Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
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Bob Fitrakis is a Political Science Professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at Columbus State Community College. He is the author of five Fitrakis Files books.

Harvey Wasserman is author or co-author of a dozen books, including SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030, with a forward by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. In 1973-4, Harvey helped found the grassroots movement against nuclear power in the United States, and helped coin the phrase "No Nukes." In 1994 he addressed 350,000 semi-conscious rock fans at Woodstock 2.

Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman co-wrote Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? Essential Documentsand What Happened in Ohio? A documentary record of theft and fraud in the 2004 election (New Press 2006) (with Steve Rosenfeld) and How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election & Is Rigging 2008, George W. Bush vs. The SuperPower of Peace in 2003 and Imprison Bush in 2004-2005.

Blog Entries by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Has America's Stolen Election Process Finally Hit Prime Time?

4 Comments | Posted January 4, 2012 | 13:13:00 (EST)

It took two stolen U.S. presidential elections and the prospect of another one coming up in 2012.
For years the Democratic Party and even much of the left press has reacted with scorn for those who've reported on it, but the imperial fraud that has utterly corrupted our electoral...

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How the Democrats Have Lost Ohio and the Presidency

Posted December 14, 2010 | 13:45:35 (EST)

It is now highly unlikely that any Democrat will be elected to significant statewide office in the state of Ohio for the foreseeable future.

The likelihood of another Democrat being elected to the White House has also become virtually nil in 2012. Since World War II, no Democrat (except...

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Ohio Chamber Lies and Hides Election Buys

Posted November 2, 2010 | 17:12:23 (EST)

The Ohio Chamber of Commerce will not reveal the list of individuals and corporations that have funded its election campaign in the Buckeye State, despite having promised to do so in a public hearing.

In Columbus on Monday, November 1, Cliff Arnebeck, lead attorney for the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville election theft lawsuit,...

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Charging Rove With Racketeering

Posted October 29, 2010 | 14:58:17 (EST)

Ohio election attorney Cliff Arnebeck has filed a two-count complaint against The Partnership for Ohio's Future, an affiliate of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce.

Arnebeck charges that the Partnership is "...not truly independent, but rather has been coordinated with the Republican candidates, their agents, committees, parties and their de...

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Visualize Karl Rove's Election Theft Subpoena

Posted October 26, 2010 | 14:11:02 (EST)

Election woes got you down?

Imagine the look of contempt on Karl Rove's face this past Sunday as he swaggered toward his star turn on CBS's Face the Nation only to be served with our subpoena sanctioned by the Secretary of the State of Ohio.

The federal subpoena orders Rove...

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Et Tu, ACLU?

Posted January 27, 2010 | 15:41:02 (EST)

The Supreme Court's atrocious Citizen's United green light for unlimited corporate campaign spending had a willing accomplice -- the American Civil Liberties Union.

Why?

As long-time supporters, we are horrified by the ACLU's betrayal of political reality and plain common sense.

Standing proudly with the victorious corporate...

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Facing the Bushes' Iranian Whirlwind

Posted June 15, 2009 | 18:03:28 (EST)

The parallels between the stolen Iranian election of 2009 and the American of 2000 and 2004 are tempting. The histories -- and futures -- of the two nations are inseparable. Bound up in their tortured half-century of crime and manipulation are the few glimmers of hope for lasting peace in...

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President Obama Must Free Leonard Peltier

Posted January 26, 2009 | 10:30:42 (EST)

The welcome news that President Obama is taking steps to shut Guantanamo and right other Bush-era human rights abuses must quickly be joined by a proclamation of freedom for Leonard Peltier.

Peltier is the nation's best-known native activist and has become a global symbol of abject injustice and prison abuse....

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Obama's Marijuana Prohibition Acid Test

Posted January 14, 2009 | 16:45:43 (EST)

The parallels between the 1933 coming of Franklin Roosevelt and the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama must include the issue of Prohibition: alcohol in 1933, and marijuana today. As FDR did back then, Obama must now help end an utterly failed, socially destructive, reactionary crusade.

