More voting weirdness in Ohio

A call to action regarding the election fraud

Votergate 2004: We Don't Need Paper to Prove Fraud, But We Do Need Money and Leadership, NOW

More on the owners of the voting machine manufacturers

"one precinct in Youngstown, Ohio, recorded a negative 25 million votes, which was discarded from official results"

Tonight I'm going to party like it's 1999

John Ashcroft quits!

Media Black Out on Vote Fraud Allegations

Kerry Conceded But Did He Really Lose?
a DemocracyNow interview with Avi Rubin and Bev Harris

Analysis Of Exit Polls Vs. Supposed Ballot Counts

10,000 vote overcount in Nebraska

EFF on E-Voting

Conflict of interest in voting machine manufacturers

Phil Foster of Sequoia Systems (one of the largest electronic voting machine manufacturers) was indicted for money laundering and bribery in 2001

Tom Eschberger of BRC (now part of another very large electronic voting machine manufacturer, ES&S) was involved in a bribery and kickback case in 2002

Some embarrasing technical details about the electronic voting machines

British trying to impeach Blair over WMD claims that led to war

Citizens for Legitimate Government

Stolen Election 2004

The Numbers Don't Add Up: Nader supporters voting for Bush?

88,408 more votes than voters in Palm Beach county

"When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up. Fisher has evidence, he says, not only that the Florida election was hacked, but of who hacked it and how. And not just this year, he said, but that these same people had previously hacked the Democratic primary race in 2002 so that Jeb Bush would not have to run against Janet Reno, who presented a real threat to Jeb, but instead against Bill McBride, who Jeb beat."

Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked

Kerry won by Greg Palast
Interview with Greg Palast (starting at 00:06:00)

Was the Ohio Election Honest and Fair?

Election judge's experience

official Ohio Secretary of State web site on the 2004 elections

Global monitors find faults [in 2004 US elections]

Voter Suppression Rap Sheet

Discrepancies between electronic voting machine totals

Bug in electronic voting machines "subtracts votes after the absentee tally hit 32,500 -- a ceiling put in place by the software makers"

Exit polling discrepancies
Another take

How exit polling works

The Associated Press reports on electronic voting machine miscounts

North Carolina electronic voting machine tallies 11,283 too many votes for Bush

Voting irregularities in seven Southern states

Running tally of voting machine malfunctions

Florida numbers vs 2000

Voting in 2004 was more problematic than in 2000

Republican Senator and former Senate Ethics Director resigned after revelations that he owned the largest electronic voting machine company ES&S

Much more on voting fraud in 2004 election

Finally Democrats demand a little action

Nader challenges electronic voting machine counts in NH

"This chart makes the trend obvious. In states with paper ballots and audit trails, the exit polls accurately predicted the vote results. In states using electronic machines, the vote results were distorted in favor of Bush."

What really happened

Election results by population

"He didn’t give interviews, or write political essays... But he did want to get a school of students to see what he had seen: that Western liberalism led to nihilism, and had undergone a development at the end of which it could no longer define itself or defend itself. A development which took everything praiseworthy and admirable out of human beings, and made us into dwarf animals. Made us into herd animals—sick little dwarves, satisfied with a dangerous life in which nothing is true and everything is permitted...

Strauss believed that the liberal idea of individual freedom led people to question everything—all values, all moral truths. Instead, people were led by their own selfish desires. And this threatened to tear apart the shared values which held society together. But there was a way to stop this..."

The Power of Nightmares

The Economist endorses Kerry

Problems with pebble-bed nuclear reactors

Guantanamo prisoners sue

The New Yorker endorses a Presidential candidate for the first time in its history

Endangered languages (with fewer than 1000 speakers or with very fast decline)

SeatGuru: helps pick the best seat on a given airplane

Don't Buy Your International Tickets Online

"Unlike deregulated domestic USA airfares, international airfares are regulated both by international treaties and by an international airline price-fixing cartel, the International Air Transportation Association (IATA).

It's worth noting that every USA-based airline operating scheduled international passenger flights has voluntarily joined IATA. USA airlines' invocations of "open markets", "free trade", and "open skies" can be dismissed as completely hypocritical and self-serving drivel until such time as they exercise their right to withdraw from IATA, as any of them could at any time. USA airlines are allowed to participate in IATA "traffic conferences" only because of a special exemption granted them from USA anti-trust laws which normally forbid such industry-wide collusion on prices..."

But there's a loophole in the system: travel agents can sell tickets at a discount from the "official" (overinflated) prices. However, electronic ticketing systems like Travelocity can't:

"All official fares are "published" either in hardcopy in the Official Airline Guides (OAG) or the Air Tariff, or electronically in the computerized reservation systems (CRS's) such as Sabre, Apollo, Amadeus, Worldspan, and Gabriel. By the very nature of the IATA price-fixing system, airlines cannot admit any knowledge of the fact that agents are selling tickets for less than the official fares. So only published fares are shown in any CRS."

"The essential cruelty of Bush's game is that he takes an astonishingly selfish and greedy collection of economic and political proposals, and then cloaks them with a phony moral authority..."

Al Gore's latest attack on Bush

I'm going to school very hard these days

International election observers' pre-election report

World's most expensive cities.

Surrealist techniques