Free Press Accuses Ohio GOP of Trying to Gut Election Protection on Way to Permanent National Domination

From Columbus Free Press:

Ohio GOP poised to gut election protection on way to permanent national domination
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
January 30, 2006

Ohio's GOP-controlled legislature is poised to pass---probably today (Tuesday, January 31) ---a repressive new law that will gut free elections here and is already surfacing around the US. The bill is designed to help end free elections and continue the process of installing the GOP as America's permanent ruling party.

Called HB3, the bill demands discriminatory voter ID, severely cripples the possibility of statewide recounts and actually ends the process of state-based challenges to federal elections---most importantly for president---held within the state.

In other words, the type of legal challenge mounted to the theft of Ohio's electoral votes in the 2004 election will now be all but impossible in the future.

Section 35-05.18 of HB3 requires restrictive identification requirements for anyone trying to vote in an Ohio election. Photo ID, a utility bill, a bank statement, a government check or other government document showing the name and current address of the voter will be required. This requirement is perfectly designed to slow down the voting process in inner city precincts. It's meant to allow Republican "challengers" to intimidate anyone who turns up to vote in heavily Democratic precincts. It will also virtually eliminate the homeless, elderly and impoverished from the voting rolls. Election protection advocates estimate this requirement will erase 100,000 to 200,000 voters in a typical statewide election. By way of reference, George W. Bush allegedly carried Ohio---and the presidency---by less than 119,000 votes in 2004.

The ID requirement is the direct result of intervention by two high-powered Republican attorneys with ties to the White House and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). Congressman Bob Ney allowed the Bush-Cheney re-election national counsel Mark "Thor" Hearne to testify last March as a so-called "voting rights advocate." Hearne, whose resume shows no connection to voting rights organizations, was responsible for advising the Bush-Cheney campaign on national litigation and election law strategy during the 2004 election.

Complete article

CASE Ohio Urges "No" Vote, on HB 3, Dubbing Ohio's HAVA the "Make It Harder for Americans to Vote Act"

From CASE Ohio:

Ohio’s HAVA: make it Harder for Americans to Vote Act

HB 3 makes it • Harder to Vote • Harder to Ensure Accuracy • Harder to
Recount • Harder to Challenge Questionable Results

Some call it “reform,” CASE calls it regression.

By means of:

Restrictive ID requirements (Sec. 3505.18) Could cost 100,000 to 200,000 votes lost!
Deletion of the recount as machine audit (Sec. 3506.20) Ignoring the possibility of failure or error!
Unaffordable recount cost (Sec. 3515.03) 11,366 precincts X $50 = $568,000!
Prohibition of election contests (Sec. 3515.08) Denying voters a remedy in Ohio law.

Don’t just believe the “talking points”; read for yourself.

First, the most recent version of the bill includes the now infamous ID
requirement:

Sec. 3505.18. (A)(1) When an elector appears in a polling place to vote the
elector shall announce to the precinct election officials the elector's full
name and current address and provide proof of the elector's identity in the
form of either a current and valid photo identification or a copy of a
current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other
government document that shows the name and current address of the elector.

Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText126/126_HB_3_RS_N.html

While most Ohio voters will have a photo ID or other identifying documents,
many, many do not, especially the young, old, poor, homeless, out-of-town
college students, and others. HB 3 will effectively disenfranchise legally
eligible voters.

The current HB 3 also does away with a mandatory recount as a machine audit
for touch-screen (DRE) machines by removing an entire paragraph. The state
Joint Committee on Ballot Security spent 22 hours in hearings with national
experts, then recommended, 8 to 1, that a Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail
(VVPAT) be installed because the technology was easy to hack. Even though
VVPATs are installed the legislature refuses to use it. That section in
the House version passed last spring required the random recount of an issue
or office as a machine audit:

Sec. 3506.20. Any county that uses direct recording electronic voting
machines with a voter verified paper audit trail as the primary voting
system for the county and not only for accessibility for individuals with
disabilities under section 3506.19 of the Revised Code, within two months
after the day of each general election in which a county office or a county
question or issue is on the ballot, shall conduct a complete recount of any
one county office or issue voted on at that election using the voter
verified paper audit trail produced by those machines. The county office or
county question or issue to be recounted shall be selected at random from
all of the county offices, questions, and issues voted upon at that
election. A recount conducted under this section shall be for the purpose of
verifying the accuracy of those machines and shall not change the result of
the election as determined by the official canvass of the election returns
for that election.

Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText126/126_HB_3_PH_N.html

For what possible reason would we not want to verify results with an audit?
If anything, that audit should be required before the final vote totals, or
what’s known as the “official canvass.”

The current version of HB 3 quintuples the cost of recounts:

Sec. 3515.03. Each application for recount shall separately list each
precinct as to which a recount of the votes therein is requested, and the
person filing an the application shall, at the same time, deposit with the
board of elections fifty dollars....

Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText126/126_HB_3_RS_N.html

Do the math: 11,366 precincts X $50 = $568,000!

Finally, the current version of HB 3 prohibits contests of a federal
election (under Ohio law):

Sec. 3515.08. The (A) Except as otherwise provided in this division, the
nomination or election of any person to any public office or party position
or the approval or rejection of any issue or question, submitted to the
voters, may be contested by qualified electors of the state or a political
subdivision. The nomination or election of any person to any federal office,
including the office of elector for president and vice president and the
office of member of congress, shall not be subject to a contest of election
conducted under this chapter. Contests of the nomination or election of any
person to any federal office shall be conducted in accordance with the
applicable provisions of federal law.

Source: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText126/126_HB_3_RS_N.html

Some will counter that challenges are still available under federal law.
That’s true. Look up the case of Rios v. Blackwell. It was filed in
November 2004; the case is still pending. Even if a federal decision comes
soon, it does nothing about an election already decided.

In summary, the worst features of HB 3 are in the recent version and
include:

Restrictive ID requirements (Sec. 3505.18)
Deletion of the recount as machine audit (Sec. 3506.20)
Unaffordable recount cost (Sec. 3515.03)
Prohibition of election contests (Sec. 3515.08)

CASE does not support HB 3. This bill should be voted down.
Contact legislators at http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/
Governor Taft http://governor.ohio.gov/contactinfopage.asp

For further information contact:

Contact:
Phil Fry (937) 362-4493 phil@ctcn.net
Pete Johnson (614) 846-4018 pjohnso6@insight.rr.com
Susan Truitt (614) 270-5239 susan_truitt@yahoo.com
John Burik (513) 271-4715 jburik@fuse.net

Study: 6 Percent of Ohio 2004 precinct results "virtually impossible"; 40 % "improbable"; discrepancies consistent with miscounts

A statistical study just released by the National Election Data Archive has concluded that six (6) percent of Ohio's polled precincts show irtually impossible vote counts, and over 40% show improbable vote counts, and that, the patterns of Ohio's discrepancies are consistent with outcome-altering vote miscounts.

