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.
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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=101Of course the Dispatch is owned by a family who endorsed Bush in 2004.