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The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy --by Steven F. Freeman, Ph.D. " As

much as we can say in social science that something is impossible, it is

impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote

counts in the three critical battleground states [Ohio, Florida, and

Pennsylvania] of the 2004 election could have been due to chance or

random error...

 

The likelihood of any two of these statistical anomalies occurring

together is on the order of one-in-a-million. The odds against all three

occurring together are 250 million to one. As much as we can say in

social science that something is impossible, it is impossible that the

discrepancies between predicted and actual vote counts in the three

critical battleground states of the 2004 election could have been due to

chance or random error. "

 

47 State Exit Poll Analysis Confirms Swing Anomaly --by Jonathan Simon

" In the 12 critical states

 

(CO,FL,MI,MN,NE,NV,NH,NM,OH,PA,WI,IA) the average discrepancy was a 2.5%

red shift (= total movement of 5.0%), nearly twice that in the safe

states. This in spite of the fact that the average sample size in the

critical states was nearly twice that in the noncritical states and

should have produced significantly more accurate results. "

 

Others raised red flag over Gaston turnout --Commissioners want to know

why oversight went unnoticed for days --A state elections official

e-mailed Gaston Elections Director Sandra Page on Friday to question the

county's election results, four days before Page announced that she had

discovered the results were wrong. It was one of at least four inquiries

Page received before her Tuesday announcement that 12,000 early votes

were accidentally [sic] omitted from the results.

 

2 N.C. candidates request recount --Feds to check out flaws in

Mecklenburg, other N.C. counties --With all except a few thousand votes

across North Carolina counted Wednesday, two Council of State candidates

asked for a recount and one of the races was still close enough that it

could force a new statewide election. Meanwhile, federal authorities

intend to look into election troubles in Mecklenburg and coastal

Carteret County to determine whether any activity warrants a criminal

investigation, the Observer learned Wednesday.

 

'Patriot' Vote Machines in S.C. Malfunction Lancaster County counts by

hand after malfunction --1,600 absentee ballots could affect some races

(Thu., Nov. 04, 2004) Huddled in the basement of the Lancaster County

Administration Building, election officials late Wednesday were manually

tallying results of about 1,600 absentee ballots. A malfunction with

Patriot [LOL!] voting machines stopped the computerized tally late

Tuesday night about a third of the way through, and elections officials

said they were unable to restart the procedure.

 

And so the sorting and discarding of Kerry votes begins --by Bob

Fitrakis " Are the provisional ballots in Ohio being thrown out? A new

rule for counting provisional ballots in Cuyahoga County, Ohio was

implemented on Tuesday, November 9 at approximately 2:30 in the

afternoon, according to election observer Victoria Lovegren. The new

ruling in Cuyahoga County mandates that provisional ballots in yellow

packets must be 'Rejected' if there is no 'date of birth' on the packet.

The Free Press obtained copies of the original 'Provisional Verification

Procedure' from Cuyahoga County which stated 'Date of birth is not

mandatory and should not reject a provisional ballot.' The original

procedure required the voter's name, address and a signature that

matched the signature in the county's database. "

Contact: Ohio Secretary of State (GOP)

J. Kenneth Blackwell

180 E. Broad St., 16th Floor

Columbus, OH 43215

614-466-3910

Email: blackwell

Also: guide

Kenneth Blackwell's webpage

Kerry attorneys investigating Ohio vote count --Lawyers for the John

Kerry campaign are on what they call a fact-finding mission in Ohio,

where the Democratic candidate 'lost' by 136,000 votes. The lawyers

don't plan to challenge the election results but they want to make sure

all of the estimated 155,000 provisional ballots cast Nov. 2 are

counted, the Cleveland Plain Dealer said.

Nader calls for US election recounts --Ralph Nader, an 'independent'

presidential candidate this year, has called for recounts of November 2

voting results saying that amid allegations of irregularities, he wanted

to ensure that every ballot was counted. Nader highlighted

irregularities including one reported earlier in an Ohio polling station

where 638 voters cast ballots but results showed 4,258 voted for Bush,

and 260 for Kerry. [but you cannot recount electronic votes that went

away or were added to Bush's total, or when machines counted BACKWARDS!

This coup was designed (in part) electronically and no 'proof' will be

recoverable, despite the fingerprints showing the theft!]

Green and Libertarian Presidential Candidates to Demand Ohio Recount.

