Gonzales clears Ohio of Election Fraud! (Can you believe this???)

[Al-CIAda]

Gonzales clears Ohio of Election Fraud! (Can you believe this???)


Torturer General Gonzalez's Justice Dept. Clears Ohio Of Election Fraud
By CactusPat
Created 2005-07-28 09:46
It's shades of Stolen Election 2000 all over again. Back in 2001 it was Inquisitor General AshKKKroft's Justice Dept. that found no wrong doing in Florida, months and months after the Bush Junta was first installed. Now we get the same shite in Stolen Election 2005. Only more blatant!, report says distribution of votings machines favored black voters because of lower turnout in the black community. Gee, wonder if that might have anything to do black voters having to wait in line for hour upon hour to exercise their franchise? Think perhaps thousands were discouraged from voting and left the long lines?

Justice Clears Ohio in Voting Booth Bias
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Department of Justice says it found no evidence of discrimination in the distribution of voting machines in two Ohio counties in the 2004 presidential election. The department began investigating after voters complained of long voting lines and alleged discrimination in Franklin and Knox counties. Investigators wanted to determine if elections officials had intentionally skewed the placement of machines to favor Republicans. The Justice Department said, however, the distribution in Franklin County narrowly favored black voters. Because turnout in predominantly black precincts was lower than in white ones, machines in those districts averaged fewer votes, according to a report released Wednesday.

An unanticipated 76 percent turnout - with many first-time voters - contributed to the long lines in the Kenyon College precinct in Knox County - with some people forced to wait until 4 a.m. to vote on just two available machines, officials found.

Distribution of voting machines is determined by county boards of elections, made up of two Democrats, two Republicans and two nonvoting members.

Franklin County, which includes Columbus, had 2,904 machines on hand for 535,575 people who showed up to vote.

In the Knox County precinct, the number of registered voters more than doubled to 1,607 between March and November of 2004. But by the time those numbers were available, the Knox County board already had decided on the distribution of voting machines.

The election turned on Ohio's 20 electoral college votes, and not until preliminary results were available early Nov. 3 did Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry concede. President Bush defeated Kerry by about 118,000 votes in the state.


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Courtesy Carolab-2004 Election results forum...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x386719

[Al-CIAda]

1. Paul Hackett Campaign Worried About Election Fraud

www.Ohiohonestelections.org

Sunday, July 31, 2005
Paul Hackett Campaign Worried About Election Fraud

(From the July 24, 2005 Hamilton Journal News by Bill Rentschler):

"It is a sad and depressing commentary on the state of our democracy that David Woodruff, campaign manager for candidate Paul Hackett in Ohio’s special 2nd Congressional District election on Aug. 2, is worried sick about obtaining an honest, accurate vote count."

"Woodruff is convinced a scrupulously accurate vote count will give his underdog candidate a majority in the balloting and send him to Congress."

"But Woodruff is not just wringing his hands over the prospect of vote fraud; he is taking aggressive action to stave it off and preserve the sanctity of the ballot for every voter. For several weeks, Woodruff has been recruiting and training a hard-nosed cadre of lawyers, off-duty cops and sheriff deputies, and citizen activists to guard the polls against vote fraud in every precinct in the sprawling seven-county 2nd District."

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. Damn shame Woodruff wasn't Kerry's campaign manager.

:-(

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. What are friends for?

That's Commander Cuckoo Bananas' motto.

[helderheid]

4. don't let it happen again - those machines are NOT HAVA COMPLIANT

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4233473

[lonestarnot]

5. Not HAVA compliant!

[Supersedeas]

6. whats the problem w/waiting until 4am to vote-Gonzo doesn't see a problem

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. I bet he would see a problem if the *count* had gone the

other way.

[Al-CIAda]

8. Joe Biden likes him, he's the 'real deal'. n/t

[wli]

9. we need to challenge the use of the term "voter fraud"

Because it's being used to divert legal efforts into reinstating Jim Crow -style laws to bar "invalid voters" from the polls, where the problems are (of course) disenfranchisement, election result falsification, and so on.