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Recount in Ohio a Sure Thing
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Monday 15 November 2004
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111604W.shtml

Green Party Campaign Raises $150,000 in 4 Days, Shifts Gears to Phase II

WASHINGTON -- November 15 -- There will be a recount of the presidential vote in Ohio.

On Thursday, David Cobb, the Green Party’s 2004 presidential candidate, announced his intention to seek a recount of the vote in Ohio. Since the required fee for a statewide recount is $113,600, the only question was whether that money could be raised in time to meet the filing deadline. That question has been answered.

“Thanks to the thousands of people who have contributed to this effort, we can say with certainty that there will be a recount in Ohio,” said Blair Bobier, Media Director for the Cobb-LaMarche campaign.

“The grassroots support for the recount has been astounding. The donations have come in fast and furiously, with the vast majority in the $10-$50 range, allowing us to meet our goal for the first phase of the recount effort in only four days,” said Bobier.

Bobier said the campaign is still raising money for the next phase of the recount effort which will be recruiting, training and mobilizing volunteers to monitor the actual recount.

The Ohio presidential election was marred by numerous press and independent reports of mis-marked and discarded ballots, problems with electronic voting machines and the targeted disenfranchisement of African American voters. A number of citizens’ groups and voting rights organizations are holding the second of two hearings today in Columbus, Ohio, to take testimony from voters, poll watchers and election experts about problems with the Ohio vote. The hearing, from 6-9 p.m., will be held at the Courthouse, meeting room A, 373 S. High St., in Columbus. The Cobb-LaMarche campaign will be represented at the hearing by campaign manager Lynne Serpe.

A demand for a recount in Ohio can only be filed by a presidential candidate who was either a certified write-in candidate or on the ballot in that state. Both Green Party candidate David Cobb and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik will be demanding a recount. No other candidate has stated an intention to seek a recount and no other citizen or organization would have legal standing to do so in Ohio. The Cobb-LaMarche campaign is still exploring the possibility of seeking recounts in other states but no decision has been made yet.

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Ohio Voters Tell of Election Day Troubles at Hearing
By Reginald Fields
The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Sunday 14 November 2004

Tales of waiting more than five hours to vote, voter intimidation, under-trained polling-station workers and too few or broken voting machines largely in urban or heavily minority areas were retold Saturday at a public hearing organized by voter-rights groups.

For three hours, burdened voters, one after another, offered sworn testimony about Election Day voter suppression and irregularities that they believe are threatening democracy.

The hearing, sponsored by the Election Protection Coalition, was to collect testimony of voting troubles that might be used to seek legislative changes to Ohio's election process.

The organizers chose Ohio because it was a swing state in the presidential election as well as the site of numerous claims of election fraud and voter disenfranchisement.

"I think a lot of us had a sense that something had deeply went wrong on Nov. 2 and it had to do with the election process and procedures in place that were unacceptable," said Amy Kaplan, one of the hearing's coordinators.

Kaplan said the hearing gave everyday citizens a chance to have their concerns placed into public record.

Both a written and video report on the hearing will be provided to anyone who wants a copy, especially state lawmakers who are considering mandating Election Day changes, Kaplan said.

Many of the voters who testified were clearly Democrats who wonder if their losing presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry, was able to draw all the votes that were intended for him.

"I call on Sen. Kerry to un-concede until there is a full count of the votes," said Werner Lange of Trumbull County, who claimed that polling places in his Northeast Ohio neighborhood had half the number of voting machines that were needed.

"This caused a bottleneck at polling stations, and many people left without voting," he said.

Others said they were testifying not on political grounds but out of concern for a suspicious election system that should be above reproach.

Harvey Wasserman of Bexley said he tried to vote absentee with the same home address he has used for 18 years but was told he couldn't because his absentee application had the wrong address.

"But the notice telling me I had the wrong address arrived at the right address," he said. "I wonder, how many of these absentee ballots were rejected for no good reason?

