Federal Judge Orders 2004 Ohio Ballots Preserved!

[mod mom]

Federal judge orders 2004 Ohio ballots preserved


U.S. District Court Judge Algenon L. Marbley today issued an order directing all 88 county Boards of Elections in Ohio to keep all ballots and miscellaneous other election material from the 2004 election.
In response to a lawsuit filed Thursday by King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association et. al. v. J. Kenneth Blackwell, and a subsequent petition by citizens and neighborhood groups, Marbley ordered the "preservation of certain evidence."
In his attached one-page decision, Marbley ordered all Boards of Election "to preserve all ballots from the Presidential election, on paper or in any other format, including electronic data, unless and until such time otherwise instructed by the court."
preservation%20order.pdf
Under federal law, county boards can destroy voting records 22 months after the presidential election, or this past weekend. On Friday, Secretary of State Blackwell directed boards to voluntarily save the records, although officials in Hamilton and Clermont counties conceded they already discarded unused ballots from Nov. 2, 2004.
Columbus attorney Clifford Arnebeck and other complainants said an ongoing investigation has found a pattern of tampering, that punch-card ballots in at least six urban counties including Hamilton show a systematic pattern of multiple punches or so-called overvotes that disproportionately favored President Bush over Democratic Sen. John Kerry.

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http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/gov/

:woohoo:

[Botany]

1. Hot Damn

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick::kick: :kick: :kick:

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

[datadiva]

2. And the Beat Goes On!

Drip, Drip, Drip. :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[saltpoint]

3. Excellent news, but elitist that I am, I would have preferred:

"JUDGE ORDERS OHIO 04 BALLOTS TO BE PRESERVED AND BUSH-CHENEY VOTERS DESTROYED."

With the subheading: "BLACKWELL TO BE TORTURED PRIOR TO LIVE BURIAL"

It's a question of priorities.

[MissWaverly]

4. so they punched the ballots in advance

surely that can be proven, if you look at 500 ballots, and they are all punched with the same
number of multiple holes in the same location, (my guess is that is the only way they could
do it), what would be the odds of that happening by chance?

[mod mom]

5. Free Press uncovers Evidence of Ballot Tampering in Warren Co

there is more evidence not yet released!


Free Press uncovers evidence of ballot tampering in Warren County, Ohio
April 19, 2006

After locking out all media observers and declaring a Level 10 Homeland Security Alert, the Republican-dominated Warren County, Ohio reported the vote tally in the wee hours of the morning on November 3, 2004 -- and gave George W. Bush a surprising 14,000 vote boost. Two election workers told the Free Press that the ballots had been diverted to an unauthorized warehouse where they had been possibly stuffed. That is, punched for Bush only. Maps were supplied to the Free Press showing the locations of the warehouse and the Board of Elections.

Warren County officials refused to allow the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism to handle the ballots, but they did allow us to photograph a few. Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., has analyzed the ballots for the Free Press and concluded that there is evidence of fraud in Warren County. The ballots as photographed with Dr. Phillips' commentary below each ballot are included here for the first time.

The Free Press predicted early on that the ballots would be found punched only for Bush in Warren County. The Moss v. Bush lawsuit pointed to Warren, Butler and Clermont Counties as the three counties that provided more than Bush's entire margin in the Buckeye State: Bush won Ohio by 118,000, and 132,000 votes were supplied in these three southwestern Republican counties.

Now, for the first time, the Free Press is releasing images of the obvious election fraud in Warren County. The Free Press will continue its ongoing investigation in Ohio despite stonewalling by Republican state officials. See the images by clicking on the link below.

<View ballots + read commentary at the link>

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2006/1355

[MissWaverly]

8. What can we do people, this is not the USA my parents left me

on another thread, someone has posted that the Senate Intelligence Committee is releasing
a report on Friday that will prove conclusively that the Bush Administration deliberately
made statements w/o the factual basis to back them up in the run up to the Iraq War.
They sat on that for 2 years. How was this doing the job they were sworn to do. Now
we find out that the election in Ohio was truly rigged BUT we can't do anything about
it because the League of Women Voters had to sign a statement not to contest the 2004 election
or the State of Ohio would never have allowed them to view the ballots.

Where do we go from here.

[mod mom]

12. The ballots ARE getting audited, Miss Waverly. As far as not

the USA your parents left you-I think we were just more in the dark about what was going on. BFEE didn't start w Idiot Son.

[MissWaverly]

17. No, I agree but it has never been this bad

we have to stand up and fight for the country we used to have, never give up and never give in.

[democrat_patriot]

6. Dream World: Dems take House and Senate - Propose Bill to recount

Not that it would matter, just would like the vindication that Kerry won. Rollback all *'s policies.

[WhiteTara]

7. Oh more good news!

:bounce::bounce: I'm so happy.
Another judge for the constitution and democracy! That's 2 in one day! The other is the judge who refused to throw out the wire tap lawsuit.
Yeah!!

[New Earth]

9. best news all day

after going through all those articles on issues leading to voter suppression....

[Recursion]

10. w00t!!!

Damn, the hits just keep on coming today...

[bleever]

11. Yeah baby!

Don't miss the link to the actual ballots. Each one is evidence of someone deprived of their lawful vote, an illegal vote cast, or even an entire precinct's results nullified.

[demodonkey]

13. GOOD NEWS! And......

.......And I'm glad to see so many 'old timers' on this thread!

Our buddy Andy would be happy about this for sure, guys.

Cliff Arnebeck rocks, as usual.

:woohoo:

[emlev]

14. This is great! Thanks to all working in Ohio! And who are the

King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association?

[mod mom]

15. Near East predominately low income Af Am neighborhood assoc

who experienced disenfranchisement at the hands of blackwell. (machine allocation/long line issues, challengers, purges)

[emlev]

16. Cool. Thanks. EOM