November 9 study of the exit poll and official tallies in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania finds the figures totally incompatible.

“The likelihood of any two of these statistical anomalies occurring together is in the order of one-in-a-million. The odds of all three occurring together are 250 million to one,” the MIT Ph.D calculated. “As much as we can say in social science that something is impossible, it is impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote counts in the three critical battleground states of the 2004 election could have been due to chance or random error.”

Rule by Theft

Ohio recount effort initiated by Common Cause and the Alliance for Democracy

"Facticity denotes the conditions according to which one’s possibilities are determined and limited by one’s circumstances, one’s “being-in-the world.” [Heidegger's] interest in scholasticism focuses on categories of living language that have no correspondence with objects in the world, like marks of privation and negation and categories for non-existent entities like “Nothing”... the empty word “being” figures at the heart of questions about the generation of sense in everyday human experience.

At this stage the problem of what [Heidegger] calls “the hermeneutics of facticity” lies in the self-reflexive puzzle according to which facticity must be considered, already, as a kind of hermeneutics. Everyday experience already articulates and interprets its world, so that any attempt to interpret facticity would be an attempt to interpret interpretation..."

Heidegger's Life and Work

Bruce Schneier on electronic voting

Napalm used in Iraq

The head of Ohio's elections commision, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, "also co-chairs the Ohio committee to re-elect George Bush... he publicly spearheaded Republican efforts in the state to reduce the number of his fellow African-Americans whose votes would go to the Democrats

In some cases, the courts over-ruled him, and - much to their credit - most black voters stood up his harassing tactics. But Blackwell never stopped trying...

Who Counts in Ohio?

Edward S Herman's landmark essay, The Banality of Evil, has never seemed more apposite. "Doing terrible things in an organized and systematic way rests on 'normalization'," wrote Herman. "There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationalizing the unthinkable... It is the function of the experts, and the mainstream media, to normalize the unthinkable for the general public."

Normalizing colonial crimes like the attack on Fallujah requires such racism, linking our imagination to "the other". The thrust of the reporting is that the "insurgents" are led by sinister foreigners... No irony is noted that the foreigners in Iraq are overwhelmingly American...

Fallujah, The Us Elections And 9/11

Milosevic wants Clinton, Blair, Gerhard Schroeder, Madeleine Albright, and Wesley Clark to testify

How the Media Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Rumsfeld

Green & Libertarian Presidential Candidates to Demand Ohio Recount
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"In 1998, for no special reason, Orrin Hatch decided that only one senator needed to object to a nomination. This made it easier for Republicans to obstruct Bill Clinton's nominees.

In 2001, when one of their own became president, Hatch suddenly reversed course and decided that it should take two objections after all. That made it harder for Democrats to obstruct George Bush's nominees..."

It gets worse

Building Progressive Media

"'All of the Middle East and indeed the whole world is now extremely suspicious that US Marine forces slaughtered civilians in Fallujah indiscriminately,' Joseph Arrieta wrote at the time. 'Not only that, it appears Marine snipers did a lot of killing. This is not some errant bomb or missile that created "collateral damage," it’s the alleged deliberate, careful sighting of civilian targets with spotters targeting men, women, children and ambulances,' all war crimes.

Now, 'A hospital has been razed to the ground in one of the heaviest US air raids in the Iraqi city of Falluja,' reports the BBC.

What Sort of Criminal Monsters Bomb Hospitals?

Flickr

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