Posted on 09/01/2006 5:06:29 AM PDT by Dane
Columbus -- Ballots were sabotaged in Democratic areas, including Cleveland, and double-counted in Republican strongholds during the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, said critics bringing new charges of rigging to favor George W. Bush.
Those critics include advocacy attorneys and community groups led by voting rights attorney Cliff Arnebeck, who had also filed an unsuccessful suit challenging the election. They sued Secetary of State Ken Blackwell in federal court Thursday, hoping to preserve the paper ballots from that election until they can further examine their theory.
By federal law, the secretary of state can destroy the ballots 22 months after the election -- which in this case would be next week. In light of the new accusations, Blackwell said on Wednesday that he would delay destroying the ballots. But his critics filed the suit anyway.
"It's about, we think, a systematic effort to disenfranchise certain voters, particularly urban voters, which has a substantial impact on African-American voters as well as young voters," said the groups' attorney, John Marshall.
Blackwell called the lawsuit "frivolous" and "off base."
Richard Hayes Phillips, a private investigator from Canton, N.Y., hired by Arnebeck, believes voters in some poor and black precincts in Cleveland, Akron and four other urban areas, were given ballots pre-punched for one of the longshot independent candidates.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer article that can be only linked per FR rules has a list of the lefty plaintiffs who are filling this lawsuit. Their names are to the right of the article.
bttt
These loonies have convinced themselves they cannot possibly lose an election fair and square.
Sorelosers
If this is what democrats are charging of Republicans, count it as a fact that this is what democrats did do in places like PA and WI. Democrats always accuse Republicans of cheating in the manner of a democrat.
Now 220 years after our Republic was founded -- fear, uncertainty, doubt are all cast on the election process.
The Republic is crumbling.
Those who print the ballots neglected to include the candidates for a spot on the Board of Land & Water, a local office. Voters were asked to write-in the candidate of their choice.
Water beat Land by more than two to one. I am not making this up.
I always figured Land would have done better in an inland state....Nebraska maybe.
Don't forget Washington where the evidence of fraud is overwhelming.
I'll bet a person would risk getting shot if one tried to wake some of these "disenfranchised voters" before noon. If I was too stupid to vote, I'd feel disenfranchised too...
So once again, Democrats are accusing their voters of being too stupid to vote.
" well look Ethel this ballot been already punched, what does you thinks that means."
All of the areas mentioned are controlled by Democrats and have ballots designed and provided by Democrat controlled elections boards. They did not, they would not, fix the election for Bush.
Last chance to bring this (transferrence) into the public and it's just before the next election. Another version of the demonrat playbook that consists solely of "Republicans bad."
Exactly.
These foolish accusations by Democrats are absurd.
"A drowning man will clutch at a snake."
Richard Hayes Phillips, a private investigator from Canton, N.Y., hired by Arnebeck, believes voters in some poor and black precincts in Cleveland, Akron and four other urban areas, were given ballots pre-punched for one of the longshot independent candidates.
Nope. You don't have to 'pre-punch' the ballots at all. Too obvious. What you do INSTEAD with a stack of completed punch ballots - line up a stack, then use a rigid metal rod driven by a hammer THROUGH the GORE punch hole. Those ballots already for GORE are NOT affected. Those for BUSH get double punched and invalidated. You do not so much ADD votes for GORE, but SUBTRACT for BUSH.
Use to be standard tactics in parts of Chicago before they figured out how to tamper with mechanical machines...
Democrats have known about this one for years...
dvwjr
I don't bet on something I know I'll lose at ;-)
This is about OH, not Florida.
And where is the evidence that that was the case?
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