Reply #25: Ohio and elections [View All]

[cloudythescribbler]

First of all, a shift of 7% of Ohio blacks would only cost Kerry a little over 1% of the statewide vote, which could hurt but not explain the massive amounts of fraud uncovered.

* freepress.org has documented the systematic denial of voting machines to a HUGE number of Democratic precincts across the state -- although according to people in her offices, relatively FEW precincts within Stubbs-Jones' district itself. Kenyon college for example, had TWO voting machines for well over 10,000 registered voters, which was less than ONE TENTH the proper number, generating lines in excess of 8 hours. Reports of warehouses in some counties with over 60 unused voting machines, and of overwhelmingly black precincts that usually get five or six voting machines getting only three even though record turnouts were expected, were supplemented with tales of lines often over three hours long, almost always in overwhelmingly Democratic precincts. People need to go to work and many people left the long lines, one minister estimated a loss of 7000 votes (mainly black) to the Kerry ticket in Youngstown alone.
Meanwhile, in Republican districts, like Delaware County, where justifier of the lying Matt Bai at the New York Times, whose story on Ohio in the New York Times Magazine MADE NO MENTION OF ANY OF THESE ISSUES, did go to Delaware County briefly, there was no one -- even though it turned out to have a 73% turnout! There were PLENTY of machines for the Republicans and three hour lines for the Democrats where turnout was lower, often much lower, than 70%.
The issues go on and on -- of Kerry getting outpolled in conservative Southern Ohio by an obscure and underfunded black woman running for a state judgeship at the bottom of the ticket; no one could explain this plausibly except as a product of hacking the totals. The exit polls in Ohio showed Kerry winning BOTH men and women, and winning the state with over 200,000 votes. Wonder where those votes went?

There are reasons for the media lockdown of Votergate 2004 and these are a few of them