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> "In recent years, central Ohio has been transformed from a bastion of
> Republicanism into a Democratic stronghold. Six of Columbus' seven
> city council members are Democrats, as is the city's mayor, Michael
> Coleman. But no Democrat has been elected to Congress from central
> Ohio in more than 20 years, and the area around Columbus still
> includes pockets where no Democrat stands a chance. One such
> Republican pocket is Upper Arlington, the Columbus suburb that is home
> to Walden "Wally" O'Dell, the chairman of the board and chief
> executive of Diebold (voting machine manufacturer). For years, O'Dell

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> Republican candidates. Last September, he held a packed
> $1,000-per-head GOP fundraiser at his 10,800-square-foot mansion. He
> has been feted as a guest at President Bush's Texas ranch, joining a
> cadre of "Pioneers and Rangers" who have pledged to raise more than
> $100,000 for the Bush reelection campaign. Most memorably, O'Dell last
> fall penned a letter pledging his commitment "to helping Ohio deliver
> its electoral votes to the President."

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> Here is a video done by People in Ohio about problems with the election
> there.
>
> http://www.metroblogging.com/videothevote/
>
> want more? read this:
>
> http://rwor.org/a/1257/elections-stolen.htm
>
> can ya read more? try this!:
>
> http://www.opednews.com/thoreau_110404_diebold.htm
>
> Here's some more food for thought:
>
> (11-05) 08:49 PST COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) --
>
> An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra
> votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.
>
> Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to
> Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show
> only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.
>
> Bush actually received 365 votes in the precinct, Matthew Damschroder,
> director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, told The Columbus
> Dispatch.
>
> Another article:
>
> has given generously to
>
> From an article in The Hill
> by Dick Morris
>
> "Exit polls are almost never wrong. They eliminate the two major potential
> fallacies in survey research by correctly separating actual voters from
> those who pretend they will cast ballots but never do and by substituting
> actual observation for guesswork in judging the relative turnout of
> different parts of the state.
>
> So reliable are the surveys that actually tap voters as they leave the
> polling places that they are used as guides to the relative honesty of
> elections in Third World countries.
>
> So, according to ABC-TV’s exit polls, for example, Kerry was slated to
> carry Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Iowa, all of which
> Bush carried. The only swing state the network had going to Bush was West
> Virginia, which the president won by 10 points.
>
> To screw up one exit poll is unheard of. To miss six of them is
> incredible. It boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that
> incompetent and invites speculation that more than honest error was at
> play here.
>
> This was no mere mistake. Exit polls cannot be as wrong across the board
> as they were on election night. I suspect foul play."
>
> Now, he thinks that the polls were biased in an attempt to disuade voters.
> He says they counted too many women.
>
> apparently there was quite a bit of drama during election day with
> projections that Kerry was the frontrunner.
> on Dennis Millers show the following night, Lawrence O'Donnel Jr.
> senior polital analyst of msnbc said,
>
> "Yesterday afternoon everyone in Washington; everyone in the political
> game, firmly believed that John Kerry was going to sweep all the
> battleground states except Colorado. I spoke to people in Republican
> headquarters in D. C. at 4 pm who were wiping back tears."
>
> His take was that he was glad that exit polls have been proven wrong like
> the good republican that he is.
>
> Here's a post from a chat room of college kids on election day around 6pm,
> I think:
>
> "I seem to be getting different exit numbers than Kos (not to mention
> Drudge, who's NH number represent a 22% swing in three hours. I think
> not). I'm damn confident in my source though, so take it all as you will:
>
> FL: Kerry +1
> OH: Kerry +1
> MI: Kerry +4
> PA: Kerry +11
> IA: Even
> WI: Kerry +5
> MN: Kerry +18
> NH: Kerry +15
> NJ: Kerry +15
> ME: Kerry +11
> NV: Bush +2
> NM: Kerry +2
> NC: Bush +5
> CO: Bush +7
> VA: Bush +1 "
>
> This compares the two voting systems used in Florida.
