How Bush Rigged Ohio Election - The Noe Factor

June 8, 2006 at 20:03:27
How Bush Rigged Ohio Election - The Noe Factor

by Evelyn Pringle

http://www.opednews.com

By late afternoon on November 2, 2004, nationally, all the exit polls showed John Kerry winning with 50.8% of the votes and showed George W Bush with 48.2%, meaning Kerry had a 2.6% lead over Bush.

But when the vote counts came in at the end of election day, Bush had 50.9% of the votes, and Kerry had 48.1%, meaning Bush received 2.8% more votes than Kerry.

According to Dr Ron Baiman, PhD, from the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois in Chicago, who has 16 years of experience teaching statistics to both graduate and undergraduate college students, there would be about 1 chance in 900,000 of that kind of statistical error occurring.

Ohio was the most important state to Bush. He could not win without it. He spent so much time in the state that people began to wonder whether he had left a forwarding address to Ohio.

At his last campaign rally in the state, a mere 4 days before the election, Bush bestowed special praise on a husband and wife team who in hindsight, were more helpful to Bush than any other politicians in Ohio, as far as rigging the election.

“I want to thank my friends Bernadette Noe and Tom Noe," Bush told the audience at the Toledo rally, "for their leadership in Lucas County.”


more at:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_evelyn_p_060608_how_bush_rigged_ohio.htm

"Some games are crude. In one precinct, Kerry's name was simply left off the tally sheet. The
machine appeared to work so voters were clueless that their choice didn't tally."

Illustration shows actual Poll Tape without Kerry listed as Candidate Choice



bush/cheney 132
cobb/lemarche 0
peroutka/baldwin 2
badnarik/campagn 1
nader/camejo 0

on New Mexico!

but all the inside stuff you wish you could know about, it's in there.

:-)

I try not to curse, but here is something even I didn't know about.

Thanks.... sort of.

grin.

was to keep the lid on this.

Ms Noe was Chairperson of the Lucas County BOE during the past election. I hope you have taken the time to read the SOS's Investigation of Lucas county following the election:

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/elections/lucas.htm


This report includes the fact that REPUBLICAN VOLUNTEERS were allowed UNSUPERVISED ACCESS to UNSECURED BALLOTS prior to the election, as well as this list:

*failure to maintain ballot security
*Inability to implement and maintain a trackable system for voter ballot reconciliation .
*failure to prepare and develop a plan for the processing of the voluminous amount of voter registration forms received.
*issuance and acceptance of incorrect absentee ballot forms.
*manipulation of the process involving the 3% recount.
*disjointed implementation of the Directive regarding the removal of Nader and Camejo from the ballot .
*failure to properly issue hospital ballots in accordance with statutory requirements.
*failure to maintain the security of poll books during the official canvass
*failure to examine campaign finance reports in a timely manner.
*failure to guard and protect public documents ....etc.


-One-half of the ballots printed and used in the 2004 general election in Lucas county were stored in an open space on the fhird floor of the county warehouse with no security measures in place.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation on Lucas County BOE page 4



-Live ballots were delivered to polling locations a week in advance of the election. Although the ballots were retrieved, one board employee who was assigned to the warehouse informed the SOS staff that he did not believe all the ballots were successfully retrieved.
SOURCE; SOS Investigation, page 5



-Lucas County BOE failed to record or retrieve ballot stub numbers of absentee voters’ ballots as required by statute OH Revised Code 3505.23. It was reported by an elector that her mother had received not one, but three absentee voter ballots. there was no way to determine if similar incidents occurred and if so how many.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation, page 7




-October 4, 2004 was filing deadline for new voter registrations. At that point there were approximately 20,000 unprocessed voter registration applications with less than a month before the election. One mail tray containing 4,500-7,000 (estimates vary) unprocessed “Project Voter” registrations were discovered on or about October 18,2004.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation pg 10

***Of interest here is information obtained from the SOS website entitled ElectionsVoter/results 2003 and 2004 which show the # of registered voters number change from ‘03-’04 was 11,947 in Lucas County: reg voters 2003 in Lucas=288,190 ; registered voter in 2004=300,137.



