Congressman Conyers on Inside Scoop, discuss voting probs

Don't know if this has been posted yet - starts in a few minutes:

Dear Radio Inside Scoop Fan,

Thank you for writing to request an investigation of the irregularities in the 2004 election in Ohio and elsewhere.

You ask, and I deliver. Although, after repeated negotations the Ohio Secretary of State's office (which controls elections there) REFUSED to comment on the record, I've brought you the next best thing:

Congressman John Conyers of Michigan, the Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and the leader of the challenge to the Ohio vote.

See below, DON'T MISS TODAY'S SHOW, and pass the words on to your friends. If you miss the live show, it will be archived at www.RadioInsideScoop.com .

Mark Levine


TODAY AT 3 PM EASTERN (2 Central, 1 Mountain, Noon Pacific)
at www.RadioInsideScoop.com,

Please join me and my special guest, Congressman John Conyers of Michigan, the Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, who, along with other Democrats has complained to the General Accounting Office about election law violations in Ohio, Florida, and across the nation. Don't hesitate to call in and ask him questions at 1-877-57-SCOOP.

The Green and Libertarian Parties have called for a recount in Ohio. This may make the Bush Administration a little nervous because if Ohio goes to Kerry, Kerry will occupy the White House on January 20. (Kerry's concession is not legally binding.)

The Ohio Secretary of State's office REFUSES to grant us an interview on THE INSIDE SCOOP to discuss the myriad of problems there (as Florida and Maryland did). What do you think Ohio is trying to hide?

What happened in Ohio?

- Discarding of 94,000 votes, due to punchcard problems
- Some 175,000 provisional ballots in Ohio yet to be counted
- Faulty election machines, including one that accidentally gave 4000 votes to Bush
- No paper records of electronic machines
- Warren County illegally closed off to the media when it conducted its counting giving 70% of the vote to Bush
(and a 50,000 vote margin)
- Long lines in the rain in Democratic-leaning counties. Some had to wait for up to 6 to 10 hours!
- Failure to distribute absentee ballots as required by law
- Republican voting challenges on Election Day
- Failure to let people outside their precincts vote
- Refusal to allow people to register to vote if the paperstock of their absentee registration form weighed too little!
(after an outcry, this one was reversed)

And in Florida? And across the nation?

Many listeners have requested this show. Don't miss a very special INSIDE SCOOP.

Mark Levine
www.RadioInsideScoop.com

The Green and Libertarian presidential candidates have called for a recount, but what about the Dems???? Kerry stands to benefit from the recount! (as we all do!)

He also said he "hasn't been in touch with the DNC"

know something we don't?!!!

he said there were to be hearings this weekend - and he would be back in touch with this guy, on monday. he said he may have some info from the DNC by then
and he is asking for an investigation on why the OH SoS met with Bush day of election - or a full public disclosure of it. He also says he doesn't think people are being paranoid asking about this, seeing as this is the second time it has happened!

I think that revelation is huge. I think it is clear this will not go away anytime soon.

Can ya feel it? Can ya feel the momentum growing?

WOOOOOOHOOOOOO

elsewhere in cyberspace. Are you familiar with this:

VOTE FRAUD Links - a DU Compendium
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=201&topic_id=1984#

Du has seen fit to hide the main forum (and rename it to boot), but check out some of the stuff compiled in that thread.

Not what I meant though. I was referring specifically to the Conyers quote today. It kinda sat in the forum for a while with not much attention. I thought it was huge that he is even demanding an investigation into why Bushie met with the SOS, etc.. In reality, I was just kickin the thread so people can see the quote.

I also think the fact that David Shuster getting in on it is pretty good;
"On Friday night, "Hardball with Chris Matthews" (7 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET) will be jumping into the fray. You won't want to miss that. Plus, this weekend here on Hardblogger, I'll be posting some amazing national election numbers and demographic trends that may shock you. I've run some of the numbers past a few MSNBC political analysts, and everybody is calling it "a big deal."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/
"Big Deal" sounds pretty promising!

