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$100,000 !REWARD! FOR EVIDENCE OF VOTE FRAUD

Justice Through Music, which strongly supports the democratic principles of transparency and honesty in the electoral process, is offering at least a $100,000 reward to any person or persons who provide conclusive and verifiable evidence that the results of the 2004 presidential election were not correctly tabulated because of one or more of the following reasons: 1) hacking into the voting machines; 2) software or coding problems with voting or tabulating machines; 3) multiple counting by machines or humans, 4) improperly implanted codes in voting machines; 5) tampering with voting machines, voting cards or final tabulation numbers; 6) officials or machines not counting all the votes or adding votes; 7) official influence which changed vote totals, or 8) other problems with vote tabulation not noted here. . . .

[Green Party presidential candidate David] Cobb Calls for Investigation of Voting Irregularities—News Release, Nov. 5, 3004

Cobb’s work in Ohio toward a formal demand for a recount parallels Ralph Nader’s efforts in New Hampshire. Excellent idea: since only candidates can ask for recounts, let the so-called third-party candidates demand recounts, instead of Kerry. Can the right wingnuts then spin it as “whiny loserman”? These guys are pretty much flying under the radar. It appears a case is building.

Report on a recount at the state senate level, in New York, where seals on 22 voting machines in one county were damaged or missing. Votes for the Democratic candidate had been severely underreported: As Voting Machines Are Checked, Spano’s Lead Shrinks
wnbc.com, Nov. 9, 2004

Do We Still Have a Democracy?
Ernest Partridge, co-editor The Crisis Papers, Nov. 5, 2004

. . . The right of the citizen to a secure ballot is the foundation of a democratic society and the guarantee that the government rules with the consent of the governed. If that right has been violated by supporters and/or agents of the government, that government has no legitimacy.

We do not know if Election 2004 was fraudulent. But equally important, the paperless machines have made it impossible to verify that it was not fraudulent. And it is the inalienable right of a free people that their franchise be fair, accurate, transparent, and verifiable.

This, at least, we can affirm: there are disquieting indications that this Presidential election, like the previous, was a fraud and that in a fair election, John Kerry would now be the President-elect.

It is unlikely that the media will raise the issue and that there will be a thoroughgoing investigation of this election. Not unless an outraged public demands such an investigation. And so, if John Kerry was fraudulently deprived of his office, and a possible majority of American voters denied the election victory that they had earned, then that crime can not be rectified after December 12, when the Electoral College finalizes the election. If the case is to be made, and if Kerry and Edwards are to assume their fairly won offices, this must be accomplished in a mere five weeks. It is in the hands of the people.

Even Kerry supporters should hope that the election was fair, for if it was not, American Democracy is dead today, even though few Americans are willing even to contemplate that possibility. If in fact the election was rigged, and if nothing is to be done to restore the integrity of the ballot, then the Democrats might just as well save their time and money and not bother to contest the next mid-term election in 2006 and the Presidential election of 2008. The outcome of these elections will be pre-determined, as was the election just completed. The rule of the Republican party will be permanent, and independent of the consent of the governed.

And that precisely defines a tyranny.

Important analysis of the votes in Florida, including the documented fact that 237,522 more Presidential ballots were cast than the total number of people who voted:

Did Bush Lose . . . Again?
The Squanderer

In Florida, the figures show that, in counties with one type of voting machine, voters with no Democrat or Republican party affiliation appeared to split their votes roughly 50/50 between Bush and Kerry, which was to be expected; yet in counties with another type of voting machine, unaffiliated voters seemed to vote nearly 100% for Bush! . . .

(In the opinion of your editor of theBlatantTruth, it appears that, in Florida, since the reliability of electronic voting machines is in dispute and under scrutiny, especially in Florida, optical scan equipment was tampered with instead, on the mistaken assumption that these results would be overlooked.)

Help America Audit—5 Things You Can Do Immediately

—Bev Harris, BlackBoxVoting.org, Nov. 8, 2004

I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2. Even the journalists are pretty horrified. My source said they’ve also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time, and he was calling from somewhere else. He was trying to figure out how to get the real news out on vote fraud.

This is a person I’ve worked with off and on for nearly two years, and the voice was so somber it really bothered me.

At any rate—and perhaps, especially important due to the tipoff above, there are things you can do to take back America.

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We have a different list for lawyers, computer people, statisticians. But if you are a regular person like most of us, and want to help, here’s what to do.

Please distribute: If you have not done so already, sign up at Black Box Voting — http://www.blackboxvoting.org — to audit the election and deal with vote fraud.

You’re our greatest hope. If you choose to accept it, your job is to spread the word in order to build a fast-growing grass roots movement—a voting integrity project so powerful that it cannot be mowed down.

1. BE THE MEDIA—See below.

2. CRUNCH THE NUMBERS: Discrepancies please, and hurry. E-mail them to tips@blackboxvoting.org . Pass the word. Need source documents, too. ASAP. Follow your nose, or join the Black Box Scavenger Hunt: Pick a county. Look at small counties, as we are seeing many discrepan cies in those. Look in any state. Get the official number of registered voters, Dem and Republican. Get the number of votes cast on Nov. 2, Republican and Dem. Make a grid like this, filling in the right numbers:

# reg. voters % # votes cast %

Rep 100     33%    150     50%

Dem 200     67%    150     50%

Totl 300    100%    300     100%

We can find out a lot from this procedure, very hard data, that will make a real difference. As soon as you have finished a county, e-mail it to us. Do as many counties as you can.

