[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] Fw: Bombshell in Ohio: Proof of Fraud?

Fri Nov 26 14:40:39 PST 2004

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>http://blog.democrats.com/node/812
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>Bob Fertik
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>Widespread Election Fraud in Cleveland?
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>From: Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
>Date: November 19, 2004
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>Attached is my recently completed precinct by precinct analysis of 
>the 2004 presidential vote in Cleveland. There are wholesale shifts 
>of scores of votes from the Kerry column to other candidates, and 
>astonishingly low turnouts in certain precincts and entire wards. 
>The Ohio recount will prove these numbers to be fraudulent.
>
>I may have identified only the tip of the iceberg. I note that there 
>are 17,741 uncounted ballots in Cuyahoga County. Kerry's margin in 
>Cleveland was reportedly 108,659 votes with a 49.89% turnout. The 
>rest of Cuyahoga County had a 71.95% turnout. Such a turnout in 
>Cleveland would have given Kerry a margin of 156,705 votes, left 
>Bush with a statewide margin of 85,007 votes, and with 248,100 votes 
>still uncounted, nobody would be conceding Ohio.
>
>This is a situation that demands rigorous investigation. I can 
>imagine Michael Moore going door to door in Ward 4, Precinct F, 
>looking for the 215 Peroutka voters, or in Ward 4, Precinct N, 
>looking for the 163 Badnarik voters. Or going door to door in Ward 
>6, Precinct C, to find out why the turnout was only 7.10% - or in 
>Ward 13, Precincts D, F, and O, to find out why the turnout was only 
>13.05%, 19.60%, and 21.01%, respectively.
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>CUYAHOGA COUNTY CANVASS SHEET - 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
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>THE FOLLOWING IS A PRECINCT BY PRECINCT ANALYSIS OF THE REPORTED 
>VOTE TOTALS FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES IN THE CITY OF 
>CLEVELAND, CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO, IN THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. 
>THESE ARE DATA READILY AVAILABLE ONLINE AT THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF 
>THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS. WHAT YOU SEE IS AN ACTUAL 
>REPRINT OF THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY CANVASS SHEET.
>
>IN ORDER TO CONDUCT THIS ANALYSIS I SET UP SEPARATE MICROSOFT 
>WINDOWS FOR: (1) REGISTERED VOTERS, 2004; (2) VOTER TURNOUT, BY 
>PERCENTAGE, 2004; (3) VOTE TOTALS FOR PRESIDENT, 2004; AND (4) VOTE 
>TOTALS FOR PRESIDENT, 2000. BY CLICKING BACK AND FORTH ON THE 
>WINDOWS I WAS ABLE TO COMPARE THESE DATA EASILY, IF TEDIOUSLY.
>
>I HAVE DISCOVERED WHOLESALE "IRREGULARITIES" IN THE REPORTED VOTES, 
>SOME OF THEM HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS, OTHERS OBVIOUSLY FRAUDULENT. EVERY 
>NUMBER I BELIEVE TO BE UNTRUE I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED IN RED, AND I HAVE 
>WRITTEN A BRIEF ONE-LINE EXPLANATION, ALSO HIGHLIGHTED IN RED, IN 
>THE RIGHT-HAND COLUMN NEXT TO THE HIGHLIGHTED NUMBER. THE FOLLOWING 
>WRITE-UP IS THE BEST ESTIMATE I CAN MAKE AS TO HOW MANY VOTES WERE 
>STOLEN FROM JOHN F. KERRY IN CLEVELAND, OHIO. IN SOME CASES THERE 
>HAVE BEEN WHOLESALE SHIFTS OF VOTES FROM THE KERRY COLUMN TO THE 
>BUSH COLUMN OR TO THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES; TO ESTIMATE THE NUMBER OF 
>VOTES TAKEN FROM KERRY, I HAVE ASSUMED THAT THE PROPORTIONS OF THE 
>VOTE ALLOTTED ELSEWHERE IN THE WARD ARE CORRECT; IN FACT, ANY 
>UNREPORTED VOTES COULD ALL HAVE COME FROM KERRY. IN OTHER CASES THE 
>REPORTED VOTER TURNOUT WAS ASTONISHINGLY LOW FOR A PRESIDENTIAL 
>ELECTION. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS ANALYSIS, I HAVE ADOPTED 50% AS AN 
>ARBITRARY ESTIMATE OF THE TRUE VOTER TURNOUT FOR THE UNDERREPORTED 
>PRECINCTS, AND HAVE ASSUMED THAT THE PROPORTIONS OF THE VOTE 
>ALLOTTED ARE CORRECT FOR THESE PRECINCTS.
