Hi, AfDers and friends,
I am forwarding this from AfD supporter Joe Miller which has links to a recent Amy Goodman interview with Mark Crispin Miller on the theft of elections. The interview is excellent and I was intending to forward myself. Joe has been good enough to include links to additional materials. Thank you, Joe.
I would add that he has included something on the "Bradley effect." Today's Oregonian had an article on this as well which noted one study saying that it no longer exists or might in fact now be a reverse effect.
David e. Delk, Alliance for Democracy - Portland Chapter 503 232 5495 www.afd-pdx.org
> Dear Folks,
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> Below find the transcript and video (12:38 minutes) of Amy Goodman's powerful Oct. 22 interview with Mark Crispin Miller on ways in which prior elections have been stolen, and procedures that already are in play in 2008 to influence the outcome by intimidation, suppression, and electronic manipulation. Miller is the author of several books, including "Loser Takes All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008," and is a professor of media culture and communication at New York University.
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> The interview is consistently revealing. Most powerful to me were Miller's description of Richard Hayes Phillips' conclusive research* on the theft of the 2004 Presidential election in Ohio, and his description of the role that Mike Connell has played in computer engineering the outcome of elections. Connell has been described as "Karl Rove's computer guru," now works (as does Rove) for McCain-Palin, and "is the guy who has helped Bush-Cheney fix election results through computers since Florida 2000, in Ohio in 2004, also in the stolen re-election of Governor Don Siegelman in Alabama in 2002, also in the stolen re-election of Senator Max Cleland in Georgia in 2002." For more on Connell, see the seventh point in the final article below by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman.
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> Toward the end of the interview, Miller makes some exceptionally important points about the "Bradley effect," the lack of evidence for the effect, and the ways that the narrative of this supposed "effect" might be used as a cover to explain an electronically stolen election. Below find a segment from "On the Media" that also discusses the lack of evidence for the "Bradley Effect."
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> The last four links provide lots of valuable information and resources on how to promote democracy and thwart the rigging of elections.
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> Best,
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> Joe
> Portland
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> Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Early Voting Sees Reports of Voter Intimidation, Machine Malfunctions 10/22/08
> http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/22/votes
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> Early Voting Sees Reports of Voter Intimidation, Machine Malfunctions - Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman interviews Mark Crispin Miller 10/22/08 Video 12:38
> http://www.truthout.org/video/102308A
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> On The Media: Transcript of "Ghost of Bradley Present" (October 24, 2008)
> http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2008/10/24/04
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> Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine: How to Stop the Rigging of Election '08 10/23/08
> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/23-7
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> Talk of the Nation, NPR: Voting Problems Emerge As Early Ballots Are Cast 23:41 10/24/08
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96088036
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> Jim Cirile, Velvet Revolution: Thirteen Election Integrity Experts: E-Voting Problems and How to Stop Them 10/24/08
> http://www.alternet.org/story/104392/
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> Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press: Ten ways the McCain/Palin GOP is now stealing the Ohio vote 9/9/08
> http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2008/3201
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> *As listserv members will remember, Phillips appeared at the First Unitarian Church on Sept. 17th, under the sponsorship of the Alliance for Democracy and the Democracy Action Group.
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