Pay No Attention To that Coshocton County Behind The Curtain

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

Bob Batchelor
Coshocton County Prosecutor
318 Chestnut Street
Coshocton, Ohio 43812
(740) 622-3566
bobbatchelor@coshoctoncounty.net

April 15, 2009

Re: Questions, Comments, and a FOIA for ongoing request for election fraud investigation of Coshocton County.

Dear Bob Batchelor,

I would like to know if you requested an investigation for possible election fraud in the Coshocton County 2004 General Election in regards to the over 6,800 votes for write-in candidate David Corbett that appear to be in the handwriting of one to several people. There are a small number of votes sprinkled through the 43 precincts that do appear to be in the handwriting of a variety of people, which I have assumed are actual votes. If those 6,800 ballots do indeed contain election fraud, I wonder if they are even real?

I originally wrote to you about this on October 14, 2008, and addressed the apparent conflict of interest for you to investigate as you provide legal council to the Coshocton County Board of Elections. I also recently noticed that you were a candidate on those same ballots. I do not know if that would add to the conflict of interest issue. When I originally wrote to you about this, I sent photos of the actual ballots. The Secretary of State’s (SOS) attorneys say they lost their photos I sent in October. One of the same SOS attorneys, Eleanor Speelman previously lost a request for an investigation into election fraud for the 2004 Coshocton County Recount that was filed by Coshocton resident, Tim Kettler. Kettler is a witness to another SOS employee, Pat Wolfe and her involvement in the alleged rigging of the 2004 recount. I know Peter Jones who witnessed that same SOS employee, Pat Wolfe’s involvement in the alleged rigging of the Green County recount. Please watch out for your county and provide the needed legal guidance.

It certainly seems difficult to get the people paid with taxpayer money to do oversight, people whose job it is to have such investigations done… to actually do those investigations in Ohio. I wonder why? Today is April 15, tax day, I hope for better use of our money in the near future.

It is my understanding that for the Ohio Attorney General to conduct an investigation into the issue of alleged election fraud in Coshocton County, that either the County Prosecutor or the Ohio Secretary of State must request the investigation. Brian Green who was an attorney under Jennifer Brunner did promise me such an investigation last fall. Since making that promise Brian has changed jobs and now works in the State of New York. Strangely he never contacted me to withdraw his promised investigation. I am told that Secretary Brunner has not yet requested the investigation with the Attorney General into alleged election fraud on those David Corbett ballots.

According to Paul Scarsella the Sections Chief of Special Prosecutions at the office of the Ohio Attorney General, you also have not requested the investigation. So what will it take for you to make this request? Lets just start with the subject of the sheriff race, although there are others things we could expand to later. Would you like to join me and view the actual ballots? It is easy to see the similarities. I think it is important enough that I will make the time to do that with you. I have learned that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification has on staff a handwriting expert. It seems to me that we shall need such talents to figure out what has happened in the Coshocton County 2004 General Election. Could you please quickly request not only the investigation, but to immediately bring in the handwriting expert.

I understand you told a reporter that someone from the Attorney General’s office looked at 30 Coshocton ballots and did not find a problem last fall. Please tell me who this was and when this happened. When I reviewed the security records which detail every person that has entered the storage facility, no such person existed. When I asked Paul Scarsella if he had anyone look at those ballots last fall, the answer was no. So please tell me how you learned of this inspection. Security is very tight at the storage facility, and if someone got in undetected and was posing to be an employee of the Ohio Attorney General, handled the ballots without someone providing oversight, and then lied to you about conducting an investigation, we will need a legal investigation of that also.

Please advise me on how to assist you in requesting the Coshocton County investigation through the Attorney General, and could you kindly answer the questions I have asked. As you can see, I’m confused that this has not moved faster. That requests for investigations and photos of evidence have been lost, employees have promised investigations then quickly left their jobs, imposters have viewed the ballots and slipped through security and made untrue statements to you, an SOS employee who is still employed at the SOS was involved in alleged rigging of your county recount (and I understand you were told of this but no investigation happened), and neither you nor the Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner have taken a leadership position and sought to address the situation. Wow… this is a mess. Do I understand it correctly?

As per ORC 149.43 I request copies of all correspondence in regards to my request for an election fraud investigation for Coshocton Counties 2004 general election and the write-in votes for David Corbett between yourself and any and all staff of the Coshocton County Prosecutor’s office and Sheriff Timothy Rodgers, the Ohio Attorney General and any and all staff, and the Ohio Secretary of State and any and all staff. I request copies of all notes and correspondence from the original reporting by Tim Kettler of the alleged rigging of the recount, including any papers filed. Please send this in paper or electronic format. These requests are severable to speed the processing.

Thank you for your assistance.

Sincerely,


Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
paddy@columbus.rr.com
(614) 266-5283


CC: Richard Cordray, Ohio Attorney General
Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State
Brandi Seskes, Elections Council, SOS
Tim Kettler, OEJC, Coshocton County Resident
Brian Gadd, Coshocton Tribune
Bev Harris, Blackbox Voting
Marian Lupo, OEJC
Marlys Barbee, OEJC
Mike Tigner, OEJC
Victoria Parks, OEJC
Dan Stanton, OEJC
James Nash, Columbus Dispatch
Mark Niquette, Columbus Dispatch
Susan Pynchon, Florida Fair Elections Coalition
David Cobb, Former Green Party Candidate for President of the United States, 2004
John Bonifaz, Esq.
Tim Carpenter, PDA
Mimi Kennedy, PDA
Nancy Tobi, Democracy for New Hampshire
Dan Ashby, Election Defense Alliance
Sally Castleman, Election Defense Alliance
Ian Urbina, New York Times
Greg Palast, BBC

http://electiondefensealliance.org/oejc

Diebold CFO resigns over SEC warning

Columbus Dispatch, 3-26-09

NORTH CANTON, Ohio

Diebold CFO resigns over SEC warning

ATM maker Diebold Inc. said yesterday that its chief financial officer, Kevin
J. Krakora, stepped down after receiving a "Wells notice" from the Securities
and Exchange Commission staff related to a probe of how the company had been
reporting revenue.

A Wells notice indicates that the agency's enforcement division might
recommend that the SEC take legal action against those receiving it. Recipients
of such a notice can respond to the enforcement division before it makes a
formal recommendation to the SEC.

The company said it thinks the notices are related to issues addressed in
restated financial statements that it had filed.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2009/03/26/biz_briefs_0326_ART_03-26-09_C9_54DBSCO.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101&title=NEWS+BRIEFS

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Diebold Chief Financial Officer Kevin Krakora steps down after
receiving SEC notice

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Janet H. Cho

Plain Dealer Reporter

Diebold Inc.'s chief financial officer has stepped down in the wake of a U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into possible violations of
federal securities laws.

Kevin Krakora, 53, who also stepped down as executive vice president, will
remain in a nonfinancial reporting capacity until the matter is resolved,
Diebold said Wednesday in a filing with the SEC.

The SEC's Division of Enforcement notified Krakora on Friday in what is known
as a "Wells notice" that it may recommend that the commission pursue a civil
case against him, the company said.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business-12/1238056525145310.xml&coll=2

Ohio Election Status, 2009: Cleaned Up Or Covered Up And By whom?

With unresolved 2004 election theft issues in Ohio, and the national crisis as a result of the mismanagement of the Bush administration, is Ohio Secretary of State Brunner a fit US Senate Candidate?

By: Paddy Shaffer Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC

March 10, 2008

Ties from Ohio election officials connect with the unelected administration of Bush and Cheney who smashed the US reputation with an illegal war, the death of thousands of US soldiers and possibly over a half million Iraqis, Gitmo, torture, with bank failures spreading like the plague and the taxpayers left paying for the looting of this nations finances for war profiteering and allowing white collar bank robbing.

Yes, those Ohio county election officials who allegedly rigged Ohio and the Supreme Court Judges who in 2000 appointed Bush some responsibility for the current situation. They did this, and now with millions out of work, retirement and savings decimated, and homeless numbers climbing… it is time for justice for those who rigged our presidential election, which lead to the current depression.

