Connelly anomaly and the SW Ohio counties

[L. Coyote]

Who can relate these down-ticket anomolies with type of voting device?

What are the facts? How many counties? What devices?

How many down-ticket anomolies? Are there other parallels in same counties?

[farmbo]

1. RFK, Jr nails it in the Rolling Stone article:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/4

<snip>
The more likely explanation is that they were fraudulently shifted to Bush. Statewide, the president outpolled Thomas Moyer, the Republican judge who defeated Connally, by twenty-one percent. Yet in the twelve questionable counties, Bush's margin over Moyer was fifty percent -- a strong indication that the president's certified vote total was inflated. If Kerry had maintained his statewide margin over Connally in the twelve suspect counties, as he almost assuredly would have done in a clean election, he would have bested her by 81,260 ballots. That's a swing of 162,520 votes from Kerry to Bush -- more than enough to alter the outcome. (183)
''This is very strong evidence that the count is off in those counties,'' says Freeman, the poll analyst. ''By itself, without anything else, what happened in these twelve counties turns Ohio into a Kerry state. To me, this provides every indication of fraud.''

How might this fraud have been carried out? One way to steal votes is to tamper with individual ballots -- and there is evidence that Republicans did just that. In Clermont County, where optical scanners were used to tabulate votes, sworn affidavits by election observers given to the House Judiciary Committee describe ballots on which marks for Kerry were covered up with white stickers, while marks for Bush were filled in to replace them. Rep. Conyers, in a letter to the FBI, described the testimony as ''strong evidence of vote tampering if not outright fraud.'' (184) In Miami County, where Connally outpaced Kerry, one precinct registered a turnout of 98.55 percent (185) -- meaning that all but ten eligible voters went to the polls on Election Day. An investigation by the Columbus Free Press, however, collected affidavits from twenty-five people who swear they didn't vote. (186)<snip>

Alas, the Corporate Media maintains their blackout and studiously avoids asking the "wrong" questions to the "wrong" BOEs.

And Ohio Ohio officials laugh off requests for an investigation, as they prepare to destroy the ballots and poll books themselves.

Ohio: The Law West of the Pecos.

[roseBudd]

2. I live here I can tell you exactly....

Warren County punch cards Triad
Clermont optiscan ES&S
Hamilton punchcard ES&S
Butler punch card Triad

Of course this is from memory so my ES&S vs. Triad could be a tad off. In general ES&S had urban counties, Triad exurban and rural.

Remember Warren, lockdown, Clermont stickers on ballots

[L. Coyote]

3. How many of the punch card precincts are multiple precincts at location

RH Phillips says the SW problem counties as:

Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Darke,
Highland, Mercer, Miami, Putnam, Shelby, Van Wert, and Warren.

E-voting = auglaize

Op-Scan = miami and clarmont

The remainder are punch card.

Next question, How many of the punch card precincts are multiple precincts at one location?

[roseBudd]

4. I will comment on precincts/counties..

Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Darke,
Highland, Mercer, Miami, Putnam, Shelby, Van Wert, and Warren

Warren, Clermont and Butler are contiguous to Cincinnati which is in Hamilton. Though Warren, Butler and Clermont are experiencing white flight suburban sprawl growth they are still much smaller in poulation than Hamilton.

When I examined poll books in Warren the pollbooks had names and letters. This leads me to believe there were multiprecinct locations in Warren. I imagine all but the most sparsely populated counties had multiprecinct voting. Hamilton had 500 votes not counted for right location, wrong precinct thanks to Blackwell.

Brown is past Clermont, more rural. Miami also just past Clermont also rural. The rest are probably also very rural.