Ted Glick sent this out. I would think more than one voting machine malfunctioned in favor of Bush, esp since the mucky muck at Diebold said he would "deliver Ohio to Bush." Marta
>
>Forwarded from a lawyer who was in there in Ohio. (emphasis mine). A
>database of voter irregularities is reportedly being assembled, and
>hopefully there will be web sites devoted to documenting what really
>happened.
>
>From: "Ray Beckerman" <<mailto:RBeckerman at BLHNY.com>RBeckerman at BLHNY.com>
>Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:36:39 -0500
>Subject: Basic report from Columbus
>
>I worked for 3 days, including Election Day, on the statewide
>voter protection hotline run by the Ohio Democratic Party in
>Columbus, Ohio.
>
>I am writing this because the media is inexplicably whitewashing what
>happened in Ohio, and Kerry's concession was likewise inexplicable.
>Hundreds of thousands of people were disenfranchised in Ohio.
>
>People waited on line for as long as 10 hours. It appears to have
>only happened in Democratic-leaning precincts, principally (a)
>precincts where many African Americans lived, and (b) precincts
>near colleges. I spoke to a young man who got on line at 11:30 am
>and voted at 7 pm. When he left at 7 pm, the line was about 150
>voters longer than when he'd arrived, which meant those people were
>going to wait even longer. In fact they waited for as much as 10
>hours, and their voting was concluded at about 3 am. The reason this
>occurred was that they had 1 voting station per 1000 voters, while
>the adjacent precinct had 1 voting station per 184. Both precincts
>were within the same county, and managed by the same county board of
>elections. The difference between them is that the privileged
>polling place was in a rural, solidly Republican, area, while the
>one with long
>lines was in the college town of Gambier, OH.
>
>Lines of 4 and 5 hours were the order of the day in many
>African-American neighborhoods.
>
>Touch screen voting machines in Youngstown OH were registering
>"George W. Bush" when people pressed "John F. Kerry" ALL DAY LONG.
>This was reported immediately after the polls opened, and reported
>over and over again throughout the day, and yet the bogus machines
>were inexplicably kept in use THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
>
>Countless other frauds occurred, such as postcards advising people
>of incorrect polling places, registered Democrats not receiving
>absentee ballots, duly registered young voters being forced to file
>provisional ballots even though their names and signatures appeared
>in the voting rolls, longtime active voting registered voters being
>told they weren't registered, bad faith challenges by Republican
>"challengers" in Democratic precincts, and on and on and on.
>
>I was very proud of the way so many Ohioans fought so valiantly for
>their right to vote, and would not be turned away. Many, however,
>could not spend the entire day and were afraid of losing their jobs,
>due to the severe economic depression hitting Ohio.
>
>I do not understand why Kerry conceded and did not fight to ensure
>that all Ohioans would have a chance to vote, and for their vote to
>be counted.
>
>Ray
>
>Ray Beckerman
>Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP
>99 Park Ave (Ste 1600)
>New York, NY 10016
>
>
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