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questionseverything

(9,660 posts)
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 02:03 PM Nov 2012

dirty tricks in ohio

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/mia-in-voting-machine-war_b_2054411.html?utm_hp_ref=voting-rights

"Oddly enough, one of those purportedly well-prepared states is Ohio, ground zero for GOP dirty election tricks in 2004. In addition, according to exit poll analysis by Richard Charnin, a pre-crash Wall Street "quant" and author of the book Matrix of Deceit, along with other researchers, there was a less-noticed "red-shift" in 2008 and 2010 as well, based on unadjusted exit polls that he says proves electronic vote-tampering. (Most -- mainstream statisticians disagree.)"
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dirty tricks in ohio (Original Post) questionseverything Nov 2012 OP
sos husted has tried everything questionseverything Nov 2012 #1
and is being sued. elleng Nov 2012 #2
We CANNOT allow these patches to go unoticed or ignored ! Iwasthere Nov 2012 #3
Right and they're not going ignored; elleng Nov 2012 #4
it is criminal questionseverything Nov 2012 #5

questionseverything

(9,660 posts)
1. sos husted has tried everything
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 02:06 PM
Nov 2012

Why did the Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted's office, in an end run around Ohio election law, have "experimental" software patches installed on vote counting tabulators in up to 39 Ohio counties? Voting rights activists are concerned that these uncertified and untested software patches may alter the election results...
The Free Press has learned that Election Systems and Solutions (ES&S) installed the software patches that will affect 4,041,056 registered voters, including those in metropolitan Columbus and Cleveland (click here for spread sheet from verifiedvoting.org).

Iwasthere

(3,170 posts)
3. We CANNOT allow these patches to go unoticed or ignored !
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 02:13 PM
Nov 2012

Could you image if this would have happened decades ago? We are being desensitized. This is a crime ... JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!

questionseverything

(9,660 posts)
5. it is criminal
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 02:32 PM
Nov 2012

UPDATE: Those worries about a rigged election were given new urgency today as The Ohio-based Free Press editor-in-chief Robert Fitrakis, also a Green Party candidate for Congress, announced plans to file a lawsuit later today seeking an immediate injunction against Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and the ES&S manufacturer to halt the use of secretly installed, unauthorized "experimental" software in 39 counties' tabulators in an alleged violation of state election law. His attorney, Cliff Arnebeck, has also referred the case to the Cincinnati FBI for a criminal investigation. Arnebeck says, "It's a flagrant violation of the law. Before you add new software, you need approval of a state board. They are installing an uncertified, suspect software patch that interfaces between the a county's vote tabulation equipment and state tabulators."

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