Hocking County, OH Barred from Replacing Recount Whistleblower Sherole Eaton

Court Order Delivered at Dramatic Board of Elections Meeting as Eaton Supporters Rally

ALSO: A Republican Board Member Admits Fundraising Work Done on BoE Property

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Hocking County, Ohio’s recount whistleblower, Sherole Eaton — who was recently fired without explanation in the wake of having reported on a voting company employee tampering with the hard-drive of a central tabulating computer and offering “cheat-sheets” prior to the recount of the November 2004 Presidential Election — received some support yesterday from both a Court Order and several dozen backers at a dramatic Board of Elections meeting.

Attorney Cliff Arnebeck, one of the attorneys who filed a case in Ohio to have the November Election results set aside due to evidence of fraud, served County Board of Elections officials with a court order mandating Eaton not be replaced until further court orders are issued.

“Yesterday was the first of what I hope are many victories for Sherole,” Karla VanBibber told us via Email earlier today. VanBibber, who is Sherole’s niece attended the meeting, and described the moment when Arnebeck arrived with the court order: “The expressions on the board members faces when given the court injunction was priceless.”

VanBibber also gave us her take on the reactions from the Board Members in the face of questions from supporters about Eaton’s dismissal, which she says is illegal under Ohio law. “Their sputtering and faultering and lying was unbelievable,” she said. “It’s amazing how the arrogance we see in the Bush administrations has filtered down to the local level as it has.”

Apparently, they won’t be giving up the fight for Eaton, who is recovering from recent brain surgery, but attended the hearing “in apparently good spirits and seemingly good health – full of energy and zeal and very appreciative of the support,” according to Evan Davis’s detailed account of the meeting at Ray Beckerman’s blog.

Said VanBibber, “We knocked them down a few notches yesterday, we won’t give up until they’re on their knees and Sherole has her job back.”

Eaton’s firing, and her dramatic appearance at another recent Board of Election hearing, just two days surgery, was covered in this previous BRAD BLOG report.

Hocking County’s Logan Daily News also had a report today on yesterday’s meeting. “[Sherole] was so happy this morning when she received her paper,” VanBibber said, “she came over and was so excited and for the first time in awhile was optomistic.”

Logan Daily News described Arnebeck’s dramatic appearance at the meeting…

The spectators sat quietly for the most part as the board went through its agenda and discussed Diebold voting machines, TRIAD voting software, splitting precincts, and moving into the Huls Building.

Then Arnebeck asked to address the board “on a point of order.”

“We filed a complaint for a declaratory judgment and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief against any action to terminate or replace Sherole Eaton as deputy director,” Arnebeck said. “All I want to do is serve the board with a copy of the order to restrain it from taking any further action on this matter until further action of the court.”

Spectators in the room applauded as Arnebeck lay the order on the desk before Robinette.

Apparently Board of Elections officials have yet to go on record as to the cause of Eaton’s firing. According to Davis, the most the Board has said is that they “weren’t satisfied with her performance.”

At the meeting on Tuesday, however, VanBibber painted a different picture in her direct questioning of the board’s chair, Gerald Robinette. “You praised her personally at the Democrat meeting until the incident with the TRIAD technician. She was competent, and did a great job, and suddenly she became incompetent?”

The board refused to answer, according to Logan Daily News.

Eaton’s firing has drawn national attention. Rep. John Conyers’ (D-MI) was quoted in a Daily News article in May, describing Eaton as having come forward “bravely” to report on the tampering by Triad employees during the recount. He told the paper that “Absent any other explanation, and having been told at the time of the incident that Ms. Eaton was an excellent employee, I can only conclude that Ms. Eaton’s firing was solely out of retaliation.”

Much has been made, of late, regarding the supposedly “bi-partisan” Boards of Election in Ohio. Mostly by the Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell in defending the November Election debacle and its subsequently spoiled recount. Blackwell, in charge of elections in Ohio, and incidentally the co-chair for the Bush/Cheney Re-Election Committee, has repeatedly claimed that the “bi-partisan” nature of the boards precludes any chicanery favoring one side or the other.

