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What YOU can do to prevent another stolen election-by Mark Crispin Miller

There's really only one way to prevent another stolen race, and that's to focus national attention on the revelations of whistle-blower Stephen Spoonamore, who's lately been revealing all we need to know about the Bush regime's conspiracy to rig the vote from 2000 to the present. Spoonamore knows all the principals in this conspiracy, has been dealing with them for some time, and has a trove of emails, etc., to back up what he says.

There have been several other whistle-blowers on this front, but none is as compelling as he is--not just because he knows about the whole plot overall, but also because he is (a) a Republican, (b) an erstwhile member of the McCain campaign (he quit some months ago, when he discovered what they have planned) and (c) a prominent and well-respected expert on computer fraud. Detection of such fraud is, in fact, his specialty.

Spoonamore has named the man who was Karl Rove's IT guru from 2000 until sometime last year: Mike Connell, a pro-life zealot who told Spoonamore that he had helped the Bush regime subvert elections "to save the babies." (The actual nuts and bolts of the election fraud machinery are largely in the hands of Christianist fanatics, who have done whatever Karl Rove asked them to.) Connell's fingerprints are thick on every dubious election of the last eight years--not just the presidential races, but Gov. Don Siegelman's stolen re-election in Alabama in '02, Sen. Max Cleland's in Georgia that same year, and many others.

Spoonamore's testimony is the driving force behind a RICO lawsuit in Ohio. The lawyers handling it--Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis--are terrific, and they have a game plan that provides us with some hope. They intend to order depositions of Karl Rove, Connell, Jack Abramoff, Bob Ney and all the other major perpetrators of Bush/Cheney's (and McPalin's) fraud. Since this is a civil case, those guys can't weasel out of it (cf. Paula Jones); and in any case a number of them (including Connell, whom Rove has lately threatened with reprisals if he doesn't take the rap) want to testify. Also, the judge happens to be highly principled, which is a godsend.

So the best thing we can do is help to spread the word about what Spoonamore knows, first of all, and, no less, to get those depositions out there once they're taken.

more at:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-YOU-can-do-to-prevent-by-Mark-Crispin-Mille-080912-383.html

Posted on Sep 13, 2008 by San Francisco Musicians Progressive League


The GOP is working to keep eligible African-Americans from voting in several states.

It was a mainstay of Jim Crow segregation: for 100 years after the Civil War, Southern white Democrats kept eligible blacks from voting with poll taxes, literacy tests and property requirements. Starting in the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court declared these assaults on the heart of American democracy unconstitutional.

Now, with the help of a 2008 Supreme Court decision, Crawford vs. Marion County (Indiana) Election Board, white Republicans in some areas will keep eligible blacks from voting by requiring driver's licenses. Not only is this new-fangled discrimination constitutional, it's spreading.

GOP proponents of the move say they are merely trying to reduce voter fraud. But while occasional efforts to stuff ballot boxes through phony absentee voting still surface, the incidence of individual vote fraud—voting when you aren't eligible—is virtually non-existent, as "The Truth About Vote Fraud," a study by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, clearly shows. In other words, the problem Republicans claim they want to combat with increased ID requirements doesn't exist. Meanwhile, those ID hurdles facing individuals do nothing to stop the organized insiders who still try to game the system.

The motive here is political, not racial. Republicans aren't bigots like the Jim Crow segregationists. But they know that increased turnout in poor, black neighborhoods is good for Democrats. In that sense, the effort to suppress voting still amounts to the practical equivalent of racism...

Read more at: http://www.newsweek.com/id/158392/output/print

Posted on Sep 11, 2008 by Actions Options Tool Demo


IMPEACH: Hearing on Limits of Executive Power

Resource of the Month for August includes these strong words from former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Fein: as well as other potentially explosive testimony.

What follows are links to ICPJE Resource postings of fifteen YouTube videos. These are testimonies made during the "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations" hearings in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Friday July 25, 2008:


  1. Testimony from former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce … HERE

  2. Continuing testimony from former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Fein ….HERE

  3. Testimony from former Representative Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY)… HERE

  4. Testimony from Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH, 10th District) …HERE

  5. Continuing testimony from Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH, 10th District)… HERE

  6. Testimony from Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY, 8th District)… HERE

  7. Continuing testimony from Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY, 8th District)… HERE

  8. Testimony from Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY, 22nd District)… HERE

  9. Testimony from Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL, 19th District) during… HERE

  10. Testimony from Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN, 9th District)… HERE

  11. Testimony from Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI, 2nd District) … HERE

  12. Testimony from Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC, 3rd District)…HERE

  13. Testimony from former LA County Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi… HERE

  14. Continuing testimony from former LA County Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi HERE

  15. Continuing testimony from former LA County Deputy District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi… HERE



ICJPE Resources and Education Committee

Posted on Aug 24, 2008 by Actions Options Tool Demo


Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes

Source: WaPo

A voting system used in 34 states contains a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point, the manufacturer acknowledges.

The problem was identified after complaints from Ohio elections officials following the March primary there, but the logic error that is the root of the problem has been part of the software for 10 years, said Chris Riggall, a spokesman for Premier Election Solutions, formerly known as Diebold.

The flawed software is on both touch screen and optical scan voting machines made by Premier and the problem with vote counts is most likely to affect larger jurisdictions that feed many memory cards to a central counting database rapidly.

Riggall said he was "confident" that elections officials through the years would have realized votes had been dropped when they crosschecked their tallies to certify final elections results and would have reloaded cards so as not to lose votes. Brunner has said no Ohio votes were lost because the nine Ohio counties that found the problem caught it before primary results were finalized.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/21/ohio_voting_machines_contained.html

Posted on Aug 22, 2008 by Madison Performace Artists for Justice


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Posted on Aug 19, 2008 by Actions Options Tool Demo