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June 19, 2005: Sunday Monitor


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<> 6:00 pm CDT -- HEADLINES


<> ~6:10 pm CDT-- GUESTS 1, 2 & 3: Breaking News on
Election Investigations from Florida, California, and Ohio

KATHLEEN WYNNE of Black Box Voting
and technical consultant HARRI HURSTI of Finland

Kathleen is an investigator with Black Box Voting. She will bring us the latest on the group's efforts in Florida and California, where a hearing was just held in Sacramento.

Harri Hursti is working on a technical report delineating the hackability of an optical scan voting system made by Diebold, due out in about a week. In three separate attempts over a four month period, Hursti and another computer expert visited the Leon County Elections Office (FL), and demonstrated how the election data could be hacked and changed.

FLORIDA: From the county's report: "Granted the same access as an employee of our office, it was possible enter the computer, alter election results, and exit the system without leaving any physical record of this action."

Website: Black Box Voting http://www.blackboxvoting.org
Reports on Leon County, FL hack demonstration, "Optical scan system hacked (3 ways)":
-- http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/5921.html
-- http://www.leonfl.org/elect/SpecialReport.htm


BOB FITRAKIS



Bob Fitrakis (Photo: ) is co-author of Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? Essential Documents, by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld, Harvey Wasserman.

OHIO: Prof. Fitrakis says he has spoken with a person involved in election tech installation in Ohio, and that Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell had access to central tabulation election machines, and that that machinery had the capability of having its vote totals altered (overwritten).

Fitrakis is a Professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at Columbus State Community College. He has a Ph.D in Political Science and a J.D. from The Ohio State University Law School. He is the author of seven books, an investigative reporter, and Editor of the Columbus Free Press. He has won ten major investigative journalism awards including Best Coverage of Politics in Ohio from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. He served as an international election observer in the 1994 presidential elections in El Salvador and was the co-author and editor of the report to the United Nations. In 2004, he served as legal advisor for eight polling locations in Columbus, Ohio for the Election Protection Coalition.

Website: Free Press.org http://freepress.org
Book: Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? Essential Documents


<> 6:40 pm CDT-- GUEST 4: KAVEH EHSANI

Elections in Iran were held on Friday, but the media seemed more interested in continuing to cover Michael Jackson, Terry Schiavo, and the Runaway Bride.

Mark will talk with Kaveh Ehsani about the elections there. Ehsani is a research scholar at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He is on the editorial boards of Middle East Report and Goft-o-gu (Dialogue) journal in Iran. He is the author of a number of articles about Iran including "High Stakes for Iran" (Middle East Report, Summer 2003) and, with Chris Toensing, "Neo-Conservatives, Hardline Clerics and the Bomb" (Middle East Report, Winter 2004).


CO-HOSTS: Mark Bebawi and Pokey Anderson

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Last week's show, June 12
--CHIP PITTS, of Amnesty International re Patriot Act, torture
--CLIFF ARNEBECK, public interest attorney of Ohio, updating the Ohio Coin Scandal plus the fight for transparent elections

June 5
-- ROBERT PARRY, author of Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq

May 29
-- THE BREAKING OHIO SCANDAL, with guests
Mike Wilkinson of the Toledo Blade and
Ohio State Senator Teresa Fedor
-- FORMER AMBASSADOR JOE WILSON, author of The Politics of Truth

May 22
-- veteran investigative journalist ROBERT PARRY. His website: Consortium News website: www.consortiumnews.com The hour includes the fiery testimony of George Galloway, Member of Parliament, before the US Senate, and a story by Renee Feltz about the local protests at the Halliburton shareholders meeting.

May 15
-- theologian DAVID RAY GRIFFIN, author of The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11. It also includes the first of our two-week fund drive.

May 8
-- UK journalist DUNCAN CAMPBELL
discussing the election in Britain
-- chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference SHEILA WATT-CLOUTIER
discussing global warming