Reply #11: Some key points I'd like to make [View All]

One thing that is different in 2004 from 2000 is that there were 25,000+ boots on the ground and observing actual instances of various activities, including machine malfunctions. There are testimonies and there are written reports and there are logged complaints up the wazoo and there are even corroborating newspaper accounts.

Also, we have discovered specific patterns and these patterns have been born out by statistical analyses and charts and graphs that we did not have time to produce in Florida, let alone be able to introduce them into a legal contest.

There is also videotape of actual voter suppression that is documented evidence of illegal activities in violation of civil rights laws. There is the conflict of interest inherent in having a Secretary of State who is a key campaign official for Bush in addition to a CEO of the principal voting machine company who not only operates in Canton, Ohio but who also has donated extensively to Bush and promised to deliver the election to him. Not to mention that the Secretary of State has already violated laws and is acting in an extremely obstructionist way, contrary to his prescribed role.

And there are actual printouts of vote tallies that do not square with the facts, and actual documented and witnessed events of machine malfunction, as well as multiple violations of elections laws in Ohio. There is also evidence from other states that replicate the "irregularities" seen in Ohio, indicating clearly that these were not isolated incidents and that there was a pattern that points quite strongly in the direction of an organized vote-rigging effort.

In short, we have a lot more to go on that we did in Florida in 2000. This time, we were ready. And Arnebeck is quite experienced and conversant in Ohio election law, having already handled related cases in Ohio in the past, not to mention the obvious skill, knowledge and passion of the rest of the lawyers involved such as Susan Truitt.

And I might finish by reminding everyone that this time we have in fact, if all the votes were truly counted, a MAJORITY of people who dedicated themselves in heroic fashion to getting out the vote and who have not forgotten the theft of 2000. Nor are they unaware of what the neoconservatives have done in the last four years and what they are planning to do. This all amounts to no small thing, and if you think that it is, you have a very poor understanding of human behavior.

But thanks for stopping by and pooping all over us.