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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.
When a Republican wins a close election, it was stolen.
When a Dem wins a close election, it's the will of the people.
See Governor, Washington state. How many selective recounts did it take until the Dem won?
So apperently the way this works is that if I do something wrong to basically avoid doing more work later, I'm supposed to get off the hook? If they aren't convicted mare sure to keep this news away from small children everywhere or there will be alot of angry parents!
Personally I'd rather have my idiots at home glued to the TV than out doing idiotic things
Would it be enough for the Dems to recall him?
I see you're new to Slashdot. Here's how it works:
Republican elected == FRAUD
Democrat elected == FAIR ELECTION
Cuyahoga County is run entirely by Democratic machine politics. But here at Slashdot, we ignore any facts that conflict with our preconceived notions. Hope that was helpful to you.
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Since when are women allowed to take part in the election process? That sounds like the real crime here.
Yes, a HEAVILY democratic county, home of anti-war granola-eating uber-lefty Dennis Kucinich, where republicans are rare as hell, and yet it went strongly for Bush in 2004. Which is why the trouble with people asking about a recount -- hell, a lot of locals think that something fishy went on in 2004.
You don't have to be a liberal to see that the Democrats didn't get a leg up with these voting irregularities. the Republicans did, and the story of how and why has been written about since at least the magical 2000 election. The Diebold company has far too many deep contacts with the Republicans, and have fought like madmen to prevent auditing or recounts on paper; no sane company would block a backup system to a computer network. They claim election results are trade secrets. They claim their systems cannot fail, to the bulge-eyed astonishment of any IT person. They have acted guilty, for years, without apology and without reason given. When the house is on fire, check for the guilty sots hanging around back with the can of kerosene and matches.
How would tens of thousands of Americans die? Saddam shoots down a plane, and the US is forced to react on his timetable. Instead of the brilliant, near-perfect military campaign, we get a rush job, with typical and normal fatalities for such an operation. Think "Iwo Jima" and "Gettysburg" scaled up to the size of Iraq.
How would hundreds of thousands of Iraqis die without US intervention? Just a few more years of Saddam would do it.
Just because CNN refused to report on Saddam's travesties doesn't mean they didn't happen.