Election Fraud Research News 10.04.06 – Tribute to Ohio Activists

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Meet Mr. Torture:

The current version of our nightmare all started here…Ohio 2004

The truth came out here, once and for all…now the Party is listening
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.


Is it any surprise that the Zogby Poll of Aug 11-15 of 1018 likely voters determined that a MAJORITY had doubts that George W. Bush won the 2004 election fair and square. Article Michael Collins

This thread is a tribute to the Ohio Election Activists who have fought the nastiest, most unethical crooks around…without giving up. This is a PARTIAL listing. There are many many more. Thank you from those of us who admire your courage and work.

Never forget the pursuit of Truth.
Only the deluded & complicit accept election results on blind faith.

Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News October 2, 2006

All members welcome and encouraged to participate.

Please post Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News on this thread.
Please

"Recommend"

for the Greatest Page (it's the link just below).

Check www.electionfraudnews.com every now and then.

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1. Ohio Vigilance – Central Resource w/list for Ohio Action

Ohio Vigilance
www.ohiovigilance.org

As they slowly hack democracy to death, we're as alone -- we citizens -- as we've ever been, protected only by the dust-covered clichés of the nation's founding: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Was the election of 2004 stolen?

In contrast to the deathly silence of the media is the silent scream of the numbers. The more you ponder these numbers, and all the accompanying data, the louder that scream grows. Did the people's choice get thwarted? Were thousands disenfranchised by chaos in the precincts, spurious challenges and uncounted provisional ballots? Were millions disenfranchised by electronic voting fraud on insecure, easily hacked computers? And who is authorized to act if this is so? Who is authorized to care?

No one, apparently, except average Americans, who want to be able to trust the voting process again, and who want their country back. - Robert Koehler Chicago Tribune 4/14/05

"When the autopsy of our democracy is performed, it is my belief that media silence will be given as the primary cause of death." Jonathan Simon.

Ohio Vigilance

www.ohiovigilance.org
Help us investigate the election, educate the public about what really happened in the 2004 election, and work towards election reform!

“We are the people we've been waiting for."
June Jordan

Help us plan Ohio teach-ins to educate the public, and teach them to be vigilant citizens, watch-dogs for democracy . Help with June Teach-In.

Help us in administrative roles such as web-site maintenance, volunteer tracking, web research, and many others. Donate funds so that we can purchase transcripts of board meetings, copies of public records, maintain our website, organize teach-ins, etc. Donate your time, technical or legal expertise, old computer, and other gifts "in kind"

There are many ways you can get involved:
Participate in an investigation project:
1) Voting-machine allocation" project
2) Wrong-precinct disenfranchisement" project
3) Logging election incidents into a formal searchable database, and more...........
4/16/05

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2. CASE Ohio Citizens’ Alliance for Secure Elections – Activism from the star

CASE NEWS - November election

Who we are ...

The Citizens’ Alliance for Secure Elections (C.A.S.E.) is a non-partisan organization of citizens from across Ohio who advocate for elections that are secure, reliable, and employ the nation’s best practices. We inform the public, the media, political leaders and government officials about problems in Ohio which we believe compromise our voting system, and about the best solutions to these problems.

We have focused on two major areas:

1. Electronic Voting machines (DREs). We research and point out dangerous shortcomings of DREs without a voter verifiable paper trail, because they are not secure, not reliable, and not subject to meaningful recount. We are working to implement Ohio House Bill 262, which requires that by Jan. 2006, all Ohio counties with DREs provide a voter verifiable paper trail capacity. We also advocate national Best Practices to minimize future malfunctions and malfeasance.

2. Serious failings in Ohio’s election process have effectively disenfranchised massive numbers of Ohioans. Current processing of voter registration applications and changes of address; polling place procedures including provisional ballot rules and allocation of voting machines; and methods to avoid voter, poll worker, and Board of Elections errors on election day must all be vastly improved. Where there is inaction on the part of Boards of Elections or the Ohio Secretary of State, we alert the public. We also recommend practical solutions based on national research and experience, and advocate their immediate implementation.

How we formed:

In March, 2004 we came as individual activists to the hearings by the Joint Committee on Ballot Security. We came as individuals or with one or two friends to witness 22 hours of testimony held over several days time. On the second day of testimony, we realized that many were there with the same concerns and met in the cafeteria in the basement of the Ohio statehouse. Fourteen of us decided then to form a group to stay informed on the election issues and to do what we could to improve the process. Within a little more than a week, we had a name, CASE, and a yahoo group: CASE_OH@.

