Boston Globe continues whitewash of Republican 2004 Ohio election crimes

[12 12 2000]

Reporter Susan Milligan does not mention one iota of the rampant evidence of Blackwell's, Diebold's, and the national GOP's interference, manipulations, and deprivation of hundreds of thousands of Ohio citizens' right to vote in 2004! The closest she comes is to mention John Kerry's recent commencement speech at "... Kenyon College, where students waited in line up to 11 hours to vote in the 2004 presidential election. Kerry's address was laden with references to his narrow loss in Ohio, which cost him the presidency." That's it, in this quite lengthy article profiling Ohio's critical role in 2008. Not even an explanation of WHY those students had to wait so long. Total abdication of journalistic responsibility. So I guess we know what to expect, with corporate media complicity, in '08, don't we? <http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/05/29/the_contenders_of_08_look_to_ohio/>

[WCGreen]

1. Do you know why they had to wait so long......

[12 12 2000]

2. Republican officials undersupplied voting machines...

just as they did throughout numerous Democratic strongholds, especially African American areas around Cleveland, Columbus, etc.

[WCGreen]

3. There was an unusual number of students

wanting to vote in person vs. via absentee....

They based the number of machines in the smaller college towns on past voter turnout...

In other place, such as Cuyahoga County, they did not supply enough machines, plain and simple....

Just so you know, all the Board of Elections in Ohio are autonomous and the only time Blackwell gets involved with the actual election is if there is a tie vote on an individual Board....

Also, the votes are tabulated and stored at the county level...

The results are transmitted to the Secretary of States office after the tally at the county level is complete...

All the boards are made up of four members, two Dem's and two republicans...

almost every job at an individual board has two people, one dem and one republican....

I know because I was on the Board of Elections in Cuyahoga County back in 1995-96...

There is room for chicanery, of course, but not as prevalent as many on this board seem to think....

And I really don't care anymore if people believe me or not....

I know what I know and have grown weary of banging my head against the wall....

[roseBudd]

5. Oh but the fundie college had plenty of machines, the liberal arts &

African American colleges is where the machine shorting occurred. It's called suppression. Just because I call myself a D BoE official doesn't mean I stand up for what's right. After all I serve at the pleasure of the SoS. Two Ds and 2 Rs does not guarantee a fair and equal election.

[WCGreen]

6. Your right....

There is a vast Conspiracy ....

There was never any problems until Ken Blackwell took over...

The Quahog County Board of Elections did not go through a huge voting scandal when Sher rod Brown was Secretary of State....

Prove to me that there were less voting machines than normal at the LA and AA colleges....

Prove it...

Tell me that there were 10 machines in 2000 but only 4 in 2004.


Prove it!!!!!!

[roseBudd]

7. I guess Fritakis is a liar then

At Kenyon College and Oberlin College, liberal arts institutions, there were severe shortages of voting machines when compared with nearby religious-affiliated schools. Students at Kenyon waited up to eleven hours to vote. Provisional ballots were also required of mostly African-American students at Wilberforce College.

The misallocation of voting machines led to unprecedented long lines that disenfranchised scores, if not hundreds of thousands, of predominantly minority and Democratic voters. Though there were 700,000 newly registered urban voters in 2004, 42 precincts in Franklin County had less voting machines than in the PRIMARIES, yet 39 machines were found unused on Election Day in a nearby warehouse.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Sad, I remember when the Boston Globe was a great investigative

and progressive paper. In the 70's. It was like reading DU. Their "Spotlight" series were extremely hard hitting and exposed a lot of corruption.