by somtum, rumormillnews.com
The Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus is confident that at least a few U.S. Senators will join House members on January 6 to question the fairness of the November 2 election. John Conyers, Jr., the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told Salon.com he doesn't believe the Senate will repeat its performance of four years ago, when Black lawmakers sought in vain for one senatorial objection to "official misconduct, deliberate fraud, and an attempt to suppress voter turnout by unlawful means" in Florida, as Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) put it at the time .
"No, I think the Senate is going to go along with an inquiry this time," said Conyers. "I don't think they would embarrass themselves to let this happen two times in a row... I just don't think the Senate would get caught in that position." Conyers is careful not to name names, claiming he hasn't spoken directly to a single Senator, but adding, "there are Republicans who support what I'm doing who haven't been willing to come forward."
Conyers is the indispensable person among the righteous Grinches who are casting a shadow over the Republicans' holiday. Through his hearings in the Capitol and Ohio -- unsanctioned and unattended by Republicans -- and his engagement of the Government Accountability Office to study election "irregularities," the 75-year-old Detroit lawmaker has thrown an institutional spotlight on GOP crimes and misdemeanors. How "high" these crimes can be connected is another story, but there is no doubt that massive violations of a variety of laws occurred on the ground. Conyers prefers to call them "things that went wrong" in swing states like Ohio:
"It depends on what part of the state we're going to examine. In Hocking County, a private company accessed an election machine and altered and tampered with it in the absence of election observers. It disturbed a deputy chair of the election in the county so much that she has given a sworn affidavit that has been turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and we're in the process of running that down. But what about in Cleveland, Ohio? There, thousands of people claimed that their vote for Kerry was turned into a vote for Bush. Poll workers made mistakes that might have cost thousands of votes in Cleveland. And in Youngstown, machines turned an undetermined number of Kerry votes into Bush votes as well. Provisional ballots were thrown out. There were several conflicting rules. There was mass confusion. In Warren County, they talked about
terrorism might close down the election. I mean, please."
Conspiracy? Conyers understandably avoids using a word that corporate media so eagerly associate with nut cases. Instead, Conyers employs a less loaded term:
"Well, you know, orchestrated attempts don't always require a conspiracy. People get the drift from other elections and the way talk about how they're going to win the election. When you have the exit-polling information discrepancies that occurred in 2004, where the odds of all the swing states coming in so much stronger for Bush than the exit polls indicated - they say that that is, statistically, almost an improbability."
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