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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 05:36 PM
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More absentee votes than absentee voters in ohio...from Buzzflash.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AND INVESTIGATION:
More Votes than Voters in Ohio:
Absentee Vote Inflated, Certified Vote in Doubt

A careful review of the absentee vote in one Ohio county revealed that many more absentee votes were cast than there were absentee voters identified.

All absentee voters must be identified as such by name and residence in the precinct poll books of the precinct in which they are registered. Over 100 precinct poll books in Trumbull County were checked for absentee voters and that number of actual absentee voters was compared to the certified number of absentee votes. There was an inflated difference in nearly every precinct of the five communities examined. The five communities whose poll books were carefully inspected for an absentee vote overcount are: Warren City (311), Howland TownshipThe 106 precincts of these five Ohio communities, about 39% of all precincts in Trumbull County, netted a total of 580 absentee votes for which there were no absentee voters identified in the poll books.

“When there are more votes than voters, there is a big problem” stated Dr. Werner Lange, author of this study which would have been completed weeks earlier if Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, co-chair of the Ohio Bush-Cheney campaign, had not unlawfully ordered all 88 boards of elections to prevent public inspection of poll books until after certification of the vote.

The absentee vote inflation rate for these five communities averages 5.5 fradulent voters per precinct. If this pattern of inflated absentee votes holds for all of Ohio’s 11,366 precincts, then there were some 62,513 absentee votes in Ohio up for grabs in the last election. Who grabbed them and how they did so should be the subject of an immediate congressional investigation.

More here: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00154.htm
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Razorback_Democrat Donating Member (756 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 05:39 PM
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1. Love this quote:
“When there are more votes than voters, there is a big problem” stated Dr. Werner Lange, author of this study which would have been completed weeks earlier if Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, co-chair of the Ohio Bush-Cheney campaign, had not unlawfully ordered all 88 boards of elections to prevent public inspection of poll books until after certification of the vote.


Blackwell should be in jail.

Crooked fucking bastard
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 05:43 PM
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3. it certainly is a big problem...and you're right, Katherine Blackwell
should be behind bars along with the rest of the BFEE
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intelle Donating Member (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 05:39 PM
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2. The conclusion:
"If this pattern of overcounting absentee votes is a statewide one, then tens of thousands of phoney absentee votes were up for grabs in Ohio. Who grabbed them and how they got them should be a subject of an immediate congressional investigation."

I couldn't agree more.

Thank you, goodboy, for posting this.


:headbang:
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 05:44 PM
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4. you're welcome intel. Glad to do it.
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UL_Approved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 05:44 PM
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5. Kick
This is another piece of the puzzle. I REALLY like the article posting election statistics to back up the claim. Nominating for front page.
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intelle Donating Member (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 05:48 PM
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6. If you hadn't nominated this, UL_Approved
I would have. Glad you did it!
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Pithy Cherub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 05:53 PM
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7. The Beauty of the Truth!
Especially fond of the way it lays out the trail for an immediate congressional investigation. Will be taking names on who does and does not show up for something so fundamentally American and Important!
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sepia_steel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 05:56 PM
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8. Only DU's
could possibly understand the level of anger I feel toward Mr.Block-not-so-well.

He belongs in JAIL, TODAY. I sent him an email a few weeks ago that he was "guilty, guilty guilty of treason" and that "I look forward to your indictment."
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 06:12 PM
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9. HAHAHAHAHAHHAA....(nt)
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 06:21 PM
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10. How can an election be certified if there are more votes than
Edited on Sun Dec-12-04 06:21 PM by MasonJar
voters? I am sure every one of the extras were by Bushies. If so, that alone would put Kerry within striking range. Some of these scum have to go to jail; otherwise our democracy is over.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 06:39 PM
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11. almost all of the "glitches and malfunctions" benefited bush...
what can we do to put these bastards behind bars.
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FormerOstrich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 10:27 PM
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12. Wow...what percent of the
..absentee ballots are normally returned? Becuase not only is it all votes over 100% it is probably even higher.

Now let's see what sort of explanation they give....sort of like the explanation they gave at one time about absentees being divided and distributed and added up by ward or county or something confusing like that.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 11:06 AM
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13. kick for the morning crowd.
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