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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 8, 2004 23:41:03 GMT -5
BREAKING! KERRY TO UNCONCEDE IF THERE IS EVIDENCE OF FRAUD
FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW! EMAIL FROM DC LAWYER CYNTHIA BUTLER
I am angry and getting emails and recrimination from people wondering why KERRY just caved and is not fighting this before the final count in Ohio, before any of the fraud was challenged, before New Mexico and Iowa even came in.
There is widespread feeling that he did not lose the election and that it was taken from him. There is enough here to warrant investigation and enough to challenge the results. It's coming from all corners.
I understand that Kerry has until the official count certification in Ohio to Un-Concede, which is several days from now.
Anyone who thinks that he should unconcede should give reasons why -- whatever they noticed, particularly in Red Republican Governed States using electronic machines -- and send them directly to Cameron KERRY, John Kerry's brother at his law firm at the address CKerry@Mintz.com
They should inform us if they were not allowed to vote provisionally (for whatever reason -- they lost forms, ran out of forms, etc.) I personally witnessed a number of things as I reported in Texas with the DCCC. (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee).
If you know anyone in particular in Ohio who tried to vote and was turned away at the polls please get their information and notify the campaign. They should be notified if they experienced lines longer than four hours --particularly elderly or infirm people (we call that torture when they do it to political prisoners).
They should be notified if people were told, as has been reported, that due to too many people showing up in African American precincts, particularly in Ohio where there were too few booths (some only had two or three for the entire precinct) and told because of heavy turnout they could vote on Wednesday.
If the numbers of these sorts of incidents create a percentage margin that exceeds the margin of victory -- Un-Concession has to be made to challenge the count.
If people wanted to and tried to vote and were prevented or actively discouraged from doing so, that is a Civil Rights matter, and must be dealt with in terms of the ultimate count.
This is the last email that I am writing on this subject in this venue. I am taking it up in other venues.
Please pass this along to your listserves so that we may make Democracy Work in America. We are not a country where he who cheats best wins.
Cynthia L. Butler BUTLER LAW FIRM, P.C. 1717 K St. NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 9, 2004 0:02:52 GMT -5
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 9, 2004 0:27:20 GMT -5
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 9, 2004 23:24:29 GMT -5
New Mexico State Police investigating voter fraud www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=14841&cat=HOME Last Update: 11/09/2004 8:20:58 AM By: Reed Upton New Mexico State Police are investigating allegations of voter fraud – including one instance in which an as-of-yet unnamed woman is being connected with up to 200 bogus ballots. “One of my employees can identify one person that did bring in the majority of those [registration] cards that we didn’t enter into our rolls because addresses didn’t exist,” said Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrera, explaining why her office disqualified several provisional ballots. Provisional ballots are ballots that voters are allowed to cast if the voter’s name isn’t on the voter roll at their polling place. Before they are counted, the county clerk verifies that the voter is actually registered. Herrera says roughly 25 percent of the provisional ballots in Bernalillo County have been rejected as invalid. Now that those in-lieu-of ballots have been sorted, the vote counting begins. Currently, one percentage point of the vote total separates President George Bush from Senator John Kerry in the race to claim New Mexico’s five electoral votes.
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 9, 2004 23:28:48 GMT -5
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 9, 2004 23:34:27 GMT -5
Nebraska Countinghouse Blues Too many votes www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html Sarpy County election officials are trying to figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the general election. As many as 10,000 extra votes have been tallied and candidates are still waiting for corrected totals. Johnny Boykin lost his bid to be on the Papillion City Council. The difference between victory and defeat in the race was 127 votes. Boykin says, "When I went in to work the next day and saw that 3,342 people had shown up to vote in our war, I thought something's not right." He's right. There are not even 3,000 people registered to vote in his ward. For some reason, some votes were counted twice. Deputy Sarpy County Election Commissioner Ed Gilbert says, "It affected 32 of the 80 precincts. And I suppose as many as 10,000 votes." Sarpy County borrowed the election equipment from Omaha-based Election Systems & Software. Its employees operated the machines that are now double-checking the ballots. No one is sure exactly what went wrong. Gilbert says, "The only thing we know is that if you load the disc out there, it reads fine. They didn't read fine on this computer." Election officials say they don't believe the glitch will impact who won and who lost any of the races. They figure that when votes were doubled in a particular race, the totals were doubled for both candidates. Vote totals would be skewed but percentages would not change. In spite of that, the candidates want to know the real numbers. Boykin says, "I think we owe it to those folks to make sure all the votes got counted, correctly." As of Thursday night, the problem still had not been pinpointed. The Sarpy County Election office had hoped to post the updated results on its Web site but, at last check, we got the following message: "Updated unofficial results for the 2004 General Election are pending. Please check back later."
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 10, 2004 0:01:29 GMT -5
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 10, 2004 0:02:58 GMT -5
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 10, 2004 16:27:28 GMT -5
www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_newsTanks Appear at Anti-War Protest in Westwood, LA --by 'tick tick' (infoshop.org) "LOS ANGELES, November 9, 2004 - At 7:50 PM armored tanks showed up at an anti-war protest in front of the federal building in Westwood. The tanks circled the block twice, the second time parking themselves in the street and directly in front of the area where most of the protesters were gathered. Enraged, some of the people attempted to block the tanks, but police quickly cleared the street. The people continued to protest the presence of the tanks, but after about ten minutes the tanks drove off. It is unclear as to why the tanks were deployed to this location."
