Citizen's Alliance for Secure Elections (CASE)

This may be a re hash of already known info, but this is a group I hadn't come across as of yet. The nonpartisan Citizen's Alliance for Secure Elections (CASE) is investigating various other voting irregularities in Ohio
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http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Fitrakis1108.htm
By Bob Fitrakis

* In Miami County, Ohio, with 100% of the precincts reporting at 9am
EST Wednesday, Nov. 3, Bush had 20,807 votes (65.80%) and Kerry had
10,724 (33.92%). Miami reported 31,620 voters. Inexplicably, nearly
19,000 new ballots were added after all precincts reported, boosting
Bush's vote to 33,039 (65.77%) to Kerry's 17,039 (33.92%). CASE is
investigating why the percentage of the vote stayed exactly the same
to 3/100ths of a percentage point after nearly 19,000 new ballots were
added. CASE members speculate that it's either a long-shot coincidence
with the last three digits remaining the same, or that someone had
pre-set a database and programmed a voting machine to cough up a
pre-set percentage of votes. Miami County uses an easily hackable
optical scanner with the central counter provided by the
Republican-linked vendor ES&S.

* In rural Drake County, Kerry received 78 less votes than Al Gore in
2000, but Bush received 3000 more votes. Drake is the only county in
Miami Valley where Kerry's votes was less than Gore's and where Bush's
vote rose dramatically.

* 102,134 of the provisional ballots, nearly two-thirds (65.7%) in
all probability come from solidly pro-Kerry areas and are most likely
cast by pro-Kerry supporters such as African Americans and the
poor...Palast also points to the 92,672 so-called "spoiled" ballots in
Ohio that have yet to be counted, and may never be tallied...By
Blackwell directing county Boards of Elections not to count the
provisional ballots for 11 days, it benefited the Bush campaign since
an immediate counting would have no doubt made the race tigher between
Kerry and Bush, and perhaps prompted Kerry to request a recount. This
would have the 92,672 discarded "spoiled" ballots that were also
likely to favor Kerry.

* The Republican Party sent letters challenging thousands of
Franklin County registered voters who requested absentee ballots.
Franklin County is home to ... Ohio State U., thousands of local
students go to schools outside the county or state. The GOP targeted
young voters for challenges. The GOP pre-challenged an estimated
35,000 voters..The GOP sent registered letters to registered voters'
addresses and when they failed to pick up a letter from the Republican
Party in primarily Democratic areas, they were challenged for fraud.
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that college students were targeting because of the Michael Moore connection.

These Repukes better get some lessons from karma soon.

Do I understand this correctly...

In this county, a home to a lot of students...

The Repub Party challenged their request for a ballot by sending letters? (Is this how it works?)

The number of voters challenged was 35,000?

Then, when they failed to pick up registered letters REQUESTING THEM TO PICK UP A LETTER FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?, they were challenged (ACCUSED?) of fraud?

I still don't think I understand?