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The Ohio Vote: "Kerry votes switched to Bush and ballots pre-punched for Bush"

The 2004 election really does seem over, and nobody seems to have much energy for a fight at the moment, but in Ohio, folks are still talking and thinking and paying attention, concerned over evidence of voter fraud. (Thanks for the pointer, John!) [Link]

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.

Many panelists and testifiers wore orange ribbons symbolizing the ongoing fight for democracy. "The color orange was chosen to remember Florida, where the wishes of the voters were ignored in order to place George W. Bush in the White House in 2000," read the attached explanation, "Here were are in 2004 and we allege it is happening again."

jon posted this at 4:56 PM
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