13 million voters purged by Bush & Co. since Election '04: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/18/172558/32/882/634737
And countless other horrors (electronic vote-flipping, stealth GOP registration, anti-ACORN vandalism/death threats and more): Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government 18 Oct 2008 <http://www.legitgov.org/>http://www.legitgov.org/ All items are here: <http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news>http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/17/AR2008101703360.html>Thousands Erroneously Tagged Ineligible to Vote --In New Databases, Many Are Wrongly Flagged as Ineligible 18 Oct 2008 Thousands of voters across the country must reestablish their eligibility in the next three weeks in order for their votes to count on Nov. 4, a result of new state registration systems that are incorrectly rejecting them. In Alabama, scores of voters are being labeled as convicted felons on the basis of incorrect lists. Michigan must restore thousands of names it illegally removed from voter rolls over residency questions, a judge ruled this week. Tens of thousands of voters could be affected in Wisconsin. Officials there admit that their database is wrong one out of five times when it flags voters, sometimes for data discrepancies as small as a middle initial or a typo in a birth date. "When I touched the screen for Barack Obama, the check mark moved from his box to the box indicating a vote for John McCain." <http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200810170676>Early W.Va. voters angry machines kept switching their votes to GOP candidates --Jackson County touch-screens switched votes, 3 residents say 18 Oct 2008 At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win. Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines in the county clerk's office in Ripley kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates. "When I touched the screen for Barack Obama, the check mark moved from his box to the box indicating a vote for John McCain," said Matheney, who lives in Kenna. When she reported the problem, she said, the poll worker in charge "responded that everything was all right." [WHY are these 'voting' machines, aka GOP tools to implement Coup 2008, *still standing?*] "I pushed buttons and they all came up Republican," she said. "I hit Obama and it switched to McCain. I am really concerned about that. If McCain wins, there was something wrong with the machines." <http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200810180251>More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votes --In six cases, Democratic votes flipped to GOP 18 Oct 2008 Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week. This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for "Barack Obama" kept flipping to "John McCain". In both counties, Republicans are responsible for overseeing elections. <http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fraud18-2008oct18,0,1216330.story>Voters say they were duped into registering as Republicans --YPM, a group hired by the GOP, allegedly deceived Californians who thought they were signing a petition. Similar accusations have been leveled against the company elsewhere. 18 Oct 2008 Dozens of newly minted Republican voters say they were duped into joining the party by a GOP contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country. Voters contacted by The Times said they were tricked into switching parties while signing what they believed were petitions for tougher penalties against child molesters [lots of them in the GOP, btw.]. Some said they were told that they had to become Republicans to sign the petition, contrary to California initiative law. Others had no idea their registration was being changed. <http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=865960>'Wake up, niggers!' --Locals say the "inciting" language used by the McCain campaign in the past month has emboldened racists to act and speak more openly, leading to outbursts such as "traitor", "terrorist" and "kill him" at campaign events. 19 Oct 2008 In a small town in Oklahoma, not even loyal Democrats will vote for a black man. Kristi Balden woke up at 4.30am to the sound of screeching tyres and yells of "nigger lover!" As she looked out of the window, a vehicle sped away with spinning wheels, peppering her parked car with gravel. <http://www.legitgov.org/essay_southwell_arming_the_left_is_the_time_now_102203.html>She saw her Barack Obama yard sign in shreds on the lawn. It was the fifth time in three weeks her signs backing Obama had been vandalised. Elsewhere in the small town of Enid, in northwestern Oklahoma, more than 50 other residents have had their Obama signs smashed to pieces, and cars with bumper stickers that bear the black presidential candidate's name have been splattered with eggs. Late one night three weeks ago, four white youths went to a town museum that celebrates minority achievements and took down an exhibit of five Native American teepees. They dragged two of the tents around the streets of an African American neighbourhood, yelling: "Wake up, niggers!" <http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/730636.html>Death threat, vandalism