Marijuana...

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Why Al Franken Should Not Be Riding Private Planes

Posted December 23, 2008 | 13:42:31 (EST)

The tragic and suspicious death of Karl Rove's election thief in chief should send
a clear message to Al Franken and other key liberals: don't be riding in any small private planes.

Death by air crash now seems to be the favored means of ridding the Rovian right...

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Last US House Seat Filled on Grave of Stolen 2004 Election

Posted December 12, 2008 | 13:39:07 (EST)

The last US House seat has been filled by a Democratic County Commissioner in a vote count defined by the ghosts of 2004.

And the provisional ballot system installed by former Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell -- now a candidate for chair of the Republican National Committee --...

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Beware the Twin Towers of Electronic Election Theft

Posted October 31, 2008 | 19:00:08 (EST)

Obama supporters are exuding a potentially fatal air of confidence and expectation. Intoxicated by favorable polls and a gusher of campaign spending, many are, in John McCain's phrase, "measuring the drapes in the White House."

It is a classic error, made lethal by the Democratic Party's on-going...

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Critical US Supreme Court Ruling Against Rovian GOP Vote Meddling May Prove Temporary

Posted October 20, 2008 | 16:10:56 (EST)

A critical US Supreme Court decision against GOP voter meddling in Ohio may prove temporary.

In its on-going campaign to inject chaos and confusion into the voting process, the GOP has sued Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, demanding that she release to county boards of elections lists of...

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GOP Attacks on American Voters Turn Desperate, Ugly and Dangerous

Posted October 10, 2008 | 18:52:54 (EST)

The GOP assault on American voters has hit full stride as the economy and John McCain tank in synch.

With just over three weeks until election day, the Republicans have mounted an all-out attack against newly registered voters and the organizations working to sign them up. As many as...

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Ohio 2008 Opens With a Subpoena, A Surge and Calls For Election Protection

Posted October 2, 2008 | 14:02:04 (EST)

Ohio 2008 has opened with a surge of first-time voters and the subpoena of a shadowy Bush electronic operative who may have helped steal the White House, a subpoena that may be followed by one for Karl Rove.

The presidency could again be decided here by how well what's...

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Three Ways You Can Help Keep the Election from Being Stolen (Again) in 2008

Posted July 7, 2008 | 15:18:49 (EST)

The world has now endured the horrific consequences of two consecutive stolen presidential elections. So millions of Americans are asking how to stop it from happening again.

There are many things the average citizen can do. But much of it boils down to three simple phases:

1) Before...

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Obama Must Learn From Kucinich's Election Theft Impeachment

Posted June 11, 2008 | 18:16:39 (EST)

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has introduced 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. Two of the articles deal with the fact that Bush was never elected, and in fact stole the election of 2004 in Ohio. They should serve as a cautionary notice to the Obama campaign that this...

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How An Unwanted Guardianship Cost A Firefighter His Freedom and His Fortune

2 Comments | Posted March 24, 2008 | 16:47:26 (EST)

Norman Baker is an American hero who has been detained against his will for more than three years.

His "crime":
owning too much property. 


His sentence: a court-appointed guardianship on the brink of costing him everything he spent his life building.

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Ohio's Voting Machines Are Now An Official Crime Scene

Posted March 18, 2008 | 16:00:46 (EST)

At least 15 touch-screen voting machines that produced improbable numbers in Ohio's 2006 statewide election are now under double-lock in an official crime scene. And the phony "Homeland Security Alert" used by Republicans to build up George W. Bush's 2004 vote count in a key southwestern Ohio county has come...

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Bob & Harvey's 3-Step "Ohio Plan" for Fair and Reliable Voting and Vote Counts

Posted January 17, 2008 | 17:20:52 (EST)

America is awash in suspect and stolen elections. Since January, 2001, the nation has been saddled with an unelected chief executive. The consequences have been predictably horrific.

Along the way, three US Senate contests in 2002 and numerous other Congressional and local elections have been subjected to partisan disenfranchisement of...

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