"Startling new revelations highlight rare Congressional hearings on Ohio "

[EMunster]

freeepress

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/985

[GetTheRightVote]

1. This day is getting better & better by the second, thank you eMunster

[Quakerfriend]

2. Great find, EMunster!!

This is by far the best article yet this AM!!

[Goldeneye]

3. Right now the judge hearing the Arnebeck case is our only hope right?

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Does anybody know anything about him?

The case before the election about allowing in observers went in our favor, so can we hope for an impartial judge in this case?

[Goldeneye]

6. He's a repbulican, but Arnebeck said he was fair

Maybe he was just trying to butter him up though...

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. That would be good

because then the freeps can't call him a partisan.

Do you know his name?

[Bill of Rights]

4. Exit poll affadavits!

Affidavits were also filed in support of the election challenge suit raising questions about manipulating exit poll results and computer tabulation of county and statewide votes.

In one exit poll affidavit, Jonathan David Simon, an expert witness, notes that at 12:53 a.m. the exit polls altered the projected winner – even though the same number of votes had been cast. "Although each update reports the same number of respondents (872), the reported results differ significantly, with the latter (12:53 a.m.) exit poll results apparently having been brought into congruence with the tabulated vote results." In other words, the exit polls were made to conform to a political decision to declare Bush the victor.

Another exit poll affidavit, filed by Ron Paul Baiman, an economist and statistician at the University of Illinois and University of Chicago, said the swing in national exit poll results, recorded at 12:33 a.m., when Kerry was winning with 50.8 percent of the vote, to Bush winning with 51.2 percent, was, "in lay terms, impossible."

"This is more than a 100 percent swing in the other direction of the exit poll margin, he said. "There is less than a one in 25,000,000 (1/25,507,308) chance of this occurring."

[henslee]

7. Don't mess with Maxine Waters.

[EMunster]

9. Very welcome all...

the press otherwise this morning has been underwhelming...maybe cautious is the word, as things will be changing rapidly in the minutes and hours to come. so much rests on so few souls, and the critical ones, I'm afraid, are republican.

[Bill of Rights]

10. The new news: I hadn't heard about Mt Vernon Nazarene University

"In Knox County, students at Kenyon College, a liberal arts school, stood in line for up to 11 hours, because only one voting machine was in use. However, at nearby Mt. Vernon Nazarene University, there were ample voting machines and no lines. This suggests the GOP shorting of voting machines was a more widespread tactic than just targeting inner-city neighborhoods."

Both colleges are in rural areas. The Christian college had many machines, and no lines. The liberal college had lines that were up to 11 hours long. The reporter is right. This shows that their efforts to suppress the Democratic vote were not only effective, but that the problems really had nothing to do with "not enough resources."

[Bill of Rights]

11. And what about the affidavit from the Holiday Inn worker?

Yeah, what about this?

Someone working at a Holiday Inn watched 35 people, who labelled themselves the "Texas Strike Force" using payphones to make intimidating calls to likely voters, targeting people recently in the prison system. I think I know why they used payphones, instead of cell phones which are handier. They wanted to make sure the calls wouldn't be traced back to their cell phones. TURNS OUT THEIR ROOMS WERE PAID FOR BY THE OHIO REPUBLICAN PARTY! They made calls to voters who had one time been in jail. At least one voter was told that the FBI would be called, if they showed up to vote. The Holiday Inn worker called the police, who DID show up, but who did nothing to stop the "Texas Strike Force."

on edit: grammar

[enough]

12. This is a good article for pulling together many different strands.

Something to send around to people who are interested, but not able to spending lots of time looking around to find the story.

[Willy Lee]

13. Excellent article. eom

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. I hate Republican!

After reading that article, how can anyone have any respect for anyone who calls himself a Republican? It's despicable.