hit ACORN after accusations 17 Oct 2008 An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal-leaning voter registration group's Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting [GOP/Nazi] tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote next month. <http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/17/obama.acorn/>Obama camp calls for special prosecutor in fraud investigation 18 Oct 2008 The Obama campaign announced Friday that it is asking Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over any investigations of voter fraud or voter suppression to Special Prosecutor Nora Dannehy. Dannehy is also the special prosecutor recently appointed to investigate the U.S. attorney firing scandal. Bob Bauer, the Obama campaign's general counsel, said on Friday that partisan politics was behind Thursday's leak from senior governmental officials about a preliminary FBI investigation into the voter registration activities of ACORN. "ACORN is a tool for attacking voters," Bauer said. <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/17/politics/p153409D18.DTL>Reid calls McCain robo calls 'scummy' 17 Oct 2008 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he's surprised at "scummy" tactics employed by Republican John McCain's presidential campaign and "can't believe John McCain knows what's going on." Reid held a news conference Friday to call on McCain to stop sending automated phone calls attempting to link Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with one-time radical William Ayers. <http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-robo18-2008oct18,0,782963.story>GOP Sen. Susan Collins decries anti-Obama robocalls 18 Oct 2008 Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, facing a tough reelection fight, urged GOP presidential contender John McCain on Friday to stop making automated calls into her state linking Democratic nominee Barack Obama to a 1960s radical. "These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," said Collins' spokesman, Kevin Kelley. <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/18/obama-rally-draws-100000-in-missouri/>Obama Rally Draws 100,000 in Missouri 18 Oct 2008 Barack Obama attracted 100,000 people at a Saturday rally here, his biggest crowd ever at a U.S. event. The crowd assembled under the Gateway Arch on a sunny Saturday afternoon to hear Obama speak about taxes and slam the Republicans on economic issues. Lt. Samuel Dotson of the St. Louis Police Department confirmed the number of attendees piled into the grassy lawn flanked by the Missouri capital and the Missouri River. <http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-obama-chicagoendo,0,358916.story>Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times endorse Obama 17 Oct 2008 Declaring that "he is ready" and "a man of exceptional gifts," Chicago's two largest daily newspapers on Friday endorsed Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for president. The Chicago Tribune's nod marked the first time the newspaper has supported a Democratic nominee for president. Obama's other high-profile newspaper endorsements include The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. <http://www.newsobserver.com/100/story/1255781.html>N.C. academics offer Ayers endorsement 15 Oct 2008 Bill Ayers, the radical militant-turned-university professor whose ties to Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama are under scrutiny, is getting some support from faculty members across the country. Professors from UNC-Chapel Hill are among the more than 3,200 educators who have signed an online petition in support of Ayers. More than a dozen signatories are from local universities here in the Triangle. <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4967683.ece>Iraqis march for freedom from US --Crowd sets fire to effigies of Bush and Rice, burn American and Israeli flags 18 Oct 2008 Moqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American Shia cleric, called on Iraqi politicians today to reject an accord to allow US troops to stay in the country beyond 2008, as tens of thousands of his followers protested against the pact in the streets of Baghdad. In a display of anger at one point, members of the crowd set fire to effigies of George Bush and Condoleezza Rice as well as an American and an Israeli flag. "Yes, yes Iraq! No, no to the occupation!" the protesters chanted as they marched, peacefully, from Sadr City in east Baghdad to a public square a couple of miles away. <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_176>Muqtada al-Sadr urges rejection of US-Iraqi pact 18 Oct 2008 Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged Iraq's parliament to reject a pact that would extend U.S. presence in Iraq for three years as tens of thousands of his followers marched through Baghdad's streets Saturday to reinforce that demand. <http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/18/iraq.main/>Explosive device goes off at checkpoint north of Baghdad 18 Oct 2008 An explosive device went off Saturday after a female suicide bomber was challenged at a checkpoint north of Baghdad, but no one was injured, the U.S. military said. The incident happened in Dhuluiya, a Sunni town