The Fiercehearted Faction of bloggers working on researching Fraud '04 have made a direct contribution to this piece of excellent news. The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but turn they do. Conyers and company are *the* heros of this new century.
Fav quote:
"...The attorneys in this case had reason to believe that the election results did not reflect the will of the electorate."
Now the fight to indict, convict, jail and impeach goes forward. This scandal will join with TortureGate, ArmorGate, No-WMDs, IraquiMire/IraquiNam, Condi-Lies-A-Lot Rice, Fieldmarshall Von Rumsfield, US coverup of US involvement in 9/11, Fraud '04, Bush's potential drug problem, GannonGate, etc., etc., etc. to bring even those among moderate and conservative Republicans who are intellectually honest to the point of impeaching *. The NeoFascists are being uncovered quickly, with blogger's help. These things are accummulating fast and the Repubs won't stand for the U.S. to be shamed by a proven incompetent or evil-doer President any more than the Dems.
Below the fold is the House Judiciary Committee Democrats' Press Release.
Conyers is the hero of the new
Universal Human Suffrage Movement! Go, John, Go!
Here's the press release:
Departments: Election 2004
Representative Conyers and others file amicus brief in Ohio Supreme Court
by Dena Graziano
February 17, 2005
Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, will be filing an amicus brief in the Ohio Supreme Court with the support of Senator Russ Feingold and 17 other members of the House of Representatives recommending that the Court not sanction the attorneys who brought Ohio election contest in Moss v. Bush (no.04- 2088). Mr. Conyers offered the following statement:
"The attorneys in this case had reason to believe that the election results did not reflect the will of the electorate. In good faith, they brought a case based not only on statistical probability but the depositions and affidavits of computer experts, statisticians, and election volunteers. In only a couple months, these attorneys have amassed over 900 pages of evidence.
"While we take no opinion on the underlying case, we firmly support the right of citizens to challenge elections results in court when they have a good faith basis to do so. Truly, Secretary Blackwell's attempt to sanction these attorneys is meant to send a message to anyone who dare challenge his questionable election administration. For our democracy to work properly, we can't allow this sort of intimidation by state officials."
Original press release House Judiciary Democrats Press Release
More on this from a few days back from FreePress.org:
FreePress.org:
Departments
Election 2004
Ohio Attorney-General's attack on election protection attorneys draws mountain of documentation on state's stolen election, including new study on exit polls
by Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
February 3, 2005
Ohio Attorney-General's attack on election protection attorneys draws mountain of documentation on state's stolen election, including new study on exit polls
by Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
February 3, 2005
Stiff legal sanctions sought by Ohio's Republican Attorney General James Petro against four attorneys who have questioned the results of the 2004 presidential balloting here has produced an unintended consequence -- a massive counter-filing that has put on the official record a mountain of contentions by those who argue that election was stolen.
In filings that include well over 1,000 pages of critical documentation, attorneys Robert Fitrakis, Susan Truitt, Peter Peckarsky and Cliff Arnebeck have counter-attacked. Their defense motions include renewed assertions that widespread irregularities threw the true outcome of the November vote count into serious doubt. That assertion has now been lent important backing by a major academic study on the exit polls that showed John Kerry winning the November vote count.
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The two now-infamous lawsuits in question, Moss v. Bush and Moss v. Moyer, argued that irregularities involving enough votes to switch the state's electors from Bush to Kerry, and from Supreme Court justice Tom Moyer to challenger Ellen Connally, gave the public the right to file suit. Underlying much of the challenge have been wide ranging questions about whether Blackwell administered the election in a partisan manner.
Blackwell refused to testify in the case, and he has removed from public access critical documents relating to the vote count.
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