Take a deep breath-or better yet, a stiff drink. Don’t watch any news if it makes you too sick, and try to get plenty of fluids (hopefully of the aforementioned variety). But before succumbing to the war fever that is supposedly gripping the nation, take …
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We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep on saying it: A country whose leader has the power to imprison any citizen, on his order alone, and hold them indefinitely, in military custody, without access to the courts, without a lawyer, without any charges, …
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Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more cynical. Guess which state did not have Federal Observers assigned to it by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for the 2002 mid-term election?
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Shining Our Light on the Shadow Forces: Open Letter to the Fledgling “Movement” By Bernard Weiner The Crisis Papers
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In the national debate over upgrading election infrastructure, Peter Neumann is an unlikely defender of the low-tech approach. As principle scientist at Stanford Research Institute’s Computer Science Laboratory, Neumann has spent the last 20 years studying …
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Poll watchers, election officials, even the Secretary of State are not allowed to examine the computer software, which is what determines how the votes are counted. This amounts to an illegal secret ballot count.
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Think it doesn’t apply to you? Salesmen for these voting machine companies are now busy in Europe, South America and yes, even Canada. The Election “Reform” Law now mandates up to $3.5 billion to convert the entire U.S. to the systems described …
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If a tree falls in the forest and the media refuses to report it, did it actually happen? Of course. Ask the tree.
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The Voter News Service, the exit poll service used by a consortium of major news organizations, failed election night, and it’s unclear whether the service will ever release the data it collected around the country.
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The lack of any exit polling on November 5 has been oddly ignored by the media. Those pesky tracking polls leading up to the elections have been explained away by a ‘late surge to the Republicans’ caused by…. hmmmm, how about sun spot activity? With …
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Scoop’s analysis found shows that – according to the polls – the Republican Party experienced a pronounced last minute swing in its favour of between 4 and 16 points. Remarkably this last minute swing appears to have been concentrated in its effects …
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The Crisis Papers was launched about 24 hours before Election Day, 2002. The title, and the reason for starting up yet another progressive website, could not have been more appropriately timed. For we are now in as severe a constitutional and political …
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How difficult is it to reprogram a machine which leaves no paper trail to say that 2 + 2 = 5? Is it about as difficult as sabotaging the workings of a small corporate jet, perhaps?
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The August 25-27 Citizens for a Fair Vote Count Convention 2000 in Cincinnati, Ohio, affirmed what the Supreme Court has ruled in Wesberry v. Sanders "the right to vote is the highest right that we have as citizens and if that right does not exist, then …
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Cartoon by John Chuckman
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So, you’re going to cast your vote to prove that you live in a democracy, are you? Guess again, Chuck. Your vote does not matter. It might not even be counted, assuming you’re allowed to vote to begin with
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There are a multitude of dangling questions about Tuesday’s election results. Widespread anecdotal accounts of voting irregularities, disenfranchised voters and absolutely accurate and, in many cases, understated criticisms of abysmal leadership from Tom …
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In This Edition: Think People!!! The Fix Was In – Who Now Rules The World
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In a tragedy for America and the world, the Republican Party has taken control of both houses of the U.S. Congress. This means George W. Bush’s disastrous agenda will be able to go forward unchecked.
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ES&S, who makes 56% of the voting machines in the United States, has threatened to sue the owner of Talion.com unless she removes articles about voting machines from her web site.
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