>
> The machines that produced a verifyible audit trail (e-machines) were
> pretty
> much dead on.
> The machines that don't produce any sort of audit trail (op-scan) were
> overwhelmingly tallied for Bush.
>
> http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm
>
> In Baker County for Example:
> Registered Voters - 69.3% Democrat vs. 24.3% Republican
> Bush got 77.7% of the votes cast.
>
> Bradford County:
> Registered Voters - 61.4% Democrat vs. 28.3% Republican
> Bush got 69.6% of the votes cast.
>
> Lavayette County:
> Registered Voters - 82.8% Democrat vs. 13.2% Republican
> Bush got 73.98% of the votes cast.
>
> In many counties where Kerry should have easily won, there was and
> unbelieveable
> percentage of votes tallied for Bush.
>
> Then this, from boingboing.net
>
> * Palast: Kerry won, here's the facts.
>
> */Harper's Magazine/ contributing editor Greg Palast argues that election
> management in Ohio was hopelessly borked, and that the state was unfairly
> and inaccurately declared a win for Bush. Snip from editor's intro to his
> latest feature, on Tompaine.com:
> Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. Typically in the United States, about 3
> percent of votes cast are voided -- known as 'spoilage' in election
> jargon -- because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Drawing on what
> happened in Florida and studies of elections past, Palast argues that if
> Ohio's discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state.
> Today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports there are a total of 247,672
> votes not counted in Ohio, if you add the 92,672 discarded votes plus the
> 155,000 provisional ballots. So far there's no indication that Palast's
> hypothesis will be tested because only the provisional ballots are being
> counted.
> And snip from Palast's story:
> Most voters in Ohio thought they were voting for Kerry. CNN's exit poll
> showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio women by 53 percent to 47 percent.
> Kerry also defeated Bush among Ohio's male voters 51 percent to 49
> percent. Unless a third gender voted in Ohio, Kerry took the state.
>
> So what's going on here? Answer: the exit polls are accurate. Pollsters
> ask, "Who did you vote for?" Unfortunately, they don't ask the crucial,
> question, "Was your vote counted?" The voters don't know Here's why.
> Although the exit polls show that most voters in Ohio punched cards for
> Kerry-Edwards, thousands of these votes were simply not recorded. This was
> predictable and it was predicted. Once again, at the heart of the Ohio
> uncounted vote game are, I'm sorry to report, hanging chads and pregnant
> chads, plus some other ballot tricks old and new.
>
> What You Can Do About Election Fraud
> By Susan Truitt, Co-founder, CASE Ohio, Citizens' Alliance for Secure
> Elections
>
> Thank you all for your supportive responses to the allegations of election
> fraud in the 2004 presidential election. Here are some concrete actions
> that you can take that will make a difference.
>
> Please keep your indignation alive and use that energy to raise the issue
> publicly until the mass media can use the "F" word - fraud.
>
> Please keep the energy going to help educate the public regarding the
> devastating truth that our electoral process is broken and is being taken
> over by right wing zealots and privatization.
>
> Send financial donations to: www.blackboxvoting.org
> <http://www.blackboxvoting.org/> , Bev Harris' site. She
> is doing a world of good with her tenacious and brave work. She sent out
> Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to every county in the country,
> and that type of effort requires funds. Read Black Box Voting, by Bev
> Harris, available on the web, to arm yourself with the sad facts of a
> broken
>electoral process.
>
> Also, send donations to www.eff.org <http://www.eff.org/> . The Electronic
> Frontier Foundation has
> been instrumental in all litigation across the country relating to
> e-voting
> (electronic voting).
>
> Send donations to www.verifiedvoting.org <http://www.verifiedvoting.org/>
> and www.votersunite.org <http://www.votersunite.org/> and
> www.ballotintegrity.org <http://www.ballotintegrity.org/> . These
> organizations have done a lion's share of
> getting the word out about what is wrong in this country's electoral
> process.
>
> Contact www.TrueMajority.org <http://www.truemajority.org/> and
> www.moveon.org <http://www.moveon.org/> and www.commoncause.org
> <http://www.commoncause.org/> and
> tell them to help pursue a post-election challenge to the vote tallies.
