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Harvey Wasserman's Essay

Dear Harvey,

Thanks for hitting the issue head-on.  I DO feel betrayed. When the judges allowed stand-by Republicans to challenge voters standing in line, I KNEW it was Florida repeated. Send me in the right direction.  Who do I support?

Will this effort continue?  Hope so. Found you on commondreams.org A little younger than I am, but a real product of the 60's. Carol Harkins

PS.  Our race for governor has still not been resolved, the national Dems could have waited, too.  If our ballots for governor have still not been counted, when is the final tabulation due on the presidential election?

True experience from a Texas poll worker

This following is a copy of the email that I sent to various news organizations and personal friends on November 3rd, 2004.

Election fraud

Mr. Wasserman:

No need for confusion here: (1) Web articles clearly demonstrate to anyone with the intelligence of a Teddy Bear that Kerry "threw" the Election.

(2) Articles state that he will be walking off into the mists of time with millions of unspent campaign money.

(3) One article, with references, indicates that Mrs. Heinz-Kerry received a gold warehouse receipt worth 5 million (thanks, no doubt, for keeping a firm grip on our hero's testicles).

(4) Other speculation is that Dr. Dean was shot down early as a real threat to Bush so that a non-entitiy like Kerry, with the personality of a freshly opened oyster,  could impersonate a viable candidate for the public.

(5) Since it would offend many, I will not characterize those who ever thought Kerry had the chance of a snowbell in Hell.

(6) I was about to ramble on about corruption of the voting, but have been interrupted by an ominous knock at the door.

  Bob A.

The Public Hearings and Rally About Election Fraud in Columbus, OH this weekend, Sat. 11/13-Please pass widely!

Hello to all

I am Dr. Lora Chamberlain in Chicago of the Illinois Progressive Democrats. I am helping the League of Pissed Off Voters, CASE and other citizens groups in Ohio with their public hearings about election fraud and a rally for a full criminal investigation into any and all election fraud during this past election on Nov.2nd.

Reach Out, a citizen action group in Ohio is sponsoring the rally on Sat. 11/13th at the Capitol Square in downtown Columbus, OH,  180 E. Broadway, beginning at 10:30am and going until 12:30pm, then they will march to the public hearings that will begin at 1pm and go until 4pm at the New Faith Baptist Church, 955 Oak St., on the near east side of Columbus, OH. Additional public hearings will occur on Mon, 11/15, 6-9pm at the Franklin County Courthouse, room A, 373 S. High St in downtown Columbus. All interested citizens are encouraged to attend. This rally and the hearings will be posted at www.indyvoter.org in the calendar and at www.michiganIMC.org .

None dare call it voter suppression and fraud article correction

I read your article with considerable interest. I am a Miami County democrat who believes that there was probably considerable fraud in the election. But your article has some incorrect information about the Miami County election results. Your critics will try to use the bad info to repudiate your entire article.

I was in the Miami County Board of Elections most of the evening on November 2. We have a small family company that developed and hosts the website for the Miami County Board of Elections. I always post election results on the website. I was at the Board waiting for the final results. I watched as Steve Quillen, the Board Director, put floppy disks that he had taken from the tabulating computer and put them into the reporting computer. He did this at about 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100% of the count. Each time he added more votes, he generated a paper report which was duplicated and passed out to reporters waiting in the hall outside. I looked at each of the reports. When the final one came out about midnight, we copied the report file onto my floppy disk. I came home and immediately

Why did John Kerry abandon his crew (US!) in battle?

Thank you Harvey for this article. It really resonates with me.

I too was awe-struck at the speed with which Kerry conceded, just as Gore had conceded so immediately in 2000.

It makes me think there's something very strange going on.

What I found very odd and disconcerting was how the johnkerry.com website IMMEDIATELY pulled the plug on their blog at the end of November 2.  The vibrant blog which was the place where the Kerry supporters could communicate and strategize together was instantly killed, just when it was needed most.  It just doesn't make any sense.

I get the sense that the Democrats are just a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Republicans. Not a real party, but just a prop just to "prove" that we're not a one-party state. It's similar to when a corporation spins off a new brand that makes the identical product they make, just so consumers can feel they're buying something new, when it's really the same old product repackaged.

Thanks for all your great work.

Like you said, it's up to us REAL people to keep the fight alive.

Peace
-Dave Weaver
Portland, Oregon

Subordinating nation's secular values to zealots' will

Following the president's re-election by the electoral synod last week, the sentimental apoplectic in me couldn't help picturing the last scene in "The Day After," the movie about a nuclear holocaust. Shredded and shrunken, Jason Robards' doctor-character sits on the rubble of his house as the camera pans out to reveal a flattened Lawrence, Kan.

What hydrogen bombs couldn't do to the Democratic Party, Karl Rove and George W. Bush finally did, with a little help from a ringer. Five votes swung the election Bush's way four years ago. It took just one vote this time -- Osama bin Laden's, cast with impeccable timing over the last three years to keep fear the value-added commodity it's been for the Bush administration. Without fear, there could be no crusade (against heathens abroad and at home, but mostly at home), and, without crusade, there could be no appeal to the deciding factor in American politics: the religious bloc. So, the 2004 election panned out as a choice between committed evangelicals and committed secularists. Evangelicals won.

Ohio Status today

What is going on today in OH? Is anyone challenging Blackwell's illegal discard of votes based on the date standard?

It is indeed bitterly ironic that Mr. Blackwell, an African American whose forefathers were not allowed to vote, is now engaged in the prevention of voting by others of his same race, and certainly in his same state. It is shameful.

Paul A. Thompson

My advice

EAT SHIT & DIE!

Kerry Laramore
Baytown, Texas

More subtle vote fraud??

America,

Is miscounting votes the only way this election could have been manipulated? I was told by filling out a form when my driver's license was renewed, I would be registered to vote. Months later, excited about democracy, I went to the polls, only to be turned away because there was no record of it, nor acknowledgement of the existence of the system for registering that I was led to believe was the simplest and least error-prone. I was also misinformed by the election worker that sprang to action when I asked what recourse I had, that filling out a provisional ballot would have no effect on this election. I do not think there is a coincidence here. Nor is it one that my wife had the same exact experience, independently. The New York Times is quick to legitimize the election and delegitimize news sources that are not itself. I hope your organization can succeed in its mission. I hope this account helps. When I saw this morning, in my usual news source, that someone had already thought of the name for a website that I realized a few days ago would be the perfect one to effect change in this country, I decided to help, rather than dream about

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