House Judiciary Committee Strikes!

This is a good example of wheels in motion - the Leviathan has noticed that Ohio's election was quite corrupt, and now it is at least appearing to be hungry for answers. It's good to see the House doing its job!

A quick precis (lifted from blackboxvoting.com, original poster David):

1) Warren County lockdown - The admin building where votes were counted was locked down on election night and the public and the press excluded from the process. County officials claimed this was done in response to a terrorist warning that neither the FBI , nor Blackwell's office knew of,.

2) Perry County counting discrepencies - Poll books examined after the election show more votes cast than actual voters voting. Computer errors were blamed for other problems where votes were counted twice.

3) Perry County registration peculiarities- Very high percentage of registered voters in the county (91%) many registered in the same year and lacking signatures on file.

4) Unusual results in Butler County - A Supreme Court candidate for office received 5,000 votes more than did the Kerry ticket, whereas the Bush ticket got 40,000 more votes than the Republican judicials candidate.

5) Unusual results in Cuyahoga County - Unusually high votes for third party candidates (in one instance, 215 votes for one candidate versus 8 votes for all third-party candidates combined in 2000).

6) Spoiled Ballots - Undervotes for president in one county were as high as 25% (6,000 votes!), with a total of 93,000 for the state.

7) Franklin County overvote - 4,258 votes counted for a precinct with only 800 registerd voters.

8) Miami County vote discrepency - 19,000 votes were added to election totals that had been missed, all for Bush.

9) Mahoning County machine problems - Numerous voters reported problems with not being able to select Kerry on voting machines which defaulted to Bush.

10) Machine shortages - In Franklin County long lines were found in predominantly Democratic precincts despite the fact that 68 extra machines were available. Also, 77 machines malfunctioned in the course of the day.

The precis actually understates the allegations in the document itself, but I'm too tired to post more!
Mood: tired
Music: Fields of the Nephilim - Moonchild