BREAKING NEWS AND COMMENTARY
  News updated Wednesday, December 1, 2004 18:00GMT

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Breaking: Pentagon to send additional troops to Iraq

 

Voting errors tallied nationwide --More than 4,000 votes vanished without a trace into a computer's overloaded memory in one North Carolina county, and about a hundred paper ballots were thrown out by mistake in another. In Texas, a county needed help from a laboratory in Canada to unlock the memory of a touch-screen machine and unearth five dozen votes. In other places, machine undercounting or overcounting of votes was a problem...

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Voters to challenge US election --George Bush's victory in the US presidential election will be challenged in Ohio's supreme court today, when a group of Democratic voters will allege widespread fraud.

 

Kerry Team Seeks to Join Fight To Get Ohio County to Recount --Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential campaign asked an Ohio judge yesterday to allow it to join a legal fight there over whether election officials in one county may sit out the state's impending recount.

 

Nearly a Month Later, Ohio Fight Goes On --Nearly a month after John Kerry conceded Ohio to Dictator Bush, complaints and challenges about the balloting are mounting as activists including the Rev. Jesse Jackson demand closer scrutiny to ensure the votes are being counted on the up-and-up.

 

Something's fishy in Ohio --by Jesse Jackson "In the Ukraine, citizens are in the streets protesting what they charge is a fixed election. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell expresses this nation's concern about apparent voting irregularities. The media give the dispute around-the-clock coverage. But in the United States, massive and systemic voter irregularities go unreported and unnoticed. Ohio is this election year's Florida. The vote in Ohio decided the presidential race, but it was marred by intolerable, and often partisan, irregularities and discrepancies. U.S. citizens have as much reason as those in Kiev to be concerned that the fix was in."

 

Black Box Voting Sues Fla. Elections Supervisor (blackboxvoting.org) "Consumer Protection For Elections: Black Box Voting files lawsuit against Palm Beach County Elections Division --Failure to provide public records request in a timely manner --Black Box Voting has filed a lawsuit to require Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Teresa La [GOP Whore] Pore to turn over the public records request filed by Black Box Voting on Nov. 2, 2004. The records request contains vital diagnostic audit documents which will be used to audit and verify the accuracy of the Palm Beach County election results from Nov. 2, 2004. Thirteen more Florida counties, and up to 80 Ohio counties, are scheduled for similar litigation shortly, if they fail to comply... Case no. 50 2004 CA 011167 XXXX MB Filed Nov. 30 2004"

 

Judge Tosses Challenge to Nev. Bush Win --A judge Tuesday tossed out a legal challenge aimed at blocking Nevada's five electoral votes from being cast next month for Dictator Bush. In election challenges in two other states, a recount was sought and another was ended.

 

California appeals court halts certification of San Diego mayoral race --A California appeals court has stopped the San Diego County registrar from certifying the results of San Diego's mayoral election.

 

Locke says statewide hand recount needed --Gov. Gary Locke said today that there should be a full, statewide recount in the race to succeed him. He said questions about the closest governor's election in state history will remain if Democrat Christine Gregoire calls for a recount in only counties that lean her way.

 

Correction: Texas exit poll glance --In the Nov. 3 BC-ELN--Texas Glance and BC-TX Exit-Poll Excerpts, The Associated Press overstated Dictator Bush's support among Texas Hispanics [Oh, there's a shock... NOT!!]. Under a post-election adjustment by exit poll providers Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International, 49 percent of Hispanics in the state voted for Bush, not a majority... The revised BC-TX-Exit-Poll Excerpts showed that 20 percent, not 23 percent, of all Texas voters were Hispanic. They voted 50 percent for Kerry and 49 percent for Bush, not 41-59 Kerry-Bush.

 

U.S. Generals in Iraq Were Told of Abuse Early, Inquiry Finds --A confidential report to Army generals in Iraq in December 2003 warned that members of an elite military and CIA task force were abusing detainees, a finding delivered more than a month before Army investigators received the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison that touched off investigations into prisoner mistreatment.

 

Red Cross Cites 'Inhumane' Treatment at Guantanamo --The International Committee of the Red Cross found "cruel, inhumane and degrading" treatment of detainees at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during inspections there last summer, and issued a formal report in July that said some interrogation tactics come close to torture, a source who has seen portions of the report said yesterday.

 

Human rights group sues Rumsfeld for war crimes --A U.S. human rights group has filed a criminal complaint in Germany against U.S. Defense Secretary [W-ar criminal] Donald Rumsfeld, accusing him and other senior U.S. officials of war crimes and torture at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.

 

US faces war crime case for abuse --Lawyers acting for a US advocacy group will file war crimes charges in Germany against senior US officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

 

What happened to Iraq’s oil money? Former U.S. official says billions of dollars were 'squandered' --After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the United States took control of all of the Iraqi government’s bank accounts, including the income from oil sales. Now critics are raising serious questions about how well the United States handled billions of dollars in Iraqi oil funds.

 

Car Bomb Kills Seven, Wounds 20 in Iraq -- A car bomb in a crowded market north of Baghdad killed at least seven civilians and wounded 18 Tuesday as a U.S. military patrol passed by.

 

U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Ties Record --Fueled by fierce fighting in Fallujah and insurgents' counterattacks elsewhere in Iraq, the U.S. military death toll for November equalled the highest for any month of the war, according to casualty reports available Tuesday. At least 135 U.S. troops died in November.

 

Six Americans Confirmed Dead in Afghan Crash --Search teams have discovered the wreckage of a U.S. aircraft that crashed in mountains in central Afghanistan at the weekend and confirmed that the six Americans aboard all died, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.

 

Protesters in Canada Express Anger at Bush --Thousands of protesters marched on Parliament Tuesday, rallying against Dictator Bush's visit and the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Twelve people were arrested after scuffling with police on the fringes of the peaceful demonstration.