CASE began when concerned citizens gathered to testify before the Ohio Joint Committee on Ballot Security in March 2004. As the committee heard 22 hours of testimony about the need for a VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail), several individuals who were there to witness and testify, saw others there who shared a common interest. Fourteen met after the second session in the basement
cafeteria of the statehouse and formed the association of activists that has played an important role in keeping the issue of fair and open elections before the public.

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3. Cuyahoga County Analysis – Vote Switching – a classic James Q. Jacobs

The 2004 Election: Analyses, Summaries, Charts, and Spreadsheets
The 2004 Ohio Presidential Election: Cuyahoga County Analysis
How Kerry Votes Were Switched to Bush Votes
© 2006 by James Q. Jacobs. All Rights Reserved.
Scroll to Table of Contents

Preface

Questions have been raised about the fairness of the 2004 Presidential election in the United States of America (US). In 2000, the US post-election focus was on Florida, on fairness of punch card voting, on vote count accuracy, and on incomplete counting. In 2004, Ohio's failure to replace punch card voting with improved systems is just one of many issues raised with regard to the Ohio 2004 Presidential election. Other Ohio fairness, fraud, and irregularity issues include the exit poll inaccuracy, various forms of voter suppression, cross-voting and vote-switching, paperless voting, uncounted provisional ballots, voter registration fraud, vote count secrecy, electronic voting security, politization of process, and recount irregularities.

In the following article I focus on one election issue, cross-voting—how votes cast one way are counted as a vote for a different candidate or option. I also focus on Ohio and a particular area with one-tenth of the Ohio vote, Cuyahoga County. On a separate page, I present a 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Results Summary.

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4. Recent Court Activity: The Declaration of Richard Hayes Phillips

THE DECLARATION OF RICHARD HAYES PHILLIPS

Richard Hayes Phillips has been involved with the Oho election fraud researchers from day one. He has written extensively about the improbability of certain Republican friendly registration and voting events.

December 2004…
Ohio Recount Affidavit - Richard Hayes Phillips
Monday, 13 December 2004, 10:55 am

OHIO RECOUNT (from a previous court statement)

AFFIDAVIT
December 10, 2004
From: http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/supreme.htm

I, RICHARD HAYES PHILLIPS, do swear and affirm the following:

1. I hold a Ph.D. in geomorphology from the University of Oregon. I am a professional hydrologist and am well versed in standard techniques of statistical analysis, with special expertise in spotting anomalous data. A copy of my curriculum vita is attached to this Affidavit as Exhibit A.

2. I have analyzed unofficial precinct level results from the November 2, 2004 general election in nine Ohio counties, including Cuyahoga, Franklin, Warren, Butler, Clermont, Miami, Montgomery, Hamilton, and Lucas. In have compared these results with those from the November 7, 2000 general election where such data is available. I have examined the unofficial and official results for the November 2, 2004 election, county by county. I have examined, in Franklin County, data on the number of voting machines deployed in each precinct. I have also examined United States census data for 2000 and 2003.

3. There are numerous examples of incorrect presidential vote tallies in certain precincts in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County. These irregularities include at least 16 precincts where votes intended to be cast for Kerry were shifted to other candidates’ columns, and at least 30 precincts with inexplicably low voter turnout, including 7.10%, 13.05%, 19.60%, 21.01%, 21.80%, 24.72%, 28.83%, 28.97%, and 29.25%, and seven entire wards where voter turnout was reportedly below 50%, even as low as 39.35%. Kerry won Cleveland with 83.27% of the vote to 15.88% for Bush. If voter turnout was really 60% of registered voters, as seems likely based upon turnout in other major cities of Ohio, rather than 49.89% as reported, Kerry’s margin of victory in Cleveland has been wrongly reduced by 22,000 votes

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5. Bob Fitrakis, PhD, Lawyer, reporter, candidate, activist, etc.

Columns: Bob Fitrakis

Victory for the effort to save the ballots from the 2004 presidential election in Ohio! September 8, 2006

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2006/1428

Late yesterday, September 7, U.S. District Judge Algernon L. Marbley issued an order to all 88 Ohio Board of Elections (BOEs) to protect the ballots as evidence in the King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association et. al. v. J. Kenneth Blackwell case.

In his decision, Marbley ordered all Ohio BOE's "to preserve all ballots from the Presidential election, on paper or in any other format, including electronic data, unless and until such time otherwise instructed by the court." Plaintiffs in the King Lincoln case contend that certain election records including unused ballots needed for auditing have already been destroyed. Plaintiffs contend that Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell violated the civil rights of various inner city African American voters during his administration of the 2004 presidential election. The ballots are needed in order for the plaintiffs to establish their claim that there was an ongoing pattern and practice of targeting and disenfranchising African American voters.

