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By Paddy Shaffer
Director, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign

December 31, 2007

It seems that on this final day of 2007, that a stiff drink might be needed for some who have been following the Ohio Election Theft fiasco from 2004. I rarely drink, but recommend a stiff one now for those of you that can be responsible consumers. Compliments of a reporter, I was just sent the following article regarding the 2004 ballots in Clermont County that had little garage sale type stickers over the votes for John Kerry, and also the gay marraige amendment:

This link is for a Saturday August 11, 2007 Cincinnati Enquirer blog titled "Clermont County's ballots."
http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/gov/2007/08/clermont-countys-ballots.asp

From the article:
Brunner had no firsthand knowledge about the two stickered ballots, but said her staff is committed to painstakingly examining any lingering questions or concerns about 2004, while working to improve future elections.

Please make note that on August 6th, 2007 I was in Secretary Brunner's office with Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips photographing those very ballots. We were in room 1706, on the 17th floor. We went to the 16th floor via elevator, to the office of Secretary Brunner and in person made a request (which I had done hours earlier via phone as per the suggestion of Doug Miller) to Bobbie Gilbert, Jennifer Brunner's Executive Assistant that we were inviting Secretary Brunner to come to room 1706 to view the stickered ballots. This is the actual physical evidence of the theft of the 2004 Presidential Election, which was right there in her office, in a room where Doug Miller her Manager of Security was overseeing our photographing of these election records. We told Bobbie that if we even only had 20 to 30 seconds of the Secretary's time, we just thought it very important that she see the actual ballots. Bobbie Gilbert said that Secretary Brunner was too busy that day. I then requested that she come herself or send other staff, Chris Nance, Kellye Pinkleton, Kathy Spinelli, Brian Green, or other top staff. Just send someone to come and see the stickered ballots while they were there.

Richard and I went back to room 1706, and spent the next several hours continuing to photograph Clermont, Delaware, and other county ballots. Not one of Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner's top staff, nor Brunner herself showed up to look at these stickered ballots. Doug Miller, Manager of Security did see the two we found that day, as did several other staff members that came into the room to speak to or to help Doug. One lady that was having a job interview got to see one of the ballots when we took it to Doug's personal office to have natural light with which to photograph it by his window. The conference room we were working in had a yellowish light to it. Richard and I wanted to show everyone, tell everyone in the office we could the story. So there are a few people there that have seen stickered ballots. We hope their jobs are safe. But why would the leadership people avoid this?

I must question this... Brunner had no firsthand knowledge about the two stickered ballots, but said her staff is committed to painstakingly examining any lingering questions or concerns about 2004, while working to improve future elections.

How does ignoring and avoiding any look at the 2004 election (with the slight exception of some changes in Cuyahoga County... though still no one has gone to jail there, or anywhere for the many documented election crimes) count as being, "committed to painstakingly examining any lingering questions or concerns about 2004...."?

It has now been 146 days since she was asked to meet with what has become The Ohio Election Justice Campaign, and there has been no meeting. It is the last day of the year 2007. Not one person has served time in jail for this election theft, the largest crime in the world. Brunner has in her possession over 2200 boxes of 2004 ballots and election records, which they refuse to investigate, including the stickered Clermont County ballots. The Attorney General also has not investigated, although he and his office have Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips book full of detailed information and statistics on those ballots. Brunner has many chapters of the book. Both offices have a large amount of information that I have provided, and information from Tim Kettler and Paul Harmon Esq. They both have all the information in the King Lincoln lawsuit. Both offices have Sherole Eaton's whistleblower lawsuit regarding the Triad technician switching out the hard drive on the voting machine tabulator prior to the recount.

Just when does this nation see justice? When do the people paid to enforce our laws actually enforce them and represent the people, and not these corrupt election officials and employees of the voting machine company's? How much can we as the public allow them to ignore, and for some of us, how much can we ignore because it's just not comfortable to deal with the magnitude of the lies. So if this has all been illegal, and this constitutional crisis blows out, what part must the average citizen play? What does that mean to us individually. What if you voted for or against these election thief's...? Will you let it continue for your kids? I've had people say... "My guy won so why should I care". Wow... you are the folks with the biggest "enabler" burden to carry. I hope those stones are heavy on your shoulders, I hope one day you hurt like this country is hurting, this is just NOT allowable. Please put some deep thought into this.

