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The REVEREND Jesse Jackson: Senators should object to Ohio vote
Chicago Sun-times ^ | January 4, 2005 | Jesse Jackson

Posted on 01/05/2005 12:26:51 AM PST by RWR8189

This Thursday in Washington Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the senior minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will formally object to the counting of the Ohio electoral vote in the 2004 presidential election. If any senator joins him, the counting of the vote is suspended and the House and the Senate must convene separately to hear the objections filed, and to vote on whether to accept them.

The grounds for the objections are clear: The irregularities in the Ohio vote and vote count are widespread and blatant. If the Ohio election were held in the Ukraine, it would not have been certified by the international community.

In Ohio, the gulf between exit polls and counted votes is vast and glaring. Blatant discrimination in the distribution of voting machines ensured long lines in inner-city and working-class precincts that favored John Kerry, while the exurban districts that favored President Bush had no similar problems.

Systematic efforts were made to suppress and challenge the new voters in Kerry precincts, whether students or African Americans. Some precincts were certified with more votes than the number registered; others were certified with preposterously low turnouts. Voting machines, produced by a company headed by a vowed Bush supporter, provide no paper record. Ohio's secretary of state, the inappropriately partisan head of the state's Bush campaign, has resisted any systematic recount of the ballots.

The systematic bias and potential for fraud is unmistakable. An in-depth investigation is vital -- and the partisan secretary of state has opposed it every step of the way. In this context, Conyers and his colleagues in the House are serving the nation's best interests in demanding an investigation of the irregularities in Ohio, and objecting to business as usual in counting the vote.

If Harry Reid, the new leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, has any sense, he will lead members of the caucus to support their colleagues from the House and demand a debate that will expose the irregularities in Ohio. If Kerry wants to establish his continued leadership, he will stand first to join with Conyers and demand a debate.

Will the debate overturn the outcome of the election? That is doubtful, although the irregularities in Ohio suggest that Kerry may well have won if a true count could be had. But the debate is vital anyway. This country's elections, each run with different standards by different states, with partisan tricks, racial bias, and too often widespread incompetence, are an open scandal.

We need national standards to ensure that we get an honest count across the country. National standards, accompanied by a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to vote for all Americans, will be passed only if leaders in the Congress refuse to close their eyes to the scandal, and instead stop business as usual.

Conyers, Reid and Kerry will face harsh criticism for violating what might be called the Nixon precedent. When Kennedy beat Nixon by a few thousand votes in an election marked by irregularities in Illinois and Texas, Nixon chose not to challenge the result. Gore essentially followed that rule after the gang of five in the Supreme Court disgraced themselves by stopping the vote count in Florida. But the effect of the Nixon precedent is to provide those who would cheat with essentially a free pass. Particularly when the state officials are partisans, they can put in the fix with little fear of exposure so long as they win.

So Conyers will step up, accompanied by other courageous members of the House. They will object to the count and demand a debate. To force that debate, they need only one member of the Senate to join them. Reid should lead the entire caucus to join them. Kerry should stand alone if necessary to demand clean elections in America.

If America is to be a champion of democracy abroad, it must clean up its elections at home. If it is to complain of fraudulent and dishonest election practices abroad, it cannot condone them at home. But more important, if our own elections are to be legitimate, then they must be honest, open, with high national standards.

The time has come to stand up for clean elections, and to let it be known that massive irregularities will not go unchallenged.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: blackboxvotingnuts; demstrytosteal; dudummies; hypocrisy; jackass; jackson; jessejackson; moonbats; nuts; ohio; tinfoilhatloons
You lost MR. Jackson, get over it.

And by the way, how are your illegitimate children?

1 posted on 01/05/2005 12:26:52 AM PST by RWR8189
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To: RWR8189
...it would not have been certified by the international community.

With apologies for my French, F*ck the international community.

2 posted on 01/05/2005 12:27:56 AM PST by Petronski (I'm not *always* cranky.)
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To: Petronski
...it would not have been certified by the international community.

