How the Ohio election was rigged for Bush

[JohnnyCougar]

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/995

Following four community public hearings in Ohio about election irregularities and voter suppression – two in the capitol, Columbus, and one each in Cincinnati and Cleveland – a clear pattern and practice of voter disenfranchisement is emerging.

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There also seems to be an abnormally high vote count for third party candidates who received less than one-half of one percent of the statewide vote total combined. For example, in precinct 4-F, the right-wing Constitutional Law candidate Peroutka received 215 votes to Bush’s 21 and Kerry’s 290. In this precinct, Kerry received 55% of the vote where Gore received 91% of the vote in the year 200. These numbers suggest that Kerry’s votes were inadvertently or intentionally shifted to Peroutka.


& much more. This article sums it up pretty well.

[ReneB]

1. interesting too

"In precinct 55-B on Columbus’ near east side, there were 1,338 registered voters and, according to Franklin County Board of Elections estimates, 956 active voters who had voted in the last two federal elections. Despite voter registration being up 17%, and by the BOE’s own guidelines the polling place requiring ten machines (one per 100 voters), the polling site had only three machines, one less than for the 2000 elections."

[Starlight]

3. That seems like a LOT of machines.

1 for every 100 voters? Is that normal? What kind of machines are people using that are so slow?

Our voting place was divided into 3 precincts, each with 1 machine. About 350 people had used the machine in my precinct (out of almost 700 registered voters) when I left at a little after 3pm. There was never a line.

So why were there long lines there with 3 machines for 1338 registered voters? Surely there wasn't 100% turnout? It makes no sense to me. :shrug:

[Dancing_Dave]

2. Great work!

So there is the bogus count, the recount, then the challenge due to disenfranchizement...and we hope in the end to learn some of the tricks the Republicans have been using in the last several elections.:think:

[Gary_destruction]

4. Issue one

It was issue one that allowed President Moron to win the election. He didn't stand a chance otherwise. And because you had to vote for everything to get your vote on issue one to count, all of the religious fanatics went for bush.