PLEA TO INTERNATIONAL MONITORS -- input needed! pls. kick till AM.

I have been trying to get others to write because I am not feeling very articulate or in command of facts (flu coming on?). One person responded. This is what I came up with. It is kind of lame, but it's the best I could do for now, and time is of the essence! Please feel free to correct or add anything. I will keep checking back until in the morning, PST. Or add your signature, or PM me to add it.

Dear Urdur Gunnarsdottir,

I respectfully submit the following remarks in the hope that they will be considered by the committee writing the final report regarding their monitoring of the US Election of November 2, 2004 .

I hope that your final report is more conclusive than the preliminary. Many of us in the United States are worried sick that we no longer have a democracy. People have said that your organization is a shill for the corrupt Bush administration, but I detected some integrity in the remarks of your preliminary report.

There are many more knowledgeable and articulate than I am in these matters. I am writing because I think no one else who has seriously studied this election takes your organization seriously. They are convinced of massive vote fraud involving not only extensive suppression of minority and likely Kerry votes, but also widespread padding of the so-called "popular vote" via central tabulators of electronic voting. This election is not the first in which this has taken place in this country. Others under your watch in earlier elections have also defrauded us of our vote, and you have said nothing. I am hoping it is just because you couldn't believe it, couldn't see it. Now you cannot help but see it if you carefully consider all of the evidence.

We are sick that here in this supposedly "great democracy" they are saying that exit polls are not reliable indicators of the vote, but yet in the Ukraine the same polls are being used to overturn an election with the support of this administration. I do not think the people can take four more years of being lied to. Having to watch the Supreme Court put Bush into office last time was enough. This time there is evidence that there was widespread vote fraud, so massive that people don't believe it. Exit polls do not lie. In every state where there is a paper trail, exit polls fit with the final tally. But where there is no record or way to audit the vote, there is a much greater than chance drift ALWAYS in Bush's favor. I hope that your report will address this. And please do not come out with the pablum spouted in our corporate-owned media that the shift is insignificant or explainable by women voting early or Bush voters not telling exit-pollsters how they voted. This issue of the exit polls has been seriously addressed by independent academics at UC Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania, among others. Their studies are widely available, and I certainly hope that you have honestly taken them into consideration in your report.

We are also sick that so many people were not allowed to vote and it was made to look like an oversight or accident. This was a serious violation of civil rights, and it did cause hundreds of thousands of votes against Bush not to be cast. With our country increasingly in the jaws of one party who does not consider opposing points of view, we have no recourse for these violations, just as we had none in the 2000 election. The problem this time is that the disenfranchisement was much, much greater than before. And it was most certainly intentional. In many minority and high Kerry precincts, where a huge voter turnout was expected, fewer polling machines were in place than in the last election, causing voters to have to wait in line for hours. In Ohio, the voters were lined up in the rain until 3:15 am. These were Kerry voters. In many instances their votes were not counted if they did get to vote. The provisional ballot rules have just made it easier for partisian election officials to discard as many ballots as they see fit. In vital "swing" states such as Ohio and Florida, it has been a case of Bush's top campaign managers being in charge of the voting process.

This is a time when we need international support more than ever. We have been the victims of a coup in broad daylight. More and more people are becoming aware of it, and it is going to come out. But the citizens of this once great democracy need your help. Please investigate all of the facts and tell the truth.

If you need verification of anything I have said, I will provide it. The facts are there, however, for any astute observer to gather.

If they would stand up, it would make quite a difference.

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I may have bargained a solid argument to avoid getting stuck in this damn contraption.

Did you get any response?

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. . .author before more kicks. Like I said - just my opinion. :-)

Great idea about writing to the International Monitors.

Do you have an Email address we can use to email them ?

BTW, Below is a letter I sent to several Senators asking them
to support the GAO investigation.

The below letter can also be used to write to the International
Monitors, since I included some good links on the research
that has been done on the 2004 Vote count.



