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October 21, 2007 at 11:52:20

Destruction of Evidence - Ohio's 2004 Presidential Ballots

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Like Clermont, Brown County couldn’t find all the ballots but they were sure that they “were not intentionally destroyed.”

Guernsey County says that unvoted ballots “were destroyed in error due to the county maintenance worker.” This is inadvertent destruction of evidence by proxy. The janitor did it. Several counties blamed retired elections officials without indicating any effort to contact those officials for an explanation.

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As you look at the examples of ballot evidence destruction, keep in mind that destruction of ballots is the one way to be 100% certain that the charges in KLBNA v. Blackwell are never verified. Ironically, that destruction of 2004 ballots seems to break the very same laws charged in the civil action.

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Allen County had a “migrating water” problem that flooded their vault holding the ballots. This caused them to be “compromised by water damage and subsequently destroyed.” The dry ballots were also lost when a contractor threw them out, inadvertently no doubt. The ballot wipe out in Allen combined both inadvertent destruction (of damaged ballots) and destruction by proxy (all the rest).

Let’s look at two of Ohio’s largest voting districts, those including Cincinnati and Cleveland.

Cincinnati is part of Hamilton County, population 823,000. Election board director John Williams had this to say:

In January of ’06, the staff was engaged in a sizable effort to make room for the Hart voting system. To the best of my knowledge, the above ballots (unvoted precinct ballots) were inadvertently shredded between January 19th and 26th of ‘06 in an effort to make room for the new Hart voting system.

John M. Williams, Director of Elections, Hamilton County Board of Elections, May 16, 2007

So Hamilton had to make room for new voting machines but they shredded the ballots inadvertently; in which case the given reason for the destruction of evidence had nothing to do with the anticipation of new machines since it was inadvertent, “not focusing the mind on matter” or “unintentional,” meaning the absence of specific intent, i.e., moving them to make way for new machines.

Or possibly Hamilton destroyed the ballot for an unspecified reason and found that the shredding made room for the new voting machines; in which case they confused the unspecified reason with inadvertent shredding and used the new machine arrival as a convenient excuse.

Or possibly the staff of the board of elections was so concerned with clearing up storage space that they failed to notice the ballots, the key product of their role as election workers, and set them aside resulting in the shredding; only later rationalizing their negligence with the excuse of needing for extra space for e-voting machines.

Is there a fourth option? The statement by Hamilton as written makes no sense at all. What really happened in this huge voting district?

Hamilton County could produce a receipt for the inadvertent ballot shredding. That might provide clues that would make sense out of their nonsensical letter. But as we will see shortly, before even investigating, Secretary of State Brunner and Attorney General Dann applied a benign motive for what seem to be blatant violations of federal and state law.

Cuyahoga County, population 1.3 million, was unable to determine how many unvoted ballots it had in its possession. It took records for “ballots ordered” for 2004 and subtracted the total ballots cast, assuming the difference was sufficient instead of actually counting the unused ballots.

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Michael Collins is a writer who focuses on clean elections and voting rights. See this summary of his articles plus Election 2004: The Urban Legend and groundbreaking research and commentary in "" His web site, Election Fraud News & The Money Party, offers a collection of resources and commentary on critical issues facing the country.

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I'm an anti-civilizationist and election boycott advocate in San Diego. For reasons not to vote in faith-based elections with secret vote counts for candidates you cannot hold accountable if they fail to represent you, check out the discussions, articles, and videos on my website http://noinnovember.ning.com
Mark E. SmithI'm an anti-civilizationist and election boycott advocate in San Diego. For reasons not to vote in faith-based elections with secret vote counts for candidates you cannot hold accountable if they fail to represent you, check out the discussions, articles, and videos on my website http://noinnovember.ning.com

Of the utmost importance.

Thank you, Michael. I've been sending the link to this story to everyone I can.

There is no accountability. Where there is no accountability, there is only tyranny.

If we ever had a system of laws in the U.S., it is long gone, replaced with partisan judges, crony prosecutors, and corrupt officials and legislatures.

The biggest hypocricy of all is the political parties pretending that they want our votes, and then not bothering to ensure that our votes are counted. When they ask us for money, they make sure that it is counted, so we know that they really want our money. Why are we still voting for them when they obviously don't care about counting our votes?

by Mark E. Smith (21 articles, 30 quicklinks, 100 diaries, 1325 comments) on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 1:56:49 PM

Michael Collins is a writer who focuses on clean elections and voting rights. See this summary of his articles plus Election 2004: The Urban Legend and groundbreaking research and commentary in "" His web site, Election Fraud News & The Money Party, offers a collection of resources and commentary on critical issues facing the country.
Michael CollinsMichael Collins is a writer who focuses on clean elections and voting rights. See this summary of his articles plus Election 2004: The Urban Legend and groundbreaking research and commentary in "" His web site, Election Fraud News & The Money Party, offers a collection of resources and commentary on critical issues facing the country.

