How the Ohio election was rigged for Bush

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How the Ohio election was rigged for Bush

 

Monday, November 22 2004 @ 11:41 AM

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Bob Fitrakis

November 22, 2004

 

Following four community public hearings in Ohio about election

irregularities and voter suppression – two in the capitol, Columbus,

and one each in Cincinnati and Cleveland – a clear pattern and

practice of voter disenfranchisement is emerging.

 

In order to understand the extent of the voter suppression in the

inner city of Columbus and Franklin County, overwhelmingly Democratic

wards, start with the phrase: " Machines Placed By Close Of Polls " on

the last page of the county's 17-page voting machine allocation report.

 

This phrase at the end of the spreadsheet may be the key in unraveling

a deliberate and unprecedented plan to repress African American and

poor central city voters. In statistics, when you see a bizarre

definition or measurement, it sends up red flags. Why doesn't the

Franklin County Board of Elections have a number for " Machines Placed

By Opening Of Polls " ?

 

It now appears that the Franklin County BOE placed scores of machines

too late in the day to alleviate the long lines of voters who gathered

to vote before work and at lunchtime.

 

To better understand what the BOE did on Election Day, consider the

following analogy. The near east side of Columbus needs four buses to

move the population to the downtown business district. Each bus will

move 100 people. At the start of the business day at 6:30am, there are

only two buses running and another one with a dead battery. After a

few hours, the third bus is put into use. Finally, towards the close

of the work day at 6pm, a fourth bus is deployed. The Central Ohio

Transit Authority then reports it had four buses operating by the end

of the business day. What matters is not how many buses, or voting

machines, were operating at the end of the day, but rather how many

were there to service the people during the morning and noon rush hours.

 

Questions remain as to where these machines were placed and who had

access to them during the day.

 

Pacifica reporter Evan Davis reported that a county purchasing

official who was on the line with Ward Moving and Storage Company,

documented only 2,741 voting machines delivered through the November 2

election day. The county's own documents reveal that they had 2,866

" Machines Available " on Election Day. This would mean that amid the

two to seven hour waits in the inner city of Columbus, at least 125

machines remained unused on Election Day. Ward holds the exclusive

three-year contract to deliver voting machines in Franklin County.

 

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