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A federal court is reviewing evidence of "spoiled ballots" and the activities of John Kenneth Blackwell, the Ohio secretary of state. Blackwell served in the administration of President George H.W. Bush as undersecretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1989 to 1990. In the 2004 elections he held dual roles as Chief Elections official of Ohio and honorary co-chair of the Republican "Committee to re-elect George W. Bush" during the 2004 election.
Evidence exists of a wide scale Republican plot to steal the election by any means possible. A Rolling Stone article describes some of the techniques used by the Republicans in the 2004 Ohio election:
In the leadup to the election, Blackwell had illegally sought to keep reporters and election observers at least 100 feet away from the polls. The Sixth Circuit, ruling that the decree represented an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment, noted ominously that ''democracies die behind closed doors.'' But the decision didn't stop officials in Warren County from devising a way to count the vote in secret. Immediately after the polls closed on Election Day, GOP officials -- citing the FBI -- declared that the county was facing a terrorist threat that ranked ten on a scale of one to ten. The county administration building was hastily locked down, allowing election officials to tabulate the results without any reporters present.
In fact, there was no terrorist threat. The FBI declared that it had issued no such warning, and an investigation by The Cincinnati Enquirer unearthed e-mails showing that the Republican plan to declare a terrorist alert had been in the works for eight days prior to the election. Officials had even refined the plot down to the language they used on signs notifying the public of a lockdown. (When ROLLING STONE requested copies of the same e-mails from the county, officials responded that the documents have been destroyed.)
See Evidence uncovered in Ohio of massive vote fraud in 2004 election
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An electronic voting machine--without a paper trail--is the slave of whoever is "counting" the votes. We are not in a good situation right now. Your article was thought-provoking.