It is important to remember that Ohio had a statewide recount following the 2004 election and that the 2005 challenge to certification of Ohio's electoral votes, led by Boxer (D-CA) and Tubbs Jones (D-OH), was the first time in U.S. history that a state's entire electoral college vote was challenged.

In a statement for why Ohio Secretary of State (SOS) Jennifer Brunner is now running for the US Senate she wrote, Leadership is not about saying "no"; it's about having the humility to listen, the creativity to see opportunities, and the persistence to enact solutions. Many members of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) are still seeking accountability for past election crimes in Ohio, many are the actual witnesses to these crimes. We are not feeling the warmth and potential of the above quote.

Our view is more like that of Harry Markopolis, a citizen investigator of financier Bernard Madoff http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/04/cbsnews_investigates/main4776338.shtml .

Harry reported the apparent financial robbing of many investors to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), only to be repeatedly ignored for years, while the robbery continued.

Harry recently testified to congress: http://financialservices.house.gov/markopolos020409.pdf . During Bush's time as the unelected president Representative John Conyers held congressional hearings. Nothing was allowed to be resolved. For years OEJC members have informed not only the SOS of many cases of election fraud, but also the Ohio Attorney General's office, who serves as legal council for Secretary Brunner. But like the SEC, those in power in Ohio, ignore these crimes, adding to our national shame.


Elected in 2006, Brunner campaigned then and now for Senate as a reformer, but lets look at actual events. Federally protected election records retained as evidence in the class action election case, King Lincoln v Blackwell http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/klbna.php case no. 2:06-cv-745 are destroyed in 58 of Ohio's 88 counties.

Brunner, a former judge, provides excuses for the destruction of evidence and then does not file county 2004 ballot inventories and the letters with excuses for destruction of those records to the court. On August 21, 2007 she tells members of the SOS Voting Rights Institute, including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP that, This information was all turned over to Judge Marbley. We have had no updates from his court as of today.” Yet in early July 2008 wondering why nothing had been done, research by The Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) proved that the court had never been given those records by the SOS. The plaintiff's attorneys also did not file those documents with the court. Over 1.5 million ballots were destroyed. On July 7, 2008, eight pro se members of the OEJC filed a motion to intervene

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Lincoln-Intervene-7-7-08.pdf

and on July 10, 2008 they filed a motion for a special grand jury

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Lincoln-Intervenor-7-10-08.pdf

for the King Lincoln case. Pro se means that we serve as our own attorneys, and we filed the documents on the destruction of the 2004 records with the court, after the SOS had been in possession of them for over a year. Brunner and her legal council at the Ohio Attorney General's office filed to block our intervention in the King Lincoln case.

The plaintiffs attorneys had also not filed with the court the documents on record destruction. Like the SOS, they are seeking to block our intervention and have additionally asked to have the records stricken. Why? Stricken means removed, the court would then no longer have this critical evidence for the case. The counties admit in their own words to their crimes in those documents. We asked the court to enforce its own order that destruction of those 2004 election records is a fourth degree felony, and they can be held in contempt of court. We asked for an investigation and a report so that is all goes public. Nothing has happened, nothing resolved, we await the court.

Candidate Brunner claims, it's about having the humility to listen, yet she said no to meeting with members of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign, journalists, and several documentary filmmakers to discuss resolving election fraud. Brunner has allowed election officials who committed crimes in 2004 beyond the destruction of records, which have been thoroughly documented by citizens and the information provided to her, to remain uninvestigated and those alleged federal criminals continue to run Ohio elections.

As far as enacting solutions, Brunner had the Ohio Association of Election Officials lobbyist Aaron Ockerman, (whom along with his firm State Street Consultants has lobbied for election vendor's Diebold and ES&S) choose the election officials for the SOS EVEREST study of Ohio's election machines. Most of those chosen officials had destroyed 2004 election records, which is a felony. The Diebold/Premier machines failed the SOS testing, and those who watched the testing were sworn to secrecy until 2017.

Why would we want to not know what they saw? Transparent? The failed Diebold machines are still being used across most of the state. One county to free itself of the bad Diebold machines was Cuyahoga. ES&S technicians rather than election workers ran the new ES&S tabulators for the 2008 primary in Cuyahoga County. Why? Ohio law reads one Democrat and one Republican count the votes. Why would technicians ever run all the tabulators?

Would a Senator Brunner seek accountability and solutions on a national level, when holding even rural Ohio election officials accountable is beyond her, and she hasn't stopped the OEJC documented ongoing destruction of federally protected 2004 election records? OEJC investigation continues of 2004 records, fraud is easily found. On September 19, 2008 I requested an SOS investigation on over 6,800 write-in votes for a Coshocton County sheriff candidate David Corbett in the handwriting of one to several people, affecting each of the counties 43 precincts.

Only the election officials have such access. OEJC member Tim Kettler witnessed the alleged rigging of the recount in 2004. We know there are problems there. I was hopeful when promised by SOS Attorney Brian Green that I would get such an investigation, yet half a year later, nothing has been done, and those same election officials ran another presidential election. I could not even get the SOS office to provide oversight of Coshocton's Board of Elections during the 2008 presidential election. This is one of many investigations the OEJC asked of Brunner.

Having a proven track record that Secretary Brunner will not deal with Ohio's mountains of election problems, it is the OEJC's hope that she will remove her court response to block our intervention in the King Lincoln case, and encourage Judge Algenon Marbley to proceed with the special grand jury we requested, thereby allowing a real federal investigation. Such a move would show leadership in admitting what she is unable or unwilling to do.

In our collective OEJC opinion, SOS Jennifer Brunner is not qualified for US Senate, and without radical change and actually cleaning up election corruption in Ohio, Brunner also isn't qualified for a second term as Ohio SOS. Rather than elevated, she should be impeached.

Additional information on the destruction of Ohio election records: Michael Collins articles:
Part One: http://www.scoop.co.nz:80/stories/HL0710/S00300.htm
Part Two: http://www.scoop.co.nz:80/stories/HL0711/S00161.htm

Prosecutors Bully Ohio Voters: Ohio Election Justice Campaign Calls for Day of Silence on January 6, 2009

Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document.

Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) calls for Day of Silence this Tuesday, January 6, 2009 to commemorate "Boxer Rebellion." Four years ago on this day, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) led the challenge to the certification of Ohio's votes in the 2004 presidential election, the first time in U.S. history that an entire state's electoral college votes were challenged. An initiative of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Boxer Rebellion was based on widespread electoral problems in Ohio, most unaddressed to this day. Alleged acts of voter intimidation ongoing during the 2008 presidential election include the alleged assault of an election observer in Lucas County, the refusal of Delaware County to permit certain election observers, and Franklin County Board of Election's ongoing practice of referring public record requests to its prosecutor.

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) January 6, 2009 -- The Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) calls for a Day of Silence this Tuesday, January 6, 2009, to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the "Boxer Rebellion."

This day marks the peaceful legislative challenge to the re-election of George W. Bush on January 6th, 2005. Our silence stands in solidarity with voters around the world whose voices have been extinguished through violence, fear-mongering, and election fraud.

Four years ago, on January 6th, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) led the challenge to the certification of Ohio's votes in the 2004 presidential election. This was the first time in U.S. history that an entire state's electoral college votes were challenged.

If the challenge had been successful, Bush would have lost the electoral college votes he needed to clinch the election.

Joining Boxer and Jones in the challenge, known as the "Boxer Rebellion," were 30 representatives, including Kucinich (D-OH), Conyers (D-MI), McKinney (D-GA), and civil rights leader John Robert Lewis (D-GA).

An initiative of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Boxer Rebellion was based on widespread electoral problems in Ohio, most unaddressed to this day.

Not only have the election officials allegedly responsible for the acts of voter intimidation, voter suppression, and election fraud in 2004 escaped accountability, many of them still holding office, King-Lincoln, et al. v. Brunner, et al., 2:06 CV 00745 (S.D. Ohio, filed Aug. 31, 2006, Marbley, J.), but also J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio's secretary of state in 2004 and state chair of the Bush 2004 re-election campaign, is now a serious contender for chair of the Republican National Committee.

