BBV: Help America Audit -- 5 Things You Can Do Immediately

I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2. Even the journalists are pretty horrified. My source said they've also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time, and he was calling from somewhere else. He was trying to figure out how to get the real news out on vote fraud.

This is a person I've worked with off and on for nearly two years, and the voice was so somber it really bothered me.

At any rate -- and perhaps, especially important due to the tipoff above, there are things you can do to take back America.

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We have a different list for lawyers, computer people, statisticians. But if you are a regular person like most of us, and want to help, here's what to do.

Please distribute: If you have not done so already, sign up at Black Box Voting -- http://www.blackboxvoting.org -- to audit the election and deal with vote fraud.

HELP AMERICA AUDIT: 5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Reclaim Democracy

You’re our greatest hope. If you choose to accept it, your job is to spread the word in order to build a fast-growing grass roots movement -- a voting integrity project so powerful that it cannot be mowed down.

1. BE THE MEDIA -- See below.

2. CRUNCH THE NUMBERS: Discrepancies please, and hurry. E-mail them to tips@blackboxvoting.org . Pass the word. Need source documents, too. ASAP. Follow your nose, or join the Black Box Scavenger Hunt: Pick a county. Look at small counties, as we are seeing many discrepancies in those. Look in any state. Get the official number of registered voters, Dem and Republican. Get the number of votes cast on Nov. 2, Republican and Dem. Make a grid like this, filling in the right numbers:

# reg. voters % # votes cast %
Rep 100 33% 150 50%
Dem 200 67% 150 50%
Totl 300 100% 300 100%

We can find out a lot from this procedure, very hard data, that will make a real difference. As soon as you have finished a county, e-mail it to us. Do as many counties as you can.

3. HAVE A HOUSE PARTY: Show the film “Votergate” (the real one, which you can download for free at www.Votergate.tv .) Organize “Be the media” actions and set up investigative teams to help dig up information like you have in #2. Timeline is NOW, to get action before seating the electoral college.

4. HELP CONNECT THE WIRES: Hook Black Box Voting (.ORG) up with powerhitters you know, people who can make things happen.

5. DONATE to any of 3 organizations: Black Box Voting (.ORG), the consumer protection group for elections; or the new recount fund (information upcoming, contact DU's Hedda_Foil), or send contribution to Votergate.tv (The REAL Votergate film, by Russell Michaels, Robert Carrillo Cohen, and Simon Ardizzone. There is another by someone else, make sure you get the right one.) The real VOTERGATE is the most powerful investigative film on this topic, and consequently it has been attacked and blocked repeatedly. They deserve your support.

“HOW TO BE THE MEDIA”

Don’t expect to see vote burglary on TV. To get the message out fast, you’re going to have to become the underground railroad. Do it now. Take pictures of each other doing it. Have house parties to show others how to do it. Here’s how to “be the media.”

BE YOUR OWN REPORTER: We will send you new information as we get it. We need your e-mail to get you on the list, so if a friend sent this to you, please shoot an email to crew@blackboxvoting.org to sign up.

Spread the information we send you to every blog, listserv, forum you know and throughout your personal network. Talk about it at work and to people you meet everywhere, lots, quickly, all the time.

SELF SERVE SOUND BITES: Frequent, very short messages to immediately increase public awareness. Assume you won’t see it on TV.
Put vote fraud related messages on:
- Yard signs
- Car windows
- Write them on duct tape and wear them
- Print REMOVABLE stickers and stick them on things:
- Bathroom door at the gas station.
- On telephone poles in the dead of night
- At bus stops
- On the back of bus seats
- Stick them into your junk mail and send it back via return mail
- Slip them into menus at restaurants
- Leave them in books at the bookstore
- Share new self serve sound bite ideas with us and we’ll send them out with new messages.

