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

Story notes For television producer Shonda Rhimes
  December 21, 2012
  Sheila Parks

Timeline 2004 – One more look at the Ohio election
  December 5, 2012
  Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., Author and Troy T. Seman, Editor

Dysfunction at Maricopa County Elections department disenfranchises tens of thousands
  November 21, 2012
  Linda Brown

SWING STATE: How the Fix was Nixed in Ohio
  November 20, 2012
  

Romney may have lost, but the voting system is still broken
  November 20, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

OPINION: Your vote got counted. Here's why
  November 14, 2012
  Sheila Parks

Matrix of Deceit: Forcing Pre-election and Exit polls to Match Fraudulent Vote Counts
  November 12, 2012
  A new book by Richard Charnin

Bifani rap on the state of the elections in the USA
  November 10, 2012
  Christopher Bifani

An America Yet To Be Born
  November 10, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

Voter Supression In Center City Allentown PA
  November 9, 2012
  Sydney McKenzie

An Election Protection Agenda for 2016
  November 9, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Vote totals for Obama and Romney inexplicably decreasing in three Ohio counties
  November 7, 2012
  Free Press staff

Opening of polls in Franklin County on Election Day
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press staff

Fitrakis returns from federal court hearing on Ohio voting machine software patch
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press staff

Good news for OSU students trying to vote
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press staff

Video of vote flipping in Pennsylvania
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press staff

Bob Fitrakis from the hearing today
  November 6, 2012
  Ecological Options Network

Reports from election observers and voters: Broken scanners and too many provisionals
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press staff

Nearly 1000 voters forced to vote provisional in a single Franklin county precinct
  November 6, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Nicole Ware

Breaking News: Judge denies request to stop illegal software patches
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press staff

Election watch report from Columbus Ohio
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press Stafff

Action at the Driving Park polling site
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press staff

The Battleground States: True Vote Sensitivity Analysis
  November 6, 2012
  Richard Charnin

Woman not allowed to vote
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press staff

Breaking News: Results of today’s hearing in state court on the uncertified and untested software
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press staff

Election Protection News Conference - Pt. 1
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press staff

Election Protection News Conference - Pt. 2
  November 6, 2012
  Free Press staff

Another Husted dirty trick in Ohio: Secretary of State's Office admits direct reporting function of untested election software
  November 5, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

OHIO – VOTE HEIST 2012?
  November 5, 2012
  Ecological Options Network

Invoices prove Romney-related voting company Hart InterCivic does maintenance on Cincinnati voting machines
  November 5, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

Columbus Free Press Editor and Publisher files suit in federal court to stop suspicious software
  November 5, 2012
  Gerry Bello

November 5 Press Conference: FEDERAL E-VOTING LAWSUIT FILED VS. OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN HUSTED GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEES REVEAL DETAILS
  November 5, 2012
  Velvet Revolution

The electronic architecture of voter suppression
  November 4, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

As Ohio Faces vote-rigging lawsuit, are dems, liberals, election officials ready to safeguard votes?
  November 4, 2012
  Art Levine

Busting election theft attempts
  November 4, 2012
  Ecological Options Network

Will Your Vote Even Get Counted?
  November 3, 2012
  Sheila Parks

The Free Press confirms installation, secret justification of uncertified last minute election tabulation reporting software in Ohio
  November 2, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

Will "experimental" software patches affect the Ohio vote?
  October 31, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis and Gerry Bello

Why we fight to prevent stolen elections in 2012 and beyond
  October 31, 2012
  Joan Brunwasser, Sally Castleman, Victoria Collier, Bob Fitrakis, Lori Grace, Emily Levy, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Jonathan Simon and Harvey Wasserman

Mike Connell: Man in the Middle
  October 30, 2012
  John Wellington Ennis

Gripping documentary exposes voter suppression and election rigging in the 2004 presidential election
  October 29, 2012
  Roger Hill

Thom Pintello: I Just Want My Vote to Count"
  October 27, 2012
  A short film by Dorothy Fadiman

Why Romney has already won this electronic election, unless…
  October 26, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Partisan lies about the security of Hart e-voting machines continue to flow from Hamilton County
  October 25, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

Romney family and friends will help tabulate the vote count in Cincinnati: Hart Intercivic holds maintenance contracts on their own machines
  October 24, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

Election software company Scytl on the run from the Free Press, from one fake address to the next
  October 22, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

The case for irrational voting
  October 21, 2012
  David Swanson

Why are legal scholars dismissing election fraud?: Manufactured skepticism and exit polls
  October 21, 2012
  Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

Jamia Shepard: Advocate for Voter Rights
  October 19, 2012
  Dorothy Fadiman

Does the Romney family now own your e-vote?
  October 18, 2012
  Gerry Bello, Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Secretary of State’s directive allowing early voting during three days before Election Day long overdue: Lawsuits and voter confusion could have been avoided
  October 16, 2012
  ACLU Ohio

“It’s Ok to leave your abuser,” says Green Party VP candidate
  October 14, 2012
  Tom Over

Will H.I.G.-owned e-voting machines give Romney the White House?
  October 12, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Ignore debate zingers, focus on issues
  October 5, 2012
  Rev. Jesse Jackson

Bob Fitrakis speaks at Neighborhood House candidate forum
  October 5, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis

Last three days before election early voting reinstated in Ohio...sort of
  October 5, 2012
  Free Press Staff

Book Review: A Must Read for All U.S. Citizens
  September 28, 2012
  Sue Mundell

Vote counting company tied to Romney
  September 27, 2012
  Gerry Bello & Bob Fitrakis

Will 9 GOP governors electronically flip Romney into the White House?
  September 25, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Ohio Elections Commission finds probable cause that anti-Issue 2 ad is misleading
  September 20, 2012
  Sandy Theis

Who owns Scytl? George Soros isn’t in the voting machines, but the intelligence community is
  September 18, 2012
  Gerry Bello

Will the GOP steal America's 2012 election?
  September 6, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Pragmatic Racism
  September 6, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

Four ways the Ohio GOP is already stealing the 2012 election
  August 25, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Gubernatorial Recall Ballots Saved from Destruction in Waukesha County, WI - For Now...
  August 15, 2012
  Brad Friedman

What Paul Ryan has and Obama wants
  August 13, 2012
  David Swanson

Playing field is tilted against voters
  August 8, 2012
  Rev. Jesse Jackson

Colonels in mirrored sunglasses
  August 7, 2012
  Greg Palast

The new Jim Crow: Massive disenfranchisement returns
  July 30, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Mishandled Redistricting disenfranchises 3,000 voters
  July 29, 2012
  Bev Harris

Corporate vote theft and the future of American democracy PART ONE
  July 24, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

New certifications, planned expansion
  July 21, 2012
  Black Box Voting

Progressive morality
  June 14, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

Was the election stolen in Wisconsin - what are the odds?
  June 9, 2012
  Richard Charnin

Columbus Free Press in the news: A million voters purged
  June 9, 2012
  Free Press Staff

Wisconsin: New year, same stench
  June 7, 2012
  Jonathan Simon

Republican retreat - Ohio House Republicans defeat their own voter suppression bill
  May 13, 2012
  Bob Fitrakis

Elections: What are they good for?
  March 26, 2012
  David Swanson, Remarks at Left Forum

The peace movement needs Kucinich, with or without Congress
  March 7, 2012
  David Swanson

Ron Paul, "Progressive" for who?
  February 12, 2012
  Bruce Bostick

Do We Approve of Murder Based on Political Party? Pollsters Don't Want You to Know
  February 12, 2012
  David Swanson

The State of Obama's 2008 Promises
  February 9, 2012
  David Swanson

The election we should be following
  February 9, 2012
  David Swanson

Booing the Golden Rule
  January 22, 2012
  David Swanson

Six Problems with New Hampshire Elections
  January 9, 2012
  Bev Harris, Black Box Voting

The hollow democracy
  January 6, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

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