(David Cobb for President News Release) " David Cobb and Michael

Badnarik, the 2004 presidential candidates for the Green and Libertarian

parties, today announced their intentions to file a formal demand for a

recount of the presidential ballots cast in Ohio... The candidates also

demanded that Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican

who chaired the Ohio Bush campaign, recuse himself from the recount

process. "

Diebold Source Code!!! --by ouranos (dailykos.com) " Dr. Avi Rubin is

currently Professor of Computer Science at John Hopkins University. He

'accidentally' got his hands on a copy of the Diebold software

program--Diebold's source code--which runs their e-voting machines. Dr.

Rubin's students pored over 48,609 lines of code that make up this

software. One line in particular stood out over all the rest:

#defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4 " All commercial programs have provisions

to be encrypted so as to protect them from having their contents read or

changed by anyone not having the key... The line that staggered the

Hopkin's team was that the method used to encrypt the Diebold machines

was a method called Digital Encryption Standard (DES), a code that was

broken in 1997 and is NO LONGER USED by anyone to secure programs.

F2654hd4 was the key to the encryption. Moreover, because the KEY was IN

the source code, all Diebold machines would respond to the same key.

Unlock one, you have then ALL unlocked. I can't believe there is a

person alive who wouldn't understand the reason this was allowed to

happen. This wasn't a mistake by any stretch of the imagination. "

Diebold rewarded for coup 2004: Diebold selected by Riyad Bank of Saudi

Arabia to expand ATM network --Diebold, Incorporated, a global leader in

election fraud ['providing integrated, self-service and security

solutions'], has been selected by Riyad Bank to deploy 100 Diebold

Opteva automated teller machines (ATMs) across the bank's network.

Diebold products: 1-800-999-3600, productinfo.

Diebold, Incorporated

5995 Mayfair Road

P.O. Box 3077

North Canton, Ohio USA 44720-8077

Phone number 1-330-490-3790

Fax number 1-330-490-3794

GOP Nev. Controller Impeached Over Campaign --Nevada [Republican]

Controller Kathy Augustine was impeached by the state Assembly Thursday

for using her state-paid office workers and equipment to help run her

2002 re-election campaign. In a series of 42-0 voice votes, the Assembly

sent three articles of impeachment to the state Senate, where a trial

will be held to determine whether Augustine will be removed from office.

Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., Founder and Chair, Citizens for Legitimate

Government, appeared on YNOT Humpday Lunch Radio Show on YNOT RADIO, 4PM

EST, November 10, 2004. Dr. Rectenwald discussed the stolen election,

and CLG's Grand Refusal. The show will re-air: Friday, November 12, 9PM

EST.

Radical Anti-Bush Group Plans to Block Bush Inauguration --by Jeremy

Reynalds Talon News November 9, 2004 " A radical anti-Bush activist group

that has never accepted the legitimacy of the Bush administration is

calling for what it has dubbed 'The Grand Refusal.' In a four-stage plan

laid out in an e-mail to supporters, one portion reads, 'Stage 3 will

include but will not be limited to: Inauguration protests (Block Bush

Swearing In: No Inauguration for Bush!).' ...According to its web site,

Citizens For Legitimate Government (CLG) is a 'multi-partisan activist

group established to expose the Bush coup d'etat, and to oppose the

occupation in all of its manifestations.' "

Fuck the South. (essay on fuckthesouth.com) " Fuck the South. Fuck 'em.

We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to

kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union.

Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want

to keep. And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast

Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real

America? The Authentic America. Really? Cause we fucking founded this

country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on

about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second

Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove

compartment because you didn't bother to read the first half of the

fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting

revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston?

Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the

fucking monuments are up here in our backyard? "

U.S. ambassador intervened in Halliburton contract, documents show --The

U.S. ambassador to Kuwait intervened last year to ensure that

Halliburton, the oil services company once led by Vice pResident Dick

Cheney, retained a Kuwaiti business as a subcontractor to deliver fuel

to Iraq, documents released Wednesday show. State Department documents

appear to contradict the Bush regime's assertion that all decisions

involving Halliburton's contracts were handled only by career

contracting officers for the government.

Clashes erupt in Iraqi oil city of Baiji --Insurgents have taken to the

streets of the oil centre of Baiji in northern Iraq and clashes have

broken out with Iraqi security forces, according to witnesses. The

gunmen stopped cars in several streets, the witnesses said on Thursday.

