Concerned about Bill O'Reilly

My name is Bruce Harris. I am fed up with the status quo. My new years resolution is to force some changes. The easiest way for me to do that is through writing letters, sending emails, posting on the blogs.

But, I cannot do it alone. I need help from every corner of the country. I am asking people to join me in my letter writing campaign. I look at it this way. If the FCC listens to a handful of religious doomsday cultists from Texas they should listen to thousands of letters from us. If you are willing to help me then send a letter to the FCC. Also, forward this appeal or a similar one to everyone you know. Post it to all the blogs. The idea here is to make a loud, angry noise heard in Washington.

Uncounted votes in Hamilton County

I give my heartfelt thanks to Coleen Christensen for producing the spreadsheets and to Roman Sasik for producing the tables of data that made it possible for me to write this report in a timely manner.

Three days ago I produced a report entitled “Uncounted Votes in Montgomery County.”  These are ballots cast but not counted because they were regarded as “undervotes” and “overvotes,” or “blank” and “void,” as they are known in New York State.  The true number of such votes can be easily determined by subtracting votes counted from total ballots cast.

I was shocked to learn of 47 precincts in Montgomery County where the percentage of uncounted ballots is 4.0% or more, and that every single one of those precincts was won by John Kerry, nearly all of them by overwhelming margins, 7 to 1 in the aggregate.

I resolved to apply the same analytical technique to other Ohio counties, beginning with Hamilton County.

Uncounted votes in Summit County

I give my heartfelt thanks to Roman Sasik for producing, from a poor facsimile, the tables of data that made it possible for me to write this report in a timely manner.

This is the fifth in a series of reports on uncounted votes in urban counties of Ohio.  These are ballots cast but not counted because they were regarded as “undervotes” and “overvotes,” or “blank” and “void,” as they are known in New York State.  The true number of such votes can be easily determined by subtracting votes counted from total ballots cast.

Shortly after the election I obtained from the website of the Ohio Secretary of State the data I needed to make a statewide compilation on a county by county basis of the uncounted votes, exclusive of provisional ballots.  These data have since been taken down from said website.  I present them here.

Summit County

Registered Voters       368,858

Provisional ballots in Cuyahoga County

I give my heartfelt thanks to Joe Knapp for his Cuyahoga County spreadsheet, to Bernard Windham for forwarding it to me, and to Roman Sasik for compiling the table of precincts according to my instructions.

Provisional ballots are issued to persons who show up at the polls on Election Day but find that, for whatever reason, their names are not on the voter rolls, or find their right to vote challenged by a member of the opposing party.  They are asked to provide certain information when casting their provisional ballots, and this information can be checked afterward to determine if they were eligible to vote.  If so, then their votes are to be counted.

Uncounted votes in Cuyahoga County

I give my heartfelt thanks to Brian Julin for producing the spreadsheets and the tables of data that made it possible for me to write this report in a timely manner.

This is the fourth in a series of reports on uncounted votes in urban counties of Ohio.  These are ballots cast but not counted because they were regarded as “undervotes” and “overvotes,” or “blank” and “void,” as they are known in New York State.  The true number of such votes can be easily determined by subtracting votes counted from total ballots cast.

Shortly after the election I obtained from the website of the Ohio Secretary of State the data I needed to make a statewide compilation on a county by county basis of the uncounted votes, exclusive of provisional ballots.  These data have since been taken down from said website.  I present them here.

Cuyahoga County

 
Registered Voters     1,005,807

Kerry votes switched to Bush and ballots pre-punched for Bush

Pre-punched ballots; touch-screen vote switching;  more absentee votes than absentee voters; unfair provisional voter deletions;   change of voting sites on Election Day; voter suppression;  voter intimidation; double voting; malfunctioning machines; recalibrated machines; evidently rigged machines; and even 25 million negative votes registered in some races in Mahoning County!

Those were among the problematic incidents shared at a 3-hour public hearing on vote irregularities in the Mahoning Valley held on December 21 at the Warren-Trumbull Public Library.  Panelists taking voter testimony included Rev. Rick Judy of Mahoning County; Rev. Werner Lange of Trumbull County; Ray Nakley, an officer of the Arab-American Community Center in Youngstown; and Russ Buckbee, Green Party coordinator for NE Ohio.

The Right, the Cross and the CIA: Immaculate Deception

In a 1992 CNN interview with Larry King on "Reagan, the Pope, Solidarity and the Fall of Communism," Time Magazine's Carl Bernstein made a stunning assertion: the Vatican had offered to help buttress Poland's ailing pro-Western Solidarity Party and prop up Lech Walesa's torpid presidency in exchange for a stiffening of conservative values and the establishment of the Christian Right as a viable political force in the U.S.

Investigations by this writer a year earlier into state-sponsored massacres of Guatemalan and Honduran street children, hinted that a political "fifth column" had indeed taken root in the U.S. and simultaneously sprouted in Central America where U.S. strategic interests continue to be guarded by U.S.-installed puppet regimes. Credible sources that spoke on condition of anonymity added convincing evidence to rumors that politicians, intelligence agencies, religious leaders, charitable organizations and multinational corporations were engaged in a hemispheric cabal aimed at harmonizing global evangelical interests with U.S. foreign policy objectives.

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

Divided we stand: The cleaving of America

When I was a little boy in occupied France, I saw priests sprinkling holy water on tanks, canons and other instruments of war so that Christians of one nation -- now divinely empowered -- could slaughter Christians of another nation. I never forgot the surreal spectacle. I owe it (and the extermination of nine-tenths of my family in Hitler's gas chambers) a healthy aloofness toward religion.

Sixty years later, as France, a nominally Catholic democratic republic readies to celebrate nearly 200 years of secularism marked by absolute separation of church and state, the U.S. the ostensible symbol of tolerance and egalitarianism, is unmistakably tilting toward theocratic governance.

When conservative Christian groups rocked the vote in last month's presidential election, We the People did not witness the triumph of democracy but the trouncing of popular sovereignty by an unyielding religious juggernaut intent on ramming religious values down America's throat. Implicit in this blackjack victory, is the ominous proposition that religiosity is an articulation of patriotism. For those of us who love

Exit Poll Discrepancy has a pattern in Blue States

Not only do we have an exit poll discrepancy, but it has an interesting statistical pattern.

Only in the BLUE STATES:

There is a positive correlation between the amount of discrepancy and the amount of electoral votes.

There is a negative correlation betweeen the amount of discrepancy and the perentage of Kerry vote. The greater the Kerry margin, the lower the discrepancy.

I find this pattern more suspicious than the discrepancy. An even discrepancy would be easily explained away. This pattern is not!

Download the spreadsheet at: http://www.jqjacobs.net/bush/xls/

Keep up the good work. Many of my links point your way.

Lawsuit Before the Ohio Supreme Court

NATURE OF THE ACTION   On December 13, 2004, numerous Ohio citizens contested “the certification of the election of the electors pledged to George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney for the offices, respectively, of President of the United States and Vice President of the United Sates for the terms commencing January 20, 2005…” and “…the certification of the election of Thomas Moyer for the office of Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court for the term commencing in 2005.”

LAWSUIT REFILED   On December 16, 2004, Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer threw out the complaint because it had two election challenges.  The following day, on December 17, thirty-seven voters and their lawyers refiled the election challenge for President and Vice President of the United States.  The other case for the office of Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court was refiled on December 20, 2004.

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