Reply #30: Op-Ed: More Trials and Tribulations for Ohio

[dzika]

1/3/2005 4:29:00 PM

Op-Ed: More Trials and Tribulations for Ohio

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To: Opinion Editor

Contact: Christy Hicks of The Century Foundation, 212-452-7723


WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is an opinion editorial by Tova Andrea Wang, senior program officer and Democracy Fellow at The Century Foundation:


More Trials and Tribulations for Ohio
By Tova Andrea Wang


If you thought the advent of 2005 would bring an end to the 2004 vote controversy, think again. Throughout the week, pro- democracy grassroots organizations will be protesting around the country, culminating in a rally at the Capitol on Thursday, the day the votes of the Electoral College are to be counted.

In the meantime, the groups continue the legal battle. Lawyer Cliff Arnebeck, with their support, has filed a motion in an Ohio court challenging the presidential election. The petition argues it is almost statistically impossible for the exit poll data and the actual vote count to have varied so dramatically absent fraud, which the document alleges for the most part was carried out through the manipulation of electronic voting and counting machines.

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The failure to provide a reasonable number of voting machines in Ohio led to lines and wait times to vote that were not just unacceptably high-they were possibly an unconstitutional denial of voting rights. In Ohio, voters had to wait in line for up to ten hours. Thousands of voters were still waiting in line when the polls closed at 7:30 p.m.

How many people decided not to wait?


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