Larisa Alexandrovna: OH Recount Volunteers Allege Legal Violations

[kpete]

DEMAND AN FBI INVESTIGATION!!!

Ohio recount volunteers allege electoral tampering, legal violations and possible fraud

Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Thursday June 1, 2006

Serious new election tampering allegations have emerged from an Ohio county, where witnesses allege that stickers were placed on presidential election ballots, RAW STORY has learned.

Several volunteer workers in the Ohio recount in Clermont County, Ohio have prepared affidavits alleging serious tampering, violations of state and federal law and possible fraud. They name the Republican chief of Clermont’s Board of Elections Daniel Bare and the head of the Clermont Democratic Party Priscilla O’Donnell as complicit in these acts.

These volunteers, observing the recount on behalf of the Greens, Libertarians and Democrats, assert that during the Dec. 14, 2004 hand recount they noticed stickers covering the Kerry/Edwards oval, whereas the Bush/Cheney oval seemed to be “colored in.”

Some witnesses state that beneath the stickers, the Kerry/Edwards oval was selected. The opti-scan ballots were then fed into the machines after the hand recount.

MORE AT:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Ohio_recount_volunteers_allege_electoral_tampering_0601.html

Originally published January, 2005.

[saltpoint]

1. The elves told us that something was way wrong with the Ohio vote.

Way wrong.

While we're several steps away from incontrovertible evidence demonstrating felony election fraud and that Ohio went for Kerry-Edwards, the level of doubt about Bush/Rove/Blackwell's operations in Ohio has been on the rise for some time now, and is really beginning to pick up steam this week.

God bless Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., just for starters, and also let's see where this new information leads, kpete. Thanks for posting it.

[lala_rawraw]

32. yeah, i once posted at kos (about 3 diaries in total i think)

and I got attacked like crazy for trying to discuss this subject by asking people to be patient and alluding to this piece while working on it... but then a group of DU posters, like TayTay invited me to come here and that is how I found DU:)

[saltpoint]

33. Well, a belated but no less sincere welcome.

By the way, TayTay is a class act. Some of the best posts on all the web, no kidding.

[lala_rawraw]

39. yep, true and their little group bought me my gold star too

because i did not even have enough funds for ciggies at the time... they are most kind and TayTay is a lovely person.

[Patsy Stone]

2. K&R

For Larisa and the last piece of the puzzle. Sure, we here knew it was the first and most important part of the puzzle, but it's nice to see it aired out in the harsh light of day.

Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that election fraud wouldn't be looked at until last. Everyone was in a 9/11 coma for so long. I knew that until the public woke up and looked around and asked "How did we get here?" no one was going to pay attention to "What if Ohio was stolen?".

Here's to the citizens, reporters and statisticians! :toast:

[MelissaB]

3. Off to the greatest!

:kick:

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

4. K & R. Ohio: ELECTION FRAUD CAPITAL OF THE UNIVERSE!!! nt.

[DemReadingDU]

5. Note at bottom of article

Originally published January, 2005.

[MelissaB]

7. I saw that.

Maybe this will bring more attention to the issue, though.

Here's the title on the front page: "... Raw first found Ohio ballot tampering;"

[lala_rawraw]

11. John Conyers

Sent a letter to the FBI demanding an investigation. He met with all of the sources and whistleblowers. I sent the FBI the recording and my notes (minus anon sourcing). To date, there has been no investigation.

Here is the letter from Conyers to the feds:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohelecfbifollowupltr12805.pdf

[oasis]

35. John Conyer's letter to FBI. Link on post#11 provided by lala_rawraw.

:kick:

[oasis]

41. kick

[druidity33]

15. RFK mentions this...

in his RS thesis. I think RawStory (LaLa) decided they needed to remind people who broke the story... and rightly so. What about an update on these players in particular? Were those affidavits ever handed in? That's what i want to know... where's the follow-up?

[lala_rawraw]

16. No, I wanted to use this moment and support for his article

to get people to call the FBI and force them to investigate because I have been trying since January. the feds have the affidavits, plus the folks who did not wish to be named in the article but were willing to speak to them - their names. the follow up is that there is nothing, crickets. that is why i wanted to use this momentum to try to get them to do a real investigation. they say they have done one and found no wrong doing, but they did not speak to any of the whistle blowers or to me, so I find it hard to believe they did any sort of real investigation. you want a follow up? i do too, that is why we need to get everyone calling the FBI and demanding an investigation.

