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Well, I got an answer from my Ohio republican senator about my request that he object to the Ohio electoral vote. You can read it below and what I wrote back to him. How does the saying go....? Oh, yeah! He's dead to me. Dead to me!
From: Correspondence_Reply@dewine.senate.gov
Subject: Correspondence from Senator Dewine
Date: January 25, 2005 2:08:01 PM EST
January 25, 2005
Dear XXXXXX:
Thank you for contacting me regarding your support for a recount in Ohio
for the Presidential election. I appreciate knowing your views on this
issue.
As you know, Ohio Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, recently
certified President Bush as the winner of Ohio based on official results
from county election boards, with the final tally of 2.86 million votes
for President Bush (or about 51 percent of the vote) and 2.74 million (or
49 percent) for Senator John Kerry. The decisive 118,775-vote lead by
President Bush was not close enough for a mandatory recount; however, the
Green and Libertarian party presidential cadidates funded a recount that
also showed President Bush winning Ohio by over 118,000 votes.
On January 6, 2005, the Senate voted 74-1 to defeat an objection by
Senator Barbara Boxer with regard to certification of Ohio's electoral
votes. I voted to defeat this objection because there was no clear
evidence of voter fraud and another costly recount could never change the
election outcome. Those funds could go to many more important uses, such
as improving local schools, funding vital human services, or rebuilding
our state's economy.
Again, thank you for contacting me. If you have any additional questions
or concerns, please feel free to contact me anytime.
Very respectfully yours,
MIKE DEWINE
United States Senator
I have to take issue with your response regarding the 2004 Ohio election. It was not merely a matter of fraud, but rather a systematic suppression of voters that I asked you to object to.
Anyone who looks at the election in Ohio and states that things went just fine, is either not paying attention or towing the party line. My guess is you're doing the latter.
I won't go into the details already documented within the House Judicial Committe Report "Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio." Suffice it to say that a significant portion of Ohio voters were systematically disenfranchised and to say that it didn't have some influence on the election results is disingenuous at best.
As for the lack of evidence of fraud, what can I say? With our own partisan Secretary of State refusing to cooperate and hiding behind the also partisan Attorney General, I don't see how you could have been provided with any more evidence than what was already documented.
By failing to object to this, you failed in your duty to stand for all Ohio citizens whether they voted Democratic or Republican. You have, in effect, told us that when it comes to democracy, certain voices don't mean anything as long as the victors hold power. November 4, 2004 was a sad day for democracy and you will go down in history as not standing up for the most basic American right - a citizen's right to representation within their government. You had the chance to represent the people of Ohio, but you chose to represent your party.
To the victors go the spoils, but remember this, so does the shame.
Sincerely,
XXXXXXX:cry: :cry: :cry:
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