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The Monitor
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November 19, 2006

Today's Guests:

-- Jonathan Simon on 3 million votes gone astray
-- Filmmaker Robert Greenwald on his film "Iraq for Sale"

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<> ~ 6:10 pm CST -- Jonathan Simon on 3 million votes gone astray



Jonathan Simon joins The Monitor's co-host Pokey Anderson today to tell us about his study of exit polls, just released. In the study, "Landslide Denied: Exit Polls vs. Vote Count 2006," he and co-author Bruce O'Dell compare the November 2006 election national exit polls with the official vote tallies. They find a 3 million vote discrepancy in the expected votes for Congress. They will soon be releasing a companion study of votes for Senate.

Using exit polls that Simon and O'Dell found to be representative, they write that "the Democrats' 2006 total House vote margin was 11.5%, or nearly 4% greater than the 7.6% reported vote count margin. This represents nearly a three million vote discrepancy between the validated exit poll results and the reported vote tally for the US House of Representatives."

Simon says the mainstream media is staying away from this story.

Simon is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law, is a member of the Bar of Massachusetts. As a result of his prior experience as a political survey research analyst for Peter D. Hart Research Associates in Washington, he became an early advocate for an exit poll-based electoral "burglar alarm" system, independent of media and corporate control, to detect computerized vote shifting in Election 2004. He was able to capture and analyze critical official exit poll data briefly posted on the web prior to its election-night disappearance, data which served as an initial basis for questioning the validity of Election 2004.

Jonathan Simon is a co-founder of the Election Defense Alliance -- www.ElectionDefenseAlliance.org -- a national coordinating body for citizen electoral integrity groups and individuals. He is also a member of Alliance for Democracy -- www.thealliancefordemocracy.org .

STUDY:
Landslide Denied: Exit Polls vs. Vote Count 2006
Under-sampling of Democrats in the House Exit Poll
and the Corruption of the Official Vote Count
by Jonathan Simon, JD, and Bruce O’Dell
Election Defense Alliance
November 2006
http://electiondefensealliance.org/landslide_denied_exit_polls_vs_vote_count_2006

RELATED ARTICLE:
Stopping H.R. 550 Because We Can't Compromise on Democracy
by Nancy Tobi and Paul Lehto
OpEd News
November 18, 2006
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_nancy_to_061118_stopping_h_r__550_be.htm


<> ~ 6:30 pm CST -- Filmmaker Robert Greenwald on "Iraq for Sale"



Robert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. The Monitor's co-host Mark Bebawi will talk with him about his newest film, "IRAQ FOR SALE: The War Profiteers," the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.

Greenwald's films have garnered 25 Emmy nominations, four cable ACE Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, the Peabody Award, the Robert Wood Johnson Award, and eight Awards of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board. He was awarded the 2002 Producer of the Year Award by the American Film Institute. Greenwald has received the Liberty Hill Foundation’s Upton Sinclair Award for his political work.

Greenwald is the also director/producer of “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” (2005), a documentary that uncovers the retail giant's assault on families and American values and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" (2004). He also executive produced a trilogy of political documentaries: "Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" (2002); "Uncovered: The Iraq War" (2003), which Greenwald also directed; and "Unconstitutional" (2004).

Brave New Films, Greenwald's new media company, is working on telling stories using film that will influence the debates about the most important issues of the day and is currently distributing The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress.

WEBSITES:
IRAQ FOR SALE: The War Profiteers http://iraqforsale.org
Brave New Films www.bravenewfilms.org

CO-HOSTS: Mark Bebawi, and Pokey Anderson

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ARCHIVES for the Monitor

November 12
-- Rev. Steve Copley on the minimum wage initiatives
-- Robert Parry on the Robert Gates nomination for Defense Secretary

November 5
-- information technology consultant Bruce O'Dell
-- attorney and former political survey research analyst Jonathan Simon, both on election fraud issues

October 29
-- Shannon Young re rebellion in Oaxaca
-- Harri Hursti and Ed Felten on stealing electronic elections
-- musician Hank Woji

October 22
-- Dr. LES ROBERTS reports 650,000 casualties in Iraq
-- New York Times columnist FRANK RICH on spin

October 15 - The Monitor was preempted for KPFT board election material.

October 8
-- past board chair of Amnesty International CHIP PITTS
on the current state of human rights law
-- election activist RADY ANANDA of Ohio on the recent conference there, and the hand-counted paper ballot initiative

October 1
-- Law professor MARJORIE COHN on new legislation enabling torture, imprisonment without access to evidence or counsel
-- Journalist HEATHER WOKUSCH on the prospects for an October surprise. Also, what citizens can do.

September 24
-- Joe Galloway on the demise of the US Army; torture
-- Ed Felten of Princeton on their investigation of a Diebold DRE: Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine, http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting