RECAP OF IMPORTANT NEWS TODAY - 2004 ELECTION -12/15/2004

[mary195149]

Can we recap every evening of the few most important news for the day? It is getting so hard to keep track of everything and would be nice to have somewhere to refer back to.

1. I think Fairfield County in Ohio suspending votes is one of the top news.

At 4 pm today, after failing to get a match of hand counted ballots with punch card tabulator (ESS), two hand counts and two times through machine, after stating they were awaiting a call back from that company to have a new machine delivered, less than 30 seconds later convened a board meeting, voted to suspend recount, to await a new machine from ESS, and recount will be re-done Saturday, same exact precincts, the building is now closed, you are to exit the facility. BOE blaming issues on "machine failure" in order to avoid the now required entire county hand count. Precints were not random, they were selected by BOE, one from the Dem and one from the Repup.

[merwin]

1. This section is for news items only... election recaps would

go in the political section i believe.

[Pirate Smile]

2. How "off" were the numbers? Is that "top secret"? Good Lord.

[kuozzman]

3. Here most of today's articles....

Warren County: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041215/NEWS01/412150393/1056

Lawmaker Seeks Inquiry:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/politics/15ohio.html?oref=login

More Uncounted Ballots In Washington:
http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=2694227

Washington Post On Ohio:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64737-2004Dec14.html
http://www.bugmenot.com/

Green Accuses Voting Machine Company:
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4790

Recount Causes Reversal Of San Diego Mayoral Decision
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sdmayor15dec15,0,7127322.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Vermonters urge Jeffords to challenge Electoral College results
http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/0904/votefraud.shtml

Dems Gain In Hidden Election
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=710&ncid=703&e=5&u=/usatoday/20041215/pl_usatoday/demsgaininhiddenelection

Proof of Ohio Election Fraud Exposed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121604Z.shtml

Ohio: Dead Batteries and Hanging Chads
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/news/1215_recount.html

He Wanted Every Vote To Matter; Athan Gibbs, Sr. Dies In Crash (Old)
http://www.tennessean.com/obits/archives/04/03/48330576.shtml

San Diego Recount
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sdmayor15dec15,0,7127322.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Blackwell Continues To Spit At Democracy, Treats Congress With Insolence
http://www.opednews.com/wade_121504_spit.htm

Eighty-Sixing Civil Rights?
http://www.counterpunch.org/moses12152004.html

Ohio Recount: Ballot After Ballot Examined In Hushed Room As Campaigns Watch
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/12/15/national1552EST0624.DTL

Ohio Recount Resembles Florida In 2000
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/special_packages/election2004/10424223.htm

Daily Kos: Folks Don't Get It
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/15/9734/4841

Congressman calls for FBI investigation into Ohio election
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/10424719.htm

[kuozzman]

4. Tactical Resources In American Democracy

Triad GSI/Triads
http://ignorantusa.tripod.com/triad/

[Moderator]

5. Locking

This is not LBN. Please feel free to repost in the voting issues forum. Thank you.