Embarrass the hell out of the Chimp and his bogus ass mandate! Ha! One can dream, can't he/she?

the President Kerry line. In what context did he use this?

where the DNC was on this and he said "Well I haven't been in touch with the DNC or President Kerry." Mark Levine didn't correct him. (nor did he correct himself.) It says you can listen to the interview on the website when it's over.
Conyers was on for the first half hour.
http://radioinsidescoop.com/mt-posts-archive/000245.html

thanks for the turn on

Conyers wasn't really doing too much to shed doubt on the fraud questions... he was being pretty outspoken about how suspicious everything looks.

OFFICALS SAY THEY RECIEVED MEMOS FROM HOMELAND SECURITY
3 WEEKS BEFORE THE ELECTION AND THAT THEY WERE VISITED BY THE FBI


but Homeland Security and the FBI say they know nothing!!!!

WHERE ARE THE MEMOS?

WHO SENT THEM?

WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THAT FBI GUY?

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AMY GOODMAN: Can you summarize your piece in today's Cincinnati Enquirer?

ERICA SOLVIG: Well, the story that ran today is reiterating the County Commissioner’s stance of Homeland Security concerns. They say, as you have already mentioned, that the county was facing a terrorist threat that ranked 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. We talked to several officials with the homeland security department as well as the FBI. They knew of no increased terrorism concerns in Warren County in particular, and just, again, raising the continuing concerns regarding Homeland Security and being locked out of the building. The primary focus of all of the articles has been on, you know, the First Amendment issues and the open government issues that are raised when the public and the media are locked out of the process.

AMY GOODMAN: You have interviewed a number of people for your pieces; among them was a news director at a local TV station?

ERICA SOLVIG: That's correct.

AMY GOODMAN: What did he say?

ERICA SOLVIG: He called this a red herring. Bob Moreford, the News Director at channel 9, CWPO TV, the ABC affiliate here said he had never seen anything like it, and WCPO as well as the Associated Press and the Inquirer all received the same response when they tried to get into the building on election night, and that was being locked out. Moreford said that he considered it a red herring. He continued to say, “That’s something that's put up when you don't know what else to put up to keep us out.”

AMY GOODMAN: We're taking a look at Keith Olbermann's blog from MSNBC. He was quoting the statement given out by Warren County Commissioner Pat South to MSNBC. You have also been quoting her a great deal. It's quite a remarkable quote. It says, “About three weeks prior to elections, our emergency services department had been receiving quite a few pieces of correspondence from the office of Homeland Security on the upcoming elections. These memos were sent out statewide, not just to Warren County, and they included a lot of planning tools and resources to use for Election Day security.” Pat South went on to say, “In a face-to-face meeting between the FBI and our director of Emergency Services, we were informed that on a scale from 1 to 10, the tri-state area of southwest Ohio was ranked at a high 8 to a low 9, in terms of security risk. Warren County in particular was rated at 10, 10 being the top highest risk. Pursuant to the Ohio-revised code, we followed the law to the letter that basically says no one is allowed within 100 feet of a polling place except for voters, and that after the polls closed, the only people allowed in the Board of Elections area where votes are being counted are the Board of Election members, judges, clerks, poll challengers, police, and that no one other than those people can be there while tabulation is taking place.” And yet, Erica Solvig, now the Department of Homeland Security and FBI are denying that they ever talked about a security risk here?

ERICA SOLVIG: They're saying that they were not aware of any increased security risk in Warren County on Election Day. The county has declined to give us the agent's name who told them this, because they haven't talked to this agent - this is an FBI agent - anytime recently. But the Homeland Security officials that we have talked to in the area, as well as the FBI, are unaware of any increased security risk on Election Day. Again, the primary concern was being locked out of a public building on a night when the entire nation was watching, waiting for the results.

AMY GOODMAN: Is Warren County, Ohio, republican or democrat?

ERICA SOLVIG: It is Republican, but politics aside this was an unprecedented action on their part. As far as we know and as far as the Ohio Secretary of State's office knows this is the only county in the state that locked the public out of the building.

AMY GOODMAN: One more time, as you point out in today's Cincinnati Inquirer piece, Pat South the commissioner describes the FBI agent coming to her?

ERICA SOLVIG: The FBI agent apparently spoke with some county officials who then relayed the information to the commissioners. He actually spoke directly to Frank Young, who is quoted in the article as well.

more
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/10/1536254

picture! Trace that back to the WH, and Chimp has got a big problem!! This is probably the big piece of evidence of it all!