Subject: Glitch could force NC to vote again 11-10-04 From: "CLG News" Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:09:48 -0500 To: "CLG News" Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government November 10, 2004 http://www.legitgov.org/ All links to articles as summarized below are available here: http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news Please contribute for November expenses... We need donations to continue. Thank you. http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute Glitch could force NC to vote again (NC) More than 4,500 votes irretrievably lost in coastal Carteret County could trigger a new statewide election if the official margin of victory in two Council of State races is close enough, state election officials said Monday. The problem, which one expert called one of the worst election glitches nationwide, occurred on a machine that wasn't set correctly. ...The maker of Carteret's push-button voting machines, UniLect Corp., acknowledges it told county officials the machines would hold more than 10,000 votes. The machines actually held 3,005 because the computer software had not been updated. 12,000 votes uncounted in Gaston (NC) About 12,000 votes cast in Gaston County have not yet been counted, elections director Sandra Page said Tuesday. Page said most early and absentee votes were not included in the county's unofficial election results because of a procedural error. The inclusion of the votes in the county's results, expected Tuesday afternoon, could change the outcome of several local and statewide races. Ohio Is Set to Reckon With Outstanding Ballots --Ohio election officials said Monday that they would begin this week the final count of 155,428 provisional ballots and an unknown number of overseas absentee ballots that were cast in the presidential election. ...On Friday, officials in Franklin County — which includes state capital Columbus — acknowledged that they may have improperly counted votes for Bush because of a touch-screen 'voting' system malfunction. A precinct in the county reported that a 4,000-vote margin won by Bush appeared to exceed the number of registered voters. The touch-screen system in Franklin County is among the oldest and least reliable electronic voting machines in use, said David Dill, a Stanford University computer expert. Based on reports that Dill's organization — Verified Voting.org — has received, one precinct in Youngstown, Ohio, recorded a negative 25 million votes, which was discarded from official results. And it was widely reported after Nov. 2 that a North Carolina precinct lost 4,000 votes when a recording device used up all its memory but voters continued to cast ballots on the machine. Electronic Voting Angst --by Keith Olbermann "In 29 precincts there [Cuyahoga County, Ohio], the County’s website shows, we had the most unexpected results in years: more votes than voters. I’ll repeat that: more votes than voters. 93,000 more votes than voters. Oops. Talk about successful get-out-the-vote campaigns! What a triumph for democracy in Fairview Park, twelve miles west of downtown Cleveland. Only 13,342 registered voters there, but they cast 18,472 votes. Vote early! Vote often!" [A must read] Election stolen, group suspects --60 meet at UW, plan next steps --American democracy: a shining city on a hill or gutter politics that steals votes and suppresses voter intent? To about 60 people who gathered Saturday at the UW Humanities Building, it's more like the latter. ...A notice of the "No Stolen Elections" meeting on the Madison Area Peace Coalition's Web site. The meeting followed an anti-war rally that attracted 500 to 600 people to State Street and the Capitol. Part One: Will Your Vote Count? --by Rick Dawson and Loni Smith McKown "An I-Team 8 investigation reveals recent changes in voting technology have raised the risk of fraud and miscounting. The investigation finds serious questions about security and troubling concerns on both how the technology is sold, and who is getting rich on public money..." GOP surfed for voters at work --Business groups picked Ohio two years ago as the first place to fully deploy a new tactic for turning out Republican votes in the 2004 election. Managers at more than 50,000 companies in Ohio urged employees to vote, while trying to coax them in e-mails to look at customized internal Web sites rating politicians' votes on business issues, a project leader said. 'I spent a lot of time looking in Ohio, and a lot of time looking in Florida.' --Karl Rove, interview with Chris Snow (Fox [Faux] News Sunday), November 7, 2004. [Looking?!? That's not *all* you did, whackjob!!] Teacher finds anti-Bush stickers get tires slashed --Political tempers are running hot even after the election. On Saturday, Gary Jimenez discovered two tires slashed on his Volvo station wagon with its four anti-Bush bumper stickers. Lest he miss the point, the vandals left a note on the windshield that said: "We voted . . . Now you can either move to another country (maybe France, Germany, Iran or Pakistan will take you) or stop your whiney belly aching. This country was founded by righteous God-fearing men of integrity like George W. Bush. Now, take off these bumper stickers. We don't want to see them again." [Solution to Bush's Brownshirts? Arming the Left: Is the time now? --by Charles Southwell] http://www.legitgov.org/essay_southwell_arming_the_left_is_the_time_now_102203.html Secret Service [SS] to Oversee Inauguration --The Homeland Security Department designated Dictator Bush's coronation ['inauguration'] a national