Nonetheless, a great deal of evidence has surfaced of late to suggest that the “Democrats” on many of these boards are Democrats in name only.

In describing information that Davis received from Eaton, who “intimated” to him that a replacement for her has already been chosen, the replacement is described as “A part-time BOE employee who has been an active Republican but who registered as a Democrat in the last primary election, presumably in order to qualify as a candidate for Sherole’s position.”

Davis spoke with Robinette after the meeting to discuss the new mandate by Blackwell to purchase touch-screen voting machines made by Diebold, Inc. in Ohio. He asked about how votes on such machines could be verified in the event of a recount. According to Davis, Robinette told him, “You’re more knowledgeable than I am on that. I really don’t know. All I know is that they’re certified by the federal government and they’re being mandated by the Secretary of State.”

Davis also said that Robinette went on to say “that the old punchcard system was perfectly adequate in his view and that he resented the Sec. of State. ‘pushing (the county) in to something ( DRE’s ) that wasn’t really necessary.'”

The dramatic hearing also reportedly resulted in an admission by one of the Republican members of the Board, Lisa Schwartze, that she conducted Republican Party business during working hours and on Board of Election property.

While Schwartze admitted to some of the charges, she contested others and the issue was tabled by the chair for a further meeting.

VanBibber also told The BRAD BLOG today that Harpers Magazine would be running an article on Eaton in their August issue, and that she’s “received a call from the BBC expressing an interest in doing a movie about her battle.”

Eaton was a recent guest on a The BRAD SHOW. The interview we conducted with her, in which she describes the Triad incident, her recent firing and the subsequent support she’s received from the community, can be heard here in MP3 format.

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Hocking County, OH Barred from Replacing Recount Whistleblower Sherole Eaton

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  1. 1)
    Constant said on 7/6/2005 @ 11:47am PT: [Permalink]

    Wow! Whistleblower protection!

    It will be interesting to see if there is any attempted re-retribution later. I would hope the bloggers rise to the occaision should retribution come later.

    A time delay should not be an excuse to forget those who stood up to solve the problem; not should a lag in time be an excuse to be slow in coming to their aid when they may be more vulnerable and out of the spotlight.

    Stay close and be ready to make waves if there are problems down the line, no matter how many years later they may choose to seek vengeance.

    At the very least, there should be a public accounting for those who took retribution already; indeed, they have much to explain especially when there are questions as to what pressure the White House and Gonzalez have put on those to keep silent about the voting fraud.

    Moreover, these are matters which need to be brough up during the confirmation hearings, especially sine Gonzalez looks like he’s gotten a green light. The last thing we need on teh Supreme Court is soneone who thinks it’s "OK" to commit torture.

    Gonzalez remains an alleged war crimminal and should not be given a serious review, but a filibuster.

    Ah, but I digress from the 2004 election and the glacial manner to which this "democracy" reconciles its votes. [ More . . . ]

  2. 2)
    Don said on 7/6/2005 @ 12:07pm PT: [Permalink]

    I’m a long way from trusting this completely corrupt Ohio government to consider wasting any more effort to vote, but this is a welcome victory for a well deserving person.

    These people will never give up their control, but this will certainly expose some of them for the rats they are.

  3. 3)
    Catherine a said on 7/6/2005 @ 1:10pm PT: [Permalink]

    Thanks goodness for people like Eaton who are willing to speak out and who refuse to be intimidated. And same for Arnebeck who has been equally willing to put his head above the parapet on her behalf.

  4. 4)
    MarkH said on 7/6/2005 @ 2:12pm PT: [Permalink]

    Apparently we Dems need to work very hard to reveal all the Republicans wearing Democratic labels to get on a Board of Election or other election offices.

