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

Election Summit summary: What really happened in Ohio in 2008
  November 16, 2009
  Bob Fitrakis

2008 Ohio Election Protection Report
  November 16, 2009
  CICJ, Election Integrity, Green Party of Ohio

Eight reasons the Democrats lost Virginia & New Jersey—and how to recover
  November 15, 2009
  Paul Rogat Loeb

Ohioans will vote on Issue 2 on Nov 3. Is the ballot initiative a corporate power grab ?
  October 29, 2009
  Tom Over

Your electronic vote in the 2010 election has just been bought
  September 24, 2009
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

OOPS! We rigged the Iran/Florida-Ohio vote count AGAIN!!
  June 23, 2009
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Reaping the Bushes' Iranian Whirlwind
  June 15, 2009
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

John Gideon: 1947-2009 - Loss of a giant voice in election integrity
  April 30, 2009
  Bev Harris, Black Box Voting

Democracy under attack in Florida
  April 27, 2009
  Joan Brunwasser, Op. Ed. News

Following up with Steve Heller, formerly known as the "Diebold Whistle-blower"
  February 9, 2009
  Joan Brunwasser

Killing hope: coverup of the 2004 election
  January 3, 2009
  Pete Johnson

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