Daily Kos :: The real Question: Why are we still w/ Diebold

The real Question: Why are we still w/ Diebold

Daily Kos :: totals from yesterday

10,000 Extra Votes Added in Nebraska County Another ES&S computer 'failure'. http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1161971.html

50,000 Votes could be LOST in Dem Indiana County! Yet another ES&S computer 'failure'.
http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004/11/04/news/news02.txt

19,000 new ballots were added after all precincts reported for Miami county ohio
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983

268,159 more votes than voters in florida
http://ideamouth.com/voterfraud.htm#FL

22000 votes in Guilford county NC
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/charlotte/news/special_packages/election2004/10104576.htm

11,283 votes in Craven county NC

4,530 votes lost in Carteret county
http://www.wcnc.com/news/politics/stories/110404ccjrwcncpolmissingvotes.264d17aa.html

4000 extra votes in Mecklenburg NC
http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/local_news/mecklenburg/?ArID=78411&SecID=3

Diaries :: drummer55's diary ::

4000 votes in PA
http://www.vindy.com/basic/news/288078640794824.php

3893 votes in Franklin county OH
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html

4000 lost votes in mercer county OH
http://www.vindy.com/basic/news/288078640794824.php"

What's the picture hanging in the Oval Office ?

Our dreams will never fit in their ballot boxes

Our dreams will never fit in their ballot boxes

Daily Kos :: Moore Videos from Ohio Appear

Kos

You may recall that Michael Moore recruited volunteers to assist with video in Ohio and Florida on election day. One of the videos has finally hit, and it doesn't look pretty. It's not clear from the video how many votes were affected, but what is clear is that Republicans were on the ground in black precincts. It will be interesting to see what else starts to emerge from the Moore camp.

Video here:

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/06/electionday_footage_.html

For information on reported voter intimidation

machine failures, and other issues, voteprotect.org is a good place to go. Here is their Florida list, for example.

I said before that I did not think these voter intimidation efforts had much demonstrable effect on turnout. After looking at things for a few days, I'm hedging that statement a bit. For example, calls in Orange County (Orlando) and other Florida counties suggest a coordinated effort to contact voters and tell them that their precinct or polling place had changed when in fact it had not. In other counties, Republican challengers showed up at the polls not only with the 'felon lists', but with pictures of 'felons' who were not to be allowed to vote. Both in FL and OH, there are some pretty grim things in the reports, but the scope is unclear.

Iraq Declares Martial Law, 23 Police Killed

Iraq Declares Martial Law, 23 Police Killed
By Fadel al-Badrani
Reuters

Sunday 07 November 2004

FALLUJA, Iraq - Iraq's interim government declared martial law on
Sunday after insurgents killed 23 Iraqi policemen and set off blasts
in Baghdad in a fresh show of force before a planned U.S. offensive on
Falluja and Ramadi.

"We have decided to declare a state of emergency in all areas of
Iraq, with the exception of the region of Kurdistan for a period of 60
days," Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's spokesman Thaer al-Naqib told a
news conference.

He said the state of emergency, equivalent to martial law, was
intended to ensure security ahead of elections in January.

The government gave itself emergency powers soon after replacing
Iraq's U.S.-led administration on June 28, but it has not yet used
them despite a raging insurgency.

Moments after the announcement carried on live Iraqi television, a
car bomb exploded near the house of Iraq's finance minister in central
Baghdad. It was not immediately clear if Adel Abdul Mahdi or anyone
else had been hurt.

Insurgents have launched a wave of violence in central Iraq to show
their muscle before U.S.-led forces assault Falluja and Ramadi. The
Americans say they are only awaiting the word from Allawi, who
returned from Europe on Saturday, to attack.

Police said gunmen killed 23 policemen in three attacks in Iraq. The
bloodiest assault was in Haditha, 200 km (125 miles) northwest of
Baghdad, where insurgents with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars
attacked a police station at dawn.

After a 90-minute battle in which six policemen were wounded, the
attackers took 21 captured policemen to the K-3 oil pumping station
area and shot them dead execution-style.

Brigadier Shaher al-Jughaifi, security chief in western Iraq, died
in an attack on a police post in nearby Haqlaniya.

