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Viewpoint: Ohio vote counts reek of corruption

By Joe Baker, Senior Editor Print this page

If you still doubt there was any vote rigging in the 2004 presidential election, all you need do is take a hard look at the revelations coming out of Ohio.

A large amount of excellent work has been done on this story by reporters Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman.

They say Ohioans are both angry and amused at the latest disclosure that Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell owns stock in the Diebold company, makers of the voting machines used in Ohio in the 2004 election, which Blackwell oversaw.

Worse than that, Blackwell tried to award no-bid contracts to Diebold that were worth millions of dollars. He also turned a blind eye to any manipulations by Diebold to steer the election to George W. Bush. Diebold’s CEO, Wally O’Dell, had pledged to deliver the state to Bush in that year.

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