USA Election 2004 • Presidential Votes Soon To Be Ratified?
Writing For The Columbus Free Press In Ohio• Bob Fitrakis •
Steve Rosenfeld • Harvey Wasserman •• Explain WHY The
GWB Vote Does NOT Compute
Excerpts:
"...we list the top ten glaring flaws in the Ohio vote that have
allowed Bush to gather the votes to ‘win’ the presidency in
Ohio with an apparent margin of 118,775 votes - the result
from an official recount that manually examined only 3
percent of ballots cast.
This list involves very large totals of uncounted, tainted or
fraudulent votes. Taken together, they exceed Bush's margin
of victory in Ohio.
These expert analyses are based on state and local Board of
Election statistics, U.S. Census reports, and other public
documents. They were not conducted with any assistance
from John F. Kerry’s campaign…
The Bush-Cheney ‘do-everything’ strategy in Ohio covered a
very wide range of tactics, from disenfranchisement of
minority voters to discarding of ballots to tampered
tabulators and much more.
Taken as a whole, this compendium of error, fraud, cover-up
and contempt indicates that this was not a legitimate election,
and is not worthy of being certified by the Congress of the
United States:
1. More than 106,000 Ohio ballots remain uncounted…
2. Most uncounted ballots come from regions and precincts
where Kerry was strongest…
3. … As in New Mexico, where George W. Bush carried every
precinct whose votes were counted with electronic optical
scanning machines, John Kerry's vote count was significantly
lower among ballots counted on Election Day [in Ohio] using
electronic tabulators.
4. Turnout inconsistencies reveal tens of thousands of Kerry
votes were not simply recorded…
5. Many certified turnout results in key regions throughout
the state are simply not plausible, and all work to the
advantage of Bush…
6. Due to computer flaws and vote shifting, there were
numerous reports across Ohio of extremely troublesome
electronic errors during the voting process and in the
counting…
7. In Miami County, two sets of results were submitted to
state officials. The second, which padded Bush's margin,
reported that 18,615 additional votes were counted,
increasing Bush’s total by exactly 16,000 votes…
8. Democratic voters were apparently targeted with
provisional ballots. These ballots require voters to fill out
extensive forms at the poll. Under extraordinary rules
established by Blackwell these ballots were set to be
discarded if even minor errors were committed…
9. Ohio's Election Day exit poll was more credible than the
certified result, according to intense statistical analysis.
In-depth studies by Prof. Ron Baiman of the University of
Illinois at Chicago shows that Ohio's exit polls in Ohio and
elsewhere were virtually certain to be more accurate than the
final vote count as certified by Blackwell…
10. The Ohio recount wasn’t random or comprehensive and
may have involved serious illegalities…
These ten points are among the most serious clouding the
electoral outcome in Ohio, but are only part of a larger
pattern. Their correlation with similar evidence in New
Mexico, Florida and elsewhere gives them added gravitas…"
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