House Judiciary Ohio Forum Hears of Recount Fraud Plans
David
Cobb tells Conyers Forum of Preparations for Recount Fraud
By Fintan Dunne, Editor
http://www.BreakForNews.com
13 December 2004 : 1pmET
In early testimony, chairman of the forum, Rep. John Conyers
heard from Green party presidential candidate, David Cobb that
employees of punch card vendor, Triad Governmental Systems, Inc.
(Triad GSI) are attempting to orchestrate a fraudulent recount
of the 3 percent of precincts likely to be included in the first
phase of the recount process.
Cobb cited one case detailed by an --as yet anonymous-- informant,
that a Triad GSI employee had told staff at the Columbus County
Board of Elections office to inconspicuously note a prepared recount
result, then report this data irrespective of the actual recount.
The Triad GSI representative had also tampered with Triad voting
equipment in the offices.
"This is going on, all over the state," Cobb told the
hearing.
OHIO SUPREME COURT CHALLENGE
Earlier, lawyer John Bonifaz, acting for Cliff Arnebeck, and
the "Alliance for Democracy" on behalf of a group of 40 voters,
filed
a suit asking the Ohio Supreme Court review the election outcome.
Backing the suit, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said George W. Bush received
higher votes where optical-scan voting machines were used. He
questioned whether the machines were calibrated to record votes
for Bush.
David Cobb told the forum that the Ohio presidential electors
were meeting "under a cloud of suspicion" in Ohio.
"Today the presidential electors will cast their votes, he
said. "Yet here in Ohio over 100,000 of the so-called spoiled
and provisional ballots remain uncounted."
John Bonifaz, the general counsel of the non-partisan National
Voting Institute, who filed the Ohio Supreme Court suit, described
the Ohio presidential election as a crime against democracy, the
right to vote, and the U.S. Constitution.
He critized the varying recount procedures applying across Ohio
and maintained that recent federal court judgements meant that
counties not conducting recounts in accordance with the constitution
could be ordered to repeat the recounts.
RECORDS LOCKED DOWN
The forum also heard evidence that over the weekend, Secretary
of State Kenneth Blackwell directed election staff to interrupt
a public inspection of minority precincts in Greene County,
and remove election poll books from two certified volunteers for
the Ohio Recount team who were checking them.
Joan Quinn, a retired attorney said she was hand-copying voter
discrepancies from precinct voting books when officials in direct
contact with Mr. Blackwells' office were instructed to "lock
down" the records.
Eve Robertson, a retired election official from California corroborated
that account and gave testimony that her interrupted inspection
was showing that minority students --who seemed to have voted
overwhelmingly for John Kerry-- comprised the bulk of the provisional
votes.
She also described what she called a "serious breach"
of election count procedure on Saturday 11 December, when she
was able to enter the unstaffed count center through an unlocked
door.
"There were ballots there. They looked like they were in
boxes," she told the hearing.
Robertson called for a revote, not a recount --to cheers from
the attendees. Other speakers also made the same call.
NATION AT A CROSSROADS
John Bonifaz also requested Rep. Conyers to formally object
to any declaration of a winner of the electoral college vote on
January 6th, 2005 --if a recount was still underway or a different
set of electors had been nominated for Ohio.
"The nation is at a crossroads," Bonifaz told the forum.
"We can stand by while our democracy erodes around us, or
we can stand up and fight," he said.
"For the dignity of our nation; and for the dignity of ourselves;
and for the memory of those who struggled before us, we must choose
to fight."
Earlier, responding to news of the Ohio Supreme Court challenge,
Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell,
said the suit implied that Ohio election officials of both parties
would have had to conspire to throw the election.
"That's simply a ridiculous assertion," he said.
Rep. John Conyers vowed that this was not the last such meeting.
He said Judiciary Cmte. staffers would in coming days be meeting
with witnesses and accepting depositions.
The hearing is continuing.
Fintan Dunne, Editor
http://www.BreakForNews.com
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