Baiji is home to Iraq's biggest refinery.

Insurgents rampage through Mosul --Insurgents have set police stations

ablaze, stole weapons and brazenly roamed the streets of Mosul as Iraq's

third largest city appeared to be sliding out of control, residents

said.

Patrol cars burn after a police station was attacked in the northern

Iraq city of Mosul. Insurgents set police stations ablaze, stole weapons

and brazenly roamed the streets as Iraq's third largest city appeared to

be sliding out of control, residents said. [Photo]

Street-to-street fighting in Falluja --19 killed, 15 wounded in Baghdad

car bomb attack --U.S.-led forces engaged in fierce street fights

Thursday in Falluja, part of an operation that has claimed the lives of

18 U.S. troops and five Iraqi soldiers.

General Says 18 U.S. Troops Killed in Falluja --Eighteen U.S. troops

have been killed and another 69 wounded in this week's offensive to take

control of the rebel-held Iraqi city Falluja, a senior U.S. Marine Corps

commander said on Thursday.

Two US helicopters shot down near Fallujah --The US military said two US

Marine helicopters were shot down in separate incidents near Fallujah

and their crews were rescued.

US Troops Reportedly Gassing Fallujah --US troops are reportedly using

chemical weapons and poisonous gas in its large-scale offensive on the

Iraqi resistance bastion of Fallujah, a grim reminder of Saddam

Hussein's alleged gassing of the Kurds in 1988. " The US occupation

troops are gassing resistance fighters and confronting them with

internationally-banned chemical weapons, " resistance sources told

Al-Quds Press Wednesday, November 10. The fatal weapons led to the

deaths of tens of innocent civilians, whose bodies litter sidewalks and

streets, they added.

Falluja to be Phantom Fury's 'in 48 hours' --US-led troops occupied most

of Falluja today and aimed to take full control within 48 hours, as

kidnappers threatened to kill members of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad

Allawi's extended family unless the assault was stopped. Meanwhile, a

car bomb targeting police exploded today in eastern Baghdad, killing at

least 10 people, police said.

U.S. Forces Battle Into Heart of Fallujah --Units Meet Scattered

Resistance; Attacks Continue Elsewhere --U.S. forces pushed into the

heart of Fallujah on Tuesday, encountering roadside bombs, rockets and

gunfire on the second day of a battle to wrest control of the city from

insurgents.

Besieged city like hell, says resident --As the remaining civilians in

Falluja described deteriorating conditions, aid agencies expressed

concern about the plight of tens of thousands of people fleeing fighting

between insurgents and US troops. " The situation in Falluja is a

tragedy, " said one resident, who gave his name as Ismail.

A thousand Fallujahs --by Pepe Escobar " The Pentagon is pulling out all

stops to 'liberate' the people of Fallujah. According to residents, the

city is now littered with thousands of cluster bombs. In an explosive

accusation - and not substantiated - an Iraqi doctor who requested

anonymity has told al-Quds Press that 'the US occupation troops are

gassing resistance fighters and confronting them with internationally

banned chemical weapons'. The Washington Post has confirmed that US

troops are firing white-phosphorus rounds that create a screen of fire

impervious to water. ...The wounded in Fallujah are in essence left to

die. "

Baghdad car bomb kills 17 --As US troops hunted rebels in Fallujah,

rebels hit back with a rampage in Mosul and a car bomb that killed 17

people and wounded at least 20 in Baghdad. The Fallujah assault has

provoked an upsurge in violence elsewhere in Iraq, as happened in April

during an earlier failed US attempt to subdue the country's most

rebellious city.

Gunmen Kidnap Two Members of Allawi's Family --Gunmen kidnapped a first

cousin and daughter-in-law of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi

from their Baghdad home on Tuesday, an Allawi spokesman said Wednesday.

A militant Islamist group said it would execute Allawi's relatives

unless U.S. and Iraqi forces withdraw from Fallujah.

Hundreds of US soldiers in Iraq hit by parasite that causes chronic

sores --More than 650 US troops deployed in Iraq have been infected with

a fly-borne parasite that causes chronic, festering sores, officials

said at a health conference in Miami.

Iraqi prisoner abuse trials moved to US --The courts martial of three US

soldiers over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners have been transferred from

Baghdad to a base in the United States, the military has said. It gave

no reason for shifting the trials after earlier rejecting such requests

from some of the accused.