-In late September or early October an employee of the Ohio Republican Party contacted Sam Thurber (*involved with politician wife Maggie Thurber in Noe scandal.) wanting to inspect and have copies made of all recently returned voter registrations, Ohio Republican Party offered to furnish volunteers to assist with copying postcards. No one at the Lucas County BOE can confirm that anyone was assigned to supervise Republican volunteers. On their second day of copying, a BOE employee, Jennifer Bernath, Democratic Booth Official) saw republican party volunteers peeling off the yellow return stickers applied by the post office. (Violation of RC 149.43 (B) (I) , and agruably a violation of 149.351.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation, pgs 18-19

*Among those whose donations have caught the attention of investigators are:

City Councilman Betty Shultz; former state representative Sally Perz, her husband, Joe, and her daughter, Allison; former county elections director Joe Kidd; county Auditor Larry Kaczala and his wife, Gina; County Commissioner Maggie Thurber and her husband, Sam; and two of Mr. Noe’s co-workers at Vintage Coins and Collectibles, partner Tim Lapointe and executive assistant Susan Metzger. Mr. Lapointe’s wife, Linda, also donated.

All of the above gave the campaign $2,000 except the Thurbers; each of them gave $1,950 to the campaign. The $23,900 in donations were made between Oct. 30 and Nov. 5, 2003.

Path of donations At issue is whether Mr. Noe gave people money in order for them to give to the Bush campaign, allowing Mr. Noe to exceed federal spending limits, law-enforcement sources said.
Source:
Toledo Blade - FBI Raids GOP Donor Noe's Condo
Friday, April 29, 2005




-The Swanton 3 poll book turned up missing and has never been recovered.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation pg 16

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So why did Blackwell investigate Lucas Co. ? He had wind of the Noe issue before the electon and wanted to appear as being above the corruption.

and BTW...Lucas Co BOE was also investigated in 2002, so these weren't new problems.

This issue is SO complicated - I am not always sure whats Up and whats Down...

Probably to learn from the pros just how to steal votes. And to establish that Lucas county people deserved a reward from *.

And people have come on this forum saying we should just move on, nothing to see.

Athough the air was thick w allegations long before last year’s election (THIS COULD BE THE REASON BLACKWELL INVESTIGATED LUCAS COUNTY BOE), it wasn’t until the end of Sept that the county prosecutor recieved information and due to a vacation, the investigation began Oct 12th, 2004.

"Questions arise early
The air was thick with talk in Toledo about investigations surrounding the Noes long before last year's election. It centered on contributions to the Bush campaign at an Oct. 30, 2003, fund-raiser in Columbus, where Mr. Noe sponsored a table and invited a number of people to attend.
At issue was whether Mr. Noe gave others money in order for them to give to the Bush campaign, allowing him to skirt federal spending limits, law enforcement sources told The Blade.

-snip-

Although Mr. Kidd made his allegation in March, 2004, it wasn't until September that the county prosecutor's office received information - generated by a subpoena that a county grand jury issued - that ruled out the allegation by Mrs. Noe and Mr. Thurber against Mr. Kidd."

www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050619/SRRARECOINS/306190017


In other words, he knew the perverbial s#@* was about to hit the fan and wanted to distance himself from it.

When the Noe thing started it was after King Blackwell had refused to show up for his own trial.. A DEM Sec of State in CA tried to send and underling to court and lost his job over a simular scenario..Sheehey I think was his name.. Conyers was shining a light on things... The heat was up up up in Ohio.

I can't remember if it was before or after the backfire of the attempt to censure the Ohio attorneys who tried to get vote fraud charges brought against Blackwell...

but the Ohio boys became like a bunch of dogs snapping at each other and missing the cat-like attorneys running between them and under their legs... losing their minds for a time and just ripping each other to shreds.

Unfortunately, it was over before it could topple the whole apple cart. They came back to their political shrewdness quickly and Noe went down and Ken is running for Gov.... anybody hear more about the lawsuit against him for having the memory cards for his upcoming election locked in his office?

900+ pages of testimony by voters who were disenfranchised before, during or after the voting process are on record thanks to John Conyers & 4 attorneys in Ohio. (see below posts...sometimes the oldies are still the goodies.)

