Greg Palast: The Theft of the 2008 Election

Palast’s latest report on the ongoing efforts to rig the 2008 election. Broadcast on BBC Newsnight, this story is still a non-issue for U.S. media, except for FOX network’s plugging of the Repub cover story to justify purging the voter rolls. Are we being set up for another “surprise” Repub victory? Will the Dems again rush to concede defeat, content with their status as the permanent minority “opposition”? 15 min.

Stephen Spoonamore: On Stealing Elections through Vote Tampering

Spoonamore is a leading computer security expert and life-long Republican who speaks out about the massive evidence that electronic voting machine manufacturers have conspired with the Republican Party to rig election since at least 2000, and plan to do so again this year. He openly challenges the assumption that we actually live in a democracy, and makes the case that openly hand-counted paper ballots are that most reliable way to insure a fair counting of the votes. For more information go to velvet revolution. 27 min. Download here.

Ron Paul Hosts Third Party Press Conference

For those who are sick of the banalities and trivialities of the Obama/Mcain show. On Sept. 11 Ron Paul hosted a press conference for the "third party" candidates. Independent Ralph Nader, Green party candidate Cynthia McKinney & Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution party make statements. Libertarian candidate Bob Barr was not able to attend. All 4 candidates give unanimous support to a statement on 4 key issues: (1) ending the current wars, (2) restoring civil liberties, (3) Reform the Federal Reserve and reduce the federal debt and (4) stop bailouts of corporations. A remarkable consensus from the left and right. 66 min. View in fullscreen here.

Endgame: Bush & Cheney's desperate measures

Media critic Mark Crispin Miller give his take on how the Republican vote-theft machine will operate on the 2008 election. Miller’s latest book, “Fooled Again” is a study of how the 2004 election was stolen. The methods continued to be implemented and refined in 2006, and the groundwork has been laid out for 2008. 15 min. Download part1, part2.

The Plan to steal the 2008 Election - Greg Palast on Democracy Now!

Are they going to steal the 2008 election? No, they’ve already stolen the 2008 election. Greg Palast interviews David Iglasias, one of the fired U.S. Attorneys, to discover that the firings were about influencing elections. The administration team couldn’t tolerate appointees who wouldn’t go along with the crime of suppressing the votes of African American students, homeless men, and soldiers. Note: there is an overlap of about 2 minutes between the 2nd and 3rd parts of this report. 30 min. Download part1, part2, part3. View fullscreen.

Hacking Democracy

When touch-screen voting machines are installed in her community, Bev Harris decides to do some research. Harris discovers that black boxes aren't exactly fool-proof—-far from it. As technology experts attest, the code is vulnerable to manipulation. Worse yet, after-the-fact changes are undetectable. So, Harris forms a grass-roots organization and proceeds to dig deeper. They reveal a system riddled with inaccuracy, incompetent election officials, and electronic voting machines that can be programmed to steal elections. They take on voting machine manufacturer Diebold and go dumpster diving at a county election official's office, uncovering evidence of miscounted votes. Over the course of three years, they find several troubling instances of corporate malfeasance and computer malfunction, and her findings lead the State of California to file criminal charges against Diebold. 81 min. Download here.