Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News TUESDAY, 8/30/05

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Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News TUESDAY, 8/30/05

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1. Please WAIT Until the Articles are Posted—Comment After Articles. Thnx!

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2. CA: Great State, Great Bill. CA Senate Passes Hard Core Election Protec

Well now, the birth place of a notorious DUer, was the scene of a great move by California Democrats (and Republicans). Take a look. California is a trend setter and this is a trend we can emulate elsewhere!!!

Senate OKs security requirements for voting machines

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/business/technology/12507306.htm
Posted on Mon, Aug. 29, 2005

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Legislation establishing security requirements for electronic voting machines -- including a requirement that they not be linked to the Internet -- was approved Monday by the state Senate.
The 33-0 vote returned the measure by Assemblyman Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, to the Assembly for a vote on Senate amendments.

Current law requires electronic voting machines used in California to provide a paper record of votes cast to ensure that the machines accurately record votes. Umberg's bill would require election officials to keep those paper records as long as they would paper ballots.

It also would:

-- Require the machines to enable voters to verify how they voted but would not allow voters to take home a paper record of their votes. Bill supporters said that would discourage the selling of votes.

-- Require the secretary of state's office to conduct random audits of voting machine software.

-- Prohibit electronic voting machines from being connected to the Internet, being capable of receiving or transmitting a wireless transmission or from receiving or transmitting voting results through telephone lines or another exterior communication network. Those steps are designed to prevent tampering.

``The potential for fraud makes this one of the most important bills we will deal with this year in terms of ensuring the integrity of voting systems,'' said Sen. Debra Bowen, D-Redondo Beach.

Special thanks to CA DU Electoin Fraud Activists...Wlms, Byronius, GuvWurld, etc. (post your names at the end of the thread please). You have done great work. Please keep it up.


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3. AFL-CIO: A Big Dog Barks. AFL-CIO Four Square Against Election Fraud

Missed this one, shame on us. Comment after the last news post, however. This is very significant. If AFL-CIO gets serious about making this happen, it could clean up a lot of elections. They are organized and in a lot of places. Great stuff.

Protecting the Right to Vote

http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/outfront/vote.cfm

By John J. Sweeney
The following is adapted from AFL-CIO President John Sweeney’s address at the Aug. 6, 2005, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Voting Rights March in Atlanta.

Brothers and sisters, there is no more precious right than the right to vote—we believed that 40 years ago when we used the combined power of civil rights, labor, religion, women’s rights and student activism to pass the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

We believe it today and we will use our combined power—again and again—to defend the freedom of every citizen to participate fully in our Democracy, because there is no greater right than the right to vote.

We’ve made a lot of progress since 1965. Barriers to voter registration have been broken down. Millions of African Americans, Hispanic Americans and people struggling in poverty have been registered to vote. Thousands of men and women of color are now serving us in public office.

But the last two national elections proved that the enemies of full participation are still with us.

Millions of voters were disenfranchised by technology, by the trickery of lawyers, by the intimidation of vigilantes in our border states, by poll pirates in our inner cities and by voting officials who were careless and criminal.

We have to make sure the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is protected and preserved because without it, the same old enemies of civil rights and voting rights will always keep up their ugly activities. Race-baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

In Georgia, for instance, those race-baiters and discriminators have never gone underground. When an upstanding Georgia governor, Democrat Roy Barnes, failed to yield to them over the flying of the Confederate flag, they ran him out of office in 2002—and now they are rallying behind legislation to require voters to obtain state-issued photo identification.

In a clear violation of the federal Voting Rights Act, this law will pose a real burden on the poor and elderly who do not have drivers’ licenses and cannot afford the fee for an identification card. Requiring a payment to secure the right to vote was declared unconstitutional decades ago.

In the first half of the last century, citizens weren’t allowed to register and vote in Georgia and across the South unless they owned property—and now at the beginning of this century, these new cost requirements are a terrible reminder of the days when poll taxes were required.

The strategies may change, but the game is the same.

