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Iran polls prompt vote rigging allegations
Iran went to the polls today in presidential elections, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seeking a second four-year term. Four candidates were contesting the election, although much power rests with the unelected Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Read More »Troops Have to Fight for Their Right to Vote
Active-duty military members arguably have more to lose than anyone else in Tuesday’s election, but voting can be an obstacle course for servicemen and -women overseas. The Dallas Morning News reports that in 2006
Read More »The Election-Industrial Complex
By Walter Smolarek | As the seemingly endless period of political campaigning in the United States will soon draw to a close, we on the left must access the damage; but more importantly, we
Read More »‘Stealing America’: Voting-Fraud Documentary
The numbers don’t add up. By Michael Ordoña | $3.8 billion: The initial Help America Vote Act allocation that California Secretary of State Deborah Bowen said “pushed many counties into buying electronic systems that
Read More »Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes
By Bruce Schneier | Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, has finally admitted that a ten-year-old error has caused votes to be dropped. It’s unclear if this error is random or systematic.
Read More »Planning to E-Vote? Read This First
With less than three months before the presidential election, the hotly contested state, Ohio, along with others, continue to have problems with E-voting technology By Larry Greenemeier In their rush to avoid a repeat of
Read More »VIDEO: The “Magic” of Disappearing Votes
In segment 3, Stephen Spoonamore explains how election fraud can happen even if the voting machines are registering votes correctly. One way is through the haphazard custody of memory cards after voting. But it
Read More »A Tragedy Unnoticed By The World
How conflict exacerbates Somalia’s starvation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says thousands of Somalis are malnourished and in need of urgent medical treatment. This comes as local human rights groups claim conflict in the country
Read More »Facing the Truth About the American Voter
Rick Shenkman, is the author of the just-published Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, 2008). He blogs at Howstupidblog and is editor of George Mason University’s
Read More »Nuns are turned away from Indiana polls
By Scott Martelle - Los Angeles Times | A dozen nuns and an unknown number of students were turned away from polls Tuesday in the first use of Indiana’s stringent voter ID law since it
Read More »Civil rights groups sue state officials
By Adam Jadhav | Voting-rights activists filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Missouri public aid officials and election authorities in St. Louis and Kansas City, saying that agencies have failed to help poor people
Read More »Zimbabwe ballot box seals broken
By Peta Thornycroft | Zimbabwe’s regime has been accused of a “concerted effort” to rig the election for Robert Mugabe as it emerged that seals protecting ballot boxes have been broken. A partial recount
Read More »What if 5.3 Million More Americans Could Vote?
By Erika Wood | Millions of people in the U.S. can’t vote because of felony convictions. Restoring their right to vote means restoring democracy. This is a big year for American democracy. Hundreds of thousands
Read More »Election Madness
Howard Zinn There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He tells me the kinds of jobs he has held—security guard,
Read More »VIDEO: President Bush Booed at Baseball Game
There’s a reason President Bush almost never appears before members of the general public: They really don’t like him. Despite the delirious mood of Washington Nationals fans on opening night at their new stadium,
Read More »VOTING COMPANY BULLIES ELECTION OFFICIALS
Failed machines same as those to be used in Pennslvania tally BRAD BLOG Sequoia Voting Systems’ legal threats against Princeton computer science professors and New Jersey election officials have apparently had their intended effect.
Read More »War Contractor Makes Bid For Election Machines
CHICAGO TRIBUNE - United Technologies Corp. made public Sunday an unsolicited $3 billion bid for Diebold, one of the largest makers of automated teller machines and voting machines. United Technologies, which first approached Diebold
Read More »The supporters and opponents of vote-rigging
Rani Singh Unlike in, say, American politics, pre-elections polls are bit thin on the ground in Pakistan. The results of one, however, have been published by the Dawn. Conducted during January 2008, the US-based
Read More »New Hampshire Recount a “Criminal Enterprise”
Vote fraud expert convinced chain of custody is corrupt Paul Joseph Watson Fresh from her confrontations in New Hampshire during which public officials were grilled about slapdash chain of custody and ballot box tampering
Read More »Is the 2008 Election Rigged?
Rami Nagel Charismatic democratic leader, Barack Obama had a stunning lead going into the New Hampshire primary, with a huge media blitz, and a lot of energy behind him. Then all of a sudden,
Read More »Report on Faulty Voting Machines for 2008 Election
By Greg Mitchell NEW YORK Coming between the Iowa and New Hampshire tallies, this Sunday’s cover of The New York Times Magazine ought to strike a chord. It shows a man inside an exploding
Read More »VIDEO: How many times can you vote?
TV news investigation about public officials illegally voting multiple times in the Senate
Read More »VIDEO: Example of the 1 Minute Voting Machine Hack
It only takes a minute to steal a U.S. Election!
Read More »Ohio voting machines have critical flaws
Report: Ohio voting machines have critical flaws, could undermine ’08 election CINCINNATI– All five voting systems used in Ohio, a state whose electoral votes narrowly swung two elections toward President Bush, have critical flaws
Read More »20 percent of election printouts were unreadable
A recount after next year’s presidential election could mean disaster for Cuyahoga County based on problems discovered Tuesday with paper records produced by electronic voting machines. More than 20 percent of the printouts from
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