According to Paddy Shaffer, Director of the OEJC, "Although we are grateful for the efforts of thousands of election protection volunteers in Ohio during the 2008 presidential election and the progress made by Ohio Secretary of State Brunner to ensure a fair election for every voter, the OEJC regrets to report ongoing acts of voter intimidation in 2008, which demonstrate that democracy has not yet been restored to Ohio."

As reported by Ms. Shaffer, alleged acts of voter intimidation during the 2008 election include

1. The alleged assault of an elections observer in Lucas County. For the election day interview with this observer, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAKf_SbrMT4 .

2. Under the office of Delaware County prosecutor David Yost, assistant prosecutors Christopher Betts and William Owen denied seven election observers representing a third party access to the polls. Evidence of possible past election fraud was presented to the court to demonstrate the need for observers. Constitutional Party of Ohio v. Delaware County Board of Elections, 08 CV H 10 1462 (Delaware County Common Pleas Court, Ohio, filed Oct. 31, 2008).

Yost was also responsible for attempting to block the 2004 recount in Delaware County, which temporarily blocked the 2004 presidential recount in the entire state while the 2004 results were being certified. Delaware County Prosecuting Attorney, et al. v. National Voting Rights Institute, et al., 2:04 CV 01139 (S.D. Ohio, filed Dec. 29, 2004, Sargus, J.).

3. Franklin County Board of Election's ongoing practice of referring public record requests to its prosecutor, Patrick Piccinni.

In addition, Greene County Board of Elections allegedly threatened to prosecute a voter who took a picture of his own ballot, while Warren County prosecutor Rachel Hutzel still has failed to address the fake level-10 homeland security alert called in Warren County during the 2004 presidential election. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/11/05/loc_warrenvote05.html.

Under Ohio law, the county prosecutor is the legal counsel for the elections board.

Only two Ohio counties to date have had independent counsel appointed for election justice issues: Cuyahoga and Morgan.

The Cuyahoga investigation led to several criminal indictments. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012401441.html. .

According to Michael Tigner, of the OEJC, the former Morgan County prosecutor, Richard Welch, was allowed to vote, run for office, and hold the office of county prosecutor for six years in that county, although he was allegedly not a resident.

In 2004, Timothy Kettler, now of the OEJC, filed a police report with the Coshocton County Sheriff's Department requesting an investigation into the 2004 presidential recount. Mr. Kettler informed Coshocton County prosecutor Robert Batchelor that he felt the prosecutor was acting in conflict, which may be seen as improper and unethical.

According to Mr. Kettler, his ethical concerns were dismissed by Batchelor as irrational, and Mr. Kettler was told the prosecutor would no longer take his calls, although he had made only two calls. Mr. Kettler said that Prosecutor Batchelor directed him to resolve any issue about the prosecutor's methods of handling the case with the Ohio Supreme Court.

The OEJC has recently uncovered additional evidence of 2004 electoral irregularities on over 6,800 write-in ballots representing every Coshocton County precinct. Although the Ohio Attorney General, by the request of the Ohio Secretary of State, was asked to investigate this possible election fraud, no results are yet available.

Records released pursuant to public records requests demonstrate that Ohio election officials, their organization, the Ohio Association of Election Officials (OAEO), and their lobbyist, Aaron Ockerman of State Street Consultants, were allegedly linked to 2004 election crimes. King-Lincoln, et al. v. Brunner, et al., 2:06 CV 00745 (S.D. Ohio, filed Aug. 31, 2006, Marbley, J.).

The OAEO, which meets in Columbus, Ohio on January 27-29, 2009, has been brought into a case that contained allegations by the Ohio Secretary of State of fraud in the inducement of contracts for voting technology provided by Premier Election Solutions, a subsidiary of Diebold (DBD). Premier Election Solutions, Inc. v. Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, et al., 08 CV 007841 (Franklin County Common Pleas Court, Ohio, filed May 30, 2008).

According to Ms. Shaffer, the OEJC has several public records requests outstanding from the Franklin County Board of Elections, including public records related to the activities of the board during its October 2008 inquisition of young voters for alleged "voter fraud."

For more information or to donate: http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC

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See the original story at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/01/prweb1823794.htm

Exposing reasons the Ohio Dems Oust Election Reform Pioneer from Leadership Position - Take Action!!!! Please Forward !!

For Immediate Release:

 

How the Ohio Democratic Party proves it is worthless and complicit in the area of not protecting our elections and maintaining people who care about those elections. 

                                                                       

By: Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign         

http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC

 

New unfolding ugliness in Ohio... (A message from Susan Truit below this little write up to prepare you for what she will describe).

 

I would like to remind all of you of some background information before you read about State Senator Teresa Fedor losing her position as Minority Leader, compliments of what appears to be... The Enemy Of We The People.   This will allow you to understand why we are not able to resolve the election issues in Ohio.  The Democrats are also involved!  Face it, it currently takes two parties, and the story is just starting to flow.   The party people and the election officials that prefer to protect their club of election officials and protect the surrounding illegal business actions that run our elections, rather than look out for the people need their asses exposed, just like the little girl in the old Coppertone suntan add with the dog tugging on her bathing suit... her ass was hanging out, and now so are theirs.

 

Bernadette Noe, wife of Tom Noe (now in prison for robbing the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation Fund) is the former Director of the Lucas County Board of Elections.  It is pretty bad when even J. Kenneth Blackwell fired her for the problems at that BOE.  Bernadette Noe is Chris Redfern's cousin.  Chris Redfern is the current Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, current Ohio State Representative for District 80, and the former Ohio House Minority Leader. http://www.house.state.oh.us/jsps/MemberDetails.jsp?DISTRICT=80

 

Tom Noe was convicted of 29 counts, including theft, corruption and forgery. (Jeremy Wadsworth - AP)  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/13/AR2006111301305.html?nav=rss_print/asection

 

Thomas W. Noe Prison Information: http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Noe&Middle=&FirstName=Thomas&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0

Federal Prisoner Number 26157-018, age 53, White, Male...

Thomas W. Noe, Prison Release date is October 27, 2008.

 

The Ohio Democrats were having a field day beating up on the Noe's for all their criminal and other problems.  "Coingate" http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060402/NEWS24/60402016 is the main title given to this sad sick story, as Tom Noe spent $50 million of BWC dollars on collector coins and beanie babies... and donating heavily $$$ to Republican campaigns.  George W. Bush's campaign  received over $100,000, and Noe was given the title "A Bush Pioneer."

http://ohio15th.blogspot.com/2007/12/latta-did-get-money-from-tom-noe.html

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=12303

This money was gathered for the use of injured workers, and their widows and orphans.  Chris Redfern told the Ohio Democrats to stop the criticism because Bernadette is his cousin.  They did, all except Marc Dann, our current Attorney General. Dann was a champion of the people, forced this needed issue to court, and also rode it as a means into his current office. 

 

Former Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Chairman Denny White left his downtown office window open and got his computer stolen with all the ODP data. Denny left the job and went to the Deputy Director position at the Franklin County Board of Elections (which is now under investigation, the last guy with that job, Hackett was just convicted of crimes for selling voting machine carts, needed because of HAVA to the BOE.  The conviction was just last week). Then the Chairman job at the Ohio Democratic Party opened up. 

 

I assisted Ohio Honest Elections  run a public forum for all the candidates for the job.  Redfern was the least of the 7 candidates that showed up and planned to work two jobs.  All the others planned to focus on the ODP. When the vote came up days later for the ODP job, it was reported to me that Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones entered the room where the voting was to take place, upset.  Why, we need to know.  (I heard that people were reporting that they had received calls telling them that they must vote for Chris Redfern.)  That vote, normally done on a private ballot, was instead done publicly.  Each voter had to go public with their choice, and raise their hand for their candidate choice.  Chris Redfern won.    A fair election?  http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/12/ohio_democrats.php

 

I requested a meeting with Chris Redfern shortly after he took his new job as ODP Chairman, I was a candidate for the US Congress.  I attempted to have dialog on what he was going to do about the election mess, which was the driving issue for me as a candidate.  He wouldn't touch it, but instead recommended I raised lots of money and wrote thank you cards to donors.  When I managed the Green Party Governor Candidate's 2006 Campaign, he blocked my candidate from the Governors debates, telling me "It is my job to get Strickland elected," when I asked him "what about democracy... why are you blocking the Libertarian and Green Party Candidates?"

