Reply #64: Conyers wrote the Foreword to "Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?" by Steve Freeman and Joel

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Bleifuss. If you are going to, Cocoa, continue to claim that COnyers has not said specifically that Ohio was "stolen" you are splitting hairs. Let's see what else conyers has said:

Conyers wants everyone to read that Foreword, and this book, so I’ll give you some quotes. Cocoa you can place your order for the book at your local ind. bookstore, powell's or amazon.

In that book, in the foreword, Conyers stated, inter alia,

“Guided in no small part by Steve Freeman’s original analysis of exit polls nationwide, I began my own investigation of the official results… What we found indicated problems in nearly every sphere of the electoral process ...

Unfortunately, the lesson of our past two presidential elections has become patently clear—poor decisions by election officials, whether motivated by political bias or stunning negligence, can result in the disenfranchisement of voters and the massive distortion of election results….

Freeman and Bleifuss shape the raw data into an image of all that the Founders warned us against.”

Now, now, Cocoa, if you jump on this and say the word "stolen" doesn't appear in CONYER'S words even though it's the title of the book he wrote the Foreword for and he does say the above and much more, you're really making too much of your point, and there IS a big difference between Reid's philosophy on election protection and Conyers'

Rep. Conyers has stated that "by and large, when it comes to a voting machine, the average voter is getting a lemon - the Ford Pinto of voting technology. We must demand better."

Cocoa does that make Conyers one of the misnamed “BBVers” you denounce upthread?

The non-partisan GAO report (requested by Conyers, regarding voting machines that are electronic) has now found that, "some of concerns about electronic voting machines have been realized and have caused problems with recent elections, resulting in the loss and miscount of votes."

Rev. Jesse Jackson, among others, has asserted that "public elections must not be conducted on privately-owned machines." Is he a BBVer you denounce, cocoa?