Complete text of study

Congressman Conyers Calls for Investigation of DOJ Voting Section

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement today concerning the revelation in the Washington Post that political appointees overruled a staff recommendation that the Texas congressional redistricting plan of 2003 be rejected as retrogressive under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act:

"At the outset, I expressed concern about the politicization of the Voting Right Act, Section 5, preclearance process for the Texas congressional redistricting plan. In a November 25, 2003, letter to the Attorney General, I stated that it was clear that the Texas congressional redistricting process had been tainted by much more than the customary political rivalry accompanying decennial redistricting and requested that all political appointees be recused from consideration of the plan. This request was met with a cold response. Because the then Chief of the Voting Section failed to sign the "no objection" letter giving DOJ preclearance for the plan, I felt that there was a strong implication of undue political influence and requested a copy of the recommendation memorandum prepared by the career staff from the Attorney General that December. That request also met with a cold response.



The story in today's Washington Post finally lifts the lid on process about which I have been seeking more detailed information for over two years. As I had always feared, the Section 5 process had been compromised at the highest levels of Congress and the Department of Justice. Given the continuing importance of the Section 5, especially in light of similar concerns about the process in Georgia and Mississippi, the Judiciary Committee must conduct rigorous oversight of the Civil Rights Division to protect the integrity of the Voting Rights Act. I will ask Chairman Sensenbrenner to schedule hearings next month to get to the bottom of what is going on within the Department. As we move forward, this situation cannot be allowed to become a distraction from the important work of renewing and restoring the expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act."

Joint Newsletter of CASE OHIO, J30 Coalition, and Ohio Vigilance

This newsletter is intended to be a combined effort of CASE OHIO, J30 COALITION, AND OHIO VIGILANCE, and any citizen activists involved in Election reform. This newsletter will include applicable news and events, it is not intended to promote any specific agenda but instead be inclusive of current newsworthy events.

GAO Report: The General Accounting Office has issued a 107 page report. For the first time, an official government agency has acknowledged in vivid detail the insecurities inherent in voting on electronic machines provided by partisan, privately controlled corporations.

www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102105Q.shtml

In October 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a comprehensive analysis of the concerns raised by the increasing use of electronic voting machines.

Overall, GAO found that "significant concerns about the security and reliability of electronic voting systems" have been raised (p. 22).

GAO indicated that "some of these concerns have been realized and have caused problems with recent elections, resulting in the loss and miscount of votes" (p. 23).

According to GAO, "election officials, computer security experts, citizen advocacy groups, and others have raised significant concerns about the security and reliability of electronic voting systems, citing instances of weak security controls, system design flaws, inadequate system version control, inadequate security testing, incorrect system configuration, poor security management, and vague or incomplete standards, among other issues". The security and reliability concerns raised in recent reports merit the focused attention of federal, state, and local authorities responsible for election administration" (p. 22-23).

GAO further reported that "security experts and some election officials have expressed concern that tests currently performed by independent testing authorities and state and local election officials do not adequately assess electronic voting system security and reliability," and that "these concerns are amplified by what some perceive as a lack of transparency in the testing process" (p. 34)

John Hopkins Center Gazette: Here are the first three paragraphs of a longer article regarding a new effort to make election technology secure.

A federally funded center dedicated to improving the reliability and trustworthiness of voting technology, drawing on experts in computer science, public policy and human behavior, will be based at The Johns Hopkins University, the National Science Foundation announced Aug. 15. Researchers from five other institutions nationwide will participate in the project, which is aimed at addressing public concerns about the growing use of electronic voting machines in local, state and national elections.

The NSF said it would provide $7.5 million over five years to launch the new endeavor called ACCURATE, which is short for A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections. Avi Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins and technical director of the university's Information Security Institute, will direct the center.

Rubin has received international attention in recent years for identifying risks associated with computer-based voting technology that has been put into use with minimal scrutiny by independent security experts. He has testified before state and federal lawmakers and election supervisors regarding potential security flaws in these machines.

www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2005/22aug05/22evote.html

COLUMBUS COMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT UPDATE: (11/21/05)

The Columbus Community Radio Foundation has made significant progress in its efforts to launch a community radio station in Columbus, Ohio. Our fall fundraising event with speaker Amy Goodman raised nearly $3,000 which enabled us to purchase a used radio tower and to have a contractor disassemble it for us. Once the tower is erected at our transmitter site and a transmitter and antennae are connected we'll be ready to begin broadcasting a signal. We are currently applying for a local construction permit to erect the tower and are fundraising to cover that cost. In total we would like to raise $7,000 to cover all of our anticipated remaining construction expenses.
CCRF's transmitter is only permitted to RE-broadcast ( "translate" or "repeat") another station's signal and we are working closely with a group of 4 organizations that are united under a single Low Power FM license which was recently awarded by the FCC. Those organizations (Simply Living, Columbus Refugee and Immigration Services, Bexley Public Radio Foundation and the Groveport-Madison School district) are in the process of organizing their station and negotiating a cooperative agreement between them regarding policies and programming guidelines, time sharing and governance. CCRF is advising them as we draw upon our experience and our connections with Pacifica Radio, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the Grass Roots Radio Coalition. Groveport Madison has allowed CCRF to have access to the 6-9 am time slot 7 days a week and we intend to produce a daily morning program that will include news, interviews, discussion, music, theater and short pre-produced segments from independent producers from 6-8 Monday through Friday with Democracy Now taking up the last hour from 8:00 - 9:00 except on weekends.

CCRF is developing programming criteria and submission guidelines in accordance with our mission statement and we are developing similar proposals for each of the LPFM partner groups. We are presently looking for volunteers for a number of tasks including;
> Morning Show co-hosts and production engineers
> Reporters, producers and announcers
> Program Committee volunteers
> finance committee volunteers ( fundraising)
> researchers for a Pacifica Archives program to be produced by CCRF
> Community Calendar Producers

CCRF has been meeting every other Tuesday at the Council on American Islamic Relations offices ( 4700 Reed Rd.) at 8:00 pm ( but will be switching to 7:30 pm as of November 22). All are welcome.

Our next fundraising event is tentatively scheduled for January 13, 2006 when we will present Sonali Kolhatkar, host of the Pacifica program Uprising and head of the U.S. Afghan Women's Mission. Sonali is about to release a book on the current status of women in Afghanistan based on extensive interviews and her own eyewitness accounts. For updates visit our website at; www.ccrfonline.org


CALIFORNIA INVITED BLACK BOX VOTING TO TEST DIEBOLD

The California Secretary of State has invited Black Box Voting to test/"hack" a Diebold AccuVote-OS voting machine for security vulnerability likely in December 2005. The California Secretary of State's consultant has already found the Diebold AccuVote-OS vulnerable to alteration of vote results.

VOTING PROBLEMS CONTINUE IN OHIO

Lucas County/Toledo Board of Elections (Ohio) took the longest time to complete the vote counting on in Ohio for the November 8, 2005 election. They took 11.5 hours after the close of the polls using Diebold DRE voting machines. They are in the same group as Clermont County Board of Elections, which took the longest for the Second Congressional District August 2, 2005 election

The Lucas County Board of Elections in the November 8, 2005 election, evicted TOLEDO BLADE reporters from the Board of Elections and blocked all reporters from going up the escalator to view the counting. They are in the same group as Warren County, which blocked reporters from viewing the counting in November 2004.

Lucas County also used "rovers" to pick up the memory cards (which contain all the votes) from the precincts instead of the customary procedure of having the precinct head bring them into the county. Some of these "rovers" were people who held elected or appointed positions for a particular political party such as a councilman and Board members of the Lucas County Board of Elections.

