I collected together, from messages sent out on the internet, a large amount of evidence of electoral fraud by the Republican Party and put them on my "us-electoral-fraud" discussion group, with the aim of overturning the fraudulent election result as well as revealing details about it.

Voting by machine, particularly when there is no paper trail so that a complete recount can take place, obviously results in a massive lack of democracy, particularly when most of the machines are constructed and programmed by companies controlled by one party (the Republicans).

Most elections in the UK are conducted in a few hours, with many local people recruited to count the votes on the ballot papers, and members of the political parties watch the counting in action to try to ensure that no fraud takes place.

Elections are more democratic in the UK than the US, but nevertheless fraud took place in the last European elections in the UK, by the use of postal ballots in the North of England, as I revealed on my "uk-electoral-fraud" discussion group.

The reason why the Republicans were determined to defraud Kerry was that Kerry pledged to tax the rich and close all tax loopholes in the second live TV debate with Bush.

This is an unofficial discussion group of the Alliance for Democracy, a new progressive populist movement in the USA.