Of course it would not have been certified by the internat'l community, because they hate Bush and that enough would be reason for them to deny him victory if they had the power to do so. And I thought the dems, like Kerry, cared so much about what the world thinks of us--if that's really so, they shouldn't be causing so much troublemaking for the world to see, should they now? /sarcasm.

3 posted on 01/05/2005 12:32:35 AM PST by gop_gene
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To: gop_gene
Of course it would not have been certified by the internat'l community, because they hate Bush and that enough would be reason for them to deny him victory if they had the power to do so.

Precisely!

4 posted on 01/05/2005 12:35:48 AM PST by Petronski (I'm not *always* cranky.)
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To: RWR8189
Mr Jackson, your girlfriend and your bastard child are calling. I think you better take care of your own affairs first. That is not a word I usually use, but it is the only accurate word that fits this poor child. Man I feel sorry for that kid.
5 posted on 01/05/2005 12:57:22 AM PST by oldenuff2no (Proud Nam Vet)
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To: RWR8189
Kerry wants to establish his continued leadership, he will stand first to join with Conyers and demand a debate.

Hey JJ, if you haven't noticed, John sKerry isn't even in the country right now! Shirking his senatorial duties as usual!!

6 posted on 01/05/2005 2:12:08 AM PST by blondee123 (Proud Member of the FR Pajama Blogger Brigade - New Sheriffs in Town!)
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To: RWR8189
The age-old question....exactly what is he "Reverend" of?? This guy is such a transparent fraud.....but the media fawns over him incessantly and validates his antics/comments. I just wish he would go away.

Lando

7 posted on 01/05/2005 2:19:26 AM PST by Lando Lincoln (GWB - history will be very kind to you.)
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To: Lando Lincoln

Je$$e Jacka$$ is truly delusional. Even Al $harpton is staying away from this one.


8 posted on 01/05/2005 2:24:47 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Liberals are children who never grew up.)
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To: Petronski
Mr. Jack*ss I guess that it has escaped your attention once again the only people who get to vote in our elections are US citizens who meet the qualifications.

You also forget that the international observers had no problems with the voting process here.

You, Mr. Jack*ss are a moveon moron. I doubt that after this anyone in the Democrat Party will want to be associated with you. You have come close before but always pulled your self back in time. However, this time you have jumped the Shark and no longer will have a place in US politics except on the loony left liberal fringe.

Al Sharpton, who came to fame with a fake racism victim is now more credible than you. What an idiot and you aren't even useful.
9 posted on 01/05/2005 2:50:04 AM PST by MKM1960
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To: MKM1960

I sure hope that's directed to Jesse Jackson. ;O)


10 posted on 01/05/2005 3:01:21 AM PST by Petronski (I'm not *always* cranky.)
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Sorry Petronski. Yes it was. Jesse has been yanking my chains as of late and it all a Pavlovian response. Reading the name Jesse Jack*ss turns me into what ever the opposite of a raving moonbat would be.
11 posted on 01/05/2005 3:30:21 AM PST by MKM1960
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To: MKM1960

I understood. ;O)


12 posted on 01/05/2005 3:31:51 AM PST by Petronski (I'm not *always* cranky.)
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To: RWR8189

Of course Ohio but NOT Washington State. Jesse Jackson's partisan hypocrisy in regards to counting every vote has been exposed. Keep it up Jesse; you and your tinfoil hat loons are sinking into well deserved irrelevance.


13 posted on 01/05/2005 3:33:58 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Petronski
From another thread I read that the moonbats are trying like crazy to get Obama to stand up for this. What a circus.

Why not hand Kennedy a bottle and give him a 15 minute head start and then ask him to do it?

14 posted on 01/05/2005 3:40:14 AM PST by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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To: RWR8189
Once again this 'article/op-ed' is so full of crap it doesn't warrant taking it apart piece by piece because there wouldn't be anything left after the lies and half truths were debunked.

Nothing to see here... keep moving..

15 posted on 01/05/2005 3:45:03 AM PST by SCALEMAN (Super Cards Fan)
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