Last US House seat filled on grave of stolen 2004 election-by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

[kpete]

Headlined on 12/10/08:
Last US House seat filled on grave of stolen 2004 election

by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

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Mary Jo Kilroy of Columbus will be the first Democrat to represent any part of Franklin County in Congress since 1982, and the first to represent her 15th Congressional District since the 1960s.

In 2006 Kilroy barely lost to incumbent Deb Pryce as thousands of contested provisional ballots went uncounted. Under then-Secretary Blackwell, voters in Democratic precincts were routinely challenged on minor details and forced to cast provisional ballots to allegedly be counted at a later time.

But thousands were merely pitched in the trash or otherwise negated. Some 16,000 provisionals and 93,000 machine-rejected ballots have never been counted from a 2004 election decided by an official margin of less than 119,000 votes. Independent observers believe a fair vote count would have given Kilroy her House seat in 2006. Also in that election, e-voting machines had statistically unlikely high rates of undervotes in central city polls.

This year the Ohio Secretary of State is Democrat Jennifer Brunner. Publicly committed to a full and fair voting process, Brunner repeatedly went to court to defend an expanded right to vote and have as many votes counted as possible. Various Republican maneuvers would have eliminated some 800,000 voters and given Ohio to John McCain, had Brunner not fought for voter's rights.

more at:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Last-US-House-seat-filled-by-Bob-Fitrakis--Har-081210-365.html

[CatWoman]

1. good job Jennifer

oh yeah, also to Mary Jo :)