Well it's certainly not breaking news here - but
this article from Sept 25 didn't get a mention at the dailykos, and it seems important enough for today's diary.
First, the news:
Ohio election protection activists have won a landmark court battle to preserve the ballots from 2004's disputed presidential election
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The (Cliff Arnebeck) suit asked Judge Algernon Marbley of the federal district court in Columbus to order Blackwell to force Ohio's 88 county boards of elections (BOEs) to preserve ballots and other election-related materials so the full extent of the allegations could be proven.
Now for the payload:
So far, even the limited inspection of ballots has yielded astonishing results. Three precincts in two counties have shown consecutive runs of Bush votes that qualify as "virtual statistical impossibilities."
These are just the choicest quotes. Please visit
The Free Press to read the whole thing.
... researcher Stuart Wright viewed and recounted 3 separate bundles of ballots. In the second bundle, there were 274 consecutive ballots for Bush. In the third bundle there were 359 consecutive ballots for Bush.
... Philips has discovered that the BOE certified that 70% of the ballots cast for C. Ellen Connally, an African-American woman from Cleveland running for the Ohio Supreme Court, were also counted for Bush.
In a random draw of one ballot from each of the 192 precincts (In Clermont County), against huge odds, Baiman found a replacement ballot. Baiman asked that the next ballot from the precinct be drawn and it, too, was a replacement ballot. Continuing pulling ballots from that same precinct, Baiman witnessed 36 straight replacement ballots in a row, a virtual statistical impossibility. Dr. Philips recorded only five spoiled ballots in this same precinct...
... a white sticker over the Kerry-Edwards spot which would prevent the counter from recording a Kerry vote... The county prosecutor claimed there were "less than one hundred" of these, but was unable to explain why any stickers were there at all.
I'm probably rehashing well known anomalies about this election, but they are new to me. Since they're tied to a semi-recent article, I thought I'd include them.