KABUL - Afghanistan's election commission Tuesday ordered a Nov. 7 runoff in the disputed presidential poll after a fraud investigation dropped incumbent Hamid Karzai's votes below 50 percent of the total. Karzai accepted the finding and agreed to a second round vote.
The announcement came two months to the day after the first round vote and follows weeks of political uncertainty at a time when Taliban strength is growing.
The chairman of the Independent Election Commission, Azizullah Lodin, said the commission, which organized the Aug. 20 vote, did not want to "leave the people of Afghanistan in uncertainty" any longer.KABUL - Afghanistan's election commission Tuesday ordered a Nov. 7 runoff in the... more
This is the third Video of the series of three Videos. Looks like Americans Tax Money is being used for more than just signing up new Voters! So far ACORN has not only helped this Pimp and Hooker get Housing but also help set up the busness end of a Prostitution Ring Pimping out 14 to 16 year old's from S. America in three diffrent City's. Balt. DC, and NYC. Do we as Americans really want our Tax Dollars being used to help defraud the Government of Tax Recipets? From the Video you can tell ACORN is very good at helping people running under World Bisnesses get Housing Loans, Tax Help, "Cheeting" Banking, the funny part is they don't Bat an Eye when they say the Money comes from 14 year old young girls having to Screw Suck and Service Dirty old Men! "Rape" Guess this is How ACORN helps the Poor and Helpless Children get work......Where is the outrage. Well it is a good thing ACORN has a good Lawyer....Oh wait Obama is ACORNs Lawyer!!!This is the third Video of the series of three Videos. Looks like Americans Tax Money... more
It didn’t take long for election workers to realize that something was wrong at the polling location at the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church.
The polls opened 6 a.m. and shortly there after the workers had difficulty finding the names of people on the list of registered voters. Even people who have voted at that location for years were not on the books provided to poll workers.
(continued at URL) note: jinkies! another odd coincidence, seems to happen only in swing states, hmmm.
P.S. to my friends here, sorry I haven't been responsive the last week or so, family matters occupied my time a lot, plus planning a European holiday. I will be around more now.It didn’t take long for election workers to realize that something was wrong at... more
The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File (SK) was an underground cultural phenomenon of the early 1970s. The document, by a then-unnamed author, purported to explain the relationship between the US government, the Mafia, Howard Hughes, and Aristotle Onassis, while providing believable scenarios of who killed John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File (SK) was an underground cultural phenomenon of... more
Katie Couric speaks with former U.N. envoy Peter Galbraith, who was fired by a top official who now admits there is widespread election fraud in Afghanistan.Katie Couric speaks with former U.N. envoy Peter Galbraith, who was fired by a top... more
The Administration's idea is to build "democratic" institutions and give the Afghans a stake in defending their government and society from the Taliban onslaught that is supposedly threatening them at every turn. Yet what if their democracy turns out to be not worth defending? What if their president, a preening fashion plate with ties to organized crime figures (including his brother), decided to steal an election, proclaim himself chief of state in spite of massive evidence of election fraud, and refused to even speak to his American sponsors, let alone go along with a U.S.-brokered compromise with his chief election rival?
Well, we don’t have to what-if, because all of the above – and worse – is exactly what’s happening.
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What a blunder. Al Qaeda HAS BEEN DEFEATED. The Taliban ARE NOT the same thing. WE SHOULD LEAVE.The Administration's idea is to build "democratic" institutions and... more
Connell was prepared to spill when Rove threatened to sic the Justice Department after Connell's wife, Connell (like most Rovians) defied an earlier subpoena but was ordered by the judge to appear today....
Yesterday, after a contentious three hour hearing in an Akron, Ohio federal court, the judge ordered Bush/Rove IT expert Michael Connell to submit to a two hour deposition less than 24 hours before the start of the 2008 election. The Court ruled that Ohio attorney Cliff Arnebeck can question Connell under oath about Man in the Middle computer manipulations, the use of Trojan horses to control election results from a remote location, and the role of Triad in election manipulations.
Connell is currently on the payroll of John McCain. McCain has said that the election will shift late at night and he will prevail in the end, he said "the polls are wrong, we will win this election, I guarantee it"
...Mark Crispin Miller, author of Loser Take All: Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 2000 - 2008
The end of ACORN is here Finally! Those who deserve the credit do not include ABC NBC CBS CNN MSMBC The credit does go to thousands of Americans who bloged this Fraud group to a degree never seen before. Main streem Media you dont matter any more we have turned the Channel on you and turned the Page on you as well! This is as much a Story about Obama as well. ACORN is Obama and Obama is Acorn WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.
