
  February 23, 2004
  Paul Rogat Loeb

The Wrong Side of History
  February 22, 2004
  Daniel Patrick Welch

High Noon in America
  January 26, 2004
  Philip J. Rappa

The Truth is Out: Kucinich is the choice of progressives
  January 15, 2004
  via Daniel P. Welch

Dean and Kucinich
  January 13, 2004
  Paul Rogat Loeb

Bush Should Be Facing 'A Long, Hard Slog' On The Campaign Trail, But Dems Too Busy Fighting With Each Other
  January 12, 2004
  Jason Leopold

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