For those of you that say, it couldn't have happened there were both Democrats and Republicans there. I have an important observation to share with you, both parties were involved. This may be a reason the current Attorney General and Secretary of State don't want to deal with it. Would such scandal help the Democrats win a presidential year? No, it won't help anyone. This is terrible, treasonous, rotten issue for everyone. The Republicans as the beneficiaries own much of it. Then there is the Ohio State Democratic Party, and the National Democratic Party, who have both allowed this to happen. I do mean allowed, they know. Then there is John Kerry and John Edwards, who have both been provided with documents on the election fraud. Both also have neglected to take on the issue. I gave them to Kerry; my brother provided them to Edwards.

At this point I don't bother to ask what party the election officials represent because we have mountains of evidence that both deserve credit. Lets start where my investigation started, it was Delaware County Democrat and Deputy Director of the Board of Election Kim Spangler, along with Delaware County Democrat and Board of Election member John Myers who stepped up to block the 2004 recount. John claimed such a high level of poverty for that BOE that they couldn't afford to plug in the tabulators for the recount, thus the temporary injunction to stop the recount, which they were taking to court to make permanent, which then blocked the full state. I asked John Myers if they needed a 220 outlet like a clothes dryer, or a regular wall outlet? John said a regular wall outlet. I then told him to unplug the coffee pot. The budget for the Delaware County BOE for 2004 was over $900,000.00 and they can't afford to plug into a wall outlet in the Rutherford B. Hayes County Building. Oddly enough, the building is named for a former US President that also stole his election. Go figure.

In just under 7 hours it will be 2008, another Presidential Election Year. Whoopee... the same alleged criminals run everything. Please to all the Americans out there that read this, this is not a partisan issue. This is national security, treason, the blatant arrogant trashing of democracy. Join us and take a stand, make your voice heard. NEVER AGAIN!!! All the "Looking Forward" that the Secretary of State has been doing is leaving us totally unprepared for the upcoming elections, with the same alleged criminals in place. How is this preparing? Now she plans to give them 15 days to run elections, let them know which precincts will be the ones to be audited for a recount, close the small precincts for super precincts which destroys the usage of historical data on how an area votes, and more. This is dire. Plus we can spend more money on more crap machines to tabulate our votes, machines that Colorado just decertified. And what about those Clermont County ballots that Brunner should have learned about as a candidate, or when we went to her office to invite her to see them, which in the below article she claims to have no firsthand knowledge about. Plausible deniability doesn't work. We all know about those ballots, and Secretary Brunner should have been embarrassed to claim ignorance of them.

November 7, 2007

Who are these people that decide what justice is for the American citizens whose votes are stolen, intentionally. The Judge in the Cuyahoga case is now part of the wacky cast of characters that have been paraded in the very bad theater of Ohio Elections. Common Pleas Judge Shirley Saffold might be on the scale of an award winning character… for what another citizen investigation shows. And she is the Judge that on Monday, November 5, 2007 was entrusted to make a decision for which our Democracy, and the issue of accountability for Ohio election crimes was riding on. The fate of Maiden and Dreamer, two former employees of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections who were convicted of rigging the 2004 recount and each sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Had they served that time, we would have had one example of accountability for election crimes in Ohio. We would have had one story of investigation and prosecution that might have made those who have also committed election crimes in Ohio, who still are running elections in Ohio… think twice about doing anything rotten or criminal in 2008.

The word from staff members of the Ohio Attorney General's office during The Ohio Election Justice Campaign Memorial Anniversary of the 2004 election funeral procession was that something had been done about election crime. Cuyahoga County was their example. Now what?

Were the two women, Maiden and Dreamer, the real guilty parties, or did the blame go higher up the ladder to those who at the time of the recount ran the Cuyahoga Board of Elections (BOE). Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner helped to clean out that BOE early in 2007. Vu, Dillingham, and Bennett are no longer there. Michael Vu is now the number two guy running elections in San Diego. There has been no accountability for those at the top, would further investigation reveal anything more? Will election crimes now spread to the west coast? Is this all an internal terrorist attack, as Americans destroy America? Or treason?