We are now challenged to combine our power once again to defeat this scheme in Georgia and to preserve and protect the Voting Rights Act. The AFL-CIO stands shoulder to shoulder with the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and all the organizations accepting that challenge.

Standing together and fighting together and marching together we can guarantee every person full participation in our Democracy: every worker the freedom to join a union, every immigrant the same human rights, the workplace rights every worker should have—and every citizen the right to vote.

That’s the kind of country I want to live in. That’s the kind of country we all want to live in. And by working together, that’s the kind of country we’re going to live in.



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4. NM: It Happened! Greens-Libertarians File in NM Supreme Court for K-E.

They said they’d do it and they did it. See the Green-Libertarian attorney statements. This is a great article and carried by AP. Let’s thank the Greens and Libertarians for fighting for our candidates, Kerry-Edwards. NM was highly questionable despite assertions to the contrary.

Lawyer asks N.M. court to order recount

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/31865.html

BARRY MASSEY
Posted on Mon, Aug. 29, 2005
Associated Press

SANTA FE, N.M. - The state's highest court was asked Monday to order a recount in the razor-close 2004 presidential election in New Mexico even though it's too late for a new vote tabulation to change the outcome.

A lawyer for Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik made the request to the New Mexico Supreme Court during a hearing on a challenge to the state's handling of the candidates' request for a recount.

Cobb and Badnarik contend they were wrongly required to pay $1.4 million as a security deposit for a recount, which never happened because of the legal dispute over the cost.

John Boyd, a lawyer for Cobb and Badnarik, said a recount of paper ballots and a recheck of voting machine results were still needed to highlight problems with New Mexico's election system.

"There is no more important issue than the purity of elections in this state," Boyd told justices during an hour-long hearing. "And I will tell ... the court that the elections are not pure.

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And for any of you who want to know how to stop a recount and what a rigged elections hearing looks like, check out this PDF. It’s short. It’s from December when the Greens and Libertarians appealed for a recount. Watch how the board manages to get the cost up to $1.1 million dollars. Watch how Democratic Governor Richardson facilitates this. Watch how Green-Libertarian attorney Boyd is not allowed to speak. This is an amazing, brief document. WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO HIDE? WHY WOULD A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR STOP A RECOUNT ?

http://www.votecobb.org/lib/downloads/references/2004-12-15_nm_board_transcript.pdf

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8. Background on NM Election Fraud from "Scoop" Independent Media

Key Election Evidence Destroyed

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0501/S00192.htm
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 10:38 am
Press Release: Help America Recount Fund
Help America Recount Fund
www.helpamericarecount.org
For immediate release: January 17, 2005


Key Election Evidence Destroyed

A civil lawsuit, filed on behalf of eight New Mexico residents Friday claims that the certified results of the 2004 New Mexico general election demonstrate that voting machines used in the election malfunctioned seriously enough to affect the outcome of election races, including the race for President.

The lawsuit was filed Friday in the state Second Judicial District Court in Albuquerque by attorneys David Garcia of Santa Fe, John Boyd of Albuquerque and Lowell Finley of Help America Recount. All three attorneys are also representing Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik and Green party presidential candidate David Cobb in a separate recount request, which is still being litigated in the New Mexico Court of Appeals.

Election officials are statutorily prohibited from clearing voting machines while a recount request or other election contest is pending. On January 12, Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron authorized county Election Directors to erase the voting machines used in November.

Patricia Rosas Lopategui, a plaintiff in the civil suit, said, "The government of New Mexico keeps blocking us from finding out what happened to our votes. First they put up roadblocks to stall the recount request and now they want to destroy evidence vital to a voting rights suit filed by New Mexico voters." "Why they want to use these same voting machines after so many problems have been shown with them is beyond me." said Aurora Sanchez of Santa Fe, also a plaintiff in the suit filed Friday.

The voters' suit requested a Temporary Restraining Order to secure voting machines and software in order to determine exactly how and why some machines failed to accurately record and count votes. On Saturday, the court denied the motion for a temporary restraining order. Counties have already begun clearing the voting machines.

