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28 April 2006
Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:19:00 GMT The Conyers Report: What Went Wrong in Ohiovia Kjell Olsen2111 days agoBush stole the election(s), I wish I could say people are starting to realize it. The 1+ year old Conyers report (dated 05 January 2005), detailing all of the electoral transgressions that took place in Ohio last election.
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19 November 2005
Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:58:00 GMT Has American Democracy died an electronic death in Ohio 2005's referenda defeats?via Kjell Olsen2271 days agoThe chances are slim that it hasn’t.
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09 September 2005
Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:03:00 GMT None Dare Call It Stolen (Harpers.org)via Kjell Olsen2342 days agoThis democracy can survive a plot to hijack an election. What it cannot survive is our indifference to, or unawareness of, the evidence that such a plot has succeeded.
Preserving Democracy describes three phases of Republican chicanery: the run-up to the election, the election itself, and the post-election cover-up. The wrongs exposed are not mere dirty tricks (though Bush/Cheney also went in heavily for those) but specific violations of the U.S. and Ohio constitutions, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Help America Vote Act. Although Conyers trod carefully when the report came out, insisting that the crimes did not affect the outcome of the race (a point he had to make, he told me,
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