NOTE: The Coumbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism continues its investigation of the election and Save the Ballots campaign to preserve all the ballots and election records from the 2004 presidential election beyond this case. The ballots must be archived for historical purposes. See Save the Ballots to sign a petition to preserve the ballots beyond the legal case and to donate to help the cause! ?

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6. Harvey Wasserman – Activist, Professor, Author – Bush to Jail

Put George W. Bush in Prison

by Harvey Wasserman

Those American soldiers torturing and sexually abusing Iraqi prisoners have made criminals of us all.
And there are only two possible responses to this horrible outrage: get out of Iraq. Now!

And imprison the man responsible, George W. Bush.

Any fantasy that the United States could "bring democracy" or inject stability or somehow do something praiseworthy for the Iraqi people irrevocably died with the publication of those photographs.
With Bush, the flow of abominations only seems to deepen and get worse with every passing day. Any whining or carping that he is not personally responsible is pure hypocrisy. This man belongs in prison!

Every serious Iraqi, Arab or Islamic leader, commentator or "person in the street" has said the same thing: "Game Over". The Americans must leave.
All further blood spilled in Iraq is senseless, useless, gratuitous slaughter.
All killing is only further insult to the people of that tortured nation and to the Americans sent there to kill and be killed. The only question now is: "who will be the last person to die for this mistake?"
And when will the person most responsible, George W. Bush, pay for this abomination?

Thanks to Bush, we Americans---all of us---will forever be seen in much of the world's eyes as parties to torture and forced sexual abuse and a cynical Christian crusade whose idea of religious conversion apparently involves rape or a photographic facsimile.

As Americans, we are duty-bound to hold the guilty parties responsible, and there is ultimately one party to point to: the President of the United States.

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[Peace Patriot]

11. Wow, Harvey! That was great! Thanks, Autorank!

I'm with you, Harvey! I'm still stuck back on the Abu Ghraib issue. Can't get past it. It grieves the soul. More than death, more than the greed and callousness, more than their thieving from the poor, more than their lies. This...thing they have done not just to the torture victims, but to all of us. This utter degradation of us all. And, in considering Congress' recent endorsement of these sufferings from Hell, we need to keep this in mind--that Congress was ALSO (s)elected by Diebold/ES&S. That of course is the heart of the problem. Who impeaches Congress?

Thank you for so eloquently and clearly stating the fundamental violation that has occurred, and the truth that keeps getting lost in the fog: who was in charge.

[DemReadingDU]

13. allowing torture

is a black mark against this country. it makes me ill to my stomach.

Bush is ultimately in charge, his entire administrtion needs to be purged and be made accountable.

And our election system/voting machines need to be made tamper-proof, so that we have true elections.

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23. He's very professional as he presents this stark material.

He's professorial in fact (which he is). It works because he can say the most outrageous (but logical) things. His history of election fraud in presidential elections was great on Saturday night.

His book is still around "Harvey Wasserman's History of the US" or something like that. Looked good. He pointed out that when he wrote it, he wanted to call it "A People's History of the United States" but they said it would never sell.

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8. In the mean time, this is why we do all of this...

This man embraced torture, codified it, tossed out legal rights

that took 4000 years of recorded civilization to realize…

This man is apparently a sleazoid of the first order, a fight wing contressman from Florida who had, at least, an inappropriate epistolary relationship with a minor…

Maybe they'll replace him with the good "Foley" - Mick...

This man is still Secretary of Defense

And our press continues to lie like the dogs they are…

And then, there’s this…

FloridaPat Sun Oct-01-06 07:23 PM
http://tinyurl.com/zekha
October suprise coming? There may be proof. Look at Oct put options.

They are higher than normal. At least compared to Nov and Dec. This was reported on Whatreallyhappened.com. The article is here but the links don't work because you need an account to see them. However, you can get option chains anywhere. The put is a bet that the stocks are going down. Calls are bets that the market is going up. Usually they are fairly even unless bad or good news is expected. DIA is an option for the Dow market. QQQQ is option for Nasdaq. This is what happened to United and American Airline stocks in the Sept 2001 market. October is historically a bad month. But so far nothing on the radar to suggest a big drop. Everyone on TV is expecting a lot more upside in the markets.