security special event, which makes the ceremony's high-profile gatherings eligible for federal money and heightened security overseen by the Secret Service. Hundreds March In Anti-Bush And Anti-War Protest --About 500 protesters marched through downtown Seattle Saturday, venting their frustration over Dictator Bush's re-selection and calling for United States troops to be pulled out of Iraq. Opposition to Iraq war at new high --The public's opposition to the war in Iraq has reached a record high, according to an opinion poll in the Times. The survey published on Tuesday found 57 percent thought taking military action to oust former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was wrong, compared to 31 percent who supported it. Weapons Sleuth Duelfer Narrowly Misses Being Killed in Iraq Suicide Car Bombing --Weapons sleuth Charles Duelfer, who conducted the fruitless post-invasion search of Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, narrowly missed being killed by a suicide car bomber [US forces?] in Iraq, two television networks reported Tuesday. 'Scores of civilians' killed in Falluja --Muhammad Abbud said he watched his nine-year-old son bleed to death at their Falluja home, unable to take him to hospital as fighting raged in the streets and bombs rained down on the Iraqi city. In the midst of a US onslaught and hemmed in by a round-the-clock curfew, he said he had little choice but to bury his eldest son, Ghaith, in the garden. [Uh, is this all part of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom?' Just curious.] 'Body parts everywhere' in Fallujah --"Body parts everywhere!" cries a US soldier as a shell crashes onto a group of suspected rebels in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, where a punishing torrent of firepower thundered down on Tuesday. More than 500 rounds of 155-millimetre Howitzer cannon shells have been fired on the besieged Sunni stronghold west of Baghdad since a US-Iraqi offensive to take control of the city started on Monday evening, said Sergeant Michael Hamby. 10 US, 2 Iraqi Troops Dead in Falluja -US Military --Ten U.S. troops and two Iraqi troops fighting alongside them have died in the assault to take control of rebel-held Falluja, but senior insurgency leaders probably escaped the city, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. U.S. helicopter shot down over rebel-held city --A U.S. helicopter was shot down over Fallujah on Tuesday as U.S.-led forces were pressing home an offensive on the rebel-held city. 35 US soldiers captured in Fallujah: mosques --Mosques in Iraq's restive city of Fallujah announced on Monday that the fighters inside the city have captured 35 US soldiers. Loud speakers of the mosques blared out the news as US forces were trying to penetrate the rebel-held city, but the news could not be independently confirmed. Five killed in Baghdad hospital blast --A suicide car bomber has killed five policemen outside a hospital where victims of two church bombings earlier in the night were being treated, police say. U.S. Forces Launch Attack on Fallujah --U.S. Marines, Army's 1st Infantry Division Lead Operation Phantom Fury --U.S. forces entered the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah Monday, launching a long-anticipated urban offensive that is widely seen as the most significant and controversial battle since the U.S. invasion of Iraq 19 months ago. Fighting Around Fallujah Intensifies --Premier [US Puppet] Puts Most of Iraq Under State of Emergency --U.S. ground forces fought insurgents on the outskirts of Fallujah early Monday, and U.S. warplanes pounded the insurgent-held city, as a full military assault appeared increasingly imminent. On Sunday, Iraq's interim government had announced a state of emergency for most of the country. VA backlog forcing Iraq, Afghanistan vets to wait for treatment --Thousands of veterans in Michigan are on waiting lists for medical services and disability claims provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Draft coming, students told --Reinstatement of the draft is imminent, war correspondent and author Christopher Hedges told a crowd of more than 120 students and residents yesterday at Manhattanville College. "We are losing the war in Iraq very badly, but the Bush administration will not walk away from the debacle without trying to reoccupy huge swaths of the territory they have lost," Hedges said. While working for The New York Times, he covered fighting in Central America, the Balkans and the Middle East, including Iraq during the first Gulf War. Madonna calls for US troops to leave Iraq --US pop star Madonna made a rare foray into politics, calling for her home country to withdraw its troops from Iraq during an interview with British radio. "I just don't want American troops to be in Iraq, period," she said on BBC Radio. Missing Antiaircraft Missiles Alarm Aides --Several thousand shoulder-fired missiles -- the kind that could be used to shoot down aircraft -- are missing in Iraq, and their disappearance has prompted U.S. military and intelligence analysts to increase sharply their estimate of the number of such weapons that may be at large, administration officials said yesterday. Government to Appeal Ruling That Halts Guantanamo Proceeding --The government is appealing a Nov. 8 federal judge's ruling that brought a halt to a military commission hearing in a war- crimes trial against an enemy combatant being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Judge Says Detainees' Trials Are Unlawful --Ruling Is Setback For Bush Policy --The special