FreePress: Evidence of Ballot Tampering in Warren Co Ohio in '04

[mod mom]

Bob Fitrakis

Free Press uncovers evidence of ballot tampering in Warren County, Ohio
April 19, 2006

After locking out all media observers and declaring a Level 10 Homeland Security Alert, the Republican-dominated Warren County, Ohio reported in the wee hours of the morning on November 3, 2004 -- and gave George W. Bush a surprising 14,000 vote boost. Two election workers told the Free Press that the ballots had been diverted to an unauthorized warehouse where they had been possibly stuffed. That is, punched for Bush only. Maps were supplied to the Free Press showing the locations of the warehouse and the Board of Elections.

Warren County officials refused to allow the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism to handle the ballots, but they did allow us to photograph a few. Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., has analyzed the ballots for the Free Press and concluded that there is evidence of fraud in Warren County. The ballots as photographed with Dr. Phillips' commentary below each ballot are included here for the first time.

The Free Press predicted early on that the ballots would be found punched only for Bush in Warren County. The Moss v. Bush lawsuit pointed to Warren, Butler and Clermont Counties as the three counties that provided more than Bush's entire margin in the Buckeye State: Bush won Ohio by 118,000, and 132,000 votes were supplied in these three southwestern Republican counties.

Now, for the first time, the Free Press is releasing images of the obvious election fraud in Warren County. The Free Press will continue its ongoing investigation in Ohio despite stonewalling by Republican state officials. See the images by clicking on the link below.

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http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2006/1355


Note: excellent summary by Richard Hayes Phillips at the Free Press site.

[EFerrari]

1. Thank you, mod mom. I so appreciate your work and we

all probably intuitively "knew" about Warren County.

One of these days, I'd dearly love to hear an update on Ohio in general. Because we've got to know that even as they try to steal CA, they'll go back to the well in OH -- a state my uncle used to call "The Promised Land".

:hi:

[mod mom]

9. Bob and Richard have been tiredlessly working on Warren. I am

just the messenger here. I have been working on Lucas Co. Look for more from these guys in the near future!

[EFerrari]

10. I will. Thank you!

:hug:

[ArbustoBuster]

2. Kicked and recommended.

I believe that there's nothing more important than getting our voting process back to the point where we can be confident it's actually reflecting the will of the people. Election fraud will kill democracy.

[BeFree]

19. Fraud will kill..

It is on it's death bed, electrocuted, in the ICU ward. Headed to emergency ER.

Did ya know DU has it's own ER? Yall might want to lend a hand in there?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203

[saltpoint]

3. I second the sentiments of other posters here & add my thanks, too.

Bush cheated.

[Benhurst]

4. Thanks. Recommended.

[DemInDistress]

5. wasn't Warren CT, the place where Homeland Security declared

a terror threat or some shit like that? Locking the doors keeping the press out so the crooked count could begin. Good stuff..great researchers..they should be detectives of the truth division..

thanks k&r

[mod mom]

7. YES.

[BillORightsMan]

17. Lock Down Warren BoE

From the Cincy Enquirer Nov. 5th 2004
Warren's vote tally walled off
Alone in Ohio, officials cited homeland security

And...from Nov. 10, 2004
Warren Co. defends lockdown decision
FBI denies warning officials of any special threat

The Enquirer sounds off...Nov. 12, 2004
Warren County's election night overkill Editorial
MONEY QUOTE

But nobody but the officials in Warren County felt the need to lock all the doors, refuse to let the press or other observers in to witness the vote counting, and generally treat the county building as if it were Fort Knox.

We appreciate Warren County officials' sense of concern, but their overreaction is exactly the kind of disruption people opposed to our system of free and open government hope to achieve.

FYI, Bob Fitrakis is running for Ohio Governor as a GREEN Party candidate -
See http://www.bobforohio.com (turn up yer speakers to hear Bob!)

I guess he wants his name on the ballot, so he might test the new HB 3 election "reform" recount rules.
Start saving your changes for Bob!

imbillorightsmanandiapprovethismessage
:patriot:

[mod mom]

6. Richard Hayes Phillips' report:

STACKING THE DECKS IN WARREN COUNTY Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
April 18, 2006

In my previous paper, entitled “Pick a Card, Any Card,” I set forth compelling statistical and circumstantial evidence of election fraud in Warren County, Ohio. Because the order in which the candidates’ names appear on the ballot rotates from precinct to precinct, and because the punch code at the bottom of the punch card ballots does not identify the precinct, it would have been easy to take a number of ballots punched for John Kerry and move them to a different precinct where they would be counted as votes for George W. Bush.

Other Democratic candidates on the ballot would suffer collateral damage as the vote totals in their races would be reversed, but they could end up with more votes than Kerry. Issue One, the constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage, was not subject to ballot rotation, so gay-friendly Democrats whose ballots were switched would be counted as gay-friendly Republicans.

Analysis of 775 punch card ballots in Warren County Precinct 149 (MAS C WC AFS) indicates that this is exactly what happened. Kerry got 59 fewer votes than Ellen Connally, the losing Democratic candidate for Chief Justice; and Bush got 94 more votes than Issue One, which passed overwhelmingly. Either Bush got 60.1% of the Connally voters, and 48.8% of the gay marriage supporters, or punch cards have been shuffled from another precinct.

