<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">JAMES K. GALBRAITH, <A HREF="http://by16fd.bay16.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=097e7f6e198162af4ccc9fffb4959c58&mailto=1&to=galbraith@mail.utexas.edu&msg=MSG1101990261.41&start=8698525&len=7200&src=&type=x">galbraith@mail.utexas.edu</A>, <A HREF="javascript:ol('http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/faculty/galbraith.html');">http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/faculty/galbraith.html</A> <BR>
Galbraith teaches at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He said today: "The [Ukraine] election was stolen. That's not in doubt. Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted it. The National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute both admitted it. ... In Washington, former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski demanded that the results be set aside and a new vote taken, under the eye -- no less -- of the United Nations. ... Personally, I don't know whether the Ukrainian election was really stolen. ... But if the Ukraine standard were applied in Ohio -- as it should be -- then the late lamented U.S. election certainly was stolen. In Ohio, the secretary of state in charge of the elections process was co-chairman of the Bush campaign in the state. He obstructed the vote count systematically -- for instance, by demanding that provisional ballots without birth dates on their envelopes be thrown out, even though there is no requirement for that in state law. He also required that provisional ballots be cast in a voter's home precinct, ensuring that there would be no escape from long lines. Republicans fielded thousands of election challengers to Democratic precincts, mainly to try to intimidate black voters and to slow down the voting process. A recount, demanded and paid for by the Green and Libertarian parties, has been stalled in court, so that it won't possibly upset the certification of Ohio's electoral votes. In Franklin County, Ohio, there was rampant abuse, with voting machines added in Republican precincts and taken away in Democratic ones, as documented by the Columbus Dispatch. The result was a crippling pileup at the polls; many thousands did not vote because they simply could not afford to wait. I witnessed this with my own eyes." <BR>
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For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: <BR>
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167 <BR>
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