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* RALLY ‘ROUND THE FLAG FOR A FAIR VOTE WITH REVEREND JESSE JACKSON,
GREG PALAST, AND MORE… *
* SATURDAY DECEMBER 4, 2004 *
* OHIO STATEHOUSE LAWN @ 1 PM *
Guess * WHO * is coming to speak *: *
* Reverend Jesse Jackson *
* Greg Palast *(journalist and author of The Best Democracy Money Can
Buy )
* Ian Solomon * (Dean of Yale School of Law)
* Bill Moss * (former Columbus school board member)
* Bob Fitrakis * (Columbus Free Press)
* Reuben Herrera * (Adelante - Latino/Latina Democrats)
* Anita Rios * (Green Party)
* Cliff Arnebeck * (lead litigant in the Contest of Election suit)
* Jad Hummeidan * (Council on American Islamic Relations)
* Petey Talley * (Ohio AFL-CIO) (invited)
* Bill Burga * (Ohio AFL-CIO) (invited)
* Rev. Mylian Waite * (Antioch Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio)
(invited)
* Rep. John Conyers * (invited)
* Charleta Tavares * (Columbus City Council member) (invited)
Emcee: *Susan Truitt* (co-founder of *C*itizens’ *A*lliance for
*S*ecure
*E*lections)
* WHAT: *
* "There's just a lot of allegations of vote fraud that placed their
election, the validity of their elections, in doubt...The international
community is watching very carefully. People are paying very close
attention to this, and hopefully it will be resolved in a way that
brings credit and confidence to the Ukrainian government." *
* -- GEORGE W. BUSH, 11/29/04 *
* *
* George W., the world is watching the USA! ** *
* WHEN: *
SATURDAY
DECEMBER 4, 2004 @ 1 PM
* WHERE: *
* OHIO STATEHOUSE LAWN *
East Broad & South High Streets,
Columbus, Ohio
* SYMPOSIUM :*
* Saturday December 4th, 2004 *
* 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM, *
* Africentric Middle School *
* 300 E. Livingston Ave., Columbus, Ohio *
Stand Up and Be Counted: A CASE for Democracy
Featuring Keynote speakers Rev Jesse Jackson and Journalist: Greg
Palast, author of /The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. /
/ /
* Kerry Won.
Here are the Facts.
/TomPaine.com
/Friday, November 5, 2004
by Greg Palast (
http://www.gregpalast.com <
http://www.gregpalast.com/> )
*I know you don't want to hear it. You can't face one more hung chad.
But I don't have a choice. As a journalist examining that messy sausage
called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the most
votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was
John Kerry.
Most voters in Ohio thought they were voting for Kerry. At 1:05 a.m.
Wednesday morning, CNN's exit poll showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio
women by 53 percent to 47 percent. The exit polls were later combined
with—and therefore contaminated by—the tabulated results, ultimately
becoming a mirror of the apparent actual vote. Kerry also defeated Bush
among Ohio's male voters 51 percent to 49 percent. Unless a third
gender
voted in Ohio, Kerry took the state.
So what's going on here? Answer: the exit polls are accurate. Pollsters
ask, "Who did you vote for?" Unfortunately, they don't ask the crucial,
question, "Was your vote counted?" The voters don't know.
Here's why. Although the exit polls show that most voters in Ohio
punched cards for Kerry-Edwards, thousands of these votes were simply
not recorded. This was predictable and it was predicted.
TomPaine.com, "An Election Spoiled Rotten,” November 1.]
Once again, at the heart of the Ohio uncounted vote game are, I'm sorry
to report, hanging chads and pregnant chads, plus some other ballot
tricks old and new.
The election in Ohio was not decided by the voters but by something
called "spoilage." Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of
the vote is voided, just thrown away, not recorded. When the
bobble-head
boobs on the tube tell you Ohio or any state was won by 51 percent to
49
percent, don't you believe it ... it has never happened in the United
States, because the total never reaches a neat 100 percent. The
television totals simply subtract out the spoiled vote.
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