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Evidence of Electoral Fraud in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election

A Reader

by Michael Keefer

www.globalresearch.ca 6 November 2004

The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE411B.html


Professor Michael Keefer of Guelph University, Ontario, provides an extensive bibliography on the issue of Electoral Fraud.

 

[In cases where the same article has been published at more than one website, multiple URLs are listed.]

Allen, David. "Inside An E-Voting Whitewash Conference Call." Scoop (23 August 2003), http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0308/S00175.htm .

Byrne, John. "Kerry seen as presidential victor in early exit polls." The Blue Lemur (2 November 2004, 3:15 p.m.), http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=386 .

CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project. "Immediate Steps to Avoid Lost Votes in the 2004 Presidential Election: Recommendations for the Election Assistance Commission." July 2004. http://www.vote.caltech.edu/Reports/index.html .

Cardinale, Matthew. "A Genealogy of Votergate Media Coverage 2004: Through the Eyes of Googlenews." OpEdNews.com (10 November 2004), http://www.opednews.com/cardinale_111004_votergate_media.htm .

Chin, Larry. "The Stolen Election of 2004: welcome back to hell." Online Journal (5 November 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/110504Chin/110504chin.html ; Centre for Research on Globalization (5 November 2004), http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHI411B.html .

Collier, James M., and Kenneth F. Collier. Votescam: The Stealing of America. Victoria House Press, 1992. ISBN 0963416308.

Collier, Victoria. "Your stolen vote�the missing piece of the puzzle." May 2000; republished by Online Journal (8 February 2001), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/020801Collier/020801collier.html .

------. "Computerized Election Fraud in America: A Brief History." VoteScam (25 October 2003), http://www.votescam.com/abriefhistory.php .

Conover, Bev. "Once again, the media try to con the people into believing Bush won." Online Journal (5 April 2001), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/040501Conover/040501conover.html .

------. "Florida�s �fixed it� farce." Online Journal (11 May 2001), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/051101Conover/051101conover.html .

------. "Computerized voting systems cannot be made secure." Online Journal (20 October 2003), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/102003Conover/102003conover.html .

------. "Voting: When low-tech beats high-tech." Online Journal (25 June 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/062504Conover/062504conover.html .

Democratic Investigative Staff, House Committee on the Judiciary. How to Make Over One Million Votes Disappear: Electoral Sleight of Hand in the 2000 Presidential Election. A Fifty-State Report Prepared for Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (Ranking Member, House Committee on the Judiciary; Dean, Congressional Black Caucus. 122 pp. Washington, DC: U.S. House of Representatives, August 20, 2001. http://www.electionreport.pdf .

Dopp, Kathy. "Surprising Pattern of Florida�s Election Results." Ustogether,org (3 November 2004), http://www.ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm . For further analysis and graphic representation of Kathy Dopp�s data, see http://www.ustogether.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm , and http://www.rubberbug.com/temp/Florida2004chart.htm .

Drobny, Sheldon. "Votergate 2004: We Don�t Need Paper to Prove Fraud, But We Do Need Money and Leadership, NOW." OpEdNews.com (9 November 2004), http://www.opednews.com/drobny_110904_election_investigation.htm ; Centre for Research on Globalization (10 November 2004), http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/DRO411A.html .

Equal Justice Foundation. Vote Fraud and Election Issues. Last updated 27 September 2004. http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting.htm#fraud .

"Exit Polls vs. Actual Results." http://www.bandsagainstbush.org/cgi-bin/archives/exit_polls.gif ; also at http://www.bandsagainstbush.org/cgi-bin/archives/000117.html .

Fitrakis, Bob. "Diebold, electronic voting and the vast right-wing conspiracy." The Free Press (24 February 2004), http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/834 .

------, and Harvey Wasserman. "Diebold�s Political Machine." MotherJones.com (5 March 2004), http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html .

------. "Death of a patriot: no more." The Free Press (17 March 2004), http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/853 .

------. "E-Voting: The new battle hymn of the republic." Online Journal (11 September 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/091104Fitrakis/091104fitrakis.html .