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9. Representing the Greens-Libertarians: John Boyd, Esq.

John Boyd is a 1973 graduate of the University of New Mexico. He is a shareholder in the firm of Freedman Boyd Daniels Hollander & Goldberg P.A. He specializes in civil rights litigation, first amendment litigation, constitutional law and election law. He has handled a number of cases as a cooperating attorney with the ACLU. John represented the Democratic Party of New Mexico in the “voter i.d.” litigation that preceded the last election. He has participated on behalf of Democrats in redistricting litigation. He and his partner, Nancy Hollander, are currently representing the Santa Fe-based Uniao Do Vegetal in its free exercise of religion law suit which is now pending before the United States Supreme Court.

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5. OH: “Mr. Taft does not govern by poll numbers.” Good thing!

Because the polls all over Ohio show the state is split on whether or not Taft should resign but overwhelmingly, Ohioans disapprove of his performance, 70% to 80%. Why is this important? The Toledo Blade is critical to election reform and voting rights because it is the best paper in Ohio and on all the fraud stories. It also serves its readers. If Taft resigns or is impeached, there will be a special election – "Cage Match" between the forces of reform and honest elections and the Ohio Republicans...winner takes all. That would be mind blowing. An honest Governor could overturn a lot of rocks in that state.

Most Toledoans say governor should resign, poll reports

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050829/NEWS24/508290339

Article published Monday, August 29, 2005

By JIM TANKERSLEY
BLADE POLITICS WRITER

More than half of likely Toledo voters - 54.6 percent and including two out of five Republicans - say Gov. Bob Taft should resign over his recent convictions on criminal ethics charges, a poll commissioned by The Blade and WTVG-TV, Channel 13 shows.

Less than 40 percent of respondents to the Zogby International survey of 500 likely voters in the city's Sept. 13 primary election said Mr. Taft should stay in office after he pleaded no contest this month to four misdemeanor counts of failing to report gifts on state financial disclosure forms.

About three quarters rated Mr. Taft's gubernatorial performance as "fair" or "poor."

Mr. Taft is a Republican, and Toledo, which is heavily Democratic, is hardly his support base. But Democrats are not alone in criticizing him.

Forty percent of the respondents from Mr. Taft's own party said the governor should step down, and 70 percent rated his tenure "fair" or "poor."

Independent voters slammed Mr. Taft even harder than Democrats.
More than 60 percent said he should resign. More than 80 percent gave him low marks as governor.

"He may still be governor," said John Zogby, president and CEO of the polling firm. "But he's lost a lot of political capital here."
Mr. Taft has vowed to stay in office. Some lawmakers in both parties have asked him publicly to resign.

A coalition of liberal and conservative grass-roots groups launched a Web site, Moveontaft.org, last week to increase the pressure. Legislative leaders so far have resisted impeaching him.

Mr. Taft does not govern by poll numbers, his spokesman said yesterday, asking voters who want the governor to resign to place his ethics convictions in context.



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6. Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed: Ohio Bonus Rerun

t r u t h o u t | Report

By William Rivers Pitt

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121604Z.shtml
Wednesday 15 December 2004

Among activists and investigators looking into allegations of vote fraud in the 2004 Presidential election, the company always mentioned was Diebold and its suspicious electronic touch-screen voting machines. It is Diebold that has multiple avowed Republicans on its Board of Directors. It was Diebold that gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bush’s election campaign. It was Diebold CEO Walden O’Dell who vowed to deliver Ohio’s electoral votes to Bush.

As it turns out, everyone was looking the wrong way. The company that requires immediate and penetrating scrutiny is Triad Systems.

Triad is owned by a man named Tod Rapp, who has also donated money to both the Republican Party and the election campaign of George W. Bush. Triad manufactures punch-card voting systems, and also wrote the computer program that tallied the punch-card votes cast in 41 Ohio counties last November. This Triad company graphic displays the counties where their machines are used:

Given the ubiquity of the Triad voting systems in Ohio, the allegations that have been leveled against this company strike to the heart of the assumed result of the 2004 election.

