Seeing that Jimmy Carter says that
Gore won 2000 and the news about
Diebold its time to re-open Ohio's debacle of the 2004 Presidential Election.
Mark Crispin Miller published a powerful indictment of the 2004 Ohio presidential election and the press' complicity, in Harpers Magazine's August issue. Fortunately, Harpers recently posted the full text of None Dare Call it Stolen. While I cannot track down the number of Harpers Magazines distributed each month, I know that it is a relatively small number when compared to Time or News Week. (Update [2005-9-23 12:43:51 by A Rational Being]: Subscription is 220,000 Thanks Everybody Knows) That means that only a small fraction of the American population know about this injustice to our country.
Update [2005-9-23 11:17:46 by A Rational Being]:Thanks for the Recommends - we're getting close
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Because of this small circulation, we need to help. We Kossacks know many people and if each of us sends a copy or a link to the Miller article to friends and family, we will open many eyes to the corruption of the Ohio Election.
I propose this now because I believe that Bush and company are at their most vulnerable to their own side. The polls are low, we are hearing of dissention among the ranks, and we are seeing the cracks in government. Let us distribute this article now while people are more likely to listen to reason. We may not be able to get the kool-aid drinkers to read it but so what. That is only 40%. We only need 51% for a majority.
If you have not yet read this article, do so. Then I urge you to send a copy of None Dare Call It Stolen by Mark Crispin Miller or a link to the source to anyone you can. Please include the press, politicians (at the state or federal level), activist (or not) judges, friends, family, clergy, etc.
Thanks for reading and Please Recommend so more can see this article.
ARB
Excerpts:
Preserving Democracy describes three phases of Republican chicanery: the run-up to the election, the election itself, and the post-election cover-up. The wrongs exposed are not mere dirty tricks (though Bush/Cheney also went in heavily for those) but specific violations of the U.S. and Ohio constitutions, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Help America Vote Act. Although Conyers trod carefully when the report came out, insisting that the crimes did not affect the outcome of the race (a point he had to make, he told me, "just to get a hearing"), his report does "raise grave doubts regarding whether it can be said that the Ohio electors selected on December 13, 2004, were chosen in a manner that conforms to Ohio law, let alone Federal requirements and constitutional standards." The report cites "massive and unprecedented voter irregularities and anomalies" throughout the state--wrongs, moreover, that were hardly random accidents. "In many cases," the report says, "these irregularities were caused by intentional misconduct and illegal behavior, much of it involving Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, the co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio."[4]
To what end would election officials risk so malodorous an action? We can only guess, of course. We do know, however, that Ohio, like the nation, was the site of numerous statistical anomalies--so many that the number is itself statistically anomalous, since every single one of them took votes from Kerry. In Butler County the Democratic candidate for State Supreme Court took in 5,347 more votes than Kerry did. In Cuyahoga County ten Cleveland precincts "reported an incredibly high number of votes for third party candidates who have historically received only a handful of votes from these urban areas"--mystery votes that would mostly otherwise have gone to Kerry. In Franklin County, Bush received nearly 4,000 extra votes from one computer, and, in Miami County, just over 13,000 votes appeared in Bush's column after all precincts had reported. In Perry County the number of Bush votes somehow exceeded the number of registered voters, leading to voter turnout rates as high as 124 percent. Youngstown, perhaps to make up the difference, reported negative 25 million votes.