Please consider the below overwhelming Statistical Evidence indicating that the Computer Voting software may have been
manipulated to alter the reported results, and to tip some decisive swing states to Mr. Bush, in the recent Election:

I) Statistical Probability that Election Fraud occurred based upon
Historically Reliable Exit Polls vs. Computer Voting results
is conservatively estimated at over 99 percent probable by
Research experts and Polling professionals.

Dr. Steven Freeman of the Univ. of Pennsylvania has recently released a research paper that puts the chance of exit poll statistical anomalies being off, to the degree that reported Computer voting totals suggest, at a mere 1 in 662,000.

In "The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy," Dr. Steven F. Freeman, who has a PH. D from MIT and whose expertise lies in Research Methods, states :

"As much as we can say in social science that something is impossible, it is impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote counts in the three critical battleground states of the 2004 election could have been due to chance or random error."

The odds of those exit poll statistical anomalies occurring by chance are 662,000 to one.

Dr. Freemans's Research paper can be read in it's entirety at : http://www.ilcaonline.org/freeman.pdf

Dr. Freeman can be contacted via his email address that appears at the above PDF file, or via the email address of

sf@alum.mit.edu

Professor Freeman concludes the research paper with this:

"Systematic fraud or mistabulation is a premature conclusion, but the election's unexplained exit poll discrepancies make it an unavoidable
hypothesis, one that is the responsibility of the media, academia, polling agencies, and the public to investigate."

In addition to Dr. Freeman's study of the Voting Anomalies, the below website is a links to a similar study done by the UC Berkeley
research security team on this issue.

The UC Berkeley research team concluded that the probability of fraudulent Reported Election results were over 99 % :

http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/VOTE2004/election04_WPwappendices.pdf

Professor of Mathematics David Anick, formerly of MIT, did an in-depth study of the discrepancies between exit poll results in Swing States, and the Voting totals reported in those states, and Prof. Anick concluded that the chances of the exit polls being as wrong as the reported vote totals would indicate, are only 1 in 50,000.

A comprehensive Master List of the voting problems documented in the recent Presidential Election, including links to Scholarly analysis done of the Computer Voting totals can be found at :

http://shadowbox.i8.com/stolen.htm


II) How could Computer Voting Fraud have been committed
and was it feasible?

Please see the below demonstration of how Computer Votes could have been manipulated, in a 4 Step demonstration,
using Diebold's own GEM operating system software, from Chuck Herrin , a certified Microsoft Systems Engineer and IT auditor :

http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevote.htm


III) Suspects : Is there any reason to be suspicious
of the Computer Voting companies?

No less than 5 of Diebold's developers are convicted felons, including Senior Vice President Jeff Dean, who tops
the list with his twenty-three counts of felony Theft in the First Degree.

Mr. Dean was convicted of all 23 felony counts of theft in the First degree by - and this should raise Red Flags to any
objective person - planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection.

The above information comes from Case File No. 89-1-04034-1 (State of Washington ):

So we have someone who pleaded guilty to 23 counts of embezzlement, who is given the position of Senior programmer
of the (Diebold) GEMS central tabulator system that counts approximately 50 percent of the votes in the (Bush-Kerry) election,
in 30 states, using both paper ballot and touch screen machines.

And while Felons are not allowed to vote in the United States, they are allowed to write the software that is used
to count millions of the votes for the United States Presidential Election.

And their software is proprietary, with reported results that cannot be verified by a paper audit trail , since none exists.

Both ES & S and Sequoia, the other 2 main Computer Voting companies, also have a track record of criminal behavior, which can easily be verified by checking the legal histories of these companies.

IV) Bullet point summation of the most serious 2004 Presidential
Vote total errors found so far :

In addition to the 57,000 Voter complaints concerning Voter disenfranchisement, broken down or insufficient
voting machines, received by People for the American Way, below is a bullet point summary of some of the most serious
Presidential Election errors found so far, which are almost certainly just the tip of a large iceberg :

-The almost 4,000 votes awarded to Bush in Columbus, Ohio, reported by the AP, which was only noticeable because more votes were recorded in the precinct than there were registered voters.

