More from November 11th

More on the Suspected Voter Fraud Issue

This appears to be the story Kevin from Wizbang was pooh poohing today.

Good evening. An Associated Press poll tonight suggests that 54 percent of us Americans have been given renewed confidence about the nation‘s electoral system based on last week‘s decisive presidential election. You guys might want to put that poll back into the field again next week.

Our fifth story on the COUNTDOWN, there is a small but blood curdling group of reports of voting irregularities and possible fraud principally in Ohio and Florida. That group of reports is moving from that end of the spectrum in which believers are likely to be wearing hats made out of Reynolds wrap to the other end of the spectrum in which the believers are going to the general accounting office and perhaps the FBI. The mainstream newspaper, the “Cincinnati Inquirer,” reports that officials in Warren County, Ohio, that‘s 20 miles northeast of Cincinnati, locked down their administration building last Tuesday night to prevent anybody from observing the vote count. Moreover the secrecy, unique among all 88 of Ohio‘s counties, was attributed to concerns about potential terrorism.

The newspaper reports that Warren County emergency services director Frank Young had recommended the walling off of the vote count based on information received from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI Mr. Young did not explain whether al Qaeda might have been planning to hit Caesar Creek State Park in Waynesville or the King‘s Island Amusement Park. After some negotiating, reporters were finally admitted to that building around midnight. They were kept in the lobby. The counting went on unobserved two floors above them. Warren County‘s polls were among the last in Ohio to close, thus among the last to report and thus among the votes that clinched the state and the election for President Bush. A local television news director called the homeland security explanation a, quote, “ red herring.”

County prosecutor Rachel Hutzel told the newspaper that the Warren County commissioners were, quote, “within their rights to lock the building down, even though no other Ohio county did so because having photographers or reporters present could have interfered with the count.” You bet, Rachel.

Ohio, whose 20 electoral votes were based on a margin of 2 percent in the vote, has other problems tonight. The state reports 92,000 presidential votes did not count. Ranging from votes improperly cast to votes improperly counted. And in Cuyahoga County, that is greater Cleveland, the official records of 29 different voting precincts show more votes than registered voters to a total of 93,000 extra votes in that county alone.

As an example, in Fairview Park, 12 miles west of Cleveland, 13,342 voters were registered. 18,472 votes were cast. None of this even addresses the story we told you about last week in the town of Gahanna outside Columbus, Ohio. There in a district with just 800 voters, a voting machine added 3,893 votes to Mr. Bush‘s total.

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Nov. 8
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Hat Tip Deb

Kevin said of the story: "Good for him (and the DU pack fueling him) if he can find wide scale problems in Ohio

or Florida, but maybe Olbermann and his staff might allow the results
to bubble up a bit before running to air, lest they looks like partisan
hacks."

Maybe Wizbang should settle down and let Obermann do his job, or better yet, maybe everyone should be concerned enough, regardless of partisan position, to be supportive of finding the truth. There was this massive groudswell of enthusiam in "Finding the Truth," about Kerry's military record... I dont know, maybe its just me, but I think this story is just a tad more important. There is a reason that there is a sense of urgency in all this... That we cant afford to let things, "bubble up," becuase if we wait to long for those bubbles, perhaps a man who did not win the election will be sitting in the White House for Four more years.

Like Tas, I am trying to stay objective on this issue. But thats objective, not blind, deaf and stupid. This MUST be investigated, and the American People need to know the truth one way or the other. I would think, and perhaps I am being naive, that conservatives would want the truth as much as Liberals do.

Note 2005: It appears they did not, and while a number of former staunch Bush supporters have gotten to the point, where even they smell the stench of this administration's corruption... Wizbang stands solidly behind the President, and there is far from a revolution taking place in the streets.