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Ohio Greens Win in 2005

Excerpt: "In 2005, the Green Party of Ohio celebrated the election of the first two Green Party members to elective office in Ohio. Brian Cummins was elected to the Cleveland City Council from Ward 15, and Dennis Spisak was elected to the Struthers Board of Education in Northeast Ohio. Each of these successful Greens had strong credentials, impressive endorsements, a good campaign team, and a long history of service to his local community. These will be the ingredients for continued Green Party success in 2006."

December 25, 2005, Akron Beacon Journal
By Joe Danborn

Taft Ethics Conviction is Ohio's Top 2005 Story

Excerpt: "Gov. Bob Taft's lowest point, a conviction on ethics charges, topped the list of the state's most noteworthy stories of 2005, beating out the heavy casualties of an Ohio Marines battalion. Taft's plummet — from scion of the state's most prominent political family to first Ohio governor convicted of a crime — also trumped investigations into investments by the state's insurance fund for injured workers, which was third in the rankings by Ohio Associated Press newspaper editors and broadcasters."

December 20, 2005, San Francisco Gate
By Juliet Williams

California Asks for More Testing of Diebold Machines

Excerpt: "California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson on Tuesday told electronic voting machine manufacturer Diebold Election Systems that it must submit two of its machines for more rigorous federal testing before they can be certified in California. The memory cards on the systems have "unresolved significant security concerns," according to a letter sent to Diebold Tuesday from McPherson's elections chief, Caren Daniels-Meade."

Demanding Reform

Thursday, December 15, 2005, Miami Herald
By Marc Caputo and Gary Fineout

New Tests Fuel Doubts About Vote Machines

Excerpt: "A political operative with hacking skills could alter the results of any election on Diebold-made voting machines — and possibly other new voting systems in Florida — according to the state capital's election supervisor, who said Diebold software has failed repeated tests."

Monday, December 5, 2005, Dayton Daily News
By the Columbus Bureau

Greens' Candidate Announces; Taft Rating at New Low

Excerpt: "Bob Fitrakis of the Green Party announced his candidacy for governor in Columbus last week. "I think half the people in the state aren't going to vote in this election unless they see some new ideas," said Fitrakis, who is a political scientist, lawyer, editor of an alternative newspaper, the Columbus Free Press, and author of two books on election fraud. Fitrakis is campaigning with fellow Greens, Anita Rios and Tim Kettler, who are running for lieutenant governor and secretary of state, respectively. . . A Zogby International online poll released last week shows Gov. Bob Taft's approval rating in the single digits."

Tuesday, November 29, 2005, WKSU News
By Kent State University

Green Party Candidate Runs for Governor

Excerpt: "Ohio's Green Party is fielding a candidate for governor in next year's election. He's Bob Fitrakis, a 50 year old political science professor and lawyer from Columbus. Fitrakis is well-known in left-wing political circles. Last year, he helped lead a legal challenge to President Bush's election victory, charging that Republicans stole the election and that Democrats didn't do enough to expose it. Now, Fitrakis is making election reform and a fight against corruption his top campaign issues. In an interview with our statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen, Fitrakis blasts the Coingate scandal that's tarnished several Republican politicos. If Ohio Green Party activists collect the required 5-thousand petition signatures of registered voters, Bob Fitrakis' name will appear on the November 2006 ballot as an independent candidate for governor."

Diebold's patented
technology is
proprietary

Thursday, November 24, 2005, Columbus Free Press
By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Ohio's Diebold Debacle: New Machines Call Election Results into Question

Excerpt: "Massive Election Day irregularities are emerging in reports from all over Ohio after the introduction of Diebold's electronic voting in nearly half of the Buckeye State's counties. A recently released report by the non-partisan General Accountability Office warned of such problems with electronic voting machines. . . Election Day news coverage from the 41 counties that adopted Diebold touch-screen machines makes it clear that poll worker ignorance about how to use the high-tech equipment and machine glitches were widespread problems in 2005. Diebold technicians in many areas were key in producing the final vote results."

November 11, 2005, Columbus Free Press
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Has American Democracy Died an Electronic Death in Ohio 2005's Referenda Defeats?

Excerpt: "Once again, the Buckeye state has hosted an astonishing display of electronic manipulation that calls into question the sanctity of America's right to vote, and to have those votes counted in this crucial swing state. The controversy has been vastly enhanced due to the simultaneous installation of new electronic voting machines in nearly half the state's 88 counties, machines the General Accountability Office has now confirmed could be easily hacked by a very small number of people."

"Follow the money
. . . laundering"

Friday, October 28, 2005, Columbus Free Press
By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Watergate-Style Money Laundering Indictments Stoke Ohio's Stolen Election Fires

Excerpt: "The federal indictments against Noe include charges of conspiring to violate the Federal Election Campaign Act through the use of two dozen "conduit donors" who slipped the Bush-Cheney campaign some $45,400 in 2003. Charges also cite causing the Bush-Cheney campaign to file false reports with the Federal Election Commission. The total penalties Noe faces on the three counts are up to $950,00 in fines and up to a total of fifteen years in prison."

Official GAO Report

October 26, 2005, Columbus Free Press
By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Powerful Government Accountability Office Report Confirms Key 2004 Stolen Election Findings

Excerpt: ". . . the GAO report now confirms that electronic voting machines as deployed in 2004 were in fact perfectly engineered to allow a very small number of partisans with minimal computer skills and equipment to shift enough votes to put George W. Bush back in the White House. Given the growing body of evidence, it appears increasingly clear that's exactly what happened."

November 23, 2004, Columbus Free Press
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

How a Republican Election Supervisor Manipulated the 2004 Central Ohio Vote, in Black and White

Excerpt: "The Republican head of the Board of Elections in Franklin County, Ohio, manipulated the supply of voting machines on November 2, denying thousands of likely Democrats the right to cast their votes in a fair and timely manner. As indicated in the sworn testimony below, offered here for the first time, the election was engineered to make voting as difficult as possible for inner city residents, and to drive away those who could not afford to stay away from work or families, or whose health made it imprudent or impossible to endure the long, cold, wet lines."