    This is a fundamental requirement for protecting the interests of Democratic voters!

  5. 5)
    Peg C said on 7/6/2005 @ 3:26pm PT: [Permalink]

    Good news indeed for Sherole Eaton; but mandated Diebold voting machines? I guess they worked their nefarious business so well they’re going to be permanent fixtures. Perhaps the GOP thugs will erect a monument to them in front of the state house!

    God, this country is in trouble!!!

  6. 6)
    Scott said on 7/6/2005 @ 3:36pm PT: [Permalink]

    This was just the first victory in Ohio, Howard Dean recently spoke on record in interview.

    Here is what he said:

    "“Nobody likes corruption, whether they’re conservative or liberal,” he remarked. “I’d like to use this to spearhead election reform, banning voting machines that can’t be counted by hand… I’ve always been a big fan of instant run-off voting. We also need some reforms of ethics in congress.”"
    LINK

    Ban voting machines indeed!! We will win this war and have a new boston tea party, by openly firing and forcing the resignation of all corrupt democrats on the Ohio BOEs. Then we will all march on Blackwell’s building and the Capital in Washington D.C.

    Its time to force america to take its rights back!!!

    Scott

  7. 7)
    JIMMMO said on 7/6/2005 @ 3:38pm PT: [Permalink]

    {Comment deleted for repeated, flagrant and extended inability to show common courtesy or follow the general rules of posting here.}

  8. 8)
    Scott said on 7/6/2005 @ 3:43pm PT: [Permalink]

    As we can see by JIMMO and other flaunting filthy language perps, they are scared of what’s coming.

    Now we can see their true colors, no doubt Gonzales would be better as a "SCOTUS" judge then an Attorney General, since as Attorney General he whitewashes all investigations. I’m betting Gonzales being forced onto the bench would cause all conservatives to rise up and want to destroy Bush, and that’s the reason Harry Reid is applauding it as a good idea.

    It would become the ultimate in-fighting parade.

    Scott

  9. 10)
    NewYorker said on 7/6/2005 @ 4:12pm PT: [Permalink]

    Jimmo’s New Year’s RESOLUTIONS:

    "GO GET A REAL JOB
    STAY OFF THESE NUT JOBS BLOGS
    STOP SMOKING
    MOVE OUT OF THE TRAILER COURT"

  10. 11)
    Doug Eldritch said on 7/6/2005 @ 5:30pm PT: [Permalink]

    When I saw this story, I started dovetailing my research efforts to see just what in the hell was going on with Karl Rove’s friend Lewis Libby.

    http://www.capitolhillblue.com/...&num=4629
    http://www.waynemadsenreport.co...ic/foreign.htm

    More on the front page of http://waynemadsenreport.com

    Apparently they put america in harm’s way directly and committed treason, in order to send a message to those who would whistle blow on the manufacturing of evidence.

    Niger-Gate is related to the forging of documents in order to give USA authority to go to war, and Joseph Wilson along with his friends were exposing this fraud.

    In addition to this the democratic BOE members in Ohio could face criminal prosecution, for deliberately covering up a city of fraud and lying to officials about what they were doing. These folks fired Sherole Eaton and are now being forced to accept her back on the Board of Elections along with possible resignations.

    Witness the telltale chart of 2004 fraud in a scathing, ugly linear regression graph
    http://www.geocities.com/electi...9_image001.png

    Yes, this was just the beginning.

    Doug E.

  11. 12)
    GWN said on 7/6/2005 @ 6:03pm PT: [Permalink]

    I was wondering if Morton Blackwell who founded the Leadership Institute, (which has been devoted for 25 years to turning out right-wing activists and journalists. Karl Rove is its best-known graduate.)
    and Kenneth Blackwell of Ohio are connected in any way?

  12. 13)
    Representative Peter King R-NY said on 7/6/2005 @ 6:30pm PT: [Permalink]

    "It’s all over but the counting, and we’ll take care of the counting!"

