(WMR) -- After the November 2004
presidential election, this editor reported on massive vote fraud, particularly
in Ohio. The relevant articles are found here, here, here, and here.
Sources within the U.S. Intelligence Community provided information on the
financing -- via foreign funding sources, covert intelligence networks, and
illegal pseudo-banking routes -- of programmers, election officials, and others
to ensure that Bush and Cheney captured Ohio's critical 20 electoral votes.
Pursuant to a
federal law that permits the destruction of ballots, including absentee
ballots, 22 months after a federal election, ballots from the 2004 Ohio
election were scheduled to be destroyed on Sept. 2, but the intervention of
Columbus-based attorney Cliff Arnebeck and the New York-based Center for
Constitutional Rights with the U.S. Court in Columbus resulted in a protective
order being issued for ballots and voting records in all 88 Ohio counties. This
decision upset the corrupt Ohio Republican Party and its gubernatorial standard
bearer Kenneth Blackwell, the secretary of state who helped engineer the 2004
electoral vote fraud coup in his state, who wanted to begin the document
shredding process on Sept. 2.
Not only can the
ballots and voting records now be used in a major civil rights case against
Blackwell, in which he is accused of "inequitably distributing voting
resources, suppressing votes, and spoiling ballots" in the 2004 election,
but may also serve as major evidence in impeachment hearings against George W.
Bush and Dick Cheney when Michigan Rep. John Conyers becomes the Chairman of
the House Judiciary Committee, if the Democrats, as expected, win control of
the U.S. House of Representatives. Blackwell still clings to the fast-eroding
stance that the 2004 Ohio vote was legitimate.
The reason the Ohio
GOP was anxious to destroy the ballots and records is that they are rife with
prima facie evidence of massive vote fraud. Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips, a
researcher who uncovered the evidence of vote fraud, submitted an
affidavit to the U.S. federal court in Columbus outlining details of the vote
fraud. Along with the affidavit, Phillips provided evidence of vote fraud,
including "documentation of ballot tampering in . . . eleven
counties." The most startling evidence of ballot tampering is a punch card
ballot that shows tape affixed over votes for Kerry/Edwards. Other
"stickered ballots" were apparently destroyed during an FBI
investigation. The affidavit states:
"In Clermont County, eleven weeks of negotiations
with the County Prosecutor�s office were required in order to gain access to
the public records, and even then we were actively discouraged from completing
our tasks in an expeditious manner. On each scheduled visit we were denied
access to certain records and told to return another day. In the aftermath of
the recount of December 2004, sworn affidavits were signed by three witnesses
stating that they observed, on some ballots, white oval stickers over the
Kerry-Edwards mark, and the Bush-Cheney oval filled in. The County Prosecutor�s
office confirmed this in writing, stated further that there were fewer than 100
such ballots countywide (out of 89,822 ballots cast), and claimed that there
had been an FBI investigation into the matter upon the request of Congressman
John Conyers, but that the FBI report could not be located.
"In Clermont County, in the first 4 precincts that
we photographed, with 3589 ballots cast, we saw not one stickered ballot. Board
of Elections personnel have confirmed that these 4 precincts were among the 97%
of the ballots that were recounted by machine in December 2004, and that the
observers who reported seeing stickered ballots were observing the 3% of the
ballots that were hand-counted. The Board of Elections provided a statement, in
writing, that 14 precincts were chosen for the hand count because they were the
smallest in the county, with only 2696 ballots cast among them. Ohio Secretary
of State J. Kenneth Blackwell�s directive at that time required that the
hand-counted precincts be chosen at random. We have now photographed ballots
from 20 precincts, including the 14 hand-counted precincts, and have seen only
one stickered presidential ballot, in Pierce Township H. [ See EXHIBIT C and EXHIBIT
D ] In this case, there is a white oval sticker over the Kerry-Edwards mark,
and the Bush-Cheney oval is filled in with a distinctively different pencil
than was used on the rest of the ballot. Also in Pierce Township H we have
digital photographs of 6 ballots rubber-stamped with the word �DUPLICATE.� The
Board of Elections has been unable to provide the original ballots or the
stickered ballots from which these are said to have been duplicated, and thus
the validity of the duplicate ballots remains unverified."
According to the
affidavit, in Delaware County, Ohio, an armed, uniformed security policeman
working for an entity called Global Security
Services (GSS), LLC, headquartered in Severna Park, Maryland, interfered
with the team of researchers who attempted to examine punch card ballots. GSS's
web site says the firm is composed of "former career U.S. Secret Service
and FBI Agents, Customs Agents, CIA intelligence and operations specialists,
Special Operations personnel, U.S. Marshals, former state and local law
enforcement and emergency services professionals." And in a revelation
that supports this author's original findings that the 2004 vote fraud had
significant foreign and U.S. intelligence links, including off-shore banking
connections, the GSS web site states the company has "a carefully
developed network of 11 affiliated offices in the United States and an
additional 43 offices throughout Europe, Russia, the former Soviet Union and
the Western Hemisphere. The network of affiliates and contacts also include a
presence in the 'off-shore safe havens' found in the Caribbean, Europe, South
America, Asia and the South Pacific." This author's November and December
2004 articles stated that the money for the throwing of the 2004 election was
tied to accounts in the Isle of Man, Vanuatu and the Cook Islands (South
Pacific), Nevis (Caribbean), and the Bahamas.
Evidence of the use
of pre-programmed software to affect the election outcome was also discovered
in Delaware County. Election officials said they allowed a "mentally
retarded man" to corrupt the punch card ballots in record speed before
they were run through vote tabulation machines. According to the affidavit:
"The chain of custody on November 2, 2004, could
have allowed for ballot tampering in Delaware County. According to Board of
Elections personnel, whichever party wins the precinct in the gubernatorial
election gets to choose the precinct judge for the next four years. The
precinct judges, unaccompanied, bring the ballots to the Board of Elections
after the polls close on Election Night. In Delaware County, almost all of
these would be Republicans, as Bob Taft, the Republican, carried Delaware
County with 71.9% of the vote to 23.5% for Timothy Hagan, the Democrat, winning
121 of 123 precincts. On November 2, 2004, the ballots were driven to an
underground parking area, where they were unloaded by teams of teenaged
volunteers, including Boy Scouts, and carried into the Board of Elections
building where, again, according to Board of Elections personnel, a �mentally
retarded man� scraped the chads from the ballots before they were run through
the tabulator. For the record, even now, 20 months after the election, we are
not allowed to touch the ballots in Delaware County. They must be handled by
county employees, one Republican, one Democrat. Moreover, there were 79,691
ballots cast on Election Day and, according to the minutes of the Board of
Elections, the unofficial results were certified at 12:40 AM, only 5 hours and
10 minutes after the polls closed. The �mentally retarded man� would have had
to examine, and clean as needed, four or five ballots per second, which calls
the whole story into question."
George W. Bush is
on the speaking circuit this week, bragging about America's
"democracy" and why "terrorists" hate us. Bush, who stole
two presidential elections, has no ground to stand on. Mexico's actual
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who saw his election stolen with
interference from the same covert elements who engineered the 2004 election
fiasco in America, has every reason to resist the illegal swearing in of neocon
Felipe Calderon, a tool of the global banking class and neocon manipulators.
� 2006
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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based
investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is author of the forthcoming book, �Jaded
Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass Plates.� He is the editor and
publisher of the Wayne Madsen
Report.