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	<title>Comments on: Heritage Foundation’s presidential election year ritual.</title>
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		<title>By: Since2oo6</title>
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		<dc:creator>Since2oo6</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: nuQlerOstrich</title>
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		<dc:creator>nuQlerOstrich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s remarkable that there is absolutely no word mentioned about Nathan Sproul, formerly of Sproul &amp; Associates, and Lincoln Strategy (the newer name of his voter disenfranchisement franchise).

It&#039;s a felony to throw away a voter registration.  So what did ACORN do?  ACORN verified the registrations that it could, segregated the rest into two categories.  One that had incomplete registrations, and another that had suspected fraudulent registrations.  Then turned them all in, because to discard the fraudulent reg&#039;s would be a crime.  However, when they turned them in, they flagged to suspect reg&#039;s to the voting officials.  Like any ethical operation should.

But, now let&#039;s take a look at Sproul&#039;s operation.

If voters registered as Democrats, their registrations went into the trash.  And that&#039;s a felony!  And how much money did the RNC and the McCain Campaign give to Sproul?

Well, nobody in the liberal media has done much, if anything to find out, have they?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s remarkable that there is absolutely no word mentioned about Nathan Sproul, formerly of Sproul &amp; Associates, and Lincoln Strategy (the newer name of his voter disenfranchisement franchise).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a felony to throw away a voter registration.  So what did ACORN do?  ACORN verified the registrations that it could, segregated the rest into two categories.  One that had incomplete registrations, and another that had suspected fraudulent registrations.  Then turned them all in, because to discard the fraudulent reg&#8217;s would be a crime.  However, when they turned them in, they flagged to suspect reg&#8217;s to the voting officials.  Like any ethical operation should.</p>
<p>But, now let&#8217;s take a look at Sproul&#8217;s operation.</p>
<p>If voters registered as Democrats, their registrations went into the trash.  And that&#8217;s a felony!  And how much money did the RNC and the McCain Campaign give to Sproul?</p>
<p>Well, nobody in the liberal media has done much, if anything to find out, have they?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5297090', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ctcadguy</title>
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		<dc:creator>ctcadguy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A seminar on how to steal elections would be more appropriate for these fascists.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A seminar on how to steal elections would be more appropriate for these fascists.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296714', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mayber we should all take turns slicing up ClusterTim with a butter knife</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mayber we should all take turns slicing up ClusterTim with a butter knife<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296706', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ucsbclassics53</title>
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		<dc:creator>ucsbclassics53</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;slacker_george Says:
According to the link in the Huff post story, there are some problems where electronic votes for Democrats are registering as for Replicans. The head of elections whines that there are not enough “good news” stories going out and too many bad. Then he noted that the machines take a second or two to register the vote once the choice is pressed. He said two presses can cancel out the vote.&lt;/em&gt;

Oh yeah, our lying eyes are SO tainted by liberal bias that we refuse to see the good stories of the voting machines. Boo hoo!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>slacker_george Says:<br />
According to the link in the Huff post story, there are some problems where electronic votes for Democrats are registering as for Replicans. The head of elections whines that there are not enough “good news” stories going out and too many bad. Then he noted that the machines take a second or two to register the vote once the choice is pressed. He said two presses can cancel out the vote.</em></p>
<p>Oh yeah, our lying eyes are SO tainted by liberal bias that we refuse to see the good stories of the voting machines. Boo hoo!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296654', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: slacker_george</title>
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		<dc:creator>slacker_george</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>According to the link in the Huff post story, there are some problems where electronic votes for Democrats are registering as for Replicans. The head of elections whines that there are not enough &quot;good news&quot; stories going out and too many bad. Then he noted that the machines take a second or two to register the vote once the choice is pressed. He said two presses can cancel out the vote.

