While U.S. media saturates the airwaves with irregularities in Ukrainian elections, they are tightlipped about emerging documentation of fraud in the U.S. presidential election on November 2nd. For an update on election challenges read more
Blackboxvoting.org is just one organization that is investigating the voter fraud in the 2004 elections. Blackboxvoting.org, which has to date been concentrating on electronic voting in Florida
has sent Freedom of Information Act requests to all fifty states for election records. So far, Bev Harris of Blackboxvoting.org uncovered fraud in Volusa County, Florida sparking a lawsuit against the county to set aside the election.
www.blackboxvoting.org/
Researchers at the University of California agree that an investigation in Florida is needed. In a paper published 11/22/04, researchers found that Bush won a statistically impossible number of votes in Florida from scantron voting machines.
ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/VOTE2004/
Meanwhile, in Ohio, Presidential candidates David Cobb of the Green Party and Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party have ordered a recount in Ohio to take place as soon as the vote is certified.
www.votecobb.org/recount/daily_update/,
www.ohiogreens.org/
Certification by Ohio's Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell is expected December 6th or 7th. Hearings have been held in several cities to collect testimony of those who witnessed voting irregularities and criminal acts that prevented citizens from exercising their constitutional right to vote.
A forum on the Ohio Vote will be held Saturday December 4th from 6-9 eastern time and broadcast on some Pacifica stations.
www.wbai.org/tuner/html
Recounts have also been ordered in New Mexico, Nevada and New Hampshire. Although most of the focus is on irregularities in the so-called battleground states, investigators have uncovered huge discrepancies in places like Wyoming and Alabama.
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