Electoral Fraud Resource List 2
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lapsedmodernistAs you may remember, I compiled a comprehensive list of Election 2004 resources a couple of weeks ago. A follow-up was requested. I am posting the final result here. Much has happened in the last two weeks, and a lot of new information has been processed and aggregated.
Notes:
1. aggregate/watchdog websites listed in the first list of resources are continually updated and are excellent sources for up-do-date information
2. Links of particular interest/importance are indexed with a double asterisk.
ELECTORAL PROBLEMS RESOURCE LIST PART II
• BERKELEY FINDINGS**
A Berkeley research team held a press conference last weekend regarding their findings:
Data: (working paper: The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support of Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections, with additional appendices added 11/22/2004)
http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/VOTE2004/index.html
Summary of Findings:
- Irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000 excess votes or more to President George W. Bush in Florida.
- Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases in support for President Bush between 2000 and 2004. This effect cannot be explained by differences between counties in income, number of voters, change in voter turnout, or size of Hispanic/Latino population.
- In Broward County alone, President Bush appears to have received approximately 72,000 excess votes.
- We can be 99.9% sure that these effects are not attributable to chance.
The data is available in excel file, stata file and SPSS file formats
Inquiries regarding this study may be directed to mikehout@berkeley.edu
The press release for the study can be found here:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0411/S00229.htm
Some of the press coverage of the findings is listed below (both from mainstream and independent media)
From San Francisco Chronicle: Berkeley study scrutinizes Florida tally for Bush
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/19/VOTERFRAUD.TMP
from Yahoo news
UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041118/sfth066_1.html
From Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1118-14.htm
• VOLUSIA COUNTRY LAWSUIT**
FROM BLACKBOXVOTING.ORG: text of lawsuit (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/volusia-lawsuit.html)
Susan Rose Pynchon vs. Volusia County Canvassing Board and Ann McFall
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA
IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA
SUSAN ROSE PYNCHON,
Plaintiff
Vs.
VOLUSIA COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD
And ANN McFALL,
Defendants
____________________________________
COMPLAINT TO CONTEST ELECTION
Plaintiff, Susan Rose Pynchon, sues the Volusia County Canvassing Board and Ann McFall, defendants, and alleges:
1. This is an action brought under section 102,168, Florida Statutes (2004), to contest the certification that Ann McFall received more votes in the November 2 General Election in Volusia County, Florida, than did Patricia Northey.
2. Plaintiff is an elector resident and qualified to vote in Volusia County, Florida, residing at (redacted address).
3. Defendant Volusia County Canvassing Board consists of Joie Alexander, Member of the Volusia County Council, the Honorable Steven deLarouche, County Judge, and Deanie Lowe, Supervisor of Elections.
4. Defendant Ann McFall, (redacted address), is the candidate certified by the defendant Canvassing Board to have won the November 2, 2004 election for Supervisor of Elections.
5. Plaintiff has been informed that the Volusia County Canvassing Board certified the election results on November 12, 2004. Plaintiff is aware that the statutory deadline for filing this complaint is ten days following the date of that certification. Plaintiff alleges, however, that this complaint should be deemed timely filed for two reasons:
a. The Supervisor of Elections has unreasonably delayed providing information on which this complaint must be based, and still has not provided all of that information. The Canvassing Board is therefore estopped from asserting an untimely filing of this complaint.
b. The certification was based on inadequate and incomplete information regarding the election results, as will more particularly appear, and is, therefore, an invalid certification of those results.
6. A copy of the public records request emailed and faxed to the Supervisor of Elections on November 2, 2004, is attached. Some or all of the information requested is still missing from 59 of the 179 voting precincts, including portions of or all of the voting machine tapes for those 59 precincts, which are a vital part of official paper record of the election results from those precincts.
7. Complete information on problems with the voting machines prior to and during the election has not been provided.
8. Complete information relating to memory card failures during the election has not yet been provided.
9. Only a partial list of the transmission logs from the Accu-Vote optical scan server has been provided. Despite repeated requests, the Elections office has refused to provide to the Volusia County Democratic party the official election results, now stating that those results will not be available until December 1, 2004.
10. The Elections office has provided incomplete data regarding Early Voting and Absentee ballots. The Supervisor of Elections, for example, reported that the total number of absentee ballots and Early voting ballots, combined equaled 89,999 votes, yet the published figures for those totals is 84,100 votes, leaving over 5,800 votes unaccounted for.