"ONE YEAR LATER - VOTING RIGHTS IN OHIO"

The Free Press of Columbus, Ohio sponsored "One Year Later - Voting Rights in Ohio" and a Tribute to Bill Moss at the New Faith Baptist Church in Columbus on November 5, 2005. The New Faith Baptist Church was where the public met to report the considerable problems in the November 2004 election in Columbus, Ohio a year ago. Bill Moss, now deceased, who was lead plaintiff in the resulting MOSS vs. OHIO lawsuit for voting rights, was honored for his civil rights and election work. Films of the Freedom Bus Ride and trip to Washington for the challenge to the Ohio electoral vote in January 2005 were shown. Approximately 70 people attended. There were many speakers including Bob Fitrakis, Susan Truitt, and Cliff Arnebeck, who are all well known in the election reform movement.SPEAKING TO LICKING COUNTY YOUNG DEMOCRATS

Marj Creech and Jo Anne Karasek went to Ohio State University - Newark to speak to the Young Democrats of Licking County (Ohio) on November 17, 2005 on the voting machine problems and the hand count paper ballot solution. A number of election reform advocates, including J30 Coalition members, also did a Voting Rights Forum for LICOPAC in Newark on July 6, 2005. Between the two events we have gained many activists from the Licking County area.LUCAS COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS

The Lucas County (Ohio) Board of Elections' last reply to Jo Anne Karasek for a date to inspect public records referred to a date, which they refused, that was not requested. They keep the ballots requested for inspection in the same room as the ballots for the most recent election, refuse to move them, and claim that they cannot be examined there for security reasons. They refuse to consider allowing another inspection until about December 20. Only two inspections have been permitted since the first public records request on May 2005. Legal action may be necessary.CLERMONT COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS

The Clermont County (Ohio) Board of Elections response for a first request by Jo Anne Karasek to inspect public records (of the Hackett/Schmidt election on August 2, 2005) included a refusal in October to allow inspection for more than one hour, a demand of eight to ten cents a page for copying, when Office Depot only charges six cents a page including profits. The Clermont County Prosecutor threatened arrest and refused to allow videotaping of the inspection. Legal action may be necessary. RECOUNTS AND POSSIBLE AUDITS OF NOVEMBER 8, 2005 ELECTION

The election reform movement, especially in Ohio, is concerned about the outcome of the statewide issues, Issues #1 thru #5, in the November 8, 2005 election. The biggest concern is because a COLUMBUS DISPATCH poll reported on November 6, 2005, indicated that Issues #2 and #3 would be won with a substantial margin, but they both lost with a substantial margin. There are plans to do recounts and audits of the November 8 election in parts of Ohio.

For questions or to volunteer for election reform activities, contact Jo Anne Karasek, jakarasek@cinci.rr.com , a member of J30 Coalition, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/J30/

Mark Crispen Miller on John Kerry:

This quote is from a Free Press article "In recent days Mark Crispin Miller has reported that he heard from Kerry personally that Kerry believes the election was stolen. The dialog has been widely reported on the internet. Kerry has since seemed to deny it." You are encouraged to read the entire article:


www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1556

REFORM OHIO NOW: ELECTION RESULTS

Here is a snippet from an article in the Free Press on the RON results: "While debate still rages over Ohio's stolen presidential election of 2004, the impossible outcomes of key 2005 referendum issues may have put an electronic nail through American democracy. Once again, the Buckeye state has hosted an astonishing display of electronic manipulation that calls into question the sanctity of America's right to vote, and to have those votes counted in this crucial swing state." In addition, Bob Koehler (Chicago Tribune) has written about the RON results.

http://commonwonders.com/

www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1559

Black Box Voting has information on the "next-generation technologies going up for sale by Diebold. At the same time as about a dozen states have put forward cookie-cutter legislation mandating mail-in ballot experiments (wonder who is really behind those), Diebold has, for two years, been behind the scenes developing an automated mail-in computerized processing system.

. . . . Legislation appears, then we find out that, behind the scenes, the vendor was developing a machine for the legislation that hadn't yet appeared. We wonder if unwitting legislators knew that their bill was going to be serviced by an as yet unmarketed Diebold computer system."

www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/5710.html

[The Diebold Vote Remote] System allows election to set acceptance for the ballots high, low, or anywhere they want. This system is not certified. It interacts with the voter registration system, which also contains party affiliation of voters. It may never be tested or certified, since it slips through a loophole in the certification language. Financial documents obtained by BLACK BOX VOTING show completed billings for Vote Remote, indicating that it is already in use.

http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=2005072518330798


DNC resolution in Support of Election Reform. The Democrats speak! The text of the resolution is a this link. http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=426

From ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION on Diebold

Diebold, Inc., manufacturer of electronic voting machines, has been sending out many cease-and-desist letters to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), after internal documents indicating flaws in their systems were published on the Internet. The company cited copyright violations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and demanded that the documents be taken down.

www.eff.org/legal/ISP_liability/OPG_v_Diebold/

Speaking Engagement: On Tuesday, October 25, Marge Creech, Victoria Parks, Jo Anne Karasek and Pete Johnson traveled to Akron to discuss Vote Fraud with a peace group. About 30 people attended. It was difficult to deliver a focused presentation on the plethora of issues in only one hour, but valuable dialogue followed the presentation. Thanks to Paul and Louise Baker for the invitation.

Vote Trust USA: recommended newsletter.

www.votetrustusa.org/newsletters/VTnews1114.htm

Book of the month club: FOOLED AGAIN: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) by Mark Crispin Miller. Although I have not completed it, so far it is excellent. The introduction should be a must read for every American.

Parallel Election news

Franklin County, Ohio November 8, 2005 General Election

Precinct 16D

Comparison of Parallel Election Results to Official Results

Final Report Nov. 14, 2005



http://tinyurl.com/c4rk6



Several reports over the past two years warn that voting electronically is not secure, yet Secretary of State Blackwell is forcing all of Ohio to adopt these expensive, hackable, privately-owned voting systems. He will then run for Governor in 2006, on systems he required, while conducting the administration of this, and his own, election.



Informed citizens cannot accept results that can't be hand-counted. Secret software belongs nowhere in the public voting process. Since our vote belongs to us - not to private for-profit corporations or public officials, citizens must run their own elections; become responsible for developing and implementing fair and honest elections in their own states, and check the accuracy of these machines. Parallel voters privately cast paper ballots and then deposit their own vote into a locked ballot box, which is later counted in a public place.



Precinct 16D, Franklin County (Columbus) was chosen to model civic engagement. Organizers vote in this precinct and were better able to involve neighbors in the Parallel Election.



Ohio has 13,600 precincts in 88 counties. A 1% sample would require 1360 Parallel Elections across the state. Organizers will continue to train teams for the 2006 elections. Since a minimum of six PE workers is needed, over 8,000 citizens are needed just to count 1% of an Ohio vote. Less than 100 concerned citizens, per county, could meet the staffing needs of a Parallel Election.



Final Results



There were 1,049 registered voters on Nov. 8, 2005 in 16D. 53 people voted in the Parallel Election and 99 people voted in the Official Election, as follows: 3 Absentee, 2 provisionals, and 94 in-person voters.



