Common Cause has posted a 2-minute documentary film on the 2004 election, made by Erin and Conrad Stanley, documentary filmmakers from Los Angeles:
http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=562403&tr=y&auid=836313
Before the Ohio Election Fraud, this blog was entitled "Fairness". Since November 2, 2004, a day that will live in infamy, this blog has been devoted exclusively to fighting the crimes committed against the citizens of Ohio, and against our American way of life, in the 2004 "election".
April 21, 2005
Common Cause issues 2-minute film on 2004 election
April 13, 2005
Robert Koehler of Tribune Media Services writes : "The Silent Scream of Numbers"
Article by Robert C. Koehler of Tribune Media Services, "The Silent Scream of Numbers":
"As they slowly hack democracy to death, we’re as alone — we citizens — as we’ve ever been, protected only by the dust-covered cliches of the nation’s founding: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
"It’s time to blow off the dust and start paying the price.
"The media are not on our side. The politicians are not on our side. It’s just us, connecting the dots, fitting the fragments together, crunching the numbers, wanting to know why there were so many irregularities in the last election and why these glitches and dirty tricks and wacko numbers had not just an anti-Kerry but a racist tinge. This is not about partisan politics. It’s more like: “Oh no, this can’t be true.”
"I just got back from what was officially called the National Election Reform Conference, in Nashville, Tenn., an extraordinary pulling together of disparate voting-rights activists — 30 states were represented, 15 red and 15 blue — sponsored by a Nashville group called Gathering To Save Our Democracy. It had the feel of 1775: citizen patriots taking matters into their own hands to reclaim the republic. This was the level of its urgency.
US Count Votes April 11, 2005, Analysis of Exit Poll Discrepancies in 2004 Election
"US Count Votes"'s April 11, 2005, analysis of exit poll discrepancies in 2004 election:
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit_Polls_2004_Edison-Mitofsky.pdf
April 11, 2005
Akron Beacon Journal reports: "Prosecutor to Probe Cuyahoga County Recount"
The Akron Beacon-Journal reports that prosecutors are investigating the Cuyahoga County recount:
"CLEVELAND - Erie County Prosecutor Kevin J. Baxter is investigating whether the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections broke the law in its recount of ballots from the November presidential election.
"Cuyahoga County Prosecutor William Mason appointed Baxter as a special prosecutor in the case because the board of elections is Mason's client, which could pose a conflict of interest, said Mason spokeswoman Jamie Dalton.
"Baxter said he didn't know yet whether the allegations have any validity. He said his investigators will begin interviewing people in the next several weeks.
``If it goes nowhere, it goes nowhere,'' Baxter said. ``We'll just start from the beginning... This is rather preliminary.''
"The probe stems from two requests written to Mason: one from minor-party presidential candidates David Cobb and Michael Badnarik, and another from entrepreneurial consultant Edward Michael Caner.
March 16, 2005
Franklin County Board of Elections Launches Investigation into 2004 Election
The Franklin County Board of Elections announced today that it was launching an independent examination into the election process used in last November’s presidential election.
http://ohioelection2004.com/WordHost/franklincountymarch16thpressrelease.doc
March 09, 2005
"Gathering to Save Our Democracy" -- National Conference on 2004 Election & Need for Election Reform - Nashville, TN - April 8-10, 2005
Gathering To Save Our Democracy
National Conference on the 2004 Election
and the Need for Election Reform
Nashville, Tennessee, April 8-10, 2005
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE TODAY!
CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Featuring
Bernie Ellis, Tennessee, Gathering To Save Our Democracy (and other members)
Civil rights leaders (Tennessee): Tex Thomas, Sonnye Dixon, Charles Kimbrough
Michael Grant, TN NAACP Statewide coordinator, Voting Rights Act celebrations
Cliff Arnebeck, Ohio, Moss v. Bush
Bob Fitrakis, Ohio, Moss v. Bush, www.freepress.org
R.H. Phillips, Ohio election fraud researcher
Joanne Roush, Wisconsin, Ohio recount volunteer
Bernard Windham, Florida, national election datasets analyst (including EIRS)
Warren Stewart, California, National Ballot Integrity Project
Judith Alter, California, Recount New Mexico
Paul Lehto, Washington state election/fraud attorney
Andrew Silver, North Carolina
David Griscom, Arizona
Roxanne Jekot, Georgia, Voter Choice Coalition
Mary Beth Kuznik, Pennsylvania
Sharona Merel, New Hampshire, National Ballot Integrity Project
Kathy Dopp, Utah, US Count Votes
Jonathan Simon, Massachusetts, exit poll researcher, We Do Not Concede
Josh Mitteldorf, Pennsylvania, exit poll researcher, US Count Votes
Robert Koehler, Illinois, syndicated columnist, (Chicago) Tribune Media Services
Brad Friedman, California, BradBlog/Velvet Revolution
R. Lee Wrights, North Carolina, Vice-Chair, Libertarian National Committee
David Cobb, California, 2004 Green Party Presidential candidate
Barbara Burt, Maine, Common Cause
Lara Shaffer, California, Open Voting Consortium
Ruth Martin, District of Columbia, People For the American Way
Phil Fry, Citizens’ Alliance for Secure Elections-Ohio
Larry Quick, Illinois, National Ballot Integrity Project
Teresa Hommel, New York, Where’s The Paper
Larry English, Tennessee, Information Impact International
Lowell Finley, California, Help America Recount
David Lytel, District of Columbia, Left.org
Susan Truitt, Ohio, Citizens’ Alliance for Secure Elections (CASE)-America
Clinton Curtis, Florida, election fraud whistle-blower
Phyllis Huster, Georgia
(and others to come)
BACKGROUND
Since November 3, 2004, there has been a groundswell of concern, and a plethora of evidence, that the conduct of the 2004 Presidential election in the United States was highly problematic. These concerns have been belittled by many and ignored by the corporate media in this country. However, the weight of the evidence is overwhelming that a multi-faceted strategy of voter intimidation and disenfranchisement, potential manipulation of electronically cast votes in many states, and other instances of election fraud and theft improperly influenced the will of the American people and may have subverted the "consent of the governed". This evidence was sufficient to have stimulated the Government Accountability Office and U.S. Representative John Conyers and other national leaders to investigate the evidence of wrong-doing. This evidence also caused the U.S. Congress to suspend their routine business and to debate the merits of accepting Ohio's electoral votes on January 6, 2005, a historic occasion that highlighted the many problems in Ohio and also served to shed light on similar problems in other states. With this Congressional debate, the American people's responsibility to win back our democratic process was enumerated and enjoined.