  13. 15)
    Doug Eldritch said on 7/6/2005 @ 7:13pm PT: [Permalink]

    Easily. This graph shows a comparison between actual exit poll completion rates, and final vote counts across each state.

    In Graph 1, Kerry’s % of the state vote, in ascending order, left to right.

    In Graph 2, Corresponding Exit poll completion rate, left to right.

    For both graphs, the best fit-straight line has been calculated.

    y = a + bx is the equation of a straight line, where b is the slope.

    Both "best-fit" linear equations are clearly stated and shown as dashed lines on the graph.

    Now watch the regression:
    Kerry’s vote percentage increases in states going from left to right (increasing slope). The corresponding state exit poll completion rates decrease (negative slope).

    Easy answer:
    There is a negative correlation between Kerry’s vote and the completion rate. They move opposite to each other.

    Since the completion rates and vote %s move opposite of eachother, it is clear that the opposite answer has been achieved versus Mitofsky’s responder analysis.

    States moved opposite eachother in the single graph moving farther and farther apart from recorded vote, particularly in states Ohio, Nevada, Florida.

    The single state of Ohio observed one of the largest anomolies, strongly showing there was an abundance of manipulation.

    Doug E.

  14. 17)
    Catherine a said on 7/7/2005 @ 10:24pm PT: [Permalink]

    —-Only read this if you’re interested in election reform. (Great practical way to support Sherole Eaton)—-

    If you’re not a fan of Diebold counting our votes and you want to do something about it, see below (items 1,2 & 3). #2 is about a product recall.

    Diebold’s now going to come under scrutiny by the SEC–see #5 below. They’ve revised their stock price downwards and they’ve just reported a $13 million "mistake" in their accounts (coincidentally after BBV released videotapes an official admitting he gets large monthly payments from Diebold)

    Not to mention some remarkable video footage (see #4 below)

    There is lots more info in the ongoing discussions in various forums at http://www.blackboxvoting.org
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    The newly-found vulnerabilities described in the Black Box Report
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  15. 18)
    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 7/7/2005 @ 12:20am PT: [Permalink]

    Sherole Eaton is the new Karen Silkwood! Now if we can get the mainstream media to cover the story and/or a filmmaker to do the same, it would go far to making Americans understand what a cesspool the state of Ohio has become.

    Michael Moore, are you listening?

  16. 20)
    Scott said on 7/7/2005 @ 1:23am PT: [Permalink]

    Doug E and Robert,

    This has turned out exactly as I had feared then. I tried to tell everyone back then what a whining bunch of pro-fascist kids the republican leadership was, but would they listen? No.

    They just kept going on and on about how evil Bill Clinton was. That’s all it comes down to for the Tom DeLay’s of the world, blame anything and everything on Clinton.

    I mean just look at this sad state of shitty affairs. If this was not a civil country and our laws did not deter people from severe beatings, I’d be inclined to go up to our congress represenatives offices and forcably bend them over: Then beat them long and hard with a spanking paddle.

    I’ve never seen such a idiotic bunch of ten year olds! Can you imagine looking back on the year 2004 how bad this looks in history?

    Congress, the president, and a bunch of fascists couldn’t get their war. So in comes John Kerry who is nothing more than a middle of the road contendor, but also a fine honest man, and the stupid idiots in the Bush administration have to steal almost 3 million votes in order to beat him!

    Isn’t that truly just embarassing? Democrats all over know that they stole the election. Many of them simply are afraid of being ridiculed for wearing a space cadet hat or something.

    But every piece of evidence points to the fact, including, my god actual witnesses!!! You can’t get anymore clear than that! There is not one piece of evidence showing the election wasn’t stolen. Not one!

    Plus you have unverifiable machines everywhere, the cheating was a guarantee. Can you folks even imagine how bad it would be if the illegal war, downing street minutes and Rove being a traitor had come out during November?

