GAO to Investigate 2004 Election Irregularities

[FloridaCrat]

Heard it just a few minutes ago on the Randi Rhodes show, Air America.

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/gaoelectionjtpr112304.pdf

* November 23, 2004 Government Accountability Office to conduct Investigation of 2004 Election Irregularities.

The press release does not have specifics about how they intend to investigate over 57,000 complaints about the recent election.

This is GREAT news.

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1. THIS IS FANTASTIC! THANKS! HAVE BEEN WAITING

FUNNY HOW ITS OF COURSE NOT ON THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA. I WONDER IF OBERMAN KNOWS!

[tommcintyre]

2. Great.. now lets make the mainstream media cover it! read in:

<Edit: I will update this info into the letter below in a little while.>


http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity.htm

With this new program, you are able to email 392 national media contacts with just four clicks of your email send button!
In addition, there is a "Tell Everyone You Know" page that will enable you to quickly email all your personal contacts.
First, a little background information:

This program is based on the highly successful "Stop Sinclair" email program. If you recall, Sinclair broadcasting was going to show the anti-Kerry smear "documentary" on its 25 stations. The end result was that this email campaign (along with other efforts) was able to not only stop the films showing on its scheduled date, but it also caused the Sinclair stock to plummet 17%. And, according to the website, it cost Sinclair $10 million dollars!

Plain and simple, media email campaigns work! Keith Olbermann, who is, in effect, the only national media to give the potential presidential election vote fraud issue both fair and adequate coverage, constantly asks us to "Keep those email coming at [email protected]" And, shortly, after the election, I heard Peter Jennings complained on-air, that they were doing the (lousy) story, just to stop so many emails from coming. The media knows that the emails they get are only "the tip of the iceberg". For everyone they get, there may be 1,000 people that don't write, but feel the same way!

So, you may want to read the letter below first. But then go "do your part". Together, we can force the national media to keep the spotlight on the recount in Ohio - and other voting irregularities. No more "Florida 2k" situations where the media didn't do their job!

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Hi,

I’m emailing you because there is increasing evidence of
potential vote fraud in our 2004 Presidential election; and
the national media is ignoring it, or putting it down. It
is being described as a “news Lockdown” on this story.
Literally hundreds of cases of voting irregularities have
been uncovered. (Some typical examples are listed below.)
It is so serious that independent political parties (Greens
and Libertarians and other groups), have raised money and
are recounting the ballots in several States.

It is still possible that the election could be overturned
if enough votes are found. The following are all quotes
from Keith Olbermann’s 11-22 blog below]: “Kerry/Edwards Campaign Participates In Ohio
Recount “ “…they
take the possibility (of a Kerry victory) and the need for
a recount seriously.” “There in fact will be a recount…”
“the Provisionals plus the “Undercount” could
make things very close indeed.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240


All this is very encouraging, but without adequate and fair
national media coverage, the GOP-biased Ohio officials
could “sweep this under the rug”, like what happened in
Florida in 2000. Unfortunately, the national media’s track
record over the last weeks since the election does not
indicate they will cover the Ohio recount either adequately
or fairly.

This lack of fair and adequate national media coverage is
so serious; I’m asking you to do something. Please go to
the following site and email the national media, letting
them know you expect them to cover this situation “right”!
It’s very easy to do. In just four clicks of your email
send button, you can send emails to 392 national media
contacts!
http://www.independentmediasource.com/voteintegrity.htm


Please do it now! Our future Democracy may very well depend
on it.

Thank you for helping all of us,



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1) "FBI denies warning officials of any special threat"
Warren County officials, facing scrutiny of their decision
to lock down the administration building on election night,
say they were responding to a terrorist threat that ranked
a "10" on a scale of 1 to 10.

The information, which Commissioner Pat South said was
previously deemed confidential, is coming out a week after
the public was barred from viewing the Warren County vote
count. The Ohio Secretary of State's office doesn't know of
any other county in the state to impose such a restriction.

County officials initially said they feared that having
reporters and photographers present could interfere with
the ballot counting. They subsequently cited homeland
security concerns.

Now, they say an FBI agent told them that Warren County
ranked a "10" on a terrorism scale. However, state and
federal homeland security officials said Tuesday they were
unaware of any specific threat against the county.
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/11/10/loc_warrenvote10.html
a HUGE scandal. The lack of coverage of this story
indicates there is a “news lockdown" on potential
Presidential election voting fraud!]

