OHIO GROUNDWAR CONTINUES TO HEAT UP!
· Kerry Sends Letter to Elections Boards with Specific Requests!
Following our previous report on momentum building in Ohio and U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearings that will be held there tomorrow...
Two reports right now out of Ohio media outlets confirm what has been buzzing on the net over the last several hours.
According to the reports, an attorney representing John Kerry has sent a letter to all 88 Elections Boards in Ohio requesting that his team be allowed to inspect the 92,000 ballots which recorded no vote for President!
The letter also reportedly contains 11 other requests for election officials regarding the recount in the Buckeye State set to take place this week. UPDATE: Full text of Kerry Letter here.
The Ohio News Network (ONN) report is here.
WBNS-10TV report is here.
UPDATE: NY Times picks up AP feed on this story.
The reports come on the heels of speculation growing around a lawsuit said to be filed Monday morning by attorney Cliff Arnebeck on behalf of a voters alliance in Ohio asking the Ohio Supreme Court to set aside the results in that state due to massive fraud and/or error.
Arnebeck has been quoted on media outlets, such as Air America Radio, in recent days suggesting that he will be including evidence in his suit to show that John Kerry may have actually won the Ohio election as well as the national popular vote.
...DEVELOPING...
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I hope to have some coverage here later today.
For now, some folks have been transcribing some of the testimony online at DemocraticUnderground.com in the Forums "Election 2004 Results and Discussion" section.
RadioLeft.com had been airing living coverage from the hearings online.
Trying now to get more info for you.
Lack of coverage from the MSM? What else is new...Now perhaps if Ken Blackwell was reading porn magazines with children (ala yesterday's Michael Jackson news) it would be notable enough to cover.
For now it's just "the downfall of democracy...not that important".
Minstrels Opposing Bush
More about that title later. I ended up going to the Green Party Recount Training session in Athens County yesterday. I hadn't planned to, but a friend was putting on pressure (using an unfair weapon: my wife) and I did want to make sure they'd have enough volunteers without me participating directly. We do, and so do surrounding southern counties I guess. I remain concerned about liberal skills at organizing at the hands-on grassroots level. I no longer know what interest the Libertarian Party, which is sponsoring the Ohio Recount with the Greens, has in the proceedings. http://www.lp.org/lpnews/0412/presidential-recount.html However the Green Party website is alive with news about how things are going. http://www.votecobb.org/
Our state capitol of Columbus promises to be the place for excitement this Monday. Our Electoral College votes for Bush today, and probably for the first time in 200 years there will be a crowd protesting. David Cobb will speak at the rally outside the Statehouse, as will a great list of others. The feeling is, of course, the electors have no business meeting yet because of the irregularities uncovered thus far on Election Day. As always, the question is why does Secretary of State Blackwell want to appear to have things to hide?
News has surfaced overnight that John Kerry formally has joined the actual recount effort---partly. Previously his clout entered the picture to support the certainty before the Federal District Court the Greens and Libertarians would be allowed to proceed. Now he is asking to view 92,000 specific votes. (Blackwell has certified Bush beat him by 119,000.) The Associated Press broke the story, but this time the media is carrying it. ABC News has the whole dispatch http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=324234 , while The New York Times has it published http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/13/national/13ohio.html minus the final remarks of the ubiquitous Carlo LoParo, whose biography still seems to evade Google except as Blackwell's "spokesman." As you can see from the story, Kerry sent a letter to all 88 Ohio County Boards of Election over the weekend, making 11 requests of them. Hopefully, later today we'll learn what the other 10 are.
Congressman John Conyers, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, convenes the continuing "forum" on Election 2004 in Columbus today too. I don't know how many other congresspeople are coming from Washington with him, but Jesse Jackson again is listed prominently to be there. Conyers also heads the Congressional Black Caucus, which you may remember was alone in protesting the 2000 Election, and heartbreakingly could find not one single senator to join its call for investigation. New York Attorney Ray Beckerman's blog has a good rundown on who, where, and when on this, and more about Ohio---updated constantly. http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/#110226258199324878
But the blog that's truly on top of this election story continues to be Brad Friedman's. This guy doesn't only report, now often scooping even the Associated Press; he digs in, follows up and investigates. As you know, the attention his blog has gotten on the Internet during the last week tore open his bandwidth to the point even he couldn't get in to post. So he has set up Brad Blog Too just to cover all the fraud stuff and Ohio especially. This is where the Clint Curtis affidavit appeared---the guy who claims he developed the software for a Florida Republican congressman to change totals in electronic voting machines. So what happened to this story? What did the congressguy say, how did Yang industries respond, and what are their attorneys saying about Curtis? Brad went after it...and here it is~~~ http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/ Scroll down past the Ohio stuff.
Which brings me to the minstrels. MOB actually means Mothers Opposing Bush, a group that still is vital and going. Minstrels Opposing Bush is my new group. I had the strangest experience this morning when I NewsGoogled "Ohio recount" and found the top story to come from a New Zealand press release. Here was an affidavit from a Richard Hayes Phillips, a professional hydrologist with a Phd in geomorphology. Statistics are a second language to this man, and he is presenting analysis of election results in some Ohio counties...and finding discrepancies galore. http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00167.htm So I wanted to read his original document, and click by click I ended up at his own blog: The Lyric Poetry Website. How's that again? You mean I'm not the only guy who'd prefer a book of poems, some bread and cheese, and thou beside me...to all this political corruption? We may have a new movement here! http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/website.htm
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