    We’d have Rush Limbaugh as president before we ever got Bush! No amount of fraud could have prevented the voter turnout that would happen, had that been the case.

    So again I think its just about that time to pull the plug on these sloppy, criminal infested, mafia dropouts who call themselves moral republicans.

    A pouring into the streets and throwing corrupt police and other assorted hoodlums down, then storming the capital and forcing impeachments.

    And I thank the god that the one different thing is, someone with the fighting spirit like Howard Dean represents americans finally!

    Scott

  17. 21)
    Scott said on 7/7/2005 @ 2:27am PT: [Permalink]

    Everybody pay no attention to the terrorists behind the curtain.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WOR...ondon.timeline

    London was bombed in another terrorist attack, just as Tony Blair is admitting to downing street minutes and joining the G8 conference?

    Be openly skeptical now, because we know what neocons are capable of.

    It is my firm belief that the attacks on London soil, were co-ordinated by Saudi foreign agents hired or in connection with the traitors in the White House.

    They were done in retribution for the Downing Street Meetings and Blair refusing to keep playing the game on Iraq.

    Read between the lines, nothing is sacred for these criminals. Not even treason, and they have allies in the israel right-wing groups who are conditioned to commit terrorist attacks:
    http://www.waynemadsenreport.co...ic/foreign.htm

    It was planned plain and simple, to hurt Blair and force EU to support Iraq wars and more fascism.

    Remember everybody, the neocons actually openly support a few terrorists and have committed treason. THEY must be removed as quickly as possible, since they are a threat to everyone including themselves.

    Lets never get distracted, DSM & treason; Tony Blair lies, and a terrorist group coverup. "REAL" terrorism is random and not planned or too perfect for words….The crooks must go down hard, if we are to ever combat real terrorism effectively.

    Scott

  18. 22)
    daveM said on 7/7/2005 @ 3:00am PT: [Permalink]

    One person does make a difference, and the 6 or 7 will continue to do so. I am not deterred by the time lag between the election and the uncovering of the fraud. And since neither are the posters here, the fraud perpetrators will face time in the public light for their actions.
    Perhaps some inventive type will come up with a stapler on an extendable pole to mount flyers high up. A small American flag mounted next to the posting for added effect.
    Peace and the prospect of a fair vote to all.

  19. 23)
    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 7/7/2005 @ 3:44am PT: [Permalink]

    For Scott: Howard Dean hasn’t talked about the stolen election, either.

  20. 24)
    Phil said on 7/7/2005 @ 3:56am PT: [Permalink]

    I want to send a prayer out to all the folks killed and hurt in London.

    I too wonder who is really behind such events, which seem to ocurr at times of political convenience. But for the moment, that is not foremost on my mind.

    Robert, Dean did say that we need machines that can be recounted on paper. That’s pretty darn close to acknowledging the Stolen Election issue.

  21. 25)
    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 7/7/2005 @ 4:10am PT: [Permalink]

    Better than saying nothing, Phil. But for me, for Dean and the DNC to talk only about FUTURE ELECTIONS, without exposing and punishing those who stole THE LAST TWO ELECTIONS, is like a cop investigating a series of bank robberies and telling the bank’s president, "Now let’s see what we can do to make sure this doesn’t happen again."

    Would a cop ever say that? Of course not. Would the bank president accept it if he did? I’m sure the banker would say, "Never mind NEXT TIME, officer. Crimes were committed here. I expect you to catch the guy who did it THE LAST TWO TIMES!"

  22. 26)
    MarkH said on 7/7/2005 @ 4:47am PT: [Permalink]

    Our thoughts and prayers are with the Brits.

    Regardless of the aggressors the innocents didn’t deserve to be attacked. Best wishes to all Brits!

