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Voter Fraud: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Greg Palast Investigate
One million Democrats attempting to vote in this year’s primaries found their names missing from voter rolls. WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO?
Law professor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and journalist Greg Palast are launching an investigation. We want to know: Where are these votes? Who swiped them? How? And how do we prevent it from happening in November?
Our investigation is non-partisan. It’s not about saving Democrats, but saving DEMOCRACY.
But we know who's playing games with the ballots.
FACT: On Super-Tuesday, the number of Democrats missing from voter rolls in New Mexico exceeded George Bush’s 2004 ‘victory’ total by 300%. No wonder McCain’s campaign says, New Mexico is “in play.” The question is who’s playing with it?
Join our effort. If you’ve got a tip, a document, a witness – CONTACT US.
Some Americans have taken a bullet to protect the ballot. All we’re asking is that you consider adding your name in bold on screen as a producer of the film that will open eyes and stop lies.
Let’s stop the attack on democracy NOW – so we can make this the final investigation of a stolen election.
The not-for-profit Investigative Fund will be seeking public support to pay the cost of phones, airfare, microphones (hidden, when needed), detective agency fees, camera crew, researchers and all the infrastructure of inquest, because it’s our plan to put out the information on the manipulation of the vote BEFORE November.
I can’t tell you how much your support of our investigations has meant to us.
Yours,
Greg Palast
-copied from Greg's Facebook note via moonwolf
For more information on how you can help go to Greg Palast's website.
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Moonwolf, thanks for posting this.
Thanks Karen.
An important investigation and time is short!
About time. So who won the primary in New Mexico? Want to know who the Repubs want to run against their candidate? Hope RFK doesn't fly anywhere.
thanks for this Moonwolf.
moonwolf, I like this story. It's good stuff. AND VERY IMPORTANT. The "regular" US citizens are always the ones who gets screwed. Having a political science degree, I was once so "idealistic", but now that I'm in my mid 30's and know how the "real world" works...it is corrupt. I hope this is taken care of and I PLAN on voting on Tuesday...since I'm from Indiana and my voting poll place is across the street from me! :) GO DEMOCRACY!
moonwolf, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Thanks all!
Get in touch with them at the links. They can use any help they can get, if you know what I mean!
20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the US voting machine industry.
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice- presidential candidates.
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the US and counts almost 60% of all US votes.
9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.
13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.
14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie at
17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail. 18. Bush's Help America Vote Act of 2002 has as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen systems with no paper trail.
18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
20. Major statistical voting oddities (odds on the order of 250 million to 1!) -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated by experts.
Such amazing odds, the equivalent of statistical miracles these were. Was it God? Or was it Diebold...?
http://blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov
Here's just a few sources:
1.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold
2.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
3.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/htm...e_company.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
4.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in632436.shtml
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886
5.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentar...03/03_200.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...4fitrakis.html
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http://www.blackboxvoting.com/module...article&sid=26
http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php
7.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm
http://theindependent.com/stories/05...w_hagel27.html
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http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...804landes.html
9.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041...s/pfindex.html
10.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm
11.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm
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http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml
13.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
14.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
15.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/200...oc_elexoh.html
16.
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in632436.shtml
18.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/Election...sBushIsOut.htm
http://www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.ph...icle&sid= 950
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm
19.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/talla...al/7628725.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Oct29.html
20.
http://www.yuricareport.com/Election...sBushIsOut.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governm...,97614,00.html
http://www.americanfreepress.net/htm...thousands.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
http://uscountvotes.org/
Check this out…
Lynching by Laptop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCR6IdTQTeE
and this NOW PUBLIC ditty ;)
ELECTION INTEGRITY ?
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/election-integrity
Just a hint : Before you export democracy, try having it at home !
Hmmmm...
The silence from US apologists is deafening. Great research Whitenoise!
“The President has made the right decisions for the right reasons and he always reflected the values of the American people. Would I support those same decisions today? You’re damn right I would.” – Dick Cheney
EXECUTIVE RESUME
Meanwhile...
"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle
moonwolf, I like this story. It's good stuff.
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