Editor note: I cannot format the table correctly, please click on the "tinyurl" link to see a correctly formatted table.



No. of Votes % for the Issue No. of Votes % for the Issue Yes No Yes No

Parallel Election Official Reported

Results Results

YES NO % for YES NO % for
Issue 1 - Public funds for private R&D; highways 33 19 62% 70 20 75%

Issue 2 - 35 Day absentee voting 42 9 79% 73 19 78%

Issue 3 - Lowers campaign contribution limits 44 8 83% 78 15 83%

Issue 4 - Independent Redistricting Commission 42 10 79% 74 20 79%

Issue 5 - Creates Elections Board of Supervisors 42 10 79% 75 19 80%

(nine people appointed by Ohio judges)



The results for the entire state were reported as Issue 1 passing, and Issues 2 thru 5 failing by a wide margin, contrary to the results of this precinct. Clearly, this precinct alone is not a large enough sample from which to draw conclusions. What can be ascertained is that official reported results of Precinct 16D matched the Parallel Election results.



Based on polling numbers, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman have submitted a rejection of the official results at http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1559.



At least three states held Parallel Elections on November 8 th: Ohio, California and Texas. Information about these other states can be found at http://www.guvwurld.org//Election%20Reform/KHUM%20Radio%20Interview%20-%20Humboldt%20County%20Parallel%20Election%20-%2011-3-05.mp3 for Humboldt County, CA and San Diego, CA www.studycaliforniaballots.org

There was very light voting across Columbus, as reported by other voter protection workers. One team, including global human rights videographer Dorothy Fadiman, covered several precincts throughout the day. Until about 3:30, the weather was sunny and breezy, with temps reaching 70º. Temperatures fell slowly in the evening.

16-D is a heavily democratic, mostly young adult precinct, with a large block of student voters, just west of the Ohio State Fairgrounds. Racially mixed, the precinct also includes a good amount of families. This precinct was chosen to model citizen activism at the local level. "All you need are 6 to 8 voters in your precinct to run a Parallel Election. But be sure to bring enough food and hydration," an activist advised.

Police cruisers drove by several times in the morning, but probably related to other activities. One cruiser did park and face the parallel election table, for about 45 minutes, but it could have just been his lunch break. The pollworkers, precinct judge and voters who participated in the PE support PE efforts and have been very accommodating. Very few voters turned down the opportunity to vote in the parallel election and thanked PE workers for doing this. Team Ohio counted the parallel ballots in a local restaurant, later that night.

To learn How To Conduct a Parallel Election, see http://tinyurl.com/exjqm, or http://tinyurl.com/bmmgz at www.GuvWurld.org; or see www.studycaliforniaballots.org.



Team Ohio included: Rady Ananda, Marjorie Preston, Marj Creech, Madalena LaMarche, Troy Semen, Kal Palnicki, Dave Hickman, and Steave Scott. Much thanks goes to Steave Scott and Warren Stewart for assisting the videographic team of Dorothy Fadiman, to Marj Creech for capturing jpegs during the PE and during the ballot count, and to Victorian's Midnight Café for the ambiance.



Submitted by

Rady Ananda

J30 Research

Columbus OH



Suggestions and comments to pjohnso6@insight.rr.com

Important Action Memo From Victoria Lovegren

Important Action Memo from Victoria Lovegren:

If you haven't made up your mind about electronic voting, or if you haven't yet contacted Cuyahoga County Commissioners to tell them you don't want privatized elections, the following story should help.

Ohio: Alarming Comparisons of Pre-Election Polls and Official Results for Reform Ohio Now Initiatives
by Warren Stewart, Director of Legislative Issues and Policy VoteTrustUSA

In their article "Has American Democracy Died an Electronic Death in Ohio 2005's Referenda Defeats?", Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman point out alarming statistical anomalies in last Tuesday's official results on five statewide ballot initiatives. One of the initiatives was a proposition for state programs to create jobs and promote high tech industry, while the other four were election reform measures referred to collectively as Reform Ohio Now (RON).

Fitrakis and Wasserman note that while the historically reliable pre-election poll conducted by the Columbus Dispatch was typically accurate in predicting the official results for the first ballot initiative it was radically off in predicting easy victories for three of the four RON initiatives. The paper's last poll published on Sunday, November 6, the Dispatch showed Issue One passing with 53% of the vote and the initiative passed in the official tallies with 54% of the vote.

For the Reform Ohio Now initiatives it was another matter. The Dispatch poll showed Issue Two, which called for no excuse absentee voting, passing by a vote of 59% to 33%, with about 8% undecided, an even broader margin than that predicted for Issue One. But on November 8, the official vote count, Issue Two went down to defeat by the astonishing margin of 63.5% against, with just 36.5% in favor.

Similarly Issue Three, which dealt with campaign finance reform, was predicted by the Dispatch to win in a landslide, with 61% in favor and just 25% opposed. But on Tuesday, Issue Three lost in perhaps the most astonishing reversal in Ohio history, claiming just 33% of the vote, with 67% opposed. The other two reform initiatives on the ballots suffered similar reversals. Significantly, almost half the state's counties were using touch screen voting machines for the first time. Read the Entire Article




Cuyahoga County Board of Elections is hell-bent on purchasing over 6000 Diebold touch-screen voting machines. And this kind of information just might help us stop them.

Our scrutiny, phone calls, faxes, emails may have caused the County Commissioners to postpone their vote on purchasing additional machines. We expected a vote this week, but we've heard that it won't happen this week, and there are rumors that it won't happen until after the May '06 primaries.

Our vigilance and persistence is working! Please continue to contact the commissioners as well as the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections' director, Michael Vu (216-443-3200). We simply cannot let Cuyahoga fall to electronic voting machines. Just look at what happened to the Reform Ohio Now initiatives!

Please go to www.ohiovigilance.org to find out more about why we're fighting so hard and what you can do about it!

Thanks so much,

Victoria Lovegren and Adele Eisner

P.S. Thanks so much to those of you who have been contacting the commissioners--it's working!

Important Action Memo from Marc Baber and Sheri Myers Concerning Extreme Voting Anomalies in Ohio 2005

This is a much better summary of why the stolen 2005 election in Ohio is important to everyone in the U.S. (and the world for that matter).
Sheri hits the nail on the head when she says we've got to start pressuring the media and she provides hundreds of contact e-mails below
for doing just that. Please take some time and let these members of the mediacracy know that their silence is truly deafening and can only
make them irrelevant.

Let them know that, hey, it'd be nice if they'd report the news, but we can get it from commondreams.org (which is raising funds this week, BTW).
I, for one, no longer read the local paper or watch television. I read Commondreams.org, listen to AirAmerica (KOPT 1600 AM in Eugene) and
monitor the so-called mainstream by checking cnn.com periodically.

Not only is the election system rife with fraud, so are the news organizations that enable these abuses by turning the other way and ignoring
what should be the major stories of our time.

Bush is at 37% approval and falling... Keep it up. You are all making a difference.