trials established to determine the guilt or innocence of prisoners at the U.S. military prison in Cuba are unlawful and cannot continue in their current form, a federal judge ruled yesterday. In a setback for the Bush dictatorship, U.S. District Judge James Robertson found that detainees at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may be prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions and therefore entitled to the protections of international and military law -- which the government has declined to grant them. CIA Official Challenges Agency on Terrorism --Defying orders to halt his public criticism, the author and former chief of the Bin Laden unit outlines failures in combating Al Qaeda. --A senior CIA counter-terrorism official has defied orders to stop publicly criticizing the U.S. government's response to Al Qaeda, complaining that no one has been held accountable for failures that helped lead to the Sept. 11 attacks and warning that uncorrected management problems continue to put Americans at risk. CIA Officer Criticizes Agency's Handling of Bin Laden --One of the most senior intelligence officers in the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit said yesterday that fewer experienced officers are assigned to defeating the al Qaeda leader and his followers now than there were on Sept. 11, 2001. A Hidden Story Behind Sept. 11? One Man's Ad Campaign Says So --Recently, James W. Walter, a millionaire from Santa Barbara, Calif., has taken a growing interest in the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks. "It just isn't possible that 19 screw-ups with box cutters pulled this whole thing off," Mr. Walter said in a telephone interview Friday as he traveled from Florida to California by train. He has traveled by train since Sept. 11, 2001, he said, because he has been too scared to fly. "We've never gotten solid answers on why Tower 7 collapsed when it was two full blocks away from where the planes hit," he said. "We've also never received an answer for how such a large plane left such a small hole in the side of the Pentagon." Terror Financing Fines Fall After 9/11 --Despite the Bush regime's pledge to battle terrorist financing, the government's average penalty against companies doing business with countries listed as terrorist-sponsoring states fell sharply after the Sept. 11 attacks, an Associated Press analysis of federal records shows. Falwell Plans for 'Evangelical Revolution' --Seeking to take advantage of the momentum from an election where moral values proved important to voters, the Rev. Jerry Falwell announced Tuesday he has formed a new coalition to guide an "evangelical revolution." Ashcroft Resigns As Attorney General --US Attorney General John Ashcroft has resigned from his post, as has Commerce Secretary Donald Evans. Their resignations are the first of several likely changes in the make-up of George Bush's cabinet following his election victory last week. Mr Bush has accepted both resignations. Bush to give Supreme Court ultra-conservative edge --Dictator George W. Bush's election victory has won him the right to give the US Supreme Court, which plays a key social role, a much stronger conservative leaning. Experts say Bush will appoint judges close to his own point of view in any dispute over some of the country's most prominent social questions. Mega Bulimia Alert!! Bush Considers Clarence Thomas For Chief Justice --Dictator Bush has launched an internal review of the pros and cons of nominating Supreme Court inJustice Clarence Thomas as the chief justice if ailing William Rehnquist retires, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. A top White House source familiar with Bush's thinking explains the review of Thomas as chief justice is one of several options currently under serious consideration. But Thomas is Bush's personal favorite to take the position, the source claims. Druggists refuse to give out pill --Mississippi enacted a sweeping statute that went into effect in July that allows health care providers, including pharmacists, to not participate in procedures that go against their conscience. South Dakota and Arkansas already had laws that protect a pharmacist's right to refuse to dispense medicines. Ten other states considered similar bills this year... Howard Dean considering bid to chair Democratic Party --Former presidential candidate Howard Dean is considering a bid to become chairman of the national Democratic Party. Steve Grossman, himself a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Dean had told him he was thinking about it. CLG Exclusive: Kicking the Donkey --Why the Democrats lost the national elections, and how we can avoid a repeat performance --by Edward Lachowicz "In the end, the Democratic Party must review whether it wants to continue pandering to the right, and causing the loss of Democratic seats as well as those of moderate Republicans, or if it wants to pander to the left, and staunch the bleeding of disaffected Democratic voters to third parties, as well as to the apathy column. There is no middle anymore. There is no place of compromise between the parties. There is only one or the other... My effort to counter the problems of the Democrats is to convince Howard Dean to make another run for the presidency." http://www.legitgov.org/essay_lachowicz_kicking_donkey_110904.html Draft Dean for President --We endorse the Draft Dean for President Petition to Governor Howard Dean, M.D.. http://www.petitiononline.com/drafthbd/petition.html Kerry may run again in 2008, says brother [?!?] Senator John Kerry is not