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The Elections Presidency 2004. Ron Gunzberger's Politics1.com. Profiles of candidates, including minor parties. http://www.politics1.com/p2004.htm Annenberg Political Fact Check http://www.factcheck.org/ NY Times 2004 Election Guide http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2004_ELECTIONGUIDE_GRAPHIC/?oref=login The Polls PollingReport.com Links to major polls. http://www.pollingreport.com/wh2004.htm Candidate records on issues Project Vote Smart www.vote-smart.org The Boston Globe on Kerry's voting record: http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/voting.htm The Washington Post on Kerry's voting record: ACLU vote record http://archive.aclu.org/vote-guide/Kerry_J.html Conservative site http://www.kerryquotes.com/votingrecord.htm The Bush record Progressive analysis Paul Street, Kerry is coke, Bush is crack http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=33&ItemID=5204 Environment Health Care Health Care’s Big Choice: As family premiums push $10,000, Bush and Kerry promote radically different
proposals. No Child Left Behind Act Results of survey of teachers The Issue of Democracy SERGE HALIMI and LOIC WACQUANT, Democracy American Style/. Le monde diplomatique 12/2000. http://www.zmag.org/frenchview.htm Robert Kutner, America as a One Party State. The American Prospect. February 2004. A heavily researched, detailed article onthe "hard right's" attempt to create a one-party government with themselves in control. http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V15/2/kuttner-r.html Campaign Financing Open Secrets data on campaign financing The Buying of the President 2004. Center for Public Integrity. http://www.publicintegrity.org/bop2004/ Election fraud Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election. Report of the US Commission on Civil Rights. June 2001. U.S. Civil Rights Commission Report on Florida Election “Too Gentle” on Officials, ACLU Says June 6, 2001 http://www.aclu.org/VotingRights/VotingRights.cfm?ID=7300&c=166 Greg Palast, "Vanishing Votes." The Nation.com 4/29/2004 Palast, who in "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" details the story of Florida's fraudlulent purge of black voters from the voter roles in the 2000 election warns of a new attempt to repeat the fraud. Palast also describes disenfranchisement of blacks nationwide. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040517&s=palast Ronnie Dugger, How They Might Steal the Election This Time. Details about the electronic voting machines and the Help America Vote Act. The Nation 8/16/2004 http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040816&s=dugger Joshua Kurlantzick, "2000: The Sequel." The American Prospect October 2004. http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=8544 Who Votes, Who Doesn't, and Why US Census, Voting and Registration Voting and Registration 2000 Election Why Americans Still Don't Vote. Interview with Frances Fox Piven, Z Magazine 7/01. Piven is the author, with Richard Cloward, of Why Americans Don't Vote. http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/jul01barpiven.htm Disenfranchising minorities US Senate Kills Bill to Enfranchise Ex-Felons February 2002 UCCRC, Is America Ready to Vote? Election Readiness Briefing Paper (PDF) (Updated July 2004) http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/pubsndx.htm Just strange
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