-Marc Baber
Truth in Voting

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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: LET'S MAKE SOME NOISE: Democracy (once again) denied in Ohio!! (w/ media list)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:02:01 -0800
From: Sheri Myers
To: Sheri Myers
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My Friends,
Please share this with anyone who was sickened by the results of the last Presidential election, who was outraged by the criminal behavior of Secretary of State Blackwell in Ohio...


This is a painful reminder that the voting machine situation in Ohio is worse than ever. We MUST ALL take Ohio personally and demand reform. The battle-weary activists there NEED OUR HELP!! They put their hearts and souls and hope on the line to institute election reforms, and got robbed. (See stats below)


DON'T FORGET -Our Democratic candidate HAS to win Ohio to take back the White House!! For Paul Hackett to win an Ohio Senate seat, his votes have to be counted on Diebold touchscreen machines.


Around the country, the Democrats are organizing for 2006. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE VOTING MACHINES???


#1 URGENT and NECESSARY ACTION: PLEASE PASS ALONG AND POST EVERYWHERE.


Email Mike Curtin, associate publisher and senior editor of the Columbus Dispatch: mcurtin@dispatch.com


"I urge you to investigate and report on the staggering anomalies between your paper's polls before the 2005 election and the official results."


Check out these stats from Brad Friedman, of Bradblog:


The Staggeringly Impossible Results of Ohio's '05 Election...
...As Half of Ohio's Counties Fire Up Blackwell's New Diebold Electronic Diebold Voting Machines
Is this the Election that will finally break the camel's back?


Simply put, the polls published in the historically accurate Columbus Dispatch just two days before the election, matched almost identically on the one ballot initiative supported by Ohio's Governor Taft, but the 4 that called for Electoral Reform? Didn't synch up by a long shot:

ISSUE 1 ($2 Billion State Bond initiative)
PRE-POLLING: 53% Yes, 27% No, 20% Undecided
FINAL RESULT: 54% Yes, 45% No

ISSUE 2 (Allow easier absentee balloting)
PRE-POLLING: 59% Yes, 33% No, 9% Undecided
FINAL RESULT: 36% Yes, 63% No

ISSUE 3 (Revise campaign contribution limits)
PRE-POLLING: 61% Yes, 25% No, 14% Undecided
FINAL RESULT: 33% Yes, 66% No

ISSUE 4 (Ind. Comm. to draw Congressional Districts)
PRE-POLLING: 31% Yes, 45% No, 25% Undecided
FINAL RESULT: 30% Yes, 69% No

ISSUE 5 (Ind. Board instead of Sec. of State to oversee elections)
PRE-POLLING: 41% Yes, 43% No, 16% Undecided
FINAL RESULT: 29% Yes, 70% No



Award-winning editor of the Free Press, Bob Fitrakis warns us in his article about the very recent 2005 elections in Ohio:


"And thus the possible explanations for the staggering defeats of Issues Two through Five boil down to two: either the Dispatch polling - dead accurate for Issue One - was wildly wrong beyond all possible statistical margin of error for Issues 2-5, or the electronic machines on which Ohio and much of the nation conduct their elections were hacked by someone wanting to change the vote count....

If the latter is true, it can and will be done again, and we can forget forever about the state that has been essential to the election of every Republican presidential candidate since Lincoln. And we can also, for all intents and purposes, forget about the future of American democracy."

Here's Bob's article in full... http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111405O.shtml


#2 ACTION TO TAKE ALL WEEK - EVERY WEEK - UNTIL THIS PROBLEM GETS REPORTED!


CONTACT THE MEDIA - MAINSTREAM AND INDEPENDENT (quotes courtesy of Brad Friedman)


"YOU MUST PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF THE GAO REPORT!"


"ON OCTOBER 20, 2005 the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its 107-page report [PDF] confirming what many of us have been reporting for what seems like forever: That electronic voting machines are not secure, are hackable, and employ secret software that is frequently neither certified nor adequately inspected."



Silence: Mainstream Media Completely Ignores GAO Report, Joint Congressional News Release on E-Voting!
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001964.htm


"YOU MUST INVESTIGATE THIS ONGOING ELECTION FRAUD IN OHIO"


"With 44 of Ohio's 88 counties for the first time using Electronic Touch-Screen Voting Machines last Tuesday -- most of them the same Diebold, Inc. machines that were decertified in California -- you must take a look at the extroarindarily inexplicable results of the 4 ballot initiatives that would have reformed voting in the Buckeye State and removed Sec. of State J. Kenneth Blackwell (a hard-right Bush partisan) from elections entirely."



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Media List from Independent Media Resource
(http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity2_14.htm),
and several other sources...


-- Ready to copy and paste, I have separated the rows of addresses as a
reminder to send in smaller groups to avoid alerting spam-cops.

-- Other contact info of some MSM at bottom of lists (phone numbers,
addresses, etc)

-- Sometimes many return "failed delivery", sometimes not so many. And I'm
sure some are permanently inactive addresses.

-- Also, cross-check with: http://www.rense.com/mediacontact.htm



-- And I have started the list with C-Span since they have been an important
media ally at times:

events@c-span.org;journal@c-span.org;booknotes@c-span.org;
radio@c-span.org;manager@c-span.org

I've also added at the top here a few DNC addy's - including Ohio Dems...

vri@dnc.org;dennis@ohiodems.org;dan@ohiodems.org;hanna@ohiodems.org

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Set 1: Primarily National Television News media...

countdown@msnbc.com;KOlbermann@msnbc.com ;CJ@MSNBC.com ;
JTrippi@MSNBC.com;hardball@msnbc.com;abramsreport@msnbc.com;
dshuster@msnbc.com;dennis.sullivan@msnbc.com;norville@msnbc.com;

joe@msnbc.com;msnbcinvestigates@msnbc.com;feedback@msnbc.com;
rreagan@msnbc.com;viewerservices@msnbc.com;brian.williams@msnbc.com;
imus@msnbc.com;chris.matthews@msnbc.com;msnbcreports@msnbc.com;

today@nbc.com;info@cnbc.com;dateline@nbc.com;nightly@nbc.com;MTP@nbc.com;
tom.lea@nbc.com;steve.majors@nbc.com;susan.dutcher@nbc.com;rod.prince@nbc.com;
jonathan.wald@nbc.com;lisa.hsia@nbc.com;betsy.fischer@nbc.com;mtp@nbc.com;

NETAUDR@abc.com;2020@abc.com;nightline@abcnews.com;wnn@abcnews.com;
support@abcnews.go.com;niteline@abc.com;abc.news.magazines@abc.com;
phil.boyce@abc.com;thisweek@abc.com;mimi.gurbst@abc.com;mark.nelson@abc.com;

virginia.moseley@abc.com;penny.britell@abc.com;muriel.pearson@abc.com;
sharon.newman@abc.com;meredith.white@abc.com;gil.pimentel@abc.com;
stu.schutzman@abc.com;

evening@cbsnews.com;earlyshow@cbs.com;48hours@cbsnews.com;ftn@cbsnews.com;
60m@cbsnews.com;thismorning@cbsnews.com;bpc@cbsnews.com;dij@cbsnews.com;
efm@cbsnews.com;mkx@cbsnews.com;pma@cbsnews.com;rbc@cbsnews.com;
sundays@cbsnews.com;grain@cbsnews.com;realitycheck@cbsnews.com;
pls@cbsnews.com;pjh@cbsnews.com;

wolf@cnn.com;360@cnn.com;aaron.brown@turner.com;Paula.Zahn2@cnn.com;
crossfire@cnn.com;daybreak@cnn.com;jeff.greenfield@cnn.com;livefrom@cnn.com;
loudobbs@cnn.com;newsnight@cnn.com;tom.hannon@cnn.com;wam@cnn.com;
livetoday@cnn.com;am@cnn.com;

andrea.koppel@turner.com;bill.schneider@turner.com;bruce.morton@turner.com;
carol.lin@turner.com;daryn.kagan@turner.com;david.ensor@turner.com;
jeanne.meserve@turner.com;jim.walton@turner.com;deirdre.walsh@turner.com;
kelly.wallace@turner.com;kyra.phillips@turner.com;lou.dobbs@turner.com;
miles.obrien@turner.com;paula.zahn@turner.com;candy.crowley@turner.com;



