Reply #12: Rev. Jesse Jackson, at a speech in Ohio [View All]

[Time for change]

Reported in FreePress.org by Bob Fitrakis, Nov. 29, 2004.

According to the sworn testimony, a systematic denial of voting machines to inner city precincts resulted in waits of three, five, and even eleven hours for thousands of voters, many of whom left in frustration without casting their ballots. Charges of intimidation, misinformation, faulty registration lists and denial of provisional ballots are listed. So are serious questions about the integrity of touch screen machines, many of which were widely reported to have turned Kerry votes into Bush votes. In Warren County, Homeland Security was inexplicably invoked to bar independent observers and the media, leaving the vote count under control of Republicans. In the Franklin County precinct of Gahanna, 4358 votes were registered for Bush where only 628 people voted. In another county, a GOP election official took voting results to his private home for final, unsupervised reporting........



But this is definitely a quote from Jackson: "You can't have public elections on privately owned machines, especially where on of the owners has vowed to deliver the state for George Bush."