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9. Bonus oldie but goodie…59Sunburst figures Ohio out!!?!?

You tell me…

59sunburst (32 posts) Mon Dec-27-04 01:26 AM
Original message http://tinyurl.com/4662d
Cuyahoga Cty - 2000 Bush Tallies Used to Fake 2004 Tallies?

Were Bush's 2000 Vote Tallies Used to Fake 2004 Tallies?

First of all, I am not a statistician. I am a programmer. I've worked on projects for major corporations where I had to reverse-engineer calculations.

For the past month I've been analyzing presidential election results from Cuyahoga County, Ohio. I started by comparing precinct results from 2000 to 2004. Some where added and some were removed, so I narrowed my focus on precincts common to both years.

I also compared the results from 11/8/2004 with the results from 11/30/2004.

The first thing I noticed was that there were 46 precincts that recorded the same number of votes for George Bush in 2004 as in 2000, either in the preliminary or final results.

This compared with only 12 precincts that recorded the same number of votes for John Kerry in 2004 as for Al Gore in 2000.

I wondered if George Bush’s 2000 numbers for each precinct were somehow used as a benchmark for altering the results of 2004. The mission from the hacker’s perspective would be to ensure that Bush would maintain roughly the same level of support in 2004 as he had in 2000. Some randomness would have to be built in. Or perhaps some precincts with week results in 2000 would be given a little boost. Basically, the hacker would use a list of precincts and build a script that would apply a specific hack to each precinct.

I was able to come up with the following formula for 11/30/2004 results:

See the precinct pairs tab http://home.att.net/~sunburst59/cuyahoga_precinct_pairs...


1) Determine Bush 2000 votes. Column I.
2) Determine 2004 Total Counted Votes. Column H.
3) Determine 2004 Total Independent Votes. Column U.
4) Determine the randomizing factor to be applied. Column V.
5) Determine Kerry vote. Column R:
=ROUNDDOWN((1-ROUNDDOWN(I/H,2)-V)*H,0)
6) Determine Bush vote. Column M:
=H2-(R2+U2)

(A similar formula is used to calculate the 11/8/2004 results.)

The above formula allowed me to calculate Kerry’s and Bush’s 2004 totals for over 400 precincts using Bush’s 2000 numbers and a randomizing factor. Keep in mind, I’m not talking just about the preliminary results, or the final results. This calculation applied to both results.

I was able to build some sequential number generator to determine if the formula applied to a particular precinct. If a match was found, the highest and lowest factors were saved. At first I thought they might have some correlation to the number of independent votes or the number of undervotes, but I couldn’t find a pattern. Indeed, the factors seemed to be pretty random, as they should be.

Example:

1513 CLEVELAND 1M

In 2000, George Bush received 2 votes.

11/8/2004 Results: |Bush: 23 | Kerry: 434 | Independent: 6 | Total: 463
11/30/2004 Results: |Bush: 23 | Kerry: 438 | Independent: 6 | Total: 467

That’s quite an increase in votes for Bush. Over 10 times as many in 2004 as in 2000. Let’s see how it was done.

November 8 Results:

1) Determine Bush 2000 votes. 2
2) Determine 2004 Total Counted Votes. 463
3) Determine 2004 Total Independent Votes. 6
4) Determine the randomizing factor to be applied. .0618
5) Determine Kerry vote.
=ROUNDDOWN((1-ROUNDDOWN(2/463,2)- .0618)*463,0) Or 434
6) Determine Bush vote.
=463-(434+6) Or 23

November 30 Results:

1) Determine Bush 2000 votes. 2
2) Determine 2004 Total Counted Votes. 467
3) Determine 2004 Total Independent Votes. 6
4) Determine the randomizing factor to be applied. .0618
5) Determine Kerry vote.
=ROUNDDOWN((1-ROUNDDOWN(2/467,2)- .0618)*467,0) Or 438
6) Determine Bush vote.
=467-(438+6) Or 23

Interesting how even though 4 more votes were added to the tally, the calculation still came out exactly and applied the additional votes to Kerry.

Now perhaps at this point, you’re thinking this is some sort of parlor game and that if you throw in a factor you can make anything come out the way you want it to.

But let’s put ourselves in the shoes of the programmer who was writing the script to hack the vote. What is the next precinct on the list?

1514 CLEVELAND 1N

In 2000, George Bush only received 2 votes in this precinct as well.

11/8/2004 Results: |Bush: 32 | Kerry: 470 | Independent: 0 | Total: 502
11/30/2004 Results: |Bush: 32 | Kerry: 477 | Independent: 0 | Total: 509

Gee, what if the programmer used the same randomizing factor for two precincts in a row? Would anybody notice?

