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Another EXCELLENT Adam Stone Article

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http://www.northcountynews.com/view.asp?s=12-8-04/news3.htm

Area activists demand FBI probe
Lowey supports investigation of Election Day fraud

Congresswoman Nita Lowey
by Adam Stone
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D/Harrison) told North County News Friday she supports a federal investigation into voter fraud surrounding the 2004 presidential election.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is investigating reported voting irregularities on Election Day that some Democrats believe unfairly handed President George W. Bush a second term.

"Almost immediately following the election this year, a group of representatives, most of whom are on the House Judiciary Committee, contacted the GAO to request an investigation into various reports of voting irregularities," Lowey said. "This is an important request and I will watch to ensure that the GAO conducts a thorough investigation of these issues."

"I believe that the right to vote is fundamental to the continued survival of our democracy, and because of that belief I have been working in Congress to ensure that Americans' votes count," she also stated through her spokeswoman, Julie Edwards.

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Brooke Gladstone, co-host of WNYC's weekend On the Media program, which is distributed by National Public Radio, said the mainstream media might be largely ignoring the story because many reporters are relieved that a "long and nasty campaign" is over.

"Moreover, accusations of vote fraud emerged first in the blogs, which mainstream media regard with some suspicion," she stated. "Blogs break important stories, but they're also repositories for rumor, so every charge needs to be checked….That takes a lot of commitment on the part of reporters and editors that (have) been eroded by charges of left-wing bias from the right, lack of outrage from the Democrats, shrinking news holes and budget cuts."

"I strongly believe that demonstrable voter fraud, whether or not it changes the outcome of the election, is a front-page issue," she also stated.

Gladstone said after 9/11 "reporters (have been) afraid to get in front of a story." They prefer, she said, to receive "cover from politicians," and without "Kerry making a fuss," they might fear charges of liberal bias.

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North County News has received hundreds of e-mails from activists across the country begging for coverage of the reported voting irregularities that aren't being chronicled in the mainstream press.

"There cannot be a fair recount because the voting machines - many were used in Ohio and were in the only precincts where exit polls were wrong - leave no paper trail and therefore their votes cannot be verified," Dr. Justin Frank, the author of Bush on the Couch, a psychoanalysis of the 43rd president, remarked. "All they do when recounting machine ballots is look at the same printout and add it up again. That is not a recount at all, because it says nothing about possible machine error."

"If there were a paper trail this would not be a problem because the paper trail could be checked against the vote total," he continued. "Since that is not the case, a recount is impossible."

"They must do a revote," Dr. Frank concluded.