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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:29 PM
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Bye bye to Cleveland GOP Election Chair Bob "Ballots for Bush" Bennett
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2542

Bye bye to Cleveland GOP Election Chair Bob "Ballots for Bush" Bennett
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
April 16, 2007

Ohio's Bob "Ballots for Bush" Bennett, an essential player in putting George W. Bush back in the White House in 2004, is no long chair of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. His milestone resignation leaves a legacy of scandal, recrimination, massive voter purges, felony convictions and a pivotal role in a stolen presidential election.

Bennett has quit in a signature cloud of graceless accusations and cheap shots at Jennifer Brunner, Ohio's newly elected Secretary of State, who asked him to resign along with the rest of the Cleveland election authority. His forced departure marks the biggest landmark yet in the unraveling theft of the presidential elections in Ohio 2004.

Bennett remains chair of the Ohio Republican Party. In 2004 he was apparently asked by White House consigliere Karl Rove to stay on at the Cuyahoga BOE to help guarantee Bush's second term. Cleveland is Ohio's biggest and most Democratic urban center. A massive sweep there by John Kerry was widely expected to have given him the White House. It was Bennett's job to mute that margin, and apparently that's exactly what he did.
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:31 PM
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1. buh-bye, Bob
and don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:38 PM
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3. That should be the least of his worries.
Mo Fo SOB A Hole.
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:38 PM
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2. There's more to unravel here . . .
And as the notion that 'Licans are election thieves becomes part of regular folks' worldview, 'Licans will become increasingly unelectable. Bring on 2008!
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:46 PM
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4. Yet the GOP has yet to dump the pairah. I'm sure people are switching parties as I type. nt
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 06:28 PM
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5. Thx and X-post
Thanks. Sending discussion this way.

I look forward to the next focus of Ohio's new AG and SOS!!@!!

Cross-posted at:

OHIO 2004: 6.15% Kerry-Bush vote-switch found in probability study
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x259620
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-19-07 09:27 AM
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Hayes also found that Cuyahoga County reported 30,791 uncounted absentee and provisional ballots. After these ballots were counted, they reported 39,262 votes, an outcome Phillips terms mathematically "impossible."

Bennett and Vu were also responsible for more than $12,900,000 in BOE cost overruns, more than doubling the agency's original budget of $11,000,000.


Meanwhile, new evidence is emerging that Karl Rove and the GOP had real-time computer access to both the actual vote numbers in Ohio as well as the exit polling data that would have allowed them to direct how many votes they needed from the suspect Ohio southwestern Republican counties that gave Bush his official margin of victory in the 2004 election.
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