-Apx. 4,500 votes lost in one North Carolina county.

-3,000 phantom votes were added by a Nebraska "vote tabulator" which doubled the votes.

-22,000 North Carolina votes which later had to be added because the computer initially discarded them due to system overload.

-A glitch in San Francisco computers which caused many votes to be uncounted.

-Florida's anomalous results where only districts with touch screen voting had disproportionate votes for Bush than expected.
This analysis has since been duplicated by a UC Berkeley professor and others.

-AP reports in Florida and Ohio of voters who stated when using touchscreens, when they selected "John Kerry,"
that instead "George Bush" would appear on the screen.

-Long lines in urban Ohio areas, to the point where voters left in frustration after 8 or so hours.

-21 voting machines in Broward County, Florida, malfunctioned, eliminating prior votes that had been cast on them in this most-Democratic county in the state.

-Warren County, Ohio's, refusal to allow independent monitoring of vote counting based on a terrorist incident which turned out later to not exist.

- Machines in Oklahoma counted BACKWARDS for Kerry, with a net result of Sen Kerry losing 37,982 votes to the ES&S Optech Machines.
During the same time period President Bush gained 393,825 votes.

See this newspaper for confirmation of above Oklahoma problem http://okimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=344

-Malfunctioning vote cassettes in Palm Beach, FL.

-Boxes of absentee votes discovered after the election in a Broward County election office.

- In Cleveland, Heavily Democratic wards, such as Precinct 6-C and precinct 13-F, reported less than 20 % turnout, despite record turnout in most cities :

V) Conclusion : - Means, Opportunity, and Criminal Track Record
exist, justifying an Investigation into a matter of this
importance.

The above facts show that the Means, the Opportunity, and a Criminal track record of those involved in writing the Computer Voting Software all exist, and these 3 points taken together, along with the vast discrepancy between historically accurate Exit poll data and the reported Computer voting results in swing states, point to a very strong possibility that Fraud did occur on a massive and significant scale in this months Presidential Election.

At the very least, an independent investigation is needed to look into these serious matters, not only to be sure who the winner of the last election was, but also to insure that our Election voting procedures are safe, accurate, secure, and fair for future elections in our Country.

Please make sure that Future Generations will have the sacred American right to vote and to be sure there
vote is recorded accurately, by supporting the members of Congress who have called for an Investigation.

I'd like to finish by saying that it would be a great tragedy if the citizens of the Ukraine are allowed to have a recount to verify that their recent National Elections were valid , while the citizens of the United States, the greatest Democracy on Earth, are not granted that same right.

Do the Ukrainians have more Courage and more fighting spirit to keep their newly won Democracy, than we Americans have ?

Does the Ukrainian opposition party have more Courage and dedication to Democracy and to a Just and Fair Election than the leadership
of the Democratic Party has here in America, which was the Democratic model and Ideal that inspired so many foreign people, including
the ex Soviet satellites, to cast off their Tyrannical governments, so that they could become Democracies themselves?

Can it be that America, the Beacon of Democracy, is a nation where their President is decided by an election where the votes are counted, using propiertary software, by 3 corporations that have both criminal records and heavy financial ties to the Republican Party, and of whom one of their CEO's, Walden O'Dell openly boasted that he would deliver the Electoral Votes of Ohio to Mr. Bush ?

Please now take a stand and help our Country end this long national nightmare of fear mongering, deceit, and subversion of
our Constitution, by aiding those Brave Congressional Representatives who are calling for an investigation into the overwhelming questionable report vote totals in several key swing states, especially Ohio and Florida.

The Ukrainian Parliament has just taken steps to demand a new election in their country, after the widespread fraud that occurred there.

Do not American Citizens, deserve at least the same rights as Ukrainians to a Fair and Verifiable election ?

I await your reply.

Sincerely and in Love of Democracy,

YOUR NAME