Score One (at last!) for the Election Integrity Movement
By Mark Crispin Miller
OpEdNews Op Eds 11/9/2012 at 07:35:45
Late last night, after Obama took Ohio, Karl Rove was on Fox News, doggedly refusing to concede. He insisted that Ohio was still in play, as Romney was going to win in Hamilton County--where the votes were "counted" on machines made and maintained by Hart InterCivic, a company effectively controlled by Romney's family. (The same machines were also used in Williams County.)
So it's not surprising that the GOP's Lord Voldemort foresaw an "upset victory" in that county. It is surprising that he said it on Fox News, and when the game was obviously lost, so that a sudden Romney "victory" in Ohio would have seemed especially suspicious--even in the eyes of Rove's old allies on Fox News (or those not in the loop).
To those of us with vivid memories of Election Nights 2000 and 2004, it was a creepy moment--and things got even creepier when Brad Friedman reported that the website of the Ohio SoS had suddenly gone down, which had also happened at that very hour eight years before; and when it had come back on, Kerry, who had been ahead, was now behind. And--horribly--the rest was history.
But that didn't happen this time, as Rove had obviously lost control-- of himself (his recklessness in mouthing off like that was staggering), and, infinitely more important, of his well-oiled, fabulously subsidized election-theft machine. For all his plans, and all the preparations made by Ohio SoS Jon Husted (among others), Rove was clearly overruled on this Election Day, as cooler heads prevailed.
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Ohio has great grassroot activist. 
We heard about the pre election stuff the right wing was trying to do in a few states. I think during the next election they will just pay to rig the election so they know they are getting what they are paying for next election. I used a paper ballet and it was GREAT. The paper record is harder to change as report from Oregon. Any way the election is done their will someone available to take the money to RIG the results. I know if the election had gone the other way I sure would be cry FOUL..............
