Elections & Electronic Voting

Links Page updated - Jan 3, 2005

Background

Votewatch
http://votewatch.us/reports/view_reports

Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org

Verified Voting
http://verifiedvoting.org

A trailer for a video expose on electronic voting
http://www.votergate.tv/

An excellent article by Thom Hartman - Nov 4, 2004
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1104-38.htm

An even better article by Thom Hartman - Nov 6, 2004
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1106-30.htm

A good editorial summary by William Rivers Pit - Nov 8, 2004
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml

Current News

Boxer Joins Conyers to Force Debate of Election Results - Jan 6, 2005

Rally at Senator Barbara Boxers Office in SF on Jan 3rd - Jan 3, 2005

Urge Your Senator to Contest the Election on Jan 6 - Jan 3, 2005
Plausible Senators: Biden, Bingaman, Boxer (CA), Byrd, Clinton, Conrad, Corzine, Dodd, Dorgan, Durbin, Feingold, Harkin, Inyoue, Jeffords , Kennedy, Kerry, Lautenberg, Leahy (VT)(Ind), Levin, Lieberman, Mikulski, Nelson (FL), Jack Reed, Harry Reid, Rockefeller, Sarbanes, Stabenow, Wyden and Obama

Summary Article from American Free Press - Dec 31, 2004

Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede Election
Challenge likely on Jan 6th - Dec 26, 2004

Audio Story - mp3 download - Dec 26, 2004

MSNBC Countdown story - Real video download - Dec 23, 2004

Kerry to Enter Ohio Recount Fray - Dec 23, 2004

Recount in New Mexico - Dec 15, 2004
Unlike FL & OH, NM is not completely controlled by Republican election officials, yet many counties still show anomalies.

Story on the NM recount in the Free New Mexican - Dec 15, 2004

Pacifica Archive Broadcast of House Judiciary Democratic Forum - audio - Dec 9, 2004

ADVISORY-- Judiciary Democratic Forum Preserving Democracy -
What Went Wrong in Ohio Wednesday, Dec 8th, at 10:00 a.m. EST
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/

Pacifica Archive Broadcast - audio - Dec 9, 2004
http://www.pacifica.org/programs/election2004/20041208-OhioVoterControversySpecial.html

C-SPAN Rebroadcast 2:43pm EST Dec 9 - video - Dec 9, 2004
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp
Note: The exact time is a moving target. check the C-SPAN website frequently.

AFFIDAVIT: Programmer Built Vote Rigging Prototype at Republican Congressman's Request
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/12/ale04096.html - Dec 6, 2004
Is this the equivalent of the Watergate break-in for electronic voting fraud in Florida, or a repeat of the Dan Rather "Memogate" Set-up by Rove, to undercut the credibility of the Internet?

Bev Harris comments on the above as likely disinformation - Dec 7, 2004
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/#feeney

Interview with 'vote-rigging' programmer is up [UPDATED!] - Dec 7, 2004

The 2004 Vote: What Really Happened? Experts to Provide a Report to the Nation
http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=186966 - Dec 6, 2004

Air America may cover the House Judiciary Hearings on Dec 8
http://www.airamericaradio.com/listen.asp - Dec 6, 2004

Conyers To Hold Hearings On Ohio Vote Fraud
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120404W.shtml - Dec 3, 2004

Pictures and Press Release from the Denver Protest Rally- Nov 20, 2004
http://denvervoice.org/protest_rally_11-20-04.htm#Press_Release:%2011-20%20Rally

Litigating the Election By Marjorie Cohn - Nov 22, 2004
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112204A.shtml

Relax about Ohio, Relax about the guy tailing me - Keith Olbermann's blog at MSNBC - Nov 21, 2004
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240

Voting-Rights Groups Gather Evidence of Problems on Election Day - Nov 21, 2004
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1121-05.htm

AP's version - Academic debate simmers as states certify election returns- Nov 20, 2004
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/11/20/a3.elxnaftermath.1120.html

