The Death of Democracy: End-game Ohio
by Caroline Vernon

US Democracy would appear to be a fiction, not only because of the war, but because of the mounting evidence of the election theft in Ohio, and other parts of the nation.
 
Here are excerpts from a long and detailed article on the subject.
 
Interesting that we have to go to Canada to get this article.  If you listen to US news only, you might just end up accepting the fiction that Bush was democratically elected President.

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The Strange Death of American Democracy: Endgame in Ohio

by Michael Keefer

 University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) Associate Professor of English Michael Keefer writes: So who ever thought the 2004 US presidential election had the remotest chance of being honest and democratic?

. . . . Ohio was the swing state of swing states on November 2nd, 2004, the one whose twenty Electoral College votes decided the outcome of the US presidential election. It is therefore a matter of some significance that the testimonial evidence of corruption in the Ohio election is corroborated by statistical evidence which shows the election in this state - and nationwide - to have been not just corrupt, but stolen.

The evidence in both categories is massively complex. But thanks to the no less massive analytical labors over the past two months of citizen pro-democracy activists, of social scientists, of mathematicians and statisticians, of computer programmers, and of alternative-media investigative journalists, it can nonetheless be conveniently summarized.

You want smoking guns? Here they are, starting with the evidence that John F. Kerry, and not George W. Bush, won the state of Ohio.

1. Uncounted punch-card and provisional ballots.

Well over 13,000 Ohio provisional ballots were never counted, and 92,672 regular punch-card ballots were set aside by vote-counting machines as indicating no choice for president. Thus, even after Ohio's supposed recount, a total of over 106,000 ballots remained uncounted--though there was  no legal reason for not inspecting and counting each of these ballots.  But there seems to have been a very good political reason for not doing so: the uncounted ballots came disproportionately from places like the cities of Cincinnati, Cleveland and Akron, all of which voted overwhelmingly for the Democrats.

2. Fraud through default settings on touch-screen voting machines.

Some 15 percent of Ohio's votes were cast using the new touch-screen voting machines. In the city of Youngstown, in Mahoning County, there were repeated complaints about what election observers referred to as  vote-flipping  by the ES&S Ivotronic touch-screen machines used there. This flipping  phenomenon, also widely observed in other states, typically appeared to poll watchers  like a mere computer glitch, no different than a super market checkout machine that records an incorrect price for lettuce.

But what was happening, in the vast majority of cases, was no  glitch.  As Dom Stasi notes,  The laws of probability demand that multiple random errors trend toward even distribution, but only if they are truly errors.  Yet in all of the published accounts of vote flipping, the  errors  consistently favored Bush: voters who were trying to vote for Kerry found their votes being given to Bush, transferred to third-party candidates, or simply erased. The Chairman of the Mahoning County Board of Elections is reported to have stated that  20 to 30 machines [...] needed to be re-calibrated during the voting process.  He is not quoted as saying that any action was taken, or could be taken, to compensate for the machines' one-way errors - and there is evidence that many other machines were left uncorrected.

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