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The paper ballots Secretary Brunner has opened up Ohio to are a good start for us in the very dark place we still find ourselves. What is not so good is that the Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) has asked Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, and the Ohio Legislature all to look at having a recall and refund on our voting machines. It is not good that the EVEREST report that Brunner put out on the voting machines, was not accompanied with the desertification of the Diebold/Premier voting machines. It is not good that Brunner wants to spend another $64 million dollars with ES&S for opti-scan machines. Lets just hand count those paper ballots.

As for the recall/refund issue, there has generally been no will to do this, or even mention it. Sixteen members of the OEJC had a discussion with attorneys at the AG office about the recall/refund and other election theft issues in December. Now they refuse our phone calls on all that and the theft of the Ohio 2004 election remains unresolved. Brunner has allowed/enabled/or is it promoted that the citizen gathered evidence on the theft of both the Presidential and Ohio Supreme Court 2004 races is to be ignored/covered up. The Attorney General's office also appears to be involved. The evidence has also been provided to them. Both offices refuse to do anything.

Because of a Federal Court Judge's order, Brunner has over 2200 boxes of what is left of the 2004 ballots. 57 of Ohio's 88 counties destroyed all or part of those protected records. Secretary Brunner knows exactly what to look at in those remaining boxes to start investigating, all compliments of the newly released book by Richard Hayes Phillips Ph.D titled "Witness to a Crime" available at richardhayesphillips@yahoo.com . Richard sent the new book to Secretary Jennifer Brunner. It details his years of analyzing Ohio's ballots. One ballot at a time. This data was collected by Richard, and a group of concerned Ohioans. I am proud to say "I helped". Brunner and Dann need to investigate.

Attorney General Dann is in the midst of an office scandal, so badly acknowledged that the Democratic Party has completely ditched him this past weekend. Yet the sun comes up on a new day, and if he wanted a way to redeem himself nationally and internationally... he just needs to push off the cover-up mentality. I look at this as a fantastic opportunity for him to now do the needed investigation into that 2004 election. Previously he would have had to worry about getting Brunner, the Ohio Democratic Party, the county party leaders across the state, and those who run the elections angry. Now they are daily spouting their hatred and disgust of the man. So go ahead Marc Dann, the man the papers now say has no party... INVESTIGATE THEM ALL. Look at Brunner's office too. Pat Wolfe is still on staff, and we have witnesses in two counties (of which Brunner and Dann have been informed) who have been speaking for years on the issue of Pat Wolfe's alleged rigging of the 2004 recount. Tim Kettler, who also ran for Secretary of State in 2006 is one of those witnesses. Why does Brunner retain her? Wolfe is also on the Board of The Election Center in Texas, for those of you that know about problems with that entity.

Marc Dann, while admitting your sins, tell us what happened when you went into office and why you then decided not to honor your campaign promises to investigate and prosecute? Who or what got to you? What happened to Brunner on these same issues? Why does both of your offices use the same line for every question on the election theft, "we must look forward to the new election, we can't look back".

So Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State, please take your new award seriously, and come home and get the known alleged criminals out of Ohio's elections. In your speech today, you mention those election problems. So please, due diligence! Put those criminals away, in a room with no view. Ohio has lots of good people looking for jobs, hire some of them. If you leave the same robbers in our house, why should we be surprised when we are robbed again. Without the deterrent effect of jail time for these crimes, the criminals will be emboldened to do it again, and to do possibly even more. Why shouldn't they? No one was held accountable, this is pathetic.