>
>THESE ESTIMATES ARE JUST THAT. FORTUNATELY, OHIO HAS A PAPER TRAIL 
>AND THERE WILL BE A RECOUNT. HOPEFULLY THE CORRECT NUMBERS WILL 
>EMERGE. SOME, BUT NOT ALL, OF THE UNREPORTED VOTES WILL TURN UP AS 
>PROVISIONAL BALLOTS OR UNCOUNTED PUNCH CARDS. WHERE WHOLESALE 
>SHIFTING HAS OCCURRED FROM ONE COLUMN TO ANOTHER, I EXPECT THAT THE 
>OHIO RECOUNT WILL PROVE, ONCE AND FOR ALL, ELECTION FRAUD.
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>LINE 1604 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 129 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 25 VOTES.
>LINE 1614 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 166 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 38 VOTES.
>LINE 1702 41 VOTES APPEAR IN BADNARIK COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 41 VOTES.
>LINE 1709 70 VOTES APPEAR IN PETROUKA COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 70 VOTES.
>LINE 1806 215 VOTES APPEAR IN PETROUKA COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 213 VOTES.
>LINE 1814 163 VOTES APPEAR IN BADNARIK COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 162 VOTES.
>LINE 1902 16 VOTES APPEAR IN PETROUKA COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 15 VOTES.
>LINE 1903 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 390 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 142 VOTES.
>LINE 1909 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 362 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 119 VOTES.
>LINE 1910 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 228 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 66 VOTES.
>LINE 1912 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 324 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 93 VOTES.
>LINE 1915 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 157 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 25 VOTES.
>LINE 1916 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 49 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 11 VOTES.
>LINE 2002 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 197 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 106 VOTES.
>LINE 2003 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 324 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 272 VOTES.
>LINE 2004 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 229 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 93 VOTES.
>LINE 2011 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 283 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 81 VOTES.
>LINE 2006 NOT AN IRREGULARITY; BUSH DID WELL IN CLEVELAND 6F IN 2000.
>LINE 2012 81 VOTES APPEAR IN BUSH COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 36 VOTES.
>LINE 2023 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 144 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 20 VOTES.
>LINE 2103 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 276 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 74 VOTES.
>LINE 2111 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 120 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 35 VOTES.
>LINE 2122 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 482 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 177 VOTES.
>LINE 2207 51 VOTES APPEAR IN BADNARIK COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 51 VOTES.
>LINE 2208 45 VOTES APPEAR IN BUSH COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 32 VOTES.
>LINE 2209 27 VOTES APPEAR IN PETROUKA COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 26 VOTES.
>LINE 2301 41 VOTES APPEAR IN BUSH COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 33 VOTES.
>LINE 2316 87 VOTES APPEAR IN BUSH COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 68 VOTES.
>LINE 2319 39 VOTES APPEAR IN BUSH COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 31 VOTES.
>LINE 2412 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 433 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 212 VOTES.
>LINE 2513 35 VOTES APPEAR IN THIRD PARTY COLUMNS, KERRY LOSES 33 VOTES.
>LINE 2521 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 377 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 104 VOTES.
>WARD 12 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 6095 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 475 VOTES.
>LINE 2704 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 962 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 586 VOTES.
>LINE 2706 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 411 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 242 VOTES.
>LINE 2708 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 134 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 41 VOTES.
>LINE 2715 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 117 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 61 VOTES.
>LINE 2717 17 VOTES APPEAR IN THIRD PARTY COLUMNS, KERRY LOSES 15 VOTES.
>LINE 2723 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 481 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 133 VOTES.
>LINE 2724 37 VOTES APPEAR IN BADNARIK COLUMN, KERRY LOSES 36 VOTES.
>LINE 2725 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 28 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 7 VOTES.
>WARD 14 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 6878 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 1106 VOTES.
>LINE 2902 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 132 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 36 VOTES.
>LINE 2908 22 VOTES APPEAR IN THIRD PARTY COLUMNS, KERRY LOSES 20 VOTES.
>LINE 2919 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 138 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 20 VOTES.
>WARD 17 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 6394 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 706 VOTES.
>LINE 19O 50% TURNOUT WOULD BE 239 VOTES, KERRY LOSES 44 VOTES.
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>CLEVELAND KERRY LOSES 6032 VOTES
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>THUS, A NOT UNREASONABLE CONCLUSION IS THAT TAMPERING WITH THE 
>NUMBERS HAS COST JOHN KERRY 6,000 VOTES IN CLEVELAND.