The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets such as the Fox News Channel, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.
The Senate's move would mean that ACORN would not be able to win HUD grants for programs such as counseling low-income people on how to get mortgages and for fair housing education and outreach.
Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., said that ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994 and that the group was eligible for a wider set of funding in the pending legislation, which funds housing and transportation programs.
Just last week, the Census Bureau severed its ties with ACORN, saying it does not want the group's help in outreach efforts on the decennial count.
In recent months, Republicans have become increasingly critical of the census' ties with ACORN. The group, which advocates for poor people, conducted a massive voter registration effort last year and became a target of conservatives when some employees were accused of submitting false registration forms with names such as "Mickey Mouse."
Just last week, prosecutors in Miami-Dade County, Fla., arrested 11 people for falsifying hundreds of voter applications during a registration drive last year. ACORN tipped the authorities off to the problem.
On the hidden camera controversy, ACORN says it has fired the employees involved but has lashed out at Fox for pumping up the scandal.
In a statement, Bertha Lewis, ACORN's chief organizer, said the tapes had been doctored and violated Maryland's wiretapping laws. She promised to sue Fox.
Another ACORN spokesman, Scott Levenson, said the group believes the voices of the couple in the video shot in the Brooklyn office were dubbed over to alter the conversation and make the interaction appear more objectionable than it may have been.
ACORN sent a letter to Fox News President Roger Ailes, stating that the videotape was deceptive and had been dubbed over, and asking the network to stop showing the videos, Levensen said.
Fox News spokeswoman Dana Klinghoffer said the tapes were vetted editorially before they were aired.
The video was created by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles and posted on BigGovernment.com, where O'Keefe identifies himself as an activist filmmaker.
Breitbart.com, which owns BigGovernment.com, did not immediately respond to a call and e-mails seeking comment.The end of ACORN is here Finally! Those who deserve the credit do not include ABC... more
A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR [velvetrevolution.us] in July that Mr. Connell’s life was in jeopardy and that Karl Rove had threatened him and his wife, Heather. VR’s attorney, Cliff Arnebeck, notified the United States Attorney General , Ohio law enforcement and the federal court about these threats and insisted that Mr. Connell be placed in protective custody. VR also told a close associate of Mr. Connell’s not to fly his plane because of another tip that the plane could be sabatoged. Mr. Connell, a very experienced pilot, has had to abandon at least two flights in the past two months because of suspicious problems with his plane. On December 18, 2008, Mr. Connell flew to a small airport outside of Washington DC to meet some people. It was on his return flight the next day that he crashed.
On October 31, Mr. Connell appeared before a federal judge in Ohio after being subpoenaed in a federal lawsuit investigating the rigging of the 2004 election under the direction of Karl Rove. The judge ordered Mr. Connell to testify under oath at a deposition on November 3rd, the day before the presidential election. Velvet Revolution received confidential information that the White House was extremely concerned about Mr. Connell talking about his illegal work for the White House and two Bush/Cheney 04 attorneys were dispatched to represent him.
An associate of Mr. Connell’s told VR that Mr. Connell was involved with the destruction of the White House emails and the setting up of the off-grid White House email system.A tipster close to the McCain campaign disclosed to VR [velvetrevolution.us] in July... more
Read the article at the source if you can... it gets freaking crazy.
Election officials in a small county in California discovered by chance last week that the tabulation software they used to tally votes in this year's general election dropped 197 paper ballots from the totals at one precinct. The system's audit log also appears to have deleted any sign that the ballots had ever been recorded.
An investigation shows that the paper mail-in ballots were scanned properly by officials into the central-count optical-scan system made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) -- a receipt printed out by the machine at the time they were scanned on November 1, three days before the election, indicates that the machine recorded the ballots. The ballots even showed up in preliminary tallies counted on election night on November 4 and in a report printed out on November 23. But some time after this point, the tabulation software inexplicably deleted the ballots without election officials ever knowing.
