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Steven F.

Freeman
July 1, 2010
San Diego

Election Fraud :
The Undermining of
Democracy in America.
Why it Matters, What to
Do
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 Nov 9, 2004 Unexplained •Ja n ‘ 0 5 In T h e se
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I . Endangered Democracy
1.Elections Can Be Stolen
2.Elections Have Been
Stolen
3.Elections Will Continue to
II . Why
Be Stolen
it Matters
A ll o th e r p o litica l e ffo rts d e p e n d
o n it: Y o u ca n n o t w in a t th e b a llo t b o x
n o m a tte r h o w p e rsu a siv e y o u r ca se
A ll o th e r rig h ts d e p e n d o n it:
Privacy , free speech , even habeas
corpus , are (cc)being legislated away
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I . Endangered Democracy
1.Election
s
Can Be
Stolen
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American Voting Processes

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Becoming an
Untouchable

An Election in
India 1948
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Washington Post
How To Steal
an Election
It's easier to rig an
electronic voting
machine than a Las
Vegas slot machine,
says U of
Pennsylvania
professor Steve
Freeman. That's
because Vegas slots
are better monitored
and regulated than
America's voting
machines, Freeman
writes … Freeman
has assembled
comparisons that
suggest Americans
protect their vices
more than they guard
their rights, according
to data he presented
at an October
meeting of the
American Statistical
Association in
Philadelphia.

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I. Endangered Democracy
2.
Elections
Have Been
Stolen
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Snohomish County’s
Parallel Systems and
Divergent Results
Absentee Ballots cast on paper/optical scan (2/3 of vote)
Election Day on electronic voting machines (1/3 of vote)

Gregoire wins on paper; Rossi wins big on electronic voting machines,


bigger yet in precincts with problems and machines with maintenance

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V otin g Tech n olog y, C on d ition
C an d id ateD in o R
P ap er / op tical scan 9 5 ,2 28 49
E lectron ic votin g m ach in es 5 0 ,4 00 5 4 .5%
Source: Lehto &
P ollin g p laces with E lection
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Fully Documented
Instances of Election
Fraud
 Florida 2000 US Presidential Election
 Georgia 2002 Federal & State
Elections
 Ohio 2004 US Presidential Election
 Arizona 2004 US Presidential Election
 Ohio 2005 Election Reform Referenda
Strong statistical indications of
fraud :
2004 US Presidential , Florida , Nevada , N . M .
and nationwide
2006 federal elections
2008 primary elections , especially New
Hampshire
2008 California referendum
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Ohio 2004 Vote Fraud
 Secret Count in Warren County due to “FBI
terrorist alert,” an alert denied by the FBI
 25% spoilage in black precincts of GOP
Montgomery Co.
 Systematic vote switching in Cuyahoga Co.
(Cleveland): Ballots with candidate position
“rotation” tabulated at wrong precincts –
Big net Dem loss
 Appalachian precincts with 90%+ turnout
rates and more far votes cast than
recorded voters
 Ghosts in the Machines – voters tried to vote
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for Kerry, but Bush’s name came up. Voters
Ohio 2004 Vote Fraud
(cont.): Non-Recount
throughout the state
Throughout the state: The requirements for
the selection of a random recount sample
were clearly laid out in Directive 2004-58.
Instead of following these guidelines, staff
members were instructed to purposefully
select certain precincts that would easily
balance during a hand recount.
Hocking Co. Cheat Sheet – so workers would

know what the numbers should add up to.


TRIAD presence – to “check out” the
machines in anticipation of the recount.
Clermont Co. Optical-Scan Scam – stickers

