Posted on 11/20/2004 11:23:05 AM PST by Bonaventure
Groups checking election results in Ohio are asking county elections boards for all kinds of documents -- everything from provisional ballot totals to voter signature poll books.
Elections officials say such requests from political and advocacy groups, media outlets and other organizations are straining their staffs and budgets as they try to finish the official ballot count for the presidential election.
Ross County elections director Nancy Bell says she's never experienced anything like this in her 19 years at the elections board.
Bev Harris is founder of Black Box Voting, a Seattle-based nonprofit consumer protection organization.
She says her group has filed records requests for every Ohio county to check the accuracy of the the final vote report sent to the secretary of state.
Meanwhile, lawyers who have been documenting voting day problems in Ohio say they'll challenge the results of the presidential election as soon as the vote is official.
The lawyers say documented cases of long lines, a shortage of machines and a pattern of problems in predominantly black neighborhoods are enough evidence to bring such a challenge.
The lawyers, who will represent voters who cast ballots November 2, will use a state law that allows them to file a request to challenge the election with the Ohio Supreme Court.
The law allows the challenge to be heard by the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
In the case of Ohio, that's Justice Thomas Moyer, a Columbus Republican.
The official vote will not be certified until early next month.
Their intention is to muddy the win.
Bev Harris is a DUmmy who trolls DUmmyland daily for money.
"Meantime, Black Box Voting Inc., a non-profit consumer advocacy group begun by investigative reporter Bev Harris, already has launched a massive effort to get copies of all internal logs for e-vote machines used Tuesday. The group began immediately blanketing U.S. counties and townships with 3,000 Freedom of Information requests. The group says on its Web site that a similar request filed in the Seattle area in September unearthed an internal audit log with three hours' worth of deleted results and suspicious modem activity on election night."
That from
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1022484,00.html
Sounds to me like they trying to steal this under the radar. We'll wake up early in December to the news "Ohio has been overturned!!" Or, at least, that's what the DUmmies and their fellow traitors are praying to Satan for.
I doubt it. This is smoke for kerry and the dems to be able to say the election was "stolen"..........the real meat of the issue would be voter (votER) fraud, which the dems were shameless about during early and even election-day voting. Dems will never look into VOTER fraud......all they will ever do is yelp for talking points.
Democrat Rules of Engagement: It's the seriousness of the charge that matters, regardless of facts. Sheesh, that's how the Democrats stay in business!
Tell me if I am wrong, but didn't John Kerry concede the election a long time ago in a phone call to President Bush and then again on National Television? Didn't George W. Bush declare victory? Hasn't he started working to prepare for his second term? Didn't he win big time by popular vote and the electoral college? What the heck do these nitwits hope to gain? Give me a break! They should have to pay Ohio to do all of this out of that $15 million that Kerry did not spend on the campaign!
http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=5361
They’ve apparently counted about 137,000 provisional and absentee ballots in Ohio.
And the breakdown?
Bush = 56%
Kerry = 43.5%
I say there should be a recount. I mean, seriously, how could Bush have won? Nobody I know voted for him . . .
http://election.sos.state.oh.us/Results/RaceSummary.aspx
The election is over. They need to get over it and move along. If they think they can do better in 08 then ....
BRING IT ON...
My wife and I stood in line in Harris County, Texas for over 3 hours to vote in 1980. Who do I sue .......
Time for them to GET OVER IT!
this is the website of the people who are doing this
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
Greens and Libertarians are involved.....
I heard that Ralph Nader and the Libertarians are also challenging the Ohio results.
The best they can get out of this is a smudge on the election. But, in the meantime, they succeed at bringing down morale in this country and weakening our image in the world.
We must share in the unfailing positivity of our leader. And. . . we have lawyers, too.
One VERY BAD fallout of Dem rants of voter fraud committed by Rupublicans, even though fiction, is: They themselves feel justified to commit, and set out to commit, even more real voter fraud for their candidates.
This is from GuideStar. They are a new group so there is very little history.
BLACK BOX VOTING
330 SW 43RD ST PMB-K547
% LINDA FRANZ
RENTON , WA 98055
Program / Activities
NTEE Codes
R40 Voter Education/Registration
Financial Information
This organization files an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Ruling Year: 2004
D'oh...I jsut gave that Polipundit thing its own thread.....
Ohio has counted 137,000 provisional and absentee ballots. Rather, it has assembled 137,000 votes from the few counties that have already counted provisional and absentee ballots. As you will see, the numbers on the site represent only 2.7% of statewide results.
The electors have not yet cast their votes, and Kerry's consession is NOT binding in any way.
Mark
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