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TEHRAN — Violence and acrimony over Iran’s disputed election intensified on Sunday, with word spreading that more than 100 prominent opposition members had been detained, riots erupting in Tehran and other cities, and the triumphant incumbent hinting that his top challenger risks punishment for questioning the result.
Two of the three opposition candidates and a clerical group issued fresh statements requesting an annulment of the election on Friday, which gave a lopsided victory to the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a conservative who has become a polarizing figure at home and abroad. They did so despite a decree from Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that the outcome was fair.
It was unclear how far Mr. Ahmadinejad’s adversaries were willing or able to go in challenging the result. But supporters of the opposition candidates skirmished with baton-wielding riot police officers on the edges of a government-organized victory rally in Tehran. There were also reports of riots in other Iranian cities, and the protests were echoed by Iranians demonstrating against the election results in Washington and in several European capitals.
Mr. Ahmadinejad dismissed the opposition’s allegations of fraud, saying that the victory had given him a bigger mandate than ever. He criticized Mir Hussein Moussavi, the main opposition candidate — who remained at home on Sunday with security forces closely monitoring his movements — in a veiled statement that many here saw as a threat.
“He ran a red light, and he got a traffic ticket,” Mr. Ahmadinejad said of his rival during a news conference at the presidential palace.
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Source: The New York Times OnlineTEHRAN — Violence and acrimony over Iran’s disputed election intensified... more
In the southern Afghan district of Shorabak, the tribesmen gathered shortly before last month’s presidential election to discuss which candidate they would back. After a debate they chose to endorse Abdullah Abdullah, President Hamid Karzai’s leading opponent.
The tribal leaders prepared to deliver a landslide for Abdullah – but it never happened. They claim Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president’s brother and leader of the Kandahar provincial council, detained the local governor and closed all the district’s 46 polling sites on election day.
The ballot boxes were taken back to the district headquarters where, tribal leaders allege, they were stuffed with ballots by local policemen. A total of 23,900 ballots were finally sent off to Kabul, the capital – every one of them a vote for Karzai.
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Hamid Karzai has learnt well from his Neocon buddies and partners.In the southern Afghan district of Shorabak, the tribesmen gathered shortly before... more
If scammers have things their way--with the help of a dozen sneaky ploys--plenty of ballots will never make it to the boxes.
JR Raphael, PC World
Political campaigns in the United States are notorious for inspiring dirty tricks and nasty tactics. Now, in the most tech-attuned presidential race to date, the dark art of misleading voters is growing even more malignant than it was in the past.
The Internet adds powerful ammunition to the election scammer's arsenal--and odds are, some of these nasty virtual shots have already been fired your way.
Web of Lies
Election deception is nothing new. For decades, underhanded political operatives have spread lies to impressionable voters--disseminating disinformation about everything from changes in election dates to canceled caucuses. The difference now is that the falsifications are easier than ever to spread.
Tova Wang, Common Cause"You're no longer constrained to a geographical community to impact," says Tova Wang, vice president for research of Common Cause. "Now you can pick your communities by other types of profiles than just where people live."
Add to that previously unavailable level of access the anonymity permitted by the Internet, and you have a situation where unethical (and in some cases illegal) behavior seems likely to go unpunished.
Part 1: Five Nastiest Methods to Persuade Voters Not to Vote
Our dirty dozen tricks start with five deceptive ways that political schemers are manipulating the Web to discourage would-be voters from voting.
1. Inbox Infestation
Mitt RomneyOne of the Internet's oldest tricks has acquired a new political spin. Scammers send mass e-mailings that appear to come from legitimate addresses--often ones belonging to campaign or election officials. The problem? The messages contain inaccurate information. This ploy was used against Mitt Romney during the presidential primaries, and voter rights advocates fear that it could resurface as a way to steer citizens away from the polls.
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Always keep an eye out this election. If you think the last two prez elections were kinda funny, watch this on closely!If scammers have things their way--with the help of a dozen sneaky ploys--plenty of... more
By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC
updated 6:58 a.m. CT, Tues., Oct. 14, 2008
That's a common worry expressed in e-mails to us at Election A to Z. Other messages simply state "my vote doesn't count."
It helps to be realistic on this point.
If you live in a state that has consistently gone for the presidential candidate of one party for years, and that party's pick is comfortably ahead in the polls right now, the outcome on Nov. 4 probably won't be close in your state.