Earlier this week, the allegations against triad were first raised by Green Party candidate David Cobb, who testified at a hearing held in Columbus, Ohio by Rep. John Conyers of the House Judiciary Committee. In his testimony, Cobb stated:

Mr. Chairman, though our time is limited, I must bring to the committee's attention the most recent and perhaps most troubling incident that was related to my campaign on Sunday, December 12, about a shocking event that occurred last Friday, December 10.

A representative from Triad Systems came into a county board of elections office un-announced. He said he was just stopping by to see if they had any questions about the up-coming recount. He then headed into the back room where the Triad supplied Tabulator (a card reader and older PC with custom software) is kept. He told them there was a problem and the system had a bad battery and had "lost all of its data". He then took the computer apart and started swapping parts in and out of it and another "spare" tower type PC also in the room. He may have had spare parts in his coat as one of the BOE people moved it and remarked as to how very heavy it was. He finally re-assembled everything and said it was working but to not turn it off.

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7. Philippines: Eye Witnesses from Arroyo Government Blow Whistle on Fraud

Tomorrow’s news today! Where else can you get this? The people of the Philippines WILL NOT GIVE UP. We need to look there for inspiration. They have a hunger for honest democracy. The minority status of the voting rights advocates has not stopped them from fighting election fraud, with every thing that they have.

Ex-Cabinet members bares manipulation of impeach hearing (8/30/200510:52 a.m.)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2005/08/30/ex.cabinet.members.bares.manipulation.of.impeach.hearing.(10.52.a.m.).html

Ex-Cabinet members bares manipulation of impeach hearing (10:52 a.m.)

MANILA -- Resigned Cabinet secretaries of the Arroyo administration launched Tuesday a Black and White Movement as they revealed a series of moves by the government to junk the amended impeachment complaint filed by opposition and party-list congressmen against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Present in the press conference were former social welfare secretary Corazon Soliman, former education secretary Florencio Abad, former internal revenue commissioner Guillermo Parayno, former peace process adviser Teresita Deles and former anti-poverty commissioner Teresita Nicolas. Makati Business Club executive director Guillermo Luz was also with them.

Their movement had the theme "Because the truth does not come in shades of gray".

They believed that the Arroyo administration and its allies in Congress are out to kill the impeachment case against the President and thus prevent the presentation of evidence to back the charges against her.

They want the impeachment trial to be held to give Arroyo the venue to air her side on the accusations against her, particularly on alleged cheating in last year's elections.

Abad recalled statements and decisions made by Arroyo that put her sincerity and credibility in doubt.

He also cited the police raid on the house of an opposition witness in the electoral protest wherein law enforcers seized election forms of the dominant minority party, which were intended to be presented as proof of electoral fraud against the administration. (Sunnex)



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10. Autorank is a machine!

Do you ever sleep?

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11. You're up...haha

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12. Self Delete

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13. Oops

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15. I was thinking the same thing! This is up and the Greatest page

before 8am. That's pretty damn impressive!

Well done, auto! :)

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14. Steal This Vote author interview-

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/audioblog?bid=8&pid=15968

BLOG | Posted 08/23/2005 @ 2:32pm
Steal This Vote!

Andrew Gumbel on the reality and history of America's flawed elections.



oldie for hell of it-

Created: 10/12/2004 6:36:47 PM
Updated:10/12/2004 10:55:23 PM

CLEVELAND -- Some new Cuyahoga County voters may have been deliberately misled about where to vote.
Several have received mystery phone calls telling them to go to a different location than where they were already told. Now, election officials trying to sort out if this sabotage . . . or something else...
Anyone can get a list of new voters. It's public record. About 2,000 voter registration cards have just been turned in. But, election workers are still doing some fact finding. Before deciding whether to call in the prosecutor, Purnell claims the caller left a phone number that goes back to a voter registration group.
We were unable to reach them to see if there is some connection. And in case you wonder, Purnell and we suspect others getting these calls are Kerry voters.