Ohio Presidential Results to be Challenged - Steven Rosenfeld, Senior Producer, The Laura Flanders Show - Nov 19, 2004
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/11/con04509.html

Primary Sources on Exit Polling and Statistical Analysis

UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count- Nov 18, 2004
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_15415.shtml
http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/VOTE2004/index.html

Report on The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy- Nov 10, 2004
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/11/The_unexplained_exit_poll_discrepancy_v00k.pdf
http://truthout.org/unexplainedexitpoll.pdf a mirror site to download PDF
http://www.planetwork.net/ExitPollDiscrepancy.pdf our mirror to download PDF

CNN exit polling data shown retroactively changing overnight
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/11/ana04025.html

Dick Morris in bizarre gyrations implying that the exit polls were rigged to discourage Republican voters in western states, rather than acknowledge that they might indicate that the official results were fraudulent as is assumed everywhere else in the world when the two don't agree
http://www.thehill.com/morris/110404.aspx

Lynn Landes site on voter fraud
http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingSecurity.htm#LYNN'S%20LAWSUITS:

Surprising Pattern of Florida's Election Results - the site that started it all
http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm
http://ustogether.org/election04/mitteldorf/Liddle.htm

A study of New Hampshire showing that use of Diebold's ACCUVOTE op-scan system correlated with the most "out of trend" results
http://www.invisibleida.com/New_Hampshire.htm 

A quick look at party registration vs. results showing that op-scan were more suspicious than DRE in this case - Nov 3, 2004
http://www.stolenelection2004.com/Florida.htm

Candidates and their totals may have been reversed in rural Florida - Check this little known site
http://www.passinglane.com/elections/

Public Hearings in Ohio - 3hr Audio on Pacifica Radio - recorded Nov 13, 2004
http://www.pacifica.org/programs/election2004/20041117-postElectionSpecial.html

Compendia Sites

Indy Media Vote Fraud Links Page
http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/118675.php

A compendium of DU election fraud links
http://tinyurl.com/5gw7u

A compilation site
http://www.stolenelection2004.com

Another compilation site
http://www.tomflocco.com

Fraud summary site with graphs of Florida
http://ideamouth.com/voterfraud.htm

More News, Now Archives

Ohio Will Recount Votes After Parties Raise Fees, AP Reports - Nov 16, 2004
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a8VnmcEqx138&refer=us

Nader Wins Right to New Hampshire Recount - Nov 16, 2004
http://www.reddingnewsreview.com/Nader_04_937659.htm

An article by Greg Palast arguing that Kerry won OH & NM based on a combination of uncounted spoiled ballots and provisional ballots
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php 

Harvey Wasserman in Ohio - Nov 17, 2004
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2004/991

Various Web Media Stories

http://inn.globalfreepress.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=980

http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR110304.htm

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/11/con04482.html

http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65609,00.html

http://www.newstarget.com/002076.html

http://votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp

Keith Oberman on MSNBC - November 8, 2004
MPEG of the first mainstream national TV news story on 2004 election fraud
http://homepage.mac.com/duffyb/nobush/iMovieTheater270.html mac friendly

Keith Oberman's Countdown on MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
video not supported on a mac

Oberman's blog at MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240

Misc Links:

The Democratic Underground discussion board
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x21834 

Open Voting Consortium
http://www.openvotingconsortium.org

Electronic Design's take on Electronic Voting
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/8879/8879.html

Misc blogs

http://bethemedia.typepad.com/bethemedia

http://www.cpe-sf.com/ruthgroup/

Could the AP rig an election?
http://www.ecotalk.org/AP.htm

Jimmy Carter on the situation in Florida - Washington Post - Sept 27, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52800-2004Sep26.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3693354.stm

MoveOn's Investigate the Vote Petition
http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote

An online petition to the US Congress:
http://www.petitiononline.com/uselect/petition.html

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