Gunmen killed another Iraqi police officer and wounded one in the
town of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, police said. A suicide car
bomber attacked a U.S. convoy on the highway to Baghdad airport. A
U.S. spokesman could not confirm the report.

In Falluja, residents said fighting erupted on the eastern edge of
the city near the highway leading to Baghdad after intense overnight
air strikes and artillery shelling.

Samarra Curfew

On Saturday, bombings and attacks on police stations killed 34
people, mostly police, in the restive city of Samarra, some 100 km (60
miles) north of Baghdad. Allawi's office said 49 people were also
wounded. All the casualties were men.

U.S. troops enforced a round-the-clock curfew in Samarra and nearby
villages on Sunday, paralyzing normal life.

Local officials said they were asking the Americans to lift the
curfew at least briefly so that people could go to mosques and shops.
They also wanted U.S. troops to reopen roads around the sealed-off
city to let stranded people get home.

The Samarra violence erupted barely a month after U.S. and Iraqi
forces stormed the city to dislodge rebels in what was then seen as a
model for similar actions in Falluja and Ramadi.

The Haditha killings recalled last month's slaughter of 49 unarmed
army recruits on a lonely road northeast of Baghdad.

Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group, which previously claimed
responsibility for that mass killing, also said it was behind
Saturday's car bombings in Samarra.

The U.S. military says 1,000 to 6,000 fighters, including some loyal
to Zarqawi, are holed up in Falluja.

Falluja residents said U.S. air strikes interspersed with artillery
shelling set off huge explosions from about 3 a.m. (0000 GMT) onwards.
There was no word on casualties.

U.S. attacks have killed dozens of guerrillas, but have failed to
scare them away, a senior Marine commander said.

Regiment Commander Colonel Michael Shupp said escape routes out of
the city were still open but rebels were not leaving despite days of
fierce air and artillery bombardment.

About 450 troops from Britain's Black Watch regiment moved across
the Euphrates river, southwest of Baghdad, in what a Sky News reporter
embedded with them called a major redeployment.

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With reporting by Faris al-Mahdawi in Baquba, Michael Georgy near
Falluja, Akram Saleh in Baghdad and Sabah al-Bazee in Samarra.

Yahoo! News - Ground Zero Suicide Inspired by Election

And we thought WE were taking it too hard...
Yahoo! News - Ground Zero Suicide Inspired by Election: "Ground Zero Suicide Inspired by Election

1 hour, 10 minutes ago

U.S. National - AP

NEW YORK - A 25-year-old man from Georgia who was apparently distraught over President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election shot and killed himself at ground zero. Andrew Veal's body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits site, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A shotgun was found nearby, but no suicide note was found, Coleman said."

Presidential candidate's defeat paves way for a new country: Caliwashegon.

Presidential candidate's defeat paves way for a new country: Caliwashegon.

Northeast and Upper Midwest weigh secession, too.



by George Wolfe



After the announcement of George Bush's election to the presidency in 2004, the Democratic-leaning West Coast officially broke off from the United States and formed a separate country, to be known as the sovereign nation of Caliwashegon.



Barbara Boxer (former D-Calif.), Patty Murray (former D-Wash.) and Ron Wyden (former D-Ore.) lead the secession movement. Boxer matter-of-factly noted that "We did our best to get out the vote, and it just didn't work - so now we're getting ourselves out before it's too late." Asked by a Fox News reporter about Kerry's concession message urging Americans to come together as one, without anger or rancor, Boxer said, "Heal the nation? To hell with the nation...

going to hell in a handbasket!!" after which she lunged and bit the reporter's ear.



Without California, Oregon and Washington, the United States would be reduced to just 47 states. Democrats and disenfranchised independents in Republican-leaning states gathered their belongings and began a mass exodus to join their new homeland in Caliwashegon. The steady march of alienated citizens is being called the Trail of Fears in light of four more years of the current administration's wreaking of havoc and mayhem.



The Northeast has also been discussing the possibility of secession from the United States, perhaps along with the Upper Midwest. So far, three plans have been floated. The first plan posits a sovereign Northeast nation, known perhaps as New New England. The second plan would join forces with the Caliwashegon movement, creating a predominantly bi-coastal Blue Union of liberals and independents. The third proposal would be for full repatriation as a colony of England.



