because western corpmedia is refusing to document the details of kenya's election fraud, preferring to characterise the situation as 'tribal violence', i would like to put this on record:

AllAfrica: Kenya: I Acted Under Pressure, Says Kivuitu
The magnitude of the Electoral Commission chairman's admission and the further dent on the credibility of the election was captured in his answer when asked if indeed President Kibaki won the elections: "I do not know whether Kibaki won the election".
Kivuitu continued with his stunning revelations when he said he took the presidential election winner's certificate to State House, Nairobi, after "some people threatened to collect it while I'm the one mandated by law to do so".
"I arrived at State House to take the certificate and I found the Chief Justice there, ready to swear-in Kibaki," Kivuitu said...
On Tuesday, Kivuitu conceded that matters that arose from the poll results were so urgent that they should be taken to court, and the ruling done with minimum delay to ease national tension.
"If this matter is finally taken to court, the ruling should be made urgently so that if it were decided that Raila is the President, so be it. If it is Kibaki, so be it," he added...
On his part, Kivuitu said he backed independent investigation into what may have happened, but added that this would be only if the law would provide for it.
"We are culprits as a commission. We have to leave it to an independent group to investigate what actually went wrong," the chairman said, stunning local and international journalists, who had gathered at his Nairobi residence...
http://allafrica.com/stories/200801010051.html

Salim Lone: We Kenyans are the victims of an outrage
This country won't accept that the man it knows won the election should be kept from power
Vigorous objections were being raised by the opposition Orange Democratic Movement to the blatant doctoring of the election figures that had been agreed on jointly at the constituency by all political parties and forwarded to election headquarters for national tallying. Suddenly, the screens of all television channels went dark, except on the government-owned broadcaster. A couple of hours later, as ODM presidential candidate Raila Odinga was doing a live press conference, the plug was again pulled. Now the media has been banned from doing live broadcasts of any news events...
And so the results from 48 of the 210 constituencies were published without supporting documentation, or with use of figures which were grossly inflated from the ones filed from the field...
As the European Union observer mission indicated in its report, its representative in Molo in the former White Highlands witnessed the recording of 50,000 votes for President Kibaki, but the result announced in Nairobi gave the president nearly 75,000 votes. Overall, ODM asserts that at least 750,000 votes were stolen, and the final 230,000 margin announced for Mr Kibaki camouflaged a 500,000 vote victory for Mr Odinga.
But at constituency level, where doctoring results is much harder, voters ejected an astounding 20 of Mr Kibaki's Cabinet Ministers. And his own party won only 35 seats in the new Parliament, while Mr Odinga's ODM has at least 100. This is an astounding rejection of the government, and undermines any claim that it could have legitimately won the presidential election...
http://comment.independe...ators/article3298392.ece

Belfast Telegraph: Kibaki faces pressure over 'rigging'
Mr Kivuitu claimed he had come under sustained pressure from senior Kibaki aides to declare the results, despite his own reservations. He called for an independent inquiry into the election, echoing a call made by five of his commissioners earlier in the day. "We are culprits as a commission," he said. "We have to leave it to an independent group to investigate what actually went wrong."..
However, Mr Kivuitu's actions on Sunday angered many Kenyans. Just half an hour after announcing results which EU observers said were inaccurate, Mr Kivuitu was at State House, cracking jokes at Mr Kibaki's side...
The ban on live television and radio broadcasts continued into a third day. While the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera were reporting the rising death tolls, a local channel, KTN, was showing The Sound of Music.
http://www.belfasttelegr...-news/article3301564.ece

Independent: Kibaki faces pressure over 'rigging'
Pressure for an inquiry into Kenya's flawed presidential election rose dramatically last night after the chairman of Kenya's electoral commission, Samuel Kivuitu, cast doubt over the validity of President Kibaki's re-election.
"I do not know whether Kibaki won the election," Mr Kivuitu told reporters, just two days after he controversially announced Mr Kibaki's victory. ..
http://news.independent....frica/article3300988.ece

The lateness of coverage of touch screen and other voting machine inadequacy, compared to machines with a voter verified paper trail, that is too late to have any influence on the 2008 election cycle reflects what conservative Republicans really want when they claim 'liberal media bias.'

Republicans and conservatives use 'liberal media bias' as code words for reporting that DOES have influence on events that they don't like. MSM corporate-owned media caves into pressure by doing their job, reporting news, in a way that tries not to influence events to avoid amounts of criticism that has been known to jam internal email servers. Example below:
The pro Israel partisan website honestreporting.com has claimed credit for jamming CNN internal email servers in 2002.

Republican party caucuses in Iowa simply have voters fill out a name on a piece of paper (considered a straw poll) that is counted after closing time. If the Iowa Republican party uses a paper vote for caucuses then the rest of the Repub party nationally, as well as Democratic party elected and appointed officials, can stop blocking voter-verified paper trails for machines even touch screen models.

article link with quote:

Weathering the Caucuses: For Voters And Candidates, the Outlook Is Variable
By Libby Copeland
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 31, 2007; C01
http://www.washingtonpos.../AR2007123002616_pf.html

The decision of a single person --- to leave, to alter her support --- has the potential to matter more within the Democratic caucuses. The Republicans simply hold a straw poll; people show up and write a name on a piece of paper, and the statewide results are counted and reported. End of story.

But the Democrats operate in a less intuitive fashion, divvying up a precinct's delegates proportionately based on the total number of people who show up at that location. The other strange part about the way the Democrats work is that each candidate must have at least 15 percent support among the people in the room to be considered "viable." If the candidates are not viable, they don't get counted. That's when the "realignment" phase comes in, in which people try to persuade supporters of nonviable candidates (as well as those who are uncommitted) to throw their support to one of the remaining candidates.

http://edition.cnn.com/T.../0801/01/sitroom.02.html

"COSTELLO: It's scary, isn't it? Some states are actually thinking of going back to paper ballots like Ohio. Do keep in mind, there is no documented evidence of election tampering using these disputed electronic machines and the people who make them have faith in them, saying individual states have their own certification standards, which complicates things for the manufacturers. Wolf?"
Big surprise that the CNN reporter is WRONG to say that there is "no documented evidence of election tampering using these disputed electronic machines". Hello?

And another thing, why is voting on paper scary? Finally some mainstream press, and as ususal, more confusion is created. UGH!

Jonathan - Only have time to comment on one aspect of your comments. We don't need or want "machines with a voter verified paper trail". We need and want a paper BALLOT for every vote cast in America. Unless there's a reason for a disabled voter to optionally use a ballot marking device to print out their ballot, only a hand-marked paper ballot can reasonably be known to reflect the voter intent.

Much as you reference the GOP code-words of "liberal media bias", you should note the importance of the correct language in this case. Paper "trails" don't do the trick. Only paper ballots.