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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
By Scott Martelle - Los Angeles Times | A dozen nuns and an unknown number of students were turned away from polls Tuesday in the first use of Indiana's stringent voter ID law since it was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The nuns, all residents of a retirement home at Saint Mary's Convent near Notre Dame University, were denied ...
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Civil rights groups sue state officials
Friday, April 25th, 2008
By Adam Jadhav | Voting-rights activists filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Missouri public aid officials and election authorities in St. Louis and Kansas City, saying that agencies have failed to help poor people stay active on the voter rolls.The suit, filed in Kansas City by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, focuses on a 1993 federal law ...
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Zimbabwe ballot box seals broken
Monday, April 21st, 2008
By Peta Thornycroft |
Zimbabwe's regime has been accused of a "concerted effort" to rig the election for Robert Mugabe as it emerged that seals protecting ballot boxes have been broken. A partial recount of the election - which was held on March 29 - is now taking place in 23 constituencies.
A source at the recount at ...
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What if 5.3 Million More Americans Could Vote?
Monday, April 21st, 2008
By Erika Wood |
Millions of people in the U.S. can't vote because of felony convictions. Restoring their right to vote means restoring democracy. This is a big year for American democracy. Hundreds of thousands of new voters are not only registering, but are actually showing up at the polls. States whose primary races have never counted ...
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Election Madness
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Howard Zinn There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He tells me the kinds of jobs he has held—security guard, repairman, etc. He has worked all kinds of shifts, night and day, to barely keep his family going. His letters to me have always been angry, railing against our capitalist system for its failure to ...
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VIDEO: President Bush Booed at Baseball Game
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008There's a reason President Bush almost never appears before members of the general public: They really don't like him. Despite the delirious mood of Washington Nationals fans on opening night at their new stadium, Bush was greeted with loud boos when he came to the mound to deliver the traditional first pitch. Video ...
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VOTING COMPANY BULLIES ELECTION OFFICIALS
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Failed machines same as those to be used in Pennslvania tally BRAD BLOG Sequoia Voting Systems' legal threats against Princeton computer science professors and New Jersey election officials have apparently had their intended effect. The strong-arm email sent to professors Ed Felten and Andrew Appel was apparently accompanied by a two-page letter to Union County, New Jersey, Clerk Joanne Rajoppi, who originally discovered a tally failure ...
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War Contractor Makes Bid For Election Machines
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008CHICAGO TRIBUNE - United Technologies Corp. made public Sunday an unsolicited $3 billion bid for Diebold, one of the largest makers of automated teller machines and voting machines. United Technologies, which first approached Diebold two years ago, initially made the offer in private Friday. The bid amounts to $40 a share in cash, or a 66 percent premium over Diebold's closing price Friday of $24.12, United ...
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The supporters and opponents of vote-rigging
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Rani Singh
Unlike in, say, American politics, pre-elections polls are bit thin on the ground in Pakistan. The results of one, however, have been published by the Dawn. Conducted during January 2008, the US-based Terror Free Tomorrow poll finds that 70 % of Pakistanis want President Pervez Musharraf to quit, and that the PPP is the most popular ...
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New Hampshire Recount a “Criminal Enterprise”
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Vote fraud expert convinced chain of custody is corrupt Paul Joseph Watson Fresh from her confrontations in New Hampshire during which public officials were grilled about slapdash chain of custody and ballot box tampering issues, Bev Harris is now convinced that a "criminal enterprise" is running the primary recount. Harris was fundamental in the vetting and production of the HBO special Hacking Democracy, and has ...
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Is the 2008 Election Rigged?
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Rami Nagel Charismatic democratic leader, Barack Obama had a stunning lead going into the New Hampshire primary, with a huge media blitz, and a lot of energy behind him. Then all of a sudden, despite exit polls showing huge leads for Senator Obama, despite no big moves for Hillary Clinton, Senator Obama looses the New Hampshire primary. Inexplicable Last Minute Win? The Zogby poll released Tuesday January 8th, 2008, the day of ...
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Report on Faulty Voting Machines for 2008 Election
Saturday, January 5th, 2008By Greg Mitchell NEW YORK Coming between the Iowa and New Hampshire tallies, this Sunday's cover of The New York Times Magazine ought to strike a chord. It shows a man inside an exploding voting booth with a WARNING label over it and the words: "Your vote may be lost, destroyed, miscounted, wrongly attributed or hacked." The massive Clive Thompson article, ...
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VIDEO: How many times can you vote?
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007TV news investigation about public officials illegally voting multiple times in the Senate.
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VIDEO: Example of the 1 Minute Voting Machine Hack
Monday, December 17th, 2007It only takes a minute to steal a U.S. Election!
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Ohio voting machines have critical flaws
Sunday, December 16th, 2007Report: Ohio voting machines have critical flaws, could undermine '08 election
CINCINNATI-- All five voting systems used in Ohio, a state whose electoral votes narrowly swung two elections toward President Bush, have critical flaws that could undermine the integrity of the 2008 general election, a report commissioned by the state's top elections official has found.
"It was worse than I anticipated," the official, ...
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