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VOTING, LIKE FREE SPEECH, SHOULD BE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. Until we pass that constitutional amendment, a new voting rights law must be passed establishing a federal right to vote. What the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections illustrated above all else is the ability of partisan and ruthless political operatives to manipulate a haphazard system comprising 50 different state voting laws, as interpreted by secretaries of states and various county, ward and precinct officials....
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An electronic vote counting system included votes never cast in the total vote count reported for the 2004 Presidential election according to an official directly in charge of conducting the election, the Republican Director of the Miami County (Ohio) Board of Elections. The audit log for the system is missing all information for the 2004 Presidential election....
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See this video at the We Count 2006 Blog
This is well worth watching if you want to understand why pollworkers in Cleveland will not be allowed to post precinct results. It is fairly short because there is no reason. No acceptable reason in a Democracy, that is. Vicki Lovegren of Ohio Vigilance lays it out in plain, clear irrefutable language. Pollworkers need to perform an extremely simple two-step process. The BOE agreed to do this procedure in the spring, and now -- due to pressure from superiors -- may not do the posting.
Please also see Vicki's call to action below: This is What Democracy Looks Like !
The whole world will be watching next week's election, and Cuyahoga County's will be a major object of focus. WCPN will host World Have Your Say here in Cleveland on the 7th and 8th. Director Michael Vu was on Lou Dobbs on Sunday night and on CNN today. And wait until the new film, Hacking Democracy, airs this Thursday?
This is well worth watching if you want to understand why pollworkers in Cleveland will not be allowed to post precinct results. It is fairly short because there is no reason. No acceptable reason in a Democracy, that is. Vicki Lovegren of Ohio Vigilance lays it out in plain, clear irrefutable language. Pollworkers need to perform an extremely simple two-step process. The BOE agreed to do this procedure in the spring, and now -- due to pressure from superiors -- may not do the posting.
Please also see Vicki's call to action below: This is What Democracy Looks Like !
The whole world will be watching next week's election, and Cuyahoga County's will be a major object of focus. WCPN will host World Have Your Say here in Cleveland on the 7th and 8th. Director Michael Vu was on Lou Dobbs on Sunday night and on CNN today. And wait until the new film, Hacking Democracy, airs this Thursday?
There's a small college town in New York state called Oneonta. Some of the students at the state university there organized an event Monday night that had terrific turnout, and for once the crowd at a college political event was made up of mostly college students. I'm used to seeing adults in the majority at campus events related to political activism.
I was one of 10 speakers on a variety of topics related to the influence of campaign "contributions". My topic was war. The other speakers were excellent, and the students were well informed. That is, some of them were. One anonymous person submitted this question on a card during the Q and A part of the event:
"Mr. Swanson – Can you address the counter-argument to your idea. That if we leave Iraq a worse leader will take power and attack the US again?"
Again?
I was one of 10 speakers on a variety of topics related to the influence of campaign "contributions". My topic was war. The other speakers were excellent, and the students were well informed. That is, some of them were. One anonymous person submitted this question on a card during the Q and A part of the event:
"Mr. Swanson – Can you address the counter-argument to your idea. That if we leave Iraq a worse leader will take power and attack the US again?"
Again?
AUSTIN, Texas -- I'm still worried sick. The R's have seized the news cycle! Which says more about how dim American politics are than anything I can think of.
Apparently, the Michael J. Fox affair didn't have enough meat to it, and even Rep. Mark Foley is out of the game, so now we have the semi-hemi-demi-gaffe from John Kerry, who is not in fact running for anything.
If Kerry had been given as many breaks for misspeaking as George W. Bush has, he'd be a professor of grammar by now. And this all shows what the Bush regime has -- attacks on Kerry, Clinton, Kennedy, Pelosi, liberals! -- not any actual policies to help them.
Apparently, the Michael J. Fox affair didn't have enough meat to it, and even Rep. Mark Foley is out of the game, so now we have the semi-hemi-demi-gaffe from John Kerry, who is not in fact running for anything.
If Kerry had been given as many breaks for misspeaking as George W. Bush has, he'd be a professor of grammar by now. And this all shows what the Bush regime has -- attacks on Kerry, Clinton, Kennedy, Pelosi, liberals! -- not any actual policies to help them.
Tune in on your TV or visit http://www.DemocracyNow.org today to watch Bev Harris, Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman and others discuss voting reform efforts and the most recent attacks on democracy in the United States.
The direct link to the electoral reform portion of the program is: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/31/150223
The direct link to the electoral reform portion of the program is: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/31/150223
The following document was refused publication by the Columbus Dispatch.
COLUMBUS, OH George Voinovich crossed the line of integrity with his false allegations against Issue 3 in his Saturday Dispatch editorial. I will address a few of his outright lies:
COLUMBUS, OH George Voinovich crossed the line of integrity with his false allegations against Issue 3 in his Saturday Dispatch editorial. I will address a few of his outright lies:
The loss of our right to vote (or have it counted) is a media issue which is
why you are all getting this email. I've talked a lot about the effects of
media ownership consolidation on the destruction of democracy by permitting a
few corporations to fail to report the essential information we need to be a
self-governing people. Not only does the main stream media refuse to
investigate and report on the impossible discrepancies between the
'official' count and the exit polls, but they are actively complicit in this fraud. ABC,
CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox and the AP own the exit polls and have defied John
Conyers' request for the raw data, keeping that data secreted from even qualified
independent researchers.