Questioning the 2004 Presidential Election

Contents Activist Update (Carol Brouillet's Blog) Additional Websites Petitions Videos Audio, Radio Books Humor- Our Best Tools are Love and Laughter More Tools- Amazing Art, Power Point Presentation Key Articles- From the Horse's Mouth- Official Pronouncements Questioning the War Against Terrorism

Questioning the 2004 Presidential Election

Most people were shocked and disappointed to hear Kerry concede so quickly on the morning of November 3rd, especially in the wake of exit polls which indicated that Kerry would actually win the election. Activists had tried to protect the vote and monitor the elections in key swing states. There were soon numerous accounts from them indicating that massive actions had been taken to prevent voters from voting, to discard votes, extraordinary vote counts coming from suspect machines which gave Bush more votes than were physically, legally possible in multiple places.

The election was not lost, but stolen, and Kerry's concession was seen as a betrayal of the voter's will and the voter's rights to have their votes counted.

The mainstream Press utterly failed to report the systemic violations and irregularites that occurred. The network presidents of ABC, CBS and NBC cooly applauded their devotion to truth and denied anything beyond a few small glitches in their election coverage.

The outrage, demands for investigation of irregularities and recounts, were also ignored by the mainstream press with one notable exception- MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.

I received about 500 emails about the stolen election, plus a phone call from a woman who became "radicalized" by the event and was ready to go out in the streets, pass out flyers, whatever it takes to wake up the American people and rein in the criminals who stole the election- not once, but twice!

My hope is that the people of this country will begin to realize that something is seriously wrong with our media, and the government, and that it really is up to the citizen's of this country to hold officials accountable, and responsible for their actions- particularly the blatantly criminal ones.

Our way of reaching people, despite media censorship, was through art, flyers, film, books, comedy, public forums. To help the growing movement challenging the Stolen Election of 2004, we just created a special version of our popular Deception Dollar, an Election Deception Dollar, to draw people's attention to the websites which challenge the official 2004 Election story, and are mobilizing people to exercise control over a rogue government.

The new bills went to press on Friday, December 10, 2004. I cut a few by hand to pass out at the rally in San Francisco on Saturday and at Code Pink's Mad Voter's Pink Tea Party on Saturday night, and at the march and rally that took place in Sacramento, December 13th. We printed 560,000 Election Deception Dollars (with no financial assistance from any of the groups working on this issue). I shipped as many as I could before leaving for Canada for a family trip, and returned to help out at rallies and events. Despite having spent about $5000 to get these bills printed and getting very little back (monetarily), we have managed to distribute over 500,000 of them and the stock in my garage is running out. I am thinking of updating them and would appreciate any suggestions, especially from groups/activists working on this issue.

If you would like to help with distribution of our Election Deception Dollar, please contact me-cbrouillet@igc.org or phone 650-857-0927. (Carol Brouillet) You may also order them through www.deceptiondollar.com.

Additional Websites (in alphabetic order)

Real Media 256k stream:
http://veredictum.com/stolenelection2004-256.ram

Real Media 56k stream (for dial-up):
http://veredictum.com/stolenelection2004-56.rm

Windows Media:
http://veredictum.com/stolenelection2004-256.wmv

QuickTime
http://veredictum.com/stolenelection2004-256.mov

Film strip of images from the video:
http://veredictum.com/images/stolen_election_filstrip-02.gif

Key Articles- Latest News at top

Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., published by Rolling Stone Magazine, June 1, 2006
• http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

Devastating hack proven, Jim March, December 13, 2005

• http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/15595.html

The End of Democracy in Ohio?, By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, December 12, 2005

• http://www.alternet.org/rights/29292/

A Conversation With Mark Crispin Miller, by Bob Cesca, December 12, 2005

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/a-conversation-with-mark-_b_12134.html

Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings, by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, October 26, 2005

• http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1529

Why can't the left face the Stolen Elections of 2004 & 2008?, by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, October 18, 2005

• http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1502

A Deeper Look: Rebutting Shamos on e-Voting, May 2005, Crane, Keller, Dechert, Cherlin and Mertz

• http://www.lastland.net/voting/shamos-rebuttal-dgo2006-submit.pdf
  (The best serious argument for transparent, open source, voting machines... otherwise I would get rid of machines entirely and go for precinct paper ballots with open to the public counting procedures which can be verified at the most basic level, with verifiable raw data at the most immediate level- then anyone could help tally and verify the results in all elections.)