------. "Did Kerry Concede Too Soon?" The Free Press (5 November 2004), http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/981 ; Centre for Research on Globalization (6 November 2004), http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/FIT411A.html .

------. "None dare call it voter suppression and fraud." The Free Press (7 November 2004), http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/983 .

------. "And so the sorting and discarding of Kerry votes begins." The Free Press (10 November 2004), http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/985 .

Harris, Bev. Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century. Renton, WA: Talion Publishing/Black Box Voting, 2003. ISBN 1890916900. Free internet version available at http://www.blackboxvoting.org .

------. "Inside a U.S. Election Vote Counting Program." Scoop (8 July 2003), http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm ; Truthout (July 2003), http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml .

------. Voting industry insiders hold secret meeting to hire PR firm to sell electronic voting to public." Online Journal (26 August 2003), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/082604Harris/082604harris.html .

------. "The Tampering of Electronic Voting Systems on November 2nd." BlackBoxVoting (7 November 2004), http://www.blackboxvoting.org ; Centre for Research on Globalization (8 November 2004), http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HAR411A.html .

Hartmann, Thom. "If You Want to Win an Election, Just Control the Voting Machines." CommonDreams.org (31 January 2003). http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm ; Scoop (31 January 2003), http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0302/S00009.htm ; Online Journal (6 February 2003), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/020603Hartmann/020603hartmann.html .

------. "Now your vote is the property of a private corporation." SmirkingChimp.com (11 March 2003), http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=10536 ; Online Journal (13 March 2003), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031303Hartmann/031303hartmann.html .

------. "Evidence Mounts that the Vote May Have Been Hacked." CommonDreams.org (6 November 2004), http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm .

"How George W. Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election." Infernal Press (25 June 2003), http://www.infernalpress.com/Columns/election.html ; Centre for Research on Globalization (15 July 2003), http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/INF307A.html .

Internet Policy Institute. Report of the National Workshop on Internet Voting: Issues and Research Agenda. March 2001. 62 pp. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Conducted in cooperation with the University of Maryland and hosted by the Freedom Forum. http://www.nsfe-voterprt.pdf .

Jones, Douglas W. Voting and Elections. Course on Computers in Voting, 22C:196, Fall 2001, Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa. http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting .

------. "The Diebold AccuVote TS Should be Decertified." ESENEX Security Symposium, Washington DC (6 August 2003), http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/dieboldusenix.html .

"Journalist [Lynn Landes] seeks temporary restraining orders against use of voting machines & absentee ballots." Online Journal (18 October 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/101804NewsFlash/101804newsflash.html .

Keefer, Michael. "Footprints of Electoral Fraud: The November 2 Exit Poll Scam." Centre for Research on Globalization (5 November 2004), http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE411A.html ; Autonomy & Solidarity (5 November 2004), http://www.auto_sol.tao.ca . Other observers have provided graphic confirmation from CNN�s screens of the tampering with exit poll percentages noted in this article. See "Why Did CNN Change Their Exit Poll Data for Ohio After 1:00 a.m.?" Buzzflash (3 November 2004), http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/11/ana04025.html ; and "Proof CNN is tampering with the election to cover the fraud." DemocraticUnderground (3 November 2004), http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1290765&mesg_id=1295180&page= .

Kocher, Paul, and Bruce Schneier. "Insider Risks in Elections." Inside Risks 169, CACM 47, 7 (July 2004), http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/insiderisks04.html .

Landes, Lynn. "2002 elections: Republican voting machines, election irregularities, and �way-off� polling results." Online Journal (8 November 2002), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/110802Landes/110802landes.html .

------. "Mission impossible: Federal observers & voting machines." Online Journal (26 November 2002), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/112602Landes/112602landes.html .

------. "Voting machines violate Constitution: Who will launch legal challenge?" Online Journal (15 April 2003), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/041503Landes/041503landes.html .

------. "Offshore company captures online military vote." Onlne Journal (21 July 2003), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/072103Landes/072103landes.html .