ELECTION “TRUTH TOURETTES”. Please excuse the political incorrectness, as it is not meant to be hurtful. It is for a good purpose. This the antidote to “watch what you say.” It is a good icebreaker at a party. Have your guests make up truths, like those below, and mix them into the conversation at surprise times throughout the party. Unexpectedly and urgently blurt them out:

Recount!
Electile Dysfunction!
Gotta audit-Gotta audit-Gotta audit
Florida!
--mathmatically impossible!--
Count all the votes! Count all the votes! Count all the votes!
Votefraud.
Paperballots! Handcounts!
--where’s my vote?--
Where’s the paper?
Feel free to interchange and mix it up, or even try a game where different people have to interject with different truths.
- WHO REALLY WON -- I DUNNO -- GOTTA AUDIT!

Also, here are more ideas.
- Magnetic signs for your car
- If you know a trucker, have them put a message in the window as they drive across the county.
- Make a patch and put it on the front of your baseball cap
- Carry a sign and stand in the window outside the Today Show

If we have to be our own media, so be it. We will not sacrifice democracy just because TV executive producers have a problem with this issue.

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Last night I donated to BBV. And I host a political talk show on college radio. My next show is dedicated entirely to a post-mortem on the "election."

I'll do one more thing right now. Bev, if you'd like to be interviewed on my show some time, drop me a P.M. People need to know about this bullshit, the sooner the better!

Here we go!

someone noticed that in another thread and it true

It's about the goddamn same as everyone else.

...you fucking do. It's a trademark. I'm really beginning to like it.

just discovered cussing,like a 4 year old does, and wants to brag about the new words he's learned.

GO BEV HARRIS! This rocks, and funny enough, I put over 20 stickers up 2 days before the elections in very "interesting" places, over half of them are still up.

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/f/fu/fuc...

I find myself using this word and it's variations an awful lot since November 2nd and I've noticed others doing it too. It's a form of truth telling.

Real ones. With reps. Cred. Degrees. Track records. Understand scientific method.

On edit: It took one email. Just one.

sent offer to you on waht I can do

And sent this to my email friends

Enough for me that the election was stolen and the "powers that be" are running scared!

WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?

The obvious Fraud or being locked down?

And I heard this, from a 20-year veteran journalist:

"This needs a recall. An impeachment. It's got to be stopped."

Bev

That is a rare occurrance, when they are on the job. Not easy to get a rise out of them like that.

A reporter for a large newspaper said to me, "so it's really true. I knew it was true. God, I've been living in a bubble." And then he just said, "Well, it is what it is. It's just the state of media today."

That wasn't a glib last line. It was said in sort of a shellshocked way.

I have never, NEVER had journalists from the big media outlets express anything like this to me before.

Bev

The State of The America Media Union. In one line. By what may be the guy Diogenes was running around with that lamp about.

THAT is all you really need to know.

On edit: And you can lay some of the blame for this at the feet of the phrase they are whipsawed with: "Liberal Media". They have flinched one too many times.

If the media won't do it can the musicians do it at concerts or will the promoters cancel their shows?

I don't remember living in a time that we had no media coverage at all.

Something has to be done and Bush and his minions all need to be locked up and put in jail over in Iraq.

I can't believe that we are living in the movie 1984

It's not 2004, it's not even 1984, it's 1934 and I am NOT a good German.

Terri (2004)

I ran into a lady today who actually thinks Bill Clinton was a mass murderer. Do you remember those rumors? I was a Republican at the time and I didn't even buy them then. I picked up David Brock's book and couldn't get through it. It made me physically ill when I learned what had been done to Clinton by the far right. He still isn't my favorite president, but JESUS!

I heard a woman complaining about how the Clintons had stolen original artwork out of the White House and defecated on Abe Lincoln's desk. Imagine -- she votes!

If so, we need the BBC, the CBC, and all the foreign print media we can get. The Mirror, the Toronto papers, all of them. Think we have a chance with them?

In fact, copy the "5 things you can do" and fax it to your local radio stations. Radio is turning into a bastion of freedom on this issue.

I'll go after all the print media I can locate in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and other countries. Radio, too.

Thanks, Bev. I knew those talking heads (with several exceptions, esp. Keith!) on TV were useless, but this is amazing. It does make it more of a challenge, though, and I LOVE a challenge!

He would be LIVID.

That's what I'll do!

Don't just send it to your local paper, though, also BCC: it to all of the major newspapers and foreign press. Point them to our links, the collective links. We can't let this story slow down, not for a moment.