11. Section 102, 168(3)(a) Florida Statutes (2004) provides that an election may be set aside for "misconduct, fraud, or corruption on the part of any election official or any member of the canvassing board sufficient to change or place in doubt the result of the election."
12. In Beckstrom v. Volusia County Canvassing Board, et al, 707 S. 2d 720 (Fla. 1998) the Florida Supreme Court said: "... if a court finds substantial noncompliance with statutory election procedures and also makes a factual determination that reasonable doubt exists as to whether a certified election expressed the will of the voters, then the court in an election contest brought pursuant to section 102.168, Florida Statutes (1997), is to void the contested election even in the absence of fraud or intentional wrongdoing."
13. In addition to the pattern of delay in providing the requested information, the true election results are in doubt because of numerous violations of election law procedure and unanswered questions concerning the results.
14. The polls were opened early and closed late during Early Voting.
15. Many public records, including one signed results tape from a voting machine were found in the trash. Many of the requested records not furnished by the Elections office have been found in the trash. Results from the tapes found in the trash do not match the results of the copies of tapes furnished.
16. An email from Mark Earley, of Diebold Elections Systems, Inc., to the Elections office was provided which asked the recipient for an explanation of why Volusia County had more memory card failures than all of their other Florida customers combined, and then asked why the 17 memory card failures which the Elections office reported on November 3, increased to 25 before November 12, 2004.
17. The reported memory card failures were significant and troubling and included reporting zero votes after one week of voting, requesting permission to upload votes before the voting began, and messaging whether the card should be reformatted.
18. According to a statement by the Supervisor of Elections on November 17, 2004, the GEMS computer is not networked, and is "stand alone." The furnished computer logs show evidence of at least two attempts to remotely access the GEMS central tabulator, which is claimed to be secure. A computer screen shot printout on November 17, 2004 (found in the trash) shows that the GEMS computer at that time had two networked hard drives.
19. Plaintiff is reasonably concerned that access to the memory cards and voting machine tapes is presently not restricted, and that the opportunity for tampering with that critical evidence exists. Plaintiff accordingly requests that This Honorable Court immediately order the Supervisor of Elections to seal and sequester all memory cards and voting machine tapes pertaining to or used during the November 2, 2004 general election in Volusia County, during the pendency of this Cause.
WHEREFORE, Plaintiff respectfully requests that this court order the immediate sealing of all memory cards and voting machine tapes pertaining to or used during the November 2, 2004 general election, and after hearing the evidence in this cause, set aside that general election of November 2, 2004.
SUSAN ROSE PYNCHON
DANIEL R. VAUGHEN, P.A.
Attorney for Plaintiff
Fla. Bar No. 083486
UPDATE:
Susan Pynchon, the Executive Director of the Florida Fair Elections Coalition has filed a lawsuit in Volusia County claiming that the results as posted by Deanie Lowe (Volusia Co. SOE - www.volusia.org/elections ) are not accurate and do not match the paper ballots. The lawsuit should be on our Clerk of Court website (http://www.clerk.org/index.html)
(The local media did interviews with both Susan Pynchon and Bev Harris; CNN also interviewed Bev Harris)
• MORE VOTING ISSUES RAISED
http://www.dispatch.com/election.php?story=dispatch/2004/11/25/20041125-D1-03.html
Several new voting concerns surfaced yesterday as lawyers combed totals from the Nov. 2 presidential election.
An Akron man filed a complaint with the Summit County Board of Elections saying he "witnessed election judges telling potential voters that they could cast a provisional ballot at any table or precinct and if they did so, it would be counted."
Neil F. Schoenwetter Jr. was a volunteer election challenger for the Democratic Party on Nov. 2 at Copley High School, where six precincts voted.
Congress’ investigative agency, responding to complaints from Ohio and elsewhere, has begun to look into the vote count, including the handling of provisional ballots and malfunctions of voting machines.
• MORE ELECTRONIC MACHINES ISSUES
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031779301427%22
Voting-machine woes in Carteret have officials looking for answers
Legislative panel to consider remedies, maybe a new election (AP, Raleigh)
The Carteret County voting failure has brought a lot of hand wringing to elections officials and "I-told-you-sos" from activists who sounded the alarm about electronic balloting months ago.
