[PAA-Discuss] convictions in 2004 presidential ...

[Suzette Mouchaty]

Thanks Pokey!  Way to go!  

Let's use this as a springboard to altert local msm to
this issue.  Call, write or email local TV and radio
stations and the Chronicle to ask them why they
haven't reported on the convictions of the election
workers in Ohio who illegally rigged the 2004
presidential election recount.  


--- Pokeyink at aol.com wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 1/27/2007 4:25:25 P.M. Central
> Standard Time,  
> leeloe at igc.org writes:
> 
> Buried  in the middle of an AP article is somewhat
> of a bomb...
> 
> Voter  confidence took another hit on Wednesday when
> two election
> workers in the  state's most populous county were
> convicted of
> illegally rigging the 2004  presidential election
> recount so they could
> avoid a more thorough review of  the votes. A third
> Cuyahoga County
> employee who had been charged was  acquitted.
> 
> _http://www.ohio.http://www.ohhttp://www.ohihtt_ 
> (http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/16537722.htm) 
> 
> 
> I covered this story yesterday for FSRN, and it was
> broadcast on KPFT  Friday 
> night.
>  
> Free Speech Radio News
> story by Pokey Anderson
> broadcast 1/26/07
> to listen: _www.fsrn.org_ (http://www.fsrn.org) 
>  
>  
> CONVICTIONS IN CUYAHOGA,  OHIO 
> INTRO: A jury has decided that election  recounts
> were rigged in the largest 
> county in Ohio during the recount of the 2004 
> presidential election. Pokey 
> Anderson has the story. 
> On Wednesday a jury  in Cleveland Ohio convicted two
> election staffers of 
> pre-arranging the election  recount of November 2004
> so that the results of a 3% 
> recount would look  accurate.  Prosecutors said the
> staffers worked  behind 
> closed doors for three days to pick ballots they
> knew would not cause  
> discrepancies.   
> Defendants contended they  were just doing recounts
> the way they'd always 
> done them.   
> The rigged recount was done in  Ohio’s largest 
> county, Cuyahoga.   
> Kathleen Wynne, a former Cleveland resident,
> videotaped  officials discussing 
> the recount back in 2004.  Her work and testimony
> were evidence at  trial.   
> Wynne, who spent over two years working with
> watchdog  group Black Box 
> Voting.org, said, 
> WYNNE:  We  cannot play around anymore with
> compromising our elections.  They 
> belong to the American people, and  we should be
> involved in it because we 
> have the most to lose if we don't have  fair and
> honest elections. 
> Wynne says the trial demonstrated the power of
> citizen oversight, elevating 
> common sense  over legalese, experts, machine counts
> or audits.   
> However, the trial left some big  questions
> unanswered:  why did the  workers 
> rig the recount, were others involved, and did the
> handling of ballots behind 
> closed  doors change election results.   
> Addressing the question why the  women staffers
> under indictment did not 
> cooperate with the prosecutor to  implicate others,
> Wynne said of the special 
> prosecutor Kevin Baxter: 
> WYNNE:    Baxter has  said throughout the entire
> investigation, he feels that 
> certain interests are  being protected here, and
> that’s why these women are 
> not speaking.   
> Other Ohio counties had a  variety of irregularities
> with their 2004 
> recounts.  One Hocking election board member was 
> fired after sending a sworn 
> affidavit to John Conyers about the oddities with
> the recount  there.  Bob Fitrakis of 
> Columbus, who  took over 500 sworn affidavits after
> the election, said, 
> FITRAKIS:    Sherole Eaton has said a lot of people
> saw what  happened; 
> they're primarily afraid to come  forward. 
> Sentencing in the Cuyahoga  case, including 
> possible jail time, will be next 
> month; defendants plan to appeal. 
> This is Pokey  Anderson, for Free Speech Radio News.
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