The machine politics and -- to be charitable -- dubious election practices within the City of Chicago and Cook County have long gained national notoriety and even been erected to mythical status. Legendary stories abound of ballot boxes being thrown into the Chicago River and precinct captains being paid off by the powers that be.

For too long, these stories have been "pooh-poohed" and even cynically laughed at by some. Well, it's time for these travesties to stop.

This past month, a coalition of local non-profit groups discovered possible violations by the City of Chicago Board of Election Commissioners and the Cook County Board of Elections in relation to the keeping of key election records. The coalition, which consists of the Family Taxpayer's Network and the Institute for Human Rights, discovered the possible violations as part of an ongoing investigation into the abnormally high number of disqualified votes for George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election.

During the months of April, May, and June 2001, coalition members requested from both the Cook County and City of Chicago election boards a list of records related to the 2000 election.

The Freedom of Information Act law states that each government agency must keep a list of all records available for inspection and produce that list within seven days.

Both the City and County boards requested seven-day extensions beyond the initial seven days they were legally mandated to produce the list.

The coalition believes this may be the tip of the iceberg in terms of illegalities in voting and election procedures in Cook County and the City of Chicago. In the last presidential election, there were scores of precincts where the number of disqualified votes far outnumbered the votes counted for George W. Bush. The election results in these Chicago and Cook County precincts just don't pass the smell test.

It's time to stop ignoring these overt violations of human rights and the infringements of our basic rights to self-government - and to put an end to the corruption of Crook County. The coalition will continue to investigate these election records until we are positive that all election laws are complied with in Cook County and the City of Chicago. But we need you to be involved too. If you want to see voting records in Chicago, simply fax the Cook County Clerk at 312-603-9783; and the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners at 312-263-3649.



Sincerely,

Joe Wiegand

Executive Director

Family Taxpayer's Network

and

Eugene J. Koprowski

Chairman and Founder

Institute for Human Rights, Inc.

The stench of election fraud in San Francisco is overwhelming in this Democratic Party machine town. It manifested itself in 1975, with the use of the CIA front, the People's Temple, and has reared its ugly head again under the despicable anti-workingclass fascist "mayor" Willie Brown, who currently sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud, and now only 20% support in his lame duck term. His election fraud has been in every election since 1995, and was particularly noticeable in the illegal 49er Stadium Swindle election of June 3, 1997. For the whole sordid story on that election and on the People's Temple's election fraud for the Democratic Party, read thoroughly the best website you ever did see:

http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium

The stench of election fraud in San Francisco is overwhelming in this Democratic Party machine town. It manifested itself in 1975, with the use of the CIA front, the People's Temple, and has reared its ugly head again under the despicable anti-workingclass fascist "mayor" Willie Brown, who currently sits in office with 40% of the vote plus election fraud, and now only 20% support in his lame duck term. His election fraud has been in every election since 1995, and was particularly noticeable in the illegal 49er Stadium Swindle election of June 3, 1997. For the whole sordid story on that election and on the People's Temple's election fraud for the Democratic Party, read thoroughly the best website you ever did see:

http://www.brasscheck.com/stadium

Election Reform Now!! Oh, but wait, you don't want that.

http://www.cnsnews.com/Politics/archive/200104/POL20010430c.html Here's another story done by Gene Kaprowski detailing his concerns of Chicago's homosexual pork. Boy this site is hopping with corporate/christian/fascists. I have'nt seen these kinds of posts yet on the Indymedia. What are they afraid of in LA?

Don't you have the ear of the major media? Go pull their chains, or are they tired of you too? I'm sure the Chicago Tribune could listen to your blathering forever! You could always send your article to the other fascist site trying to post on the Indymedia - NewsMax. Considering the fact that you have hundreds of sites you already can spout your carbon from, leave this righteous grass roots site alone.

Brassknuckles, Brassknuckles, why do you repeat yourself?