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Wednesday, May 25
The Death of Democracy: End-game Ohio
by
Caroline Vernon
on Wed 25 May 2005 04:39 PM CDT
 The Death of Democracy: End-game Ohio
by Caroline Vernon
US Democracy would appear to be a fiction, not only because of the war,
but because of the mounting evidence of the election theft in Ohio, and
other parts of the nation.
Here are excerpts from a long and detailed article on the subject.
Interesting that we have to go to Canada to get this article. If you listen to US news only, you might just end up accepting the fiction that Bush was democratically elected President.
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The Strange Death of American Democracy: Endgame in Ohio
by Michael Keefer
University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) Associate Professor of English
Michael Keefer writes: So who ever thought the 2004 US presidential
election had the remotest chance of being honest and democratic?
. . . . Ohio was the swing state of swing states on November 2nd, 2004,
the one whose twenty Electoral College votes decided the outcome of the
US presidential election. It is therefore a matter of some significance
that the testimonial evidence of corruption in the Ohio election is
corroborated by statistical evidence which shows the election in this
state - and nationwide - to have been not just corrupt, but stolen.
The evidence in both categories is massively complex. But thanks to the
no less massive analytical labors over the past two months of citizen
pro-democracy activists, of social scientists, of mathematicians and
statisticians, of computer programmers, and of alternative-media
investigative journalists, it can nonetheless be conveniently
summarized.
You want smoking guns? Here they are, starting with the evidence that
John F. Kerry, and not George W. Bush, won the state of Ohio.
1. Uncounted punch-card and provisional ballots.
Well over 13,000 Ohio provisional ballots were never counted, and
92,672 regular punch-card ballots were set aside by vote-counting
machines as indicating no choice for president. Thus, even after Ohio's
supposed recount, a total of over 106,000 ballots remained
uncounted--though there was no legal reason for not inspecting
and counting each of these ballots. But there seems to have been
a very good political reason for not doing so: the uncounted ballots
came disproportionately from places like the cities of Cincinnati,
Cleveland and Akron, all of which voted overwhelmingly for the
Democrats.
2. Fraud through default settings on touch-screen voting machines.
Some 15 percent of Ohio's votes were cast using the new touch-screen
voting machines. In the city of Youngstown, in Mahoning County, there
were repeated complaints about what election observers referred to
as vote-flipping by the ES&S Ivotronic touch-screen
machines used there. This flipping phenomenon, also widely
observed in other states, typically appeared to poll watchers
like a mere computer glitch, no different than a super market checkout
machine that records an incorrect price for lettuce.
But what was happening, in the vast majority of cases, was no
glitch. As Dom Stasi notes, The laws of probability demand
that multiple random errors trend toward even distribution, but only if
they are truly errors. Yet in all of the published accounts of
vote flipping, the errors consistently favored Bush: voters
who were trying to vote for Kerry found their votes being given to
Bush, transferred to third-party candidates, or simply erased. The
Chairman of the Mahoning County Board of Elections is reported to have
stated that 20 to 30 machines [...] needed to be re-calibrated
during the voting process. He is not quoted as saying that any
action was taken, or could be taken, to compensate for the machines'
one-way errors - and there is evidence that many other machines were
left uncorrected.
To read the entire article: Click Here
Wednesday, May 11
Iowa and the Death of Democracy
by
Linda Thieman
on Wed 11 May 2005 07:13 AM CDT
 Iowa and the Death of Democracy
Culver Asks Iowa Legislature to Pass Elections Bill
(DES MOINES, IA) Secretary of State Chet Culver [Monday] released
data submitted by county officials showing that nearly half of Iowa’s
counties will purchase touch-screen voting machines as part of
statewide efforts to upgrade voting machines and make election system
improvements as required by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
The data shows that 47 counties are likely to purchase [the extremely unreliable, highly-riggable] touch-screen
voting machines, known as Direct Recording Devices (DREs). That
widespread use, Culver said, reinforces the position he and Governor
Vilsack have taken as they’ve urged legislators to pass an elections
bill that includes a requirement for a voter verified paper trail with
touch-screen voting machines.
“The timing is critical,” Culver said. “Legislators have put
together an elections bill that has many outstanding provisions, but
legislators have not yet voted on the bill. I urge them to do
so. County supervisors and election officials are dealing with
election reforms right now and are ready to purchase new voting
machines, which means proposed changes in state law will do the most
good if they can take effect this year.”
Earlier in the session the Iowa Senate voted 48-0 in favor of a voter
verified paper trail. Some lawmakers raised concerns about the
technology, which has improved to take effect as Iowa and other states
prepare for new voting systems that must be in place by 2006.
Culver said he has been assured by voting equipment manufacturers that
the technology is available to meet a paper trail requirement.
For added reassurance, Senator Jeff Danielson of Cedar Falls proposed
an amendment to the bill that would put the onus on equipment vendors
and the Secretary of State’s office to complete certification for
touch-screen voting machines with paper trail features by no later than
August 15, 2005.
“If the requirement doesn’t become law now, it may be another decade or
more before counties purchase new voting equipment. Furthermore,
HAVA provides our counties with a one-time use of federal dollars to
support a large share of the equipment costs,” Culver said.
Supporters of the elections bill include the League of Women Voters of
Iowa, AARP, Democracy for Iowa, I-Vote, and other citizen groups. In addition to the
paper trail issue, the elections bill includes other provisions that
Culver said will give local officials more flexibility and a greater
ability to reduce local election costs.
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