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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 08:18 PM
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Cols Dispatch: FRAUD CLAIMS IN OHIO '04 election critics still unmoved by evidence
FRAUD CLAIMS IN OHIO
'04 election critics still unmoved by evidence
Sunday, August 10, 2008 3:29 AM
By Mark Niquette
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


The documentaries all follow pretty much the same script:

Show some long lines of voters, many of them black, standing in the Columbus rain.

Flash a picture of former Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and maybe some touch-screen voting machines.

Interview many of the same activists, all reaching the same conclusion: The 2004 election in Ohio was stolen and, with it, the presidency.

"I've become convinced that the president's party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in Rolling Stone magazine in 2006.

Most independent election observers don't buy the conspiracy theories. They say that although there were problems and irregularities, there's no direct proof of widespread fraud that would have changed the outcome.

But after dozens of documentaries, articles, books and blogs devoted to documenting how the 2004 presidential election was hijacked, it's become almost accepted urban legend.

-snip

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/08/10/copy/STOLEN.ART_ART_08-10-08_A1_4PB01M7.html?adsec=politics&sid=101



Of course the Dispatch is owned by a family who endorsed Bush in 2004.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 08:21 PM
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1. Just trying to cover their tracks .... nothing to see here move on
Edited on Sun Aug-10-08 08:34 PM by Botany
"They" helped cover up the crime and are in it up to their eyeballs ....

freaking 25% of the registered voters in cuyahoga county were removed from the
rolls ..... that is 100,000 votes right there.



And they brought up the Moritz College of Law @ OSU as their little security blanket ....
the same group that let Mark F "Thor" Hearn* chief legal consul of bush/Cheney 04
speak about all those Democratic election scams



* From ACVR paid for by T Boone Pickens and helped out by the DoJ
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 10:52 AM
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2. Mark Niquette knows better or at least should. He has been set evidence
he just ignores in this article.
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EndofTheRepublicans Donating Member (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 12:15 PM
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3. Good Ole Rush Limbaugh said the other day, he knows a secret...
He said
'I know a secret, that 10 percent of the Obama supporters that show up on the polls, aren't gonna show up to vote in the election. So all McCain has to do is stay within ten percent.'

Hmm, sounds like posturing for an excuse as to why the exit polls end up so inaccurate in November.
Wonder if that 'secret' starts showing up from other sources.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 11:19 PM
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4. "no direct proof of widespread fraud that would have changed the outcome."
JUST "direct proof of widespread fraud" is all.

Yeah, that's the new standard of American Justice under Bush, alright!!!!
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