Message of HOPE from Another Board .....

[JoMama49]

Thanks: this reporting below is really good, because, without numbing the mind, it recounts many of the bogus results from around Ohio in a very well-ordered fashion. Thanks a lot.

Also, thanks for the thing you sent me several weeks ago from "Mad Cow" on Charles Kane, CIA operative who messed up Martin County FL. in 2000 and was also in Ukraine. AND Tallahassee, 2004, --implicated in the strange events surrounding the State of Florida's central tabulation center there. I forwarded that to some of the more well-connected people I know, and an important organization sent me and someone else I know separate emails thanking us for forwarding it and that they had sent it to Conyers.

There is just so much that keeps coming out, and, like you posted yesterday, Media is showing its true colors, rather --STONE COLD FACTS are FORCING Mass Media to show its true colors-- by their refusal to release their data from Election Night. SO: OUR Election data belongs to Media, and not the American people?? Go figure. (But such cover-ups, once exposed, always work to our advantage. That's where we succeed, in keeping the pressure on them: it forces them into more disclosure and revealing the treasonous "hand" they hold.)

We could have predicted that, as Bill Headline (former head of VoterNewsService) at CNN, and his smarmy cohort, Tom Hannon, have consistently blocked every occasion to release the real data about our elections, among a cast of thousands of Media muckeemucks, thus pointing the finger ever more at our Media as being a major culprit, if not the primary culprit in the corporate fascism rocking us to ruin.

We think that more and more we need to reinforce that message, a true one, that Newz in this country the last quarter of a century, the important News about our governments, has been nothing more or less than a CIA Disinformation campaign. Once people outside our groups become really clear on that concept, we will be well on the way to liberating the country itself.

Relieving the strangle grip of Media on our throats is what we always have considered to be Job One. Disclosure elsewhere will work at forcing them back into the fold (of Civilization).

Or, as George Clinton said so memorably: "Free your Mind and your Ass is sure to follow............................" --je


a coalition is planning a 'Pro Democracy Count Every
Vote Rally,' on Monday, January 3, 2005.

The rally will be held at the Capitol Theater, 77 S.
High Street, across from Ohio State Capitol at 2:00 PM.
Coalition sponsors include Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie
Tubbs-Jones, MoveOn.org, Progressive Democrats of
America, the anti-war coalition United for Peace and
Justice, Ohio State Senator Joyce Beatty, CASE Ohio and
others. Press release at <http://www.rainbowpush.org>.
-- moderator]

Ohio GOP Election Officials Ducking Subpoenas
as Kerry Enters Stolen Vote Fray

by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
<http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1046>

COLUMBUS -- Ohio Republican Secretary of State J.
Kenneth Blackwell refused to appear at a deposition on
Monday, December 27. The deposition was part of an
election challenge lawsuit filed at the Ohio Supreme
Court. Meanwhile John Kerry is reported to have filed a
federal legal action aimed at preserving crucial recount
evidence, which has been under GOP assault throughout
the state.

Richard Conglianese, Ohio Assistant Attorney General, is
seeking a court order to protect Blackwell from
testifying under oath about how the election was run.
Blackwell, who administered Ohio's November 2 balloting,
served as co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign.

James R. Dicks, Miami County Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney, filed a motion to block a subpoena in his
county while Conglianese filed to block subpoenas in ten
key Ohio counties.

President George Bush, Vice-President Richard Cheney and
White House Political Advisor Karl Rove received notice
that they will be deposed Tuesday and Wednesday,
December 28 and 29. The trio's Ohio attorney, Kurt
Tunnell, so far claims his clients have not been
properly served. Under Ohio law, the Republican-
dominated Ohio Supreme Court is responsible for serving
the three with subpoenas.

Meanwhile, the Election Protection legal team has
collected new statements under oath describing more
voting and vote-counting problems on November 2.

Voters in Trumbull County have testified that on
Election Day they received punch-card ballots where
holes were already punched for Bush. Meanwhile, a
notarized affidavit signed by Angela Greene, who voted
at Whitehall Yearling High School in central Ohio's
Franklin County, stated that one of the malfunctioning
electronic voting machines at her polling place was
delivered without a cartridge – meaning votes cast might
have gone uncounted.