Set 2: New York Times and various National & International Print media...

krugman@nytimes.com;vannatta@nytimes.com;tiwein@nytimes.com;miwein@nytimes.com;
weisman@nytimes.com;liptaka@nytimes.com;bobherb@nytimes.com;reissc@nytimes.com;
public@nytimes.com;dabrooks@nytimes.com;dakirk@nytimes.com;dasang@nytimes.com;

editorial@nytimes.com;erschm@nytimes.com;executiveeditor@nytimes.com;
febarr@nytimes.com;foreign@nytimes.com;justice@nytimes.com;burns@nytimes.com;
cushman@nytimes.com;markoff@nytimes.com;judym@nytimes.com;letters@nytimes.com;

ligree@nytimes.com;nytnews@nytimes.com;managing-editor@nytimes.com;
liberties@nytimes.com;mossm@nytimes.com;national@nytimes.com;news-tips@nytimes.com;
nicholas@nytimes.com;pekilb@nytimes.com;ropear@nytimes.com;rotone@nytimes.com;

stolberg@nytimes.com;slabaton@nytimes.com;weisman@nytimes.com;lewin@nytimes.com;
tiwein@nytimes.com;topurd@nytimes.com;washington@nytimes.com;safire@nytimes.com;
executive-editor@nytimes.com;managing-editor@nytimes.com;

bduffy@usnews.com;letters@usnews.com;gborger@usnews.com;jallen@usnews.com;
kwalsh@usnews.com;mzuckerman@usnews.com;vpope@usnews.com;whispers@usnews.com;
alevin@usatoday.com;astone@usatoday.com;bslavin@usatoday.com;bnichols@usatoday.com;

bwelch@usatoday.com;editor@usatoday.com;dmoniz@usatoday.com;ghager@usatoday.com;
gflanders@usatoday.com;jlawrence@usatoday.com;jdrinkard@usatoday.com;
jbiskupic@usatoday.com;editor@usatoday.com;jkeen@usatoday.com;kkiely@usatoday.com;

kjohnson@usatoday.com;mhall@usatoday.com;rbenedetto@usatoday.com;
rwolf@usatoday.com;spage@usatoday.com;tsquitieri@usatoday.com;tlocy@usatoday.com;
theforum@usatoday.com;wshapiro@usatoday.com;

letters@economist.com;amity.shlaes@ft.com;letters.editor@ft.com;philip.stephens@ft.com;
greg.hitt@wsj.com;wsj.ltrs@wsj.com;wsjcontact@dowjones.com;jeanne.cummings@wsj.com;
jane_mayer@newyorker.com;themail@newyorker.com;deborah.barfield@newsday.com;
ken.fireman@newsday.com;

Editors@newsweek.com;WebEditors@newsweek.com;howardfineman@aol.com;
Letters@newsweek.com;letters@time.com;lettersbwol@businessweek.com;

letters@washingtontimes.com;gpierce@washingtontimes.com;jmccaslin@washingtontimes.com;
dkeil@bloomberg.net;wroberts@bloomberg.net;ghall@bloomberg.net;hprzybyla@bloomberg.net;
jcohen@bloomberg.net;

NewsAlert@letters.washingtonpost.com;letters@washpost.com;webnews@washingtonpost.com;
georgewill@washpost.com;jimhoagland@washpost.com;ombudsman@washpost.com;
powellm@washpost.com;kurtzh@washpost.com;abramowitz@washpost.com>;

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newsonline@bbc.co.uk;editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk;politics.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk;
foreign@guardian.co.uk;letters@guardian.co.uk;politics@guardian.co.uk;online@guardian.co.uk;
foreigneditor@independent.co.uk;newseditor@independent.co.uk;

letters@iht.com;ellengoodman@globe.com;ombud@globe.com;kcooper@globe.com;
letter@globe.com;johnson@globe.com;brelis@globe.com;oliphant@globe.com;
editor@scoop.co.nz;alastair@scoop.co.nz;selwyn@scoop.co.nz;jhoward@minidata.co.nz;
andrew@scoop.co.nz;wade@scoop.co.nz

jgreenburg@tribune.com;jzeleny@tribune.com;jzuckman@tribune.com;jcrewdson@tribune.com;
MPossley@tribune.com;rkemper@tribune.com;bjapsen@tribune.com;csimpson@tribune.com;
fjames@tribune.com;GWashburn@tribune.com;gdelama@tribune.com;mdorning@tribune.com
JPeres@tribune.com;cgarrett@tribune.com;

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Set 3: The Los Angeles Times

letters@latimes.com;readers.rep@latimes.com;aaron.zitner@latimes.com;
barbara.serrano@latimes.com;barry.siegel@latimes.com;James.Rainey@latimes.com;
bill.rempel@latimes.com;bob.drogin@latimes.com;chuck.neubauer@latimes.com;

davan.maharaj@latimes.com;david.kelly@latimes.com;david.savage@latimes.com;
david.willman@latimes.com;david.zucchino@latimes.com;deborah.nelson@latimes.com;
don.frederick@latimes.com;don.woutat@latimes.com;doyle.mcmanus@latimes.com;

ellen.barry@latimes.com;esther.schrader@latimes.com;faye.fiore@latimes.com;
glenn.bunting@latimes.com;greg.miller@latimes.com;janet.hook@latimes.com;
joan.springhetti@latimes.com;joel.havemann@latimes.com;johanna.neuman@latimes.com;

john.glionna@latimes.com;john.hendren@latimes.com;john.stewart@latimes.com;
jonathan.peterson@latimes.com;josh.getlin@latimes.com;josh.meyer@latimes.com;
judy.pasternak@latimes.com;julie.bowles@latimes.com;ken.silverstein@latimes.com;

kevin.sack@latimes.com;leslie.hoffecker@latimes.com;letters@latimes.com;
linda.finestone@latimes.com;lisa.getter@latimes.com;maggie.farley@latimes.com;
maria.laganga@latimes.com;marjorie.miller@latimes.com;mark.barabak@latimes.com;

mark.mazzetti@latimes.com;mark.porubcansky@latimes.com;maryann.meek@latimes.com;
mary.braswell@latimes.com;mary.curtius@latimes.com;matea.gold@latimes.com;
maura.reynolds@latimes.com;michael.finnegan@latimes.com;michael.kinsley@latimes.com;

michael.muskal@latimes.com;millie.quan@latimes.com;nick.anderson@latimes.com;
patrick.mcdonnell@latimes.com;patt.morrison@latimes.com;paul.feldman@latimes.com;
peter.wallsten@latimes.com;readers.rep@latimes.com;richard.cooper@latimes.com;

richard.simon@latimes.com;robin.abcarian@latimes.com;roger.ainsley@latimes.com;
scott.gold@latimes.com;scott.kraft@latimes.com;stephanie.simon@latimes.com;
steve.braun@latimes.com;tom.furlong@latimes.com;tom.hamburger@latimes.com;
tom.mccarthy@latimes.com;elizabeth.mehren@latimes.com;alan.miller@latimes.com;


