Cuyahoga's witch hunt (OH / Free Press)

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by Victoria Lovegren, Ph.D.
October 13, 2008

On Tuesday, Oct 7th, I attended a Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (CCBOE) meeting. I wanted to make sure absentee-vote totals were going to be separated from election-day vote totals. What I observed was a witch hunt ...

The hostile board members .. demanded ACORN eliminate duplicate voter-registration cards and turn over suspect employees to the county prosecutor, without benefit of the board's resources. Mr. Frost even suggested ACORN's attorney was "in contempt." It was extremely unsettling, given the "questionable things" CCBOE did, or important things they did NOT do over the past four years.

Voter-registration/DIMS problems are documented in a slew of reports, by a number of people, including myself. Researchers found "an error rate of 6.2%, 5.1% of which was due to apparent BOE clerical errors, and 1.1% to apparent voter error" and projected "19,000 voter registrations ... at low to high or absolute risk of disqualification, mostly due to BOE entry errors." <pdf> I recall DIMS permitted entry of bad addresses, e.g. misspelled street name, yet later, kicked out the voter as "fatal pending", thus unable to vote." ...

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2008/3241

[thunder rising]

1. ahhh Cuyahoga, where would the world be without you. Are there replacement candidates running? is

this situation going to be corrected?

When does it become apparent that the county is corrupt and state or fed level agents take over?