Speaking to the sleeper issue which put these nation-breaking forces into motion, Cincinnati resident Sally Steubitt defended her vote for Bush by saying, "In the end, I just wasn't convinced that enough people had died yet in the name of moral values. But fortunately we now have a mandate to wash our hands of a loving Christ, in the blood of Iraqis."

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Don't Blame Me I Voted 4 Kerry

Elizabeth Edward: Patience shall be rewarded

Daily Kos :: Elizabeth Edward: Patience shall be rewarded: "Elizabeth Edward's post on Democrat Underground:

Something to mull over... I hope she and Teddy are right!

Elizabeth Edward's post on Democrat Underground:
... I want to share something inspiring, part of a letter from Thomas Jefferson.. Jefferson sent the letter in 1798 after the passage of the Sedition Act:

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles."

CNN.com - Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio - Nov 5, 2004

CNN.com - Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio - Nov 5, 2004: "COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.

Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.

Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct, Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told The Columbus Dispatch."

Yahoo! News - Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush (news - web sites) 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.

Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites)'s 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush's total should have been recorded as 365."

Stand and Fight - Leverage/ Power

Daily Kos :: Comments:

Leverage/ Power

The only real leverage we have that any of the corporations/ institutions / organizations will even blink at is economic. Hit them in their bottom-line. They know politically we can't really hurt them and they treat our Democratic congressmen/women with disrespect because they know they don't have the votes to prevent or move any legislation. We know boycots or even the threat of boycoting products or facilities get noticed and response. It worked in Selma, Alabama for our black brothers and sisters. Make them pay for treating us like 2nd-class citizens. Make it painful.
"

FYI

Concessions and proclamations of victory have no legal standing, they only count in the court of public opinion.

I don't know about the absentee ballots in Florida, but there were local state issues being voted on in Ohio that will require the counting of those ballots there.

What to say to ANYONE who tells you Kerry lost

Rove is up to his tricks, the more Bush looks certain today, the better they cry foul later!!

What to say to ANYONE who tells you Kerry lost:

Bush called victory to soon in Iraq too

There are 1.6 million votes still out in Florida
Bush up by roughly 10% of 3M votes counted so far
If Kerry picks up 25% of absentees,in FL he wins FL

People don't know about that, spread the word !!!


they crowed victory too soon in Iraq too

Another "Misson Accomplished"

Bush wants to do his victory speech before noon.

Let him, it will be another flop like the first one

There are 1.6 million votes still out in Florida

Repeat it with me:

There are 1.6 million votes still out in Florida

I URGE THE DOWNTRODEN HERE TO SEE OHIO THROUGH, BUT DON'T TAKE YOUR EYES OFF FLORIDA!!!!

Election day Story: New mom woes and pride

My post at daily kos

Being the clueless mom of an American kindergartner for the first time, I had no idea school was out today (1)

I planned to vote after her class ended, at 3pm, to avoid the possibility of getting stuck in line and getting her late for class.

I spent the entire morning itching to vote, reading Kos and other fabulous sites, fretting over Kerry, fretting over getting my 5 yr. old ready for school

Me, my 3 yr. old and my 5 yr. old sat outside waiting for the bus, singing Kerry Rimes(2):

Vote for Kerry, cause Bush is scary!

Vote for Kerry, cause Bush is mush

And my favorites, by my 5 yr old poetic genius:
Vote for Kerry, cause Bush needs a kick on his tush!

Vote for Kerry; cause Bush's tush is hairy!

Her school bus didn't show up. I drove her to school

Well you know what happened, right ? Not quite. I had to run out of her school before I burst into tears, of pride, of hope...




I figured we missed her bus while I posted yet one more alert to the brave souls that are out there GOTV. So I drove to her school, cussing under my breath about the kind of mom who would let her kid arrive late for school over politics..

We got to her empty classroom and after feeling like saying the biggest DUH in history, my 2 kids and I were heading back home.

In our way out, we passed through were the polling was. Having read John Edwards tale on how his late son Wade(3) dreamed of voting but never got the chance, I decided to make the election a "big event" for my kids:

I said: See kids, this is the most important thing you need to do in America, to make America great: Vote.

"What about pledging allegiance to the flag ?" asks my budding genius kindergartner, immediately launching into her pledge, which she has just learned

"Well, that too, but part of the allegiance you pledge is to protect the Republic and what it stands for" I answer

At this point, a few of the voters, officials start to join in, explaining to my two little angels (ha!) why voting is so important and what the Republic stands for. GOP and DNC united without bickering, for a whole ten minutes, teaching the new generation what America is all about.