November 8 Results:

1) Determine Bush 2000 votes. 2
2) Determine 2004 Total Counted Votes. 502
3) Determine 2004 Total Independent Votes. 0
4) Determine the randomizing factor to be applied. .0618
5) Determine Kerry vote.
=ROUNDDOWN((1-ROUNDDOWN(2/502,2)- .0618)*502,0) Or 470
6) Determine Bush vote.
=502-(470+0) Or 32

November 30 Results:

1) Determine Bush 2000 votes. 2
2) Determine 2004 Total Counted Votes. 509
3) Determine 2004 Total Independent Votes. 0
4) Determine the randomizing factor to be applied. .0618
5) Determine Kerry vote.
=ROUNDDOWN((1-ROUNDDOWN(2/509,2)- .0618)*509,0) Or 477
6) Determine Bush vote.
=509-(477+0) Or 32

So he did repeat the randomizing factor.

And he did for these sets of precincts:

2007 CLEVELAND 6G Factor: 0.005
2008 CLEVELAND 6H

2404 CLEVELAND 10D Factor: 0.024
2405 CLEVELAND 10E

3643 CLEVELAND HTS 3-C Factor: 0.0267
3644 CLEVELAND HTS 3-D

3825 EAST CLEVELAND 2-E Factor: 0.0263
3826 EAST CLEVELAND 2-F

3828 EAST CLEVELAND 2-H Factor: 0.0241
3831 EAST CLEVELAND 3-A

3832 EAST CLEVELAND 3-B Factor: 0.0158
3833 EAST CLEVELAND 3-C
3834 EAST CLEVELAND 3-D (3 in a row)

4432 HIGHLAND HTS 3-B Factor: 0.068
4441 HIGHLAND HTS 4-A

5121 MAPLE HTS 2-A Factor: 0.046
5122 MAPLE HTS 2-B

5164 MAPLE HTS 6-D Factor: 0.026
5171 MAPLE HTS 7-A

5801 NORTH RANDALL A Factor: 0.0363
5802 NORTH RANDALL B

Not only is there a correlation between Bush's 2000 and 2004 totals, there is a correlation between adjacently listed precincts. Some of the sets share the same physical location. Some do not.

The calculations for all these sets of precincts are included in the spreadsheet.

This may not be a smoking gun, but I believe these are the fingerprints of the hacking of the vote in Cuyahoga County.

[DemReadingDU]

12. Thanks for reposting

I don't recall having seen this formula for calculating votes.

If there are people who know of the altered votes (or altered the votes), why have they not spoken up?

Clint Curtis is in Florida, but isn't there anyone who will speak for Ohio?

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19. Richard Hayes Phillips has it pretty much figures out.

Look for his "Declaration" here www.electionfraudnews.com It's in the middle column.

This 59Starburst post is a minor urban legend. I put it out there to see if there's a bit. Not yet but apparently his formula works. The question is...well I don't know what the question is. It's just interesting. He/she is gone and the spread sheet was long gone when I first saw this...

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29. Has there been any whistleblower from a mob?

It's obvious that a power hungry mob has been stealing elections for many years. So why haven't any whistleblowers from this mob spoken up?

Conyers, Baiman, Freeman, Dopp, Richard Hayes Phillips, Palast, Fitrakis, RFK, Jr. are the good guys speaking up. They know elections are stolen.

We need someone that know the bad guys from the organized criminal mob, to start speaking out.

Who is organizing the mob to steal elections?
The Bonanno Family?
The Colombo Family?
The Genovese Family?
The Luchese Family?
The DeCavalcante Family?
Tony Soprano?
?????

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10. LIVE BLOG FROM THE “WE COUNT CONFERENCE” CLEVELAND 09.30.06

LIVE BLOG FROM THE “WE COUNT CONFERENCE” CLEVELAND 09.30.06

You’re just a click away!

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14. I salute you Auto!

:patriot:

BTW...it was the Fight for Democracy Rally that initially introduced me to DU. I was in touch w some CO activists who made the recommendation to use DU as a vehicle to get the word out. :) never left.

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20. Amazing...

The people in Cleveland were even more impressive than I'd anticipated them to be, and that includes Dennis K. These folks are tough and they're right at the center of the battle for post-democracy America. If they win, we all win.

[kpete]

15. I am in awe of you

and everyone fighting to keep our Democracy Honest and Free...

Thanks for the post!