3. HAVE A HOUSE PARTY: Show the film “Votergate” (the real one, which you can download for free at www.Votergate.tv .) Organize “Be the media” actions and set up investigative teams to help dig up information like you have in #2. Timeline is NOW, to get action before seating the electoral college.

4. HELP CONNECT THE WIRES: Hook Black Box Voting (.ORG) up with powerhitters you know, people who can make things happen.

5. DONATE to any of 3 organizations: Black Box Voting (.ORG), the consumer protection group for elections; or the new recount fund (information upcoming), or send contribution to Votergate.tv (The REAL Votergate film, by Russell Michaels, Robert Carrillo Cohen, and Simon Ardizzone. There is another by someone else, make sure you get the right one.) The real VOTERGATE is the most powerful investigative film on this topic, and consequently it has been attacked and blocked repeatedly. They deserve your support.

“HOW TO BE THE MEDIA”

Don’t expect to see vote burglary on TV. To get the message out fast, you’re going to have to become the underground railroad. Do it now. Take pictures of each other doing it. Have house parties to show others how to do it. Here’s how to “be the media”:

BE YOUR OWN REPORTER: We will send you new information as we get it. We need your e-mail to get you on the list, so if a friend sent this to you, please shoot an email to crew@blackboxvoting.org to sign up.

Spread the information we send you to every blog, listserv, forum you know and throughout your personal network. Talk about it at work and to people you meet everywhere, lots, quickly, all the time.

SELF SERVE SOUND BITES: Frequent, very short messages to immediately increase public awareness. Assume you won’t see it on TV. Put vote fraud related messages on:

• Yard signs
• Car windows
• Write them on duct tape and wear them
• Print REMOVABLE stickers and stick them on things:
• Bathroom door at the gas station
• On telephone poles in the dead of night
• At bus stops
• On the back of bus seats
• Stick them into your junk mail and send it back via return mail
• Slip them into menus at restaurants
• Leave them in books at the bookstore
• Share new self serve sound bite ideas with us and we’ll send them out with new messages

ELECTION “TRUTH TOURETTES.” Please excuse the political incorrectness, as it is not meant to be hurtful. It is for a good purpose. This the antidote to “watch what you say.” It is a good icebreaker at a party. Have your guests make up truths, like those below, and mix them into the conversation at surprise times throughout the party. Unexpectedly and urgently blurt them out:

• Recount!
• Electile Dysfunction!
• Gotta audit-Gotta audit-Gotta audit
• Florida!
• —mathmatically impossible!—
• Count all the votes! Count all the votes! Count all the votes!
• Votefraud
• Paperballots! Handcounts!
• —where’s my vote?—
• Where’s the paper?

Feel free to interchange and mix it up, or even try a game where different people have to interject with different truths.

—WHO REALLY WON — I DUNNO — GOTTA AUDIT!

Also, here are more ideas:

• Magnetic signs for your car
• If you know any truckers, have them put a message in the window as they drive across the country.
• Make a patch and put it on the front of your baseball cap
• Carry a sign and stand in the window outside the Today Show

If we have to be our own media, so be it. We will not sacrifice democracy just because TV executive producers have a problem with this issue.

Sunday, November 7, 2004

Evidence of a Second Bush Coup?
Robert Parry, ConsortiumNews.com, Nov. 6, 2004

Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked
Thom Hartmann, CommonDreams.org, Nov. 6, 2004

Nader requests N.H. vote recount
Kevin Landrigan, Nashua Telegraph, Nov. 6, 2004
This is Step 1 in Action to Force Recount in 34 States initiated by Bev Harris at BlackBoxVoting.org and taken up by Representatives John Conyers Jr., Jerrold Nadler, and Robert Wexler.

Vote Count “Glitches” Haunt Bush’s Supposed Mandate
The Washington Dispatch, Nov. 5, 2004

Latinos' support for Bush debated
Exit-poll math doesn’t add up, one institute says
Mike Tolson, Houston Chronicle, Nov. 6, 2004

Outrage in Ohio: Angry residents storm State House in response to massive voter suppression and corruption
David Solnit, michigan independent media center, Nov. 5, 2004

Voting Problems in Ohio Set Off an Alarm
Adam Liptak, NYTimes.com, Nov. 7, 2004

Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio
AP, Nov. 5, 2004

Warren’s Vote Tally Walled Off
Alone in Ohio, officials cited homeland security
Erica Solvig, Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 5, 2004

Broward machines count backward
Eliot Kleinberg, PalmBeachPost.com, Nov. 5, 2004

N.C. Computer Loses More Than 4,500 Votes
AP, Nov. 7, 2004

Election problems due to a software glitch
Sue Book, (New Bern, NC) Sun-Journal, Nov. 7, 2004

Computer glitch still baffles county clerk
Kristin Miller, (Michigan City, IN) News-Dispatch, Nov. 4, 2004

George Bush’s 8 Million New Votes Found—Statistical Analysis, Democratic Underground, Nov. 4, 2004

A Brit’s view of the election results: Election 2004: Americans Endorse War, Religious Fanaticism And State Terrorism, by Yamin Zakaria at informaton clearinghouse.

Friday, November 5, 2004

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