Sy Hersh is the one we need. The man who broke the Abu Ghraib story is the man who would break this one open in a heartbeat. We need to find a way to get this info. to him today.

I'm planning on re-doing the ISO of my CD soon. As information flows in, I'm finding some good things to add.

http://ladyhawk.landmarkwebhosting.com

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RC

so go to the foreign media in Canada and elsewhere! Send what you have to the following re Canadian media, programs which have covered bush's history, the facts on the patriot missile, the truth about Abu Graib, etc.:

CTV's WFive - an excellent investigative program
http://www.ctv.ca/wfive

CBC's The Fifth Estate - EXCELLENT investigative programming, if you have the facts, they will look at them I have little doubt!

http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/index.jsp?progra...

I went to university in Canada and, although that was many years ago, I remember how good the media was there, both print and television. Even the university paper put most MSM here to shame.

Thanks for the links! If you can find any others (e.g., Toronto papers, Vancouver papers, etc.), I would greatly appreciate it.

http://newslink.org/

But they've had trouble getting information out of anyone...it's that Bushbot rhetoric that that them dang ferriners are bad news. So even the BBC is having a time getting answers and numbers to crunch. A friend of mine at the Beeb said they just can't get a grip on the story, even though they know it is there.

The day after the election, the St. Pete Times's editorial stated that we had no election problems! Since then there has been not one mention of election problems in the paper.

too bad they don't have the guts to do something about it.

This is our Democracy. They are stealing it. Won't somebody stand up for it? (Besides Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy?)

Individually they don't have much of a chance but if these bigger media people would just band together they can't fire em all. Or kill em all.

I don't get why they don't do that They know what's going is wrong and in the end, they'll suffer the just same as us common folk, or worse.

The irony is that the Bushes despise the press. Despise.

And yet Rove cracks his whip and screams a little bit and they capitulate.

Don't they know that they will be the first to be eliminated as the regime clamps down?

They are fools not to realize their combined power. Add the tens of millions upon millions of people, not only here in the US but globaly, that would completely be supportive of their efforts and there's nothing the ruling elites could do to stop them.

It's like battered wife syndrome or stockholm syndrome or something. It's sick
And it's frustrating as Hell

They will consolidate into one, huge, propaganda machine instead of the 5 or 6 they are now.

The corporate leaders DON'T CARE. They will get their huge salaries and the people employed will be let go. They will even dare to outsouce the offices and technical part of it because in this day and age, they can.

They are not, "The Liberal Media" and they never really have been. That's all a crafted campagin to push people into thinking that, so they can skew the message ever more to the right, instead of airing objective journalism. When they rant against the "Liberal Media," they are doing it to kill objective journalism.

And they are doing it by hijacking the publics' airwaves. All of those TV channels belong to the public. The public is being denied any access at all.

The "act" against the media is part of the ploy. If it wasn't an act, the media would have tarred and feathered the beast long ago.

The "journalists" take their marching orders. Some of them, like some in the CIA and military, are not happy about it.

At the point they are unhappy enough to buck the current system is when you'll see some change- until the Bush-friendly corporate machine clamps down on them.

Be your own media and use what's left night and day to get the message out.

They're part of the same group that stole the election. They've been in cahoots with these thieves ever since the beginning. Haven't you ever wondered WHY Dub, inarguably the worst president we've ever had, could get away with the shenanigans, blunders, crappy policy decisions, in short, the fleecing of us Americans with impunity?? Remember how the press hammered Clinton and Nixon?? Remember what a scandal Watergate was?? Now we have a team of crooks in charge and not one peep out of the media. Go to www.mediamatters.org (run by David Brock, a former right-winger turned liberal) if you want to get the real stories about the outrageous bias that exists in the mainstream media.

They're lying now-- acting as if the Dem party is on its last legs, saying how much we blew it, etc. WRONG!!! They want us to fold up and go away!! Dub "won" by one of the (if not the) narrowest margins in history for an incumbent president!! It was no landslide and those bastards are acting as if it were!! They create their own reality, then try to pound it into us. Don't let them!!

they had 3 screens going. Everyone I've talked to has noted the faces of the journalists on CNN and MSNBC. Right wing radio said it looked as though they were going to get sick...you know because they're sooo liberal and they didn't want to call the states for Bush

What we saw were nervous journalists who were rendered almost speechless. I wish I had taped it because there's a point when the numbers changed and they knew something was up.