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>I AM NOT CLAIMING THAT THE FINAL RESULTS, WHEN ALL THE VOTES HAVE 
>BEEN COUNTED AND RECOUNTED, WILL COME CLOSE TO MATCHING UP WITH THE 
>ESTIMATES I HAVE GIVEN ABOVE. I HAVE MADE THESE ESTIMATES ONLY TO 
>GIVE THE READER SOME IDEA OF THE MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM. NOT ALL 
>OF THESE IRREGULARITIES WILL TURN OUT TO BE FRAUD. BUT SOME OF THEM 
>WILL. WHOLESALE SHIFTING OF SCORES OF VOTES TO THE COLUMNS OF THIRD 
>PARTY CANDIDATES WHO RECEIVED LESS THAN ONE HALF OF ONE PERCENT OF 
>THE STATEWIDE VOTE BETWEEN THEM, VOTER TURNOUTS OF 7.10%, 13.05%, 
>19.60%, 21.01%, 21.80%, 24.72%, 28.83%, 28.97%, 29.25% IN CERTAIN 
>PRECINCTS, AND A VOTER TURNOUT OF 39.35% FOR AN ENTIRE WARD, ARE 
>SIMPLY NOT CREDIBLE.
>
>THERE MAY BE SOME CORRELATION BETWEEN THE PRECINCTS WITH 
>ASTONISHINGLY LOW VOTER TURNOUT, AND THE REPORTS OF LONG LINES AT 
>THE POLLING PLACES DUE TO A LACK OF ENOUGH VOTING MACHINES. PEOPLE 
>ON THE GROUND IN OHIO SHOULD LOOK AT THE PRECINCT MAPS, CHECK THE 
>NEWS REPORTS, TALK WITH LOCAL RESIDENTS, AND FIGURE THIS OUT.
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>I WISH TO EXPRESS MY DEEPEST APPRECIATION FOR THE GRASSROOTS EFFORT 
>THAT HAS MADE AN OHIO RECOUNT POSSIBLE. I AWAIT THE RESULTS.
>
>RICHARD HAYES PHILLIPS, Ph.D.
>http://www.northnet.org/minstrel
>
>Bob Fitrakis says some of these issues were raised in Saturday's hearings:
>
>In Cleveland, where a public hearing was held on Saturday, November 
>20, there was a different pattern of voting irregularities. These 
>include heavily Democratic wards with abnormally low reported rates 
>of voter turnout, three under 20%. In Precinct 6-C where Kerry beat 
>Bush 45 votes to one, allegedly only 7.1% of the registered voters 
>cast ballots. In precinct 13-D where Kerry received 83.8% of the 
>vote, only 13.05% reportedly voted. In precinct 13-F where Kerry 
>received 97.5%, the turnout was reported to be only 19.6%.
>
>One explanation comes from Irma Olmedo, who provided the Free Press 
>with a written statement of her activities in the heavily Hispanic 
>ward 13, which contained the three low voter turnout precincts.
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>"Ohio does not have bilingual ballots and this disenfranchises many 
>Latino voters who are not totally fluent in English . . . there were 
>13 poll workers at the school and none knew Spanish. Some could not 
>even find the names of the people on the list because they couldn't 
>understand well when people said their names. . . . Some people put 
>their punch card ballots in backwards when they voted and discovered 
>that they couldn't punch out the holes. They had not read the 
>instructions which were in English, that they had to turn the card 
>around in order to vote," Olmedo stated.
>
>Olmedo translated at precinct 13-O, where 90% of the votes were for 
>Kerry and only 53 votes were counted. The turnout of 21% was due to 
>the lack of Spanish instructions and the misspelling of names: "I 
>noticed that one named Nieves was misspelled as Nieues and the 
>pollworkers were not able to find his name, these people were told 
>to complete a provisional ballot because their names were not on the 
>list."
>
>In Cuyahoga County, according to the Secretary of State's website 
>there are 24,788 provisional ballots, most of them from the city of 
>Cleveland, not its surrounding suburbs. Secretary of State J. 
>Kenneth Blackwell served as Co-Chair of the Bush/Cheney Ohio 
>reelection committee.
>
>There also seems to be an abnormally high vote count for third party 
>candidates who received less than one-half of one percent of the 
>statewide vote total combined. For example, in precinct 4-F, the 
>right-wing Constitutional Law candidate Peroutka received 215 votes 
>to Bush's 21 and Kerry's 290. In this precinct, Kerry received 55% 
>of the vote where Gore received 91% of the vote in the year 200. 
>These numbers suggest that Kerry's votes were inadvertently or 
>intentionally shifted to Peroutka.
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