That's the big question. You are 100% on target.

We've got two Democrats who are now in power because people voted for them on the basis of going after election fraud in 2004. Then when those people who heard the promises just try to set up a meeting to deliver the evidence, they're shut down by the Democrat Attorney General and Democrat Secretary of State. Both say, nothing to investigate here.

Then when 56 counties destroy or lose evidence, a couple of crimes anyway, the A.G. and SoS say, very quickly, no crime here move along., What hypocrites!

But you've been saying that for a good while. Their lies are now totally exposed. Was there a strong party reaction to the two high level Democrats disrespecting citizens who tell the truth, a truth tht is very well documented? No. Will there be? Not likely in this life time.

by Michael Collins (97 articles, 16 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 345 comments) on Monday, October 22, 2007 at 12:16:50 AM

Stanimal is ???

I hear cries for freedom elsewhere, while the US becomes less so. I hear support for free markets, then demanding a bailout due to incompetence.
I roll my eyes at those that accuse others being oppressed while the US has and still continues to the same and much worse. Laughing at pinheads who purchase and profit from those they curse.

Every time I return to visit I see a country I no longer recognize. A shredded Constitution, a spineless Congress ...

to see more of bio, click on member name
StanimalStanimal is ???

I hear cries for freedom elsewhere, while the US becomes less so. I hear support for free markets, then demanding a bailout due to incompetence.
I roll my eyes at those that accuse others being oppressed while the US has and still continues to the same and much worse. Laughing at pinheads who purchase and profit from those they curse.

Every time I return to visit I see a country I no longer recognize. A shredded Constitution, a spineless Congress ...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Welcome to the New World Order

The rigged elections of Flordia in 2000, and in Ohio in 2004 was just the beginning of the end for the U.S. The destruction of evidence was just to assure no-recounts for this administration to carry out its agenda of:

Endless war against an enemy that has a comodity that drives world markets, and to make sure at no costs that this will be disrupted.

To weaken the dollar until it collapses, thereby introducing a new currency "The Amero" with the intergration of: Canada, Mexico and the U.S. as a federated economic zone.

So, Asian containers can bypass the union paid "Longshoreman" at the west coast ports and be transported by the "Trans Supper Corridor" to the port in Kansas City now under construction.

Say good-bye to what's left of the middle class.

by Stanimal (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 18 diaries, 497 comments) on Monday, October 22, 2007 at 12:17:22 AM

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Mr MCurrently I'm a cartoonist and contributing writer for The New Orleans Levee. For those wishing to view my work you can see my latest at: nolvee.com

If voting could change things ...

they's make it illegal.

by Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 1442 comments) on Monday, October 22, 2007 at 12:22:32 AM

Charlie Levenson is a writer and activist in Portland, Oregon. In addition to serving as the Manager of Electronic Communications for a social/athletic club in Portland, he instructs in Digital Media at Portland State University, consults on communications strategy, and occasionally writes/directs videos.
Charlie LCharlie Levenson is a writer and activist in Portland, Oregon. In addition to serving as the Manager of Electronic Communications for a social/athletic club in Portland, he instructs in Digital Media at Portland State University, consults on communications strategy, and occasionally writes/directs videos.

Or make it impossible...

...which they essentially did.

by Charlie L (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 677 comments) on Monday, October 22, 2007 at 12:46:57 AM

Dr. John Moffett is an active research neuroscientist in the Washington, DC area, who has published over 45 scientific articles on the nervous and immune systems. Dr. Moffett is also the author and webmaster of the political opinion website www.Factinista.org, and is a Managing Editor at OpEdNews.com.
John R MoffettDr. John Moffett is an active research neuroscientist in the Washington, DC area, who has published over 45 scientific articles on the nervous and immune systems. Dr. Moffett is also the author and webmaster of the political opinion website www.Factinista.org, and is a Managing Editor at OpEdNews.com.

Com n sense

If voting could not make a difference, the Republicans wouldn’t be working so damned hard to subvert the vote process.

Obviously, they are terrified of the population voting against them. Everything they do is an attempt to suppress the vote.

They couldn’t pull it off in 2006, and they will have an even harder time in 2008. But they will try very hard, because it is their only hope.

by John R Moffett (80 articles, 14 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 612 comments) on Monday, October 22, 2007 at 10:13:26 AM