© 2005

WKYC-TV

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16. Democratic Party offices are broken into again

Article published Tuesday, August 30, 2005


For the second time in a year, the Lucas County Democratic Party headquarters in Toledo has been broken into. This time, nothing was taken.

Police responding to the 1817 Madison Ave. offices early Sunday morning found a window had been pried open and a television set was out of place, near the window. The TV did not fit through the window, and nothing else was determined to be missing, the report said.

Last October an overnight break-in resulted in the thefts of three computers. Police concluded that the computer thefts were not politically motivated.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050830/NEWS03/50830010

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17. Petro appoints attorney for Blackwell in fight against ballot amendments

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050830/NEWS24/508300363/-1/NEWS

Attorney appointed for Blackwell

BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU


COLUMBUS - Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has a new attorney in his fight against an attempt to prevent four proposed constitutional amendments overhauling Ohio's election system from reaching the Nov. 8 ballot.


Attorney General Jim Petro has appointed Columbus attorney Larry James as special counsel for Mr. Blackwell, who is being sued by the nonprofit group Ohio First to disqualify petitions circulated by non-Ohio residents.

The case, filed in the 10th District Court of Appeals in Columbus, has put Mr. Petro's office in the awkward position of being on both sides and has put Mr. Blackwell in the position of defending ballot access for amendments he opposes.

Reform Ohio Now, the Democrat-leaning coalition of labor, government watchdog, and other groups pushing the amendments, is fighting Mr. Petro's attempt to file a brief supporting Ohio First's position even as his office is obligated to defend Mr. Blackwell. Mr. Blackwell's first special counsel resigned last week, citing a conflict with the man who appointed him...

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18. Contributors get legal work, Petro foes say

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1125394711193751.xml&coll=2

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Columbus - Four of every five dollars requested by Attorney General Jim Petro for special counsel contracts for this fiscal year will go to law firms that have given money to his political campaigns.

By a 4-to-2 vote along party lines, the State Controlling Board on Monday approved Petro's request for $19.1 million for 123 unbid contracts.

The contracts include a $375,000 deal for Bailey Cavalieri law firm to handle a Bureau of Workers' Compensation lawsuit against MDL Capital Management, accused of losing $215 million in BWC money through risky investments.

The Columbus firm replaces Schottenstein Zox & Dunn, a Petro supporter, whose contract was not renewed. Bailey Cavalieri has not donated to Petro...

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19. Thanks for telling me.

It is so great to see Blackwell get tied into this mess and have to defend himself, I want to see him in court admitting Tom Noe gave him money and having to testify he helped rig the election.

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20. Ohio man says elections law discriminates against disabled

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1125379249150960.xml&storylist=cleveland

8/30/2005, 1:02 a.m. ET
The Associated Press

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — A northeast Ohio man crippled by Lou Gehrig's disease says a state law requiring him to sign an elections petition with his own hand is discriminatory.

The Geauga County Board of Elections last week invalidated a petition submitted by a candidate for school board because Jeff Sollars' wife, Julie, signed his name for him. The ruling prevented Bill Swan, of Thompson, from gaining a spot on the November ballot.

With his wife reading his lips and communicating for him, Sollars said Monday that the decision upset him.

"What I have is bad enough with my body," he said. "And now my mind don't count."...

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21. This post is more about media refrom.

Filming Starts On ‘Deflating The Elephant’

By W. Leon Smith
ICONOCLAST EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

August 29, 2005


CRAWFORD — Italian documentary film director Aldo Vidali has undertaken the creation of a new film, Deflating the Elephant, which is based on the George Lakoff bestseller “Don’t Think Of An Elephant.”


In an interview with Lone Star Iconoclast publisher W. Leon Smith, Vidali explained the importance of utilizing “frames” to enhance debate. He also discussed how conservatives are using frames to negatively sway public opinion, which will be demonstrated in the new film.