Whomever designed that P.O.S. software should be fired. For something this important, the interface should have only two ways to cancel a vote: with a &quot;CANCEL ALL&quot; button or a vote for one of the other options in that race. No way should checkbox for a candidate be a toggle switch, allowing selection and deselection. How poor a design is that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to the link in the Huff post story, there are some problems where electronic votes for Democrats are registering as for Replicans. The head of elections whines that there are not enough &#8220;good news&#8221; stories going out and too many bad. Then he noted that the machines take a second or two to register the vote once the choice is pressed. He said two presses can cancel out the vote.</p>
<p>Whomever designed that P.O.S. software should be fired. For something this important, the interface should have only two ways to cancel a vote: with a &#8220;CANCEL ALL&#8221; button or a vote for one of the other options in that race. No way should checkbox for a candidate be a toggle switch, allowing selection and deselection. How poor a design is that?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296640', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
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		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hope they spend the entire time explaining the tactics of YPM.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope they spend the entire time explaining the tactics of YPM.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296582', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: structurequity</title>
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		<dc:creator>structurequity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>could say much being 59 yo but will say only. Stop the baiting by denigrating our intelligence! If you wish to account for real issues of &#039;Election Stealing&quot; check out the gatekeepers contracted by the powerful but under recognized Secretaries&#039; of State to present the vote tallies to them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>could say much being 59 yo but will say only. Stop the baiting by denigrating our intelligence! If you wish to account for real issues of &#8216;Election Stealing&#8221; check out the gatekeepers contracted by the powerful but under recognized Secretaries&#8217; of State to present the vote tallies to them.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296558', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JosephNobles</title>
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		<dc:creator>JosephNobles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This time Fund is hawking a book on how liberals use vote fraud to steal elections. Oh, that Wacky Fox News!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This time Fund is hawking a book on how liberals use vote fraud to steal elections. Oh, that Wacky Fox News!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296532', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: pete</title>
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		<dc:creator>pete</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not a pessimist. I&#039;m optimistic in my belief that everything is FUBAR.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not a pessimist. I&#8217;m optimistic in my belief that everything is FUBAR.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296528', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Wayne A. Schneider</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wayne A. Schneider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;I did win most pessimistic in high school, so I’m just nervous…..&lt;/em&gt;

I tried to win most pessimistic in high school, but I figured it was rigged against me, so I didn&#039;t bother to try.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I did win most pessimistic in high school, so I’m just nervous…..</em></p>
<p>I tried to win most pessimistic in high school, but I figured it was rigged against me, so I didn&#8217;t bother to try.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296524', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: pete</title>
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		<dc:creator>pete</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OT

At least we don&#039;t have to decide between these clowns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjYniYChX3k&amp;feature=related</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OT</p>
<p>At least we don&#8217;t have to decide between these clowns.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjYniYChX3k&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjYniYChX3k&amp;feature=related</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296522', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: kasinca</title>
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		<dc:creator>kasinca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When you have nothing to offer...make crap up.  That is the GOP and McSame mantra.  What a pitiful bunch of moron losers.  The GOP is truly the party of dishonest troglodytes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you have nothing to offer&#8230;make crap up.  That is the GOP and McSame mantra.  What a pitiful bunch of moron losers.  The GOP is truly the party of dishonest troglodytes.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296514', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: 5th Estate</title>
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		<dc:creator>5th Estate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>blue state bob Says: &lt;em&gt;I did win most pessimistic in high school, so I’m just nervous…..&lt;/em&gt;

And I bet you thought you didn&#039;t stand a chance :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>blue state bob Says: <em>I did win most pessimistic in high school, so I’m just nervous…..</em></p>
<p>And I bet you thought you didn&#8217;t stand a chance :)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296502', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: blue state bob</title>
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		<dc:creator>blue state bob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Empathy I hope. I am just on pins and needles, I so wish the election was last week.

I did win most pessimistic in high school, so I&#039;m just nervous.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Empathy I hope. I am just on pins and needles, I so wish the election was last week.</p>
<p>I did win most pessimistic in high school, so I&#8217;m just nervous&#8230;..<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296498', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Perry logan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Perry logan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Heritage Foundation--where the results are known before the research is done, and where peer review is never an obstacle.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Heritage Foundation&#8211;where the results are known before the research is done, and where peer review is never an obstacle.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296488', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre</title>
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		<dc:creator>Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Voter fraud?&quot; Let&#039;s check out the real problem, Republican electronic election hacking, rigging and stealing. They have been doing this since 1996, with Sen. Chuck Hagel, starting by &quot;winning&quot; a primary and general election in Nebraska with his own corporate electronic voting machines &quot;counting the votes.&quot;

Here are my comments published just after the 2004 Presidential election theft by Republicans:

Another stolen election: Bush stole the election again in 2004, by the rigging of right-wing corporate electronic vote-counting machines.

