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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Mark Near wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Ed Andrews said some stuff:
Is this an accusation? If so, I wish you would state it plainly and I can
send it to Mr. Blackwell for his answer. In the mean time,
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,94624,00.html
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/091104Fitrakis/091104fitrakis.html
http://www.morningjournal.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1699&dept_id=46371&newsid=12379941&PAG=461&rfi=9
Quoting the above acticle.
“Of Ohio’s 88 counties, 69 will use punch cards, 13 will use scanners and six
will use electronic voting, though not Diebold machines.”
Our county voted with the usual punch cards and there were two Democrats and
two Republicans at my precinct, there to safeguard the voting process. AFAIK,
no electronic Diebold machines were used anywhere in Ohio.
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Take it however you want. Let’s see a little gay marriage diversion here, a
Republican Secretary of State there and look, I got me a second term. So where
are we? Still divided as ever and under the first Republican controlled
Presidency, Senate and House since Hoover. Yep 1929 stock market crash Hoover
complete with the 78 rpm playing “Happy days are here again” in the distance.
Oh well, time to squander my kid’s future with another $300 middle class tax
break. Life goes on, let’s just not pretend it’s fair.
Was The Ohio Election Honest And Fair?
Institute for Public Accuracy
www.accuracy.org
11-3-4
Interviews and Background
TERESA FEDOR
(via Greg Lestini glestini@maild.sen.state.oh.us)
Ohio State Senator Teresa Fedor said today: “There was trouble with our
elections in Ohio at every stage. It’s been a battle getting people registered
to vote, getting to the ballot on voting day and getting that vote to count.
There is a pattern of voter suppression; that’s why I called for Ohio Secretary
of State Blackwell’s resignation more than a month ago. Blackwell, while
claiming to run an unbiased elections process, was also the co-chair of the
Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio. Additionally, he was the spokesperson for the
anti-business, anti-family constitutional amendment ‘Issue 1,’ and a failed
initiative to repeal a crucial sales-tax revenue source for the state. Blackwell
learned his moves from the Katherine Harris playbook of Florida 2000, and we
won’t stand for it.”
BILL MOSS
bmoss@hbcuconnect.com
Executive vice president of HBCU Connect, which works to connect historically
black colleges and universities, Moss said today: “I stayed in line two and a
half hours. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. There were fewer
voting machines in the highly concentrated black areas, creating the long lines
so as to frustrate the voters. But we knew the Republicans -- many of whom
became Republicans because they opposed equal rights for blacks -- would try to
drive down black turnout. ... Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell was confusing
things by raising issues like the paper weight of cards.”
SUSAN TRUITT
susan.truitt@lexisnexis.com
http://www.caseohio.org
Co-founder of the Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections, Truitt said today:
“Seven counties in Ohio have electronic voting machines and none of them have
paper trails. That alone raises issues of accuracy and integrity as to how we
can verify the count. A recount without a paper trail is meaningless; you just
get a regurgitation of the data. Last year, Blackwell tried to get the entire
state to buy new machines without a paper trail. The exit polls, virtually the
only check we have against tampering with a vote without a paper trail, had
shown Kerry with a lead. ... A poll worker told me this morning that there were
no tapes of the results posted on some machines; on other machines the posted
count was zero, which obviously shouldn’t be the case.”
DAN WALLACH
dwallach@cs.rice.edu
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach,
http://www.accuracy.org/pressreleases/PR062104.htm
Wallach is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Rice University in
Houston specializing in building secure and robust software systems for the
Internet. Along with colleagues at Johns Hopkins, Wallach co-authored a
groundbreaking study that revealed significant flaws in electronic voting
systems. He appeared on an Institute for Public Accuracy news release in June
entitled “Electronic Voting -- Danger for Democracy.”
BOB FITRAKIS
rfitrakis@cscc.edu
An attorney who monitored the election with the Election Protection Coalition,
Fitrakis said today: “There were far fewer machines in the inner-city districts
than in the suburbs. I documented at least a dozen people leaving because the
lines were so long in African-American areas. Blackwell did a great deal of
suppressing before the election -- like attempting to refuse to process voter
registration forms. The absentee ballots were misleading in Franklin County.
Kerry was the third line down, but you had to punch number four to vote for him.
Bush was getting both his votes as well as Kerry’s.”
HARVEY WASSERMAN
windhw@aol.com
http://www.freepress.org/
departments/display/19/2004/810
Senior editor of FreePress.org, an Ohio-based web site, and co-author with
Fitrakis of the recent article “Twelve Ways Bush is Now Stealing the Ohio Vote,”
Wasserman said today: “There was a huge fight around ensuring that the
electronic voting machines had paper trails and there was resistance by the
secretary of state, so there is no paper trail. There were some victories to
ensure a paper trial -- by 2006. There were limited numbers of voting machines
in African-American districts. Some people had to wait up to eight hours, far
more than in predominantly white areas.”
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