You're not alone. The nonpartisan Citizen’s Alliance for Secure Elections (CASE) is investigating various other voting irregularities in Ohio, among them:
* In Auglaize County, a letter dated October 21 under the signature of Ken Nuss, the county’s former deputy director, alleges that Joe McGinnis, a former employee of Election Systems & Software (ES&S), violated election protocol with his unauthorized use of the county’s central tabulating computer that creates ballots and compiles election results. Nuss, who resigned on October 21, alleges that McGinnis was improperly granted access to the computer the weekend of October 16. * In Miami County, with 100% of the precincts reporting at 9am EST Wednesday, Nov. 3, Bush had 20,807 votes (65.80%) and Kerry had 10,724 (33.92%). Miami reported 31,620 voters. Inexplicably, nearly 19,000 new ballots were added after all precincts reported, boosting Bush’s vote to 33,039 (65.77%) to Kerry’s 17,039 (33.92%). CASE is investigating why the percentage of the vote stayed exactly the same to three one-hundredths of a percentage point after nearly 19,000 new ballots were added. CASE members speculate that it’s either a long-shot coincidence with the last three digits remaining the same, or that someone had pre-set a database and programmed a voting machine to cough up a pre-set percentage of votes. Miami County uses an easily hackable optical scanner with the central counter provided by the Republican-linked vendor ES&S. * In Warren County, administrators and election officials locked down the county administrative building and prohibited all independent election observers from watching the vote count. County officials cited “homeland security,” according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. WCPO-TV Channel 9 News Director Bob Morford told the Enquirer that he had “never seen anything like it.” Morford asserted that throwing the media and independent observers out of the centralized counting area under the guise of “homeland security” was a “red herring.” He said, “That’s something to put up when you don’t know what else to put up to keep us out.” In Warren County, Bush picked up an additional 12,000 votes over his 2000 election total. * In Franklin County, where Franklin County Board of Elections Director Matt Damschroder is also the former Executive Director of the county’s Republican Party, the county Board of Elections building looked like a bunker. Scores of city buses blocked parking spaces on the street outside, numerous concrete barricades surrounded the parking lot, and a metal detector was stationed at the only entrance. A phalanx of armed deputy sheriffs swarmed the only site where provisional voters could cast a guaranteed ballot. The Columbus Dispatch confirmed an Election Day Free Press story that far fewer voting machines were present in predominantly black Democratic inner-city voting wards than in the recent primary election and the 2000 presidential election, with their lighter turnouts. The reduced number of machines caused voters to wait up to seven hours and wait an average of approximately three hours. One Republican Central Committee member told the Free Press that Damschroder held back as many as 200 machines and dispersed many of the other machines to affluent suburbs in Franklin County. Mark Jackson RollinOn _____ From: Merrill Burghardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: FW: [QUAD-L] tat- the price we pay for freedom... People say I’m paranoid but I believe regardless of votes, that the Republican party will take the election by fraud. Remember the Florida scandal with Vice President Gore? It was within weeks that Bush bought all states digital voting machines with no paper trail. Paranoid no, but a quadnoid, yes. Merrill _____ From: Stacy Harim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:38 PM To: RollinOn; t crook; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] tat- the price we pay for freedom... We have had worthy independent run in the past but what ends up happening is they end up taking votes and affecting which democrat or republican is running. I wish people took the independs seriously because they usually come in with good ideas from both sides. Stacy ----- Original Message ---- From: RollinOn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: t crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 12:09:19 PM Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] tat- the price we pay for freedom... It would help if the media actually asked important questions but it's the s.o.s! We don't really know any details of how any candidate is going to fix Health, Economy, Gas prices, and the housing crisis. I don't know what to do, I mean you got McCain who has 1 story Hillary is making up stories and Obama doesn't really have any. I know I don't want McCain. I know I don't want Hillary. I like Obama but I liked Bush when he first ran and that was mistake I wish I had back. I wish we could get a super independent also Tim but I really think the majority of people don't care and just vote with the flock. Mark Jackson RollinOn _____ From: t crook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 9:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] tat- the price we pay for freedom... Very well put my friend! ----- Original Message ---- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 9:37:29 AM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] tat- the price we pay for freedom... True Tim, but what can you expect for almost a billion dollars, these days, (lol). What wants to lay their life on the table for the world to see. The job doesn't pay that much and the USA is not considered the same powerhouse it was once considered as we depend on too many other countries for survival. But we are a great country for producing wheat, rice and corn. We gotta be much better than that for survival..... Best Wishes In a message dated 4/21/2008 9:33:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well none of the candidates have received any of my money. Not to open the political can of worms; but just about everyone I talk to feel (including myself) that we have three poor choices for president. We need a super independent to step up. ~peace~ Tim _____ Need a new ride? 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