Bob Fritakis: Did the GOP steal another Ohio Election?

[Carolab]

Did the GOP steal another Ohio Election?
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
August 5, 2005

The Republican Party has -- barely -- snatched another election in Ohio. And once again there are telltale symptoms of the kind of vote theft that put George W. Bush in the White House in 2000 and then kept him there in 2004.

This time an outspoken Iraqi War vet named Paul Hackett led the charge for a Cincinnati-area Congressional seat, earning 48% of the vote. The spot was open because Bush appointed his pal Rep. Rob Portman to be a trade representative.

Hackett is a rarity among today's Democrats---a blunt, hard-driving truth talker who blasted Bush's attack on Iraq. Hackett labeled W. "a chicken hawk." He's the first Iraqi war vet to run for Congress. He made no bones about the incompetence and cynicism that define the GOP strategy there. In particular Hackett attacked Bush's attacks on veterans benefits while claiming patriotic support of the war.

In return, GOP candidate Jean Schmidt lied about Hackett's war record. Unlike John Kerry, Hackett fought back immediately.

The Ohio GOP is now being thoroughly roasted by a Coingate scandal in which Republican high roller Tom Noe seems to have walked off with at least $4 million in state funds, and possibly $16.5 million in theft and unauthorized administrative charges from a $50 million rare coin investment fund. Noe is a Bush Pioneer/Ranger level donor, and a supporter of Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, the point man in Bush's theft of Ohio's 20 electoral votes and thus the presidency last November.

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http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1398

[rzemanfl]

1. Recount. Humidity my ass. n/t

[Tuesday_Morning]

2. Well....

humidity's a problem in Florida too.

[MissWaverly]

8. yes, in Baltimore too

that's why the machine I voted on defaulted to GWB 5 times

[mom cat]

9. Five Times! That is outrageous!

[MissWaverly]

10. when did fair play turn into lie and cheat until caught

I hope every glitch, every bogus vote is revealed for what it is

[mom cat]

11. Amen!

[MissWaverly]

12. Thanks - mom cat

I did have an idea where votes could be time and date stamped, which
would prevent padding of ghost votes

[mom cat]

13. Good idea. ANYTHING to reduce the cheating, lying scumbags from

stealing any more elections!

[MissWaverly]

14. here's another idea that I had

make the software company create a voting sequence that will not default
to zero until it is wiped, then if a machine is on vote 2602 and there
are only 1400 votes, someone is going to ask questions.

[adolfo]

15. Bring a Sharpie

Black permanent markers can be useful in labeling machines that are "out of order".

[MissWaverly]

16. You have to understand what we are facing

Not only did I have to wait in line for 2 hours but the pollworkers
were rude to the people waiting, they told a blind man, that, "He was
going to have to wait his turn just like everybody else." When I got
up to the table, I was told that I could not vote without my voter registration card and when I produced that I was told that it was "Not Good enough." They told me that I had to produce a driver's license which I did. In Maryland, you are not required to show ID unless you are a new voter, I had voted at this polling place for 10 years. And I cannot explain how threatening it all is, they are not friendly, there is an aura of menace about the place. This is in Baltimore, Maryland.
I would like to vote for Martin O'Malley for governor in '06 but I no longer have any confidence in the voting process here.

[babsbunny]

3. I LOVE YOU MAN!!!!!!

Bob Fitrakis rocks my world!!!!!

[Melissa G]

4. kickin' for Fritakis!

[bleever]

5. We all know: it's not the heat; it's the humidity.

I say, let's turn up the heat.


Kickin' for Fitrakis and Wasserman.

:patriot:

[tommcintyre]

6. This is nothing new - stealing an election during a "computer glitch"

"The percentages by which she won in the post-glitch vote count were far higher than those by which she had been winning prior to the glitch. Vote counts were also higher than expected in the strongest Schmidt precincts."

This pattern of "glitches", and computer "meltdowns" has been going on for quite some time - across the country.

Listen to Victoria Collier (Votescam) for more information.
http://www.edwardsdavid.com/BushVideos/infidelguy.com_Vote_Scam_a.mp3

[Nothing Without Hope]

7. Kicked, bookmarked, and recommended! I am wondering how closely

the pattern of discrepancies follows what happened in the Nov 2004 election. I'd like to see a precinct by precinct comparison, or at least a county-by-county comparison.

And what has been going on with purges of registered voters in Ohio? Everything we've heard about this indicates that unfounded, partisan purging is one of the components of the GOP theft of the election.