In Miami County, Blackwell certified a 98.6% turnout in
the Concord Southwest precinct, comprised of 520 votes
for Bush and 157 for Kerry. This statistically
improbable turnout has all but 10 of the 689 registered
voters casting their ballots on Election Day. A
preliminary canvas by The Free Press of less than half
the precinct found 25 registered voters admitting they
had not voted, meaning the official tally was almost
certainly fraudulent.

The nearby Concord South precinct certified a 94.27%
voter turnout, with 468 alleged votes for Bush versus
182 for Kerry. Miami County is included in the election
challenge since it somehow reported nearly 19,000
additional votes after 100% of the precincts had
reported on Election Day.

In Madison County, where public records requests were
filed to obtain voting records, the voting results
provided by the Madison County Board of Elections came
directly from a private company, Triad Governmental
Systems, Inc. An email dated November 29, 2004 from
Brandon Sandlin of Triad reads as follows: 'Hello to all
in Madison County! Attached you will find the cumulative
report (oh49unov.pdf) with over and under votes reported
as well as the official abstract (oh49abs.pdf). These
reports may be printed for your records and then mailed
to the state along with your other certification
reports.' Coming from a private corporation, Triad's
letter underscores the barriers to making a reliable
independent public assessment and recount of Ohio's
presidential tally.

In Mahoning County, the Washington Post reported new
affidavits documenting electronic "vote hopping" from
Kerry to Bush. This means voting machines highlighted
the choice for Bush before the voter recorded a choice
of his or her own. The legal team has been told by a
computer expert that this may mean the machines were
pre-set on a Bush vote as a default. The Free Press has
obtained dozens such sworn statements of vote hopping.

The legal team is also exploring new evidence that in
Coshocton, Ohio, write-in votes wrongly defaulted to
Bush when run through the voting machine.

On December 23, U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr. of
the House Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to Triad
President Brett A. Rapp inquiring whether or not Triad
possessed remote access capabilities for any of the 41
counties where its election tabulation software or
computers are in use.

Attorneys for the election challenge team are also
exploring ties between Triad and the Tennessee-based
company Datamaxx. Ohio public safety and police agencies
use the Datamaxx DMPP2020 software for its LEADS
computer systems. Datamaxx makes numerous remote access
products that law enforcement can access with mobile and
handheld computers.

The Free Press has also obtained a list of all voting
machines assigned in Franklin County, including serial
numbers. The list contains at least 42 machines
originally assigned to predominantly African-American
and inner city wards that voted 80% for Kerry, and where
voters waited in line for three hours and more on
Election Day. These 42 machines were blacked out on the
list, raising the question of whether these were among
the 68 machines the Franklin County Board of Elections
has admitted holding back in the warehouse despite
obvious shortages at certain polling places. Affidavits
from poll workers confirm that numerous requests for
more machines were made through election day, but that
few if any were delivered.

Franklin County Board of Elections Chair Bill Anthony
claims that low-level poll workers refused to accept the
machines assigned by high-ranking election officials.
But he has yet to provide specific details. Anthony has
repeatedly claimed that he was a watchdog for Democratic
interests in the election, but he was a political
appointee of the Republican Secretary of State.

Under Ohio election law, the members, directors and
deputy directors of all boards of elections are assigned
by the Secretary of State. They hold these paying jobs
at his discretion regardless of whether they are
Democrat or Republican. A major argument of those who
claim Ohio's 2004 presidential election was fraud-free
centers on the myth that local precincts are run as
bipartisan operations, deflecting charges of partisan
interference while failing to account for the fact that
the principles all owe their jobs to the Secretary of
State, who in this case served as co-chair of the
state's Bush-Cheney campaign.

These problems add to the established pattern of
problems that favored Bush at Kerry's expense.

Despite the legal stonewalling, lawyers directing the
election challenge case are still pursuing evidence-
gathering efforts. Three expert witnesses are scheduled
to be deposed on Thursday and Friday, including
specialists in statistics and vote counting
irregularities.

The challengers are seeking a January 4th hearing before
the Ohio Supreme Court. Members of Congress meet in
Washington on January 6 to evaluate the Electoral
College vote. Led by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), it is
virtually certain numerous members of the Congressional
Black Caucus will challenge that vote. But the assent of
a Senator is required for the challenge to go forward,
and thus far none has definitively confirmed.

