Tidbits for those like me who've been claiming stolen 2004 election....

[cilla4progress]

Link to tweet

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[Grasswire2]

1. I saw that tweet last night and yes, indeed, I do remember.

Jennifer Cohn is carrying the torch for research on election integrity.

She's just the best at this. And she now has a youtube channel because her hair is on fire and she's working day and night to drag others along.

Please follow her. Please visit her youtube channel.

And please work for the same goal, as diligently as we each can.

Share, share, share her work.

[scarytomcat]

10. I do remember the flip

Kerry won

[scarytomcat]

12. Kerry needs to run in 2020

Biden showed he is not up to it in the debates and Sanders is a great progressive voice but not really going to do it. He is clueless about modern culture.

[Silver Gaia]

16. I remember it, too. I was watching the results at the Ohio Sec of State website,

and SAW it happen. I was a fairly new DU member at the time, and was following a thread on here at the same time in which we were following the results. I will NEVER forget it. And no one can ever convince me that the election wasn't stolen from Kerry in that very moment. I was stunned, and so was everyone else posting here on that thread. The universe groaned and shifted for me in that moment. Three times this has happened to us: Gore, Kerry, and Hillary. The only reason it didn't happen with Obama is that we pulled in voters by such a huge margin that they were unable to flip it. Those vote tallies were "officially" much closer than they should have been, so they tried both times, but just couldn't pull it off. We MUST not let this happen again. The stakes are higher than they've ever been. IMHO.

[CrispyQ]

2. I don't remember a server crash,. bit I will always believe they stole OH.

[shraby]

5. I remember it. Kerry was leading when it went down, and when it came back up

bush was ahead.

Another small precinct showed more votes for bush than they had registered voters. People notified the powers that be, and they had put a lot of Kerry's votes in the bush column that put bush ahead, and at the same time they didn't take Kerry's votes away.

[UpInArms]

3. Michael Connell

https://web.archive.org/web/20081227042831/http://arkansas.indymedia.org/newswire/display/23207/index.php

The original complaint, filed Aug. 8, 2006, alleged that in the 2004 election in which George W. Bush narrowly won Ohio (a key election state), election officials, especially then-Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, deprived African-Americans and students from voting freely and having their votes properly counted. The suit also mentions "private contractors" and "breaking "the bi-partisan chain of custody of ballots," presumably where Michael Connell and a company called SmarTech in Chattanooga, TN, figure in.
Connell's website shows (or did show) a long client list of neoconsertive politicians and predatory corporate interests.

[deurbano]

13. Blackwell was on a mission (and not from god) to rig that election. (Remember his attempts to reject

voter registration forms that were printed on the "wrong" weight of paper??!!) This made him an obvious pick for Agent Orange's election "integrity" commission.

https://www.acluohio.org/archives/blog-posts/ken-blackwells-greatest-hits

05.25.17
Ken Blackwell’s “Greatest” Hits: Voting Edition
By Katrice Williams

<<1. Blackwell tried to reject thousands of voter registration forms because they were on the wrong weight of paper. No eligible voter should be disenfranchised because of a technicality, much less because of the weight of paper they used to fill out their form!

2. He prohibited people who requested an absentee ballot from voting provisionally if they did not receive their absentee ballot in the mail.

3. Blackwell and 21 other county boards of elections were sued by the Ohio Justice and Policy Center for advising voters they could not vote while on probation or parole. If Blackwell had instructed election officials to properly inform individuals with criminal convictions about their right to vote, several thousand more Ohioans would have participated in the 2004 elections.

4. Blackwell and former Director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Barbara Rile were sued for failing to provide voter registration opportunities in public assistance offices as required by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

5. Blackwell issued Directive 2004-33 to Ohio’s local election officials which instructed poll workers to confirm a voter’s eligibility before issuing a provisional ballot. Thousands of voters were denied a provisional ballot because of his exclusionary voting directives.
Lastly, Blackwell’s track record as Ohio’s election officer demonstrates a man dedicated to partisan politics. In October 2004, Blackwell sent a letter to GOP supporters while he was serving as Secretary of State, stressing the importance of the anti-gay marriage ballot issue. He also emphasized voting for this issue would draw other conservative supporters to the polls who would most likely vote for then-President George W. Bush.>>

[58Sunliner]

4. I've been aware of this since day 1. History being repeated, over and over.

It is the way they manufacture consensus. We should be hammering the MSM to address this ad nauseam.

[Duppers]

6. K & R

[sinkingfeeling]

7. I sat there, in disbelief, watching the lead flip in Ohio

[pecosbob]

8. Anyone remember Karl Rove melting down on FOX over...that's right...Ohio in 2012?

I sure do.

[stuffmatters]

15. Yes, Rove clearly believed he (Crossroads) & Repugs were going to rig & win Ohio again.

[locks]

9. I was in Provence in 2004

but it seemed clear from what I was reading and following that the election had been rigged. The French believed this too and literally wept for Americans.

[Captain Zero]

11. I recall it bring a company associated with KKKarl Rove..

The company had a contract with the AG of Ohio. The data sent to a server in Tennesee around 11, with Kerry leading, final tabulation came back with Bush winning. My own investigation found a curious anomaly. Morrow County, a small conservative, farming county with too few votes to bother switching returned 7% LESS votes for Bush in 04 as opposed to 00, but major urban centers like Dayton, Toledo, Youngstown were reporting +7% INCREASES for Bush in 2004. One of the officials of that company, set to testify about the late night switch, died in a plane crash soon before his testimony.

[MelissaB]

14. Yeah, that's when I joined DU

and was active in the Election Reform forum. I remember it clearly.

Anybody remember the name Ken Blackwell?

[gldstwmn]

18. SOS State of Ohio. The whole thing stunk to high heaven.

[gldstwmn]

17. That deserves to be retweeted about a million times.

And of course Manafort was involved! Our questions about a stolen election were pooh poohed somewhat in the same way our cries for impeachment are now. I think we have a real opportunity here to break away from the status quo and elect someone who won't just go along to get along.

[shanny]

19. Indeed.

Pukes stole at least 2 and most likely three of the last 5 elections. Including this one.

[Mc Mike]

20. I remember the info on her point #4.

A watergate criminal named Egil Krogh was the boss for Jeffrey Dean, the convicted computer criminal who was a main programmer for Diebold.

While 2 watergate criminals, Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, were working for the Rump campaign.