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...collapse of the Soviet Union was supposed to reach a conclusion in the Nov. 21 runoff. On Monday the Electoral Commission said preliminary tallies showed Moscow's favored candidate, Yanukovych, ahead by 3 percentage points. But immediately there were widespread accusations by Ukrainian and foreign monitors of massive fraud--including voter intimidation, physical assaults and the torching of ballot boxes. Yet the state-controlled media, which had backed Yanukovych through the five-month campaign, were reporting no major violations. Convinced that the election was being stolen from the rightful victor, supporters of Western-leaning opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko poured into...
...battleground state. But throughout dozens of states— both blue and red—evidence is accumulating that the presidential election results were, at best, deeply flawed. Of course, the thousands of reports of malfunctioning machines and phantom voters have many people using a different f-word: Fraud...
...entry into the election system could provide the ability to manipulate millions of votes. Opportunity, of course, does not equal intent. While it is theoretically possible that a group of people attempted to systematically alter the outcome of the presidential election, it is more likely that the real fraud possibility consists of cover-ups of the systemically insecure and inaccurate voting machines employed in most of the country...
Until the effective monopoly of the Diebold and ES&S in the voting systems industry is actually broken, and U.S. lawmakers focus on the need for accountable, auditable voting systems, election fraud will always be a risk. The only solution is continued scrutiny and advocacy. And in the meantime, if you happen to use a Diebold ATM—I suggest you keep your receipt...
...power structures. SO, WHO'S RUNNING THE COUNTRY? Most official structures simply ceased to follow instructions from the government. I'm not saying that they now follow decrees from the National Salvation Committee; it focuses on how to bring legitimate institutions out of the crisis caused by the election fraud rather than on handling economic or social issues. Meanwhile, a considerable part of the law-enforcement agencies have sided with the people. I can say the same about the military. Neither the armed forces nor the domestic security services will carry out [the previous government's] orders. WILL...