 

The cover up for our 2004 and subsequent elections continues.  The Attorney General and Secretary of State will not touch the issue.  How big does the pile of elephant crap in the room have to be before we admit it is there?

 

Again,... I am sickened.  And the misdeeds continue.  Help if you can.

 

 

________________________________________________________________

From Susan Truit:

 

Please WRITE - EMAIL - CALL Ohio Dem Leaders - contact info below

 

     The Ohio Democratic Party has ousted staunch election reform advocate, State Senator Teresa Fedor, from her position as Minority Leader. Senator Fedor was sounding the alarm regarding the unsafe nature of touch screen voting machines (DREs) years before most people had ever heard of them. Her removal as the leader of the Democrats in the Ohio Legislature is a dramatic blow to the election reform movement in Ohio. She has worked tirelessly for years for election reform, first as a State Representative and then as a State Senator.

 

     Among other things, Senator Fedor spearheaded the 2004 Joint Committee on Ballot Security, which, with the help of CASE Ohio members, prevented the purchase of any new DREs in Ohio prior to the 2004 election. She invited many computer experts, and others, to testify before the Committee, educating not only the legislature, but also the public, about the dangers of DREs. She introduced and passed the Bill requiring paper on any voting machine. But she has not stopped there - she has continued to advocate for voting rights and voting reform for years.

 

     She was also instrumental in exposing the Thomas Noe scandal in Lucas County - (see

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2005/10/noe-indicted-for-helping-steal-2004.html ), and the scandal of Congressman Bob Ney, who, unfortunately, pushed through HAVA (Help America Vote Act) before he was embroiled in his scandel.

 

     Who is behind her removal from power and why? Who expressly and tacitly approved it?

 

     Why, with only months to go before a Presidential election, have the Dems removed from a leadership position the one Legislator who has devoted herself to election reform?!? Especially in the key state of Ohio?

 

     Is this move driven by those who do not buy in to the grave nature of the election system in Ohio, and in the entire U.S.? Is it more insidious than that? This move clearly indicates that there are Ohio Democrats in key leadership positions who are unaware of the dire situation regarding the unreliable, unverifiable, and untrustworthy DREs. To oust Senator Fedor as a party leader, after her years of devotion and unflagging work, is an abomination.

 

     Who will lead the election reform charge, now?

 

Write, email, and call the Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, Chris Redfern, and ask him:

 

Chris Redfern
77 S. High St
10th Floor
Columbus, OH 43215-6111
Telephone: (614) 644-6011
Fax : (614) 719-6980
Email Address: district80@ohr.state.oh.us

 

Write, email, and call the Chief Legal Counsel for the Governor, Kent Markus, who also serves as the Chief of State-Legislative Relations, and ask him:

 

Kent Markus

kent.markus@governor.ohio.gov

kmarkus@law.capital.edu

Office of Governor Ted Strickland
77 South High Street
30th Floor
Columbus, Ohio 43215-6117
Phone:614/466-3555
Fax:614/466-9354
Capitol Phone:614/466-2000

 

EVEN IF YOU DO NOT LIVE IN OHIO - IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ELECTION REFORM, Call, Email, and Write them now and demand some answers about why Senator Fedor has been punished for her years of exemplary service to the State of Ohio and to the issue of election reform.

 

Regards,

 

Susan Truitt

 

 

 

 

International Observers Ohio SOS Records Request

Ohio Election Justice Campaign

Brian Green

Elections Council, Ohio Secretary of State

180 East Broad Street

Columbus, Ohio 43215

August 27, 2008

Dear Brian Green,

I understand that in 2004 international election observers wanted to come to Ohio for the General Election. It is also my understanding that former Ohio Secretary of State (SOS), J. Kenneth Blackwell and/or his staff denied them access.

Do I understand this correctly?

As per ORC 149.43 I request any and all paper and electronic records from 2004 in regards to international election observers wanting access to Ohio's elections. I additionally request any and all paper and electronic records from 2004 in regards to the replies and communication from J. Kenneth Blackwell and any and all staff members replying to the requests to have international election observers. Also, if you are able to locate the interoffice communications of the former SOS and any and all staff as they discussed and made decisions about the issue of international observers wanting access to Ohio's general election in 2004.

To bring this matter to this current year of 2008 and our upcoming general election, I request any and all communication regarding having international election observers this year, for November 4, 2008. This is to include but not be limited to the international election observer's requests and all correspondence in reply, including the interoffice communications discussing international election observers this year. I am assuming that a request has been made for such international election observers this year. If that has not taken place, or not taken place yet, please just tell me.

Please send this in electronic format if possible, if not, paper will be fine. These requests are severable if need be to speed up the reply process.

Thank you for your assistance,

Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

paddy@columbus.rr.com

(614) 266-5283

CC: Victoria Parks, OEJC

Bev Harris, Blackbox Voting

Tim Kettler, OEJC, Candidate Ohio Senate

Dan Stanton, OEJC

Election Officials May Face Criminal Charges: OEJC Files in Federal Court

Columbus, Ohio, PRWEB, July 11 -- Eight members of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign filed papers on Thursday in United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio, asking Hon. Judge Algenon Marbley to begin criminal contempt proceedings for the destruction of ballots from the November 2004 election.

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) submitted over 1000 pages of supporting documents.

In the case before Judge Marbley, King Lincoln, et al. v. Brunner, et al., Civ. No. C2 06 745 (S.D. Ohio), the judge had issued specific orders directing Ohio's 88 county boards of election to preserve all ballots from the election until a decision was rendered in the case.

At least 56 county boards assert they have destroyed some ballots from 2004; seven counties assert they have destroyed all ballots.

This citizen-initiated action is pro se litigation in which the plaintiffs act as their own attorneys.

The papers in front of Judge Marbley also ask him to impanel a Special Grand Jury to investigate the destruction of ballots.

A Special Grand Jury, as a collection of citizens authorized to hear the evidence, is uniquely suited to sorting out the degrees of culpability associated with the destruction of the ballots. It is also authorized by statute to issue a public report, which can then be circulated to the employer of appointed public officials.

Paddy Shaffer, director, OEJC, said, "The time for accountability is now, prior to the November election of our next president. Many counties allegedly destroyed ballots before the election was even certified. Why would we trust these people with the upcoming elections?”

Mark Brown, a plaintiff in the suit and a candidate for public office in 2004, said, "Justice delayed is justice denied is injustice repeated."

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign was formed by concerned citizens, many of whom participated in the 2004 election as observers, election protection workers, poll workers, and election investigators as well as organizers and witnesses in Ohio's 2004 Presidential Vote Recount.

Plaintiff Tim Kettler, currently a Green Party candidate for Ohio Senate District 20, ran for Ohio Secretary of State in 2006. Kettler believes the only way to stop this type of criminal behavior and incompetence is through citizen action: "Whether we challenge these offenses in court or run for public office, we must replace those who would show such contempt for the law."

