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Hearings on Ohio Voting put 2004 Election in Doubt
Audio from the hearings can be found at:
http://www.theneighborhoodnetwork.org
Highly-charged, jam-packed hearings held here in Columbus have
cast serious doubt on the true outcome of the presidential election.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/886
Hearings on Ohio voting put 2004 election in doubt
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
November 18, 2004
Highly-charged, jam-packed hearings held here in Columbus
have cast serious doubt on the true outcome of the presidential election.
On Saturday, November 13, and Monday, November 15, the Ohio Election
Protection Coalition�s public hearings in Columbus solicited extensive
sworn first-person testimony from 32 of Ohio voters,
precinct judges, poll workers, legal observers, party challengers.
An additional 66 people provided written affidavits of election
irregularities. The unavoidable conclusion is that this year's election
in Ohio was deeply flawed, that thousands of Ohioans were denied their
right to vote, and that the ultimate vote count is very much in doubt.
Most importantly, the testimony has revealed a widespread and concerted
effort on the part of Republican Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell
to deny primarily African-American and young voters the right to cast
their ballots within a reasonable time.
By depriving precincts of adequate numbers of functioning voting machines,
Blackwell created waits of 3 to 11 hours, driving tens of thousands
of likely Democratic voters away from the polls
and very likely affecting the outcome of the Ohio vote count,
which in turn decided the national election.
On November 17, Blackwell wrote an op-ed piece
for Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times, stating:
�Every eligible voter who wanted to vote had the opportunity to vote.
There was no widespread fraud, and there was no disenfranchisement.
A half-million more Ohioans voted than ever before with fewer errors than
4 years ago,a sure sign on success by any measure,� Blackwell wrote.
Moon's extreme right wing Unification Church has long-standing ties
to the Bush Family and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Additional testimony also called into question the validity of the actual
vote counts. There are thus serious doubts that the final official tally
in Ohio, due December 1 to Blackwell�s office, will have any validity.
Blackwell will certify the vote count on December 3.
While Blackwell supervised the Ohio vote he also served as co-chair
of the Ohio Bush-Cheney re-election campaign,
a clear conflict of interest that casts further doubt
on how the Ohio election and vote counts have been conducted.
At the Columbus hearings, witness after witness under oath
gave testimony to an election riddled with discrimination and disarray.
Among them:
Werner Lange, a pastor from Youngstown, Ohio, who said in part:
�In precincts 1 A and 5 G, voting as Hillman Elementary School,
which is a predominantly African American community, there were
woefully insufficient number of voting machines in three precincts.
I was told that the standard was to have one voting machine per 100
registered voters.
Precinct A had 750 registered voters. Precinct G had 690.
There should have been 14 voting machines at this site.
There were only 6,three per precinct,less than 50 percent of the standard.
This caused an enormous bottleneck among voters who had to wait a very,
very long time to vote, many of them giving up in frustration and leaving.
. I estimate, by the way, that an estimated loss of over 8,000 votes
from the African American community in the City of Youngstown alone,
with its 84 precincts, were lost due to insufficient voting machines,
and that would translate to some 7,000 votes
lost for John Kerry for President in Youngstown alone. . . .�
�Just yesterday I went to the Trumbull Board of Elections
in northeast Ohio, I wanted to review their precinct logs
so I could continue my investigation. This was denied.
I was told by the Board of Elections official that I could not
see them until after the official vote was given.�
Marion Brown, Columbus:
�I am here on behal f of a friend.
My friend came to my home very upset while she was away
standing four hours in the voting, her husband passed away.
The funeral was on yesterday, November 13th, at 2:00.
Perhaps had she not stood so long in the line,
she may have been able to save her husband.�
Victoria Parks:
�In Pickaway County, oh, my goodness, in Pickaway County, I entered there,
I was shown a table, 53 poll books were plunked down in front of my.
I noticed there were no signature on file in any of the poll books,
in any of the poll books, and furthermore, a minute later the director
of the Board of Elections of Pickaway County came into the room
and snatched the books away from me and said you cannot look at these
books. I said are you aware that what you are doing is against the law?
She said I have been on the phone with the Secretary of State
and he has instructed me to take these books away and you cannot see them.
I paraphrase very slightly here. She took them away.
I was persona non grata. I did not want to risk arrest, and I left. . .
There were no signatures,and furthermore,the writing in the book seemed to
have been written in the same hand,because that is a requirement.�
Boyd Mitchell, Columbus:
�What I saw was voter intimidation in the form of city employees
that were sent in to stop illegal parking.
Now, in Driving Park Rec Center there are less than 50 legal parking
spots, and there were literally hundreds and hundreds of voters there,
and I estimated at least 70 percent of the people were illegally parked
in the grass around the perimeter of the Driving Park Rec Center,
and two city employees drove up in a city truck and said that they had
been sent there to stop illegal parking, and they went so far as to
harass at least a couple of voters that I saw, and when they were talking
to us, they were kind. But when they didn't realize we were overhearing
them talking to voters, they were trying to keep people from parking
where they were parking. They went so far as to set up some cones,
trying to block people from getting into a grassy area...�
�I calculated that I maybe saw about 20 percent of the people that left
Driving Park D and C, I personally saw and talked to about 20 percent
of them as they left the poll between 12:30 and 8 p.m. And I saw 15
people who left because the line was too long. The lines inside were
anywhere from 2 1/2 to 5 hours. Most everybody said 4 hours, and I saw
at least 15 people who did not vote, and I heard a gentleman who was
earlier making some mathematical calculations, well, if this is going on
across town, and, you know, in a precinct where it was going so heavily
for Kerry, and me only seeing 20 percent of the people coming out,
I saw 15. We could just do the math and extrapolate that out into a huge
number of people who might have voted had they had a chance.�
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