Cinti. Enquirer finally revisits Warren County lockdown '04

[roseBudd]

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080316/NEWS01/303020039

After returns were certified, Bush won Ohio by 118,601 votes out of more than 5.6 million cast statewide. The Republican president beat Kerry by nearly 42,000 votes in Warren County, including a 14,000-vote boost early Wednesday morning that prompted television news networks to project him as the winner in Ohio.

Bush won Ohio by 50.8 to 48.7 percent and Warren County by 72.3 to 27.7 percent.

In a federal lawsuit and subsequent books, Richard Hayes Phillips, a scientist from Canton, N.Y., and Columbus attorneys Cliff Arnebeck and Robert J. Fitrakis, among others, documented what they described as abnormalities in the county’s punch-card ballot counts, including high numbers of Republicans who voted in favor of gay marriage in Southwest Ohio – contrary to elsewhere in the state – and supporting a Democratic candidate for chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. They contend the anomalies indicate ballots were mishandled, miscounted or tampered with, and that the Warren County “lockdown’’ allowed this to happen undetected. Their lawsuit is pending in U.S. District Court in Columbus.

Hoffheimer said no one may ever know the full story of what happened in Warren County, or Ohio that night.

“But Bush still carried the state by a large enough margin that it seems unlikely … that even with all of these errors that Kerry could have won Ohio,’’ Hoffheimer said.
Changes recommended by South and others are now in place: A window for media and other observers was installed overlooking the boardroom where vote tabulations take place, according to current Board of Elections Director Michael E. Moore. And three polling precincts that had been in the county administration building in 2004 have been removed.

[Eurobabe]

1. Those slimy bastards (Warren County BOE)

:grr: :mad: :nuke:

Of course no one will ever know the outcome. Only KKarl, BlacKKKwell and Diebold. Thick as thieves.

Someone should push for a criminal investigation of this episode. Where's the White House emails, on RNC server?

[L. Coyote]

4. Correction. Those were punch cards, we developed a forensic method, and

we still have the ballots, preserved by court order.

Investigation has been underway since OH changed office holders a year ago.
I have collaborated in the Ohio inquiries.

Warren County was a punch card county with a 1.68% of votes.
Bush 68,037 vs. Kerry 26,044

The focus in Ohio needs to be first on Counties with
the greatest number of Dem votes to steal, like Cuyahoga,
and on punch cards where theft can be demonstrate and/or proven.

votes    % OH    % K
673,777	11.97%	66.6%	Punch Card	Cuyahoga
140,742	2.50%	56.1%	Punch Card	Lorain
276,320	4.91%	56.7%	Punch Card	Summit
108,145	1.92%	61.7%	Punch Card	Trumbull
188,459	3.35%	50.6%	Punch Card	Stark
282,584	5.02%	50.6%	Punch Card	Montgomery
424,025	7.53%	47.1%	Punch Card	Hamilton
166,819	2.96%	33.7%	Punch Card	Butler
94,422	1.68%	27.6%	Punch Card	Warren

MORE: How Kerry Votes Were Switched to Bush Votes
http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html

[roseBudd]

6. Don't forget, in Warren there were pink header cards with Bush punched & there were

ballots with no precinct indicated. Ballot rotation of candidates names means that if a ballot is assigned to the wrong precinct it WILL BE MISTABULATED and the intended vote will go to another candidate.

Ohio did not have precinct codes punched, they were printed. The tabulator has no way of knowing if ballots were mistabulated because it only reads punchs, it cannot read the printed or stamped precinct code.

Warren had ballots with NO precint indication whatsoever.

That alone could explain C. Ellen Connaly.

FYI in Indiana punchcards read the princinct via punches, so you can't mistabulate by precinct.

[L. Coyote]

21. Remember also, from our 2004 discusions, there are no precinct marks on OH punch cards

Indiana law requires it, but Ohio has a system that allows
changing vote outcomes with a quick slight of hand, or in massive amounts!

You write "That alone could explain C. Ellen Connaly." (Connally?)

It is just a matter of doing the research, and we will know.
However, given what we know about third-party voting in Cuyahoga,
I'm 99.99% certain we know the answer, ballots were switched from Kerry to Bush
by someone who was not paying sufficient attention to the down-ticket effects.
Likewise for the very anomalous results for ballot measures, pointing to evidence!!!!

