Nov2Truth.org news update:
Statement Of Congressman John Conyers, Jr. Forum On “preserving
Democracy: What Went Wrong In Ohio”
December 8, 2004
Judiciary
Democratic Forum
The one question I am asked more than any other about the voting
irregularities in Ohio is whether John Kerry was a the true winner of
the election. My answer is that I do not know. In this country, we
gather facts before we reach conclusions, and we ask questions before
we get the answers.
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The Conyers Hearing
December 08, 2004
William Rivers Pitt
Go There
On Thursday 02 December, Democratic Representative John Conyers, Jr. of
Michigan, ranking Minority member of the House Judiciary Committee,
sent a letter
to Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell outlining a long
series of voting irregularities in Ohio during the Presidential
election last month. The factual data in that letter, combined with
information that has since been brought to light, is the subject of the
hearing Conyers and fellow Judiciary Democrats are holding on Wednesday
08 December. TO's William Rivers Pitt is there to cover the event, and
will be reporting here throughout the day.
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Voting-Rights Advocates Cite Election Problems
December 7, 2004
LA
Times
Nick Anderson
WASHINGTON — While President Bush secured his reelection with a
119,000-vote victory in Ohio, voting rights advocates today dwelled on
a statistic they claimed told another story: the more than 414,000
calls that were made to national hotlines established to monitor
complaints and compile eyewitness observations about the Nov. 2 vote.
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The Ohio Recount: Reluctant Officials and Few Rules
December 8th, 2004
CounterPunch
Ann Harrison
Thousands of protesting Ukrainians successfully forced their Supreme
Court to order a new presidential run-off election and are still
agitating for anti-fraud legislation. But their counterparts in the
U.S. - which holds itself up as a model of Democracy - are plunging
into a tough fight to recount and dispute the election in Ohio which
handed President Bush twenty decisive electoral votes.
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Franklin County Elections Board Targeted Heavily Democratic
Precincts
Original
Dec. 07, 2004
Tim Lohrentz
The Franklin County, Ohio, Board of Elections practiced widespread
voter suppression in the allocation of voting machines on November 2,
2004. In an analysis of official Franklin County data on voting
machines per precinct, precincts where machines were added or
subtracted from 2000 to 2004, and the party affiliations of the
registered voters, Democratic precincts were nearly twice as likely as
Republican precincts to have voting machines subtracted from 2000 to
2004. Please see the full text here: download
PDF (29.6 kibibytes)
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