Election Workers Plead No Contest In Recount-Rigging Case (Cleveland)

Source: AP

POSTED: 3:02 pm EST November 5, 2007
UPDATED: 3:06 pm EST November 5, 2007

CLEVELAND -- The case against two elections workers charged with rigging a recount during the 2004 presidential election in Cleveland was settled Monday.

Prosecutors said Jacqueline Maiden and Kathleen Dreamer rigged the recount to avoid a more thorough hand-count. The election outcome wasn't affected.

Under a plea agreement, the women pleaded no contest to negligent misconduct and failure to perform official duties.

They were placed in a diversion program. Their records will be cleared if they avoid legal trouble for six months.

The women were convicted in January but won a new trial that was supposed to begin Monday.


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they were just dupes and should have never been persecuted in the first place.

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I think televised waterboarding would be excellent punishment. "Look. Here is the non-torture way we deal with people who interfere with elections".

What poppycock. OF COURSE the outcome was affected. People's votes were STOLEN. By Repubicans,

"Nothing to see here, folks; move along."

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This is another "throw the little guy under the bus" prosecution

On edit, I want to be clear: I'm not saying I condone their selection of precincts, I'm saying there were much more important problems than this, and choosing these two for prosecution while letting the rest of what happened in the state go smells like throwing someone under a bus.

HOW WOULD THEY KNOW?!?!?

THE BANK ADMITTED TO A MASSIVE ACCOUNTING ERROR, BUT NO FUNDS ARE MISSING.

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THIEVES, LIARS, VILLAINS ALL!

BUSHCO STOLE IT.

This is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS!

Elections board workers take plea deal

Posted by Jim Nichols November 05, 2007 11:26AM

A special prosecutor ended a two-year drive to convict two county elections workers for rigging a ballot recount during the hotly contested 2004 presidential election....

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... At issue was how the board and its staff conducted a sample recount of ballots after third-party candidates demanded a countywide vote recount. That sampling was meant as a test of the validity of tabulating machines; if a hand count of the sample - 3 percent of the county's votes - proved the machine count accurate, the board could assume the broader automatic tabulation was also accurate and forego a tedious, expensive and potentially embarrassing hand recount of all 600,000-plus votes.

The board staff rigged the sample count because the precincts actually were secretly selected in advance of the closely watched recount, said Baxter, who was brought in to try the case because Mason is the board's lawyer. The pre-count ensured the 3-percent sample included only precincts whose hand and machine counts matched.

Dreamer, Maiden and a third worker, Rosie Grier, were charged for the fudging. They countered that the board had always done things that way - with the knowledge of its attorney, one of Mason's assistants.

"There was no evidence to that effect - none," Baxter said.

He faulted the media for spreading that "convenient misrepresentation," and for falsely portraying the board managers as low-level employees. Such media portrayals, and a string of editorials in The Plain Dealer that blasted the prosecution as an "overreach, weakened the prosecution's moral foundation by persuasively misrepresenting the case's facts," Baxter said.

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The mob and the media in bed together, subverting justice? Say it ain't so.

Where the hell is our Elliott Ness?

It's like saying, We caught the cheaters, but we won't recheck the results or the process.

Case closed!

I can't think of much worse than election rigging other than rape and murder. I can't believe they are getting off this easy!!! These people should be nailed to the wall!:puke:

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