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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SWING STATE: How the Fix was Nixed in Ohio
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Preview Clips from a new EON/FreePress.org joint Work in Progress. This a a trailer for our Indiegogo project - a documentary on the inside story of how investigative reporting, the Green Party, the Election Protection movement, pre-emptive litigating and just plain angry voters saved the Dems from Karl Rove in a key 2012 battleground state. Please go to:
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OPINION: Your vote got counted. Here's why
by Sheila Parks
Yes, my side won. So, the argument could be made that I was wrong when it comes to election fraud. The real story is more complicated. I believe that my side – your side, the women’s side – won in part because voting rights activists were vigilant. They kept Americans watching, to make sure to document irregularities at the polls.
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Recent Election Issues Articles

An open letter to the Election Assistance Commission
  December 25, 2005
  John Gideon, Executive Director of VotersUnite.Org and Information Manager for VoteTrustUSA.Org

Diebold hack proven in county test!
  December 17, 2005
  Glenn Yeagley

Diebold Inc. in a tailspin after resignation of CEO and filing of a class action fraud lawsuit
  December 17, 2005
  VelvetRevolution.us

Orr thinks machines make voting simpler, more secure
  December 17, 2005
  Mario Bartoletti

Diebold "hack test" - Sec. State / Black Box Lawyer square off
  December 10, 2005
  Black Box Voting

With new legislation, Ohio Republicans plan holiday burial for American Democracy
  December 6, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Important daily voting news
  December 4, 2005
  John Gideon

Poll shock
  November 24, 2005
  Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services

Ohio's Diebold Debacle: New machines call election results into question
  November 24, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Diebold attempts to evade election transparency laws
  November 20, 2005
  Matt Zimmerman

Supreme Court stabs another GOP knife into US democracy by upholding ex-felon vote ban
  November 16, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Has American Democracy died an electronic death in Ohio 2005's referenda defeats?
  November 11, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

What John Kerry definitely said about 2004’s stolen election and why it's killing American democracy
  November 10, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Scrap the "secret" ballot - return to open voting
  November 5, 2005
  Lynn Landes 

Clarification of NEDA's withdrawal of Ohio exit poll paper
  November 5, 2005
  Kathy Dopp

Clarification of NEDA's withdrawal of Ohio exit poll paper
  November 3, 2005
  Kathy Dopp, National Election Data Archive

Watergate-style money laundering indictments stoke Ohio's stolen election fires
  October 28, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
  October 26, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Did you erase your own vote?
  October 25, 2005
  Warren Stewart, Director of Legislative Issues and Policy, www.VoteTrustUSA.org

Why can't the left face the Stolen Elections of 2004 & 2008?
  October 18, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Carter/Baker Report can't face how the GOP stole America's 2004 election & is rigging 2008
  September 20, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
  September 20, 2005
  Warren Stewart, Director of Legislative Issues and Policy, VoteTrustUSA

FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions in False Claims to Help Bush Win Fla. Votes
  September 19, 2005
  Jason Leopold

Ohio recount lawsuit set for trial; election workers indicted
  September 4, 2005
  Blair Bobier

Ohio Governor's ethics violations expose money trail to stolen 2004 election
  August 30, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Diebold's failure in California
  August 7, 2005
  John Gideon, Information Manager, www.VotersUnite.Org and www.VoteTrustUSA.Org

Did the GOP steal another Ohio Election?
  August 5, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Conyers-Kaptur seek special counsel for Noe probe
  August 4, 2005
  John Conyers, Jr. and Marcy Kaptur

Dramatic new charges deepen link between Ohio's "Coingate," Voinovich mob connections, and the theft of the 2004 election
  July 29, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

None dare call it stolen - Ohio, the election, and America's servile press
  July 24, 2005
  Mark Crispin Miller, summarized by Mary Anne Saucier, Columbus, Ohio

Civic Engagement and the Restoration of Community from a voter activist’s view
  July 19, 2005
  Terri Zins

My report from Hocking County, July 5, 2005: An update on Sherole Eaton's unfolding Story
  July 7, 2005
  Victoria Parks, Ohio Backbone Campaign

Handbook for Ohio Voter Activists, Version 2.0
  July 7, 2005
  Various activists

Direct testimony: Presented to Election Assessment Hearing
  July 4, 2005
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

Log Cabin Republicans in Ohio
  July 4, 2005
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

With a limp election theft report, Dems prove why they're unworthy
  June 28, 2005
  Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis

Voting problems and uncounted votes in Lucas County, Ohio
  June 28, 2005
  Justine Smith

The DNC 2004 Election Report: An indictment of incompetence
  June 25, 2005
  Steven Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis

Corporate control of the election process
  June 22, 2005
  John Gideon

Introduction: Did George W. Bush steal America's 2004 election?
  June 16, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

Voter Confidence Committee Calls For Rejection of CA Special Election
  June 16, 2005
   Dave Berman

Activists from 25 states lobby for paper ballots on June 9 and 10
  June 10, 2005
  VoteTrustUSA.org

Fear of riffraff
  June 10, 2005
  Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services

Electoral Politics and the War: Lessons from 2004 and What the Anti-War Movement Should do in 2006
  June 8, 2005
  Kevin Zeese

Optical scan machines hacked in Florida
  June 2, 2005
  Black Box Voting

Does ES&S really want to sell the Automark machines?
  May 28, 2005
  John Gideon

Attack on election board whistleblower and leaked Blackwell threats re-fire Ohio's election theft scandal
  May 23, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Franklin County, Ohio Election Procedures – April and May 2005
  May 6, 2005
  Paddy Shaffer

Carter Gets It – But Will His Electoral Commission?
  April 24, 2005
  Kevin Zeese and Linda Schade