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21. We've got a mutual awe society going...these Cleveland folks

are just tough as nails though. They're not about to give up either!!!

:hi:

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16. Allegations trip up voting rights group

An advocacy group that registered more than a million voters two years ago is facing new allegations of voter fraud and sloppy work just weeks before crucial midterm elections.

Philadelphia's municipal voter registration office has rejected about 3,000 cards submitted by ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — since April because of missing information or invalid addresses.

Denver County election officials forwarded about 200 cards to the secretary of state's office after finding similar handwriting on signatures.

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"ACORN does not commit voter fraud," national president Maude Hurd said in a statement Monday. "We work hard to bring new people into the democratic process and work to maintain good quality control."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061003/ap_on_el_ge/voter_fraud_charges_10

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26. I'll believe ACORN in that instance. Not a doubt in my mind.

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28. ACORN Statement on AP's Voter Registration Article

On Monday Oct. 2, the Associated Press distributed an inaccurate and misleading news story ("Allegations trip up voting rights group") regarding ACORN's national voter registration program, which has helped enfranchise more than 1.6 million voters since 2004.

Maude Hurd, ACORN's national president, said: "ACORN does not commit voter fraud. We work hard to bring new people into the democratic process and work to maintain good quality control. We have even gone to court to overturn regulations that would prevent us from checking registration cards for errors. In the rare cases where an employee has done something wrong, ACORN has not only fired that person, but worked to have them prosecuted where appropriate."

Associated Press reporter Andrew Welsh-Huggins wrongly conflates alleged fraudulent applications, incomplete applications, duplicate applications, and even complaints about bad handwriting, treating them as a manifestation of the same problem on ACORN's part. An incomplete card or one with messy handwriting represents a legitimate attempt by a person to register to vote. While ACORN makes every effort to make sure applicants complete their applications, including calling them, before submitting them, this is not always possible. Duplicate applications are often the result of applicants who may not remember whether or not they are already registered to vote at their current address.

The reporter knowingly excluded from the story the fact that some of the applications in question have proven to be legitimate. In Summit County, Ohio, for example, officials cut off the bottom of an application where an elderly woman noted she helped her husband complete the form because his handwriting was difficult to read, before alleging that the card was an ACORN forgery. In Franklin County, Ohio, ACORN has obtained signed statements from some of the 400 applicants whose cards allegedly "questionable" cards attesting to their authenticity.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=73718

[intheflow]

17. Kicking for the Ohio Activists!

Working overtime to protect our democratic way of life! :patriot:

[femrap]

18. What memories....

at the Ohio Statehouse and then the drive to DC on January 6 to contest the Ohio vote at the Senate....Barbara Boxer was the only one to stand up.

Now, it's Election '06....get out there and get folks to the polls to vote Democratic.

VOTING STARTS TOMORROW!!!!! GO TO YOUR LOCAL BOARD OF ELECTIONS AND TAKE AN ID. VOTE THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC SLATE!!!! Carpool to the polls!

Also, you can REGISTER TO VOTE AND VOTE ON THE SAME DAY......before 10/11/06.

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22. Well, here are some pictures from the DC Rally

The Ohio people arrived en masse by bus. They're in here!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=255393

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=272275

What a day!!!

[femrap]

24. Thank you...that was an amazing day.

I went up to the Senate Gallery along with Jesse Jackson and others. I was amazed that I was not allowed to take notes or have a shirt/button with words on it. I was also taken aback by the number of military/police.

I saw cheney on the floor of the Senate...and I nearly went blind....he had an evil aura around him. And no one went near him. He sat all by himself.

I went to one of the Ohio Senator's offices...I think it was Voinovich and was told I could not have a pass to the Senate Gallery. When I went outside and was talking with a police officer, he said that was crap. He said go in and talk to a decent Senator....you'll get one. So I stopped in to the office of Elizabeth Taylor's Ex husband, and was most politely offered a pass.

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25. That would be my Senator, "John" not "Mark"...Warner

He is quite civil. I'm not surprised at the story about Voinavich. What a politically corrupt state Ohio as become. It's beyond crisis state. It's got to change and I hope with all my heart that you sweep out the crooks, all of them.

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27. I did some phone banking for nearly three hours

this afternoon...not many people saying they are going to vote for repugs. And I push the Corruption Button many times when talking to folks. Then I drove over to the BoE and voted on a paper ballot! Today marked the first day of Early Voting.

My biggest fear is that Blackwell is still counting the votes. And my other fear is rove's surprise...like OBL shows up.....