I had to run out of there before I burst into tears, of pride, of hope, for a new era in this country, were we all put our differences aside, to care for our future generations!

(1) Motherhood is kind of new to me. Me and my husband were the typical yuppie couple, double income, no kids (DINK) for the longest time. All our friends are still DINKS and the family? Is overseas...

This election year, trying to ensure a good future for my "pride and joy", and missing some adult conversation during the day, I started blogging, chatting, flaming, discussing, cussing, you name it.

Needless to say it made my new mom of 2 hectic day even more impossible, and my nights even more sleepless

I spent the entire morning itching to vote, reading Kos and other fabulous sites, fretting over Kerry, fretting over getting my 5 yr old ready for school, dazed & confuse from lack of sleep, nerves over election, nerves over her school (already ? wasn't I supposed to be done after the potty training ?) And the rest is this story...

(2) Kerry Rimes - A must for the democrat chick parent!

(3) Remembering Wade Edwards, The son of our soon to be Vice President, Wade would be 24 this year.

Bush will be drafting a lot of 24 yr old young men and women, and making a lot of American families go through what the Edwards went through, if Kerry / Edwards don't stop him.

Bush has already made roughly 1,000 families go through the pain of losing a loved one....

FANCY CLOTHES AND OVERALLS

BY WADE EDWARDS

A little boy and his father walk into a firehouse. He smiles at people standing outside. Some hand pamphlets to his father. They stand in line. Finally, they go together into a small booth, pull the curtain closed, and vote. His father holds the boy up and shows him which levers to move.

"We're ready, Wade. Pull the big lever now."

With both hands, the boy pulls the lever. There it is: the sound of voting. The curtain opens. The boy smiles at an old woman leaving another booth and at a mother and daughter getting into line. He is not certain exactly what they have done. He only knows that he and his father have done something important. They have voted.

This scene takes place all over the country.

"Pull the lever, Yolanda."

"Drop the ballot in the box for me, Pedro."

Wades, Yolandas, Pedros, Nikitas, and Chuis all over the United States are learning the same lesson: the satisfaction, pride, importance, and habit of voting. I have always gone with my parents to vote. Sometimes lines are long. There are faces of old people and young people, voices of native North Carolinians in southern drawls and voices of naturalized citizens with their foreign accents. There are people in fancy clothes and others dressed in overalls. Each has exactly the same one vote. Each has exactly the same say in the election. There is no place in America where equality means as much as in the voting booth.

My father took me that day to the firehouse. Soon I will be voting. It is a responsibility and a right. It is also an exciting national experience. Voters have different backgrounds, dreams, and experiences, but that is the whole point of voting. Different voices are heard.

As I get close to the time I can register and vote, it is exciting. I become one of the voices. I know I will vote in every election. I know that someday I will bring my son with me and introduce him to one of the great American experiences: voting.

© 1996 Wade Edwards Foundation

http://www.wade.org/

To Wade, from a Mom of 2:

Wade, your Dad is about to become Vice-President. How I wish you could be here to see it. You're remembered tonight.

Wade, your mom, dad, brothers and sisters are very brave. Surviving without you has not been easy for them.

To survive and also find the strength to go against the Bush Cabal takes even more courage.

I hope you can see how happy we are that they did. How proud we are of your father is our (hopefully) new Vice-President.

We are proud of your mom who stood by your Dad during all those hard months of dirty politics and we are proud of your brothers and sisters, who gave us voters even more reason to admire and respect your Dad.

Wherever you are right now Wade, know this: We admire you too. We are proud of you too. Because you helped make your Dad and your family who they are today.

Now go have a round of manna with the other angels. It's on us, to thank you for helping make your family be who they are today.

Vote!!!!

EMINEM LYRICS - Mosh

EMINEM LYRICS - Mosh: "Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's tryina tell us something,
Maybe this is god just sayin' we're responsible
For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered"

Don't miss the clip on MTV!!!!

It's the Farenheit 9/11 for the 18-25 generation. And you will like it, even if you can't stand hip-hop...

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004

Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: Kerry 298 Bush 231