Voter Perceptions and Political Deceptions: Federal, Ohio and Knox
  April 24, 2005
  Mike Swinford

Electoral reform groups call for James Baker's resignation from electoral reform commission
  April 17, 2005
  Ilene Proctor

National Conference on Election Reform Opens with Civil Rights Panel
  April 13, 2005
  Abigail Thorton

View from Another Planet
  April 13, 2005
  Josh Mitteldorf

Democrats!  Paper “Trails” Aren’t Good Enough.  Count The Damn Ballots!
  April 12, 2005
  Lynn Landes 

Democrats, Paper ‘Trails’ Aren’t Good Enough; Count The Damn Ballots!
  April 1, 2005
  Lynn Landes, Online Journal Contributing Writer

Scientific Analysis Suggests Presidential Vote Counts May Have Been Altered
  March 30, 2005
  US Vote Counts

As Blackwell Says, Ohio’s in 2004 was a National Model
  March 24, 2005
  Steve Rosenfeld, Bob Fitrakis, and Harvey Wasserman

Understanding the difference between paper ballots and paper audit trails
  March 20, 2005
   Gary Beckwith

Save Our Democracy
  March 16, 2005
  John Irwin

Republicans maneuvering to get Voting Rights Act killed
  March 10, 2005
  Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.

Legal filing highlights Blackwell's hypocrisy in Ohio recount case
  March 7, 2005
  Blair Bobier

Selma 40 Years Later
  March 6, 2005
  Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.

Exit Poll Madness - Analyst Steve Freeman & Company Offer False Choice
  March 4, 2005
  Lynn Landes

Libertarians To Testify in Ohio House: Modernize Ohio's Election Laws
  March 3, 2005
  Robert Butler

The New Voting Rights Movement Begins Here Today
  March 2, 2005
  Steven Rosenfeld

Voting in America
  February 28, 2005
  Bob Babson

The Mighty Texas Strike Force
  February 28, 2005
  Nick Mottern - Documentary News Service

Blackwell presidential election sanctions briefs
  February 22, 2005
  Various individuals

Representative Conyers and others file amicus brief in Ohio Supreme Court
  February 17, 2005
  Dena Graziano

Congresswoman Tubbs Jones Outraged at Blackwell's Failure to Appear During House Administration Hearing
  February 12, 2005
  Office of Rep. Tubbs Jones

Ohio Attorney-General's attack on election protection attorneys draws mountain of documentation on state's stolen election, including new study on exit polls
  February 3, 2005
  Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

Prominent Statisticians Refute 'Explanation' of 2004 U.S. Exit Poll Discrepancies in New Edison/Mitofsky Report and Urge Investigation of U.S. Presidential Election Results
  January 31, 2005
  Bruce O'Dell

The last man to concede...
  January 29, 2005
  Sheila Samples

Report on Washington DC, January 6, 2005
  January 25, 2005
  Avram Friedman

Arkansas in 2004: Did Bush Really Win?
  January 24, 2005
  Max Standridge

New links
  January 23, 2005
  Free Press staff

Voting Problems and Uncounted Votes in Lucas County, Ohio
  January 23, 2005
  Justine Smith

Plan B:  Parallel Elections & Signed Ballots
  January 20, 2005
  Lynn Landes

Open Letter to Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro from Representative John Conyers, Jr.
  January 20, 2005
  Representative John Conyers, Jr.

Open Letter to Warren Mitofsky and Larry Rosin from Representative John Conyers, Jr.
  January 20, 2005
  Representative John Conyers, Jr.

Ohio's GOP Attorney General launches revenge attack on Election Protection legal team
  January 19, 2005
  Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

What are they hiding in New Mexico?
  January 18, 2005
  Warren Stewart, National Ballot Integrity Project

In the Shadow of Dr. King, counting the vote remains a civil rights issue
  January 17, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

Did the “Liberal Media” Get the 2004 Election All Wrong?
  January 16, 2005
  Gene C. Gerard

'COUNT EVERY VOTE.  EVERY VOTE COUNTS'
  January 16, 2005
  Mary Anne Saucier

Moss v. Bush moves on and movement continues
  January 13, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

Rally Continues Drive for Democracy
  January 9, 2005
   Mark Huntress

Estimated vote count in Ohio
  January 8, 2005
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

January 6 Washington, D.C. rally report
  January 8, 2005
  Nick Mottern

Together, we moved three mountains
  January 8, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

What the election challenge means
  January 8, 2005
  David Swanson, ILCA

Progressive Democrats lead historic voting rights protest as Congress ratifies flawed 2004 Electoral College tally
  January 7, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

Arnebeck letter to Congress re Presidential Electoral Challenge
  January 6, 2005
  Clifford O. Arnebeck, Jr.

Senator Barbara Boxer, D-CA and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-OH contested the election
  January 6, 2005
  Free Press staff

The "Crime of November 2":  The human side of how Bush stole Ohio, and why Congress must investigate rather than ratify the Electoral College (Part Two of Two)
  January 5, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff
  January 5, 2005
  U.S. Rep. John Conyers and staff

Seven key reasons why the vote must be challenged at the electoral college
  January 3, 2005
  Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

Ten preliminary reasons why the Bush vote does not compute, and why Congress must investigate rather than certify the Electoral College (Part One of Two)
  January 3, 2005
  Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman

Verified election contest petitions and documents in Ohio Supreme Court
  January 2, 2005
  The undersigned

Distribution of voting machines by county in Ohio
  January 1, 2005
  Andy Shifflette

Did We Bounce An Election?
  January 1, 2005
  Warren Stewart, votersunite.org

Presidential election congressional hearing transcript
  January 1, 2005
  Congresspeople Waters, Tubbs-Jones and Conyers and others

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