...snip


ICONOCLAST — In what format do you intend releasing this film?


VIDALI — There’s going to be two parts of the film. The first part will be what we call streaming on demand on the internet. That first part will really be a course in what framing is all about, a preparation for the general public. We can then go into the theatres to look at the main body of the film, which will be “Deflating The Elephant,” and it will be a full illustration of the George Lakoff art of framing.


ICONOCLAST — Will the film be released to movie theatres?


VIDALI — Yes. The main body of the film will be released to them. In other words, we sort of want to do a plowing of the ground by putting it on the internet and through DVDs, a sort of Framing 101, teaching people what framing is all about, what is this framing, so that they begin to get curious as to, yeah, we’d like to invent frames, we’d like to develop frames and respond to the political assault on our country the Republicans have put on for 30 years.



More: http://198.65.14.85/News/2005/35-36/35news04.htm



Discussion here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4508625

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22. grand jury today considering indicting top Ohio county election officials

"Today a grand jury is considering possible indictments of several top Cuyahoga County election officials,including board director Michael Vu.Channel 3 senior political reporter Tom Beres has learned the probe is focusing on alleged illegal shortcuts in the recount of last year's presidential race.The investigation was prompted by complaints from Green Party and Libertarian Party candidates."-

Cleveland WKYC Channel 3 noon news today,no link yet.

( http://www.wkyc.com/news / )


most recent-

Special prosecutor subpoenas election workers

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=203&topic_id=391922&mesg_id=391922

Monday, August 22, 2005

A special prosecutor investigating charges of illegal conduct in election recount last December has subpoenaed employees of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.

The employees will testify before a Cuyahoga County grand jury Tuesday.

The special prosecutor, Erie County Prosecutor Kevin J. Baxter, said that subpoenas were sent to as many as 10 people last week. He said he could not disclose who would testify.

"This is simply a fact-finding procedure right now," Baxter said...

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23. Algorem, MelissaB and I thank you for your great additions to News!

:yourock:

[Wilms]

24. All I Did Was Say They Can't Run a Fair Election

Andrew Gumbel: All I did was say they can't run a fair election
"He caters to a British sensibility that sees us as an errant colony run by a gang of thugs"

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0830-31.htm


Thanks to Amaryliss for posting the discussion:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x392021

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25. Indictments in Cuyahoga County! (RE: Recount)

Two Cuyahoga County election workers indicted in presidential recount

POSTED: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:16:29 PM
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:33:07 PM

CLEVELAND -- Two workers at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections have been charged with taking illegal short cuts in our local recount of last year’s presidential election.

A libertarian candidate and one from the Green party made the original accusations, and today a grand jury agreed.

Ballot supervisors Rosey Greer and Kathleen Dreamer each face six felonies.

The shortcuts wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the election, but were not the way the recount should have been handled.

For tip of the iceberg, see http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=40043 .



We need lots of people to show up at the next Board meetings, especially the regular meeting on Mon, Sept 12th at 5pm. There will definitely be press at this meeting!

Other special meetings are Thurs, Sept 1st at 5:30pm and Tues, Sept 6th at 9am. It is ALWAYS good to have as many people as possible.



Thanks to mod mom here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x392035

[MelissaB]

26. More about this:

BOE Employees Indicted In 2004 Presidential Recount

Women Charged With Disobeying Election Laws

POSTED: 4:30 pm EDT August 30, 2005

CLEVELAND -- Two Cuyahoga County Board of Elections employees were indicted Tuesday on charges stemming from the 2004 presidential election recount.

Rosie Grier and Kathleen Dreamer have been indicted on six counts each.

The charges include failure to perform duties imposed upon them by law, misconduct of Board of Election employees, knowingly disobeying elections law, unlawfully obtaining possession of ballots/ballot boxes or pollbooks, and unlawfully opening or permitting the opening of a sealed package containing ballots.

If convicted, the women could spend up to four years in prison each.

Link: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/4916350/detail.html