done yet. Kerry plans to remain a major force on the political scene. Aides say that he will be assessing the feasibility of running again in 2008. G.O.P. Plans to Give Environment Rules a Free-Market Tilt --With the 'elections' over, Congress and the Bush dictatorship are moving ahead with ambitious environmental agendas that include revamping signature laws on air pollution and endangered species and reviving a moribund energy bill that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration. Bush Looking Anew for Alaska Oil Drilling --Republican gains in the Senate could give Dictator Bush his best chance yet to achieve his No. 1 energy priority — opening an oil-rich but environmentally sensitive Alaska wildlife refuge to drilling. Study Says Polar Bears Could Face Extinction --Global warming could cause polar bears to go extinct by the end of the century by eroding the sea ice that sustains them, according to the most comprehensive international assessment ever done of Arctic climate change. [Previous lead stories:] 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@legitgov.org Citizens For Legitimate Government is calling for the Grand Refusal to begin!! Again, to join CLG's Grand Refusal Coalition, please subscribe. You will be updated on actions and asked to participate: GrandRefusal@legitgov.org or: grandrefusal-subscribe@lists.legitgov.org. 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. Ohio County: More Votes Than Voters --Cuyahoga County Precincts (americans4america) "Each precinct in Cuyahoga County, Ohio Highlighted areas represent 90% (very, VERY unlikely) and higher (up to 1160.78%) voter TURN-OUT! 29 are above 100% Calculated from data on county page --(Ballots Cast/Registered Voters) *100 = per cent turn out. Ballots Cast SHOULD NEVER be more than Registered, thus % should NEVER be higher than 100% This amounts to 93,136 EXTRA votes beyond 100% in those precincts! This is just for ONE county!" In one precinct, Bush's tally was supersized by a computer glitch --A computer error involving one voting-machine cartridge gave Dictator Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct. Franklin County’s unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry’s 260 votes in Precinct 1B, which votes at New Life Church on Stygler Road. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. ...Gahanna Precinct 1B has three voting machines. After the polling station closed, the cartridges were taken to a computerized reading station. When one of the cartridges from the precinct was plugged into a reader, it generated the faulty number. The reader also recorded zero votes in the race between Arlene Shoemaker and Paula Brooks for county commissioner. Nebraska County: More Votes Than Voters --Too many votes --Sarpy County election officials are trying to figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the general election. As many as 10,000 extra votes have been tallied and candidates are still waiting for corrected totals. Sarpy County borrowed the election equipment from Omaha-based Election Systems & Software. Wet Ballots Found, Rejected By Voting Machines (FL) Several hundred ballots in Seminole County, Fla., mysteriously got wet and were rejected by voting machines Tuesday, according to Local 6 News. The wet ballots were apparently discovered unmarked Tuesday at the Community United Methodist Church in Casselberry, Fla. Americans Flock to Canada's Immigration Web Site --The number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada's main immigration Web site has shot up six-fold as Americans flirt with the idea of abandoning their homeland after Dictator George W. Bush's selection this week. Sixty Day State of Emergency Declared In Iraq (so the U.S. can carry out its insane acts of terrorism in Fallujah, and continue to violate international law with the illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq...) US Puppet Dictator 'Iraqi Prime Minister' Issues State of Emergency Throughout Country --US Puppet Dictator, 'Iraqi Prime Minister' Ayad Allawi, issued a statement today declaring a state of emergency throughout Iraq, except for the Kurdish region in the north. Iraqi spokesman Asan Alib said the order is for 60 days and that "all concerned ministers should comply." The order, he said, will be carried out in all regions. Howard Dean's daughter involved in highway crash --The daughter of former Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean and four other young women were sent to the hospital Sunday after their sport utility vehicle rolled over on Interstate 91, state police said. Anne Dean, 20, was treated and released from Yale-New Haven Hospital (CT), said a hospital spokeswoman, who would not describe the nature of any of the women's injuries. Please send your positive comments to Elizabeth Edwards (on Wednesday she was diagnosed with breast cancer) via www.prayersforelizabeth.org. Messages will be approved in cycles in order to stop Freepers (nasty Republican trolls) from flooding the site with nasty posts, etc.. Messages will be passed on to Elizabeth and Sen. Edwards. ***** Please contribute for November expenses... We need donations to continue. Thank you. http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute Address to receive newsletter: clg_newsletter-subscribe@mlm.legitgov.org Address to not receive newsletter: clg_newsletter-unsubscribe@mlm.legitgov.org (or, pls. write to: signup@legitgov.org, and I can add your name to the roster) lrp/mdr CLG Newsletter editor: Lori Price, General Manager. 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