Reply #45: Here is some information for you to try on for size:

[troubleinwinter]

Definition of fraud:

1)A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.
2)A piece of trickery; a trick.


Following is an excerpt from a letter from Representative John Conyers to the FBI, requesting an investigation of evidence found in the Ohio election:

"There are several important considerations you should be aware of with respect to this matter. First, this course of conduct would appear to violate several provisions of federal law, in addition to the constitutional guarantees of equal protection and due process. 42 U.S.C. 1973 provides for criminal penalties against any person who, in any election for federal office, “knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to defraud the residents of a State of a fair and impartially conducted election process, by...the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held.” 42 U.S.C.1974 also requires the retention and preservation, for a period of twenty-two months from the date of a federal election, of all voting records and papers and makes it a felony for any person to “willfully steal, destroy, conceal, mutilate, or alter” any such record. Further, any tampering with ballots and/or election machinery would violate the constitutional rights of all citizens to vote and have their votes properly counted, as guaranteed by the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."

He aslo notes violations of Ohio law.

He does not use the word "fraud", only "defrauds", "defraud" and "fraudulent", along with "felony".

You can find the letter here: http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/brockbealohelecltr121504.pdf