For this article on PRWEB, see http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20080711/bs_prweb/prweb1092204;_ylt=AljYOBmObuR_og9MIv_gojs51sIF

Contacts:

Paddy Shaffer
paddy@columbus.rr.com
(614) 761-0621


Tim Kettler
tmkettler@aol.com
(740) 502-6453

For more information visit www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC

Attachments for above article see links below:
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/files/Contempt%20Charges.pdf
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/files/Motion%20To%20Intervene.pdf
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/files/Delaware%20County-Genoa%20Precinct%20Ballots%20Appendix%20A.pdf

If I Were A Terrorist, A James Pence Video

Federal law now requires statewide databases of voter registration

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1. Nebraska Voter Registration Database Information
Published Book page by Dan Ashby
[
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/nebraska_voter_registration_datab...
]

Nebraska Voter Registration Database Report:
State Regulations and Procedures Implementing HAVA Voter Registration
Requirements
Attached is the Nebraska Voter Registration Information as set forth in
Making the List, Database Matching and Verification Processes for Voter
Registration as published by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York
University on March 24, 2006. This document contains available
information about voter regtistration current as of the date of
publication.
Federal law now requires, as of January 1, 2006, that states create and
maintain statewide databases to serve as the central source of voter
registration information. Citizens' ability to get on the rolls (and
thus their ability to vote and have their votes counted) will now
depend
on the policies and procedures governing the use of these databases in
the voter registration process. Evidence demonstrates that poor policy
and procedure choices could result in the unwarranted
disenfranchisement
of millions of eligible citizens attempting to register to vote. The
new
statewide databases, and their role in the voter registration process,
are poorly understood, but extremely consequential.
This report, issued just as the state databases begin to come online,
presents the first comprehensive catalog of the widely varying state
database practices governing how (and in some cases, whether)
individuals seeking to register will be placed on the voter rolls.
The report covers the state's voter registration process, from the
application form up through Election Day - including the intake of
registration forms, the manner in which information from the forms may
be matched to other government lists, the consequences of the match
process, and any opportunity to correct errors. Each variation at each
step of the process has tangible consequences for voters seeking to
register and vote in 2006 and beyond.

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2. North Dakota Voter Registration Information
Published Book page by Dan Ashby
[
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/north_dakota_voter_registration_i...
]

North Dakota Voter Registration Database Report:
State Regulations and Procedures Implementing HAVA Voter Registration
Requirements
Attached under the "Attachment" link at the foot of this article, is
the North Dakota Voter Registration Information as set forth in Making
the List, Database Matching and Verification Processes for Voter
Registration, published by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York
University on March 24, 2006. This document contains available
information about voter regtistration current as of the date of
publication.
North Dakota's registration regulations couldn't be simpler: North
Dakota does not register voters. It is the only state in the union that
does not.
Apparently, since North Dakota does not practice voter registration,
there is no requirement to assemble the centralized statewide voter
registration base required by HAVA of all other states that do have
voter registration systems.
Federal law now requires, as of January 1, 2006, that states create and
maintain statewide databases to serve as the central source of voter
registration information. Citizens' ability to get on the rolls (and
thus their ability to vote and have their votes counted) will now
depend
on the policies and procedures governing the use of these databases in
the voter registration process.
Evidence demonstrates that poor policy and procedure choices could
result in the unwarranted disenfranchisement of millions of eligible
citizens attempting to register to vote. The new statewide databases,
and their role in the voter registration process, are poorly
understood,
but extremely consequential.
The "Making the List" report, issued just as the state databases begin
to come online, presents the first comprehensive catalog of the widely
varying state database practices governing how (and in some cases,
whether) individuals seeking to register will be placed on the voter
rolls.

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3. Florida Voter Registration Information
Published Book page by Dan Ashby
[
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/florida_voter_registration_inform...
]

Florida Voter Registration Database Report:
State Regulations and Procedures Implementing HAVA Voter Registration
Requirements
Attached is the Florida Voter Registration Information as set forth in
Making the List, Database Matching and Verification Processes for Voter
Registration as published by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York
University on March 24, 2006. This document contains available
information about voter regtistration current as of the date of
publication.
Federal law now requires, as of January 1, 2006, that states create and
maintain statewide databases to serve as the central source of voter
registration information. Citizens' ability to get on the rolls (and
thus their ability to vote and have their votes counted) will now
depend
on the policies and procedures governing the use of these databases in
the voter registration process. Evidence demonstrates that poor policy
and procedure choices could result in the unwarranted
disenfranchisement
of millions of eligible citizens attempting to register to vote. The
new
statewide databases, and their role in the voter registration process,
are poorly understood, but extremely consequential.
This report, issued just as the state databases begin to come online,
presents the first comprehensive catalog of the widely varying state
database practices governing how (and in some cases, whether)
individuals seeking to register will be placed on the voter rolls.
The report covers the state's voter registration process, from the
application form up through Election Day - including the intake of
registration forms, the manner in which information from the forms may
be matched to other government lists, the consequences of the match
process, and any opportunity to correct errors. Each variation at each
step of the process has tangible consequences for voters seeking to
register and vote in 2006 and beyond.

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4. Georgia Voter Registration Information
Published Book page by Dan Ashby
[
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/georgia_voter_registration_inform...
]

Attached is the Georgia Voter Registration Information as set forth in
Making the List, Database Matching and Verification Processes for Voter
Registration as published by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York
University on March 24, 2006. This document contains available
information about voter regtistration current as of the date of
publication.
Federal law now requires, as of January 1, 2006, that states create and
maintain statewide databases to serve as the central source of voter
registration information. Citizens' ability to get on the rolls (and
thus their ability to vote and have their votes counted) will now
depend
on the policies and procedures governing the use of these databases in
the voter registration process. Evidence demonstrates that poor policy
and procedure choices could result in the unwarranted
disenfranchisement
of millions of eligible citizens attempting to register to vote. The
new
statewide databases, and their role in the voter registration process,
are poorly understood, but extremely consequential.
This report, issued just as the state databases begin to come online,
presents the first comprehensive catalog of the widely varying state
database practices governing how (and in some cases, whether)
individuals seeking to register will be placed on the voter rolls.
The report covers the state's voter registration process, from the
application form up through Election Day - including the intake of
registration forms, the manner in which information from the forms may
be matched to other government lists, the consequences of the match
process, and any opportunity to correct errors. Each variation at each
step of the process has tangible consequences for voters seeking to
register and vote in 2006 and beyond.

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5. LibertyVote Still Suing to Force DREs on NY State
Published Book page by Dan Ashby
[ http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/libertyvote_NY_DRE_lawsuit ]

From Bo Lipari's blog, 3/22/08:
http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/03/22/the-law-litigation-and-libertyvote...
[100]

Vendor to sue NY again to allow DREs
I told you the DRE vendors are like zombies [101], and will never, ever
stop trying to force DRE machines on New York
State voters. Once again, LibertyVote and their Dutch partner Nedap are
preparing to go to Court to challenge county purchases for accessible
paper ballot systems, and to overturn New York State's right to test
our voting machines to the strict standards we worked so hard to
achieve.

[100]
http://www.nyvv.org/boblog/2008/03/22/the-law-litigation-and-libertyvote...
[101] http://nyvv.org/blog/2008/01/theyre-back.html

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Summit County Ohio, the GOP, the SOS, and a State Senator

By Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
March 10, 2008

For a better understanding of the Dispatch article below... a little history has been provided on several of these Ohio characters, and the voting machine integrity in Summit County.

Ohio State Senator Kevin Coughlin who is pointing out problems with Alex Arshinkoff has some issues of his own. Kevin was very involved in Ohio's voter suppression bill, officially titled House Bill 3. It seems as though Kevin's job was to trump up the charges of Voter Fraud in his testimony before the Ohio Senate Rules Committee, when Ohio's problem is not that, but alleged Election Fraud by vendors, technicians, and election officials.

Coughlin's testimony seems to have been successful as House Bill 3 adopted the voter ID provisions which currently disenfranchise hundreds, or hundreds of thousands of Ohioans. When you can't vote, or are forced to vote provisionally anywhere in Ohio because of the new voter ID rules, thank State Senator Kevin Coughlin (you might want to drop him a card, or call him).

kcoughli@mailr.sen.state.oh.us
(614) 466-4823 phone
(614) 644-5879 fax

As for Arshinkoff and Summit Counties elections: In 2006 Alex Arshinkoff was a board member for the Summit County Board Of Elections. That November Summit County had reported that over 100% of the people voted in 34 precincts for November.

Bryan Williams, the director of the BOE blames it on the ES&S machines counting some of the ballots twice, because the ballots are two pages. Yet some absentee's got counted only once. He said it was a software problem. I must let my gentle readers know that in Ohio the Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner is now in March of 2008 looking at spending 64 million dollars, up from 31 million dollars in December 2007 on more ES&S machines to tabulate our votes. I presented Kathy Spinelli, of The Ohio Secretary of State's office in the spring of 2007 with the undervote/overvote report from Summit County, and the following results which I have provided for you, and so much more that was in that report. Remember... this is some of the fine work of ES&S.