To the Editor:

The exit polls that showed a sweeping Senator Kerry Democratic election victory on November 2nd were right. Unfortunately, the 2004 Presidential election was cleanly stolen by Bush &amp; Co. How, you say? With the help of Diebold, ES&amp;S, Sequoia and SAIC, four interlocked secretive right-wing electronic voting machine manufacturers. We have entrusted the most important election task, that of actually counting and tabulating the vote totals to extremist organizations with secret proprietary vote-counting computer software with no auditable paper trail for hand recounts. How very convenient, how very clean, how very slick and with all the evidence of election rigging is buried deep on their computer hard drives.

Senator John F. Kerry won a landslide Democratic victory in the November 2, 2004 Presidential election by between two million and five million votes. The pre-election public opinion polls pointed to a large and growing Kerry election day majority and the election day exit polls also indicated a Kerry victory. Unfortunately, theocratic extremely right-wing computer election machine manufacturing corporations were in charge of &quot;counting&quot; the votes of millions and millions of Americans. Some how, a few million Kerry votes didn&#039;t get counted and a few million bogus Bush votes showed up in the final election tallies and voile, a Bush &quot;victory.&quot;

Democracy in 21st century America has been kidnapped and destroyed by extreme right-wing control of the new secret computerized electronic vote counting systems. Verifiable hand-counted paper ballots are the only way to restore legitimate elections in America.

Just search the Internet for any terms such as &quot;black box voting,&quot; &quot;Max Cleland,&quot; &quot;Diebold,&quot; &quot;Sequoia,&quot; &quot;SE&amp;S,&quot; &quot;Greg Palest,&quot; &quot;election fraud&quot; or &quot;election theft&quot; and you will find a wealth of information to help arm you in the coming fight to restore legitimate free elections and democracy in our country.

In 2002, the Republican Party staged their test run of controlling the new Diebold computerized paper-trail-free electronic voting systems that were installed in every precinct in the State of Georgia. It worked like a charm. Two popular Democratic incumbents, the Governor Roy Barnes and Senator Max Cleland, were both &quot;defeated&quot; by Republican challengers. The Democrats were both ahead by several points in both the pre-election voter opinion polls and in the election day exit polls, yet the Diebold voting machines declared the two Republican challengers as winners. The local media claimed to be &quot;amazed&quot; by this election &quot;upset.&quot; They should have been horrified and outraged. These elections were stolen electronically. There was no paper trail, no recount was possible and for good measure, Diebold Corporation &quot;accidentally erased&quot; the disputed 2002 election returns data from their computer hard disk drives a few days after the election. How convenient, how clean, how slick and how crooked is Republican election theft in the 21st century.

The 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections were both stolen by Bush &amp; Company. The 2008 and 2012 Presidential elections will suffer the same fate unless we institute a complete and total return to traditional, verifiable hand-counted paper election ballots.

The Republican Party will never lose another Presidential election as long as we allow their corporate buddies to &quot;count&quot; our votes in secret.

 

Yours truly,

James K. Sayre

11 November 2004

 

