I have attempted to define how the GOP stole the '04 election in the most simplistic terms and provided links to support the premises:
1. MISALLOCATION OF MACHINES (and less reliable machines) in high Dem Precincts. 2. MANIPULATION OF VOTER REGISTRATIONS and PURGES 3. UNCOUNTED VOTES 4. GOP DIRTY TRICKS
I believe we are heading for a train wreck with the upcoming election, and hope this will help define areas to concentrate our efforts in the future. The use of electronic voting machines will allow more methods for stealing. I am an advocate of Hand-counted paper ballots (with strict procedures) and public witnessed counting at the precinct level.
Dorri Steinhoff
1. MISALLOCATION OF MACHINES (and less reliable machines) in high Dem Precincts:
Fixing America's Broken Elections Rep. John Conyers, Jr. February 08, 2005
My staff reviewed thousands of pages of primary source materials, including copies of actual ballots, voter registration databases, and poll books. They also met with several individuals having firsthand knowledge of irregularities. What they found indicated problems in multiple areas, from machine tampering and malfunction, to the intimidation and caging of minority voters in urban and rural areas, to the purposeful misallocation of voting machines and the unjustifiable restrictions that were placed on the use of provisional ballots.
Ohio 2004 election thief grabs Gov nod while (surprise! surprise!) voting machines malfunction by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman May 5, 2006
Ohio's Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has grabbed the GOP nomination for governor in a vote count riddled with machine breakdowns. In Franklin and Delaware Counties, election officials had to "shut down and recalibrate [machines] throughout the day," according to the Columbus Dispatch. Election officials use recalibration as a code word when machines are malfunctioning including the recording of votes for wrong candidates.
2. MANIPULATION OF VOTER REGISTRATIONS and PURGES:
Did 308,000 cancelled Ohio voter registrations put Bush back in the White House? by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman February 28, 2006
It turns out, we missed more than a few of the dirty tricks Karl Rove, Ken Blackwell and their GOP used to get themselves four more years. In an election won with death by a thousand cuts, some that are still hidden go very deep. Over the next few weeks we will list them as they are verified.
One of them has just surfaced to the staggering tune of 175,000 purged voters in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), the traditional stronghold of the Ohio Democratic Party. An additional 10,000 that registered to vote there for the 2004 election were lost due to "clerical error."
A huge wave of progressive voters would tend to minimize the threat, which we should not. This is a huge issue. Chech out Oregon's voting system - much wiser.
