WV Opinion!: Voting machines, bills will take away our voting rights

[Wilms]

Huntington, WV

OPINION | Friday, January, 6, 2006

Robert Fisher: Voting machines, bills will take away our voting rights

Where did our votes go?

Why is President Bush still in office when all the polls showed he was going down to defeat in Ohio and Florida? How did he pull off that miraculous, totally impossible turnaround in the last few hours of the election?

Why did Issues 2 through 5 in the Ohio 2005 election, issues that would have removed control of the election process from the corrupt hands of the Republican hierarchy and given it to the people, go down to defeat when they were running ahead at 64 percent approval all day?

Experts have said that these turnarounds were virtually impossible, yet they happened. Why? The news media, either because of fear or political control, has swept anything concerning election fraud under the table in hopes that it will be forgotten.

The man overseeing the Ohio election, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, was also the campaign chairman of the Bush/Cheney committee (a conflict of interest). He and Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell promised to deliver Ohio to Bush in the 2004 election. With the use of Diebold voting machines, systematic voter intimidation, strategic vote machine placement and Blackwell's hand-picked Republican staff to oversee the election, they delivered as they had promised.

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http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060106/OPINION/601060309/1034

[nicknameless]

1. Great find!

Thanks for posting this.

K&R

[pauldp]

2. kick

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[Steve A Play]

3. Will take away our voting rights?

A close look at the changes to our election laws around the country tells me they already have.

Good find, those who can please recommend this thread. The more people who start thinking about this the better.

Steven P. :kick:

[kster]

4. Kick -n- recommend #5 off to the greatest...nt

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. The republicans responsible for trying to push this bill

through need to be identified and prosecuted for treason, when normality returns to Washington.

[greiner3]

6. Damn;

Good article. I take back those WV jokes I USED to tell!:blush:

[eppur_se_muova]

7. "Keep your hand upon the dollar, and your eye upon the scale"

West Virginians know what it's like to be cheated by those in authority. WV went for Bush in 2004, but the R's shouldn't count on winning WV in '06 OR '08.

[AndyTiedye]

8. Kickety

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[kster]

9. kick.nt

[LongTomH]

10. Kick!

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