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December 14, 2007 at 15:54:31

Headlined on 12/14/07:
Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen

by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman     Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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Blackwell, who was defeated in a 2006 race for the Ohio governorship, outsourced web hosting responsibilities for the 2004 vote count to a programming firm that also programmed the web site for the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. Blackwell's chosen host site for the state's vote count was in the basement of the Old Pioneer Bank Building in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the servers for the Republican National Committee, and the Bush White House, were also located.

Brunner has now recommended that all Ohio's voting be done on optical scan ballots, with reliance on central tabulation. Voters with disabilities could use AutoMark machines with bar coding devices that allow the marking of ballots with little or no additional assistance.



"It's a testament to our state's boards of elections officials that elections on the new (federally) mandated voting systems have gone as smoothly as they have in light of these findings," Brunner said.

Conversely, it is also a testament to the ease with which the 2004 election was stolen by election officials who had clear conflicts of interest aimed at keeping George W. Bush in the White House.

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Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman are co-authors of HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA'S 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING 2008 (www.freepress.org) and of WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO? (The New Press) with Steve Rosenfeld. THE FITRAKIS FILES are available at www.freepress.org, where this article first appeared. Wasserman's SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030, is at www.solartopia.org.

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Mr MCurrently I'm a cartoonist and contributing writer for The New Orleans Levee.

Too late ...

Whoopee ... way too late. The 2000 elections were stolen too. When are we going to have someone of import come out and say that? And if one did what would be done about it? I can answer that - nothing.

Fact of the matter they ("they" being the powers that be) don't want a fair verifiable election process. For if we had fair elections they wouldn't be the "powers that be" any longer. We'd have a great distribution of wealth, environmental protections, renewable energy, universal health care, bridges that don't collapse, free schools that actually educate, a judiciary that upholds the rule of law and no more wars for profit.

If voting could change things - they'd make it illegal.

by Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 1056 comments) on Saturday, December 15, 2007 at 11:16:15 AM
 


I do not feel it necessary for me to give you a bio..this is not High School
Susan NelsenI do not feel it necessary for me to give you a bio..this is not High School

So that explains

the 3% "switch" for Bush that happened in the middle of the night...when no one was watching...

by Susan Nelsen (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 227 comments) on Saturday, December 15, 2007 at 12:12:35 PM
 


I am a 65 year old widowed grandmother who just got health insurance after more than two decades without it which is difficult with Diabetes, asthma and hypertension. One of my sons is severely developmentally disabled by autism due to lead paint poisoning. I have spent much of my life caring for ill and disabled family members and advocating on their behalf. 
Pat WilliamsI am a 65 year old widowed grandmother who just got health insurance after more than two decades without it which is difficult with Diabetes, asthma and hypertension. One of my sons is severely developmentally disabled by autism due to lead paint poisoning. I have spent much of my life caring for ill and disabled family members and advocating on their behalf. 

Why we must vote

A lot of people think that if the vote is stolen anyway, why vote? The answer is complex. Everything from the many thousands of Americans out there trying to stop as much of the theft and disenfrachisement as possible which partly worked in 2006 to the critical importance of a significantly wider margin. Flipping the votes or eliminating them (undervotes) becomes increasingly difficult as the margin widens. This article concentrates on Ohio which dealt with the Electoral College votes. It has to be emphasized that key swing states and other vulnerable states such as  little Delaware contributed to the "popular majority" for Bush that discouraged legal challenge. But in many places, particularly where there was no paper trail, the exit polls owned by an MSM consortium, showed glaring differences, consistently for Bush (prior to a 1:30 am Nov. 3rd adjustment). In Delaware, Kerry won. But there was a 5% difference than that in the exit polls. Analyzing the unrevised exit polls, Kerry won the popular vote by over 5 million. Some of those red states were actually blue states. There would have been several additional million votes if the mostly minority voters had not been prevented from voting. Rather than throw in the towel, each of us must protest by voting and making it as hard for the Republicans to steal our votes as we can. Heck, the next time, we might even begin getting more enforcement of the voting laws. It is painful and incremental. By voting, what have we got to lose? By NOT voting, what have we got to win?

by Pat Williams (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 82 comments) on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 10:12:27 AM
 

 

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