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 10, 2004 16:41:29 GMT -5
Published Wednesday, November 10, 2004 www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041110/NEWS/411100373/1004Judge Rejects Suit Over Uncounted Absentee Ballots By CATHERINE WILSON The Associated Press MIAMI -- Election officials will not be forced to count absentee ballots delivered after 7 p.m. on Election Day, regardless of what problems caused late mailings, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union. The civil liberties group had asked for an emergency order requiring Miami-Dade and Broward election officials to count ballots received after last week's election-night cutoff. The absentees, counted or not, would not affect final statewide tallies that counties must submit to the state by Saturday. "Voters have failed to show the defendants arbitrarily or deliberately delayed in sending" the absentee ballots, U.S. District Judge Alan Gold wrote in a 48-page order. He noted the three voters named in the suit could have requested ballots earlier than "just days before the election." "It's the result we expected," said Burnadette Norris-Weeks, lawyer for Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes. Miami-Dade County lawyer Susan Torres said, "We believe that this is the right outcome." Howard Simon, executive director of the Florida ACLU, said he was disappointed. "We're disappointed when anybody's right to vote is denied, whether or not the vote has any impact on the election whatsoever," he said. "Basically, the county supervisors have gotten away with some negligence here." After receiving complaints about undelivered ballots, Broward County dropped off 9,000 absentee ballots at a U.S. Postal Service distribution center on the Saturday before Election Day, which meant they would not be delivered until the eve of the election. Voters were told they could return ballots by overnight mail at county expense.Palm Beach County, which was not covered by the lawsuit, put more than 5,500 absentee ballots in the mail the same weekend. A University of Central Florida student complained that he received his absentee ballot from Miami-Dade County on Election Day. A Miami-Dade memo noted problems with the vendor hired for absentee mailings Oct. 27. State law requires absentee ballots to be returned to election offices by the time polls close. Domestic ballots received afterward are not counted. Foreign absentees are granted an extra 10 days by state law. The judge rejected emergency relief, but the lawsuit stays alive for trial on a request to apply the late-counting rule used for foreign absentees to domestic ballots. "The state of Florida's legitimate state interests in requiring domestic absentee voters to return their ballots by 7 p.m. on Election Day justify the slight restrictions imposed on the rights of domestic absentee voters to vote," Gold found.
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 10, 2004 16:53:55 GMT -5
Leaking into major media.... glitches! Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio [glow=red,2,300]CNN.com[/glow] COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said. Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct, Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch. State and county election officials did not immediately respond to requests by The Associated Press for more details about the voting system and its vendor, and whether the error, if repeated elsewhere in Ohio, could have affected the outcome. Bush won the state by more than 136,000 votes, according to unofficial results, and Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday after acknowledging that 155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in Ohio would not change the result. (Full Ohio results) The Secretary of State's Office said Friday it could not revise Bush's total until the county reported the error. The Ohio glitch is among a handful of computer troubles that have emerged since Tuesday's elections. (Touchscreen voting troubles reported) In one North Carolina county, more than 4,500 votes were lost because officials mistakenly believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. And in San Francisco, a malfunction with custom voting software could delay efforts to declare the winners of four races for county supervisor. In the Ohio precinct in question, the votes are recorded onto a cartridge. On one of the three machines at that precinct, a malfunction occurred in the recording process, Damschroder said. He could not explain how the malfunction occurred. Damschroder said people who had seen poll results on the election board's Web site called to point out the discrepancy. The error would have been discovered when the official count for the election is performed later this month, he said. The reader also recorded zero votes in a county commissioner race on the machine. Workers checked the cartridge against memory banks in the voting machine and each showed that 115 people voted for Bush on that machine. With the other machines, the total for Bush in the precinct added up to 365 votes. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a glitch occurred with software designed for the city's new "ranked-choice voting," in which voters list their top three choices for municipal offices. If no candidate gets a majority of first-place votes outright, voters' second and third-place preferences are then distributed among candidates who weren't eliminated in the first round. (E-vote goes smoothly, but experts skeptical) When the San Francisco Department of Elections tried a test run on Wednesday of the program that does the redistribution, some of the votes didn't get counted and skewed the results, director John Arntz said. "All the information is there," Arntz said. "It's just not arriving the way it was supposed to." A technician from the Omaha, Neb. company that designed the software, Election Systems & Software Inc., was working to diagnose and fix the problem. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 10, 2004 16:59:14 GMT -5
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 10, 2004 17:09:07 GMT -5
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 10, 2004 17:15:59 GMT -5
Excellent logical site regarding Florida's voting machines and how similar counties voted dissimilarly with regard to the type of machines used:[/b] thesquanderer.com/votingmachines.htmlCheck out the Q and A, too!
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Post by Boomer Chick on Nov 10, 2004 18:28:34 GMT -5
November 10, 2004 www.legitgov.org/ www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news Diebold Source Code!!! --by ouranos (dailykos.com) "Dr. Avi Rubin is currently Professor of Computer Science at John Hopkins University. He 'accidentally' got his hands on a copy of the Diebold software program--Diebold's source code--which runs their e-voting machines. Dr. Rubin's students pored over 48,609 lines of code that make up this software. One line in particular stood out over all the rest: #defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4" All commercial programs have provisions to be encrypted so as to protect them from having their contents read or changed by anyone not having the key... The line that staggered the Hopkins team was that the method used to encrypt the Diebold machines was a method called Digital Encryption Standard (DES), a code that was broken in 1997 and is NO LONGER USED by anyone to secure programs. F2654hd4 was the key to the encryption. Moreover, because the KEY was IN the source code, all Diebold machines would respond to the same key. Unlock one, you have then ALL unlocked. I can't believe there is a person alive who wouldn't understand the reason this was allowed to happen. This wasn't a mistake by any stretch of the imagination."
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