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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 09:55 AM
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Democrats keep leveling charges at Blackwell they can’t back up
The Dems did it too! Next up for Repub spin: Bush is really a Democrat!

Democrats keep leveling charges at Blackwell they can’t back up

Sunday, June 11, 2006
JOE HALLETT

Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell is flypaper for controversy.

By sticking his nose into fights and poking his finger in eyes, he has become a well-known political maverick, a trait in this year of the anti-Republican incumbent that led him to the GOP gubernatorial nomination.

Last week, Blackwell stirred a new firestorm by writing rules to implement House Bill 3, the election-reform law that took effect May 2.

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Ohio has a bipartisan election system with an equal number of Democrats and Republicans at the county level, where elections are actually run, Niquette said. For the massive fraud outlined in stories such as Kennedy’s to have occurred without being exposed at the time, scores of Democratic election officials and hundreds of lawyers for Kerry in Ohio would have had to have been bought off, incompetent or both.

Kennedy rails about the woefully inadequate number of voting machines in Franklin County’s inner-city precincts, but with bipartisan approval, a Democrat decided where the machines would be placed. Kennedy accuses Blackwell of twisting the rules on provisional ballots to help Bush block Democratic votes but neglects to mention that 32 other states have the same rules for counting such ballots – and that Ohio’s rate for counting them was 77 percent, the third highest in the nation.

Blackwell invited criticism by agreeing to serve as Bush’s Ohio co-chairman, but Democrats still haven’t met the burden of proof that he stole the 2004 election.

http://www.ohioelects.com/?story=dispatch/2006/06/11/20060611-E5-00.html



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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 10:01 AM
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1. For me to believe one word of this...
I need names, dates, affidavits, legal contracts, notarized signatures, and then I would still be suspicious.
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 10:18 AM
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2. political hack job. noone needs evidence to know what blackwell pulled
in ohio.
it was obvious.
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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 10:36 AM
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3. A non-denial denial.
They don't deny, they just say "prove it." That's a little like "bring it on." Such bravado gets them nowhere. I do believe there is more than enough evidence. And that doesn't include the possible access of the voting tabulators. Why did Blackwell have access to the tabulators in his office?

One cannot say too much about Mr. Blackwell and Ohio. It was recently revealed, by Bob Fitrakis of the Free Press, that Blackwell’s very office in Columbus had direct access to the Ohio central tabulators on Election Day.

http://www.whoscounting.net/50WaystoStealElections.htm
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MsMagnificent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 12:34 PM
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4. More propaganda
which is highly unlikely!

"Bipartisan" my sweet azz!

Moreover, it ignores the myriad specific actions perpetrated by the Neo-CON's such as, but not limited to:
--the 80 lb. paper fiasco (one of the many ultimately ruled against by the judiciary)
--eminently insecure Diebold voting machines
--'Blackwell follows the law (!), worse, there is a tacit admission that the election process in Ohio is unfair; witness this quote:
"But Blackwell has a strong counterargument: The rule he wrote simply follows the law. (*gag*) Indeed, it does appear to do that. Critics might more appropriately aim their ire at the GOP-controlled legislature and demand that it change the law. emphasis mine
--shutting down count witnesses due to a fabricated, especially as the FBI denied the claim of "terrorist threat" in one Ohio district.
(Just watch -- I'll lay good odds on the next elections having hundreds of such 'terror alerts' to disenfranchise non-partisan vote-count witnesses!)
--Rebumblan minions (of who most are imported, out-of-state 'operatives') further delaying the long wait time in Democratic districts by challenging votes(many if not most are singled out because of 'profiling', i.e. the color of their skin
--And perhaps most importantly, witness Blackwell's boasts and crowing about his winning the election for Bush!
Which shows, if nothing else, rabid partisanship from an election commissioner no less!

These are only a few of many

They actually have the nerve to offer as proof of their claims the VERY poorly researched (and truthful) 'rebuttal' from Farhad Manjoo on Salon.com! Really now -- is Manjoo the 'Colmes' of Salon? If so, they should keep him silent and 'neutralized' just as Faux does to Colmes!

http://download14.rbn.com/rstone/rstone/download/misc/blackwellfundraisingltr.pdf

*disgusted*

--but let's be fair, it's not just the Neo-CON's alone, it shows willful collusion by 'regular' Republicans who don't necessarily identify with the CON's--
most of whom who, whether they like it or not, are "Brand W" 'pukes.

K & R for the alert to the latest Psyops, certainly not approval!
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MsMagnificent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 02:06 PM
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6. Corrections
Sorry, running a fever and neglected to proofread this, and it's too late to edit :/

Corrections:

"...which is highly unlikely!" Should have :sarcasm: after it.


didn't end blockquote


Many unfinished parenthesis


"...'profiling', i.e. the color of their skin" = Racial Profiling. Duh!


"They actually have the nerve to offer as proof of their claims the VERY poorly researched (and truthful) 'rebuttal'"
Should read (highly UNtruthful)!


Sorry for the errors -- I'm going back to bed :(
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meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 12:51 PM
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5. You should have added a puke alert
This is nauseating, this slander against Democrats.
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OzarkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 03:18 PM
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7. Didn't Joe Hallet's wife work for Taft?
Mary Anne Sharkey used to be a journalist, but worked as Taft's spokesperson for years.

Latest google shows her working as spokesperson for new Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson. That's disturbing.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/114785477837070.xml&coll=2

Otherwise, ignore Hallet. He's bought and paid for, just like his wife.
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