Bob Fitrakis: Missing votes in Ohio call races into question

[kpete]

January 3, 2007 at 07:01:07

Missing votes in Ohio call races into question

by Bob Fitrakis


Missing votes in Ohio call races into question
January 2, 2007

While Democratic Party supporters celebrate their success in Ohio, where their statewide candidates won four out of five executive offices and they now control both the U.S. House and Senate, they are ignoring massive and verifiable irregularities in the 2006 election. Similar irregularities � including missing votes, undervotes and overvotes � may come back to haunt the Democrats in the 2008 general election.

The only statewide partisan loss for the Democrats was also the closest contest. Republican Mary Taylor defeated Democrat Barbara Sykes for State Auditor by an official vote of 50.64% to 49.36%. Taylor prevailed by 48,826 votes. The Columbus Dispatch's final poll, usually the most accurate in the state for candidate races, predicted Sykes would win by 10%.

An analysis by the Free Press documents massive discrepancies between the unofficial turnout reported by Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell immediately following the election and the official general election turnout numbers reported in December 2006. These discrepancies may help explain Sykes' unexpected loss.

In Cuyahoga County which contains the Democratic stronghold of Cleveland, immediately following the election 562,498 votes were reported cast with 30,791 listed as absentee or provisional ballots. The official results show 468,056 counted in Cuyahoga. This means that 94,442 ballots cast in the unofficial total disappeared in the official tallies. This represents a shocking 16.8% of all the votes cast in Cuyahoga.

Sykes won 62% of the vote in Cuyahoga County.

more at:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_bob_fitr_070103_missing_votes_in_ohi.htm

[EFerrari]

1. Go, Bob.

K&R

[liam_laddie]

2. K & R !!

The OH-2 race might also be analyzed if accurate records are available.
The margin in the Wulsin-schmidt race was officially 1.04%! There were
republics who hoped schmidt would win ONLY to get her out of SW Ohio;
let DC deal with her insanity...
:toast:
Bob, thank you for your continuing and difficult work to rescue the Constitution.

[blm]

3. Thanks for posting this - many of us would've missed it.

It really never ends, does it?

[helderheid]

4. 5th of MANY MANY recommends!!!!

[druidity33]

5. K&R! Bob is the man! nt

[eomer]

6. K&R (eom)

[Kolesar]

7. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has pledged a complete review of the electronic voting machines

Most of Fitrakis' article are a cruel, sensationalistic tease, but at least this one has an encouraging nugget:

The voting irregularities in the 2006 election appear to be greater than in 2004, but many Ohio Democrats have chosen to ignore that reality. But one who hasn't taken that position is newly-elected Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, who has pledged a complete review of the electronic voting machines. The facts remain that not every vote is counted or accounted for in the Buckeye State and this could be the key factor in deciding the next president of the United States.

Fitrakis really needs more development in defining what "reported cast" means. I read the rest of the article in suspense trying to figure out what he meant. He never told us:

In Cuyahoga County which contains the Democratic stronghold of Cleveland, immediately following the election 562,498 votes were reported cast with 30,791 listed as absentee or provisional ballots. The official results show 468,056 counted in Cuyahoga. This means that 94,442 ballots cast in the unofficial total disappeared in the official tallies. This represents a shocking 16.8% of all the votes cast in Cuyahoga.

[Stevepol]

8. K&R. n/t

[mod mom]

9. and he wrote this while moving his office. What a determined guy!