Most voters in Ohio chose Kerry; here’s how the votes vanished.

[RBHam]

The Ballots at the Back of the Bus
Most voters in Ohio chose Kerry; here’s how the votes vanished.

By Greg Palast

This past February, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell told the president of the State Senate, “The possibility of a close election with punch cards as the state’s primary voting device invites a Florida-like calamity.” Blackwell, co-chair of Bush-Cheney reelection campaign, wasn’t warning his fellow Republican of disaster; he was boasting of an opportunity to deliver Ohio for Team Bush no matter what the voters wanted. And this past Election Day most voters in Ohio wanted JFK, not GWB. But their choice won’t count because their votes won’t be counted.

The ballots that add up to a majority for John Kerry in Ohio are locked up in two Republican hidey-holes: “spoiled” and “provisional.”

for more truth they don't want you to know....

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1686/

[gumby]

1. Hey, RB

What's your take on today's events? I'm below glum.

[RBHam]

2. Just more proof of what I've been railing about since 9-11...

Actual bi-partisan co-operation in fixing elections and starting wars...

The realization of a neo-Fascist state taking hold in what many considered to be the bastion of Democracy...

The complicit silence of a well fed, easily disracted, entertainment hungry populace...

I saw it all coming and so am not surprised that a torture-advocating, execution-loving, religiously insane Judge is about to be confirmed as US Attorney General. Ashcroft was bad enough.

And I am not surprised that the Bush Crime Family got away with stealing yet another election - I predicted it.

Do you all believe me yet?

Say Good Bye to any semblance of representative Democracy.

Ben Franklin's "experiment" is over - it may have always been an illusion.

[Octafish]

3. We're not quite dead yet!

It's iffy. But, dammit. It's what we need to do something about.

Got a light?

[slay]

4. I believe

this is the end of America as we know it. Money, greed and corporations killed America.

[demwing]

6. Please

The only way for an idea or a concept to die is for it to be forgotten, and NO ONE can force you to forget.

As long as we remember, and as long as we refuse to go peacefully into the night, America isn't dead.

It can be on near permanent life support, but it won't be dead.

[susanna]

7. I like the way you think.

I'll admit, some days I'm ready to flush the Great Experiment myself. Your post gave me a much-needed, different point of view. Thank you!

[BikeWriter]

10. I ain't dead yet!

which I will have to be before I give in to tyrrany!

[gumby]

5. You don't have to convince me.

Pretty much laid out the same scenario since I knew Bunnypants was "running" in 2000.

[BikeWriter]

9. Will you smile and accept it?

Not me!

[BikeWriter]

8. So are we going to take this shit?

Will you bend over?