2) "UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for
Florida E-Vote Count" Statistical Analysis - the Sole
Method for Tracking E-Voting - Shows Irregularities May
Have Awarded 130,000 - 260,000 or More Excess Votes to Bush
in Florida. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/11-18-2004/0002464301&EDATE=
behind it. This will become a MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT for the
national media - considering the lack of appropriate
coverage!]

3) “The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy:” By Steven F.
Freeman (Professor Freeman is a statistician at the
University of Pennsylvania)
http://truthout.org/unexplainedexitpoll.pdf
Update: 11-22
http://www.dakotatechnics.com/downloads/Steve_Freeman.zip
Information regarding this study:
http://www.mysterypollster.com/"Kerry's standing in exit
polls exceeded the actual result in 15 of the 16 states for
which Slate's Jack Shafer posted results at 7:38 EST on
Election Night. Freeman's data show the same pattern in 10
of 11 states. This is akin to flipping a coin and having it
come up heads 10 of 11 times, an outcome with a probability
of 0.6% or 167 to 1. So Freeman is right when he says it is
nearly impossible to explain these discrepancies by
sampling error alone.” coverage from the same site: “I object most to belittling
dismissals of these second set of hypotheses and
allegations (e.g, Manuel Roig-Franzia and Dan Keating,
“Latest Conspiracy Theory -- Kerry Won -- Hits the Ether”
Washington Post, November 11, 2004; Tom Zeller, Jr. "Vote
Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried" New
York Times November 12, 2004-Page 1), along with
unquestioning acceptance as “explanations” the hypotheses
and allegations about poll error.”]

4) "Washington Post's Sloppy Analysis:" "...signaled their
determination to put questions about Bush’s victory outside
the bounds of responsible debate. Yet, if they hadn’t been
so set in this agenda, they might have avoided sloppy
mistakes and untrue assertions. In an example of their
slipshod reporting, Roig-Franzia and Keating state that we
focused our data analysis on rural counties in Florida.
They suggest that Bush’s gains in these rural counties
might be explained by the greater appeal of son-of-the-
South Al Gore in 2000 than Bostonian John Kerry in 2004.
But we didn’t focus on rural counties in Florida. Rather
we looked at the vote tallies statewide and zeroed in on
Bush’s performance in the larger, more metropolitan
counties of southern and central Florida, where Bush got
the vast majority of his new votes over his state totals in
2000. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/111204.html
Parry, a former media "insider". It is also valuable since
it debunks some of the unfair "debunking".]

5)The Keith Olbermann shows (week of 11-8 to 11-12)
particularly made an effort to be fair and balanced. For
example, where he compared the Caltech/MIT study to the one
from U of Penn (Freeman’s study mentioned above). The
Caltech study found no significant statistical aberration
on a state-by-state basis. However, Olbermann pointed out
that they included ALL states; as where the U of Penn study
only included the swing states, and it showed a significant
statistical aberration. Keith concluded that this study is
more relevant in determining whether potential voting fraud
occurred, since it wouldn't be necessary to "jack up" the
vote totals in non-swing states. positively for not interfering with his reporting this
story, and for covering it seriously early on.]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240

And the list goes on and on. And no adequate national media
coverage! For example, Rep. Conyers, and five other
Congressmen, asked the GAO to investigate voting
irregularities. A Google news search of “Conyers/GAO” turns
up NO national media headlines! This is a national disgrace
for American journalism. <“House Dems Seek Election [br />Inquiry”]
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65623,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3

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Other good sources of information:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org

http://www.independentmediasource.com/evotingfraud_websites.htm

Democratic Underground: here. Not all the info in these threads will be equally
useful, but much of it is very valuable.]
- ”VOTE FRAUD Links - a DU Compendium”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=201&topic_id=1984#

- ”VOTE FRAUD Links Compendium - Thread #2”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az
=view_all&address=201x3223

- “Best Fraud Summary I've seen!”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=57214

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[aprillcm]

3. The Rhodes show

Will still be one of the only places besides Olbermann we hear about this the idiots that run our Government News Services wont be bothered with it.

[chookie]

4. They're busy there

I bet they all work 14 hour days and get around the office on roller skates to keep up with the work of the Bush Cime Family....

Maybe they are going to be accidentally "hit" like Al-Jazerra in Baghdad was.

[Moderator]

5. Duplicate topic--Please continue discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1016618