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

Has America's stolen election process finally hit prime time?
  December 29, 2011
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  November 12, 2011
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Ohio Election issues
  November 5, 2011
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  October 29, 2011
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Straw poll results at Ohio Union from Franklin County Republican Party
  October 23, 2011
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  October 16, 2011
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Über-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President
  October 7, 2011
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BLACKBOXVOTING: RACIAL DILUTION OF VOTING RECORDS
  September 30, 2011
  Bev Harris

The theft of 2012
  September 21, 2011
  Greg Palast

Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg endorses Norman Solomon for Congress: Will join the candidate on campaign trail
  September 21, 2011
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Ten years after and still no third major party
  September 12, 2011
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  September 2, 2011
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  August 12, 2011
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New court filing reveals how the 2004 Ohio presidential election was hacked
  July 20, 2011
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Hacking the recalls: Why we must have hand-counted paper ballots and citizen exit polls
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The Ohio Republican Party is poised to steal the 2012 vote in Ohio
  July 4, 2011
  Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Wisconsin: Democracy in our hands
  June 25, 2011
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Waukesha fraud – Deep throat speaks: A slip of paper is the “deep throat” of the Supreme Court Election Fraud
  June 17, 2011
  Dennis Kern

Ostroy Report: When Did the Truth Become "Gotcha" Journalism?
  May 20, 2011
  Andy Ostroy

New Hampshire is going against the grain
  May 1, 2011
  Black Box Voting

To The American Media: Time To Face The Reality Of Election Rigging
  April 11, 2011
  Jonathan Simon

Strange Twist in Wisconsin Battle
  April 10, 2011
  Lisa Pease

Bob Fitrakis, Mark Crispin Miller & Jonathan Simon to speak at NYC's Left Forum on electronic voting issues
  March 12, 2011
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Where there's a Will there’s a way to invalidly defend Bush v. Gore
  February 6, 2011
  Joseph C. Sommer

Will Karl Rove bury the record of his 2004 election theft?
  January 10, 2011
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