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• July and August 2006, the Portland Alliance newspaper (http://www.theportlandalliance.org/) published two articles "Election 2006: Are Oregon's elections accurate?" in July and "Who Owns Oregons Elections?" in August.
• June 27, 2006, The Brennan Center (http://www.brennancenter.org/) Task Force on Voting System Security issued a report documenting: "Threat of Hacking Can Be Reduced by Simple Countermeasures -- Random Audits of Paper Records; Ban on Wireless Systems."
• June 2006, Rolling Stone Magazine published an article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., titled, "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" (http://tinyurl.com/ogrhq)

Souce: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1231-01.htm

Published on Saturday, December 31, 2005 by the New York Times
Conspiring Against the Voters
Editorial

President Bush has announced four nominees for the Federal Election Commission, moving to keep the policing of campaign abuses firmly in the hands of party wheel horses. The timing of the announcement - the president waited until the Senate had gone home - is likely to allow the nominees to avoid the full hearing and confirmation process needed to evaluate them properly.

The most objectionable nominee is Hans von Spakovsky, a former Republican county chairman in Georgia and a political appointee at the Justice Department. He is reported to have been involved in the maneuvering to overrule the career specialists who warned that the Texas gerrymandering orchestrated by Representative Tom DeLay violated minority voting rights. Senators need the opportunity to delve into that, as well as reports of Mr. von Spakovsky's involvement in such voting rights abuses as the purging of voter rolls in Florida in the 2000 elections.

The need for a clean broom at the six-member election panel becomes clearer with each new round of decisions favoring big-money politics over the voters. But the newly nominated majority promises no improvement. In fact, the slate would mean an end to the service of Scott Thomas, the one incumbent praised for his independence by Senator John McCain, who has campaigned for a clean, hack-free Federal Election Commission.

With various recent developments re the *-evik administration, I think we need to be extra cautious and boost our security measures. I therefore encourage all SC members to change your password for this website and to something random or atypical for you. If "they" should figure out the password for any one of us, "they" would have full access to this website.

Also, note that I have changed my ID name.

Download a draft Schedule at a Glance (PDF) for the National Summit here. (Updated 09/26/05)

Source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0908-05.htm

Published on Thursday, September 8, 2005 by the Tucson Weekly
CENSORED STORIES:
Project Censored presents the 10 stories the mainstream media ignored over the past year

by Camille T. Taiara

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Every year, project researchers scour the media looking for news that never really made the news, publishing the results in a book, this year titled Censored 2006. Of course, as Project Censored staffers painstakingly explain every year, their "censored" stories aren't literally censored, per se. Most can be found on the Internet if you know where to look. And some have even received some ink in the mainstream press. "Censorship," explains project director Peter Phillips, "is any interference with the free flow of information in society." The stories highlighted by Project Censored simply haven't received the kind of attention they warrant, and therefore haven't made it into the greater public consciousness.

"If there were a real democratic press, these are the kind of stories they would do," says Sut Jhally, professor of communications at the University of Massachusetts and executive director of the Media Education Foundation.

Download a 2-page summary on The Case for Fraud in the 2004 Election (PDF) - click here. Discuss this on the forum here.

Download the Timeline of Exit Poll & Machine Tally Data in the 2004 Presidential Race graphs (PDF). For a color version, click here, or a black & white version, here. Discuss this on the forum here.

Click here for a tri-fold brochure on Why We Need Election Reform (PDF).