A touch-screen voting network there failed to record more than 4,400 votes cast before Election Day because its data storage was full - the result of outdated software and poor communication between the California company that made the machine and county officials.
• NEW OHIO VOTER TRANSCRIPTS FEED FLOODTIDE OF DOUBT ABOUT REPUBLICAN ELECTION MANIPULATION
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/930
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
November 25, 2004
COLUMBUS -- A floodtide of evidence of questionable practices in the 2004 election is mounting fast against Ohio Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and Republican Franklin County Board of Elections (BOE) Director Matt Damschroder. New transcriptions of sworn voter testimony, presented below for the first time, confirm growing suspicions of widespread use of rigged machines. Voters experienced hostility from poll workers, refusal of Republican election officials to follow the law, and discriminatory manipulation of voting machine placement, driving significant numbers of Democrats away from the polls.
The several following sources feature raw data, which, in my opinion, is of utmost importance.
• COMPREHENSIVE ONGOING DATABASE, RAW DATA SOURCE **
http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp?offset=0&catid=&showall=&sort=
From VOTERS UNITE, a very comprehensive state-by-state list of electoral problems, in chart form (sorted by following categories):
Date Problem Type State Description
EXAMPLES:
10/21/2004 Malfeasance AL Hale County clerk uses her personal PO box as the return address for absentee ballots. Her husband is a candidate.
Examples of problem types incliude: registration fraud, testing problems, provisional ballots, too few machines, voter suppression, animosity at polls, voter challenges, etc. EVERY ENTRY has a link to the full story and archive.
• MORE RAW DATA
https://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRMapNation
Election Incident Reporting System: 1-866-OUR-VOTE (includes 36742 incidents). They are sorted by categories and may be downloaded as well as looked at state-by-state
• ELECTORAL PROBLEMS INFORMATION AGGREGATE
http://electionsquad.org/
Addresses exit polls and electronic voting; uses Ohio as a test case
• DATABASE OF REPORTS OF VOTER SUPPRESSION (by state)**
http://shadowbox.i8.com/suppression.htm
• DATABASE OF REPORTS OF ELECTRONIC MACHINES PROBLEMS (by state) **
http://shadowbox.i8.com/machines.htm
• TRUEVOTEMD RELEASES ELECTION DAY FINDINGS
http://www.truevotemd.org/
"When the Right to Vote Goes Wrong: Maryland Voters Tell The Story of
Election Day 2004"
On Tuesday, November 23, 2004 TrueVoteMD will release a report and present findings from nearly 600 pollwatchers who toiled long hours on Election Day documenting hundreds of incidents disenfranchising possibly thousands of voters ranging from denials of provisional ballots to numerous kinds of voting machine failures.
Press release available here:
http://www.truevotemd.org/Press_releases/html/2004-11-22_Press_Release.html
21-page Election Day Report** available in PDF format here: http://www.truevotemd.org/Election_Report.pdf
• MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES (OHIO)
http://www.theneighborhoodnetwork.org/Video/Vote/Vote.html
Columbus Ohio Hearings on Vote Suppression (video in Quicktime format)
http://www.goxray.com/index.php?id=651&cat=17
Complete Audio Coverage of Testimony on Ohio Voter Disenfranchisement and Voter Fraud
Nonpartisan Hearings Investigating Voting Irregularities and Suppression, Nov. 13 in Columbus, OH (audio in mp3 format)
• MORE AGGREGATES
Evidence of Electoral Fraud in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election: A Reading List **
http://www.opednews.com/keefer_111504_readings.htm--an excellent hyperlinked meta-resource:
This reading list has been prepared with the aim of making a wide range of readings on the subject of the integrity—or the lack of integrity—of the recent U.S. presidential election readily available. I have sought to facilitate analytical use of the texts listed here by dividing them into five groups under the following headings:
1. The Openness of New Voting Technologies to Fraud;
2. Allegations and Evidence of Fraud in Recent U.S. Elections;
3. Advance Warnings of Fraud in the 2004 Presidential Election;
4. Allegations and Evidence of Fraud in the 2004 Presidential Election;
5. Allegations and Evidence of a Cover-up of Electoral Fraud.
Another archive of 2004 election analysis, newsstories , voter fraud articles and link collections
http://countingcoup2004.blogspot.com/
OHIO
county-by-county
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/ohio.htm
letter to cameron kerry
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/cameron.htm
kerry conceded too soon
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/uncounted.htm
recount summary
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/summary.htm
votes stolen in cleveland (precinct-by-precinct)
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/cleveland.htm
votes stolen in columbus (precinct-by-precinct)
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/columbus.htm
• Summary of documentation of voter suppression, equipment problems, software glitches, fraud in swing states
GENERAL:
http://www.flcv.com/votefrau.html
OHIO
http://www.flcv.com/ohiov04.html
FLORIDA
http://www.flcv.com/flavi04.html
• Democratic Underground has organized a “voter fraud team”—a grassroots research effort, located here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=201
it is an invaluable, constantly updated and triple-checked source of information. An example of the research conducted there that has not yet been represented in other media outlets is:
analysis of voting methods and vendors per by population by state
here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2617492
and here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=201x5446#5447
Also, there is a lot of useful information being continually posted in the Democratic Underground 2004 Election Results and Discussion Forum, located here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203
• Scoop continues its coverage of the issue
More coverage from Scoop: American Coup 2
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup
• Media Issues
http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/11/far04040.html
Election Angst Update: Clark Kent Vs the Media Wimps
• Update on the letter to GAO featured in the last resource list
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/23/election.investigation/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Government Accountability Office plans to investigate complaints of several systemic problems with this month's elections, a group of Democratic lawmakers said Tuesday.
The investigation comes in response to two letters written by lawmakers to the GAO which address numerous media reports of irregularities in the 2004 vote and call for those to be reviewed
Notes:
1. aggregate/watchdog websites listed in the first list of resources are continually updated and are excellent sources for up-do-date information
2. Links of particular interest/importance are indexed with a double asterisk.
ELECTORAL PROBLEMS RESOURCE LIST PART II
• BERKELEY FINDINGS**
A Berkeley research team held a press conference last weekend regarding their findings:
Data: (working paper: The Effect of Electronic Voting Machines on Change in Support of Bush in the 2004 Florida Elections, with additional appendices added 11/22/2004)
http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/VOTE2004/index.html
Summary of Findings:
- Irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000 excess votes or more to President George W. Bush in Florida.
- Compared to counties with paper ballots, counties with electronic voting machines were significantly more likely to show increases in support for President Bush between 2000 and 2004. This effect cannot be explained by differences between counties in income, number of voters, change in voter turnout, or size of Hispanic/Latino population.
- In Broward County alone, President Bush appears to have received approximately 72,000 excess votes.
- We can be 99.9% sure that these effects are not attributable to chance.
The data is available in excel file, stata file and SPSS file formats
Inquiries regarding this study may be directed to mikehout@berkeley.edu
The press release for the study can be found here:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0411/S00229.htm
Some of the press coverage of the findings is listed below (both from mainstream and independent media)
From San Francisco Chronicle: Berkeley study scrutinizes Florida tally for Bush
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/19/VOTERFRAUD.TMP
from Yahoo news
UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041118/sfth066_1.html
From Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1118-14.htm
• VOLUSIA COUNTRY LAWSUIT**
FROM BLACKBOXVOTING.ORG: text of lawsuit (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/volusia-lawsuit.html)
Susan Rose Pynchon vs. Volusia County Canvassing Board and Ann McFall
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF FLORIDA
IN AND FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA
SUSAN ROSE PYNCHON,
Plaintiff
Vs.
VOLUSIA COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD
And ANN McFALL,
Defendants
____________________________________
COMPLAINT TO CONTEST ELECTION
Plaintiff, Susan Rose Pynchon, sues the Volusia County Canvassing Board and Ann McFall, defendants, and alleges:
1. This is an action brought under section 102,168, Florida Statutes (2004), to contest the certification that Ann McFall received more votes in the November 2 General Election in Volusia County, Florida, than did Patricia Northey.
2. Plaintiff is an elector resident and qualified to vote in Volusia County, Florida, residing at (redacted address).
3. Defendant Volusia County Canvassing Board consists of Joie Alexander, Member of the Volusia County Council, the Honorable Steven deLarouche, County Judge, and Deanie Lowe, Supervisor of Elections.
4. Defendant Ann McFall, (redacted address), is the candidate certified by the defendant Canvassing Board to have won the November 2, 2004 election for Supervisor of Elections.
