Three Cuyahoga County, Ohio, election workers have been indicted on charges that they improperly conducted the recount of ballots after the 2004 election.
The special prosecutor in the case, Kevin Baxter, said that there was no evidence of vote fraud, but that the workers were trying to avoid having to conduct a public hand recount of the county’s ballots.
The Ohio recount process involves recounting three percent of the ballots by hand and by machine, and if the counts match, then recounting the remainder of the ballots by machine. But if the counts don’t match exactly after two attempts, then every ballot in the county must be recounted by hand.
The investigation began after a Toledo attorney wrote the Cuyahoga County prosecutor with allegations that the election officials had not selected precincts at random and had pre-counted the ballots, choosing only precincts where the hand counts matched the machine counts, and then pretending to choose those precincts at random when the recount was done. The prosecutor recused himself, and Baxter, a prosecutor from Erie County, was appointed special prosecutor.
Kathleen Dreamer was manager of the board’s ballot department. Rosie Grier was assistant manager. Jacqueline Maiden was Elections Division director and its third-highest-ranking employee. All have been charged with misdemeanor and felony counts of failing to follow the state elections law.
A May 8 trial date is set for Dreamer and Grier, but Baxter wants to combine all three cases, including Maiden’s, who was indicted later. . . .
“They screwed with the process and increased the probability, if not the certainty, that there would not be a full countywide hand count,” Baxter said. — Cleveland Plain Dealer
Michael Vu, executive director of the Cuyahoga County elections board, said that the employees had been following established procedures, had done nothing wrong, and were actually prepared to hand count the entire county’s ballots.
“Why do all that work to prepare for the election, conduct it, audit it, canvass and then not meet this last obligation?” he said. “Our plan was to regroup after Christmas and just work through it.”
The recount of Ohio had been requested by the Libertarian and Green Party presidential candidates, Michael Badnarik and David Cobb.
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Raloh G.
Jan 20, 2007
I warned at least ONE person about some of these type of possabilities–ME!.
Dave
Jan 20, 2007
Okay, the election(s) were stolen. Try and get these criminals out of power, good luck. Both parties are in on it and were from the start. Both Gore and Kerry walked-away without a word.
The only way that we will get them out of office is by force. These Fascists have planned this take-over for many decades and aren’t going to roll over and go quitely into this good night.
The stolen elections were the begining of a surge into world government and the coming “North American Union”.The unification of Canada, USA and Mexico as one borderless Fascist controlled zone.
I quote; “It’s time for a revolution!” That was from Texas Congressman, Ron Paul (R) who is now running for president in 2008.
Before, Bush and his controllers are forced out of power they will burn down the planet and all of us with them.You will not petition them or legally make them step-down without a massive armed uprising.
We were admonished by the founding fathers to have a revolution every 20 years. We are long over due.
Scott Clayton
Jan 20, 2007
Those who await the mass uprising have taken no notice of professional employee managemant techniques, as taught in business schools throughout the western world.
Specifically, I refer to the technique known as the golden handcuffs.
Once a percieved reward is tailored to continuing participation in any given activity or group, together with a commensurate loss should the participant attempt to leave or stop participating…AND THE EMPLOYEE HAS BEGUN TO SAVOR THE ANTICIPATION OF THE PROMISED REWARD… the manager can ask, demand, or do as he/she pleases without meaningful resistance from any employee.
TRANSLATION
Once the citizen owns a house, car, etc., together with the accompaning debt, the percieved RISK OF LOSS … TO ONESELF AND FAMILY… forbids any action action contrary to the wishes of the MASTER.
FRIENDS…WE ARE ACTUALLY AND TRULY ENSLAVED.
SLAVES MAY DO BATTLE FOR THE MASTER
BUT
SLAVES NEVER REVOLT.
Patrick Sullivan
Jan 20, 2007
Our enemy elite have no choice in the matter: They are going, one way or the other.
They have tried to exterminate the human race with the use of nuclear weapons.
Iran is but another attempt to kill us all, before we get the troops to attack Washington, and arrest the entire God Damned bunch of political bums that front for the enemy elite.
The Extraterrestrials are holding down our enemy elite and continue to prevent the launch of any nuclear missiles.
Get it straight folks: They , our nuclear armed enemy elite, have pulled the trigger on us already. We are the living Dead.
The vote thieves who helped put this Fiend into office, are going to spend part of the rest of their lives in courtrooms.
And some of their time in cages.
http://politicsofet.com
Jan 20, 2007
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R.E.Thorpe
Jan 21, 2007
The last comment is totaly correct in my opinion. They have pulled the trigger numerous times over the last few years and our benevolent ET friends have made sure that they were all failures. Thank God for their technology. It is the mother of all struggles we are immersed in and the dark souls will not just roll over and quit. IT seems that we are past the time where we could have been saved by our own efforts and if the higher forces of the cosmos do not step in soon all will be lost. Pray for intervention my brothers and sisters and at the same time continue to do all that you can to reveal the truth and turn this around despite the odds that seem to be stacked in the favour of the satanic overlords. Prophecy points out that the intervention will occur or all would be lost, the good and the bad. For the sake of the few good the destruction will be stopped.When the time comes for us to ruminate our victory over the dark side what will you be able to brag about. Stand tall despite the odds. Speak your truth. Have courage and do not fear death itself.
George in Seattle
Jan 21, 2007
Hey guys I like Art Bell too, but I don’t take him very seriously. We have a lot of problems in this country and we need regular Earth people with both feet planted firmly on the ground to solve them, not ETs whizzing about in UFOs. Nice theory though.
Mack
Jan 25, 2007
Dave, who stole the election? These convicted poll workers were all Democrats. Kerry tried to steal the election in Ohio, but didn’t steal quite enough votes.