The bottom of the first quote box describes the security at the Greene County Ohio elections offices on the eve of a vote recount that could determine the legitmacy of Bush's 2004 election. Nothing to see here......move along now....
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• December 13, 2004 | 7:37 p.m. ET
<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/</a>
<h3>Xenia-phobia (Keith Olbermann)</h3>
SECAUCUS - If the subject weren’t so serious, the clunky maneuverings of John Kerry and Kenneth Blackwell would make for a nice modernized version of the Keystone Kops, or maybe Gilbert & Sullivan.
It’s hard to tell which of them is doing the worse job convincing anybody that there’s nothing to see here — keep moving — pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Here is Kerry, insisting he is not invested in the outcome of an Ohio recount, asking through his lawyers to inspect the 92,000 ballots that contain no vote for president. And, through his interactions with Jesse Jackson and John Conyers, connecting into the Alliance for Democracy lawsuit to overturn or freeze the Ohio Electoral count, and into the assessment that Blackwell’s behavior “appears to violate Ohio law.”
And here is Blackwell, having insisted on 'Countdown' that there would be a re-count and his office would take no steps to prevent it, stepping on his own feet in Xenia, Ohio. Last Friday, Greene County election officials there tossed out two Green Party observers who had been given access to the examine the voting records there, attributing their actions to Blackwell’s directives that the so-called ‘canvassing period’ which follows every election be extended from ten days to more than a month because of the fact of the recount. Those county records, Blackwell’s people reasoned, needed to be sealed and handled with the “utmost care” until the recount was completed.
Just to round out the absurdity, those same two Greens returned to the Election Board building in Greene County (and what script editor would’ve permitted that coincidence?) on Saturday morning to find, they say, the facility unlocked, and all those ‘sealed’ voting machines and records out in the open where any passing vandal or political memorabilia junkie could’ve walked off with them (heck, I own two Broward County 2000 Voting Machines, if anybody would like to do a private recount). Greene County responded by insisting that while it was true that someone appears to have left the building unlocked, overnight, on Friday, and that nobody locked it up until Saturday afternoon, the other stuff — about the machines and records being unprotected — wasn’t true; they were inside locked rooms.
Well, that’s all right, then. .............
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Excerpt from today's Washington Post article: <h4>Several Factors Contributed to 'Lost' Voters in Ohio</h4> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64737-2004Dec14?language=printer">http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64737-2004Dec14?language=printer</a>
In Cleveland, poorly trained poll workers apparently gave faulty instructions to voters that led to the disqualification of thousands of provisional ballots and misdirected several hundred votes to third-party candidates. <h3>In Youngstown, 25 electronic machines transferred an unknown number of votes for Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to the Bush column.</h3>
In Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo, and on college campuses, election officials allocated far too few voting machines to busy precincts, with the result that voters stood on line as long as 10 hours -- many leaving without voting. Some longtime voters discovered their registrations had been purged.
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WTF.....people ????? Bush's lead dropped from 136,000+ to 118,000+ by the
time Ohio Sec'ty of State Blackwell "certified" the state's vote on Dec. 6.
How many votes is an "unknown number" that were transferred to Bush from
Kerry by 25 electronic voting machines? A "reversed vote" narrows or increases the margin by 2 votes. Here is some more food for thought from
today's NY Times:
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<a href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Lawmaker+Seeks+Inquiry+Into+Ohio+Vote&btnG=Search+News">http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/politics/15ohio.html</a>
"Lawmaker Seeks Inquiry Into Ohio Vote"
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: December 15, 2004
The ranking Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, plans to ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a county prosecutor in Ohio today to explore "inappropriate and likely illegal election tampering" in at least one and perhaps several Ohio counties.
The request for an investigation, made in a letter that was also provided to The New York Times, includes accounts from at least two county employees, but is based largely on a sworn affidavit provided by the Hocking County deputy director of elections, Sherole Eaton.
Among other things, Ms. Eaton says in her affidavit that a representative of Triad Governmental Systems, the Ohio firm that created and maintains the vote-counting software in dozens of Ohio counties, made several adjustments to the Hocking County tabulator last Friday, in advance of the state's recount, which is taking place this week.............
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Web source for above articles contains much more information about Conyer's
investigation here: <a href="http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/">http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/</a>
<h3>Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything."
</h3> <a href="http://www.votefraud.org/josef_stalin_vote_fraud_page.htm">http://www.votefraud.org/josef_stalin_vote_fraud_page.htm</a>