Ken Blackwell Sec of State of Ohio was in league with Noe and had the responsibility to deliver a fair election.... but his conflict of interest as the RNC Co-Chair in Ohio who had the responsibility to make sure *ush won got the better of him.

When he was subpoenaed to court regarding fixing the election, he simply refused to show up. Of course he was sitting on the state's evidence which could prove his misdeeds. The record in the court hearing only came about because he got cocky and tried to censure the attorneys who filed the motion accusing him of vote fraud.



http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1166


Representative Conyers and others file amicus brief in Ohio Supreme Court
by Dena Graziano
February 17, 2005

Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, will be filing an amicus brief in the Ohio Supreme Court with the support of Senator Russ Feingold and 17 other members of the House of Representatives recommending that the Court not sanction the attorneys who brought Ohio election contest in Moss v. Bush (no.04- 2088). Mr. Conyers offered the following statement:

"The attorneys in this case had reason to believe that the election results did not reflect the will of the electorate. In good faith, they brought a case based not only on statistical probability but the depositions and affidavits of computer experts, statisticians, and election volunteers. In only a couple months, these attorneys have amassed over 900 pages of evidence.

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http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1155

Congresswoman Tubbs Jones Outraged at Blackwell's Failure to Appear During House Administration Hearing
by Office of Rep. Tubbs Jones
February 12, 2005

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones spoke before the House Administration Committee during their hearing on the Implementation of the Help America Vote Act following the 2004 election.

"I am thoroughly disappointed that the Secretary of State from my home state of Ohio, Ken Blackwell, chose not to testify today before the House Administration Committee," stated Rep. Tubbs Jones. "Just as he created tremendous confusion among voters in Cuyahoga County and across the state of Ohio during this past election by issuing bizarre directives and playing partisan politics, his failure to testify before this committee today shows that he is not committed to improving our election system.

"I would have thought that he would have seen this hearing as an opportunity to further examine the problems that occurred during this past election and work to develop a plan of action for addressing them. The Secretaries of State from key battleground States such as Iowa, New Mexico and Indiana felt it important enough to attend this hearing today. Ken Blackwell owed it the people of Ohio and of this country to be at this hearing today. They deserve the truth!"

.......

Remember, 13 million dollars went south from Ohio workers. That was enough to fund election thieves in several states.

Not that I'm optimistic about local prosecutors getting to the bottom of it, but a measly 50K in illegal contributions was tip money. Heck, it could even be that they "entrapped" local Repubs into cooperating or looking the other way by making them "criminals" with these contributions. It's not like any of the funnellers are going to jail for it.

It might be far more interesting to see where the bulk of those millions were "misspent."

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To me that is worse.

3000 souls lost on 9/11 who can't be brought back for any dollar amount
2486 US soldiers in Iraq who can't be brought back ...

Thousands in Fallujah and the US Gulf Coast who gave their lives to incompetence, sheer wrong headed leadership and cover ups can not be brought back to life for any dollar amount.

So although Noe deserves all that is coming to him, Blackwell is the criminal who should be tried for treason against the US of A and should be made to pay for his crimes by a court of law and should even face execution depending on how much can be proved of his betrayal of the US trust.

If he placed his loyalty to the pRes higher than his office of Sec of State and it can be proved he rigged the election and sat on the evidence by refusing to honor a legal subpoena ... and if he did this knowing in advance of the Iraq War about lack of WMD and the pRes's desire to send America to war without just cause, Blackwell has his share of the blood of all those people on his hands.

He probably wasn't that far in the loop, but he still hasn't even faced any consequences for his part in delivering America into the hands of an incompetent boob and his handlers.

of the most powerful positions (especially in an important swing state like Ohio) in the country.

Remember the Josef Stalin quote:

"Those who vote decide nothing.

Those who count the vote decide everything."

been applied here, but Ken Blackwell simply refused to have the rule of law apply to him. He was sued and supenoed to court, but said he didn't have to show up because it was just a political ploy... giving him a court date to verify he did his job to the best of his ability was termed "harrassment".

You've really been tearing up the joint lately with all these terrific posts! :thumbsup:

I like that...

Thanks!