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Ohio Presidential Results to be Challenged In Court

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 21 November 2004
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Elections-Elected USA

by Steven Rosenfeld
November 20, 2004

Ohio’s 2004 presidential vote will be challenged as soon as next week in the state Supreme Court, a coalition of public-interest lawyers announced Friday.

The lawyers have taken sworn testimony from hundreds of people in hearings in Columbus and Cincinnati, and will use excerpts as well as documents obtained from county election officials and Election Day exit polls to make a case that thousands of votes were incorrectly counted or not counted on Election Day.

“The objective is to get to the truth,†said Columbus Ohio lawyer Cliff Arnebeck, coordinator of the Ohio Honest Elections Campaign. “What’s critically important, whether it’s President Bush or Sen. Kerry, whoever’s been elected actually elected, is to know you won by an honest election. So it’s in the interest of both sides as American citizens to know the truth and have this answered.â€

The challenge comes as the Green Party has plans to file for a recount of the state’s 2004 presidential vote. The Green Party and the Ohio Honest Elections Campaign both believe the unofficial results announced on Election Day were wrong. Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has not yet certified the Nov. 2 vote. The state’s election law says an election challenge must show the wrong candidate was been declared the winner, or it can be dismissed without a hearing. The state Supreme Court’s chief justice hears the case.

Full story:

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/899

Forum posts

  • "There were thousands upon thousands of instances of election fraud committed by Republican operatives and the electronic vote was manipulated to favor Republicans. There is an ocean of evidence to show it."

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  • The democrats keep rehashing this over and over again and I bet you it will still prove that George Bush won ohio by a healthy margin. Instead of obsessing over this, just accept that you lost and that your way of doing things need to change. Things are a lot different from the way it was before. The democratic base is shrinking, there’s less union members, many minorities have become more affluent and have become conservative, they have basically inalienated the south, and their message needs to be updated. That old mantra of having the government take care of everything by increasing taxes is not going to work any more. We are not europe, we don’t like gov’t to do things for us. If the democrats don’t change they will continue to have more grief in upcoming elections.

  • Mainstream press seems to be in denial but this election debaucle as well as their own complicity in thwarting our democracy will be exposed.

    It is time for a choice for everyone in America- accept Facism because it is easier and go down with the ship- or choose democracy, fight for our country and be a hero your children can look up to?

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