“Witness to a Crime: A Citizens’ Audit of an American Election,”

Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.

“Richard Hayes Phillips worked day and night for three years compiling irrefutable evidence of how the Republicans stole the 2004 presidential race in Ohio. This landmark investigation is a testament to what private citizens can accomplish when government officials fail to protect our right to vote and to count those votes as cast. Every American – Republican and Democrat – should read this book, and join the fight for democracy’s most fundamental right.”

-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Phillips’ long-awaited book, “Witness to a Crime: A Citizens’ Audit of an American Election,” has gone to press and will be available in March. The book will be hardcover, with a dust jacket. The manuscript is 448 pages, including Annotated Table of Contents, Glossary, Index, eight color plates, and a CD with 1200 digital images of actual ballots, poll books, voter signature books, and other forensic evidence from the 2004 presidential election in Ohio. The retail cost to the purchaser will be $30, including packaging and postage.

Phillips expects to engage in promotional tours across the nation, primarily in alternative bookstores, coffee houses, churches, peace and justice centers, libraries, and college campuses, in early spring and throughout the summer. These events are to be more than lectures. He hopes for freewheeling discussions about the restoration of self-government in America.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_richard__080226__22irrefutable_evidenc.htm

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We spend to much energy on the Hillary/Obama thing, but not the real problem of election manipulation.

Of course, he has only done what all of us should be doing: counting every goddamned vote, documenting every goddamned scrap of paper, ballot, punchcard, numbers on punchards, tape, memory card, security seal, sign-in sheet, ballot box, wires in and out of machines, transport of paper and machines, action of officials, workers present in polling places and around central tallying centers, and central electronic tabulators--anything and everything that occurs around the sacred and precious act of voting, the foundation of our democracy.

I've read some of Phillips' preliminary analyses, here at DU and at his web site, and was amazed to learn of the blank, unnumbered punchcards in Ohio, that, if you slid them into the wrong tallying device, at the wrong precinct, changed what was a Kerry vote to a Bush vote, because of the position of the punched holes visa vis the tally device. Mind-boggling, the lengths these Bushites went to, to steal that election (2004). I think they had multiple back up plans--the nearly completely non-transparent, newly installed electronic voting systems nationwide, and this special Republican people-machine in Ohio, probably with a backup in Florida, where 'sieg-heiling' Bushite true believers were in position to do whatever they were told to do, and whatever was necessary to bend Ohio to Bush, just in case the promises of the tech wizards at Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia didn't pan out. But I do think it took both. I think they left nothing to chance, and had to go all out to reverse a Kerry landslide.

I am greatly looking forward to reading Phillips' book. I don't know how to express thanks for something like this. I'm sure it was done selflessly, with no thought of reward, with reward being almost inconceivable in this "Iron Curtained" country, and at tremendous sacrifice, and with fear creeping up his neck now and then How can you know, in such an investigation, whose ire you might earn and what such ruthless and conscienceless people might do?

Like the kid who got the photos out of Abu Ghraib, and like Sibel Edmonds, and like Lt. Ehren Watada, and Capt. James Yee, and the Wilson's, and the military jag lawyers, and the generals who refuse to nuke Iran, and Cindy Sheehan, and so many other American heroes, Phillips' just kept the faith that the truth will out, that the truth will prevail, and that our battered, near dead democracy will rise again. I'm sure that's all he had, at some moments. Faith in the truth. Faith in the American people.

So let's at least give him what reward we can--when the American Peoples' Post-Bush Junta Congressional Medal of Honor is what is merited--and buy his book, to help defray several years of expenses, and lost income, and to say "Thank you!"

Thank you, Richard! And those who helped you as well! Keep the faith!

I caught this at the site I noted, and thought that this could be an important book. I hope it makes a difference, but then again, I have never seen Naomi Klein explain her book on the MSM. I hope his proof is undeniable, and I am sure Olbermann will air it, but I am not sure it will make a difference for November, 2008.

(Edited: I may have seen Klein on Olbermann. There is so much to keep up with under this administration.)

A grateful citizen salutes you, Dr. Phillips.

Eventually, people will understand what has been allowed to happen by leaders in politics and the media: the hi-jacking and evisceration of American democracy by a small group of ideologues.

If our democracy isn't dead at the moment, it's on life-support.

There's no question but that the 08 election will be manipulated. The only question is if the amount of the tilt that results will be enough to bring John McCain to power with all that that means, and it truly boggles the mind what that will mean, war with Iran being probably only a small part of it.