"My concern is not out of the outcome of the election," Wasserman said, "but that this could go on and an election could be stolen. And we simply can't have that in a democracy."

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VOTEGATE 2004
Links to Vote Fraud Websites & Info.
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/VOTEGATE.HTM

Kerry Considering Reentering the Race to Ask for Recount!

If you live in America, give the would be President elect John Kerry
a call - he is taking a tally on whether to ask for a recount in at
least the state of Ohio. There is strong evidence of massive fraud
at the hands of the Republican Party, once again, though even worse
this time:

Kerry's considering unconceding and having a recount. He asked
people to send firsthand experiences of disenfranchisement to his
brother's law office and his office is eagerly counting calls that
are encouraging him to unconcede and ask for a recount!

In This Post

(1) Call/fax Kerry's senate office--contact info below

(2) If you have first handexperience of voter disenfranchisement (not
just articles) contact his brother

(3) Support 3 organizations that are uncovering hard evidence of
fraud:blackboxvoting.org and votewatch.us

(1) Kerry can still request a recount in Ohio (and he may have the
best chance of winning with a recount there)and perhaps elsewhere! He
has until they count the provisional ballots 11-15 days after
counting the provisionals. (It doesn't matter if he'll have a
hostile Congress to work with because even if he can't get much done
as president at least he would prevent the havoc and destruction of
4 more years of W in which our rights, environment,economy, social
security, and our very lives are at stake!)

When I called they put me through to someone who asked for my state:
they are adding them up! Contact Kerry at
(202) 224-2742 -Phone
(202) 224-8525 - Fax
and urge him to unconcede and do a recount in Ohio (and perhaps
elsewhere)

(2) If you have witnessed or experienced disenfranchisement you can
contact his brother's law office--they are collecting this
information which will be vital in considering unconceding at
CKerry@M... (Don't just email articles or they will be
inundated with emails. They already know about the articles.)

(3) Help These Three Organizations Prove Fraud
There is anecdotal evidence of widespread fraud with the paperless
voting machines (see links at the end of post for votefraud links .
There are three groups working to uncover hard evidence who need your
support

(a) If your in the Ohio area this group needs volunteers(don't have
to have special skills) www.neohioact.org/electionaudit  and is co-
ordinating with the next group

(b) Please support the work of http://blackboxvoting.org-- which is
the only group uncovering hard evidence of fraud of the paperless
electronic voting machines--with donations and/or volunteer work--
they need to raise $50,000 to file freedom of info act requests for
as quickly as possible to pay for records and the fees some states
charge for them. If you can't donate funds
http://www.eservicescorp.com/form.aspx?fID=912 , please donate time.

E-mail to join the Cleanup Crew. (they need all types from doing
grunt work, to lawyers and programers) crew@b...

(c) Please also contribute to Votewatch http://www.votewatch.us .
They need $250,000 to do a professional statistical analysis of the
election which can be used as hard evidence.

This is an excellent organization that has been conservative in its
approach, using highly respected statisticians and developing trusted
relationships with key media contacts. They are collecting and
analyzing data to determine if there was fraud in the election as
seems to be indicated by the 5% (or so) discrepancy between exit
polls and reported results from the touch screen voting with no paper
trail vs. the other types of voting where exit polls closely matched
reported results.

If you decide to move forward with a tax-deductible contribution,
please make your check payable to Votewatch (ID# 94-3255070) and send
it to:

Votewatch
c/o: The San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Foundation
(SFFCIF)
Attn: David Barlow
225 Bush Street
Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94104

Smaller donations can be made online through the website
http://www.votewatch.us

Some sites with voterfraud info
http://www.stolenelection2004.com
http://pages.ivillage.com/americans4america/id17.html
http://radtimes.blogspot.com
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/2004votefraud.html
http://legitgov.org
http://democrats.com

INSIDE THE ELECTION FRAUD BATTLE — Betsy R. Vasquez, Mon Nov 15 18:49