Actual Official 2006 Certified Election Results from just a few Summit County Locations:

Silver Lake Vill - registered voters 2049 - ballots cast 2899 - turnout percentage 141.48%
Richfield Twp - registered voters 1771 - ballots cast 2396 - turnout percentage 135.29%
Bath Twp - registered voters 7598 - ballots cast 10287 - turnout percentage 135.39%
Northfield Ctr Twp - registered voters 3944 - ballots cast 5009 - turnout percentage 127.00%
Sagamore Hls Twp - registered voters 8236 - ballots cast - 10056 - turnout percentage 122.10%

As for the final official count and the official certified results (certified by former SOS Blackwell), Director Bryan Williams said, "The report is meaningless", referring to his report on the certified totals. Byran also claimed that many voters voted for both Blackwell and Strickland for Governor. Hmmm... who would do that? According to the overvote and undervote report that I requested from Director Williams, 2208 people overvoted for Governor.

And yes folks... this is Ohio elections, and the vendors we buy voting machines from.

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign recommends that we go to Hand Counted Paper Ballots, counted at the precinct. We also recommend a recall and a refund for the voting machines. Ohio needs to go to the front of the line to get our money back. The OEJC recommends that not one more dime be spent on ES&S, nor Diebold, and that we no longer certify vote totals of over 100%.

According to the below article, Arshinkoff will be taking his complaints about Secretary Brunner and his losing his job before The Ohio Supreme Court.

Summit Board of Elections Website
http://www.summitcountyboe.com/

The next link is for "The Godfather in the Closet Story" on Arshinkoff. Disturbing stuff, be prewarned.

http://www.clevescene.com/2003-06-11/news/the-godfather-in-the-closet/full

Paddy Shaffer
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Read below for GOP guys in a circular firing squad.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/03/10/z-apoh_party_boss_0310.ART_ART_03-10-08_B5_FM9JJ6P.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101

GOP chief under fire
Kicked off elections panel, he could lose Summit County post
Monday, March 10, 2008 3:03 AM
By Julie Carr Smyth
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Critics are lining up against one of Ohio's longest-serving, most-powerful political bosses.

Summit County Republican Chairman Alex Arshinkoff, a man President Bush has called the most effective party chairman in America, was removed from his seat on the county board of elections last month by Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. She cited concerns that employees in Akron were being harassed, intimidated and threatened.

Arshinkoff challenged her decision to the Ohio Supreme Court, for which depositions are to begin this week.

Within his party, Arshinkoff faces a power struggle with a Republican state senator who wants him dethroned as county GOP chairman.

"I think that people are just fed up," said state Sen. Kevin Coughlin, whose ouster effort is dubbed the New Summit County Republicans. "Everyone's got their own reason for letting him go, whether it's how he treats people, how he spends the money, or his losing record of 10 wins and 67 losses over the last six years."

Coughlin, who lives in the Akron suburb of Cuyahoga Falls, said he thinks enough new central committee members were elected last week to push Arshinkoff out for good.
Brunner said she also based her decision to remove Arshinkoff on evidence that he was running his party operation out of elections-board offices.
Also, three local judges signed affidavits saying that Arshinkoff interfered with their official duties.

"I really did not want to lose the opportunity to have this board function in a more civil and professional manner," Brunner said. "When you visit there, it feels kind of like a rubber band pulled tight."

Arshinkoff, who took charge of the county party in 1978 at the age of 23, defends his record and his approach. He said he has never been accused or convicted of a crime or found to have broken an ethics or elections law in three decades of service.
"Do I kick ass sometimes to make sure things get done? You're damn right," Arshinkoff said in a telephone interview. Referring to his party, he said: "When you don't have the (backing of the local) paper, and you don't have the (voter) numbers, you have to."

Coughlin accuses Arshinkoff of exploiting his position with the party to steer business to his lobbying firm and to pay for a car and other personal perks.
"He's got about $600,000 that he budgets for loosely defined operational overhead, which includes a Cadillac Escalade and three meals a day, a bloated staff, and his pay," Coughlin said. "We want a chairman who's interested in winning elections and not feathering his own nest."

Arshinkoff calls Coughlin "truth-challenged."

He said he makes $72,000 a year as party chairman, and he and his wife, Karen, have often taken on personal debt to make the contributions to the party that are required of central committee members.

Arshinkoff also noted that the win-loss record Coughlin assigns him neglects the party's influence outside the county. For example, Coughlin counts state Auditor Mary Taylor of the Summit County suburb of Green, whom Arshinkoff recruited and groomed, in the "loss" column because she did not win her Democrat-heavy home county on her way to statewide victory in 2006.

Arshinkoff has built a small county party into a fundraising dynamo that has given millions of dollars to candidates. In 2000, Arshinkoff's fundraising machine gave $2.8 million to elect then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush president.

Arshinkoff's demands that donors give to the party rather than directly to candidates is both the source of the county party's might and the heart of criticism of it. Most county party chairmen no longer require such loyalty.

Arshinkoff said the attacks by Coughlin and Brunner are politically motivated.
Coughlin aspires to be Ohio's next governor and is using his attacks to build a statewide reputation among Republicans, Arshinkoff said.

As for Brunner, undercutting Summit County's fundraising prowess for Republicans would benefit her and the Democratic Party, Arshinkoff argued.
"Would it perhaps be in her interest not to have us donating $1 million to statewide Republican candidates in 2010?" Arshinkoff said.

Coughlin did not deny having political aspirations, but fighting Arshinkoff won't necessarily benefit his career, he said.

"The safe thing for me to do would have been to stay on the sidelines with my eyes shut and my mouth shut to Alex," Coughlin said. "Whether or not it's a smart political move on my part, it really doesn't matter to me anymore. This guy's conduct has to stop."

Brunner said prudence, not politics, motivated her decision. "It might have been easier to keep him on the board, politically," she said. "But I think the way the board was operating, it wasn't serving the best interests of the voters."
"Do I kick ass sometimes to make sure things get done? You're damn right."
Alex Arshinkoff
Summit County GOP chief

I Give This Ohio Election Issue An "F"

Look at pictures of the ballot boxes below, no security in those seals.

These make the post-it-note stickers in New Hampshire look like an armored truck in the way of security.

Folks, why would they make security so lame... "The Dumbass Excuse" applies here. Too stupid to actually seal the box. I must ask, where are the responsible adults?

I seem to remember video of New Hampshire's Assistant Secretary of State, David Scanlan being asked (I think this was compliments of Susan Pynchon), "Who ordered the stickers?" "Who is responsible?" Time for a repeat of that line of questioning here in Ohio. Scanlan did not have a decent answer. Video on this New Hampshire scene will be available at blackboxvoting.org when it is ready.

The GOP site here asks why the ballots were driven with a person of one party. I don't know if they changed requirements specially for this afternoon pick up, but in Ohio, the ballots always go with one person, of one party. This is determined by which party won the most votes in the Gubernatorial Primary. Winner gets to have the precinct judge position, and drive the ballots for the next four years. It makes sense that a truck load would have more than one party represented in who does the transportation of the ballots. Unless they only picked up Democratic Precincts, this seems like a problem. Yet I believe the law is written that the precinct judge drives them. Cleveland does vote heavily Democratic. I would like to know who the photographer was of these pictures.

Heaven Help Us,

Paddy Shaffer

Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

http://ohiogop.blogs.com:80/state_of_the_union/2008/03/brunner-botches.html

False Flag Security Alerts

Go to page three in this link, then to the video at the top of this page of videos. The picture is of a woman with glasses. Below is says this is by Videographer James Armstrong, and is Video number 183.
http://www.videothevote.org/display.html?page=3&state=OH


Title: ColsOHapplegate3
Date/time: 2006-11-07 16:57:12
Description: It's a warm fall day. So this volunteer questions why there is a row of large snow plows obstructing the view to the Board of Elections in Columbus. She asks officials and they tell her the plows are there for "homeland security".
Zip: 43214
Location: board of elections
Problem type: other
Videographer: James Armstrong
Video id: 183

Ohio Election Justice Campaign Is Joining Project Vote Count

Protect our votes with www.projectvotecount.com!

