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Corporate Influence on the Elections

Find out about the corporations that are backing both the Bush and Kerry campaigns. CorpWatch investigations, live convention reports and news updates reveal the facts, figures, and faces that the corporate media don't report: Stories on specific industries such as tobacco, media, and finance; Analysis of who is giving, who is not and why; Profiles of big donors, what they give, what they get and who they control. Listen to CorpWatch's reporting team live at the Democratic and Republican conventions in joint production with Democracy Now! Listen online or locate your local affiliate at http://www.democracynow.org

US: Early-voting problems in Putnam: Touch-screen votes switched, then corrected
by Paul J. Nyden, The Charleston Gazette
October 21st, 2008
Two more Putnam County voters - Martha Louise Harrington and Michael K. Koon - have come forward about problems they experienced on early-voting electronic machines at the Winfield courthouse.

The Presidential Pipeline
by Brooke Shelby Biggs , CorpWatch Blog
December 21st, 2005
Raise a few hundred thousand dollars in campaign cash for a winning candidate, and expect millions in favorable policies.

US: The Presidential Pipeline: Kerry Backers Still Feel Sting of Losing 2004 Presidential Contest
by Christopher D. Kirkpatrick and Mike Wilkinson, The Toledo Blade
December 20th, 2005
Tort reform partly explains why 152, or 27 percent, of Mr. Kerry's 563 top fund-raisers, dubbed Vice Chairs and Chairs, are listed as lawyers. They raised at least $50,000 each for the Kerry-Edwards campaign.

US: The Presidential Pipeline: Bush Money Network Rooted in Florida, Texas
by Steve Eder and Jim Drew, Toledo Blade
December 19th, 2005
Long before George W. Bush began campaigning for the White House, his family built a fund-raising network of wealthy supporters to bankroll his political ambitions and propel him to the presidency.

US: Presidential Pipeline: Bush's Top Fund-Raisers See Spoils of Victory
by Jim Tankersley, Joshua Boak and Christopher D. Kirkpatrick, Toledo Blade
December 18th, 2005
President Bush's corporate champions see the spoils of his administration in coal. And timber. And credit-card payments, Afghan electric lines, Japanese bank transfers and fake crab.

US: Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force
by Dana Milbank and Justin Blum, The Washington Post
November 16th, 2005
Executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.

NIGERIA: Chevron Paid Troops After Alleged Killing
by David R. Baker
August 4th, 2005
Nigerian soldiers guarding Chevron oil rigs billed the company for $109.25 a day after they allegedly attacked two villages in the volatile country, killing four people and setting fire to homes.

USA: Senate Approves Bill Worth $140 Billion in Corporate Tax Breaks
by Edmund Andrews, New York Times
October 11th, 2004

Banking on Elections
by Lucy Komisar, Special to Corpwatch
October 6th, 2004
Finance sector invests heavily in candidates When former Texas Senator Phil Gramm came out of the Tavern on the Green one recent August morning, his disposition turned edgy. Now a vice chairman of the Swiss financial corporation UBS, he had just left his colleagues at the Financial Services Roundtable breakfast. He wasn't keen on talking to waiting journalists, certainly not to the CorpWatch team.

USA: Republicans Try to Dilute Provisions in Tax Bill
by EDMUND L. ANDREWS, New York Times
October 5th, 2004

Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail Legislation in California
September 15th, 2004

US: Chevron donates to Schwarzenegger, gets removal of restrictions on oil refineries in California
by Tom Chorneau, Associated Press

November Surprise
by Stephen Miller, Special to Corpwatch
September 8th, 2004
Electronic Voting Machines Add Uncertainty to Close Election Race Across the U.S., dozens of election commissions, county clerks and voting registrars are scrambling to maintain public confidence in an election system shaken by the Florida 2000 debacle and challenged by security flaws in hi-tech electronic solutions. In the swing states, where the presidential election is expected to be close, 14 of 20 states will be experimenting with untested technology.

Swing States and Electronic Voting Machines
September 7th, 2004

CorpWatch Covers the Conventions
From New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Time-Warner extravaganza to New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici's connections to nuclear and fossil fuel companies, CorpWatch joins with Democracy Now! to reveal the facts, figures, and faces the corporate media won't cover.

Corporate Donations to Republican Convention to Reach $160 Million.
by Bill Mesler, Special to CorpWatch
August 31st, 2004
The extravagant spectacle is expected to dwarf the record $95 million spent by Democrats this year. In fact, the Republicans will spend more than the $130 million raised by Al Gore for his entire 2000 campaign.

Take Back Your Local TV!
Common Cause
August 25th, 2004

Demand FCC Hearing in your State
FreePress
August 25th, 2004

Media Money
by Sakura Saunders and Ben Clarke, Special to CorpWatch
August 25th, 2004
Media corporations give millions, receive billions. The cost for two weeks of ad-driven debate on Kerry's military record cost almost $1 million. Political advertising will bring over $1.5 billion to media corporations this election season. In turn they will invest millions in campaign contributions and lobbying. Meanwhile, substantive political coverage continues to decline.

USA: Cable and Broadcast Associations Go into Secret Meetings with FCC
by Chellie Pingree and Jonathan Rintels, Seattle Times
August 11th, 2004

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