Election Corruption Incidents Surfacing in Ohio

FBI raids the home of a Republican fundraiser who may have been illegally channneling money to the Bush campaign. Found on Toledo Blade.com via Buzz Flash.

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And more hard facts on what really happened in Ohio during election 2004. Chilling. Absolutely chilling, but not surprising really. The election 2004 continues to reek of corruption and manipulation.

The entire story can be found here

From Free Press: A long article by Bob Fitrakis "How Blackwell and Petro Saved Bush's Brain: And the rise of the right wing juggernaut in Ohio" Fitrakis discusses how the bitterly contested election results in Ohio have taken on a religious twist. The Bush/Rove Ohio extremists are turning on even conservative Republicans who are not hard core fundamentalists. Fitrakis hopes that the attempts by Ohio's state elders to restore balance and dignity to their state's elections may be the "opening salvo of widespread revulsion against Ohio's right wing corruption and abuse that gave the 2004 election to George W. Bush."

Fitrakis reveals that a minster who Blackwell once applauded for his "honor to public service" is under scrutiny because on November 2, 2004, voting machines were transferred from poor, inner city urban areas to this minster's church.

Some excerpts from the article.

The mainstream press is silent no more

Still, the battle over the bizarre 2004 election results in Ohio continues to rage. Karl Rove and George W. Bush, with the acquiescence of some Democratic Party leaders, are orchestrating a cover-up as, simultaneously, shocking new evidence is emerging and a few mainstream media sources are beginning to report the story of a possible election theft.

A headline in the Akron Beacon Journal, for instance, screams: “Analysis Points to Election ‘Corruption’: Group Says Chance of Exit Polls Being So Wrong in ’04 Vote is One-in-959,000.” This report, signed by 12 statistical scholars and social scientists, should have sparked more interest in a nation purporting to be “the world’s greatest democracy.”

The Irish Times noted that, “The internet is still flickering with allegations of a conspiracy to steal the election, fueled by the discrepancies between exit polls that predicted Kerry would win by a margin of 3% and the official results which saw Bush win by a margin of 2.5%.”

Investigative reporter Christopher Hitchens’ article “Ohio’s Odd Numbers” in Vanity Fair stated, “Given what happened in that key state on Election Day 2004, both democracy and common sense cry out for a court-ordered inspection of its new voting machines.”

Prior to the election, Paul Krugman, warned in a New York Times article: “It’s election night, and early returns suggest trouble for the incumbent. Then, mysteriously, the vote count stops and observers from the challenger’s campaign see employees of a voting-machine company, one wearing a badge that identifies him as a county official, typing instructions at computers with access to the vote-tabulating software.

When the count resumes, the incumbent pulls ahead. The challenger demands an investigation. But there are no ballots to recount, and election officials allied with the incumbent refuse to release data that could shed light on whether there was tampering with the electronic records.

This isn’t a paranoid fantasy. It’s a true account of a recent election in Riverside County, California . . . .”

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that presidential candidate John Kerry’s wife Teresa Heinz Kerry told a Seattle luncheon group that it is “very easy to hack into the mother machines,” in reference to the commonly used central computer tabulators that count the votes on Election Day.

Robert Koehler of Tribune Media Services published perhaps the best piece entitled “The Silent Scream of Numbers: The 2004 election was stolen, will someone please tell the media?”

President Jimmy Carter actually mentioned the “f” word – fraud – recently in the Washington Post in reference to reforming the U.S. election system.

And even John Kerry finally acknowledged the obvious when he returned to the site of his concession speech in Boston and told the League of Women Voters, “Last year too many people were denied the right to vote; too many who tried to vote were intimidated.”