The Ohio Election Justice Campaign is joining Project Vote Count in this GREAT election protection effort. We are gathering eager volunteers to conduct Citizen Exit Polls on March 4, 2008. As a Citizen Exit Pollster you will be asking voters to participate in an exit poll which will be like them casting their vote a second time. In Florida, they had a 70% response rate in some precincts.

The participants are quite happy to participate. You will often be thanked for doing what you are doing! Respondent voters will swear that they voted just as they did on the official ballot they just cast at the polls. They also sign and date their CEP ballot as an affidavit which makes their participation and vote irrefutable and legally defendable. What make a CEP different from an exit poll conducted by, for example, Zogby, is that we are volunteers, non-partisan citizens and are not paid by any political party, politician or media company and serve no poilitical agenda other than to verify official vote counts. We are not paid at all. And we tell people that. Then usually, we are thanked!

We are not allowed to campaign for any candidate while conducting CEP's. But, wouldn't it be great to defend your candidate's vote in a non-manipulated, honest way, by taking back your power collecting genuine election data? To get REAL numbers on how we voted and not rely on central tabulation? CEP's may prove to be necessary. Jennifer Brunner has told the precincts they do not have to post precinct results. WHAT??? This makes citizen Exit Polls all the more critical.

Brunner is also making sure any automatic recount will be centrally tabulated which means that we will have to rely on precinct totals that your county BOE SAYS were the results. Back to "Just Trust Us" elections. NO WAY!! Project EVEREST proved results can be manipulated. And we know human nature, don't we? Elections are not about "Just Trust Us" anymore.

People who have been CEP pollster's say that it is actually a really fun and enriching experience. It is a long day but if you have enough people you can do morning and afternoon shifts. Three volunteers per shift are good for a precinct of two to three hundred voters. Get four for a precinct with seven hundred voters or more.

Let's catch them in the act. The only people who are going to keep them honest are you and me. GO TO Projectvotecount.com and follow the links to sign up in your county or come and join your nearest CEP in a neighboring county, or lead your own CEP as a Project Coordinator where you live. This is how we fight back as citizens against a machine determined to keep our vote counts secret from YOU.

We are the people and the only people who are going to make sure our vote counts is YOU. Contact Marj Creech at honestelectionscow@gmail.com, 740-739-1390 or me Victoria Parks parksongs@columbus.rr.com 614-851-1437 and make sure you sign up at projectvotecount.com.

REMEMBER ALSO: QUARANTINE THAT MACHINE!

Victoria Parks
Ohio Election Justice Campaign in cooperation with Project Vote Count
parksongs@columbus.rr.com
614-851-1437

Your Personal Signature Used By The State

IS THE STATE USING AND ABUSING YOUR PERSONAL SIGNATURE AND YOUR DATA UNBEKNOWNST TO YOU?


by Jane Schiff


The title and content of this Public Diary was emailed individually to each of the following officials on Saturday, February 16, 2008: Marc Dann, Attorney General of Ohio, Richard Colianese, Assistant Attorney General , State of Ohio, Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State and Richard Cordray, Treasurer, State of Ohio. As of today, Friday, February 22, 2008 I haven't yet received any responses.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

My husband and myself obtained new Ohio Drivers' Licenses (although we had current licenses, we had moved precincts) at the BMV on Thursday, January 24, 2008, to avoid having to cast Provisional Ballots. On Friday, January 25, 2008 we updated our voter registration cards in person at The Hamilton County Ohio Board of Elections to avoid having to cast Provisional Ballots. We were given the Acknowledgment Notices with the new precinct information in person at The Hamilton County Ohio Board of Elections. In the past, we had received those types of cards, by mail, despite registering also in times past, in person at The Hamilton County Board of Elections.

Monday, February 11, 2008

A Second Acknowledgement Notice arrived in our mail for my husband with a Barcode on it. I didn't get a Second Acknowledgement Notice. I immediately contacted Ann Strasser (513) 632 - 7036at The Hamilton County Ohio Board of Elections. Ann and I spoke from 5:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Ann said that the BMV AUTO - FILLED the Ohio BMV's voter registration cards but insisted we signed them on January 24, 2008 at the Redbank Road Deputy Registrar's Office at this branch of the Ohio BMV. Ann told me that she would mail copies of those "Voter Registration Cards" that were AUTO - FILLED OUT that again - she insisted that we had signed. Ann examined our data further and determined the following:

My husband and I were serviced by two different persons at the same BOE because we made separate trips on the same day. Ann said that during reconciliation of data, Question #24 was erroneously answered by the typists doing the reconciliation for my husband. In a nutshell, the question is phrased "Send Duplicate Notice?" The typist who was reconciling my husband's data INCORRECTLY typed "YES" IN ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. Apparently, the person who typed the answer to Question #24 on my data answered the question "Send Duplicate Notice" CORRECTLY by typing "NO." Ann said I won't be getting a second card.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008:

We received these documents from Ann Strasser at The Hamilton County Ohio Board of Elections.

These documents are disturbing. Our signatures and our responses to 2 Voting Inquiry Questions at the top, were used without our knowledge and consent at The Bureau of Motor Vehicles without revealing that one of the purposes was to register us to vote.

1. Are you a U.S. citizen? YES box NO box

2. Will you be at least 18 years of age on or before the next general election?

YES box NO box

"If you answered NO to either of the questions, do not complete this form."

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CITIZEN IS NOT ASKED IF HE/SHE WANTS TO VOTE.

I am also complaining about the accuracy of MY AUTO - FILLED info. The information intended for my previous address appeared as my current address with an erroneous apartment number during the process of WHAT I THOUGHT WAS JUST A DRIVER'S LICENSE RENEWAL AND MERGING OF DATA. I told Maria, the clerk to fix it. She said she would but evidently failed to do so. I expect all of the errors to be corrected.

I'm cognizant of The Real ID Act and all related "bechmarks" requiring the "seamless merging" of The Ohio Secretary of State/The Department of Homeland Security/The Ohio Department of Public Safety/The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

All of you have a responsibility to inform citizens that when they get their Drivers' Licenses renewed, that all of your agencies as I itemized above have gone far afield re: Homeland Security Requirements.

Although I am a Voter Rights activist with The Ohio Election Justice Campaign I feel you have violated all Ohio Citizens' Constitutional Rights NOT TO VOTE IF THEY SO CHOOSE NOT TO VOTE by making people THINK that they are simply renewing Ohio Drivers' Licenses and merging data.

I am not a Jehovah's Witness, but I know some people are. My best guess is that Jehovah's Witnesses expect high levels of Homeland Security like other citizens; but literally sticking license renewal info onto Voter Registration cards with AUTO - FILL and thenUSING SIGNATURES WITHOUT PERMISSION is UNCONSTITUTIONAL for anybody and interferes with the right of Jehovah's Witnesses to practice their faith by remaining apolitical.

Do not permit: THE OFFICE OF THE OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE/THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY/THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY/THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES/THE BOARDS OF ELECTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO TO PARTICIPATE IN ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED IN ANY WAY WITH THE CREATION OF PHONY VOTER REGISTRATION CARDS.

Figure out the software issues - don't take it out on We The People.

I don't believe for one minute that HAVA calls for phony voter registration cards with our signatures TAKEN without our knowledge, informed consent and permission.

I await your responses.

Sincerely,

Jane Schiff, Ohio Election Justice Campaign

Power To The "We the People"

By Dan Stanton

Although most nonpartisan computer engineers and academics agree that all the current systems of electronic vote counting are not to be trusted and easily subject to manipulation and fraud, our elections officials discount the evidence and continue the use this technology. Vote counting has been outsourced to private election system companies. Boards of election officials depend on these companies to run the vote counting process. When there are problems these companies send technicians who “fix” the problems. These technicians are not government officials and subject to no background checks.

As an election reform activist and member of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign it has become abundantly clear that public oversight is discouraged and increasingly excluded from the election system.

Attempts to address concerns with Ohio Representatives, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and the media have largely fallen on deaf ears.

It is understandable when you realize today’s culture is one of partisanship and polarization, where gamesmanship, fraud and corruption is the rule of the day. Morality, ethics, right and wrong is sidelined for the benefit of political partisanship.