5. Plaintiff has been informed that the Volusia County Canvassing Board certified the election results on November 12, 2004. Plaintiff is aware that the statutory deadline for filing this complaint is ten days following the date of that certification. Plaintiff alleges, however, that this complaint should be deemed timely filed for two reasons:
a. The Supervisor of Elections has unreasonably delayed providing information on which this complaint must be based, and still has not provided all of that information. The Canvassing Board is therefore estopped from asserting an untimely filing of this complaint.
b. The certification was based on inadequate and incomplete information regarding the election results, as will more particularly appear, and is, therefore, an invalid certification of those results.
6. A copy of the public records request emailed and faxed to the Supervisor of Elections on November 2, 2004, is attached. Some or all of the information requested is still missing from 59 of the 179 voting precincts, including portions of or all of the voting machine tapes for those 59 precincts, which are a vital part of official paper record of the election results from those precincts.
7. Complete information on problems with the voting machines prior to and during the election has not been provided.
8. Complete information relating to memory card failures during the election has not yet been provided.
9. Only a partial list of the transmission logs from the Accu-Vote optical scan server has been provided. Despite repeated requests, the Elections office has refused to provide to the Volusia County Democratic party the official election results, now stating that those results will not be available until December 1, 2004.
10. The Elections office has provided incomplete data regarding Early Voting and Absentee ballots. The Supervisor of Elections, for example, reported that the total number of absentee ballots and Early voting ballots, combined equaled 89,999 votes, yet the published figures for those totals is 84,100 votes, leaving over 5,800 votes unaccounted for.
11. Section 102, 168(3)(a) Florida Statutes (2004) provides that an election may be set aside for "misconduct, fraud, or corruption on the part of any election official or any member of the canvassing board sufficient to change or place in doubt the result of the election."
12. In Beckstrom v. Volusia County Canvassing Board, et al, 707 S. 2d 720 (Fla. 1998) the Florida Supreme Court said: "... if a court finds substantial noncompliance with statutory election procedures and also makes a factual determination that reasonable doubt exists as to whether a certified election expressed the will of the voters, then the court in an election contest brought pursuant to section 102.168, Florida Statutes (1997), is to void the contested election even in the absence of fraud or intentional wrongdoing."
13. In addition to the pattern of delay in providing the requested information, the true election results are in doubt because of numerous violations of election law procedure and unanswered questions concerning the results.
14. The polls were opened early and closed late during Early Voting.
15. Many public records, including one signed results tape from a voting machine were found in the trash. Many of the requested records not furnished by the Elections office have been found in the trash. Results from the tapes found in the trash do not match the results of the copies of tapes furnished.
16. An email from Mark Earley, of Diebold Elections Systems, Inc., to the Elections office was provided which asked the recipient for an explanation of why Volusia County had more memory card failures than all of their other Florida customers combined, and then asked why the 17 memory card failures which the Elections office reported on November 3, increased to 25 before November 12, 2004.
17. The reported memory card failures were significant and troubling and included reporting zero votes after one week of voting, requesting permission to upload votes before the voting began, and messaging whether the card should be reformatted.
18. According to a statement by the Supervisor of Elections on November 17, 2004, the GEMS computer is not networked, and is "stand alone." The furnished computer logs show evidence of at least two attempts to remotely access the GEMS central tabulator, which is claimed to be secure. A computer screen shot printout on November 17, 2004 (found in the trash) shows that the GEMS computer at that time had two networked hard drives.
19. Plaintiff is reasonably concerned that access to the memory cards and voting machine tapes is presently not restricted, and that the opportunity for tampering with that critical evidence exists. Plaintiff accordingly requests that This Honorable Court immediately order the Supervisor of Elections to seal and sequester all memory cards and voting machine tapes pertaining to or used during the November 2, 2004 general election in Volusia County, during the pendency of this Cause.
WHEREFORE, Plaintiff respectfully requests that this court order the immediate sealing of all memory cards and voting machine tapes pertaining to or used during the November 2, 2004 general election, and after hearing the evidence in this cause, set aside that general election of November 2, 2004.
SUSAN ROSE PYNCHON
DANIEL R. VAUGHEN, P.A.
