Associated Press, January 12, 2005
Ohio Court Dismisses Election Challenges

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a challenge from voters to the presidential election in light of last week's certification of the electoral vote and the upcoming inauguration.   [Click here for more.]
 

www.toledoblade.com, January 9, 2005
Purging of Rolls, Confusion Anger Voters:
41% of Nov. 2 Provisional Ballots Axed in Lucas County

Ralph and Barbara George are lifelong Democrats who first registered to vote for John F. Kennedy in 1960 and have lived in the same East Toledo house for 44 years.

They called the Lucas County Board of Elections early last year to make sure they still were registered to vote.

Informed that they were, they went on with life, including helping their son, just home from military service, to purchase a new home. Then, last fall, they applied for absentee ballots.
It was then that they were surprised to discover - too late to do anything about it - that they were somehow no longer registered and wouldn't be allowed to vote in the general election.   [Click here for more.]

ww.sun-times.com, January 4, 2005
Senators Should Object to Ohio Vote
by Jesse Jackson

If America is to be a champion of democracy abroad, it must clean up its elections at home. If it is to complain of fraudulent and dishonest election practices abroad, it cannot condone them at home. But more important, if our own elections are to be legitimate, then they must be honest, open, with high national standards.   [Click here for more.]
 

www.truthout.org, December 27, 2004
Kerry Files Motion to Protect Ohio Vote Evidence
by William Rivers Pitt

This afternoon, an attorney representing the Kerry/Edwards presidential campaign filed two important motions to preserve and augment evidence of alleged election fraud in the November election. The motions were filed in the matter titled Yost et al. v. Delaware County Board of Elections and J. Kenneth Blackwell (Civil Action No. C2-04-1139) with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The document is titled "Motion Of Intervener-Defendant Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc. For A Preservation Order And For A Leave To Take Limited Expedited Discovery."

The purpose of the motions is twofold: A) To preserve all ballots and voting machines pertaining to the Yost matter for investigation and analysis; and B) To make available for sworn deposition testimony a technician for Triad Systems, the company that produced and maintained many of the voting machines used in the Ohio election. The technician has been accused of tampering with the recount process in Hocking County, Ohio, though other counties are believed to have also been involved. Any officers of Triad Systems who have information pertaining to said tampering are likewise subject to subpoena for sworn deposition testimony.    [Click here for more.]

www.nytimes.com, December 24, 2004
Voting Problems in Ohio Spur Call for Overhaul
By James Dao, Ford Fessenden and Tom Zeller, Jr.

William Shambora, 53, is the kind of diligent voter who once assumed that his ballot always counted. He got a rude awakening this year.

Mr. Shambora, an economics professor at Ohio University, moved during the summer but failed to notify the Athens County Board of Elections until the day before the presidential election. An official told him to use a provisional ballot.

But under Ohio law, provisional ballots are valid only when cast from a voter's correct precinct. Mr. Shambora was given a ballot for the wrong precinct, a fact he did not learn until after the election. Two weeks later, the board discarded his vote, adding him to a list of more than 300 provisional ballots that were rejected in that heavily Democratic county.   [Click here for more.]

www.truthout.org, December 23, 2004
Kerry to Enter Ohio Recount Fray
by William Rivers Pitt

2004 Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry will file today, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, papers in support of the Green Party/Libertarian Party recount effort. Specifically, Kerry will be filing a request for expedited discovery regarding Triad Systems voting machines, as well as a motion for a preservation order to protect any and all discovery and preserve any evidence on this matter.   [Click here for more.]

The Free Press, December 19, 2004
The United States of Ukraine?: Exit Polls Leave Little Doubt that in a Free and Fair Election
John Kerry Would Have Won both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote
by Ron Baiman

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www.seminolechronicle.com, December 16, 2004
Feeney Implicated in Vote Fraud. Congressman Sought to Alter Totals,
Testimony in Ohio Case Says
by Alex Babcock

Republican Congressman Tom Feeney of Oviedo asked a computer programmer in September 2000, prior to that year's contested presidential vote in Florida, to write software that could alter vote totals on touch-screen
voting machines, the programmer said.

Former computer programmer Clint Curtis made the claim Monday in sworn testimony to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee investigating allegations of voter fraud in the 2004 presidential election involving
touch-screen voting in Ohio.   [Click here for more.]

Online Journal, Special Report , December 6, 2004
Texas to Florida: White House-Linked Clandestine Operation Paid for "Vote Switching" Software
by Wayne Madsen

The manipulation of computer voting machines in the recent presidential election and the funding of programmers who were involved in the operation are tied to an intricate web of shady off-shore financial trusts and companies, shady espionage operatives, Republican Party politicians close to the Bush family, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract vehicles.   [Click here for more.]
 

Online Journal, Special Report , November 25, 2004
Saudis, Enron Money Helped Pay for US Rigged Election
by Wayne Madsen

According to informed sources in Washington and Houston, the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were actually technicians familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Unilect, and Danaher Controls voting machines. These technicians reportedly hacked the systems to skew the results in favor of Bush.

The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their work but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the technicians are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program.   [Click here for more.]

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In These Times, November 16, 2004
Let’s Get Real
by Mark Crispin Miller

Bush & company’s theft of the election was a crime so obvious that it requires more effort to deny than to affirm. This rip-off was as flagrant as the L.A. cops’ assault on Rodney King, Kerry’s stellar soldiering in Vietnam, or Bush’s lousy record in the Texas Air National Guard, and yet this national calamity is being dismissed as a delusion.   [Click here for more.]

he Washington Times, Saturday, November 12, 2004
Major Bugs Found in Diebold Vote Systems

Diebold was one of three companies -- including Election Systems & Software and Sequoia -- that provided updated technology for the 2004 election...Computer Science Professor Avi Rubin of John Hopkins University analyzed Diebold's 47,609 lines of code and found it uses an encryption key that was hacked in 1997 and no longer is used in secure programs.   [Click here for entire article.]

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truthout.org, November 8, 2004
Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster
by William Rivers Pitt

Everyone remembers Florida's 2000 election debacle, and all of the new terms it introduced to our political lexicon: Hanging chads, dimpled chads, pregnant chads, overvotes, undervotes, Sore Losermans, Jews for Buchanan and so forth. It took several weeks, battalions of lawyers and a questionable decision from the U.S. Supreme Court to show the nation and the world how messy democracy can be. By any standard, what happened in Florida during the 2000 Presidential election was a disaster.

What happened during the Presidential election of 2004, in Florida, in Ohio, and in a number of other states as well, was worse.  [Click here for full article.]