101Scout
02-14-2008, 04:05 PM
The good news is.... Ohio Secretary of State Brunner knows that the '04 selection in Ohio was flawed (stolen) and that's putting it nicely.... but since she was elected in '06, she's trying to avoid the same results taking place in the presidential election.
My guess is... expect the same in '08.... both the primary and the GE. Old habits is hard to change in a red ass state like Ohio despite Ms Brunner's efforts to make it right.
Note below in red the laws broken concerning precincts / counties who destroyed election records. Crimes committed... cover-ups about it took place all over this red ass state!
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Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen
Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2007-12-15
By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, Free Press
Ohio's Secretary of State announced this morning
that a $1.9 million official study shows that
"critical security failures" are embedded
throughout the voting systems in the state that
decided the 2004 election. Those failures, she
says, "could impact the integrity of elections in
the Buckeye State." They have rendered Ohio's
vote counts "vulnerable" to manipulation and
theft by "fairly simple techniques."
Indeed, she says, "the tools needed to compromise
an accurate vote count could be as simple as
tampering with the paper audit trail connector or
using a magnet and a personal digital assistant."
In other words, Ohio's top election official has
finally confirmed that the 2004 election could
have been easily stolen.
[b]Brunner's stunning findings apply to electronic
voting machines used in 58 of Ohio's 88 counties,
in addition to scanning devices and central
tabulators used on paper ballots in much of the
rest of the state.
Brunner is calling for widespread changes to the
way Ohio casts and counts its ballots. Her
announcement follows moves by California
Secretary of State Deborah Bowen to disqualify
electronic voting machines in the nation's
biggest state.
In tandem, these two reports add a critical
state-based dimension to the growing mountain of
evidence that the US electoral system is rife
with insecurities. Reports from the Brennan
Center, the Carter-Baker Commission, the
Government Accountability Office, the Conyers
Committee Task Force Report, Princeton University
and others have offered differing perspectives
that add up to the same conclusion.
Coming in the state that decided the 2004
election for George W. Bush, Brunner's
confirmation of the electoral system's
vulnerabilities adds huge new weight to the
charge that the Buckeye State's vote count was
stolen.
In a series of investigative reports dating to
well before the 2004 election, the Columbus Free
Press and Freepress.org have documented several
dozen different means used by the Bush-Cheney
re-election campaign to steal the official 2004
vote count.
The final official tally for Bush---less than
119,000 votes out of 5.4 million cast---varied by
6.7% from exit poll results, which showed a Kerry
victory. Exit polls in 2004 were designed to have
a margin of error of about 1%.
In various polling stations in Democrat-rich
inner city precincts in Youngstown and Columbus,
voters who pushed touch screens for Kerry saw
Bush's name light up. A wide range of
discrepancies on both electronic and paper
balloting systems leaned almost uniformly toward
the Bush camp. Voting procedures regularly broke
down in inner city and campus areas known to be
heavily Democratic.
In direct violation of standing federal election
law, 56 of Ohio's 88 counties have since
destroyed all or part of their 2004 election
data. The materials were additionally protected
by a federal court injunction in the
King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal civil rights
lawsuit (in which we are attorney and plaintiff).
To date, no state or federal prosecutions have
resulted from this wholesale destruction of
presidential election records, including 1.6
million ballots, cast and uncast, needed for
definitive auditing procedures. However, two
Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) election officials
have been convicted of felony manipulation of an
official recount. The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the
state's largest newspaper, recently editorialized
that there is "no evidence" the 2004 election was
stolen, but omitted mention of the destruction of
the electoral records by more than half the
counties in the state. The Plain-Dealer and other
mainstream media have consistently ignored
findings by the Free Press and others indicating
widespread manipulation and theft of the kind
Brunner has now confirmed was eminently do-able
within the Ohio system.
Brunner says "the results underscore the need for
a fundamental change in the structure of Ohio's
election system to ensure ballot and voting
system security while still making voting
convenient and accessible to all Ohio voters."
Among other things, she advocates replacing
touch-screen machines with optical-scan units
that include a paper balloting system.
The study was managed by the Battelle
Corporation, and conducted by Columbus-based
MicroSolved Inc., SysTest Labs of Denver along
with a consortium of academic subcontractors. It
was reviewed by a dozen county officials, and
included scrutiny of voting systems produced by
Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Hart
Intercivic and Premier Election Solutions
(formerly Diebold).
Brunner is the Democratic successor to Republican
J. Kenneth Blackwell, who administered the 2004
election as Secretary of State while also serving
as state co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign.
The report comes as part of her pledge to
guarantee a fair and reliable vote count in the
upcoming 2008 presidential election.
My guess is... expect the same in '08.... both the primary and the GE. Old habits is hard to change in a red ass state like Ohio despite Ms Brunner's efforts to make it right.
Note below in red the laws broken concerning precincts / counties who destroyed election records. Crimes committed... cover-ups about it took place all over this red ass state!
[Only registered and activated users can see links]
Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen
Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2007-12-15
By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, Free Press
Ohio's Secretary of State announced this morning
that a $1.9 million official study shows that
"critical security failures" are embedded
throughout the voting systems in the state that
decided the 2004 election. Those failures, she
says, "could impact the integrity of elections in
the Buckeye State." They have rendered Ohio's
vote counts "vulnerable" to manipulation and
theft by "fairly simple techniques."
Indeed, she says, "the tools needed to compromise
an accurate vote count could be as simple as
tampering with the paper audit trail connector or
using a magnet and a personal digital assistant."
In other words, Ohio's top election official has
finally confirmed that the 2004 election could
have been easily stolen.
[b]Brunner's stunning findings apply to electronic
voting machines used in 58 of Ohio's 88 counties,
in addition to scanning devices and central
tabulators used on paper ballots in much of the
rest of the state.
Brunner is calling for widespread changes to the
way Ohio casts and counts its ballots. Her
announcement follows moves by California
Secretary of State Deborah Bowen to disqualify
electronic voting machines in the nation's
biggest state.
In tandem, these two reports add a critical
state-based dimension to the growing mountain of
evidence that the US electoral system is rife
with insecurities. Reports from the Brennan
Center, the Carter-Baker Commission, the
Government Accountability Office, the Conyers
Committee Task Force Report, Princeton University
and others have offered differing perspectives
that add up to the same conclusion.
Coming in the state that decided the 2004
election for George W. Bush, Brunner's
confirmation of the electoral system's
vulnerabilities adds huge new weight to the
charge that the Buckeye State's vote count was
stolen.
In a series of investigative reports dating to
well before the 2004 election, the Columbus Free
Press and Freepress.org have documented several
dozen different means used by the Bush-Cheney
re-election campaign to steal the official 2004
vote count.
The final official tally for Bush---less than
119,000 votes out of 5.4 million cast---varied by
6.7% from exit poll results, which showed a Kerry
victory. Exit polls in 2004 were designed to have
a margin of error of about 1%.
In various polling stations in Democrat-rich
inner city precincts in Youngstown and Columbus,
voters who pushed touch screens for Kerry saw
Bush's name light up. A wide range of
discrepancies on both electronic and paper
balloting systems leaned almost uniformly toward
the Bush camp. Voting procedures regularly broke
down in inner city and campus areas known to be
heavily Democratic.
In direct violation of standing federal election
law, 56 of Ohio's 88 counties have since
destroyed all or part of their 2004 election
data. The materials were additionally protected
by a federal court injunction in the
King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal civil rights
lawsuit (in which we are attorney and plaintiff).
To date, no state or federal prosecutions have
resulted from this wholesale destruction of
presidential election records, including 1.6
million ballots, cast and uncast, needed for
definitive auditing procedures. However, two
Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) election officials
have been convicted of felony manipulation of an
official recount. The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the
state's largest newspaper, recently editorialized
that there is "no evidence" the 2004 election was
stolen, but omitted mention of the destruction of
the electoral records by more than half the
counties in the state. The Plain-Dealer and other
mainstream media have consistently ignored
findings by the Free Press and others indicating
widespread manipulation and theft of the kind
Brunner has now confirmed was eminently do-able
within the Ohio system.
Brunner says "the results underscore the need for
a fundamental change in the structure of Ohio's
election system to ensure ballot and voting
system security while still making voting
convenient and accessible to all Ohio voters."
Among other things, she advocates replacing
touch-screen machines with optical-scan units
that include a paper balloting system.
The study was managed by the Battelle
Corporation, and conducted by Columbus-based
MicroSolved Inc., SysTest Labs of Denver along
with a consortium of academic subcontractors. It
was reviewed by a dozen county officials, and
included scrutiny of voting systems produced by
Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Hart
Intercivic and Premier Election Solutions
(formerly Diebold).
Brunner is the Democratic successor to Republican
J. Kenneth Blackwell, who administered the 2004
election as Secretary of State while also serving
as state co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign.
The report comes as part of her pledge to
guarantee a fair and reliable vote count in the
upcoming 2008 presidential election.