ELECTION FRAUD UPDATE - The Night Before Christmas

NOTE: This is an updating post. The title and contents are periodically reviewed and edited for relevancy and breaking news.

For those of you who like doing your own research, my advice for a routine that should keep you on top of the Ohio election recount effort is a frequent scan of the Ohio Election Fraud and CANNONFIRE blogs (links under the Blogs section). Scan The Free Press articles (link in the Media section) and finally Buzzflash (under Media or the updating headlines box) for relevant news links.

For those of you who can't put in daily perusal time, check back here once a week. I will summarize what I think are the current highlights in my ELECTION FRAUD UPDATE post.

As of today, the Ohio recount effort is forging ahead and by no small measure thanks to super-dedicated patriots who are fighting to hold America's second battlefront - Election 2004. The resistance Repugs are mounting only strengthens my belief the election was fraudulent. I think it only a matter of time before the accumulating evidence explodes in their laps.

Bob Fertig's blog at Democrats.com has a great timeline (back to 10/31) with links for every important Ohio count and recount development, and at the end provides link lists to activists, in-depth research, bloggers and blog investigations. I printed the blog post and at 10-point, single spacing, it was still 6 pages long! Nice to print and take along for waving in the face of nay-sayers...

The question many folks ask me is what, at this point in the election, could happen to keep Bush out of office? What is all this recounting going to amount to (beyond the principle of the thing, that is)? A challenge is what.

This blog post from Bob Arnebak at The Free Press brings us up to date on that idea:

"In a December 21 conference call with activists from the around the US, (Jesse) Jackson said he has urged Senators Kerry (D-MA) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) to stand with US Representatives who intend to challenge the Electoral College's expected approval of George W. Bush for a second term. A challenge by US Representatives in 2000 failed because no Senators would join their motion, "

and that is what we need, one Senator willing to put their career on the line. If a Senator and a House member jointly submit an objection, each House would retire to its chamber to consider the objection. That could, given the apparent wide-spread voter suppression and possible vote-tampering, require a revote, though I have yet been able to find wording for that procedure in any of the government documents I have been reading...

Probably like many of you, since the December 13th Conyer Ohio hearings, I've been wondering when some aspect of the story will break into the broadcast and print media. Along those lines I found this reprint of an email from an activist on Daily Kos :: Plea for help from an Ohio activist that goes to the issue:

"If you want to do something, here's what you can do to help. I am asking the rest of the country to please get out there and find well-known people who's voices are loud enought to be heard by the press who will stand up for us. Get a Senator or a media personality or anyone of very high profile to come out about this. The media blackout is killing us. Very few members of Congress, and no one in the Democratic Party has even seriously acknowledged the recount.

This is still looked at as the 'sour grapes' effort of a couple of disgruntled 3rd party candidates who can't win anyway. It couldn't be further from that. The civil rights of every man, woman and child in America are at stake here. I don't care what it takes, convince somebody to break our story, to back us and give us the credibility we need and to let the world know we're here doing this. Redford, Sting, Kennedy, Fonda, Kerry... I don't care who, somebody, anybody who can attract the attention of the media (evidently John Conyers' and Jesse Jackson's brave voices are not loud enough.) "

At the end of his latest blog Fertig cites the so-far "official stories" about the Ohio recount. There are two of them, total.

Sigh...keep your tin hats handy folks because as I've said here before, America has finally invaded...the Twilight Zone.