The Daily Fraud News Wire, WEDNESDAY, 12/12/05

[Michael Collins]

It’s here, now; not over there.
Rejoice at the Shining City on a Hill
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This movie is not just about the Middle East.
It's a metaphor for our own situation right there!
Maybe some Saudi film maker make a film about his
country and call it Ohio-iana

Never forget the pursuit of Truth.

Only the deluded & complicit accept election results on blind faith.


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[Michael Collins]

SC: America’s Judicial Independence & Elections
Nice speech by a SC Supreme Court justice on the importance of judicial stability and independence. She missed the “money shot” however, despite correct assumptions. The US Supreme Court wavered in 2000 and gave the election to the loser, in more ways than one, Bush. In 2004 the courts in Ohio wouldn’t allow a recount and threatened litigants asking for a recount of the election with jail time if they continued to speak out. We have neither independent judiciary nor free elections. They are out sourced to the machines and endorsed by the courts.
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Posted on Sun, Dec. 11, 2005


America must uphold judicial independence at home, too
She started off with last year’s Ukrainian election, which ultimately led to Mr. Yushchenko’s election as president — but not until the bully boys behind Viktor Yanukovych had tried everything from election fraud to assassination by poison to keep the people’s choice from power.

What saved the day? Well, the “Orange Revolution” in the streets had a lot to do with it, as did international pressure from the United States and others. But ultimately, there would not have been a happy ending for democracy if the Ukrainian supreme court had not stepped in — after the central election committee had refused to hear fraud complaints — and ordered a second runoff election, declaring the results of the crooked first one invalid.

“How did the Ukraine Supreme Court have the courage and the tools to conduct this important judicial review?” Chief Justice Toal asked. “Many credit the... strong decision for the rule of law to their training by a team of American judges and lawyers sent on an outreach mission to newly emerging democracies to school their judges in the art of creating and operating an independent court system.”

[Michael Collins]

How much can Ohio take. There’s got to be an out migration of knowledge workers and other sources of wealth because it’s getting so crazy. It’s a great state with great people but the Republicans are ruining it. Look at this editorial. It’s very simple, their Voter ID law is based on nothing factual in history and it targets the poor and minorities. Now why would Ohio Republicans do that?

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Article published Saturday, December 10, 2005

Election bill ill-conceived

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A bill greased for quick action before the Senate and House includes an identification requirement that will make it harder for some voters to cast ballots in coming elections.

The ostensible reason for the action is voter fraud, even though lawmakers cannot cite any actual cases of voters attempting to vote illegally in Ohio. That's because fraud has never been a problem.

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Identification requirements are little more than the modern-day equivalent of poll taxes and literacy tests, which once were employed in some states to keep poor, black citizens from voting.

[Michael Collins]

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The End of Democracy in Ohio?

By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Free Press. Posted December 12, 2005.

With campaign finance, voter registration, electronic voting, public recounts, district gerrymandering and overall electoral administration now firmly in the pocket of the GOP, and with Democratic opposition that is virtually non-existent on the issue of vote fraud and election manipulation, there is little reason to believe the Republican grip on Ohio will be loosened at any point in the near future.

In traditional terms, the scandal-ridden Ohio GOP would appear to be more vulnerable than ever. Governor Robert Taft has become the only Ohio governor to be convicted of a crime while in office. With an astonishing 7% approval rating, he has been compared to Homer Simpson by the state's leading Republican newspaper. Republican US Senator Mike DeWine appears highly vulnerable. The GOP has never won the White House without winning the Buckeye State.

But HB3 will solidify the GOP's iron grip on the electronic voting process and all that surrounds it. Unless they break that grip, Democrats who believe they can carry any part of Ohio in 2006 or 2008 are kidding themselves.

[Michael Collins]

PA: Not enough time, certification questions—spend $3.9 million, no problem.
This article should be read in full. It exposes the total idiocy of some portions of the press in discussing election issues. There is some very good reporting in the local press but this is not an example. Where do these people get all this money to spend. HAVA, the Help Americans Vote Act, the Federal slush fund for Republican voting machine companies. Anybody discussing that story?
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County task force made right call on voting machines
12/12/06

The report said, "We would be remiss if we did not express our significant concern and angst over the constraints that have been imposed upon us from the outset in terms of criteria to be utilized to certify a system, the consequent delay and lateness in certification of the systems and the resulting brief period of time in which we had to make our recommendations."

But to the task force’s credit, it did not let its frustration stop it from doing its duty. On Wednesday, four of the five members said the county should purchase voting machines made by Election Systems & Software at a cost of about $3.9 million.

The task force’s sole dissenting voice, Democrat Richard Winchester, repeated the concern heard most often with electronic voting machines: the lack of a paper trail. Winchester and many Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., want voting machines that spit out "receipts" showing for whom they voted. The idea is that such receipts would provide protection against Republican-leaning corporations rigging their machines in Republicans’ favor.

[Michael Collins]

Well, we began with a SC judge talking about how judges were the stewards of democracy. Here they had a chance, recount all the ballots. Why not? Because they don’t care about democracy. They care about their own political causes, just like Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, O’Connor, and Rehnquist cared only about their political causes. It’s all a big fat joke to them. See Syriana, apply it to the US and there you have it.

Good night & good luck.

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Ballots will not be rescanned
December 10, 2005 12:50 am

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Creigh Deeds
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Bob McDonnell
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By CHELYEN DAVIS
By CHELYEN DAVIS

RICHMOND--A three-judge panel dealt a blow yesterday to Democrat Creigh Deeds' efforts to get all ballots recounted in the attorney general's election.

Deeds lost the election by 323 votes to Republican Bob McDonnell, and petitioned for a recount.

The panel, led by Judge Theodore Markow, ruled unanimously against Deeds' attorneys' motion that all optical-scan ballots be rescanned through the voting machines in the recount, scheduled for Dec. 20.

Markow said that to request rescanning all the ballots, the court needed evidence that there was a "significant" likelihood of there being enough miscounted ballots to overturn the election results. Such evidence was not presented, he said.

Seventy-nine localities--just over half the total number in the state--use optical-scan machines, which require paper ballots; others use touch-screen or lever machines, and one uses paper ballots. The touch-screen and lever machines do not produce a paper trail; the only way to recount those votes is to look at the number totals. Optical-scan machines