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[quote:d58c7]While this section points out where fraud occurred last year, it is also important to dispel one of the more pervasive urban legends stemming from 2004 vote: that the election in Ohio was “stolen.” A bipartisan consensus has now emerged confirming that the 2004 election in Ohio was fairly decided. In the weeks and months immediately following the November 2 vote, some alleged that the election was stolen. In January 2005, the Democrat staff of the House Judiciary Committee, led by Ranking Member Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), alleged in a report that “exit polls bolster claims of irregularities and fraud” and that “hundreds of thousands” of Democrat voters in Ohio may have been disenfranchised. (129) A lawsuit drafted by a lawyer associated with Conyers alleged that Republicans changed the election results in Ohio by “inserting unauthorized and so far undetected operating instructions into the [voting machine] software.” The suit stated that “the confederate of defendants-contestees Bush, Cheney, and Rove who was actually changing the vote totals did not need physical access to the computer,” and that a “further part of the plan to steal the election” was for White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card “to make a very nervous and shaky claim to victory in Ohio” on the morning of November 3. (130) (Exhibit O) In March 2005, Teresa Heinz Kerry echoed this charge, saying “two brothers own 80 percent of the [voting] machines used in the United States … [it is] very easy to hack into the mother machines.” (131)[/quote:d58c7]


[url:d58c7]http://www.ac4vr.com/reports/072005/illegalvoting.html[/url:d58c7]