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Ohio Recount Rigging Case Goes to Court
The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that the trial of the three election workers accused of rigging the 2004 presidential election recount in Cuyahoga County is finally underway. As you may recall, this was the case where poll workers 'randomly' selected the precincts to recount by first eliminating from consideration precincts where the number of ballots handed out on Election Day failed to match the number of ballots cast and, then opening the ballot boxes in private and pre-counting until they found cases which would match up. What is interesting here is that they have already admitted doing this and that it was clearly counter to the letter and the spirit of the law, but still insist it wasn't really 'wrong,' presumably since they only did it to avoid having to go to the bother of a full recount as required by law.
It's only hypocrisy if the GOP isn't genuinely a good deal more ruthless than the Dems. I'd argue that point with you, but unless your head is jammed permanently up your butt I suspect you already know it's true.
Are anyone aside from Republicans saying that? Their credibility just so happens to be pretty shot... Oh, and also, they have a lot to gain by making that fatuous argument.
Perhaps the Democrats aren't child molesting, war mongering election thieves? Perhaps they aren't election thieves at all? Of course, this sort of thing is hard for a Republican to understand. Nonetheless, it's a point that you may want to consider.
Knowing Kerry, he'd probably pardon them for the various charges of election rigging, domestic wiretaps, ware crimes and other violations of international law, missing Iraq reconstruction funds, etc., etc. and then announce the next day that he hadn't meant to pardon them, but it was too late now and we should just move on.
--MarkusQ
Either party would call foul if they lost an election and the
voting anomalies were as great as they were in the last two
presidential elections!
The votes counted were outside of the possible margin of error of
several exit polls in key areas. This means that the votes had been
tampered with. Had they not George W Bush would NOT be President
right now. The war in Iraq, which is part of the Wolfowitz
Doctrine, would not have happened and THOUSANDS of Americans and
HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of Iraqs would still be alive.
These elections were stolen and people are dead because of it. I
call it treason and thing that the people involved in stealing the
country should be hanged until dead. All of them.
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
The workers made the 3% hand recount match the conditions that would trigger a full machine recount and not a full hand recount. This is still wrong, but isn't going to have a noticeable impact on the results.
If they went to the trouble of manually selecting ballots that matched the machine totals to recount in the machines, than that pretty clearly confirms they had a noticeable problem WRT the machine reading the ballots. Which pretty much confirms the full machine recount would be incorrect.
You moron.
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