Global
While I am certain that Republican election officials did everything they could do to prevent Democrats from voting, as far as I know they didn’t stop people from reading their election materials at home and marking their sample ballots before they went to the polling place. There is no good reason why a voter should wait until he’s standing in the booth to read ballot measures, especially “one of the most complex and controversial amendments ever offered to the Ohio Constitution.”
Democratically yours,
Paul Willson
Sherman Oaks, CA
Is this familiar? Here in the US we have just seen a flagrant committing of FRAUD in our Presidential Election 2004 and our unselected officials, Bush and company, are doing everything they can to stop any recounting of votes. The only thing really different between US and the Ukraine is that they are taking a more violent action by not allowing the criminal winners to peacefully sit down and start mis-running the peoples government.
Website: http://franklyspeaking.info
The Columbus Dispatch, central Ohio's dominant conservative daily newspaper, which endorsed Bush for the presidency, says Damschroder “has faced criticism locally and across the country from groups that contend an already short supply of voting machines were shifted from Democratic precincts in Columbus to Republican areas outside the city.”
-- Mental health experts say we face a crisis because one in six returning soldiers from Iraq is suffering from post-traumatic stress, and the number is expected to grow rapidly. You will not be amazed to learn that the Pentagon did not anticipate the problem, since it has yet to anticipate anything about Iraq correctly.
A study by the Walter Reed Army Institute found 15.6 percent of Marines and 17.1 percent of soldiers surveyed after tours in Iraq suffer from major depression, generalized anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can cause flashbacks, sleep disorders, violent outbursts, panic attacks, acute anxiety and emotional numbness. The numbers are expected to be higher among reservists than among career soldiers.
War is wrong. Always has been, always will be.
Perhaps former President Jimmy Carter put it best when he concluded his acceptance speech for the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize by saying, “War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
Unfortunately, for the past couple of weeks, the U.S. military has been engaged in doing exactly that: killing other people’s children.
It may not seem like it, judging from the almost complete lack of truth-telling on the evening news, or the increasingly difficult to believe statements of the U.S. military that few, if any, civilians are being killed.
But, as part of its recent attempt to clean out “insurgents” from the Iraqi cities of Fallujah, Mosul and elsewhere, that’s what has been happening.
And civilians, perhaps hundreds or thousands of them, have been caught in the crossfire.
It is now Friday, November 26, 2004. Twenty-four days have passed since the presidential election. There are 88 counties in Ohio. To my knowledge, only 13 have examined their provisional ballots, counted them, and posted the results on their websites. The 13 counties are: Ashland, Brown, Butler, Clinton, Geauga, Greene, Hancock, Montgomery, Pickaway, Preble, Tuscarawas, Union, and Warren.
Altogether, there were 23,873 provisional ballots issued in these 13 counties, or 15.36% of the statewide total. At this rate, it would take five months to count them all. This strikes me as a deliberate stalling tactic to delay the Ohio recount until after the electoral college meets in December.
Here are the unofficial results in the 13 counties, with the sum totals compared with those reported on election night, so as to compute the net gains:
ELECTION RESULTS AFTER COUNTING PROVISIONAL BALLOTS
Please take whatever steps are necessary to ensure a fair accounting of the
votes in Ohio for the recent presidential election. Evidence is mounting of
various voting irregularities in Ohio (and elsewhere), and it is essential
that we as Americans safeguard the integrity of our voting process.
CASE is charged with accountability for secure elections, and nothing could
be more fundamental to this nation than the accountability of its electoral
process. Please investigate these irregularities, and let the chips fall
where they may.
Sincerely,
William N. Keepin, PhD
Satyana Institute
Crestone, Colorado
Peace
Wayne Wittman
Korean War veteran
As indicated in the sworn testimony below, offered here for the first time, the election was engineered to make voting as difficult as possible for inner city residents, and to drive away those who could not afford to stay away from work or families, or whose health made it imprudent or impossible to endure the long, cold, wet lines.
Amidst one of the hottest presidential elections in US history, voters in Columbus, capitol of Franklin County and of Ohio, faced 35 separate ballot choices. Eleven were extensively worded Issue questions. For Columbus voters, it was one of the longest ballots in history. Yet in many inner city precincts, the Republican-run Board of Elections demanded voters cast their ballots within five minutes after waiting in many cases more than three hours.