To date, most of the discussion and information sharing on the problems with the 2004 election have occurred in the virtual world of the Internet. While there have been some local gatherings and regional and national protests focused on this issue, there has been no opportunity for concerned citizens, researchers, activists and elected officials to meet under one roof to review the wealth of evidence for the many threats to our democratic processes which the 2004 election revealed and to discuss the urgent need for election reform. While some panels on this topic have been added to several national meetings, these panels are not nearly sufficient to present all of the evidence for the 2004 election problems. It is also insufficient to fully inform the American people enough to motivate them to seek redress for the violations of our voting rights which occurred with this past election and to coalesce sentiment around an election reform agenda.
For these reasons, this three day Gathering To Save Our Democracy - A National Conference will provide the appropriate forum for expanding public awareness, for congregating the accumulated knowledge under one roof and for providing a platform for mobilizing support for election reform and justice.
Nashville, Tennessee is the setting of this conference. Nashville has a proud history of early successes in the 1960s civil rights movement, we are in a Southern and supposedly "red" state (we prefer to consider ourselves an Orange State, in deference to the Ukrainian example), we are centrally located within a day's drive of 60% of the U.S. population, we have an international airport serviced by a dozen major airlines, and we have several locations tentatively identified as appropriate and historic venues for hosting the conference. But most importantly, we have an energetic (and growing) band of citizen-activists for election reform in Tennessee who would insure the successful implementation of this conference.
This conference will be a comprehensive and historic event that will bring together the "major players" who have surfaced in the dialogue over the problems with the 2004 election and the need for election reform. We also anticipate that the conference will be a gathering place for the many concerned citizens throughout the nation and the world who are intent on preserving democracies. We hope that this conference will help break the media silence about the problems with the 2004 election within our country and provide a forum for increasing the world's attention to our threatened democratic principles. In addition, we will hold discussion sessions before and after the conference to exchange ideas and build coalitions to pursue the necessary elements of election reform and to redress our concerns with the 2004 election.
The conference registration fee is $30 (with exceptions for hardships), and will cover all conference-related activities. Please review the tentative conference agenda, complete the conference registration form and register using PayPal. (People who cannot attend the conference but who would like to support the conference by making a donation can do so using PayPal also.) We will send you the final conference agenda and other details one week prior to the conference. Please contact Bernard Ellis, Jr., MA, MPH (931/682-2864; tracevu@bellsouth.net ) for more information on the conference.
Thank you for supporting the conference and for promoting the preservation of democracy in America.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE TODAY!
March 07, 2005
March 03, 2005
Database of Columbus Ohio Voter Protection Hotline November 2nd Complaints
The voter protection hotline of which I was a member on November 2nd, hosted by the Ohio Democratic Party, in Columbus, Ohio, maintained a database of complaints registered November 2, 2004. A copy of that list, with the identities and contact information of complainants redacted, is available at http://ohioelection2004.com/DatabaseHost/november2database.xls
This is distinct from the much larger hotline operated by a consortium of organizations spearheaded by People for the American Way (PFAW), using the number 1-866-OURVOTE, whose database of Ohio incident reports is reported at https://voteprotect.org/epc/index.php?display
=EIRMapState&state=Ohio&cat=ALL&tab=ALL, or the hotlines operated by Common Cause, the AFL CIO, NAACP, and others, whose databases are not yet publicly available.
March 02, 2005
Blackwell Requests Dismissal or Change of Venue of Recount Case, and Opposes Hearing Unless He Can Take Depositions of Kerry and Edwards
Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has asked the Columbus federal court to dismiss, or to transfer venue, in the recount case, and has expressed opposition to the court's conducting a hearing unless he can take the depositions of John Kerry and John Edwards.
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