U.S. Deploys Satellite Jamming System --The U.S. Air Force quietly has

put into service a new weapon designed to jam enemy satellite

communications, a significant step toward U.S. control of space.

Rumsfeld in Latin America to press war on [of] terrorism --U.S. Defense

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Latin America on Thursday to press

Washington's southern neighbors to tighten security cooperation to

prevent [foment] a new terrorist attack in the Americas.

CIA Critic of U.S. War on Terror Resigns --A CIA analyst who wrote a

book that criticized the U.S. war on terror has resigned from the spy

agency after it effectively banned him from publicly discussing his

views, his publicist said on Thursday.

W.H.O. Panel Backs Gene Manipulation in Smallpox Virus --An advisory

committee to the World Health Organization for the first time has

recommended that Russian and American scientists be allowed to

manipulate a gene in the smallpox virus to speed the development of

drugs that could spread ['treat'] the disease, the agency said

yesterday.

Arafat's doctor calls for autopsy --Yasser Arafat's longtime personal

physician called today for an autopsy on the deceased Palestinian

leader, saying he was baffled and angered by the French medical team's

failure to diagnose Arafat's illness. Ashraf al Kurdi, who was a friend

and doctor to Arafat for 25 years, also said he was " disappointed " in

the care that French doctors gave Arafat.

Call to avenge Arafat 'assassination' --The militant Al-Aqsa Martyrs

Brigades urged militants to attack Israel to avenge the " Zionist

assassination " of Yasser Arafat, who died hours earlier in a Paris

hospital, said a statement received by AFP today.

Israel accused of poisoning Arafat --A top leader of a Palestinian

militant group today publicly accused Israel of killing Yasser Arafat.

Neither doctors nor Palestinian leaders would say what caused Arafat's

death today after days in a coma at a Paris hospital. Rumours he had

been poisoned by Israel had swirled for weeks.

Yasser Arafat, icon of Palestinian cause, is dead --The Palestinian

leader Yasser Arafat died overnight in a Paris hospital. " Mr Yasser

Arafat, president of the Palestinian Authority, has died at the Percy

Military Training Hospital in Clamart on 11 November 2004, at 3.30am, "

spokesman Gen. Christian Estripeau told reporters in a brief statement.

Suez Canal Shut Off, Oil Prices to Soar --Shipping through Suez Canal,

the world's most important thruway, had been stopped after a Russian

company Sovkomflot's oil tanker named Tropic Brilliance struck ground.

Tuesday morning already 135 ships had been blocked, and now many law

suits threaten Russia.

CensoringNewsNetwork asks: 'Do you believe there is a U.S. government

cover-up surrounding 9/11?' Snapshot, 11:55AM EST: Yes 90%, 6588 votes;

No 10%, 736 votes - Total: 7324 votes [Vote in the poll, then sign the

CLG petition!! Petition to Senate to Investigate Oddities of 9/11 -

26,225 signatures to date]

Michael Moore Planning Fahrenheit 9/11½ --Michael Moore tells Variety

he met with Harvey Weinstein and they plan to start working now on

Fahrenheit 9/11½. " We want to get cameras rolling now and have it

ready in two-three years, " Moore told columnist Army Archerd.

Terror laws unjust, says EU human rights chief --Britain has been

accused of weakening the rule of law by wrongly detaining foreign terror

suspects under emergency powers rushed through parliament in the

aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

TSA to Require Electronic Data Gathering Devices On All New Cars Made In

US --Some safety and privacy experts are reacting with apprehension,

others with all out condemnation over a recent ruling by the National

Transportation Safety Board to require electronic data recorders or

" black boxes " in all new cars manufactured in the United States.

Tanks Appear at Anti-War Protest in Los Angeles (la.indymedia.org,

Westwood Anti-Occupation Demonstration Pictures --by Ich Bin Ein

Fallujan) " Despite the one-day notice, about 400-500 people came to the

Westwood Federal Building on Tuesday night to protest the start of the

second U.S. attack on the people of Fallujah, which had been officially

launched on the previous day... About 7:30pm, two tanks barreled past

going East on Wilshire, rounded the corner onto Veteran going South, and

disappeared. About ten or fifteen minutes later, two tanks (apparently

the same ones) appeared again going East on Wilshire and stopped for the

light there. Demonstrators immediately stepped in front of the lead

tank, blocking its path, and started to chant 'U.S. Out!' at the

soldiers, whose heads and torsos were clearly visible and who evidently

exchanged a few words with protesters. "

Police Use Stun Gun On 6-Year-Old Boy At Miami Elementary School --

Miami-Dade police tasered a 6-year-old boy who was wielding a piece of

glass in a school office and threatening to hurt himself, officials

confirmed Thursday. Police say they followed their own guidelines and

only tasered the child because they were afraid he would hurt himself.