------. "Voting machine fiasco: SAIC, VoteHere and Diebold." Online Journal (20 August 2003), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/082003Landes/082003landes.html .

------. "Internet Voting�The End of Democracy?" 27 August 2003. http://www.ecotalk.org/InternetVoting.htm .

------. "Internet voting: The end of democracy?" Online Journal (4 September 2003), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/090403Landes/090403landes.html .

------. "Republicans and Brits will count California�s recall votes." Online Journal (6 October 2003), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/100603Landes/100603landes.html .

------. "NIST ignores scientific method for voting technology." Online Journal (16 December 2003), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/121603Landes/121603landes.html .

------. Election Fraud and Irregularities�BY YEAR. http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineErrors.htm .

------. Voting Systems Orgs and Companies. http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineCompanies.htm .

------. "Democrats send mixed signals in voting technology debate." Online Journal (29 January 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/012904Landes/012904landes.html .

------. "Questions mount over New Hampshire�s primary." Online Journal (11 February 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/021104Landes/021104landes.html .

------. "Faking democracy: Americans don�t vote, machines do, & ballot printers can�t fix that." Online Journal (2 April 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/040704Landes/040704landes.html .

------. "Two voting companies and two brothers will count 80 percent of U.S. election using both scanners & touchscreens." Online Journal (28 April 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html .

------. "Federal commission nixes talk of paper-only elections; stacks panels with proponents of paperless touchscreens." Online Journal (12 May 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/051204Landes/051204landes.html .

------. "Could the Associated Press rig the election?" Online Journal (23 October 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/102304Landes/102304landes.html .

------. "If this election is stolen, will it be by enough to stop a recount?" Online Journal (31 October 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/103104Landes/103104landes.html .

Leopold, Jason. "Electronic voting minus paper trails makes it easy to rig elections." Online Journal (4 September 2003), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/090403Leopard/090403leopard.html .

Madsen, Wayne. "Grand Theft Election: Karl Rove�s turd droppings all over this one." Online Journal (5 November 2004), http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/110504Madsen/110504madsen.html ; Centre for Research on Globalization (5 November 2004), http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD411A.html .

Mercuri, Rebecca. Electronic Vote Tabulation: Checks and Balances. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer and Information Systems, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2001. Available from http://www.umi.com (Thesis # 3003665).

------. Electronic Voting. http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html .

------. Press Release (24 September 2002): "MIT vs. Mercuri. Rebecca Mercuri rebuts recent MIT/CalTech voting systems analysis and calls for moratorium on new electronic balloting equipment purchases." http://www.notablesoftware.com/Papers/MITvsMercuri.html .

------. "Florida 2002: Sluggish Systems, Vanishing Votes." Inside Risks 149, CACM 45, 11 (November 2002), http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/insiderisks.html#149 .

------, and Peter G. Neumann. "Verification for Electronic Balloting Systems." Chapter 3 of Secure Electronic Voting, ed. Dimitris Gritzalis. Advances in Information Security, vol. 7. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. ISBN 1402073011.

Moore, Steve. "E-Democracy: Stealing the Election in 2004." Global Outlook 8 (Summer 2004); Centre for Research on Globalization (11 July 2004), http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MOO407A.html .

Norr, Henry. "The Risks of Touch-Screen Balloting." San Francisco Chronicle (4 December 2000), http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/04/BU91811.DTL .

Otter, Faun. "Vote Fraud�Exit Polls Vs Actuals." Scoop (4 November 2004), http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00072.htm .

Palast, Greg. "Florida Computers Snatch Thousands of Votes from Kerry." Truthout (26 October 2004), http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102904X.shtml ; also published under the title "Florida�s Computers Have Already Counted Thousands of Votes for George W. Bush." Commondreams.org (28 October 2004), http://www.commondreams.org/head;ines04/1028-02.htm .

------. "Electoral Fraud, Ethnic Cleansing of Voter Rolls, An Election Spoiled Rotten." TomPaine.com (1 November 2004), http://www.tompaine.com ; Centre for Research on Globalization (4 November 2004), http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/PAL411A.html .

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