covering up Kerry ovals (when no stickers


were used at (cc)
the polls)
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From a Hocking Co.
affidavit:
One week before the recount, a Triad rep came
‘to check out [our] tabulator’ ... He said that
the stored information was gone [but that] he
could put a patch on it ... Our computer is 14
years old and always worked in the past.…
[He] then asked me which precinct we were
going to count. I told him... He went back into
the tabulation room. Shortly after that he
stated that the computer was ready for the
recount … He said not to turn the computer off
until after the recount. He advised [us] on how
to post a ‘cheat sheet’ on the wall so that only
[we] would know about it … so the count would
come out perfect and we wouldn't have to do a
full hand recount of the county.
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Quantitative Indicators
of Mass Scale Election
Fraud
 Pre-election and Election Day telephone
polls
– Voting Preferences
– Approval Ratings
 Post-election Telephone Exit Polls
 Election Day Exit Polls
 Vote Change Analyses
 Audits
 Forensic Analyses
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Official vs Exit Poll Survey
Results
 Official Result: Bush defeated Kerry
by 3,000,000 votes nationally (2.5%)
and a slim majority in the Electoral

College.
 Exit poll data based on 114,559
sampled voters at 1,460 precincts
across the nation indicated that Kerry
defeated Bush by 7,000,000 votes
nationally (4.6%) and a decisive
majority in the Electoral College.
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Election outcome changes if the count
matched how voters said they cast they
their ballots
STATE Bush Kerry Official (5) Exit Exit EP Too EP
Official Official Margin PLD Exit Poll Poll EV Close EV
Vote Vote Poll Kerry Margin Bush Kerry
Bush
* Colorado 51.7% 47.0% 4.7 -6.1 48.6% 50.1% -1.4 *9
* Florida 52.1% 47.1% 5.0 -7.6 48.3% 50.9% -2.6 *27
* Iowa 49.9% 49.2% 0.7 -3.0 48.4% 50.7% -2.3 *7
Missouri 53.3% 46.1% 7.2 -5.8 50.4% 49.0% 1.4 11
** Nevada 50.5% 47.9% 2.6 -10.1 45.4% 52.9% -7.5 ** 5
**New Mexico 49.8% 49.0% 0.8 -7.8 45.9% 52.9% -7.0 ** 5
No. Carolina 56.0% 43.6% 12.4 -11.3 50.4% 49.2% 1.1 15
** Ohio 50.8% 48.7% 2.1 -10.9 45.4% 54.2% -8.8 **20
Virginia 53.7% 45.5% 8.2 -7.9 49.7% 49.4% 0.3 13
Total USA 50.7% 48.3% 2.5 -7.1 47.2% 51.8% 4.6 174 55 309

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Kerry’s
percentage
50
Probability
of the official Ohio Exit Poll
count 48.7%
Density Discrepancy
40 Random
sample
distribution
curve

30

20 Kerry’s
47.1% 50.3% percentage of
All of the the vote based
probability on exit poll
46.6% 50.8%
surveys
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45.5% 46.3% 47.1% 47.9% 48.7% 49.5% 50.3% 51.1% 51.9% 52.7% 53.5% 54.2%
95% Confidence Interval
99% Confidence Interval

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Exit Poll Analysis of
Within Precinct

Disparity (WPD)
 WPD: The difference between how
randomly selected voters say they
cast their ballots voted in
confidential questionnaires as they
walk out of the voting booth, and the
official counts in those same
precincts.
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Only Two Possible Sources of
WPD:

 Hypothesis #1: Non-Response Bias


(Bush voters disproportionately
did not participate in the polls)

Hypothesis #2: The Count is


Corrupted

There can be no other possibility.


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Expected Response Rates by Precinct
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Logical implications of Reluctant Bush Respondent Theory
Exit Poll Response Rates

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WPD differs for Swing States
State-level WPD Analysis

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Machine vs. Paper

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Histogram WPE and
Gubernatorial Control

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African American Percentage
of State Population by WPD
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NH

CA OH NY AL MS
10 NJ SC
MN PA
NM NE MD
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Election Day Calls to the
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I. Endangered Democracy
2. Elections Have Been Stolen (Not just 2004 US
President)