Attorney for Plaintiff
Fla. Bar No. 083486
UPDATE:
Susan Pynchon, the Executive Director of the Florida Fair Elections Coalition has filed a lawsuit in Volusia County claiming that the results as posted by Deanie Lowe (Volusia Co. SOE - www.volusia.org/elections ) are not accurate and do not match the paper ballots. The lawsuit should be on our Clerk of Court website (http://www.clerk.org/index.html)
(The local media did interviews with both Susan Pynchon and Bev Harris; CNN also interviewed Bev Harris)
• MORE VOTING ISSUES RAISED
http://www.dispatch.com/election.php?story=dispatch/2004/11/25/20041125-D1-03.html
Several new voting concerns surfaced yesterday as lawyers combed totals from the Nov. 2 presidential election.
An Akron man filed a complaint with the Summit County Board of Elections saying he "witnessed election judges telling potential voters that they could cast a provisional ballot at any table or precinct and if they did so, it would be counted."
Neil F. Schoenwetter Jr. was a volunteer election challenger for the Democratic Party on Nov. 2 at Copley High School, where six precincts voted.
Congress’ investigative agency, responding to complaints from Ohio and elsewhere, has begun to look into the vote count, including the handling of provisional ballots and malfunctions of voting machines.
• MORE ELECTRONIC MACHINES ISSUES
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031779301427%22
Voting-machine woes in Carteret have officials looking for answers
Legislative panel to consider remedies, maybe a new election (AP, Raleigh)
The Carteret County voting failure has brought a lot of hand wringing to elections officials and "I-told-you-sos" from activists who sounded the alarm about electronic balloting months ago.
A touch-screen voting network there failed to record more than 4,400 votes cast before Election Day because its data storage was full - the result of outdated software and poor communication between the California company that made the machine and county officials.
• NEW OHIO VOTER TRANSCRIPTS FEED FLOODTIDE OF DOUBT ABOUT REPUBLICAN ELECTION MANIPULATION
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/930
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
November 25, 2004
COLUMBUS -- A floodtide of evidence of questionable practices in the 2004 election is mounting fast against Ohio Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and Republican Franklin County Board of Elections (BOE) Director Matt Damschroder. New transcriptions of sworn voter testimony, presented below for the first time, confirm growing suspicions of widespread use of rigged machines. Voters experienced hostility from poll workers, refusal of Republican election officials to follow the law, and discriminatory manipulation of voting machine placement, driving significant numbers of Democrats away from the polls.
The several following sources feature raw data, which, in my opinion, is of utmost importance.
• COMPREHENSIVE ONGOING DATABASE, RAW DATA SOURCE **
http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp?offset=0&catid=&showall=&sort=
From VOTERS UNITE, a very comprehensive state-by-state list of electoral problems, in chart form (sorted by following categories):
Date Problem Type State Description
EXAMPLES:
10/21/2004 Malfeasance AL Hale County clerk uses her personal PO box as the return address for absentee ballots. Her husband is a candidate.
Examples of problem types incliude: registration fraud, testing problems, provisional ballots, too few machines, voter suppression, animosity at polls, voter challenges, etc. EVERY ENTRY has a link to the full story and archive.
• MORE RAW DATA
https://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRMapNation
Election Incident Reporting System: 1-866-OUR-VOTE (includes 36742 incidents). They are sorted by categories and may be downloaded as well as looked at state-by-state
• ELECTORAL PROBLEMS INFORMATION AGGREGATE
http://electionsquad.org/
Addresses exit polls and electronic voting; uses Ohio as a test case
• DATABASE OF REPORTS OF VOTER SUPPRESSION (by state)**
http://shadowbox.i8.com/suppression.htm
• DATABASE OF REPORTS OF ELECTRONIC MACHINES PROBLEMS (by state) **
http://shadowbox.i8.com/machines.htm
• TRUEVOTEMD RELEASES ELECTION DAY FINDINGS
http://www.truevotemd.org/
"When the Right to Vote Goes Wrong: Maryland Voters Tell The Story of
Election Day 2004"
On Tuesday, November 23, 2004 TrueVoteMD will release a report and present findings from nearly 600 pollwatchers who toiled long hours on Election Day documenting hundreds of incidents disenfranchising possibly thousands of voters ranging from denials of provisional ballots to numerous kinds of voting machine failures.