(continued at link)By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC
updated 6:58 a.m. CT, Tues., Oct. 14,... more
Even the audit log system on current versions of Premier Election Solutions' (formerly Diebold's) electronic voting and tabulating systems --- used in some 34 states across the nation --- fail to record the wholesale deletion of ballots. Even when ballots are deleted on the same day as an election. That's the shocking admission heard today from Justin Bales, Premier's Western Region manager, at a State of California public hearing on the possible decertification of Diebold/Premier's tabulator system, GEMS v. 1.18.19.
MORE INFO/REFERENCES IN LINKEven the audit log system on current versions of Premier Election Solutions'... more
Independent watch group Blackbox Voting alerts smart voters to election fraud, finds Alaska to be absolutely covered with possible election fraud. This can still be a country for the people and by the people but the people MUST WAKE UP!!!
Vote the corrupt out of office, encourage your friends, family and co workers to educate themselves online with independent news sources preferably from an international and a national source and become a poll worker or an election observer right here in the Great U.S. of A. you can register with the E.U. to become an official independent election observer. This will give you the authority to look behind the curtain and step beyond the velvet rope on Election Day.
Let's We the People keep them honest this election year!!!
If like me you live in a county where the voting machines have no paper trail and no auditing function built into the machine this site should be of interest to anyone in the world who wants free and fair elections.
TruVote International www.truvote.com
Like my father a staunch Republican and small business owner always says "Charity begins at home."
So lets put our own house in order before we try to export our most valuable resource FREEDOM! Independent watch group Blackbox Voting alerts smart voters to election fraud, finds... more
A car salesman turned politician, who would suspect?
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Vern Buchanan, the Republican fundraiser who took over Katherine Harris's seat in southern Florida, is the fourth richest man in Congress. With assets including some fifteen auto dealerships in Florida and elsewhere, properties in several states, and offshore companies, his net worth is estimated to be well over $100 million.
First elected to Congress in 2006 by only 369 votes after a controversial recount, Buchanan is currently in a tight rematch with Democrat Christine Jennings.
But this former co-chair of the Republican National Finance Committee and top fundraiser for Jeb Bush and Senator Mel Martinez may find his career derailed by seven civil suits that were filed against him, his executives, and his dealerships over the past three months in Sarasota County and Pasco County courts.
The explosive allegations indicate that Buchanan and his dealership employees may have taken part in conspiracy, fraud, and retaliatory personnel actions. The plaintiffs, mainly former employees, describe incidents in which Buchanan and his staff appear to have violated campaign finance laws, hired undocumented workers, bilked customers, threatened employees, sent fraudulent information to banks, and misappropriated funds. Additional lawsuits are expected soon.
On August 13, the Florida Democratic Party called on the FBI and other authorities to investigate the allegations that Buchanan violated the law. But the lawsuits do not appear to be a partisan hit job. Three of the former employees who filed lawsuits--Joe Kezer, Carlo Bell, and Willie Lee--are longtime Republicans, while two others, Scott Russ and Richard Thomas, are political independents. The sixth and final plaintiff, Jeffrey Sutton, was never an employee of Buchanan's and his political affiliation could not be confirmed.
Some of these allegations have trickled into the local Florida media in recent weeks, but a fresh investigation by The Huffington Post of internal company documents, public records, and interviews with key players buttresses the plaintiffs' charges and provides a more detailed--and shocking--picture of Buchanan's apparently extensive wrongdoing.
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See above the full article and a video from The American News Project that includes interviews with people accusing Rep. Vern Buchanan of campaign finance violations.
Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. A car salesman turned politician, who would suspect?
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Vern Buchanan, the... more
I ask myself, would my fellow Americans be willing to unite and risk their lives for the very thing that makes our nation resemble a democracy? - our vote. The answer of course comes quickly and is very disheartening. All it took was one "news" station and 7 crooked judges to quell our indignation. At this point in our nation's history, we have to be attacked to experience a short-lived unity. And even then, it comes at the cost of some of our freedoms... which most of us are okay with as long as we feel safe. The Iranians are not safe when they protest, but they fight for their rights anyway. The Iranian people are worthy of our respect because they give a damn. I hope this video awakens something in the dormant Americans who watch it.I ask myself, would my fellow Americans be willing to unite and risk their lives for... more
Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Junior in a cool private-I-style report on election theft.Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Junior in a cool private-I-style report on election... more
