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| Big incestous Gov/Media is unethically The ONE undermining confidence in the Truth and a vital independent quest for real knowledge by perpetually numbing and dumbing down anyone who defiles and infects themselves by paying any attention to there PAP & bothering to buy their PAPer! IF this "Valid" election is such a given why did Karen Hughes warn this one-term president "It doesn't look good" to the 'sanguine' Bush on election day? Why did nervous Ken Blackwell lock-down public records in the middle of log book inspections? Why did a 'tech' person from Triad tamper with a machine and suggest 'proper' vote totals?, tainting an ongoing recount. Why are people getting run off the road? and why is the FBI involved in a couple states? Rove simple 'declared' themselves the winner and the bought off media reported this, Unfortunately- they are now panicking as what they reported cannot stand up to an audit, fair independent analysis and verification of a legitimate election. They perpetually repeat over and over the middle of the night figures and on the vote totals, I feel they should include the *trademark symbol after the totals 61.7million and 119,000. STEAL Our Vote? STEAL Our Future! MoveOn.Now The zealots who refuse to accept Ohio's vote count risk undermining confidence in the system itself Wednesday, December 15, 2004 Most Americans, including the vast majority of those who supported John Kerry for president, have grasped the most basic reality of Election Day 2004: George W. Bush was re-elected. He won roughly 60.7 million votes and carried 31 states with 286 electoral votes. Ohio's 20 Electoral College members formally cast ballots for the president Monday in the Statehouse. Unfortunately, there is a small, but very vocal, group of Americans who refuse to accept this reality. They argue that what appear to be routine technical glitches and human errors were in fact an elaborate conspiracy to skew the election results. They claim that long lines at a few polling places, the rather unsurprising result of high voter interest, were evidence of a systematic campaign to discourage participation. In short, having failed to get the outcome they wanted at the polls, they have decided to mount an irresponsible campaign aimed at undermining public confidence in the electoral system itself. Ohio, arguably the most intensive battleground for Bush and Kerry, has been the No. 1 target of these diehards. Since Election Day, they have seized on isolated problems in a relative handful of this state's 11,366 precincts as proof of greater ills or even criminal activity. One speaker in Columbus over the weekend likened Ohio to Ukraine. The Rev. Jesse Jackson has complained of widespread "fraud and stealing." The Green and Libertarian parties, whose presidential candidates got a combined three-tenths of one percent of the vote in Ohio on Nov. 2, have demanded a recount of the state's 5.7 million ballots. That will cost taxpayers about $1.4 million. A coalition of critics, led by a former Ohio organizer for Ross Perot, has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to overturn the presidential election, as well as the outcome in the race for chief justice. The Kerry campaign, reflecting its leader's maddening desire to have everything both ways, has said it does not expect a recount to change anything - yet has also issued a list of things it wants local elections officials to double-check. Obviously, there were problems on Election Day. There always are. Elections are run by imperfect humans. Many individual polling places are in the hands of civic-minded neighbors with a few hours of training. Machines malfunction. Voters mess up ballots. But Ohio has already done its usual intensive post-election audit and reconciliation, a process designed to spot mistakes. That canvass resulted in Bush's unofficial 136,000-vote margin being reduced to the 119,000-vote edge that Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell certified last week. Ohio's bipartisan elections system makes the kind of GOP conspiracy that some allege all but impossible to execute. Every county board of elections consists of two Democrats and two Republicans. So when Jackson and other national Democrats question Ohio's outcome, they demean their own allies. William Anthony Jr., the African-American who chairs both the Franklin County Democratic Party and its elections board, has been personally stung by Jackson's slander: "Why would I sit there and disenfranchise my own community?" he asks. The recount will go forward because by law it must; history suggests few votes will change. But it is time to focus on how to make future elections more efficient. Clearly it would help if groups that register new voters did not deliver thousands of applications at the last minute. Ohio also needs an early voting system to relieve at least some of the pressure on Election Day. And rather than retreating from electronic voting machines, the state needs to find a secure system and back it up with a paper record. Common-sense solutions can make a difference. Endless sour grapes will not. Editorial team= Alex Machaskee(owner), Douglas C. Clifton, Robert M. Long, Brent W. Larkin 1)web location= http://www.cleveland.com/editorials/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/ 2)live! by phone= Note: You can also call cleveland.com's main number, (216) 515-2525. Or you can write us at 2019 Center St. #200, Cleveland, OH 44113. To contact The Plain Dealer, click here or call 1.800.362.0727 3)forums= http://www.cleveland.com/forums/chatterbox/ 4)forums2= http://www.cleveland.com/forums/politics/ 5)letters to editor letters (at) plainD.com 6)mail/FAX= The Plain Dealer welcomes letters to the editor that comment on and further the public debate on topics of general interest. To submit a letter by e-mail, please fill out the form below or send e-mail directly to letters (at) plaind.com. Letters may also be mailed to Letters to the Editor, The Plain Dealer, 1801 Superior Ave., Cleveland 44114, or sent by fax to 216-999-6209. 7)Brent Larkin(1 of 4 0n Ed. board) blarkin (at) plaind.com, 216-999-4252 8) The "President" Alex Machaskeee= No email found 9)Dick Feagler= dfeagler (at) plaind.com, 216-999-5757 10)Elizabeth Auster= eauster (at) plaind.com, 216-999-5335 11)Thomas Brazaitis= tbrazaitis (at) starpower.net, 202-638-1366 ***** Slam Poem THIS is for The Men who would PLAY God Alot of...People been DYIN'-all around these WhiteMen for over 500 YEARS! WHO Decides? WHOSE Time OR Turn it is To DIE! you know, sometimes, a helicopter will just happen to appear IN THE SKY banG! ffffttttfffftttttka! THIS is for the Men who WOULD play GOD Dirty Double-Crossin' Back-Stabbin' Treaty-Bustin' Race-Baitin' Diversity-Hatin' WAR MONGERING Homocidal GENOCIDAL Foolish, Childish Smarmy Lunatic Scoundrels in DENIAL HEAL!,...HEAL!,.....Kneel. -KujaaySHakkaLeeah (propensity for positive change in times of crisis moving into higher equilibriums) *plutocrats didn't give Their MOM's the Right to Vote till 1920 **Impress upOn EveryOne You Meet the Potency of Their Existence | |

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