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Were the two women, Maiden and Dreamer, the real guilty parties, or did the blame go higher up the ladder to those who at the time of the recount ran the Cuyahoga Board of Elections (BOE). Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner helped to clean out that BOE early in 2007. Vu, Dillingham, and Bennett are no longer there. Michael Vu is now the number two guy running elections in San Diego. There has been no accountability for those at the top, would further investigation reveal anything more? Will election crimes now spread to the west coast? Is this all an internal terrorist attack, as Americans destroy America? Or treason?
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All the people wanted is what they paid for… while we pay election officials to run out elections, please just count our votes correctly the first time. Then when we are forced by necessity to raise additional money from citizen to recount what should have been accurately counted the first time… just count the damn ballots, don’t cheat, and give us the actual results. It doesn’t seem so hard.
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On election night, in Miami County, the vote totals were off in every precinct in 2004. The Boy Scouts were blamed for some of the election errors. They were blamed for delivering the ballots to the wrong precincts. So the Boy Scouts are the problem, not the paid adults in charge. In Delaware County, Kim Spangler and Janet Brenneman gave the credit for the large number of people who voted both for Bush, and that gay marriage is OK, to the shop owners. Colorful characters they are, Kim and Janet each claimed three times on March 23, 2006 before three witnesses, that they know the vote count in Delaware is correct, because “all the shop owners are GAY”, and they didn’t mean “happy”. When three members of what is now known as The Ohio Election Justice Campaign asked many of these same shop owners, they denied it. The number of people that voted for both George W. Bush, and for allowing Gay Marriage was in the thousands, and we were denied access to the ballots that March day, because of “the rule”. So then Director of the Delaware County Board of Elections Kim Spangler, who was collecting a salary from the tax payers lied (a violation of law) and denied access because of “the rule”, but could not tell us where in “the law” it said we couldn’t look at those gay friendly republican ballots. We pay these people… and who are these people?
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So we come back to the Judge for this trial, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold, who showed up an hour and ten minutes late for the morning hearing. This hearing was not on the docket. It appears to have been slid in the day before an election, as though the voting public had been told to go hell. Saffold’s ruling Monday allows Maiden and Dreamer to continue to avoid the original sentence of 18 months, and remain out of prison. They instead will be in a “Six Month Diversion Program”. If their behavior while on probation in this program is good, that will be considered when they return for sentencing on May 27, 2008.
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