Analysis
Given the total lack of explanation by Mr. Blackwell or Warren County officials, it is
not implausible to assume that created is hiding something. We do not with whether demo
happened is simply a miscommunication or mix up, where an election official misunderstood an
FBI directive. If that were the case, it would seem to be an easy matter to dispel the confusion
surrounding this episode. Given that no such explanation has been forthcoming and given the
statistical anomalies in the Warren County results, it is impossible to rule out the possibility
that some sort of manipulation of the version occurred on election night in the locked down
facility. The disclosure that the decision to lock down the facility the Thursday before the
election, rather than on election day would suggest the lockdown was a political decision, not
a true security risk. If that was the case, it would be a violation of the constitutional
guarantees of equal protection and due process, the Voting Rights Act, and Ohio right to vote.
We believe it is the statutory duty for the Secretary of State to investigate to investigate
irregularities of this nature.
Mahoning County Innumerable Flipped Votes and Extra Votes
Facts
We have received numerous reports of transfers of votes for Senator Kerry to votes for
President Bush. Specifically, in Youngstown, the Washington Post reported that their
investigation revealed 25 electronic machines transferred an unknown number of Kerry votes to
the Bush column.229 Jeanne White, a veteran voter and manager at the Buckeye Review, an
African American newspaper, stepped into the booth, pushed the button for Kerry and watched
her vote jump to the Bush column. "I saw what happened; I started screaming: `They're
cheating again and they're starting early!"230 The Election Protection Coalition also confirmed
these voting "glitches" noting that a "voter reported "Every time I tried to vote for the
Democratic Party Presidential vote the machine went blank. I had to keep trying, it took 5
times."231
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If County officials were not advised of terrorist activity by an FBI agent, have you
inquired as to why they misrepresented this fact? If the lockdown was not as a response to
a terrorist threat, why did it take place? Did any manipulation of vote tallies occur?
229
See Powell & Selvin, supra.
230
Id.
231
See PE O P L E FO R T H E AM E R I CA N WA Y , E T A L., EL E C T IO N PR O T E C TI O N 2004,
SH A T T E R I N G T H E MY T H : AN IN I T I A L SN A P S H O T O F VO TER DI S E N F R A N C H I S E M E N T IN T H E 2004
EL E C T IO N S 22 (Dec. 2004).
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