Florida 2000
 “Brooks Brothers” Mob stopped the
count in Miami.
 Certified 537 vote Bush victory.
 Only two counties completed manual
counts.
 ¼ of state electorate was never
machine recount (in direct violation
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of the law)
I. S h a m D e m o cra cy
2 . E le ctio n s H a ve B e e n S to le n ( N o t ju st 2 0 0 4
U S P re sid e n t)
Florida 2000 (Democratic)
Vote Suppression
 Disenfranchised Felons: 800,000 in Florida
(7% of VAP) not eligible to vote (1/3 of
African American males)
 Faux-Felon lists: 82,389 voters wrongly
purged in 2000 – 52% African American
(11% of electorate; 91% of whom voted
for Gore)
 Bad Ballots in Dem counties – Butterfly
(3,300 Gore votes allocated to Buchanan
or McNichols; wrong instructions in
Jacksonville
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 Targeted efforts to suppress Black vote
Had the US Supreme

Court not Intervened in
• 2000 …
Florida’s 2000 Uncounted Votes

• Bush Gore Margin
• Certified Count 2,912,790 2,912,253 Bush 537
Undervotes 13,055 14,332 -1,624
Overvotes 24,288 70,020 - 45,732
Totals 2,948,982 2,998,505 Gore 46,189

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2002 Surprise GOP victors
Race Loser GOP Poll Swing
Democrat Winner Mean Official
Result
Colorado Senate Strickland Allard (i) Dem 2 Rep 5 Rep 7

New Hampshire Shaheen Sununu Dem 1 Rep 4 Rep 5


Senate
Minnesota Senate* Mondale (i)Coleman Dem 2 Rep 3 Rep 5

Georgia Senate** Cleland (i) ChamblissDem 3 Rep 7 Rep 10

Georgia Governor** Perdue (i) Barnes Dem 11 Rep 5 Rep 16

(i) incumbent. * Walter Mondale replaced incumbent Senator Paul Wellstone,


who was killed in a very suspicious plane crash days before the election.
** In Georgia, Diebold officers surreptitiously put special “patches” in machines
days before the election.
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2005 Election: Ohio Election
Reform Referenda
Referendum: Columbus Dispatch poll
Official
count
#2. allow all Ohioans to vote by mail 59% yes 37% yes
33% no 63% no
#3. radically cap campaign contributions
61%
to political
yes candidates
33% yes
25% no 67% no
#4. independent election commission to31% yes
create 30% yes
competitive
legislative districts 45% no 70% no
#5. New bipartisan election board of supervisors
41% yes 30% yes
43% no 70% no

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Sent: 01 July, 2010 5:51 PM
To: 'Bonnie Richley'; 'Tony Lingham'

2006 US Congressional
Subject: Coordinated Innovation -Lessons from Improvisational Dance 091027

Elections : Landslide Denied

Source: “Landslide Denied” (2007) – study by Simon & O’Dell, Election Defense Alliance

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2008 : California Prop 8 Results
based on how Exit Polled Voters
said they Cast their Ballots
  Official ResultsWithin
* Precinct Extrapolated
Disparity (WPD) Exit Poll
Interview Survey
Results
Prop 8 “Yes” 6,838,107 52.3% +7.9 percentage 5,806,824 44.4%
Statewide points

Prop 8 “No” 6,246,463 47.7% -7.9 percentage 7,277,746 55.6%


Statewide points
Total 13,084,570 13,084,570

Difference 591 , 644 + 15.8 percentage - 1 , 470 , 922 -


(Margin) 4 . 5 % points 11 . 2
%

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3.
I . Endangered Democracy
Elections
Will
Continue
to Be
Little Institutional
Commitment , Support for US
Stolen
Democracy
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Is the US a Democracy?
H o w th e U S A M e a su re s U p
The 1990 Copenhagen Document outlines commitments
agreed upon by all member states of the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The US is a
charter member and a signatory, and also to subsequent
affirmations and elucidations, notably the October
2003 Warsaw document, “Existing Commit-ments for
Democratic Elections in OSCE Participating States.”