It's a coup. And we need to be the military to overthrow it.

I went in reading the web thinking much like I had been leading up to Tuesday..then something changed with the reporting of the states and I could tell something was different in the tones of the voices...I had a bad feeling..

I was up ALL night...and when my husband woke up to go to work he said "he lost huh" I said "it was stolen" and he just rolled his eyes and thought I was paranoid...but now...I don't feel like that...THIS needs to be reported on..Keith Olberman will be a hero...can you believe it? I LOVE him but with all the media we have...one guy stands up and starts the ball...and nobody else will touch it..I keep waiting..for the story to break..and it doesn't.

I was watching MSNBC and the networks and noticed that the anchors and reporters looked shocked (and almost scared). I found that infuriating, because they were the ones that helped create those results by shilling for BushCo for four years. Really, how could they be surprised? Don't they have a clue about the influence they have? Those were the natural consequences of reinforcing BushCo lies and ignoring national and world events that were truly important.

The only news programs I have continued to watch since then, are Countdown, C-Span, NOW and Frontline.

going to discuss election fraud Monday and Tuesday on Countdown. I've already given the link to many people.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240
<snip>
Keith Olbermann blog Nov. 7, 2004

This is mentioned because there is a small but blood-curdling set of news stories that right now exists somewhere between the world of investigative journalism, and the world of the Reynolds Wrap Hat. And while the group’s ultimate home remains unclear - so might our election of just a week ago.
Stories like these have filled the web since the tide turned against John Kerry late Tuesday night. But not until Friday did they begin to spill into the more conventional news media. That’s when the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that officials in Warren County, Ohio, had “locked down” its administration building to prevent anybody from observing the vote count there.Thus the majority of the media has yet to touch the other stories of Ohio (the amazing Bush Times Ten voting machine in Gahanna) or the sagas of Ohio South: huge margins for Bush in Florida counties in which registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans 2-1, places where the optical scanning of precinct totals seems to have turned results from perfect matches for the pro-Kerry exit poll data, to Bush sweeps.
We will be endeavoring to pull those stories, along with the Warren County farce, into the mainstream Monday and/or Tuesday nights on Countdown.

The media is laughing about it, not giving it any serious scrutiny. MSNBC wrote a story on my intial post and said it was tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. They aren't even performing cursory investigative work.

...it sure doesn't sound like he's discounting it.

These "reporters" need to grow a sac, with all due respect, and do their FUCKING JOBS!!!!!!!

This is a disgrace. Don't they have any dignity?

Please...beg them to do their jobs.......

Please?

They've all made enough money -- now it's time for them to reclaim the integrity they've lost during the "infotainmentizing" of the news. They must all as one, stand up and tell this story. Together we must all take back Democracy and they are supposed to be at the forefront of Democracy. That's there role. Getting that which is hidden out into the light of day.

They must find the courage that led them to this field. Today could be each of their finest hours. They must come forward now.

BernieB

on computer voting snafus Friday, one took the top half of the front page, then there was another front page on one of the sub-sections then a great article explaing why there were 4000 more votes than voters (which the repukes caught Thursday, which tells me they are watching the computer results like a hawk, ready to pounce if results are not in their favor). It turns out that the early voting results were all downloaded from their respective machines to a central computer and the boe thinks some results were downloaded twice. How's that for a new scheme, download results from a 'certain' precinct into the computer an extra time or too to get the results you need...however since dems swept the commissioners race the repukes were crunching the #'s,which tells me they damn well know all about this...they got the results over-turned, and got a repuke back out in front.

Where are you? I'm in Harrisburg, near the track.

I am administrator of the site Impeachment by the People, and am hosting a petition to Impeach Bush. I encourage everyone to link us and sign the petition. We need more signatures before we can present it to anyone. We could always change the petition slightly to incorporate any voting fraud found. Would love to hear some feedback.

Alex Hamilton
Impeachment by the People

Can you make an address label page of stickers for us?

you don`t need a graphic artist simple words repeated over and over for the next few years...going on a trip? sticker every where you stop....

My software doesn't work right and I despise Office.

I remember from the 2000 selection finding a fabulous file that had the address labels (six different designs) on a standard Avery sheet.

I was hoping to find something similar. Actually, they are probably still appropriate........I'm sure I saved them.

I got my CD done and I'm going to hand it out at the Dem Club meeting in a couple of days. It includes VoterGate. I'm going to have a really hard time if the speaker doesn't address this issue. I think I'll plead stomach upset--it will be true--and just leave.

Nothing he says means a thing unless we get rid of voter fraud. It's a total waste of time.

Perhaps you could look at it once it's ready to distribute and give me ideas on how to produce a non-partisan version. I'm so pissed I can't be non-partisan right now. My family and I aren't speaking.

P.S. I bet I'm your woman for my county. I'll sign up at your site.

God, hearing your comments on media lockdown is chilling. Heaven help us.... we HAVE to succeed in exposing whatever truly happened!

especially earlier in the year when it came out the CBS was told to hold a story for a few days.

But this really scares me.

Thanks for the info Bev. I've got an email group I've maintained throughout the election and it's about to double in size.

And please be careful out there.

Nevertheless, we will out this vote fraud.

and they will forward this "to do" list to their friends and so on and so on.

But I won't say, out of respect for you.

n/t

It will be interesting to see if he has to back out of it.

I got a call from his producer yesterday about their sudden change of plans. I hope they have the stones to do the story, but I guess we'll see.

Bev

from his blog entry. That the news is more reliable than blogs. I guess he won't be so smug now.

Too bad he isn't going to stand up for what is right in this country. Well I guess there's no reason to break my boycott of tv news channels just to watch him.

I hoped he'd be different. :sigh:

If that's true, I'm gonna go nuts on them

says that he's still gonna do the story on both Monday and Tuesday... maybe it will be watered down? or maybe he will come on and tell us he was nixed? I dunno... but here's a link to his blog article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240 / Let's hope...

Holding my breath, but a little nervous at this point!

On his blog he's saying that the exit polls were screwed not the voting. I don't believe that. that's a new Repug way to spin it. Help, help, help........ The question is how did the results get screwed..... He doesn't seem to "get" it......

all ya need is a printer and ink jet label paper. smaller label makers start at 50 bucks and are portable...you could sticker the country for a few bucks....

we don't want provide any excuse for arrests or fines, and a sticker that gets stuck too tight might be considered defacing property.

You can get post-it style stuff that will go through a printer. This is the type of thing that will work well if your group can make a whole bunch for others near you, and distribute batches of them.

Bev

And that , I see little of

put website addresses on dollar bills. I noticed that whenever there was a little message on a bill I would wonder about it, etc. So we started to put du address, bartcop, etc. What web address would be the most effective?

We have to and we need to print 500 flyer's per week and leave them in as many places as we can.

We can't give up.

I'll do Netflix or something else. We need to make some sign-up threads.

I, ________, solemnly swear to boycott cable until democracy is restored to America.

I, ________, solemnly swear to boycott (Wal-Mart, General Mills, Outback, Curves, etc.)

A thread for each.

It has to be massive and it has to get out so that when we cut things off they are going to feel the burn in their wallets.

They want there own media then we have to speak by the way of taking money out of their pockets. Let's get together and do this but it has to be done in such a large way that the corporations feel it and it hits them hard.

I like Netflix and I am a member of Netflix it's a shame that Walmart and Blockbuster are trying to take over their business.

How are we going to do this?

I feel like we've been deserted by our leadership. We have to make new leaders, apparently.

I guess that means he believes it doesn't exist.

What I know is that more media personalities should be jumping all over this.

Hit these bastards where it hurts the most; Tune them out and stop purchasing any products of sponsors for their programs. Write letters to the sponsors and let them know you will not watch any program shoving the right wing philosophy down our throats and thus will not purchase a damn thing they're selling.

The almighty dollar is all they understand!! Hit em where it hurts and let them know why!

since they only poison minds and murder trees its a win-win

I'm out to sea in a red state, dying for something, ANYTHING I can do to help, and you just delivered me the handbook. Now I can get to work. Thanks.

I'm with you all the way.

What are the real possibilities here? It seems to me that there are three possible outcomes if we succeed:

1) We get this story out and have a real chance of changing things by December 11th -- i.e. in Kerry's favor.

2) We get this story out and don't change the election, but we do succeed in rendering Bush's "mandate" meaningless by eliminating all semblance of legitimacy.

3) We have no effect at all on the 2004 results, but we do manage to make things better for 2006 and beyond.

Look, I'm going to do what I can REGARDLESS of which of these three is more likely. I just want to know where this is all going.

and I heard something quite disgusting this morning there, regarding their apparent failure to account for provisional ballots. I knew this was going to happen -- they put in a law for provisional ballots without putting in auditing controls and some states can't seem to tell anyone how many there were.

In Ohio, the estimate is between 150,000 and 500,000. At 150k, exclusive of all the other fraud there, Bush wins. At 300k, Kerry wins. While I have heard reports of how many provisionals were received, no one can seem to specify where the records are, the source documents that back up the figures.

One political operative said "they are still coming in." (?!?!?)

Provisional ballots are cast on Election Day. There is absolutely no excuse not to know how many were cast, precinct by precinct, as of Election Night. For the secretary of state to do this kind of stonewalling is bad.

. Add that to anomalies in Franklin, Perry, Cuyahoga, Youngstown, Gahanna, and where was it the ES&S guy was dinking around with the computer for the weekend, name escapes me now.

Add that to Greg Palast's blistering expose on the Ohio punch cards.

And not just for the info, but for replying to my post. You're a rock star in bloggerland -so this made my night.

And as I said, I would fight just as hard even if there was no chance this year. So keep up the good work and THANK YOU!

http://www.theeveningleader.com/articles/2004/11/06/new...

We're on it, Bev.

I hate to be a downer but, from what I've heard (on Air America) and read (in The Nation and on Kos), it's doubtful that anything will come of it... certainly the chances of it turning the election around are practically nil. Think about it-- they've got it rigged so that the entire government is theirs!! They're certainly not going to allow any kind of official investigation. Think of all the crap they've pulled for the last four years-- awful as this is (and this is, literally, treason), it's just business as usual for them.

Al Franken had a computer specialist from MIT on his show and the guy said that most of the anomalies can be explained.

But I refuse to believe a majority of Americans voted that moron back in.

Go to
https://voteprotect.org/index.php?display=EIRMapNation&...

and check out a map of the US, broken down by reported instances of "irregularities"-- it's up to 31,534 incidents, most of them in California (yes), Ohio, Florida, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, PA, NY, and Illinois. Actually, not one state was free from complaints!!

I want to get stickers tomorrow and get started on that.

Peter gave out the url for DU and the blackboxvotng.org!

Peter's streaming link http://tuner1.dc1.sonixtream.com/solon/media/tuner/Laun...

Media announcement.

By all means, get started. Folks, suggest your favorite sound bites.

Another suggestion is to ask Nostamj to start a sound byte thread. Those always come up with great stuff.

Bev

we need a freeway blogging campaign here.

Today is my day for contacting a lot of these people. I'll check at his/her website.

I have another project I'm working on as well, though this one will get the bulk of my time from here on out. My other project, which I will be posting elsewhere starting today is a morale booster but could be combined with this issue nicely. That being, it's time to get the kids together and motivated again (as if most of us aren't already LOL). We need to have a symbolic protest in Washington DC during the inauguration.

You and Andy should check in here at regular intervals?

I go to College and I am willing to walk to each campus and hand out as many flyer's and whatever is needed.

I am so sick over this situationn and fraudulent election that I am on medication for depression for a few more days.

I want my country back and I want our freedom to be the same as it was years ago.

The Bush Crime family and the fraudulent media has to be held accountable for what they have done.

They all need to be kicked off of the air and Ruppert Murdoch should be put in prison along with all of the others that have fed the people a load of crap for several years now.

Tell me how I can help and I will spend all of my free time dedicated to doing whatever you need.

God Bless you Bev Harris.