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Michael Richardson is a freelance writer living in Belize. Richardson writes about Taiwan foreign policy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Black Panther Party. Richardson was Ralph Nader's ballot access manager during the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 20, 2008 Angela Davis Demands 'Omaha Two' Be Freed
Angela Davis urges justice for Black Panther targets of the FBI's clandestine COINTELPRO operation
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 21, 2018 Taipei parade was either hoax to cheat donors or signal to Trump Administration
A showy parade in Taipei outside the Presidential Palace on June 4, 2017 was either part of an elaborate hoax to deceive donors or a public signal to the Trump Administration of the group's moxie. Watch video, you decide.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 8, 2007 Where is the Ninth Amendment hiding?
The Ninth Amendment protects rights retained by the people, it is time to plead the Ninth
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 19, 2018 Why I believe that Edward Poindexter is innocent of murder
After a decade of research and writing a book about the Black Panthers in Omaha, Nebraska, I came to understand that Edward Poindexter is innocent of murder despite 47 years in prison.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 13, 2018 Taiwan Civil Government is a Trump fan club
Taiwan Civil Government has been described as a private business, an education and advocacy group, a shadow government, and fraud ring. Now the group has become a Trump fan club.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 31, 2018 Foreign Policy card swap puts editor in hot seat over possible role in alleged fraud
As Taiwan prosecutors make a case against Roger and Julian Lin for poltical fraud the investigation may move from Taipei to Washington where Taiwan Civil Government was actively lobbying. A card swap proves Foreign Policy editor Jonathan Tepperman cannot claim he does not know Julian Lin. Tepperman is silent about his briefing of Julian Lin in September 2017.
SHARE Wednesday, January 17, 2007 EAC: The "E" doesn't stand for ethics
The Election Assistance Commission lacks ethical guidelines and is avoiding investigating a conflict of interest by one of its voting machine test labs.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 2, 2007 Why Paper Ballots Are Not Good Enough
Paper ballots, without hand-counting, still leaves us at the mercy of optical scan vote counting machines capable of being rigged with self-deleting malicious software code.
SHARE Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Ciber-sleuthing in the secret world of voting machine accreditation
Despite Florida's denial that banned test lab, Ciber, had any role in the Sarasota "undervotes" the state's reliance on Ciber raises questions on the actual testing of Sarasota's voting equipment
SHARE Friday, December 8, 2006 The Perfect Crime
Electornic voting machines and malicious self-deleting software code now make it possible to commit the Perfect Crime, one that cannot even be detected.
SHARE Sunday, December 3, 2006 Why Elections Do Not Matter
This brings us back to the business of elections not mattering anymore. If we are going to let the machines, and their unseen hackers, control the outcome of our elections then we have surrendered our democracy and the elections simply do not matter. Why vote if your vote will be stolen or changed?
There is a solution. Take back the control of our voting from the hackers. Hand count paper ballots.
SHARE Tuesday, December 5, 2006 What Election Fraud Looks Like
Modern election fraud looks like "undervotes" and failure to recognize it dooms us to more of it.
SHARE Sunday, December 24, 2006 Trading Alphabet Soup for Code Words
The Paper Ballots being advocated by the "election integrity" movement are code words for riggable electronic vote counters instead of a secure hand counted paper ballot system.