[Coexist]

18. okay!

My file isn't nearly as thick as yours, I need to catch up.

[lala_rawraw]

19. LMAO and I FOIAed my file :D

[lala_rawraw]

20. email me or PM me, I will provide you with the person

to contact at that office.

[Joanne98]

36. This is an old story but an important one. Stickers! How evil.

[hootinholler]

6. There was video of this posted in the ER forum

Shortly after it happened.

-Hoot

[Canuckistanian]

8. Don't know what to make of this

From the atmosphere surrounding this incident, I'd say there was a lot of tension. Some people are obviously very afraid to openly speak up.

If it were me, I'd be screaming it from the rooftops.

[woodsprite]

9. They're afraid they'll get pushed off the rooftop if said to loudly. n/t

[lala_rawraw]

10. yep!

[flyarm]

30. do understand ..these "new world order " boys don't take prisoners..

anyone who blows the whistle on them without getting huge media coverage..gets the suicide bug...or the wierd car crash symptom to the bug...and they should never ever go near small aircraft..the negative G's will make them blow their cookies..the bug will be so bad!!..

fly

[lala_rawraw]

12. Come on kids, kick this to greatest

And email to everyone you know. WE NEED to put pressure on FBI (see my comment up thread about Conyers)

[eomer]

13. K & R

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

14. It would be nice if the FBI could...

...somehow see their way clear to break away from digging up horsey farms in search of Hoffa's remains, and actually find some time to investigate, as Jim Lampley so rightly called it, "the biggest crime in the history of the nation."

http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t28796.html

[SharonRB]

17. What took them so long?

On edit: Sorry, didn't realize this was an old story.

[BeFree]

21. Wouldn't it be nice?

If the fat cats camped at DNC, at their plush desks, on the plush carpets, in their plush offices, would pick up the phone and call the FBI and DEMAND the investigation move forward?

Imo, the party has failed to do what it is supposed to do: Make sure the votes get counted correctly, and that everybody gets to vote.

It is not the candidates' fault that millions of dollars went down the black box hole, their job is to get people to cast a vote for them. It IS the party's responsibility to see that our votes are counted, correctly.

[Raksha]

23. You're damn right it would be nice if the DNC

demands an explanation! Their failure to raise a stink when it first became obvous something was wrong in Ohio is hurting us RIGHT NOW! The BushBots are using the Democrats' silence as one of their main talking points to "prove" the election was honest, and it's an argument we can't refute because *WE* don't understand it either!

The Democratic so-called "leadership" owes the rank-and-file an explanatiion--AND an apology! They let us down, just like the corporate media.

[stop the bleeding]

25. once we get out of wonderland then maybe

kick!!

[bleever]

22. Kick.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

24. K & R

Good job Larisa!

[mom cat]

26. Big WOOT!

[garybeck]

27. Always felt those darn white stickers are the KEY. LaLa ROCKS my world!

they are physical evidence of fraud.

we will get these f'kers.

[Wilms]

28. k(pete) &R n/t

[oasis]

29. And what does Salon's WH shill Manjoo have to say about this?

[lala_rawraw]

31. you don't want to know...

take a guess in the RIGHT direction.

so i assume everyone here contacted the FBI's press office and demanded an investigation:)?

c'mon guys, these people risked a lot to come forward and tell what happened, we have to stand by them!!!:D

[oasis]

34. I read the Conyer's letter to FBI about the stickers. Did he get a reply?

It's been about a year and a half since the date of the Conyer's letter.

[lala_rawraw]

40. yes and I kept calling as well, the reply was...

essentailly "nothing to see, move along" which is why i keep asking that people demand an investigation.

[alfredo]

37. Show doubters this video

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/2004votefraud.html

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

38. It all means nothing if nothing is done to prevent it from happening again

"During the Dec.16 public meeting, they say, Bare stated that he would provide all of the necessary documentation requested, including poll books, uncounted provisional ballots, uncounted absentee ballots, and service records for the machines–all of which have yet to be provided. According to the volunteers, repeated attempts to get these documents were rebuffed and have to this day not been submitted"

I thought I read just recently that all materials relating to the election in Ohio, ballots, etc. were going to be destroyed at some deadline in the near future. No evidence, no case. Who is going to prevent that from happening?

My new law - all voting activities are to be conducted in rooms with multiple monitoring and recording devices that have back-up battery systems in case of power failure along with audio equipment. Our elections need to be monitored.