Hopefully you've heard that Bev Harris (blackboxvoting.org) is conducting a massive Freedom of Information Act request to jurisdictions across the country regarding the 2004 election and use of electronic voting machines. Bev Harris is investigating the possibility of fraud by conducting the simple audits that juridictions should have conducted on their own.
But you wouldn't know this from the mainstream media. Last week, the media tried to get away with disparaging the mere suggestion of possible fraud as an Internet "conspiracy theory" -- e.g. the Nov. 8 CBS News story Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism and the page 2 Washington Post story of Nov. 11 Latest Conspiracy Theory -- Kerry Won -- Hits the Ether.
These stories painted a broad brush and notably ignored blackboxvoting.org and the methodical investigation being performed by Bev Harris. This ignoring of blackboxvoting.org could be explained by Bev Harris' Nov. 8 interview on the radio show Democracy Now!:
I have also been told from sources that I have inside the media that are fairly high up that particularly in TV, there's been -- there is now a lockdown on this story. It is officially and from an executive producer level, let's move on time. And I am very concerned about that, because it looks like we're going to have to go to places like BBC, to get the real story out.
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