The blunders must have put them in panic mode, with such dramatic evidence in plain view.
That would sure explain all the disinformation and false flag nonesense afloat back then.

Do we need to put more pressure on Ohio officials again?

[Eurobabe]

9. I thought they were "destroyed"

like the rest of the ballots in Ohio. God, what a screwed up Board of Elections in that state. I fear for 2008!!!

[L. Coyote]

22. Not all materials were turned over to the SoS, as required by law

to a greater or lesor degree by counties.

The degree of false hype attached to the missing material seems to have been a successful false flag,
implanting info that would preclude further investigation of the evidence that actually still exists!

[Botany]

2. Who gave the order to "lock down" the count?

al Qaeda was going to attack King's Island?

[Eurobabe]

11. No I heard they were headed for that restaurant on Main St. in Mason

that said "English Only" spoken here. :eyes:

[mod mom]

13. Here's Clinton ally CARVILLE"S role in the concession:

Did Carville Tip Bush Off to Kerry Strategy (Woodward)


By M.J. Rosenberg | bio




On page 344, Woodward describes the doings at the White House in the early morning hours of Wednesday, the day after the '04 election.

Apparently, Kerry had decided not to concede. There were 250,000 outstanding ballots in Ohio.

So Kerry decides to fight. In fact, he considers going to Ohio to camp out with his voters until there is a recount. This is the last thing the White House needs, especially after Florida 2000.

-snip

"Carville told her he had some inside news. The Kerry campaign was going to challenge the provisional ballots in Ohio -- perhaps up to 250,000 of them. 'I don't agree with it, Carville said. I'm just telling you that's what they're talking about.'

-snip
"Matalin went to Cheney to report...You better tell the President Cheney told her."

Matalin does, advising Bush that "somebody in authority needed to get in touch with J. Kenneth Blackwell, the Republican Secretary of State in Ohio who would be in charge of any challenge to the provisional votes." An SOS goes out to Blackwell.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/oct/07/did_carville_tip_bush_off_to_kerry_strategy_woodward

[roseBudd]

3. Though I am glad to see, this is on A-1 above the fold on Sunday (coupon day)

I am very disappointed in this sentence

supporting a Democratic candidate for chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court

A black, unknown, underfunded liberal Cuyahoga County Municipal Court judge who no one in SW Ohio had heard of. I skipped the SCs because I could not remember her name. C. Ellen Connally.

DUer lizzieforkerry reported that her R opponent DID have yard signs all over Warren County in the SAME yards as Bush signs. He had name recognition. She had none.

[L. Coyote]

7. Think about vote-switching and ballot orders for punch cards.

Anomalous vote results have been demonstrated to relate to ballot chain of custody errrors, voting the wrong precinct machines OR moving ballots to the wrong precinct, altering the vote results.

What is needed is an analysis of the vote results at precinct level. That analysis must identify precincts where, when the ballot is moved to switch a Kerry vote to a Bush vote, what is the effect down ballot. In non-partisan contests, ballot measures and justice candidates, the switch may not follow party lines. The anomalous results may evidence vote-switching. BUT, noone has published an analysis yet.

The method was developed for Cuyahoga County.
And it works like a champ, illustrating a 9.5 times jump in third-party votes. From:
How Kerry Votes Were Switched to Bush Votes
http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html

In all those precincts with zero probability of a Kerry cross-vote counting for Badnarik, Badnarik garnered a mere 0.205%, compared with 1.018% in precincts with a 1.0 probability of Kerry cross-votes counting for him, a five-fold increase. For Peroutka, the percentage jumps nearly ten-fold from 0.168 to 1.604. Figure 1 illustrates the pattern. ...



Further Study

A potentially useful aspect of the election results for determining numbers of cross-votes, particularly those not evident using results for one race, might be statistical comparison with down-ticket races using cross-voting probability sorts as defined herein. Precinct-level pairing of cross-voting in diverse races can be analyzed, especially so where vote-switching produces an uncorrelated down ticket pattern. Also, comparison with 2006 e-voting results may reveal patterns of change correlating to punch card cross-voting in previous elections, especially regarding spoilage rates."