As a result the average citizen understandably wants no actual personal involvement in the political process. With public oversight now seriously lacking, it is only natural that there is a general sense of hopelessness and powerlessness.

The first step to making Ohio and this country less polarized and more unified has to be more citizen oversight of the election process. Discovery and official public documentation of election crimes and irregularities is crucial. Law enforcement should support and encourage people to file official police reports documenting irregularities encountered not only at the polling places and the board of elections, but anywhere in the government. This puts problems on an official public record for all to see and acknowledge.

Filing official police reports will serve to give citizens a sense of empowerment and enable the law enforcement community to be more aware of citizen concerns before they become more serious public altercations.

From the psychological point of view, for a true sense of wellbeing and happiness people need have some sense of control. Until our government becomes more than just a partisan two party system, documentation of crimes is important. Maybe over time the weight of documented evidence will stimulate “the people” to overcome partisan two party politics and demand a more progressive, moral, and ethical future.

Regards,
Dan Stanton

VoteRescue Radio New Hampshire Recount

Here are the Archive links.

Sun., February 17, 2008: Playlists: M3U | RAM (Individual MP3s: Hr1 Hr2 )

found here

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_vickie_k_080216_voterescue_radio_2_2f1.htm

Hello from Radio Land!

This Sunday, February 17, from 2-4pm Central time, VoteRescue Radio will be focusing on a New Hampshire recount update and we are proud to announce we will have as our guest ALBERT HOWARD, the Republican Presidential candidate who is responsible for filing and paying for the statewide recount which just completed there last Monday the 11th. On New Hampshire Primary Election Day, January 8th, Albert watched his totals go FROM 178 votes DOWN to 44 votes; this began his commitment to find the truth of what really happened on Election Day.


We will also be talking with BOB SCHULZ, founder of We the People Foundation and instigator of the 50 state NCEL (National Clean Election Lawsuit) which was filed against every Secretary of State or Board of Elections in the nation for allowing electronic voting machines to be used, counter to the Constitution; Bob spent considerable time at the recount and gathered relevant data comparing final results of ballots that had originally been counted by hand to those counted by Diebold optical scan counters; he is about to complete this report and will share them during the show.

WALTER REDDY, founder of Liberty Broadcast Network, (an election results reporting website and source for election affidavits) who was present in New Hampshire both on January 8th for the Primary, and for the entire Republican recount; Walter played various roles there, from citizen videographer; to observor of the actual counting, to providing moral support and assistance to Albert; to following/chasing the van and police car driven by "Butch and Hoppy" which retrieved the boxes of ballots from the various towns and brought them back to the State Archive Building in Concord to be counted. He and Massachusetts election reform activist Carolyn Sharpe (another dedicated volunteer who helped organize the recount observors and who videotaped events there) were present on Friday to film Albert Howard filing the Appeal with Secretary of State William Gardner

We'll also be talking to ABBE WALDMAN DELOZIER, Co-Editor with Vickie Karp of "HACKED! High Tech Election Theft in America", Board Member of Election Defense Alliance (EDA) and PR Director for Coalition for Visible Ballots, and SALLY CASTLEMAN , co-founder and National Chair of EDA , both of whom, along with Vickie, co-authored the Petition for Appeal of the recount (with assistance from Nancy Tobi, Jonathan Simon, Bev Harris, and others) which was filed this past Friday, February 15th, with 30 minutes to spare from the 5pm Eastern deadline.

The New Hampshire recount has been a dramatic and critical piece of evidence gathering on chain of custody issues, well-documented by BEV HARRIS of Black Box Voting and others; the challenge to this recount will allow more time for yet more evidence to be discovered and publicized.

Other primary election updates and evidence gathering in Florida and around the country will be covered!

The show can be heard on the radio in the Austin area at 90.1 FM; is streaming live on www.wtprn.com (for "We the People Radio Network"), AND, can be heard OVER THE PHONE at 512/485-9010!

This is a CALL-IN show The call-in numbers are: 1-888-202-1984, and in the Austin area, or if you have unlimited long distance, the number is 512-646-1984. Not sure how many calls we'll be able to take on this show with all the interviews, but we'll do our best!

Hope to "see" and hear you "On the Air" on Sunday!

WE ARE WINNING--because of citizens like YOU!!

With thanks for your support,

Vickie and Karen
karp@mail.com
karen@voterescue.org

Commissioners Show interest in "DRE Product Liability Suit"

Commissioners Show interest in "DRE Product Liability Suit"
By General Bruce - Feb 14th, 2008 at 6:16 am EST

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Franklin County OHIO Commissioner Brooks said,
when my question of "getting our money back for the DRE (Touch Screen) voting machines which have been shown to be faulty" to the Top two Franklin County BOE personal was directed to the Commissioners or County Prosecutor,

"and if I might say, I would certainly be open to that, um we'll we'll take a look at that, it's been discussed um at the County Commissioners State Board Meeting, and a lot of people around the State are very concerned about the money that has been spent on these machines, um but first and foremost we want everyone to have confidence in the vote, and to have a good um tabulation."

PG (Peace General)Bruce said, "Yes yes thank you."




OEJC Franklin County Commissioners -short- 2-12-08>1:14 minutes http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2106812051248246062&hl=en



OEJC Franklin County Commissioners 2-12-08 >16 minutes http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=560609446484051806&hl=en

Major Network TV Producer: "You, the Citizens, are the New Media" on "Voice of the Voters!"

Please help circulate,,,and tune in too,,this is going to be info you will want to hear,,,and use Thanks
                                                  ROLL THE NEW “PRESSES”

 

  A major Network TV Producer who has reached the pinnacle of her career in Traditional Media, and is now  moving to the"New Media" will tell us why We the People are becoming more powerful than mainstream media, the factors that have led to disgust and distrust with the corporate-controlled mainstream media, and what we need to do to communicate effectively 

 

An award winning producer (including prize for Ethics in Journalism) of original blockbuster features and investigations for 60 Minutes, 20/20, Dateline, and Nightline says the networks as "old media" are now fighting to keep up with the you-- the "net generation. ” Tune in for fascinating, thought- provoking, provocative and useful discussion.

 

                    

on "Voice of the Voters!"

Wednesday, February 13, 8 pm ET

Heard on 1360 AM Greater Philadelphia

& the Internet www.voiceofthevoters.org or http://wnjc.duxpond.com/

 

                    CITIZEN JOURNALISM…THE EVOLVING  FOURTH ESTATE

 

                   How did Your voice become more Powerful than traditional Media?

 

What are the signs that people-- viewers and listeners began to feel they were being kept in the dark? 

When did citizens become weary of the polished entertainment that is supposed to be news?

 

 

                JOURNALISM:  YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A PATRIOTIC AMERICAN!

 

How has citizen journalism taken over the reigns of communication in the U.S. and how can you be effective?

 

The mainstream media knows new media is coming through the window - how can citizen journalists keep a foothold in the face of corporate ambitions?

 

What are the mistakes and tips that will show YOU how to effectively get the word out?

 

                                       Balance in reporting

 

                                       Following the Law

 

                                       Documenting Everything you Can

 

                                       Getting the Word Out.

 

The Net Generation is here with citizen journalism.  What are YOU going to do about it? Tune in and get important tips if you want to make an impact and get your message heard!

 

Plus discussion on how mainstream media has changed, how the role of the fourth estate was meant and then was "contained", the impact on America …and comments on some key stories you read, hear and see  including:

 

Why haven't there been more stories on election problems?

 

Why is Congress not leading needed change in America?

 

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Voice of the Voters, hosted by Mary Ann Gould, plus news update from John Gideon of Voters Unite,  is devoted to voting rights and election reform. Ultimately it is an exploration of Representative Democracy itself and the responsibilities of citizens and their elected representatives. It airs every Wednesday night at 8:00 PM ET on 1360 AM and on the Internet. (http://wnjc.duxpond.com/)

Dial-up Internet users: Please turn off all other programs in order to receive clearest broadcast.

Archived Voice of the Voters shows are available here.    www.voiceofthevoters.org

 

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