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Voter fraud?&#8221; Let&#8217;s check out the real problem, Republican electronic election hacking, rigging and stealing. They have been doing this since 1996, with Sen. Chuck Hagel, starting by &#8220;winning&#8221; a primary and general election in Nebraska with his own corporate electronic voting machines &#8220;counting the votes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here are my comments published just after the 2004 Presidential election theft by Republicans:</p>
<p>Another stolen election: Bush stole the election again in 2004, by the rigging of right-wing corporate electronic vote-counting machines.</p>
<p>To the Editor:</p>
<p>The exit polls that showed a sweeping Senator Kerry Democratic election victory on November 2nd were right. Unfortunately, the 2004 Presidential election was cleanly stolen by Bush &amp; Co. How, you say? With the help of Diebold, ES&amp;S, Sequoia and SAIC, four interlocked secretive right-wing electronic voting machine manufacturers. We have entrusted the most important election task, that of actually counting and tabulating the vote totals to extremist organizations with secret proprietary vote-counting computer software with no auditable paper trail for hand recounts. How very convenient, how very clean, how very slick and with all the evidence of election rigging is buried deep on their computer hard drives.</p>
<p>Senator John F. Kerry won a landslide Democratic victory in the November 2, 2004 Presidential election by between two million and five million votes. The pre-election public opinion polls pointed to a large and growing Kerry election day majority and the election day exit polls also indicated a Kerry victory. Unfortunately, theocratic extremely right-wing computer election machine manufacturing corporations were in charge of &#8220;counting&#8221; the votes of millions and millions of Americans. Some how, a few million Kerry votes didn&#8217;t get counted and a few million bogus Bush votes showed up in the final election tallies and voile, a Bush &#8220;victory.&#8221;</p>
<p>Democracy in 21st century America has been kidnapped and destroyed by extreme right-wing control of the new secret computerized electronic vote counting systems. Verifiable hand-counted paper ballots are the only way to restore legitimate elections in America.</p>
<p>Just search the Internet for any terms such as &#8220;black box voting,&#8221; &#8220;Max Cleland,&#8221; &#8220;Diebold,&#8221; &#8220;Sequoia,&#8221; &#8220;SE&amp;S,&#8221; &#8220;Greg Palest,&#8221; &#8220;election fraud&#8221; or &#8220;election theft&#8221; and you will find a wealth of information to help arm you in the coming fight to restore legitimate free elections and democracy in our country.</p>
<p>In 2002, the Republican Party staged their test run of controlling the new Diebold computerized paper-trail-free electronic voting systems that were installed in every precinct in the State of Georgia. It worked like a charm. Two popular Democratic incumbents, the Governor Roy Barnes and Senator Max Cleland, were both &#8220;defeated&#8221; by Republican challengers. The Democrats were both ahead by several points in both the pre-election voter opinion polls and in the election day exit polls, yet the Diebold voting machines declared the two Republican challengers as winners. The local media claimed to be &#8220;amazed&#8221; by this election &#8220;upset.&#8221; They should have been horrified and outraged. These elections were stolen electronically. There was no paper trail, no recount was possible and for good measure, Diebold Corporation &#8220;accidentally erased&#8221; the disputed 2002 election returns data from their computer hard disk drives a few days after the election. How convenient, how clean, how slick and how crooked is Republican election theft in the 21st century.</p>
<p>The 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections were both stolen by Bush &amp; Company. The 2008 and 2012 Presidential elections will suffer the same fate unless we institute a complete and total return to traditional, verifiable hand-counted paper election ballots.</p>
<p>The Republican Party will never lose another Presidential election as long as we allow their corporate buddies to &#8220;count&#8221; our votes in secret.</p>
<p>Yours truly,</p>
<p>James K. Sayre</p>
<p>11 November 2004</p>
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		<title>By: Wayne A. Schneider</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wayne A. Schneider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Obama is taking 2 days off to see his grandmother in Hawaii.

Any Effect??????&lt;/em&gt;

Empathy, I hope.  All our best wishes to Senator Obama and his family.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Obama is taking 2 days off to see his grandmother in Hawaii.</p>
<p>Any Effect??????</em></p>
<p>Empathy, I hope.  All our best wishes to Senator Obama and his family.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296460', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: blue state bob</title>
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		<dc:creator>blue state bob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama is taking 2 days off to see his grandmother in Hawaii.

Any Effect??????</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama is taking 2 days off to see his grandmother in Hawaii.</p>
<p>Any Effect??????<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296458', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Wayne A. Schneider</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wayne A. Schneider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How many copies of John Fund&#039;s book were sold in bulk sales (to conservative groups that gave them away with a donation), and how many were sold &quot;one-at-a-time&quot; at bookstores or online?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How many copies of John Fund&#8217;s book were sold in bulk sales (to conservative groups that gave them away with a donation), and how many were sold &#8220;one-at-a-time&#8221; at bookstores or online?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296446', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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