Given the number of miscounted 2004 votes in Cuyahoga County, results in other Ohio counties and elections need to be analyzed for irregularities, especially wherever more than one ballot order was employed at a punch card voting location. The same needs to be accomplished for past Ohio elections. Statistical analysis can reveal patterns produced by cross-voting or vote-switching. The results herein bring into question all past Ohio punch card voting. The methods presented herein enable a review of past punch card voting for the particular forms of ballot-box stuffing herein, casting at or switching ballots to the wrong precinct.

[roseBudd]

10. I never ever got an answer to this question, why & or when were precinct codes printed & not punched

The entire premise behind a punch card is information is relayed via punches. Each punch means something. The no brainer is that what precinct is being tabulated by the card reader should be conveyed with a punch. You could trip and mix up every ballot on the floor & they would be tabulated correctly.

My assumption in Nov. early Dec. 04 was that OH had punched precincts because I corresponded with a citizen punch card specialist in IN, where the precinct code was punched. Weeks later I found that this was not true of OH punch cards.

Were OH punch cards ever precinct punched? If so when & why did this change occur? Who made that decision?

All Warren had to do was take Kerry voted ballots from 1 precinct & tabulate them for another precinct. The only way the tabulation software knows how to interpret is by a header ballot card that precedes a precinct change.

At least 2 pink header cards were found that had Bush & Bush only punches.

Email [e-mail]

[roseBudd]

5. ER researchers check out the link to FOIA emails & memos obtained

Especially a phone number on page 4.

I wonder who may have been calling that number in the weeks before Nov. 4, 2004

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2008/03/16/warrendocs.pdf

[L. Coyote]

8. The USA for N OH as yet to reply to an offer of evidece of election irregularities, but

I just know they will call any minute now. :sarcasm:

Given they have not, one must assume they are part of the conspiracy
for practical purpose, and look to the State of Ohio for any enforcement actions.

The DoJ is so politically compromised, they do not even respond to an offer of direct evidence of a rigged election.

[mod mom]

12. WTF.. DID YOU READ THIS EMAIL FROM FRANK YOUNG, DIRECTOR WC EMER SERVICES?

UNDER DOCUMENTS:

Oct 13, 2004 Email from Warren Co emergency Services ([e-mail]) to CJ Couch RE: Nov 2 update:

CJ,

It is our intention to watch the election from home, but alas, that may not occur. We will not be occupying the EOC, however, the room is ready to go (always is) and the appropriate people notified to be ready if needed.

-snip

As for election preparations, I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you! We have made a geat deal of plans and preps, probably many of the same things other counties are informing you about.

Remember, Vote early, Vote often.

Frank R. Young, Director
Warren County Dept of Emergency Services
500 Justice Drive
Lebanon, Ohio 45039

THIS MAN SHOULD BE SUBPOENAED! I'M SENDING THIS ARTICLE TO THE HOUSE JUDICIARY.

[roseBudd]

14. Any followup info anyone on DU has should be sent to [e-mail] and cc...

[e-mail] and [e-mail]

Here is the complete staff list with contact info for Cincinnati Enquirer. CC Editors also.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=CONTACT

[roseBudd]

15. Question for ER denizens, who posted photos of some of the Warren ballots? Fritakis?

And has Jon Craig, Howard Wilkinson & Dan Horm been made aware?

[mod mom]

16. They have. I believe the Warren ballot with a white sticker over it came from free press. Here:

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 the vote tally 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.

View the actual ballots. (6.48MB -- PDF)


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

[roseBudd]

17. I thought only Clermont's optiscan ballots had stickers, Wow there are a lot more ballots pictured

than when I first saw the PDF.

Does Jon Craig know about these? If he did, did a copy editor remove references to?

[mod mom]

18. A while back Politics extra ran a request for info. This information was sent and

Mr Craig is certainly familiar with the work of Fitrakis et al. He is one of the regular reporters I forward pertinent election info too. Whether he recalled it I am not 1005 sure-you could email him. He did quote RHP, Cliff and Bob in the article.

[roseBudd]

19. Hmm, I wonder if this is just part one

Maybe there will be whistle blowers coming forward

[L. Coyote]

23. You know Richard Hayes Phillips is releasing a book with evidence, images on CD!

[bleever]

20. K& freakin' R!

I love me some Ohio DUers!