about 56 miles (90 kilometers) north of Baghdad, according to an official with the town's police. <http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hRYcLks_SE7hCU79RAtv3x1rjgCw>Peace activists demand Canada leave Afghanistan 18 Oct 2008 Precious lives and scarce dollars are being wasted on the futile war in Afghanistan, peace activists cried out during marches and rallies across the country on Saturday. Dozens of anti-war activists paraded onto Parliament Hill to demand an end to Canada's Afghan mission, part of a national day of action organized by peace groups that object to the human and financial costs of the bloody conflict. <http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=458ba7c5-6bf0-41d7-9794-afb5791ab009>Afghan elder and son shot dead outside mosque 18 Oct 2008 Three gunmen entered a Kandahar mosque just after morning prayers Saturday and shot dead a tribal elder and his son - a former bodyguard to President Hamid Karzai - in the latest in a string of assassinations gripping the city. Haji Ali Ahmad Khan, a leader of the Barackzai tribe in Kandahar, and his son, Gul Ahmad, were leaving a mosque in Kandahar's Bekhoja neighbourhood at roughly 6 a.m. when the assailants struck. <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gl1jaqxJ9uLf0loXkKiwEYjg17xg>Suicide blast wounds NATO troops in Afghanistan 18 Oct 2008 A suicide car bomb exploded outside a base of the NATO-led military force in Afghanistan's western city of Herat Saturday, wounding several troops, the alliance said. The car bomb exploded at the gates of a base which is run by Italian troops in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) with some Spanish soldiers also stationed there. <http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/blackwater-well.html>Blackwater: We'll Fight Somalia's Pirates By Noah Shachtman 16 Oct 2008 Security analysts and the Somali government are publicly flirting with the idea of <http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/mercenaries-vs.html>hiring mercenaries to stop the <http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/pirates-hit-six.html>pirates that are terrorizing east Africa. Now, the notorious guns-for-fire at Blackwater are responding to the call, with a resounding <http://blackwatermediacenter.com/images/pdf/10-16-08%20Maritime-Release.pdf>arrrr!!!!! "Blackwater Worldwide today announced that its 183-foot ship, the <http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/blackwaters-nav.html>McArthur, stands ready to assist the shipping industry as it struggles with the increasing problem of piracy in [Somalia's] Gulf of Aden," the firm says in a statement. [Blackwater terrorists *are* the pirates!] <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/18/renditon-usa-georgebush>The torture time bomb --The Bush administration's approval of the abuse of detainees is a toxic legacy for the next US president By Philippe Sands 18 Oct 2008 As the US presidential election reaches a climax against the background of the financial crisis, another silent, dark, time bomb of an issue hangs over the two candidates: torture. For now, there seems to be a shared desire not to delve too deeply into the circumstances in which the Bush administration allowed the US military and the CIA to embrace abusive techniques of interrogation - including waterboarding, in the case of the CIA - which violate the Geneva conventions and the 1984 UN torture convention... New evidence has emerged in Congressional inquiries that throw more light on the extent to which early knowledge and approval of the abuse went to the highest levels. What does a country do when compelling evidence shows its leaders have authorised international crimes? <http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/18/stella-rimington-9-11-mi5>Response to 9/11 was 'huge overreaction' - ex-MI5 chief 18 Oct 2008 A former head of MI5 today describes the response to the September 11 2001 attacks on the US as a "huge overreaction" and says the invasion of Iraq influenced young men in Britain who turned to terrorism. In an interview with the Guardian, Stella Rimington calls al-Qaida's attack on the US "another terrorist incident" but not qualitatively different from any others. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/washington/19fbi.html>F.B.I. Struggles to Handle Wave of Financial Fraud Cases 19 Oct 2008 The Federal Bureau of Investigation is struggling to find enough agents and resources to investigate criminal wrongdoing tied to the country's economic crisis, according to current and former bureau officials. The bureau slashed its criminal investigative work force to expand its national [in]security role after the Sept. 11 attacks, shifting more than 1,800 agents, or nearly one-third of all agents in criminal programs, to terrorism and intelligence duties. Current and former officials say the cutbacks have left the bureau seriously exposed in investigating areas like white-collar crime, which has taken on urgent importance in recent weeks because of the nation's economic woes. <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ai0XSrkkEKEM>Lehman's Collapse, Stock Sale Probed by Three U.S. Prosecutors 18 Oct 2008 Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is