  23. 28)
    Catherine a said on 7/7/2005 @ 6:07am PT: [Permalink]

    AT LAST–a full account by Vickie Karp of the Election Assessment Hearing in Houston. This was the event organized by Kip Humphrey which featured the *real* election reform activists. The media were conspicuously absent.

    Karp includes excellent summaries of all of the witness testimony, plus an account of the questions put to latecomer Robert Pastor (he of the Carter-Baker Commission who was convinced that all his email came from only "six or seven" Brad Bloggers)–and his embarrassing non-answers.

    See here for a riveting read. Maybe Pastor deserves six or seven more letters.

    I haven’t heard much of anything about the "official" Carter-Baker hearing that took place the next day. Sounds like the media ignored that one, too. Anyone here know anything about it?

  24. 30)
    DaWookie said on 7/7/2005 @ 8:47am PT: [Permalink]

    I was lucky, I missed the Liverpool Street bomb by half an hour on my way to a job interview.

    By the time the interview was over, 37 people were dead and 700 were wounded and central London was cordoned off, no buses, no tubes, no trains and no taxis. Lots and lots of Ambulances, Police cars and Fire Engines – sirens non-stop for over 3 hours.

    The mobile networks were overloaded, so I couldn’t call my family to let them know I was okay until after 11:00.

    So far as I know all my friends and family are okay, I got lucky – I just had to walk six miles home in the rain. All things considered, I’m totally cool with that.

    I don’t wish to sound paranoid, but does this happening less than a week after the British Military announced a pull out of Iraq smell fishy to anyone else?

    Keep the faith people.

  25. 34)
    Catherine a said on 7/7/2005 @ 9:54am PT: [Permalink]

    DaWookie,

    Yes, it smells very fishy to me, too. It pulls international focus back to "terrorism" (and away from inconvenient topics like 3rd world debt, climate change, Delay scandal, voting machine hacking/certification scandals, etc.) Plus it happened just after London won their bid to host the Olympics after next. How convenient.

    Glad you made it home ok. Good luck with the job interview, if it’s one that you want.

    My thoughts fly across the water to all the folks in distress. Our lifestyle makes us all so incredibly vulnerable to disruptions of this kind. And the "better" our lifestyle, the more vulnerable we are.

    At the same time, I can’t help thinking how much worse things are in Iraq than anything being experienced in London. The disruption, fear, chaos, injuries and death are ongoing there. I wouldn’t wish these experiences on the people I find most distasteful. I wish the folks who are running things behind the scenes would wake up and realize what they are doing and make some contact with the human suffering they are creating.

  26. 35)
    Doug Eldritch said on 7/7/2005 @ 9:58am PT: [Permalink]

    I copied it from elsewhere.

    Short answer:

    Since Kerry exit poll interview takers were less likely to be polled and the trend kept decreasing across state, fraud & manipulation are the only viable explanation.

    Kerry interviewers kept declining in rate the reverse of the trend Mitofsky claims happened.

    Doug E.

  27. 37)
    Kira said on 7/7/2005 @ 10:21am PT: [Permalink]

    DaWookie #33:

    OMG. My hands are clammy as I type this. I am so glad you are OK, but I am so sorry your country is having a 9/11 of your own.

    I heard from a friend today that I’ve not heard from in a long time, who sounded the ALARM about the "curious coincidence" of this attack coming at the time of the controversial G8 Summit in Scotland. I don’t think she would mind my quoting her here:

    "What kind of idiot terrorists are these? They could have (and should have if they had two brain cells to knock together) attacked this controversial Summit meeting. Why not? Whose agenda is being promoted by these attacks – certainly not the terrorists. And, why is security always so great that the leaders are never hurt while every other form of security seems to be headed up by the Keystone Cops? Are we not supposed to notice this?

    Listen to how Bush portrays the G-8 nations and leaders as the GOOD guys and the terrorists as the BAD guys!. Come on! The major news story seems to be how this terrorist attack won’t stop these GOOD leaders from completing their meeting. Now, people will become united to support the G-8 meeting to keep the BAD guys from spoiling the fun. See how the result is being manipulated to benefit the G-8? Doesn’t it look like these two teams are really on the same side? According to them, am I on the side of the terrorists because I don’t support the G-8?"

