COLUMBUS, Ohio – Building on a successful pilot project after the March primary, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has launched statewide post-election audits for the general election.
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Advancement Project is calling on local election authorities to count provisional ballots cast at the wrong polling place due to poll worker error.
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On Election Day, electionline.org paid particular attention to 12 states, identified as ones to watch for potential voting troubles.
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President-elect Barack Obama has issued a challenge: he wants to hear from everyday Americans like you and me about what we think the priorities for the country should be.
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Scattered problems throughout the country don’t tarnish presidential outcome. This week we’ll hear from our reporters in the field about what they saw on Tuesday.
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It’s Election Day, and our Election Protection hotline has been ringing since the minute the polls opened. As of 10am, over 12,000 reports have been logged.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has issued a brief mid-morning update on the status of voting in Ohio on Election Day.
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How Networks Do Electoral Projections: Network projections are made from two sources. First, exit polls are conducted by an entity contracted by a consortium of all the news networks and several national papers.
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San Francisco – Reporters, bloggers, and voters across the country can monitor problems at the polls on Election Day on OurVoteLive.org, a project built and hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of Election Protection.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced Friday a public service announcement featuring Ohio legend John Glenn urging Ohioans to vote with confidence by absentee ballot or on Election Day.
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We want to make sure that if the election results are contested steps have been taken so that the U.N. is able to participate in ensuring the integrity of the U.S. election.
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We’ll cover the election results, but we’ll also give special attention to what no network or cable show is likely to cover – voter disenfranchisement, voting problems, and election/voting machine irregularities from all over the nation.
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Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International will again conduct all exit polling in 2008 for the National Election Pool, comprised of ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC and the Associated Press.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Reform Institute, a non-partisan public policy organization, today released a checklist to assist voters in casting their ballots. The checklist provides helpful tips for voters.
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Current Signatories 31 October 3pm (NZT): Dave Berman - Mark Crispin Miller - Alastair Thompson - Peter B. Collins - Michael Collins - Ernest Partridge - Bernard Weiner - Rob Kall - David Swanson - Rady Ananda - Lynn Landes  - Dan Ashby - Linda Milazzo - Jan Baumgartner - Cheryl Biren-Wright - Amanda Lang - Joanne Lukacher - Andi Novick - Paul Lehto – Mark A. Adams – Catherine Austin Fitts – John Gideon – Ellen Theisen - Bev Harris – John Chuckman – Bernie Ellis - Steve Freeman – John Russell – Jason Leopold – David L. Griscom, Ph.D. – David Earnhardt – Carolyn Zaremba – Ron Baiman, PhD – Donna Norton – Josh Mitteldorf, PhD – Kathy Dopp – Allene E. Swienckowski – Lisa Finerty – Dave Stancliff – Sam Smith - Danny Schechter
A current list of this letter’s signers can be found (as of 3pm – 31 October 2008) at www.usacoup.scoop.co.nz/unprovable. If you would like to add your name, please use the form on that page or submit your name and affiliation via e-mail to: unprovable@scoop.co.nz.

We Do Not Consent – Open Letter To The Media

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A Public Media Campaign Launched By Dave Berman Of We Do Not Consent

Dear Media Colleagues,

You are receiving this message because you are known to American progressives as a truth-teller. In this presidential campaign, despite the typical horse-race coverage, we also see the overall corporate media narrative influenced by daily debunking efforts from candidates’ rapid response teams, the blogosphere, and the reality-based coverage and reporting that you provide.We need to take this to the next level.
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On November 4, 2008 voting systems will fail somewhere in the United States in one or more jurisdictions in the country. Unfortunately, we don’t know where. For this reason, it is imperative that every state prepare for system failures.
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WASHINGTON – In a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey today, the American Civil Liberties Union demanded the Department of Justice reject a White House request to challenge 200,000 registered voters in Ohio.
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ATLANTA – The ACLU launched its voter empowerment program today. As part of this effort, the ACLU will distribute 480,000 cards in 32 states that inform voters of their rights on Election Day and how to avoid problems when casting a ballot.
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With Election Day less than a week a way, Advancement Project is working fast and furiously to prepare voters in advance.
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(POTTSVILLE, PA)—In what has become a regular occurrence, dozens of supporters of Senator John McCain shouted racist and hate-filled speech at about 100 demonstrators yesterday in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
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