Reply #15: I am from SW OH and I do think there was tabulation fraud in many counties [View All]

Here is why.

I live in Hamilton County, home to Cincinnati. Cincinnati the city is actually 43% African American. Once you get outside of Cincinnati and even certain neighborhoods in Cincinnati you get into over 90% white areas. The counties surrounding Cincinnati are considered reliably GOP counties. In these counties people do vote republican.

The Supreme Court Justice race was between Thomas Moyer (R) and an African American female municipal judge from Cleveland named C. Ellen Connaly. She was so underfunded I saw not a single commercial or yard sign, and I live in a democratic precinct. The GOP candidate however did have yard signs all over Butler, Warren and Clermont county AND was endorsed by the Cincinnati Enquirer
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/27/editorial_ed1b.html

Yet C. Ellen Connaly an African American municipal court judge from Cleveland got substantially more votes than Kerry in a down ticket race in areas where voting a straight GOP ticket is the norm for a certain percentage of people in those counties. I do not believe that Bush voters accidentally voted for a democratic judge from Cleveland because they could not remember the name of the incumbent GOP judge.

Add to that the lockdown of the vote tabulation in Warren County due to a Homeland security threat that Homeland Security and the FBI have denied and a podunkville county like Warren completing their tabulation so late that Cuyahoga, a county of 1 million people got their tallies in before Warren.

Mama didn't raise no fool. Bush did not get 71% in Warren County.