The Strange Death of American Democracy: Endgame in Ohio, by Michael Keefer, January 24, 2005

• http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE501A.html

Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for "vote switching" software, By Wayne Madsen, December 6, 2004


• http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/120604Madsen/120604madsen.html
  Copy of original affidavit by Clinton Curtis
  
• http://www.rawstory.com/images/pdfs/CC_Affidavit_120604.pdf

Will the Democrats Now Stand and Fight? by Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis, December 1, 2004

• http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1201-33.htm

IMF Sponsored "Democracy" in The Ukraine, by Michel Chossudovsky, November 28, 2004 (The Real Lesson to be Learned from Ukraine)

• http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO411D.html

Feds to Investigate Voting Irregularities, AP, November 26, 2004

• http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=56007

Kerry clutches to hopes of recount victory White House calls on nation to 'come together', by Adam Stone, November 24, 2004,


• http://www.northcountynews.com/view.asp?s=11-24-04/news5.htm

Media largely ignored Berkeley study on Florida voting irregularities, bt SSM Media Matters, November 22, 2004


• http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200411220005

'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida, by Thom Hartmann, November 18, 2004


• http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-22.htm

Recount New Hampshire, by Russ Baker, November 17, 2004

• http://www.gnn.tv/articles/article.php?id=911

Ohio hearings show massive GOP vote manipulation, but where the hell are the Democrats & John Kerry?, by Harvey Wasserman, November 17, 2004


• http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2004/991

Media accused of ignoring election irregularities, by Mark Jurkowitz, November 17, 2004


• http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/11/17/media_accused_of_ignoring_election_irregularities?mode=PF

47 State Exit Poll Analysis Confirms Swing Anomaly, by Jonathan Simon, November 11, 2004


• http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00142.htm

The Unexplained Exit Poll Disparity, by Steven F. Freeman, Phd., University of Pennsylvania, November 10, 2004


• http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/11/The_unexplained_exit_poll_discrepancy_v00k.pdf

Odds of Bush gaining by 4 percent in all exit polling state 1 in 50,000; evoting/paper variance not found to be significant, by John Byrne, November 8, 2004


• http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=405:

Evidence of Electoral Fraud in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election A Reader, by Michael Keefer, November 6, 2004


• http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE411B.html

Election 2004: A Fragmented, Underfunded Election System
Continues to Frustrate Thousands of Voters, by Common Cause Press Release, November 4, 2004


• http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/{FB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665}/VOTING%20REPORT.PDF

Kerry Won..., by Greg Palast, November 4, 2004

• http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php

Bigger Than Watergate, by C.D. Sludge, July 8, 2003


• http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00064.htm

# 6 on the Most Censored Stories List (by Project Censored)- The Sale of Electoral Politics
Voting Machines Gone Wild!, by Mark Lewellen-Biddle, December 11, 2003

• http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=490_0_1_0_C

All the President's Votes?, Andrew Gumbel, October 13, 2003
• http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1013-01.htm

Will Bush Backers Manipulate Votes to Deliver G.W. Another Election?, by Amy Goodman and the staff of Democracy Now!

• http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/04/159216

From the Horse's Mouth- Government/Official Statements

"America has spoken, and I'm humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens. " George W. Bush, November 3, 2004
• http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/democracy/elections.html

Preserving Democracy:
What Went Wrong in Ohio
Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff

• http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohiostatusrept1505.pdf




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