Set 4: Misc. National media, incl. Newswires,Radio,Mags & Internet....

feedback@ap.org;jloven@ap.org;lmargasak@ap.org;msilverman@ap.org;npickler@ap.org;
rfournier@ap.org;sjohnson@ap.org; pr@ap.org;thunt@ap.org;traum@ap.org;info@ap.org;
pr@ap.org;cochs@ap.org;pressreleases@upi.com;tips@upi.com;investigations_desk@upi.com;
politics_desk@upi.com;info@ap.org;

editor@reuters.com;patricia.wilson.reuters.com@reuters.net;todd.eastham@reuters.com;
stella.dawson@reuters.com;arshad.mohammed@reuters.com;randall.mikkelsen@reuters.com;
steve.holland@reuters.com;john.whitesides@reuters.com;news@capitolhillbureau.org;

sheberer@pbs.org;charlierose@pbs.org;newshour@pbs.org;danschiedel@kozk.pbs.org;
theworld@pri.org;newshour@pbs.org;ombudsman@npr.org;atc@npr.org;morning@npr.org;
totn@npr.org;morning@npr.org;rsiegel@npr.org;ombudsman@npr.org;sstamberg@npr.org;

totn@npr.org;freshair@whyy.org;watc@npr.org;wesat@npr.org;wesun@npr.org;
npronsirius@npr.org;worldwide@npr.org;wesat@npr.org;atc@npr.org;ataylor@npr.org;
bwilson@npr.org;bnaylor@npr.org;ombudsman@npr.org;cflintoff@npr.org;

emcdonnell@npr.org;corrections@npr.org;cwindham@npr.org;dschorr@npr.org;
dardalan@npr.org;dgonyea@npr.org;jlyden@npr.org;jcochran@npr.org;jwilliams@npr.org;
krudin@npr.org;lhansen@npr.org;ombudsman@npr.org;mliasson@npr.org;lusa@npr.org;

mblock@npr.org;atc@npr.org;morning@npr.org;nconan@npr.org;ntotenberg@npr.org;
atc@npr.org;pfessler@npr.org;ombudsman@npr.org;pbreslow@npr.org;

newstips@wdtn.com;drobinson@wdtn.com;ddmarko@wdtn.com;jason.pheister@wbns10tv.com;
jason.pheister@wbns10tv.com;gramshaw@newshour.org;stephanie@stephaniemiller.com;
brian_hill@metronetworks.com;mcurtis@njn.org;mail@uttm.com;maureensm@ffww.com;

tgrieve@salon.com;talbotd@salon.com;kberger@salon.com;gsealey@salon.com;
michelle@salon.com;mjacoby@salon.com;kaufman@salon.com;mfollman@salon.com;
mkeeley@salon.com;modonnell@salon.com;kamiya@salon.com; scottr@salon.com;

lauram@salon.com;ruth@salon.com;kaufman@salon.com;bwyman@salon.com;
jmillman@salon.com;boehlert@salon.com;szacharek@salon.com;jsweeney@salon.com;
abenfer@salon.com;ayork@salon.com;fmorgan@salon.com;klauerman@salon.com;

jtapper@salon.com;daryl@salon.com;amontgomery@salon.com;cchocano@salon.com;
ccolin@salon.com;areiter@salon.com;dawn@salon.com;dcruickshank@salon.com;
boehlert@salon.com;stark@salon.com;letters@slate.com;

ekelly@gns.gannett.com;fbremner@gns.gannett.com;jcarroll@gns.gannett.com;
kscott@gns.gannett.com;lbivins@gns.gannett.com;mgroppe@gns.gannett.com;
mmadden@gns.gannett.com;pbrogan@gns.gannett.com;rchebium@gns.gannett.com;
aradelat@gns.gannett.com;cweiser@gns.gannett.com;dabrahms@gns.gannett.com;

rrhodes@airamericaradio.com;tawalker@airamericaradio.com;geoff@radioleft.com;
contact@pacifica.org;jonsintown@airamericaradio.com;me@glennbeck.com;
nealznunze@cox.com;brinkerbob@aol.com;howie@wnir.com;colmes@foxnews.com;

johncorby@clearchannel.com;bsteigerwald@tribweb.com;mitch@albom.com;
sternshow@howardstern.com;buzzflash@buzzflash.com;kos@dailykos.com;
mail@democracynow.org;imusshow@yahoo.com;info@jimhightower.com;

billy.house@arizonarepublic.com;oped@thestar.ca;rob@opednews.com;
jsmyth@plaind.com;mnaymik@plaind.com;feedback@necn.com;alan@alan.com;
jnorman@dmreg.com;jconason@observer.com;editorial@progressive.org;

news@michaelmoore.com;maillist@michaelmoore.com;MMFlint@aol.com;
media@michaelmoore.com;info@michaelmoore.com;mike@mikemalloy.com;
fair@fair.org;phart@fair.org;shohauser@fair.org;

galbraith@mail.utexas.edu;dcorn@thenation.com;info@thenation.com;drshow@wamu.org;
online@tnr.com;connectionweb@wbur.bu.edu;email@wrn.org;justicetalking@asc.upenn.edu;
dastor@editorandpublisher.com;Lionel@LionelOnline.com;onthemedia@wnyc.org;

editorial@flashpoints.net;now@thirteen.org;jridgeway@villagevoice.com;
plorris@univision.net;dmedrano@telemundo.com;abenitez@univision.net;
evaldez@univision.net;rvizcon@telemundo.com;

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From http://www.rumormillnews.com/MEDIA_EMAIL_ADDRESSES.htm
MEDIA EMAIL ADDRESSES --

US RADIO NETWORKS:

famradio@familyradio.com; troman@theprovider.com; dmoye@flashnews.com;

terry@catholicradio.com;timmer@premrad.com; gdavis@businesstalkradio.net;

isabel@hrn.org; danc@igc.org; jdvorkin@npr.org; cochs@ap.org; ed@forthepeople.org;

wrestrepo@radiounica.com; cesar.orozco@turner.com; yourtwc@mindspring.com;

jcohen@bloomberg.net;tommydouglas@pgatourradio.com;ksiv@bottradio.net;

tommartin@worldradio.org; crn@clark.net; huff@libertyworksradio.com; dspear@pri.org;

staff@talkamerica.com; bah@nwc.edu; jriley@afa.net; world@flpradio.com;

jhiggins@unitedstations.com; roy_lindau@interep.com;david.feinberg@abc.com;

weber@swnetworks.com; sal.giangrasso@dowjones.com; ken.pauli@turner.com;



