Media Self-Censorship

In two recent elections, there was evidence of relatively widespread election fraud. In one, the Ukranian, it is receiving a good deal of media attention, in the US and internationally. In the other, the US presidential election, it is mostly (if not completely) ignored.

It is also interesting that in Ukraine, the people took action against the fraud and hundred thousand people were in the streets. In the US, it is quiet.

Election Fraud in the US?
As usual in US election, there is a significant amount of election irregularities (african american voters placed on lists of felons etc).

Even more disturbing is the irregularities involving electronic voting machines.

Exit polls are typically very accurate (they are after all polling people who just voted). And the exit polls showed Kerry as a winner in critical states that were officially won by Bush. The data apparently shows that in precincts with paper ballots, the exit polls were indeed accurate. But in precincts with electronic voting machines, Bush typically received 5% more votes than Kerry.

A research group at UC Berkely have looked more closely at the numbers, and - controlling for all other factors - found that there is less than 0.01% possibility that these discrepancies occured by chance.

Only a few media sources, typically smaller and independent, have brought attention to this issue. Why is it not picked up in mainstream media?

Voting irregularities in three Florida counties that used electronic voting machines may have awarded as many as 130,000 votes to president George Bush in the US presidential election, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. [source: IT News, Australia]

2004 US Presidential Election Controversy - from Wikipedia

Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked, Thom Hartmann

An Election Spoiled Rotten, Greg Palast

Black Box Voting : Voter Gate TV

True Vote MD

Verified Voting

Open Vote Foundation - open source voting machines (full transparency and increased security)