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The below handbook was designed to assist activists working on voting issues "persuade and educate [Boards of Elections], lawmakers, media and citizens about the woeful inadequacies of electronic voting."

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The uproar of applause at attorney Cliff Arnebeck's serving the Hocking County Board of Elections with a court order not to make any decision regarding the firing of Hocking County BOE whistleblower Sherole Eaton, was in the very least, memorable. It shall be treasured by the present Eaton, who blew the whistle on a Triad GSI Technician who was witnessed by Eaton early last December, illegally switching out hard drives on an election machine involved in last year's election recount in Hocking County, Ohio. Sherole Eaton's decision to stand up for election integrity was an easy decision for this slight woman who most people would not immediately think of as "courageous." Her thought at the moment was that what she was doing the right thing. Now, she is in a fight to keep her job with the Hocking County Board of elections who voted to fire her in May 2005.

In the 2004 general election, Ohio was one of several states in which a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage appeared on the ballot. This is widely believed to have resulted in an unprecedented turnout among rural white evangelical Christians, which helped George W. Bush win the presidential election. In Ohio, the proposition was known as “Issue One.”

To investigate the matter, I prepared a table comparing the vote for president with the vote on Issue One, county by county. State wide, Issue One received 61.71% of the vote, whereas Bush, officially, is reputed to have received 50.81% of the vote, a differential of 10.90%. Bush ran 469,567 votes (14.10%) behind the “Yes” votes on Issue One, and Kerry ran 675,705 votes (32.71%) ahead of the “No” votes on Issue One.

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Direct testimony: Presented to Election Assessment Hearing, Houston, Texas, July 29, 2005

I have investigated the Ohio election results, precinct by precinct, and have found three categories of problems: voter suppression, ballots cast but not counted, and alteration of the vote count.

In the City of Columbus, discriminatory allocation of voting machines led directly to lower turnout in Democratic precincts. Urban Democratic precincts had too few voting machines and long lines; suburban Republican precincts had enough voting machines and short lines; 122 voting machines were not provided to any polling station anywhere. As a result, voter turnout was 60% in Bush precincts, and 50% in Kerry precincts. This wrongly reduced Kerry’s margin of victory in Franklin County by about 17,000 votes.

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The first song of the Green Day's show just ended. It was a perfect, exciting, loud and pumped start to a great concert.

If you ever have an opportunity to see Green Day perform, take it! Especially if you're a fan...and me being one they definitely exceeded all expectations I may have had for them

Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong is a great entertainer filled with charisma and spark. He was wonderful, as was backup vocals/bassist Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool, the drummer.

All three make a powerful trio. Having been in this business for 16 years, they certainly have improved according to my Dad, since he last saw them at Woodstock in 1994. He said that along with improving, they have gained great political sense, since they are outspoken Bush haters, and have named their tour "The American Idiot" in Bush's "honor". I think it gives them more character.

Even if you aren't a fan the concert is certainly a fun filled night, with loud bangs and crazy crowd jumps!

At one point Billie even picked three people from the mosh pit, and he and Cool and Dirnt showed them how to play a song. Billie even gave one of them his guitar!

I wish to acknowledge the work of Pat Lent, Brian Taylor and Cindy Darrah who contributed research and ideas for this paper. Dan Kornacki converted the data from Lucas County into an Excel Spreadsheet.

This report contains overwhelming evidence of voter suppression in Lucas County, Ohio.

A list of voters who voted provisionally was obtained from the Lucas County Board of Elections. The report listed name, address, precinct voted in and reason for the vote being invalidated. Voter turnout data by precinct was obtained from the Lucas County Board of Elections website. Other information was obtained over the telephone from the Lucas County Board of Elections and the Wayne County City Clerk’s office. 

A large number of citizens voted by provisional ballot in Lucas County on November 2^nd and most of the uncounted provisional votes were cast in Toledo.

Lucas County Provisional Votes

Total Provisional Votes               4,469

It’s time we all get together on the same page and talk to our representatives about a problem we have in this country. This problem is rooted in ignorance and it is made worse by irresponsible policymakers. I’m talking about the fight to make marijuana legal, if for nothing else but for the plenty of us who absolutely need it to stay alive or at least bearably comfortable in our last days.

Those who hold the sacred trust of overseeing the election procedures and voting systems in this country are an alphabet-soup of organizations. The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS); the National Association of State Elections Directors (NASED), the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), the Elections Assistance Commission (EAC); the Election Center. What do these groups have in common? They either receive their funding from the vendors or are greatly influenced by those who do receive funding from the vendors. We can only hope that the EAC can resist the influence. The others haven't.

THE ONE-STATE SOLUTION
A breakthrough for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock
by Virginia Q Tilley
University of Michigan Press, July 2005
ISBN 0-472-11513-8


As Israel grapples with crisis after crisis - an endemic in proportion to its military might - it has inevitably slided to seeking refuge from the threats inherent in these.

This downward spiral has led to intense debates; on the one hand over historic romanticism with Zionism and on the other, more recent issues such as Occupation, Settlements and Borders.

Perhaps none have evoked such passion as the new emerging debate sparked by a reluctant acknowledgement of the failure of Israel as a Jewish State to provide security for Jews. This, according to the New York based editor of Time.com, Tony Karon, strikes at Zionism's basic premise: "The world was a dangerous place to be Jewish; our safety required a state of our own".

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders urged state and municipal governments to maintain access to medical marijuana, in accord with democratically enacted local laws, despite the Supreme Court's ruling on June 6 in favor of federal prosecution.

"Numerous cities have passed resolutions condemning the USA Patriot Act for violating basic constitutional rights and condemning the invasion of Iraq" said Maya O'Connor, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States, who noted that many of these resolutions were passed through the efforts of Green elected officials and lobbying efforts led by Greens. "We urge city and state legislatures to adopt similar resolutions defending locally enacted laws allowing medical marijuana."

A list of cities and city councils that have passed resolutions against the Iraq invasion can be found at .

For states and cities that have passed statements criticizing the USA Patriot Act and upholding the Constitution, visit .