In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
The election isn't over until the smirking chimp cries
Update
- Ohio News Now: Kerry lawyer asks for visual inspection of some Ohio ballots
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Democrat John Kerry is asking county elections officials to allow his witnesses to visually inspect the 92,000 ballots cast in Ohio in which no vote for president was recorded, a Kerry lawyer said Sunday night.Yeah, who needs to know if they cheated, it still won't matter, if they find out he did cheat congress will give him the Presidency anyway. So who cares? Like live in the illusion already. Leader: George W. Bush
The request is one of 11 items that Kerry is asking for as part of the recount that Ohio's 88 county boards of election will begin this week, according to a letter sent to the boards over the weekend.
"We're trying to increase the transparency of the election process," said Donald McTigue, the lawyer handling the recount for the Kerry campaign.
Two minor presidential candidates who received 0.30 percent of the votes in last month's election requested the recount, claiming that the election was full of irregularities that need to be addressed.
President Bush, a Republican, beat the Massachusetts senator by about 119,000 votes in Ohio on Election Day. Ohio's 20 electoral votes, which will be cast on Monday, put Bush over the top in the race.
Kerry's campaign supports the recount but says it won't change the election outcome. Bush's campaign has criticized the recount effort, saying it won't change anything.
- Odd vote results point to mix-ups at some precincts
The election results tabulated from the two precincts at Benedictine High School seemed off-kilter from the start.Sure, I mean since it was God that told Bush to invade Iraq - everything is possible in the 21st Century.
Had more than a third of the 1,000-plus voters at the East Side school really embraced the ideals of Michael Peroutka, the candidate of the Constitution Party, and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik?Could 215 people have voted for Peroutka in a precinct that delivered 299 votes for John Kerry?
Did Badnarik win 164 votes to Kerry's 334 in the precinct that was in the same room?
At more than a dozen Cuyahoga County precincts - primarily on Cleveland's East Side - spikes in votes for the little-known third-party contenders shot up a flare that something went awry on Election Day.- Please Read: Greg Palast on voter fraud in Ohio
I came here tonight to warn you that there are cooks and cranks and crazies out there on the internet who think that John Kerry won. Now, I know because one of those articles on the internet called "John Kerry Won," on Tompaine.com ... I wrote it.
Maybe you can explain this to me. See, I got the CNN exit polls, and it said that in Ohio, Kerry defeated Bush among women 53 to 47%, and among men, Kerry defeated Bush by 51 to 49%. So, who's the third sex that put our president over the top? I thought I'd investigate, which is unusual. See, I'm a reporter. My reports appear on BBC Television. I'm a mainstream guy, as they say. And for the big newspaper of Britain, the Guardian/Observer.
I used to write George Orwell's old column there, and he'd enjoy this. And so I wrote a story called, "Kerry Won: Here's the Facts." And I got a letter, an e-mail, from the New York Times. Here it is. They wanted to follow - they wanted to investigate! Cool! And they asked me, question 1: "Are you a conspiracy nut?" Question 2: "Are you a sore loser?" Question 3: there is no question three...that was the end of the interview.
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93,000 votes were tossed on the floor, never counted. We're not talking 're-count' here, we're talking NEVER count. These 93,000 votes are called, "spoiled" in Ohio. Another 155,000 votes are called provisional. More absentee ballots were tossed. Yet, supposedly George Bush won by 119,000. Folks, now what's going on here? Whose votes were not counted that were twice the Bush margin of victory?
Were the votes 'spoiled' randomly? Well, not exactly. Overwhelmingly the votes not counted -- NOT COUNTED --were cast in African American precincts. These are very Black votes. I use the term "overwhelmingly," those votes cast into the machines but not counted for technical reasons. When I say "overwhelmingly Black votes," that is not my phrase. That's from Dr. Mark Salling of Cleveland State University who's been investigating this for the ACLU. The statisticians and demographers say it's overwhelmingly Black votes which are not counted.
The technical term is "spoiled" votes. Okay, now, how do votes spoil? Do you leave them out of the fridge? What do you do? These are undervotes, overvotes - they use those technical terms, and in Ohio it's hanging chads. We're back to that. Dimpled chads, pregnant chads. Because Ohio is the last state in America to use the old punch card system for 75% of the vote.
You've heard a lot about the dangers of 'blackbox' computer voting. I want to talk to you about good old-fashioned punch card voting. 93,000 votes tossed in the garbage out of Black precincts. How? Just as Black neighborhoods get the bad schools, they get the bad hospitals, they also get the bum voting machines? And so their votes go in the garbage.
And they know it, the powers that be. You're thinking, it should be against the law. And, in fact, it is. The ACLU sued the State of Ohio for having a racist ballot counting system. They sued five states -- BEFORE the election. And before the election, four states said, "Well, gee, we're kind of embarrassed. Yeah, we're losing thousands of Black votes." And they all agreed to fix the machines before the election, all but one state: Ohio. The Secretary of State of Ohio said, "Yes, I know that the machines we use in Ohio eliminate tens of thousands of Black votes on bad machines." We'll fix them, he said, after the inauguration.
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If you analyze the caging lists you see something interesting. They were predominantly names of voters in African American precincts. This list was put together and handed to the chairman of the Republican National Campaigns, of the state campaigns, and the Republican National Committee. What are they doing with these names of the Black folk? We asked the Republican National Committee chiefs and State Committee chiefs on BBC Television: what are you doing with these lists of Black voters? We didn't tell them they were Black voters. We just showed them the list of voters.
"Oh, those are the lists of our donors." "Oh", I said. Leni von Eckardt is one of our researchers, she went through the list, and golly gee, several of those addresses were homeless shelters. "So you get a lot of money for the Bush-Cheney campaign from the homeless shelters?" I asked. Then they said, "Oh, no, no. We've checked again. We just wanted to check to see if people had changed their address."
Every expert told us there was just one reason. Because they had a plan, a secret plan, to challenge hundreds of thousands of voters nationwide. That's what those lists were. They were target lists, challenge lists. Now, people that they were going to challenge, just because their address changed, that doesn't remove your vote. I mean, Leni went through and found out there were several of them whose address had changed from Black districts because they had gone to Baghdad.
These were Black soldiers who had been shipped out. The republicans planned en masse to remover them from the voter -- to prohibit their votes from being counted. So you had hundreds of thousands of votes thrown in the garbage by this plan. Now is that against the law? It's not against the law to go to Baghdad at the commander-in-chief's command. You don't lose your vote. But you know what is against the law? Profiling Black voters for challenge.
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