Ohio Revised Code Title XXXV Elections, Sec. 3503.26 that requires all election records to be made available for public inspection and copying. ORC Sec. 3599.161 makes it a crime for any employee of the Board of Elections to knowingly prevent or prohibit any person from inspecting the public records filed in the office of the Board of Elections. Finally, ORC Sec. 3599.42 clearly states: "A violation of any provision of Title XXXV (35) of the Revised Code constitutes a prima facie case of election fraud within the purview of such Title."

Subject: Do we even need a recount?

Dear Sir/Madam,

I was just wondering...

Since we were not capable of holding a free and fair election here in Florida, nor in Ohio, hasn't the Constitution allowed for this? Surely since there is now documented evidence of fraud in both states their Electors should not be allowed to vote. This would mean that Bush has 223 electoral votes and Kerry 252, making him the clear victor. Even if Pennsylvania is shown to have similar problems, the electoral votes would still be 231/223 in Kerry's favor. I think that rather than trying to get a recount in Ohio, which will never be fair with Blackwell at the helm, we just need to show the courts that there was indeed widespread fraud in both states and that since these states were not capable of policing themselves, that they be excluded from the process. Wouldn't that be the fairest solution for all concerned? It is certainly in keeping with the wishes of our founding fathers.

Instead of scrabbling over every vote in Ohio, which may or may not prove possible, given the nature of the frauds committed, we need to say to Florida and Ohio that if they can't keep their own house in order that they cannot have a seat at the national table. I think that this would prove more effective in preventing this type of behavior among election official and politicians in future than any amount of laws ever would. The Republicans are always advocating state's rights and so, they should support the decision. The Democrats' advocating implementing Federal guidelines, would have less bipartisan support, and be too difficult and time-consuming to affect this years' election. Simply implementing a provision already in our constitution which is there to ensure that the individual states take responsibility for their own actions, seems like the only reasonable way forward at this point.

What are your thoughts?

BTW: My husband and I, as well as three other ladies are off to Tallahassee tomorrow morning (Sunday 12/12/04) to protest in the 51 Capital event, I hope we have a good turnout :-).

regards,

Rachel Latham
Jacksonville, Florida

[BuzzFlash Note: Sounds like a plan...Have you shared this with Kerry's lawyers?]

HI ...

1st, I LOVE YOUR SERVICE .... plz never stop.

i was wondering though if you would consider expanding your GOP HYPOCRIT section to include DEM HYPOCRITS as well ......... as a PROUD LIBERAL, i am beginning to feel a shift in the DEM leadership towards a more diet-REPUBLICAN ideology .... we need to see both sides, when a DEM is slouching towards the Conservative side, we need to know about it and let them know this is NOT acceptable.

the way i see it, the DEMS need to either shake up their party and really become PROUD TO BE PROGRESSIVE [liberal] or i am switching to the GREEN PARTY ... they may never win the presidential election, but at least i will have my integrity intact when i vote and i KNOW they care about the same issues i do and will fight for them.  and i know MANY who are beginning to feel this way.

the DEMS have to be proud to be liberal just the same as the REPUGS are proud to be conservative.  fuck the moderates, that's just what they are MODERATE ... we need passion and that's [at least] what DEAN was able to do ... he inspired the most passionate people in the base, the LIBERALS ... moderates sit at home, flipping channels, going tsk tsk, that's such a shame but there's nothing we can do ...... the LIBERALS care, they will fight, but we feel abandoned by the DEMS right now .... and the dissention is growing ...... if the Dems are not careful, they will continue to become REPUBLICAN-LITE and thus minimized to a benign entity that is propped up as an illusion of an opposition party to the NEO-CONS ...

thank you.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Lack of coverage of the Conyers hearings (sent to NY Times)

Dear Sirs,

How startling and disappointing it is to read nothing about this critical issue in the pages of the nation's 'newspaper of record.' The fact that all the electoral 'glitches' now being revealed (seemingly in spite of major papers like the Times) exclusively favor the Bushites is clearly beyond the realm of coincidence.

You folks have largely betrayed the public trust throughout the Bush administration, and particularly with regard to Bush's war in Iraq. It's never too late to start doing your job, though. Thorough coverage of the 2004 election fiasco would be a good start.

Sincerely,

Chuck Van Wey
www.bushwatch.net/van.htm

Subject: Reid . . . Just Another Buss Boy for Bush . . .

BuzzFlash,

Regarding your Hypocrite of the Week, I think you hit it right when you said, Reid was just being himself. Reid is carrying on the Daschle tradition and he evidently loves to be loved by the Bush Boys. No real passion-ridden Democrat could say that about Scalia or any of the other members of the fake five of the Supreme Court, when in actuality, they all deserve to be impeached and should have been . . . or should be.

I have always held the idea that not only have the Republicans infiltrated every decent organization in the US, but have also infiltrated the Democratic Party or compromised many of the Democratic members in Congress.

Reid is no Democrat and he is another example of why this Party is gasping for breath right in front of our eyes and why I don't want anything to do with the DLC and when the DNC got in bed with the DLC, they quit representing the base of the Democratic Party too.

The DLC has done nothing except run interference for the Bush administration. Out here, away from DC . . . I can't believe when I hear this stuff and I wonder how do these people get into government, and how do they get into a leadership position and call themselves Democrats? It would seem that members of Congress such as Reid, care more about what the Republicans think of them than their own Party members. When we have Democratic members in Congress cross Party lines that enable the Bush massacre of our government, they also boost Republican morale and kill Democratic morale in the process. Whose side are these people on? They aren't idiots . . . so it's pretty evident, they aren't Democrats.

I yearn for the Democratic passion of Harry S.Truman and John F. Kennedy. I have never seen so many neophytes and so much nepotism on such a grand scale as in this Bush administration and Scalia is part of that, as is everyone involved with Bush. This government has Top and Bottom feeders everywhere one looks.

And, what do we get for leadership out of our Democratic Congress? Bush Buss Boys!
I have said it over and over again, these people have no passion about their Party affiliation. They have no direction and they couldn't lead a blind donkey to an oasis in the desert if the donkey was already wading in it. They would somehow find a way to drain the pool.

These Representatives such as Reid, who are enablers for the Republicans and their agenda that defies the Democratic Party base . . . are causing the Democratic Party to become very anemic. They drain the lifeblood and energy out of the Party members . . . the real workers . . . the money. I feel that I am not alone when I say that people such as Reid give me the feeling of how really powerless I am to make changes in this government, when we, not only have to fight to preserve our freedoms from these Bush Republicans, but we have to also fight our own members in Congress . . . this makes our Party use up energy in useless ways by feeding on itself.

If we want to survive as a Party that represents Democratic values, then we have to drain the Democratic Party of these lifeless, light weights who insist on carrying the banner for Bush that enables Bush to keep waging his Class War against the American citizens in this Country and a war that will also kill our two party system of government, and it's pretty close to that now. How many stab wounds in the back does it take to kill the Democratic Party?

Just askin . . .

Thanks BuzzFlash,

Shirley Smith