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Regarding your suspicion about the election

I voted for Peroutka. I didn't want either one of the creeps. But how is it that you just don't understand that the "two-party system" is a joke on you and the rest of us?

Don't you get it? Both candidates are members of the Brotherhood of Death. Both do the bidding of their shadow handlers. We are not represented by those we elect. It's the super-rich globalists who run everything. And they don't care what we little insects do to each other. It only matters that we keep toiling and paying our taxes, buying their crap and watching their movies and TV garbage, listening to their crummy "music". As Americans are weakened and our economy is lowered to bring us closer to that of the third world countries our "duly elected" representatives take our money and enrich themselves. Don't you believe Carroll Quigley's writings?

Attorney refuses to testify, jailed

Ohio attorney and prisoner-rights activist Alice Lynd was held in contempt of court and sentenced to jail to Friday until she agrees to testify about an inmate's purported confession to her that he killed an inmate during the Lucasville prison riot in 1993.

In an emotional hearing before Scioto County Common Pleas Judge William T. Marshall in Portsmouth, Ohio, Lynd, 74, refused to testify about what an inmate she referred to only as "Mr. X" told her about the murder because it would violate attorney-client privilege.

Prosecutors argued that Lynd was not the inmate's attorney and that attorney-client privilege did not apply. Judge Marshall agreed, and sentenced Lynd to jail. He offered to stay the sentence while Lynd's attorney sought a stay from the appeals court if she agreed to testify if the appeals court upheld his ruling. Lynd said she could not, in good conscience, testify about what "Mr. X" told her without his permission under any circumstances.

Thank you

Hi

Thank you for the 11/18/04 article "Hearings on Ohio Voting Put 2004 Election in Doubt." We need all citizens aware and involved in this issue - if we do not put a stop to voter intimidation, black box voting and scanners, we'll never have a legitimate election again. I am so very afraid where the nation is headed - does democracy still exist??

Sincerely,
Susan Kerwin
Goldendale, WA

If Election Were Fair, I Think Kerry Would Win

Dear Editor:

I am a "rinky-dinky non-credible person" from Utah, barely even a bug. Nobody believes me because I am a sky-blue petunia in an onion patch of rabid Republicans. I committed the unpardonable sin in my neck of the woods and I voted for John Kerry. However, I'm glad that I did.

Once upon a time I was a Republican and I was ready to leap off any high-rise building for my cause -- a Right-wingy-dingy fundamentalist world. I even almost started hating the very place that brought my family together in the first place -- Yellowstone National Park. I, as an at the time only child, was raised for nearly a month on the ground in Yellowstone by two protective parents, but that's another story for another time.

When I was in college, after my freshman year, Mom and Dad were rotten, I thought, because "Mom and Dad were stupid Democrats" and I thought that I knew so much more than they did. I was ready to disown them and in fact, some kids I went to college with were ready to revolt against their more sane Democratic parents because the "hate Democrats" attitude had arrived on campus. Please do

OHIO, OHIO AND OHIO

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman are just a pair of CON MEN.  

For their information in every state of the Union were delays, faulty machines, arrogant  poll people, etc.  

I am myself part of the minority, Hispanic/Conservative in NYC and have never complain about my lot..Why? Because I am able to realize that we all live in an imperfect world, full of imperfect human beings, that life is not fair and yet we all want "fair treatment" for everything not realizing that THAT is only a WISH.  

So, please Bob and Harvey stop crying like babies, feeling sorry for all those that did not make a real effort to vote even if it were going to take them 6 to 12 hours to cast their vote.

Stop feeling sorry for those that had an exam the next day or had to go to work or had to take his or her child to school, etc..Those are only BIG EXCUSES that the minorities always find while trying to convince the others that they were being disenfranchised or discriminated against!!What a joke!!  

Yours,
  Luis D. Rey

Dr. Fitrakis

Dear Dr. Fitrakis,

I just want to say that until a week ago I had never heard of you. Since then I've been reading many of your articles and posting them on my website, which is devoted to the voter fraud issue.

Thank you for your great work. I really admire you and your obvious devotion to finding the truth and writing about it. You are a shining light in a sea of sewage we call "the media."

My website is here if you want to have a look:

solarbus.org/stealyourelection

I don't have to tell you, the battle we are in right now is the most important one of our lives. To me it's all about the truth. I just want to know the truth, whatever it is.

Peace,
Gary Beckwith

Harvey Wasserman's 11/17/04 piece; Clinton in LR

Dear Free Press:

Hello from Little Rock 11/17/04. This evening, they are opening the festivities for the Clinton Library.

But even as they do, I wonder if it isn't, by the second, becoming increasingly irrelevant.

You have touched a nerve with me, and I suspect with a lot of people, as we see these reports about the third parties trying to put together the money to recount the election.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are all in Little Rock, flipping us all the bird, bragging on themselves and their Clinton Library.

Well, I'm a lifelong AR resident. I would have appreciated all this a lot more if they'd timed it a little differently. It is a colossal case of bad timing.

I'm not a Vietnam veteran--or a veteran of any kind. I'm poor, and I struggle to believe the Democratic Party is about me. I'm a male WASP from the South. I have so many back and forth feelings about the Democratic Party anyway. No matter how poor you are, or even if you are homeless, the Democrtats often seem totally indifferent if you're a white male, especially from the South.

The vote

Thank you so much for speaking out about the voting process.  We must demand that it be transparent and public.  Paper trails don’t mean much if you can hack the totals, and I’m afraid that has become a red herring.  Paper trails are a necessary step, if we must use machines.  They are by no means the answer.  I believe we, as progressives, have to make this our number one priority until we get the vote back out of corporate, partisan (of either party) hands.

G.L. LeBlanc
Oregon

Hearings on Ohio voting...too many voting machines required per polling place???

I'm way behind you guys being successful in your Recount contest. I even made a contribution toward the filing fee, however minimal the amt. I could afford to make toward that great expense.

However, a quick read of your Free Press art., I wanted to pass onto you one comment, about one of the points raised -- b/c I think it's not a good point, and you better come up with better arguments than that if you hope to be successful in your challenge.

I'm referring to the Pastor, Werner Lange's remarks about min. no. of voting machines required. I think you should drop that one argument and move on with better ones -- not about how many machines were nec. required, but the 'wait times' standing in line, say at black precincts -- where you say peo. had to wait for incredible periods of time, like 3-6 hours!!! And, that, as a result, some voters got discouraged and left...I think that's a good example that whatever they were doing inside the polling place (not enough machines, not enough poll workers; slow processing time, whatever), that's a good indication that something was not working right in this process.

Analysis of unusual vote patterns in Florida 2004 election data compared to 2000 and registration increases by party

I've been doing my own analysis of the Florida election data today comparing 2004 results for President to the 2000 results and also to the increase in registration for Dems and Repubs between 2000 and 2004.

The stuff about the small optical scan counties appears to be mostly a red herring- nothing substantial there. The small Dixiecrat counties really vote like that.

But there are some big unusual patterns in the big touchscreen counties and a few of the big optical scan counties. They had a big Repub vote swing that was not consistent with the 2000 vote and the Dem and Repub registration increases between 2000 and 2004. For those who are interested I can email you my spread sheets.

The touchscreen counties with unusual Repub vote increases include: Broward, Hillsboro, Indian River, Lake, Martin, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Sarasota. I don't know whether the absentee ballots were included in the data I used or the extent that they were so this could be a smaller issue. Charlotte, Lee, Miami-Dade also had similar patterns but to a somewhat lesser degree.

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