You Can Help Restore Democracy by January 2007 by ...

You can personally contribute vital service to restore our democracy by giving copies of this to your elected officials and candidates

http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Presidential-Election-2004.pdf

because candidates must learn why they need to stop conceding elections until after they have obtained and examined their own election data to look for suspicious patterns. (and they have every legal right to do so - yet no counties publicly release it - instead reporting results in a way that hides evidence of tampering)

Updated to be a little better organized and easier to read ... This concise history of the debate over the validity of the 2004 presidential election -- will educate anyone who reads it and disabuse them of the misperceptions that mainstream media have put forth.

http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Presidential-Election-2004.pdf

It contains a great section by Paul Lehto about the Washington State governor's race so readers will understand that electronic vote tampering has not been confined just to the presidential races.

It is a living history, so other authors may contribute sections to it still.

Here are the sections it contains:

Kerry Wins Presidential Election according to the Exit Polls (November 2, 2004)
Pollsters Alter Exit Poll Data to be the Same as Election Results (November 3)
Surprising Florida Election Results (November 3)
"Theories of Fraud Easily Debunked" (November 9)
"The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy" (November 10, updated January 5)
Explaining Florida's Unusual Voting Patterns (November 14)
Bush Wins the Popular Vote: One in 959,000 Chance (December 28, updated January 2, 2005)
New Mexico Precinct Election Data Reveals Presidential Election Tampering (January 3)
Irregular Touch-screen Election Results in the Washington State Governor's Race (January 6)
Exit Pollsters' Explanation for the Discrepancies: Bush Voters Respond Less (January 19)
Precincts with Highest Bush Vote Share had Responded More to Exit Polls (January 28)
"Analysis of the 2004 Presidential Election Exit Poll Discrepancies" (March 31)
"Exit Polls 2004: differential non-response or votecount?" (April 19, updated April 27)
"Vote Fraud Theorists Battle Over Plausibility" (April 24)
Exit Pollster Presents Scatter-plot of Exit Poll Discrepancies (May 14)
"The 2004 Election: Exit Poll Error or Vote Miscount?" (May 15, updated September 8)
“Ohio Exit Polls: Explaining the Discrepancy” (June 6)
Carter-Baker Recommend Audits & No Unadjusted Exit Polls (September)
U.S. EAC "Voluntary Guidelines for Voting Equipment" (as of September)
"Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way but Key Activities Need to Be Completed" (September)
Freeman - Mitofsky Exit Poll Debate (October 14)
Mathematical Proof that ESI/Mitofsky Analysis is Logically Invalid (October 31)
"Ohio Exit Poll Data Are Consistent with Vote Miscount" (2005)
Conclusion: Evidence for Vote Miscount in the 2004 Presidential Election
Recommendations: Detailed Election Data Monitoring and Independent Audits

If anyone would like to help write a briefer summary of this history, please let me know and I will send you the word doc - an even more concise version would be great - but I don't have time myself (or the writing talent).

Kathy