But the incident has raised calls for the department tighten its

policies regarding the use of the stun guns, which shoot 50,000 volts of

electric current through a subject.

Bob Jones Sees Bush Win As 'Reprieve' --Bob Jones III, president of the

fundamentalist college that bears his name, has told Dictator Bush he

should use his electoral mandate to appoint conservative judges and

approve legislation " defined by biblical norm. " " In your re-election

[sic], God has graciously granted America -- though she doesn't deserve

it -- a reprieve from the agenda of paganism, " Jones wrote Bush in a

congratulatory letter posted on the university's Web site.

Bush selects evangelical for attorney general post --Alberto Gonzales,

the White House counsel who advised that the Geneva Conventions and

international anti-torture treaties did not apply to terrorist suspects

held by the US, was yesterday selected by Dictator George Bush as his

new attorney general.

Bush names Gonzales to replace Ashcroft Successor for attorney general

is friend, associate from Texas --Dictator Bush named White House

counsel Alberto Gonzales as attorney general on Wednesday. Gonzales

wrote a controversial February 2002 memo in which Bush claimed the right

to waive anti-torture law and international treaties providing

protections to prisoners of war. That position drew fire from human

rights groups, which said it helped led to the type of abuses uncovered

in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

Tennessee to End Expanded Medicaid Program --The governor announced

plans Wednesday to dissolve Tennessee's expanded Medicaid system and

drop 430,000 poor and disabled people from the rolls of the health-care

program that has been devouring a large chunk of the state budget. [Oh,

and how much does Halliburton devour, for Dick Cheney?]

US states defy Bush over greenhouse gases --Individual American states

are putting together a system to cap and trade greenhouse gas emissions,

despite the Bush dictatorship's opposition to the Kyoto protocol on

global warming. Such a measure was backed by John Kerry during the

recent election campaign.

Meltdown: Arctic wildlife is on the brink of catastrophe --Polar bears

could be decades from extinction, a survey into global warming has

found. 11 November 2004 --Polar bears, the biggest land carnivores on

Earth, face extinction this century if the Arctic continues to melt at

its present rate, a study into global warming has found. The sea ice

around the North Pole on which the bears depend for hunting is shrinking

so swiftly it could disappear during the summer months by the end of the

century, the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ICIA) says.

The Grand Refusal is Launched! Read The Grand Refusal and Join the Grand

Refusal Coalition. CITIZENS FOR LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT (www.legitgov.org)

Pittsburgh, PA: November 7, 2004

CONTACTS: Michael Rectenwald and Lori Price, clg_news

Citizens For Legitimate Government is calling for the Grand Refusal to

begin!! Again, to join CLG's Grand Refusal Coalition, please .

You will be updated on actions and asked to participate:

GrandRefusal or:

grandrefusal-. Both essays, by Michael

Rectenwald, Ph.D.:

Part 1:

http://www.legitgov.org/mike_essay_ballot_bullet_refusal_071304.html

Part 2:

http://www.legitgov.org/mike_essay_rev_will_be_Webcast_072104.html

We are now in Stage one. Stage one: Do not consume at normal levels. Do

not buy any surplus goods or make other major purchases. Do not purchase

entertainment goods and boycott the corporate media as much as possible.

Only do what you have to do to survive. And, get others involved. Help

get Citizens For Legitimate Government's Grand Refusal Coalition in

motion. Help build the Grand Refusal! Stand by for stage 2. Once we

reach critical mass, we will launch Stage 2. Stage 2 will include but

will not be limited to: Protests in every city; Stage 3 will include but

will not be limited to: Inauguration protests (Block Bush Swearing In:

No Inauguration for Bush!!); Stage 4 will include but will not be

limited to: Massive Walkouts! Send the Grand Refusal and Grand Refusal

Coalition link to every true citizen you know. We must build critical

mass and awareness of the election theft and what we are doing about it.

Spread the word. We need to build momentum to grow the CLG's Grand

Refusal Coalition and move to the next stage.

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