the subject of three federal criminal probes and at least 12 subpoenas of individuals to testify before grand juries, according to a lawyer for the bank that last month filed the largest bankruptcy in history. Lead Lehman bankruptcy lawyer Harvey Miller said Oct. 16 in federal court in Manhattan that the investigations were launched by New York U.S. attorneys in Brooklyn and Manhattan as well as in Newark, New Jersey. <http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081016/D93RIEI80.html>Flu shots a tough sell to health care workers 16 Oct 2008 Nearly 60 percent of health care workers fail to get a flu shot. Dr. William Schaffner argues that getting vaccinated for the flu should be standard for doctors and nurses, just like washing their hands. Schaffner is president-elect of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, a nonprofit group educates brainwashes the public and health care industry about the causes, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases. It gets about 75 percent of its budget from major vaccine makers.Some hospitals take a tougher stand on vaccinations. In Seattle, at Virginia Mason Medical Center, even sales reps, vendors and volunteers must be vaccinated unless they seek exceptions for religious or medical reasons. Even then, those who don't get a shot must wear a mask whenever they are in the hospital during the flu season. <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/22/tech/main4470126.shtml>EPA Won't Remove Rocket Fuel From Water --Critics Say EPA Is Protecting the Pentagon From Liability 22 Sep 2008 The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there is no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the United States. The ingredient, perchlorate, has been found in at least 395 sites in 35 states at levels some scientists say could interfere with thyroid function and pose developmental health risks, particularly for babies and fetuses. The conclusion, which caps years of dispute over the issue, was denounced by Democrats and environmentalists who accused EPA of caving in to pressure from the Pentagon. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/us/18beluga.html>Whale Protection Is Bolstered as Palin Objects 18 Oct 2008 The federal government on Friday placed beluga whales that live in Cook Inlet in Alaska on the endangered species list, rejecting efforts by Gov. Sarah Palin and others against increased protection. The relatively small, whitish whales, sometimes visible from downtown Anchorage, declined by almost 50 percent in the late 1990s, and federal scientists say they have not rebounded despite a series of protections, including a halt to subsistence hunting by Alaska Natives. CLG needs your support. <http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute>http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute<> Or, please mail a check or money order to CLG: Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) P.O. Box 1142 Bristol, CT 06011-1142 Contributions to CLG are not tax deductible. Previous lead stories: <http://washingtonindependent.com/13548/breaking-obama-demands-special-prosecutor-investigate-gop-voter-fraud>Obama Demands Special Prosecutor Investigate GOP Voter Fraud Activities 17 Oct 2008 Charging that the FBI probe of ACORN represents an "unholy alliance" between Republican operatives and potentially illegal conduct by law enforcement targeting voter fraud, the Obama campaign demanded Friday that the U.S. special prosecutor looking into the U.S. attorneys scandal investigate the matter. General counsel Bob Bauer sent a letter to Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey charging that coordinated "misconduct" by McCain campaign representatives and GOP officials were relevant to the special prosecutor's work, because the activities may relate to the dismissal of seven U.S. attorneys in late 2006. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/washington/18scotus.html>Justices Rule Against Ohio G.O.P. in Voting Case --Decision has potential to affect as many as 200,000 of 660,000 new Ohio voters 18 Oct 2008 The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court's order requiring state officials in Ohio to supply information that would have made it easier to challenge prospective voters. The decision was a setback for Ohio Republicans, who had sued to force the Ohio secretary of state, a Democrat, to provide information about database mismatches to county officials. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/17/report-mccain-using-same_n_135699.html>McCain Using Same Robocall Firm That Helped Smear Him In 2000 By Sam Stein 17 Oct 2008 In his efforts to attack Barack Obama, John McCain appears to have turned to the same political consulting firm that was responsible for spreading vicious smears about the Senator during the 2000 South Carolina GOP primary... According to campaign finance reports, the RNC has paid the firm more than $8 million this cycle. On Friday, Minnesota Democrats stated in a press release that FLS-Connect "may be behind the [RNC/McCain phone campaign]." Please forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested. 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