OHIO -- 2004 ballots not preserved; pres. vote cannot be verified [View All]

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070812/NEWS01/708120449
2004 ballots not preserved
Result of presidential vote cannot be verified

COLUMBUS - Despite a federal judge's order to preserve all ballots from the 2004 presidential election - in which Ohio provided President Bush's margin of victory - boards of elections in 56 of Ohio's 88 counties lost, shredded or dumped nearly 1.6 million ballots and election records.

In 39 letters of explanation sent to newly elected Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, county election officials offered a litany of excuses for the missing and destroyed ballots - including spilled coffee, a flooded storage areaand miscommunication with a county "Green Team" assigned to pick up recyclables. About half the lost ballots were unused, but even those are important for double-checking election results.

In Southwest Ohio, some unused ballots were shredded. Others were lost during a remodeling. Pages that verify punch-card ballot counts and the rotation of candidates' names ended up in Mount Rumpke landfill, according to letters from four elections boards.... MUCH MORE

You just have to read this, folks, including the list of excuses for the missing ballots and the DEMOCRATIC Secretary of State's refusal to investigate, saying that even she had some evidence of a cover-up it wouldn't have changed the outcome!!!!!!!


Also see:
http://dunes.cincinnati.com/data/misc/ballots/