2004 Presidential Election

Representative John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the Democratic staff to conduct an investigation into irregularities reported in the Ohio presidential election and to prepare a Status Report concerning the same prior to the Joint Meeting of Congress scheduled for January 6, 2005, to receive and consider the votes of the electoral college for president. The following Report includes a brief chronology of the events; summarizes the relevant background law; provides detailed findings (including factual findings and legal analysis); and describes various recommendations for acting on this Report going forward. The Conyers report This is what a smoking gun looks like (compliments of www.electiledysfunction.com) http://www.electiledysfunction.org/Conyers...ing_chunk_8.wmv (opens windows media player) No explanation for the machines in Mahoning County that recorded Kerry votes for Bush, the improper purging in Cuyahoga County, the lock down in Warren County, the 99% voter turnout in Miami County, the machine tampering in Hocking County http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/mi14_...09_01_6_05.html Less access than Kazakhstan. Fewer fail-safes than Venezuela. Not as simple Republic of Georgia. The 2004 Elections according to international observers. http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/11/1702712.php Complete US Exit Poll Data Confirms Net Suspicions http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm

US allies say election 'did not meet democratic standards'

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An international election observer mission - from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Parliament, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the Council of Europe - released a preliminary report on Monday declaring that the election did not meet democratic standards. The observers' findings were seconded by Republican Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Citing the disturbing fact that official results diverged sharply from a range of surveys of voters at polling places, Lugar said, "A concerted and forceful program of election-day fraud and abuse was enacted with either the leadership or cooperation of governmental authorities."

http://nanovirus.blogspot.com/2004/11/our-...d-not-meet.html


Electronic voting in Florida produces 130k-270k "ghost" votes for Bush
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1119-01.htm


Something is rotten in Denmark: Exit poll data in former Soviet Republic of Georgia vs. USA By Sara S. DeHart, Ph.D.

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in three battle ground states, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, with data based on exit polls predicted an outcome in variance with the tallied vote outcomes. Major news organizations, including CNN changed their exit poll data to conform with the tallied outcomes, most of which came from paperless, electronic voting equipment. In each case the tallied outcomes favored the incumbent, George W. Bush. The odds for such an occurrence is one in 250 million for this to have occurred by chance.

http://onlinejournal.com/evoting/111704DeH...1704dehart.html



All exit polls matched results except OH and FL
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/3/53438/6175


RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie wants to eliminate exit polls because he says they're not accurate
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/11/ana04027.html



The alliance of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC and the Associated Press -- to tabulate exit poll surveys – pointed early on toward a decisive John F. Kerry win in key battleground states, an outcome that failed to materialize.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...4-2004Nov3.html



Exit polls showing Kerry ahead agreed with election results everywhere except areas using unauditable touch-screen electronic voting
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20416/index.html



Footprints of Electoral Fraud:
The November 2 Exit Poll Scam
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE411A.html


The ugly, secret shame of American democracy is that 2 million votes are "spoiled" in presidential elections -- tossed away untallied as "unreadable." And the nasty part is that roughly half are cast by African-Americans.
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=395&row=0


Republican Congressman Peter King on Election 'Day' 2004: "We won.... It's all over but the counting. And we'll take care of the counting." and they did
http://homepage.mac.com/duffyb/nobush/iMovieTheater256.html


Why do I call Diebold partisan and unethical, you ask?
http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevotedemo.htm


Most Ohio voters Chose Kerry. here's how the votes vanished
http://www.baou.com/newswire/main.php?action=recent&rid=1876


Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/


Foreign monitors 'barred' from US polls: "We were not allowed to enter polling stations," said Soeren Soendergaard, a Danish parliamentary deputy.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&cl...99435860260U213


CEO of Diebold Inc, stated that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president." His company made the Ohio voting machines.
http://azplace.net/index.php?itemid=309


It's easy to win Ohio when machines in a heavy Democratic area register negative 25,000,000 votes: Errors plague voting process in Ohio, Pa. That led to some races showing votes of negative 25 million, Munroe said. "The numbers were nonsensical so we knew there were problems," he said.
http://www.vindy.com/basic/news/281829446390855.php


Was the Ohio Election Honest and Fair?
http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR110304.htm


Bush received 4258 votes in Ohio's Franklin County; trouble is only 638 voters cast ballots
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=19005


Florida: Voting software program stopped counting votes at a predetermined number, and started reducing the number of yes votes. The problem was detected two years ago but never was fixed
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/05/State/Sl...e_scratch.shtml



Bush manages to get 64% of the vote in Florida's Calhoun County despite less than 12% of the population being registered Republican

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incomplete data and insufficient transparency of the election administration process do not allow for a conclusive statement regarding the accuracy or fairness of specific results..."

http://uscountvotes.org/


They also did the "Katherine Harris" DIRTY trick of denying democrats a ballot.....140,000 of them in Ohio. By the way, the 57,700 democrats in Florida that were denied a ballot in 2000 are still off the voting rolls and could not vote this year either.
http://www.tnimc.org/newswire/display/3347/index.php

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Why did poor and predominantly African-American communities have disproportionately long waits? Why in Franklin County did election officials only use 2,798 machines when they said they needed 5,000? Why did they hold back 68 machines in warehouses? Why were 42 of those machines in predominantly African-American districts? Why did, in Columbus area alone, an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 voters leave polling places, out of frustration, without having voted? How many more never bothered to vote after they heard about this? Why is it when 638 people voted at a precinct in Franklin County, a voting machine awarded 4,258 extra votes to George Bush? Thankfully, they fixed it – but how many other votes did the computers get wrong? Why did Franklin County officials reduce the number of electronic voting machines in downtown precincts, while adding them in the suburbs? This also led to long lines.

http://www.alternet.org/story/20928/