> Donate money to these organizations.
>
> Write to your local newspapers to inform the public at large what is going
> on. Tell them to cover the election debacle and tell them to use the "F"
> word liberally.
>
> FAX Ralph Nader, 202-265-0092, and tell him to file for recounts and
> reexaminations of the tally in the states in which he was on the ballot.
>
> Write to John Conyers (D - Mich), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary
> Committee on the Constitution, who has requested a Congressional Hearing
> on
> the 2004 election. Tell him you support the request and that you want him
> to
> push for the hearing to be held as soon as possible.
>
> Contact Information for John Conyers:
> Washington DC E-Mail Address:
> john.conyers@mail.house.gov <mailto:john.conyers@mail.house.gov>
> Washington DC Web Address:
> http://www.house.gov/conyers; <http://www.house.gov/conyers>
> Washington DC Web Mail Address:
> http://www.house.gov/conyers/letstalk.htm
> <http://www.house.gov/conyers/letstalk.htm> ;
> Washington DC Web Mail Address:
> http://www.house.gov/writerep <http://www.house.gov/writerep> ;
>
> Washington DC Address
> 2426 Rayburn House Office Building
> Washington, DC 20515-2214
> Phone: 202-225-5126
> Fax: 202-225-0072
>
> District Address - Detroit
> Federal Building, Room 669
> 231 West Lafayette Boulevard
> Detroit, MI 48226-2766
> Phone: 313-961-5670
> Fax: 313-226-2085
>
> District Address - Southgate
> DCC Building
> 15100 Northline Road, Suite 257
> Southgate, MI 48195
> Phone: 734-285-5624
> Fax: 734-285-5943
>
> Campaign Address
> 19512 Livernoise
> Detroit, MI 48221
> Phone: 313-864-3671
>
> Write to George Soros and ask him to help fund litigation in Ohio and
> Florida to challenge the vote tallies.
>
> c/o Open Society Institute--New York
> 888 7th Avenue
> New York, N.Y. 10106
> United States of America
> Telephone: +1-212-757-2323
> Fax: +1-212-974-0367
> E-mail: osnews@sorosny.org <mailto:osnews@sorosny.org>
> Web: http://www.soros.org/gsbio.html <http://www.soros.org/gsbio.html> ;
>
> Write to the DNC and ask why Senator Kerry capitulated so quickly - before
> the information on the vote tallies was even beginning to come in. Tell
> them
> that Senator Kerry needs to take back his concession. Democratic National
> Committee, 430 South Capitol St SE, Washington, DC 20003. Their phone
> number
> is 202-863-8000. Their web-site is: www.democrats.org
> <http://www.democrats.org/> .
>
> Contact the Kerry campaign and tell them that he has done a great
> disservice
> to the American people by capitulating so quickly - before information
> could
> be gathered. Tell him to reconsider in light of all that is coming to the
> surface.
>
> Contact National Headquarters
> Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc.
> P.O. Box 34640
> Washington, DC 20043
> 202-712-3000
> 202-712-3001 (fax)
> 202-336-6950 (TTY)
>
> Stay in touch with CASE_OH@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:CASE_OH@yahoogroups.com> and www.caseohio.org
> <http://www.caseohio.org/> .
>
> Finally, forward this to all of you friends, acquaintances, listservs,
> etc.
>
> Keep up the good fight.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Susan
>
> Susan Truitt
> Co-founder, CASE Ohio, Citizens' Alliance for Secure Elections
> www.caseohio.org <http://www.caseohio.org/>
> 614-487-1759
> 614-270-5239
>
> Go to http://www.thenation.com/ and read articles by people like Naomi
> Klein and learn how Bush and Neocons are committing genocide for money in
> Iraq and the rest of the world.
> Stop watching Fox! Rupert Murdock is one of them. The truth is out there.
> Look for it!
> http://www.buzzflash.com
> http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl
> http://nowar.org/
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/
> http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage