November 05, 2012

URGENT ACTION NOTICE

Want to fight voter suppression and vote tampering on Election Day?
Here are some things anyone can do on Election Day:
Document any of these things and let the Free Press know during the day or immediately after the polls close:
1) Do all machines work at the beginning of the day? Were there any problems getting them to work?
2) Did any technicians come in to do any "service" on the machines during the day?
3) Are people being turned away from voting for any reason? Are many people made to vote provisionally for any reason? How many? What are the reasons?
4) Are there any people hanging around wearing suits, not identifying themselves, or challengers intimidating people, challenging their right to vote, or otherwise interfering with voters? Please take photos of them and their automobile license plates.
5) Lists of who voted are posted at 11am and 4pm at polling sites. Do those numbers match the print-out at the end of the night?
6) VERY IMPORTANT: At close of polls, the pollworkers are required to print out and post the results on the outside of the door for the public to view. Document through a photo and/or write down the final polling site results: how many people voted, who they voted for.
READ MORE AND TAKE ACTION!

"Who Counts in Ohio?" ~ @freepressorg #ohio

Who Counts in Ohio?
by Bob Fitrakis
Investigative reporter Bob Fitrakis tells what he and the FreePress.org team have found about Romney's links to the electronic voting machine company that will be counting and tabulating votes in Hamilton County, a key swing county and swing state Ohio.
COMPLETE ARTICLE

"Will your vote even get counted?" ~ @freepressorg #ohio

Will Your Vote Even Get Counted?
by Sheila Parks
In next week’s presidential elections women could, in effect, lose ownership of their bodies if the Romney-Ryan ticket, with its hard right stance wins. Even if Romney loses it will be a sad day for women in some quarters if candidates such as Akin and Mourdock, with their frightening, absurdist and fundamentalist leanings, are successful.
COMPLETE ARTICLE

"As Ohio Faces vote-rigging lawsuit, are dems, liberals, election officials ready to safeguard votes?" ~ @freepressorg #ohio

As Ohio Faces vote-rigging lawsuit, are dems, liberals, election officials ready to safeguard votes?
by Art Levine
There's mounting fall-out from reports, first broken by The Free Press, that a Mitt Romney-linked company owns the Hart Intercivic voting machines used in key counties in Colorado, Ohio and other states. The stories have stoked new fears about a "stolen" election.
READ THE ARTICLE

"OHIO – VOTE HEIST 2012?" ~ @freepressorg #ohio

OHIO – VOTE HEIST 2012?
by Ecological Options Network
A Columbus press conference on election fraud risks with Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein, Vice Presidential candidate Cheri Honkala, and FreePress.org editor and Green senatorial candidate Bob Fitrakis at the Ohio State House, Oct. 2, 2012.

COMPLETE ARTICLE

"Another Husted dirty trick in #Ohio: SOS admits direct reporting function of untested election software" ~ @freepressorg

Another Husted dirty trick in Ohio: Secretary of State's Office admits direct reporting function of untested election software
by Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis
Citizen concerns about untested software have multiplied since the Columbus Free Press broke the news that Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted's office installed uncertified and untested software on the central vote tabulation machines in up to 39 counties in the state.
COMPLETE ARTICLE

November 02, 2012

Important notice from Department of Justice about Election Fraud

From: USDOJ-Office of Public Affairs (SMO) (JMD)
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 2:33 PM
To: USDOJ-Office of Public Affairs (SMO) (JMD)
Subject: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO MONITOR POLLS IN 23 STATES ON ELECTION DAY

________________________________________________________________________

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CRT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2012 (202) 514-2007

WWW.JUSTICE.GOV TTY (866) 544-5309

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO MONITOR POLLS IN 23 STATES

ON ELECTION DAY

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that its Civil Rights Division plans to deploy more than 780 federal observers and department personnel to 51 jurisdictions in 23 states for the Nov. 6, 2012, general election.

            Although state and local governments have primary responsibility for administering elections, the Civil Rights Division is charged with enforcing the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot on Election Day.
            In the days leading up to and throughout Election Day, Civil Rights Division staff members will be available by telephone to receive complaints related to possible violations of the federal voting rights laws (toll free 1-800-253-3931 or 202-307-2767 or TTY 1-877-267-8971).  In addition, individuals may also report such complaints by fax to 202-307-3961, by email to voting.section@usdoj.gov and by a complaint form on the department’s website: www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/.
            Allegations of election fraud are handled by the 94 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices across the country and the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section. Complaints may be directed to any of the local U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the local FBI offices or the Public Integrity Section at 202-514-1412.
            Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the department has regularly sent observers and monitors around the country to protect the rights of voters. The Voting Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group. In addition, the act requires certain covered jurisdictions to provide language assistance during the election process. Under the Voting Rights Act, the department is authorized to ask the Office of Personnel Management to send federal observers to areas that have been certified for coverage by a federal court or the attorney general. The department also may send its own staff to monitor elections in other jurisdictions.

On Election Day, federal observers will monitor polling place activities in 17 jurisdictions:

Russell County, Ala.;
Maricopa County, Ariz.;
Alameda County, Calif.;
Riverside County, Calif.;
Randolph County, Ga.;
East Carroll Parish, La.;
Panola County, Miss.;
Colfax County, Neb.;
Sandoval County, N.M.;
Orange County, N.Y.;
Cuyahoga County, Ohio;
Lorain County, Ohio;
Williamsburg County, S.C.;
Shannon County; S.D.;
Dallas County, Texas;
Fort Bend County, Texas; and
Jefferson County, Texas.

Justice Department personnel will monitor the election in an additional 34 jurisdictions:

Mobile County, Ala.;
Pima County, Ariz.;
Arapahoe County, Colo.;
Denver;
Duval County, Fla.;
Hendry County, Fla.;
Hillsborough County, Fla.;
Lee County, Fla.;
Miami-Dade County, Fla.;
Orange County, Fla.;
Osceola County, Fla.;
Chicago & Cook County, Ill.;
LaPorte County, Ind.;
Finney County, Kan.;
Detroit & Hamtramck, Mich.;
Alamance County, N.C.;
Wake County, N.C.;
Bernalillo County, N.M.;
Cibola County, N.M.;
Queens County, N.Y.;
Franklin County, Ohio;
Hamilton County, Ohio;
Allegheny County, Pa.;
Chester County, Pa.;
Delaware County, Pa.;
Lehigh County, Pa.;
Philadelphia;
Richland County, S.C.;
Davidson County, Tenn.;
Shelby County, Tenn.;
Harris County, Texas; and
Milwaukee

The observers and department personnel will gather information on, among other things, whether voters are subject to different voting qualifications or procedures on the basis of race, color, or membership in a language minority group; whether jurisdictions are complying with the minority language provisions of the Voting Rights Act; whether jurisdictions permit voters to receive assistance by a person of his or her choice if the voter is blind, has a disability, or is unable to read or write; whether jurisdictions allow voters with disabilities to cast a private and independent ballot; whether jurisdictions comply with the voter registration list requirements of the National Voter Registration Act; and whether jurisdictions comply with the provisional ballot requirements of the Help America Vote Act. To assist in these inquiries, the department has deployed observers and monitors who speak Spanish and a variety of Asian and Native American languages. Both the federal observers and department personnel will coordinate monitoring activities, and department attorneys maintain contact with local election officials.

Last month, the Justice Department announced efforts to ensure that all qualified voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots and have their votes counted free of discrimination, intimidation or fraud in the election process. More information about the Voting Rights Act and other federal voting and election-related laws is available on the Civil Rights Division’s website at www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting.

# # #

12-1312

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE USE THE CONTACTS IN THE MESSAGE OR CALL THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT 202-514-2007.

###

People of Ohio: put together your social media strategy NOW

The origin of this blog was that in 2004 I was an eyewitness to massive election fraud by Secretary of State Blackwell, who is in my opinion a crook and a traitor to his country for what he did. His swindle caused Bush to be the victor in the election, even though the Ohio electors had not been legally appointed. The mainstream media suppressed the information. Hence this blog.

The present Secretary of State Husted appears, unfortunately, to be of the same ilk as Blackwell, doing everything he can to disenfranchise people of color, young people, and the working poor. He is so brazen about it that he contumaciously violated a court order, in order to prevent early voting in Democratic districts only. Only when his attorneys reminded him that he might be doing jail time for that, did he relent. After he wasted taxpayer resources appealing the judicial ruling, he then complied only partially with the Court's order, probably provoking yet another round of litigation, the sole purpose of which is to PREVENT people from voting. It is incredible that a person who has sworn an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution would behave like such a low life.

There is a big difference in the world, however, between 2004, and 2012, and that is the technology of social media.

We now have smartphones which act as cameras and as video cameras, cell phones which act as cameras and limited video cameras, flip cameras, texting, emails, social networks.

This time around when the first frauds are revealed at 6:05 a.m. on election day, the whole world can know about them, see them in graphic detail, and hear what people have to say about them, by 6:10 a.m.

It is imperative that the people of the State of Ohio prepare themselves, get their batteries charged, get their social networks in place and online, get their storage devices cleaned out and ready to collect data, get all of their devices and networks ready, get their email addresses in order.

Those of you who haven't yet gotten set up with mobile technology and/or with social networks... there will never be a more important time in your life to do so.

Also, it is imperative that you organize.

In 2004 Ohio did a great job of organizing (a) before the election to register voters, and (b) after the election to protest the fraud and disenfranchisement which occurred.

However the people were unprepared to detect and monitor fraud, or to challenge the legal violations in court. It would have been hoped that the Democratic Party would have done so, but it actually did precious little.

This time Ohio needs to prepare and organize even better, and to use the new tool that is available which was not available in 2004... social media.

One organization that is working on this is Video The Vote.

Their website is here: http://www.videothevote.org

Their twitter account is here: @videothevote

Work with them.

Also many of the frauds will involve computers. People are going to need technology-savvy geniuses to monitor and detect the types of frauds that will be going on.

If you know of, or are forming, voter protection groups which will be organizing to publicize fraud and disenfranchisement and/or to combat it, or websites and blogs helping to organize such activity, please send me a "comment" letting me know the details, and I will post their information right here, and will keep updating this post:

Groups organizing to combat election fraud and disenfranchisement in Ohio:

No More Stolen Elections http://nomorestolenelections.org/
Video The Vote. http://www.videothevote.org @videothevote

November 05, 2012

Now threatened: 80% of Ohio votes