Press release available here:
http://www.truevotemd.org/Press_releases/html/2004-11-22_Press_Release.html
21-page Election Day Report** available in PDF format here: http://www.truevotemd.org/Election_Report.pdf
• MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES (OHIO)
http://www.theneighborhoodnetwork.org/Video/Vote/Vote.html
Columbus Ohio Hearings on Vote Suppression (video in Quicktime format)
http://www.goxray.com/index.php?id=651&cat=17
Complete Audio Coverage of Testimony on Ohio Voter Disenfranchisement and Voter Fraud
Nonpartisan Hearings Investigating Voting Irregularities and Suppression, Nov. 13 in Columbus, OH (audio in mp3 format)
• MORE AGGREGATES
Evidence of Electoral Fraud in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election: A Reading List **
http://www.opednews.com/keefer_111504_readings.htm--an excellent hyperlinked meta-resource:
This reading list has been prepared with the aim of making a wide range of readings on the subject of the integrity—or the lack of integrity—of the recent U.S. presidential election readily available. I have sought to facilitate analytical use of the texts listed here by dividing them into five groups under the following headings:
1. The Openness of New Voting Technologies to Fraud;
2. Allegations and Evidence of Fraud in Recent U.S. Elections;
3. Advance Warnings of Fraud in the 2004 Presidential Election;
4. Allegations and Evidence of Fraud in the 2004 Presidential Election;
5. Allegations and Evidence of a Cover-up of Electoral Fraud.
Another archive of 2004 election analysis, newsstories , voter fraud articles and link collections
http://countingcoup2004.blogspot.com/
OHIO
county-by-county
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/ohio.htm
letter to cameron kerry
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/cameron.htm
kerry conceded too soon
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/uncounted.htm
recount summary
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/summary.htm
votes stolen in cleveland (precinct-by-precinct)
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/cleveland.htm
votes stolen in columbus (precinct-by-precinct)
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/columbus.htm
• Summary of documentation of voter suppression, equipment problems, software glitches, fraud in swing states
GENERAL:
http://www.flcv.com/votefrau.html
OHIO
http://www.flcv.com/ohiov04.html
FLORIDA
http://www.flcv.com/flavi04.html
• Democratic Underground has organized a “voter fraud team”—a grassroots research effort, located here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=201
it is an invaluable, constantly updated and triple-checked source of information. An example of the research conducted there that has not yet been represented in other media outlets is:
analysis of voting methods and vendors per by population by state
here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2617492
and here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=201x5446#5447
Also, there is a lot of useful information being continually posted in the Democratic Underground 2004 Election Results and Discussion Forum, located here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203
• Scoop continues its coverage of the issue
More coverage from Scoop: American Coup 2
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup
• Media Issues
http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/11/far04040.html
Election Angst Update: Clark Kent Vs the Media Wimps
• Update on the letter to GAO featured in the last resource list
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/23/election.investigation/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Government Accountability Office plans to investigate complaints of several systemic problems with this month's elections, a group of Democratic lawmakers said Tuesday.
The investigation comes in response to two letters written by lawmakers to the GAO which address numerous media reports of irregularities in the 2004 vote and call for those to be reviewed
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wow.
Date: 2004-11-27 03:42 pm (UTC)though actually now I'm adding: I think part of the reason I'm so turned on (to use the neglected '60s denotation of the phrase) by this stuff isn't even specifically election-related. it represents the power of knowledge and information against corruption. it speaks to the power of the Web we weave, which I (not to be too horn-tootish, but it's true) have been saying since I first laid eyes on AOL in 1996, is the most beautiful thing humans have ever created. it's too big, and too pervasive, to ever be stopped. the truth will out.
no subject
Date: 2004-11-27 04:02 pm (UTC)http://ustogether.org/election04/dawshed/A_Model_for_Analyzing_Voting.pdf
followup linkage
Date: 2004-11-27 05:20 pm (UTC)(this was all linked from Drudge, but incase you missed it....)
http://cnn.worldnews.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=CNN.com+-+Mystery+surrounds+Yushchenko+ailment+-+Nov+25%2C+2004&expire=12%2F25%2F2004&urlID=12397363&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2004%2FWORLD%2Feurope%2F11%2F25%2Fyushchenko.ailment.ap%2Findex.html&partnerID=2006
maybe these will help?
Date: 2004-11-28 09:55 am (UTC)http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/04/11/28/1548204.shtml?tid=1&tid=219
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/19/1754249&tid=126&tid=103&tid=219
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/18/149222&tid=126&tid=219
For slashdot articles aboute-voting:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=voting
I think the slashdot articles cover stuff you already have, but the have a forum of geeks which may be helpful.