Seven

•Universal
Principles: •Fair
 Equal •Secret
 Transparent •Accountability
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Universal?
Vote Suppression/
Manipulation
 Disenfranchisement
 Dissuasion
– Democratic Absentee ballots rejected
(signature)
– GOP registration groups discard
Democratic forms
– Registrations rejected if not on 80lb
paper-weight
– Long lines effectively prevent voting – 11
hours at Oberlin U.; 7 hours in black
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Election Turnout around the
World
(Average from 1945-1998)
Country %vap Country %vap

1 Italy 92.5 135 Cent African Rep 50.3


4 Iceland 89.5 136 Antigua&Barbuda 50.2
6 Indonesia 88.3 137 Burma/Myanmar 50.0
8 New Zealand 86.2 138 Switzerland* 49.3
12Austria 85.1 139 USA** 48.3
* Switzerland: Women not permitted to vote until 1971
** Ranking based on turnout, not ballots counted (percentage
of votes counted is lower)
Source IDEA,
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Are all Citizens Votes
Equal?
Differential count rates, access
 In the 2004 election in Ohio, several
black precincts in Republican
counties lost more than 25% of their
votes!
 Electoral College
 Two Senators per state
 DC has no voting representation
 Two-tiered system (paper ballots
counted after a victor is declared)
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Are US Elections Fair?
Imagine the uproar if, a sporting contest had
Partisan Scorekeepers, Timekeepers and
Umpires …
V o te M a n ip u la tio n b y Campaign
M a n a g e rs / C h ie f E leOhio
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Blackwell
•300,000 registrations stripped,
Florida 2000 ( Katherine obstructed in Democratic
Harris ) counties
•Faux-Felon lists •Unequal machine distribution
•Impossibly tight recount cause 6, 8, even 10-hour waits
deadlines •GOP observers paid to
•Disregard law to acknowledge challenge voting
voter Intent qualifications; international
•Disregard law to conduct observers prohibited
machine recount (1/4 of the •Failure to conduct recount
state ballots) •Obstruction of judicial review
•Miami manual count obstructed •Attempt to disbar attorneys
•Differential treatment
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Integrity the process
Transparent?
 Private Exit Poll

 Private Elections

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CNN Website 12:21 am
Ohio 1,963 Respondents

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CNN Website 1:41 am
Ohio 2,020 Respondents

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Electronic Voting Machines
Compared to Las Vegas Slot
Machines
Las Vegas Slot Machines
State has access to all software. Ill
Software
use software that is not on file.
Board inspectors show up unannou
Spot- at casinos to compare computer ch
checking those on file. If a discrepancy, the
machine is shut down and investig
Meticulous standards (e.g., machin
Standards work when subjected to a 20,000-v
shock) constantly updated.
Back- Manufacturers subjected
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Secret?
 Although e-voting machines
provide no assurance that votes are
counted as cast, they can maintain
an electronic record of both the voter
and their vote.

 Electronic voting machine


manufacturers and their have full
access to your vote history.

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Free elections?
 If politics were recognized as an
industry, it would long ago have
been sued for anti-trust violations.
 American politics is a duopoly
 A very common configuration in
industry.
 Gerrymandering assures incumbent
victory
 Democrats “play ball”
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Accountability
 Government is auditing itself: The
Accountability of a Wink and a Nod
 Media: The Bulwark of Democracy
 Us?


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Accountability by the Govn’t
A Wink and a Nod

Accountability by the
“Opposition”
Why don’t the Democrats
challenge fraudulent elections?
 One party state.
 Democratic complicity
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Accountability by the Media:
Why doesn’t the media report on
these things?
“The Central Intelligence Agency owns

everyone of any significance in the


major media.”
- CIA director William Colby 1970s

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Accountability
Why don’t we challenge them?
“If voting could change anything it would be
illegal.”
 Voting ≠ democracy – merely
the bare minimum. Generally, we
only vote on what’s not important
 We don’t know how to engage
in collective action.
 The organization of Good and
Evil
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Trends : “ Improvements ”
in voting processes
 E a rly V o tin g / M a il- in V o tin g
– more time to fix results
– Insiders use early results to make
adjustments .
– Eliminates Election Eay surveys as
a system check
– Physically , mail - in voting is the
easiest fix of all ;
 Consolidated Precincts
– much more difficult to
statistically document suspicious
results ( also less convenient to
vote )
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General Election Trends
 Undermining of Campaign Finance
Reform
– Unlimited war chests now serve as
unspoken THREAT and DETERRENT
(corporations need not even speak the threat
or spend the money)
 Major Party Control of Elections
Debates and other aspects of

elections directly controlled by


Republican / Democratic parties
 Consolidated Media
– Six major media groups control 98 %
of airwaves
 Fight for the Internet
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II. What
does it
matter?
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John Roberts on voting rights
during his confirmation
hearings
The right to vote [and have that vote

counted as cast] … is preservative of all


other rights

The fight for the Voting Rights Act was to


secure not just the right to vote but all


other rights derivative of that.
 Countless Americans have lost their lives
fighting for these rights. Are we going
to give them away?
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II . Why Election Fraud
Matters
Those who control elections can/will:

 Plunder the nation, e.g. $7 trillion reverse


Robin Hood bank transfer
 Use US power to plunder the world, e.g. Iraq
war/oil grab
Attempts to influence policy through

electoral channels is destined to


failure:
 Voting, electoral activity, can do little to
nothing to influence decisions about
environment, war, justice, spending for
education, health care, taxes …
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Why Should I (you) Care?
 Interesting
Most monumental crime in US

History
 See reality -- Not be a fool
Fairy tales keep Americans

(you) stupid
Avoid misdirected efforts

 Understand your country


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What
to do?
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Know the Facts
1. Come to
meetings like
this
2. Read

thoughtfully.
 More at:

 electionintegri
ty.org
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Education – Critical
Thinking
 1. Basic rules of science:
 “Authorities” do not determine truth; you do.
Think for yourself. If a story doesn’t make sense.
If data is not hidden, be suspect.
 Be suspect about motivations. People are not
always truthful. Decibel level is inversely
proportional to veracity. Money talks -- loudly.
And without regard to truth.
 Learn the Facts. Believe in what you can see for
yourself and verify.
2. Understand the myths; Understand

them as myth.
 Understand the motivations behind the myths.
 Look behind the veil
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Do What You Can Do
 What skills/resources can
you share?
The Payoff
E ffica cy : M a k e a
D iffe re n ce
C o m m u n ity : G o o d p e o p le .
A F u tu re fo r y o u , y o u r
fa m ily , y o u r
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"Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the
only thing that ever has."

-- Margaret Mead
US anthropologist & popularizer of
anthropology (1901 - 1978)

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Election Integrity
Initiatives
 Science/Research:
– Election Verification Exit
Polls
 Demonstrate Methods
(Find district where we
can trust the official vote
counts)
– Conference on Voting
Technology
– General Polling Manipulation
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Other
 Influence
Election Policy/Public
Integrit – OpEd on Early
Voting
y
 Counter
Initiativ Disinformation
es  Educate
– Election Fraud
– Critical Thinking
– US Policy in General
 Organize for
Democracy
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What to Do – as a Concerned Citizen
1.Learn the truth. Read my book
-- and others
2.Spread the word.
3.Donate time and/or money.
4.Do what you can (e.g., write a
newsletter, sell t-shirts,
manage projects
5.
5. Organize – Democracy and self-determination never
has been, nor ever could be simply a matter of casting
a vote every couple of years. Rather, its about working
together to effect group goals and interests.
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Education: What Americans
Should Know
1. Elections are rigged through money, media control,
legislation, and, increasingly, outright fraud. New voting
systems have been designed to facilitate election theft.
2. The US government is not your government. The

government and both major political parties are owned


by military and industrial interests.
3. The mainstream media is controlled by the same small

cabal. Suspect everything you see on TV or read in the


newspapers.
4. The same cabal infiltrates all key groups, including

educators, unions, “alternative media,” and opposition


But none of these truths are acknowledged, because
groups.
they are core violations of American myth. As such,
they represent vulnerable points for the regime.

(cc) Steven F. Freeman, Election Integrity


Positive Developments
 People still care very much about
Democracy
 Democracy still a catchword and
centerpiece of US public relations
home and abroad
 Elections overturned abroad
 Americans not quite so innocent
– Increasingly distrustful of media (but
who can they trust?)
– Increasingly aware of election fraud.
 An Election Integrity movement –
hundreds of groups have sprung up
around the (cc)
country .
Steven F. Freeman, Election Integrity

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