All the people wanted is what they paid for… while we pay election officials to run out elections, please just count our votes correctly the first time. Then when we are forced by necessity to raise additional money from citizen to recount what should have been accurately counted the first time… just count the damn ballots, don't cheat, and give us the actual results. It doesn't seem so hard.

On election night, in Miami County, the vote totals were off in every precinct in 2004. The Boy Scouts were blamed for some of the election errors. They were blamed for delivering the ballots to the wrong precincts. So the Boy Scouts are the problem, not the paid adults in charge. In Delaware County, Kim Spangler and Janet Brenneman gave the credit for the large number of people who voted both for Bush, and that gay marriage is OK, to the shop owners. Colorful characters they are, Kim and Janet each claimed three times on March 23, 2006 before three witnesses, that they know the vote count in Delaware is correct, because "all the shop owners are GAY", and they didn't mean "happy". When three members of what is now known as The Ohio Election Justice Campaign asked many of these same shop owners, they denied it. The number of people that voted for both George W. Bush, and for allowing Gay Marriage was in the thousands, and we were denied access to the ballots that March day, because of "the rule". So then Director of the Delaware County Board of Elections Kim Spangler, who was collecting a salary from the tax payers lied (a violation of law) and denied access because of "the rule", but could not tell us where in "the law" it said we couldn't look at those gay friendly republican ballots. We pay these people… and who are these people?

So we come back to the Judge for this trial, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold, who showed up an hour and ten minutes late for the morning hearing. This hearing was not on the docket. It appears to have been slid in the day before an election, as though the voting public had been told to go hell. Saffold's ruling Monday allows Maiden and Dreamer to continue to avoid the original sentence of 18 months, and remain out of prison. They instead will be in a "Six Month Diversion Program". If their behavior while on probation in this program is good, that will be considered when they return for sentencing on May 27, 2008.

How does this work, well they were not car thieves, jaywalkers, identity thieves, stealing aluminum gutters for recycle metal, nor kidnappers, but they rigged a recount for the office of the President of the United States of America… as we are so often told… the most powerful country in the world. Lets put it in perspective… they rigged a recount for the office of the President of the United States of America. The people should in the streets and be furious, the Ohio Attorney General and Ohio Secretary of State should be there grasping for the last shreds of life in the death of democracy that has occurred… just four days after the three year anniversary of the theft of that same US Presidential election.

What is the chance Maiden and Dreamer will have the opportunity to be on the inside, to handle and rig another election recount during this probation? Pretty darn slim in my view. So they will likely be reported to have good behavior. Will there be any accountability at this time, when we as a nation need serious legal justice to end the current policy of "may the best cheater win". We need honest and transparent elections. We need the people to rise up and demand that the elections are real, and not just lousy theater. It should be an intelligence insult to anyone smart enough to actually hear there is an election problem… and we need to be concerned enough to research it. We need the media to report and let us know both what is happening, and in a just society… what should be done.

Again, who are these people?

From a September 2, 1996 article about Judge Saffold:

"Men are easy," Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Common Pleas Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold told the defendant Katie Nemeth. "You can go sit in the bus stop, put on a short skirt, cross your legs and pick up 25. Ten of them will give you their money."

The judge continued, "If you don't pick up the first 10, then all you got to do is open your legs a little bit and cross them at the bottom, and then they'll stop."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n16_v90/ai_18650720

To add to the injury for the Death of Democracy as a result of the 2004 election fiasco, the will of the voter not being honored, and the tax payers dollar wasted on partisan voting machines and paying the salaries of people with documented election crimes. Now Defense Attorney Synenberg now wants the Cuyahoga County BOE to pay his substantial legal fee for defending the two convicted women. "The board said it would pay if there was no finding of guilt," he said. "Well, there is no finding of guilt" http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/11/elections_board_workers_to_tak.html

Heaven help us! Can our new Secretary of State, and our new Attorney General do anything about this? Will they?

Please take the time to educate yourself further, some really important facts on this case, and other Cuyahoga County election issues from the Blog of Adele Eisner at: http://citizensboe.blogspot.com/2007/11/and-115-recount-hearing-said.html

for more information on the Ohio Election Justice Campaign go to
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/OEJC