NY RADIO STATIONS:

anthrera@hotmail.com; promotions@wsou.net; culture@wnyc.org; wsoufreak@aol.com;

WSOUangel@aol.com; tragedyv13@yahoo.com; wkcramerican@columbia.edu;

wkcrarts@columbia.edu; wkcrnews@columbia.edu; thefolks@wfuv.org;equest@wlir.com;

news@wnyc.org; JSchwartz@wnyc.org; thenextbigthing@wnyc.org; listener.mail@wqxr.com;

987kissfm@987kissfm.com; kpfa@pacifica.org; wpfwfm@aol.com; pnn@pacifica.org;

RadioChick@wnew.com; RonandFez@wnew.com; opack@wnew.com; trunk@wnew.com;

morningshow@wor710.com; drjoybrowne@wor710.com; drhoffman@wor710.com;

joanhamburg@wor710.com; arthurschwartz@wor710.com; thedolans@wor710.com;

bobgrant@wor710.com; joeyreynolds@wor710.com; phillempert@wor710.com;

ralphsnodsmith@wor710.com; news@wor710.com; warreneckstein@wor710.com;

info@wins.com; samgreenfield@1050wevd.com; alancolmes@1050wevd.com;

edkoch@1050wevd.com; jimbohannon@1050wevd.com; billmazer@1050wevd.com;

brucedumont@1050wevd.com; brucewilliams@1050wevd.com;



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Network Media Contact Info (including phone numbers)
Network/Cable Television
ABC
ABC News
77 W. 66 St., New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-456-7777
General e-mail: netaudr@abc.com

Email forms for all ABC news programs

Nightline: nightline@abcnews.com
20/20: 2020@abc.com



CBS
CBS News
524 W. 57 St., New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-975-4321
Fax: 212-975-1893

Email forms for all CBS news programs

CBS Evening News with Dan Rather: evening@cbsnews.com
The Early Show: earlyshow@cbs.com
60 Minutes II: 60II@cbsnews.com
48 Hours: 48hours@cbsnews.com
Face The Nation: ftn@cbsnews.com



CNN
CNN
One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30303-5366
Phone: 404-827-1500
Fax: 404-827-1906
Email forms for all CNN news programs



Fox News Channel
1211 Ave. of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 301-3000
Fax: (212) 301-4229
comments@foxnews.com

List of Email addresses for all Fox News Channel programs

Special Report with Brit Hume: Special@foxnews.com
FOX Report with Shepard Smith: Foxreport@foxnews.com
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John Bonifaz, Voting Rights Hero, May Run for Secretary of State of Massachusetts

John Bonifaz, voting rights hero, has indicated that he may run for Secretary of State of Massachusetts. Here is his statement:

Welcome to the website of our campaign. I am preparing to run for Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 2006. I will formally announce this candidacy if the current incumbent, Secretary William F. Galvin, decides to vacate the seat to run for governor. I hope you will join me in this campaign to make Massachusetts a model for free and fair elections for the nation.

As Secretary, I will press for a new bill of rights — a Voters' Bill of Rights. A new set of guarantees that will make our democracy in Massachusetts stronger and provide an example to the country. I will be a secretary of state who fights to uphold this nation's promise of political equality for all.

I will press for greater corporate accountability. If a corporation is principally based in Massachusetts, it ought to be accountable to the workers and people of our Commonwealth. The Secretary of the Commonwealth has important oversight responsibilities with respect to Massachusetts corporations, and, as Secretary, I will fight for your interests.

Further, this campaign will address another critical issue facing our Commonwealth: The war in Iraq. The question of how we go to war is a fundamental question of democracy. As a candidate for Secretary of the Commonwealth, I will support the Massachusetts ballot initiative campaign aimed at bringing our Massachusetts National Guard troops home from Iraq. We must fight to end this illegal and unconstitutional war and bring our troops home now.

This will be a grassroots, outsider campaign. It will not be dominated by big money interests and wealthy contributors. It will be a campaign for all of us — for our hopes, our dreams, our vision for democracy.

I hope you will show your support today for this campaign during this crucial exploratory phase. Join me in this movement to make democracy real for all of us.

-John Bonifaz

For further updates:
http://johnbonifaz.com

New Mexico 2004 Election Lawsuit Now in Discovery Phase: Shocking "Irregularities" Abounded -- The Scoop

"Scoop" Independent Media reports:

New Mexico Law Suit Delves Inside Voting Machines
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 12:30 pm
Article: Michael Collins

Election Errors Threaten Future Voting Rights in New Mexico

Major Law Suit Under Way to Open Up “Secret” Workings of Voting Machines
Special Report for “Scoop” Independent Media
First in a Series
By Michael Collins
Nov. 2, 2005

Patricia Rosas Lopategui et al… “wishes to have her vote properly counted and weighted in any forthcoming elections.” New Mexico rarely generates much national news. When it does, as in the Wen Ho Lee nuclear espionage investigation, it can be explosive.

Now a little-known lawsuit before New Mexico District Court Judge Eugenio S. Mathis has the potential to alter the face of American elections.

Lopategui et al versus the State of New Mexico is proceeding at a surprising pace, with the litigants currently in the “discovery” phase of the trial, the point at which lawyers are allowed to question key witnesses and dig for facts and opinions with wide latitude. The targets of discovery right now include Sequoia Elections, two of the big three voting machine companies; Rebecca Vigil-Giron, New Mexico Secretary of State; state and local election officials; and officials of the state’s voting systems support vendor.

Highly disturbing facts and allegations have already emerged in this well-run but under publicized case. For example, in one majority Hispanic precinct, the voting machines produced exactly zero votes for John Kerry. More issues will arise as the Plaintiffs’ legal team digs deeper into the highly irregular events of Election Day 2004. Remarkably, these events occurred at a much higher rate in predominantly Hispanic and Native American precincts.

Complete Article

Kerry Concedes He Shouldn't Have Conceded

Kerry Suspects Election 2004 Was Stolen
By Robert Parry
November 6, 2005


Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, has told acquaintances over the past year that he suspects that the election was stolen, but that he didn’t challenge the official results because he lacked hard proof and anticipated a firestorm of criticism if he pressed the point.

“Kerry heard all the disquieting stories” about voting irregularities in Ohio and other states, said Jonathan Winer, a longtime Kerry adviser and a former deputy assistant secretary of state. “But he didn’t have the evidence to do more.”

The Massachusetts senator conceded to George W. Bush on Nov. 3, 2004, the day after the election when it became clear that the uncounted votes in the swing state of Ohio were insufficient to erase Bush’s narrow lead.

The move infuriated some Democratic activists who felt Kerry should have lived up to his campaign promise that he would make sure every vote was counted. In January 2005, as Bush’s victory was being certified by Congress, Kerry also refused to back a resolution challenging the fairness of the Ohio vote.

Mark Crispin Miller, a New York University professor and author of a new book about the 2004 election entitled Fooled Again, said he discussed the voting issue with Kerry on Oct. 28 when he encountered the senator at a political event.

In a Nov. 4 interview on Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now,” Miller said he gave Kerry a copy of Fooled Again, prompting Kerry’s comments about the 2004 election results.

Complete text of article, published at consortiumnews.com