2004 Voting Crimes, 2004 Exit Polls, 2004 President

As we drift through this political season, preoccupied with Plain Palin antics while John McCain tries to be the unBush, take a look and a lead from the past. Is this the America we want?

Tonight from 8 - 9 p.m. ET I'll be interviewing Mark Crispin Miller and he'll be taking your questions at http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net

Mark Crispin Miller is professor of media studies at New York University and the author of the book: Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections. He is known for his writing on American media and for his activism on behalf of democratic media reform. His books include Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Seeing Through Movies, and Mad Scientists, a study of war propaganda.

Miller writes in his book, Fooled Again, that the 2000 U.S. Presidential election and 2004 U.S. Presidential election were “stolen”. Miller presents extensive documentation, backed by 56 pages of notes, supporting his contention that the outcome of both elections was altered and controlled by a small minority. He states that the American voting populace can no longer assume that their votes will be accurately assessed, and that the installation of electronic voting machines in state after state is a fundamental flaw in the U.S. electoral system. He appeared in the 2004 documentary Orwell Rolls in His Grave, which focuses on the hidden mechanics of the media, its role as it should be and what it actually is, and how it shapes (to the point of almost controlling) U.S. politics.

Mark’s new book is: Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008.

The Vatican’s recent snub of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is only the latest salvo in the battle between Pope Benedict XVI and President George W. Bush. This tug of war has profound implications for both U.S. foreign policy and the critical Catholic vote in 2008's presidential race.

Overlapping Agendas

Things haven't always been tense between Bush and Benedict. They share similar views regarding abortion, gay marriage, and other hot-button conservative issues. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (as Benedict was known before becoming Pope in April 2005) even helped Bush secure the White House for a second term.

The Use of Statistics in Elections
By Andrew First

On the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, every four years, Americans elect a new president. More often than not, the outcome of the election is unknown beforehand. Polls are taken in the weeks and months prior to an election, but those are merely a snapshot in time, reflecting the electorate’s opinion at that particular moment. The candidate that an undecided voter supports can change many times before the election, and some people are completely undecided until they step into the voting booth. In addition, slim margins can not be predicted beforehand due to sampling variability. While samples give a good idea of what voters are thinking, there is a margin of error in each poll that must be taken into account while analyzing the poll results.

Prosecutor says he's gonna give them a chance to rat out higher-up's before sentencing...

2 election workers convicted of rigging '04 presidential recount
CLEVELAND (AP) — Two election workers in the state's most populous county were convicted Wednesday of illegally rigging the 2004 presidential election recount so they could avoid a more thorough review of the votes. A third employee who had been charged was acquitted on all counts...(more)

So sayeth George Will (h/t Glenn Greenwald):

Cooperation between Pakistani and British law enforcement (the British draw upon useful experience combating IRA terrorism) has validated John Kerry's belief (as paraphrased by the New York Times Magazine of Oct. 10, 2004) that "many of the interdiction tactics that cripple drug lords, including governments working jointly to share intelligence, patrol borders and force banks to identify suspicious customers, can also be some of the most useful tools in the war on terror." In a candidates' debate in South Carolina (Jan. 29, 2004), Kerry said that although the war on terror will be "occasionally military," it is "primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation that requires cooperation around the world."

If you've read Congressman Conyers report or Greg Palast's book or Mark Crispin Miller's book or if you had access to the internet in November and December of 2004, or if you follow Brad Blog, then you probably already know the answer to the question in the title of this new Rolling Stone article: Was the 2004 Election Stolen? The author is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his concludion: "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."

Stolen Election 2004 just won't go away, 'cause Bush's Grand Larceny Democracy is just too large a crime to cover-up... this COULD open the floodgates to state-wide prosecutions of election theft in Ohio...

(newsnet5) BOE Employees Indicted In 2004 Presidential Recount - Women Charged With Disobeying Election Laws Two Cuyahoga County Board of Elections employees were indicted Tuesday on charges stemming from the 2004 presidential election recount. Rosie Grier and Kathleen Dreamer have been indicted on six counts each. The charges include failure to perform duties imposed upon them by law, misconduct of Board of Election employees, knowingly disobeying elections law, unlawfully obtaining possession of ballots/ballot boxes or pollbooks, and unlawfully opening or permitting the opening of a sealed package containing ballots. If convicted, the women could spend up to four years in prison each...

A Buzzflash News Alert:

Washington, DC - Only days after RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman claimed that his party has a "zero-tolerance" policy against voter fraud, intimidation, and suppression, it has been reported that the Republican Party has spent more than $722,000 to defend a former Bush election official accused of conspiring to keep Democrats from voting. [Boston Globe, 8/11/05; Letter to the American Center for Voting Rights Legislative Fund from RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, 8/9/05]