Let’s Get Ready to RUMBLE!!! DEAN to Focus on Election Fraud: OH & FL

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Tue Jun-21-05 09:41 PM
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Let’s Get Ready to RUMBLE!!! DEAN to Focus on Election Fraud: OH & FL

Edited on Tue Jun-21-05 10:35 PM by autorank

Let’s Get Ready to RUMBLE!!!DEAN to Focus on Election Fraud: OH & FL.!!!

Mainline Democrats haven’t talked about election fraud. There’s been a self-imposed black out on the issue. Things changed in a big way, at last weeks DNC meeting, June 13, 2005. Howard Dean spent considerable time talking about voting rights issues – voter suppression, problems with machines, and the general right to vote denied to many Democrats..

Dean’s key points were:

The DNC is taking voting rights very seriously;
DNC will start by focusing on 2004 Ohio and Florida where the worst abuses took place;
Dean mentioned key DNC staff working on voting rights/election fraud issues (Eric Holder, Arlene Meyerson, Rolanda Rios, & Paul Iasaki); and,
He announced a lawyer’s steering committee on voting issues as well.

Please note Eric Holder, in charge of this issue for Dean at the DNC is a former highly placed Clinton DOJ attorney and regarded as a legal heavyweight.

Dean made related remarks at aJune 12th Rainbow PUSH Town Hall Meeting on Re authoring the 1965 Voting Rights Act. DUer GettysbergII was at the meeting and reports:

“The most important statement I believe Dean made was to tell us to be prepared for a bombshell of a report the Democrats should be releasing in the next 10 days or so that documents the widespread voter suppression and fraud last November in Ohio particularly and the country in general. … Dean assured everyone that the Democrats will be ready for a serious legal tussle if necesary in 2006.”

How the scandal unfolds: It starts in Ohio

In Ohio, The Toledo Blade is doing an incredible series on Republican financial fraud called Coingate which is closely tied to election fraud. Tom Noe, a major Republican fund raiser was also an investor for the Ohio Pension Fund. He did a very poor job with over $200 million of worker pensions. He’s being charged with “conversion to personal use” and there is a real question about some of this money going to Bush-Cheney before 2004. The US Attorney knew about this well in advance of the 2004 election but did nothing. Officials in the Republican controlled Ohio state officials knew about it over a year ago and did nothing. The Toledo Blade reported an Ohio Democrat saying: "People are stunned by the corruption and arrogance of Ohio's Republicans," he said.” The Blade goes on to say, “That's why some Democratic members of Congress are planning to meet with Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean next week to talk about what happened in Ohio during the 2004 presidential election.

"I think there should be an investigation of Ohio," said Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo), who last week put a statement on the congressional record about Ohio's investment scandal. She said she is hopeful a meeting with Mr. Dean will put Democrats in position to undertake a review of what occurred in her home state.

Rep. Captur tells Dean Coingate Connected to 2004 Election Fraud

Bush US Attorney in Ohio Knew of Coingate Scandal Weeks before Election yet Silent

Evidence Pointing to Major Fraud (as in stolen) in the Ohio Election

Here is an analysis by DU’s own TruthIsAll of the Ohio Exit Polls. In the analysis, Kerry won by a clear margin of @ votes. These polls have been highly accurate in the past and used by the * people to show fraud in the Ukraine. Exit polls are used in many countries by international voting rights groups to spot fraud. Remember, Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State (and * Campaign chairman) refused to allow international observers in to view this. Disregard any comments on this thread disparaging exit polls as a pointer to fraud. This issue has been “debated” to death in Elections and the criticism is total bull shit.

TruthIsAll (1000+ posts)
Fri Apr-29-05 09:40 PM
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HOW KERRY WON OHIO BY 51-48%...

Edited on Fri Apr-29-05 10:37 PM by TruthIsAll
Well, by winning the majority of virtually every
demographic...
The RBRs must have stayed home.

If you believe the Exit Poll, Kerry won OH by 160,000 votes.
If you believe the Vote, Bush won by 119,000 votes.

If Kerry won this solid Republican state by 51-48%, you just
KNOW he had to do 1-2% better nationally.

Which means he won the election by 6-8 million votes.

OHIO EXIT POLL
1,963 Respondents
Updated: 12:21 a.m.
Kerry won these demographic groups:
CATEGORY--KERRY Percentage

GENDER (52.06%)
RACE/GENDER (51.01%)
RACE (50.14%)
AGE( 51.39%)
INCOME (51.62%)
EDUCATION (50.94%)
PARTY ID (51.20%)
IDEOLOGY (50.97%)
VOTED BEFORE (50.70%)
RELIGION( 50.66)

TruthIsAll’s Analyses of the Ohio Exit Polls Showing a Probable Kerry Victory

Get Ready for Charges of Fraud in Florida with TIA’s Analysis of Fraud There

On the Ground Evidence of Election Fraud

These highlights appear in the article at the links below. A quick review shows all sorts of problems.

Introduction: Did George W. Bush steal America's 2004 election?
by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
June 16, 2005
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1318 or, if you like TruthOut
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061805Z.shtml

• Despite repeated pre-election calls from officials across the nation and the world, Ohio's Republican Secretary of State, who also served as Ohio's co-chair for the Bush-Cheney campaign, refused to allow non-partisan international and United Nations observers the access they requested to monitor the Ohio vote. While such access is routinely demanded by the US government in third world nations, it was banned in the American heartland.
• A post-election headline from the Akron Beacon Journal cites a critical report by twelve prominent social scientists and statisticians, reporting: "Analysis Points to Election ‘Corruption': Group Says Chance of Exit Polls Being So Wrong in '04 Vote is One-in-959,000."
• Citing "Ohio's Odd Numbers," investigative reporter Christopher Hitchens, a Bush supporter, says in Vanity Fair: "Given what happened in that key state on Election Day 2004, both democracy and common sense cry out for a court-ordered inspection of its new voting machines."
• Paul Krugman of the New York Times writes: "It's election night, and early returns suggest trouble for the incumbent. Then, mysteriously, the vote count stops and observers from the challenger's campaign see employees of a voting-machine company, one wearing a badge that identifies him as a county official, typing instructions at computers with access to the vote-tabulating software.
• Hundreds of Ohio African-American voters give sworn testimony that they were harassed, intimidated, deprived of voting machines, given faulty ballots, confronted with malfunctioning machines and hit with a staggering range of other problems that deprived them of votes that were destined for John Kerry, votes that might have tipped the Ohio outcome.
• A team of high-powered researchers discover results in three southern Ohio counties where an obscure African-American candidate for the state Supreme Court somehow outpolls John Kerry, a virtually impossible outcome indicating massive vote fraud costing Kerry thousands of votes.
• Up until 11pm Eastern time on election night, exit polls show John Kerry comfortably leading George Bush in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Mexico, giving him a clear victory in the Electoral College, and a projected national margin of some 1.5 million votes. These same exit polls had just served as the basis for overturning an election in Ukraine, and are viewed worldwide as a bedrock of reliability. But after midnight the vote count mysteriously turns, and by morning George W. Bush is declared the victor.