    AND as DaWookie mentioned – it also relates to the British Military pull-out of Iraq.

    My friend ended her note with this:

    "Let’s wake up and let our elected leaders know they can’t pull any more fast ones on us! Let our battle cry be instead of ‘Remember the Alamo," – "Remember the Constitution & the Bill of Rights!‘"

    I’m so sorry this has happened in the UK. We are with you, brother DaWookie.

  28. 39)
    jen said on 7/7/2005 @ 10:25am PT: [Permalink]

    Oh DaWookie what a trip! Happy you were able to make it home safe. Thoughts and prayers going out to all you and your fellow countrymen/women.

    We are so used to being lied to by the thugs in power that it’s hard to accept a terrorist attack actually being done by terrorists… Will we ever know the entire truth of the last 5 years?

    I wonder if the PNAC’ers will tie this to Iran somehow?

  29. 40)
    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 7/7/2005 @ 1:18pm PT: [Permalink]

    Torqued: I e-mailed Ron Baiman to thank him for his analysis, and asked, "How can we spread the word to the mainstream media?"

    Baiman is with the University of Chicago. Shouldn’t our "friend" at the Chicago Tribune, Don Wycliff, be provided with this information? It seems the findings support Robert Koehler 100%.

    I think this is huge. I’d be interested in the viewpoints of others (even Jimmo’s, if he possibly could understand the mathematics involved).

  30. 41)
    Marianna Carroll said on 7/7/2005 @ 3:02pm PT: [Permalink]

    Hurrah for Sherole Eaton and her courageous defiance of the corrupt Board of Elections. As for Cliff Arnebeck, he is a phenomenally brave, patriotic American. He remains steadfast and undeterred in his pursuit of justice in Ohio’s election fraud. I met Brad & Cliff at the Nashville April Conference – "Gathering to Save Our Democracy." All of the speakers & attendees were great, patriotic citizens! I gave Cliff a copy of Nat Hentoff’s book, "The War on the Bill of Rights & the Gathering Resistance." I implore everyone to read it & give copies to friends & family!! Kudos to Cliff!

  31. 42)
    MMIIXX said on 7/7/2005 @ 7:22pm PT: [Permalink]

    DaWookie glad your OK ….use the force …..don’t be swayed by the darkside….

  32. 43)
    Armadillious said on 7/8/2005 @ 3:19am PT: [Permalink]

    I shudder to think that America has been taken over by some sort of electronic coup but that is what it really looks like at this point. We are going to have to figure out some way to get our once great Nation back from these unscrupulous people. This may be the greatest challenge our Democracy has faced yet.

    Arma

  33. 44)
    joe said on 7/17/2005 @ 4:36pm PT: [Permalink]

    JUST WATCHED EVEN BAHY,OF INDIANS ONCE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNER,SOME LITTLE OLD LADT CAME TO HIM,TOLD HIM SHE WAS GOING TO MOVE TO VICTORIA OR SOME OTHER COUNTRY,BECAUSE THE ELECTIONS WERE STOLEN TWICE IN A ROW.THE FORMER GOVERNER SAID TO HER,’THE ELECTIONS WERE NOT,NOT STOLEN,THERE WERE SOME PROPLEMS,BUT THE ELECTIONS WERE NOT STOLEN BY THE REPUBLICANS,THEN HE SAID AND JOHN DEAN CONCURS WITH ME,AND AS YOU KNOW ,HE IS NO FRIEND O0F THE REPUBLICANS
    THIS WAS ON C-SPAN SUNDAY NIGHT 7;00PM
    NOW THAT SEEMS TO CONFLICT WITH ALL YOU ON THE LEFT,CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THAT TO ME

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