so much news today - your help needed

[garybeck]

I just updated the solarbus website, with many new links to info about the Ohio hearings including

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Witness saw vote rigging, changing of vote counts, in Ohio

Listen to the audio of this testimony


House Judiciary Ohio Forum Hears of Recount Fraud Plans

Clint Curtis testifies that he was paid by a U.S. Congressman to create vote rigging software

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Still looking for:

transcripts
list of who testified
any other key points I've missed on the hearings
press release or info about Arnebecks lawsuit being filed

See the Lead Story section of what I have so far.

http://election.solarbus.org


any help is appreciated.

thanks
gary

[rockedthevoteinMA]

1. Wow great job Gary!!

Sorry I don't have anything to add - but I thought I'd give this a kick for ya! :hi:

[KerryOn]

2. Heres a letter from Congress

to Ohio Governor Bob Taft and the House that I picked up at the hearing this morning:

http://my.core.com/~dlrslr/ElectionResults2004/LetterFromCongress.pdf

[garybeck]

5. awesome, i just added it.

thanks for the link.

[rockedthevoteinMA]

3. Here's a link on the lawsuit courtesy of Stephanie:

Stephanie (1000+ posts) Mon Dec-13-04 11:34 AM
Original message
Arnebeck's Suit Filed - LINK!




http://www.nbc4i.com/politics/3992559/detail.html

Challenge Filed Hours Before Electoral College Ohio Vote
Court Could Decide To Hear Challenge

POSTED: 11:05 am EST December 13, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Challengers of the state's presidential election results asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Monday to review the outcome hours before the Ohio delegation to the Electoral College was to cast ballots for president and vice president.

If the court decides to hear the challenge, it can declare a new winner or throw out the results. The challengers said they also plan to ask the court to stop the Electoral College delegation's vote until their case can be decided.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cliff Arnebeck, a Columbus lawyer working for the Massachusetts-based Alliance for Democracy, accused President Bush's campaign of "high-tech vote stealing."

Jackson said the challengers noticed Bush generally received more votes in counties that use optical-scan voting machines and questioned whether the machines were calibrated to record votes for Bush. <more at link>

[garybeck]

6. thanks but

that one is too MSM for me. calls us "dissidents" and quotes the governor as saying the election is over.

it's not over
and we're not dissidents

[rockedthevoteinMA]

4. Alliance for Democracy has some good stuff posted on

their website
http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/html/eng/2222-AA.shtml

And the prima face evidence (sp?) is courtesy of William Pitt. I believe he has it posted at truthout.org, but here's a snip and the DU thread:

Quinn and Roberson asked specifically for the legal authority authorizing Mr. Blackwell to “lock down” public records. Garman stated that it was the Secretary of State’s decision. Ohio statute requires the Directors of Boards of Election to comply with public requests for inspection and copying of public election records. As the volunteer team continued recording information from the precinct records in question, Garman entered the room and stated she was withdrawing permission to inspect or copy any voting records at the Board of Elections. Garman then physically removed the precinct book from Ms. Roberson’s hands. They later requested the records again from Garman’s office, which was again denied.

Ohio Revised Code Title XXXV Elections, Sec. 3503.26 that requires all election records 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. Finally, ORC Sec. 3599.42 clearly 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.” (a href=”http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/blackwe... ”> Source attribution)</a>

By late Saturday night, however, this story had taken even a wackier turn. The records taken from Quinn and Roberson's hands on Friday stood in an unlocked Board of Elections office Saturday morning, apparently overnight. Several observers arrived Saturday morning, noticing cars in the parking lot, and looked for officials in the office, but found nobody in the unlocked building. Law enforcement and media contacts had been alerted and were at the site before County officials arrived. Deputy Director of Elections Lynn McCoy arrived later and stated that all election records were still "locked down" and remained unavailable to the public…after having spent the night unsecured in an unlocked building on the eve of a recount. <a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/12/1633/6877 ”> Source attribution)</a>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=145282

[garybeck]

8. thanks, it's posted n/t

[understandinglife]

7. BradBlogToo

Has some good resources:

http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/

And, you may want to check these:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/13/18416/541
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/13/223158/61
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/13/16140/513
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/13/161354/98

Peace.

"When Did Bush Know?"