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From: "Heather Weimer"
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:37:39 -0500
Possible evidence of voter fraud in Ohio
by John in DC - 11/3/2004 02:56:47 AM
I just received a photo a Cincinnati poll manager took this evening, and it
seems to be proof of some fishy actions with ballots in Ohio. Bottom line:
Note the already-voted-with ballots in the back of the truck with the
Bush-Cheney sticker in the back window. Does this prove fraud? Well, it
certainly doesn't look good in a state that's already had lots of problems
this election.
In a nutshell, Stefan Skirtz is a poll manager for the Kerry campaign in
Cincinnati. His precinct is heavily made up of minorities and students
(i.e., leans Kerry). One of the duties of the poll managers, Stefan told me
in a phone call minutes ago, is to follow the poll workers to election
headquarters as they drop off the ballots and ballot boxes. Stefan followed
the poll workers who didn't go directly to the election headquarters.
Instead, they went to a local public school where workers put the ballot
machines into a semi trailer, and then the poll workers handed off the
sealed bags containing the ballots to someone Stefan assumed was with the
county board of elections.
The first problem he noticed was that there was no sign off of the transfer
of the ballots. Nothing was written down and given to the poll worker as
proof that the ballots were passed off to the county employee.
What's worse, Stefan noticed the pick-up truck of the supposed county board
of election - the truck the ballots for 40 precincts were loaded into - had
a big Bush-Cheney 2004 sticker in the back window. Stefan did say that he
followed the truck to the election headquarters, though he didn't see what
transpired after the truck pulled into the election hq parking lot.
As Stefan explains it, the poll managers had such an extensive list of
voters rights and regulations that they had to follow, including it being
illegal to have any partisan buttons etc. in the polling place, yet the
ballots for voters in over 40 precincts were put in the hands of
Bush-Cheney partisans.
I don't know whether the Bush partisans did or didn't play any games with
the ballots they received, but it sure doesn't look good, and I wonder
whether it's even legal. And let's not forget, this is a state that was
already well on its way to becoming the new Florida of GOP election fraud.
Stefan says he has 6 or 7 witnesses who also saw the sticker on the truck.
I have Stefan's contact info for members of the media.