Interesting quotes from Ohio

[RebelYell]

TERESA FEDOR,
Ohio State Senator Teresa Fedor said today: "There was trouble with our elections in Ohio at every stage. It's been a battle getting people registered to vote, getting to the ballot on voting day and getting that vote to count. There is a pattern of voter suppression; that's why I called for Blackwell's resignation more than a month ago. Blackwell, while claiming to run an unbiased elections process, was also the co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio. Additionally, he was the spokesperson for the anti-business, anti-family constitutional amendment 'Issue 1,' and a failed initiative to repeal a crucial sales-tax revenue source for the state. Blackwell learned his moves from the Katherine Harris playbook of Florida 2000, and we won't stand for it."


BILL MOSS, [e-mail]
Executive vice president of HBCU Connect, which works to connect historically black colleges and universities, Moss said today: "I stayed in line two and a half hours. I've never seen anything like this in my life. There were fewer voting machines in the highly concentrated black areas, creating the long lines so as to frustrate the voters. But we knew the Republicans -- many of whom became Republicans because they opposed equal rights for blacks -- would try to drive down black turnout. ... Blackwell was confusing things by raising issues like the paper weight of cards."


SUSAN TRUITT, [e-mail], www.caseohio.org
Co-founder of the Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections, Truitt said today: "Seven counties in Ohio have electronic voting machines and none of them have paper trails. That alone raises issues of accuracy and integrity as to how we can verify the count. A recount without a paper trail is meaningless; you just get a regurgitation of the data. Last year, Blackwell tried to get the entire state to buy new machines without a paper trail. The exit polls, virtually the only check we have against tampering with a vote without a paper trail, had shown Kerry with a lead. ... A poll worker told me this morning that there were no tapes of the results posted on some machines; on other machines the posted count was zero, which obviously shouldn't be the case."

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BOB FITRAKIS, [e-mail]
An attorney who monitored the election with the Election Protection Coalition, Fitrakis said today: "There were far fewer machines in the inner-city districts than in the suburbs. I documented at least a dozen people leaving because the lines were so long in African-American areas. Blackwell did a great deal of suppressing before the election -- like attempting to refuse to process voter registration forms. The absentee ballots were misleading in Franklin County. Kerry was the third line down, but you had to punch number four to vote for him. Bush was getting both his votes as well as Kerry's."

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http://www.accuracy.org/press_releases/PR110304.htm

[RawMaterials]

1. Blackwell to run for govener now it was on local cincinnati tv n/m

[RebelYell]

2. I heard that too

I'm in Toledo

[Eurobabe]

3. screw this guy...

i'm getting heavily involved when i move out there, and we are seriously rethinking going to repuke-infested Warren Co. that went 70-30 for Bu$hler.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Blackwell's payoff for stealing the election for the chimp.

It was as obvious as the day is long. I'm surprised the dirty little secret was made public so soon. Blackwell should be ashamed of himself, as a black man. SHAME ON HIM!

[RawMaterials]

5. Thats the same thing me and my wife were talking about

this morning when we watched it on TV. Its really getting ugly in America. the local news is a joke in Cincinnati, last night they were like look at what a good job the tri state did, we gave bush more then the difference in the state for the bush win.

I think 911 2 is going to be coming soon right before the electoral college votes on 12-13, this will cover up the fact that Kerry really won Ohio after they count all the votes.

[byronm]

6. Run for those offices

Start from the ground up people - run for those local offices and lets get entrenched!