The Free Press: Crime of Nov. 2 -- The Human Side of How Bush Stole Ohio

[AtLiberty]

The "Crime of November 2": The human side of how Bush stole Ohio, and why Congress must investigate rather than ratify the Electoral College (Part Two of Two)

by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
The Free Press
January 5, 2005

Tomorrow (Thursday, January 6) Congress will host an unprecedented Constitutional showdown over the future of American democracy.

It rises from a catalog of abuses that poisoned the November 2 presidential balloting in Ohio. Taken together, these attacks on the democratic process shifted Ohio's vote from John Kerry to George W. Bush, giving him the presidency.

Other states, most notably New Mexico and Florida, suffered similar problems, casting a dark shadow of doubt over the alleged 3.5 million-vote nationwide edge claimed by Bush.

By virtue of an 1887 law passed in response to the contested election of 1876, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-OH) and others will challenge the seating of Ohio's electors. If joined by a single Senator, Congress for the first time will debate the outcome of a presidential election as determined by the Electoral College.

The right-wing media assault on those who would mount this challenge has been withering. The Ohio Republican Party says Rep. Tubbs-Jones will "make a fool of herself" if she supports the effort. GOP functionaries have filled the major media with charges of "conspiracy theories" and "irresponsibility" among those who would question the vote.

But all Americans committed to real democracy must stand in awe of this challenge...

Rest of story --

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1067

[crispini]

1. OMG, this part is GREAT:

"In breaking news, the freepress.org team now has in its possession an official Franklin County Board of Election document entitled "Machine Assignments for General Election 2004" showing the serial numbers of 76 machines, all in Democrat-rich Columbus, that were blacked out and kept in the warehouse or on trucks during the election, while thousands of inner city voters stood in the rain. Conversely, none of the machines designated for Republican-dominated suburbs were blacked out on the list and held back. "

OK, that's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO smoking gun!!!!!!!

Can we get a facsimile? Can we get it up on the web as a PDF?

[AtLiberty]

2. This should be our position:

"It's also ironic that an apparently defeated Republican candidate for governor in the state of Washington is now calling for a revote to overturn a recount. We support that demand, and ask the same for Ohio."