"The extent of the destruction of records is consistent with covering up the fraud that we believe occurred in the presidential election," said Arnebeck,a Columbus attorney."On the one hand,people will now say you can't prove the fraud,but the rule of law says that when evidence is destroyed it creates a presumption that the people who destroyed evidence did so because it would have proved the contention of the other side."

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Ohio's 2004 presidential election records missing or destroyed
by Steven Rosenfeld
July 30, 2007

Originally posted at The Free Press: 

Authors Bio:

Steven Rosenfeld  covers democracy issues for AlterNet. He is a longtime print and broadcast journalist and has reported for National Public Radio, Monitor Radio, Marketplace,  TomPaine.com  and many newspapers. He has written and co-authored three books on voting rights since 2004, including Count My Vote (AlterNet Books, 2008). His next book profiles how Ben Bril, the most famous Dutch Jewish boxer, kept his family alive in WW2.