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- Olbermann notes the media seems to be noticing something news worthy might be happening: Conyers and cautions
NEW YORK? At least this should put a spike through the still-rampant rumor that the mainstream media is ?locked down? and not reporting anything of the investigation into the apparent Ohio voting irregularities.
It is not a banner headline; in fact, it is but nine paragraphs. But those nine paragraphs are in this morning?s editions of The New York Times.
Congressman John Conyers of Michigan, the newspaper reports, will today ask the FBI and a county prosecutor in Ohio to investigate what he has termed ?inappropriate and likely illegal election tampering? in one or more counties in that state.
And beginning on the front page of this morning?s Washington Post, there cascades down upon the reader no less than 41 paragraphs, told soberly and without much evident partisanship, reciting the litany of Ohio screw-ups that led that newspaper to invoke the headline ?Several Factors Contributed to ?Lost? Voters in Ohio.?
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Throw the Senior Democrat on Judiciary, and Jesse Jackson, and the letters ?FBI? into the mix? and presto, you get mainstream media attention.
Incidentally, Conyers has also again exchanged letters with Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell and would appear to have once more gotten the public relations edge on him. After Conyers? ?36 Questions? letter of December 2, he said yesterday that he had received a reply from Blackwell in which the Secretary refused to answer any of the questions, and (according to Conyers), made the rather baroque claim that he couldn?t be cooperative with the GAO and members of Congress at the same time.
As Newsweek?s Howard Fineman noted on Countdown Monday night, Secretary Blackwell sure isn?t doing a good job of convincing people that the puffs of smoke rising from the election he supervised came only from overheating voting machines.- This Daily Kos diary titled: Houston, We Have a Whistleblower, has this nice little nugget:
(Excerpt:) "Ohio Revised Code Title XXXV Elections, Sec. 3503.26 that requires all election records to be made available for public inspection and copying. ORC Sec. 3599.161 makes it a crime for any employee of the Board of Elections to knowingly prevent or prohibit any person from inspecting the public records filed in the office of the Board of Elections. Lastly, ORC Sec. 3599.42 states: "A violation of any provision of Title XXXV (35) of the Revised Code constitutes a prima facie case of election fraud within the purview of such Title."- Why Ohio Matters (another Daily Kos diary) has amazing pictures that America is far from being color blind. In fact in Ohio it seems the more color in your skin the less likely you are to have your vote count. It is willful neglect, and it is a tragedy, and it is a crime.
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