Despite ducking depositions, Blackwell is escalating his
public appearances in hopes of becoming Ohio's next
governor. On January 12, 2005, Blackwell is scheduled to
speak at the exclusive Scioto Country Club on the topic
of 'Ethics in Leadership.' Blackwell became nationally
known after disenfranchising voters who had not
registered on 80-pound bond paper stock under an archaic
Ohio law. He reversed longstanding Ohio tradition that
allowed voters to cast provisional votes by county by
ruling that none of these votes would be counted unless
the voter was in the right precinct. He also was
recently censured for running a 'get out the vote'
campaign for Issue One, a Constitutional amendment
banning gay marriage and spousal benefits.

Meanwhile, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) was reported to be
filing a brief in federal court in relation to the
activities of Triad and events in Hocking County, where
serious questions have arisen as to the integrity of the
recount. Kerry previously circulated a letter to all 88
counties requesting information on how the vote was
conducted. The Kerry campaign raised millions of dollars
from grassroots supporters with the promise that "all
votes would be counted." But the Democrats are not known
to have helped fund the legal work of the Green and
Libertarian Parties and their grassroots Election
Protection supporters, who have raised the money for the
shoestring campaign that has kept the legal challenges
alive thus far.

An Election Protection rally in downtown Columbus has
been set by Rev. Jesse Jackson for 2pm Monday, January
3. It will be followed by a national gathering in
Washington January 6, to take place as Congress
evaluates the Electoral College and the Ohio votes,
which have allegedly given George W. Bush another term
in the White House.

Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman are
co-authors of the upcoming OHIO'S STOLEN ELECTION:
VOICES OF THE DISENFRANCHISED, 2004, a book and film
project from http://freepress.org. Support is welcome
via http://freepress.org/store.php#don_pub or by sending
a check to The 'Columbus Institute for Contemporary
Journalism', 1240 Bryden Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43205.

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[Al-CIAda]

1. Election Official Thwarts Recount Using Phony Vote Totals

re above: "Also, thanks for the thing you sent me several weeks ago from "Mad Cow" ....
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Election Official Thwarts Recount Using Phony Vote Totals

   In the Middle Ages it was “God’s Will.” Today it's "a computer glitch.”
Even as testimony indicated a Florida computer firm was asked to create a program to 'hack the vote' at the request of a top Florida Republican, a “mistake” in the office of the seriously-compromised Supervisor of Election in Pinellas County spiked hopes for a recount. A recount that would have thrown a spotlight on dark corners of the election process in the Sunshine State...which critics say hide widespread and even systemic vote fraud.

http://www.madcowprod.com/
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"THE BIG FIX 2004"
How to Fix a Presidential Election
An investigation into the surprisingly-sordid history of America’s “election services industry” has revealed that executives and owners of the two largest companies, E S & S and Sequoia Pacific, have been convicted of bribery and suborning public officials in more than a dozen states.

http://www.madcowprod.com/mc6912004.html

[kitkat65]

2. Read the madcow link. If this is true - holy fucking shit!

From article:

Gov. Jeb Bush appointed Deborah Clark election supervisor in Pinellas County, Florida, in May of 2000.

Trouble began almost immediately. Some of it was even funny…

For example, in the Aug. 31 2002 primary, the population of an entire small town— 12,498 voters— appeared at the polls in Hillsborough County and apparently decided not to vote in the race for state attorney.

The town cast votes in all the other contests, but not in the race for state attorney. Had there been a town-wide secret pact?

To this day no one is sure why those voters didn't vote, or if they did, what might have happened to their votes. They are “ghost votes,” floating in the ether. The local papers labeled it  “A Voting Mystery.”

More seriously, while Deborah Clark had worked as a top official in the Pinellas Supervisor of Elections Office, her husband Richard Clark’s employer Elections Systems & Software, was awarded more than $400,000 in business with the office, and was up for a lucrative contract worth as much as $15-million to sell new voting machines to Pinellas County.

Clark, who hadn’t disclosed the connection, hotly denied a conflict of interest. “Neither my husband nor I would ever do anything that would compromise the integrity of the elections office, or our own personal integrity," she said.

Clark's failure to disclose that her husband was working for a voting machine company bidding for Pinellas' business, coupled with the last-minute revelation that the executive who would have managed Pinellas' elections for Sequoia Voting Systems, the company the county chose, was under indictment in Louisiana, left a bit of a sour taste.

Elections in Pinellas County have been occasions for holding your breath for several election cycles.

[Al-CIAda]

3. Daniel Hopsicker (Mar Cow Morning News)

has some facinating investigative work on 9-11 as well.