In addition, there are individual ballots indicative of ballot box stuffing. There were four ballots punched for Bush only, and six ballots that were punched for Bush and only one other position. If these are fraudulent ballots, then the voter signature book should reveal an equivalent number of forgeries. Also, there were two ballots punched for odd numbers for president. Only even numbered choices for president were valid and available -- #2, #4, #6, #8 and #10. Odd numbers could not have been punched unless the punch card was outside the voting machine. This is indicative of “undervotes” (ballots containing no choice for president) being punched for Bush and run back through the tabulators. If this was done in a hurry, odd numbers could have been punched by mistake.

<snip> more at FreePress link with photocopies of punchcard ballots

[In Truth We Trust]

8. K&R- Hand counts NOW!!! Democracy NOW!!!

[livvy]

11. I can only say, "Wow". It's one thing to "know" something was wrong....

it's a whole different thing to see evidence. Ballots with no votes? The pdf at the link, asks a great question...who would stand in long lines, and then not vote for anything? How would odd numbered punches, get punched, if only the even numbers were options when the cards were in the machines?
This is really something. Now, how to get the exposure it deserves?
Great post...K&R!

[roseBudd]

23. odd number punches could also be the trigger that tells a software program

to start tabulating fraudulently. Prior to being triggered the program would pass preelection testing.

[liam_laddie]

12. K & R ! n/t

[The Doctor.]

13. Thank you...

I will get mileage out of this.

[Amaryllis]

14. Bob is like a bulldog on this. Good on him.

[Stevepol]

15. Is there not some way somebody can be charged with a crime?

Can't somebody sue somebody? The evidence is pretty overwhelming it seems to me, evidence of all kinds and it continues to pile up.

It seems to me the voters of OH, any of them who voted Democratic, have a rightful grievance. Can't they sue the elections people, present their evidence, etc.???

What's to prevent that from happening? Isn't there a lawyer in OH willing to do this?

[mod mom]

20. Bob Fitrakis is an attorney, one of the four who contested the Ohio

election (along side Cliff Arnebeck, Susan Truitt and Peter Peckarsky) which was trown out by the OH Supreme Court (5 of 7 Supreme Court were Republicans) which was dismissed as frivolous. The actions found them threatened by OH AG Jim Petro (who is running against Blackwell in the R Primary for Governor..as is Bob Fitrakis, as a Green) to be sanctioned, which was later dismissed.

[understandinglife]

16. K&R.

Not One Line of Software Between a Voter and a Valid Election

[BeFree]

18. So Kerry actually probably won Ohio?

A little old fashioned ballot stuffing, eh?

Heck, if they'd stoop that low, no telling how low they'd go.

Let's not get over it, is all I'm saying. Let's not.

[file83]

21. Who woulda thought Ohio was acting like a Banana Republic Dictatorship?

Fucking ridiculous. Until these criminals get PROSECUTED for their crimes and THE SYTEMS THEY USED TO COMMIT THE CRIME are removed, we no longer live in a democracy.

[BeFree]

22. You got that right

We know longer live in a democracy when our votes are so easily stolen.

Saw a bumper sticker today: I pray, and I vote.
Too bad we have to pray our votes are not stolen, eh?

[mirandapriestly]

24. Free Press' reporting has been so high quality and the election

workers so tenacious in pursuing the Ohio election fraud. I'll never forget how heartsick I was when this was first pulled off. Now I am just disgusted and my health has been adversely affected by this and the other anti-democracy acts committed by this cabal. It sounds like they have pay dirt, now if only we had a real press and a judicial system we could trust.

[Patsy Stone]

25. I have permanently retired my tin foil hat

Now I know I'm not insane. K&R.

[fooj]

33. I wear my hat proudly...

:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[AuntiBush]

26. Kicked!

For significance!

[nicknameless]

27. Excellent!

K&R

[Chi]

28. K&R ...Thanx mod mom!

[Time for change]

29. Thanks for posting this

It's a travesty that this was never investigated by the state of Ohio.

Wasn't Blackwell, as SOS, responsible for investigating this?

[glitch]

30. K & R nt

[Land Shark]

31. K&R

[Raster]

32. It's called "Electoral Treason" and should be punishable by death.

Elections should be considered sacred and sacrosanct. Interfering with, tampering with or manipulating ANY election should warrant the death penalty. And once again I say LOUDLY:

If the Congress of the United States was so concerned about protecting the sanctity of every vote, they could have and would have fixed this sorry mess YEARS AGO!

[izzybeans]

34. Out there somewhere there are people with heavy hearts

and a guilty conscience. I hope they do the right thing and come forward. There is only corroborating witness testimony left to obtain before complete confirmation, even for the naysayers.

[mod mom]

35. There are witnesses such as Sherole Eaton, who did come forward and was

rewarded with being fired. She is a brave woman and a hero to the election reform community. Unfortunately, without a fair court or a responsible fourth estate, all we can do is compile the evidence.

[LeeB]

36. I heard the interview on Laura Flanders' show Saturday

night on this topic -- or more accurately, I heard all but the last five minutes . . . enough to get me over to The Free Press to see if more of the information was posted. After I confess I haven't really looked very hard -- just a Google search that didn't produce it -- does anyone happen to have a link to Dr. Phillips'earlier piece referened in this one? the one called "Pick a Card, Any Card?” This one seems to start up in the middle of the account of his work.

[mod mom]

37. Link to Richard Hayes Phillips studies:

http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2005/02/summary-and-list-of-richard-hayes.html

[L. Coyote]

38. kick