Ohio GOP election officials ducking subpoenas as Kerry enters stolen vote

[Tinoire]

Ohio GOP election officials ducking subpoenas as Kerry enters stolen vote fray

by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
December 28, 2004

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.

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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.

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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.


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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.

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Revised and updated 1:32 pm December 28, 2004

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1046

The original Columbus Free Press grew out of the anti-war movement on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio in October 1970.

[goclark]

1. Amazing bunch of crooks

[Tinoire]

3. I thought the same thing

Disgusting. It's people like this who deserve the death penalty. If this isn't treason in times of war, I don't know what is!

I'm no Kerry fan but hot damn, I really hope that cynical, crusty old me is dead wrong and that he will, as Skittles so charmingly says, KICK THEIR ASS.

[leftchick]

2. I wonder if a Democratic SoS anywhere tried this same stunt and

and would get away with it with nary a wimper from the State Run Media let alone Congress? :eyes:

[Tinoire]

4. A Democratic SoS would already be hanging from the tallest tree

or found dead in his living room from a multiple-shot-to-the-head suicide.

Oh yeah, and a note to the movers on the front door!

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

5. How in the world does this happen?

Aren't we supposed to be a nation of laws, or something?

Hi Tin...

[Tinoire]

7. Or something

is more like it these days...

Hi 4MoreYearsOfHell. I still get a kick out of your name everytime I see it!

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

8. Taken from Pittsburgh's own

Theresa Heinz Kerry - her response to a * supporter's chant of "4 more years"

Actually, it has been stolen by someone else - google it, and you will see 4MoreYearsOfHell posting on ronaldreagan.com...This person has an affinity for the song "Masters of War" as well...

I only use it here...

Anyways, with Kerry's folks waking up, is there a glimmer of hope?

I mean, we (U.S. officials) point to exit polls as a sign of wrongdoing in the Ukraine, and IGNORE IT HERE???

What has happened to this country?

[Tinoire]

9. Theresa Heinz Kerry is a hell of a woman

I put her up there at goddess level. Spunky, bright, attractive, and has a mind of her own that she expresses.

Urgh for ronaldreagan.com. Bad shiver you just sent me!

I hope there's a glimmer of hope!
For your last question, don't ask... Oh please don't ask!

[mycatforpresident]

6. Is Blackwell required to be deposed?

I'm no legal eagle. Do you know if a witness such as this can be compelled to testify?

After the 9/11 Commission's B***/Ch%&$^ "discussion" I wonder how this will work.