Possible Evidence of Voter Fraud in Ohio

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In a
nutshell, Stefan Skirtz is a poll manager for the Kerry campaign in
Cincinnati. His precinct is heavily made up of minorities and students
(i.e., leans Kerry). One of the duties of the poll managers, Stefan
told me in a phone call minutes ago, is to follow the poll workers to
election headquarters as they drop off the ballots and ballot boxes.
Stefan followed the poll workers who didn't go directly to the election
headquarters. Instead, they went to a local public school where workers
put the ballot machines into a semi trailer, and then the poll workers
handed off the sealed bags containing the ballots to someone Stefan
assumed was with the county board of elections.



The
first problem he noticed was that there was no sign off of the transfer
of the ballots. Nothing was written down and given to the poll worker
as proof that the ballots were passed off to the county employee.



What's
worse, Stefan noticed the pick-up truck of the supposed county board of
elections – the truck the ballots for 40 precincts were loaded into –
had a big Bush-Cheney 2004 sticker in the back window. Stefan did say
that he followed the truck to the election headquarters, though he
didn't see what transpired after the truck pulled into the election HQ
parking lot.



As
Stefan explains it, the poll managers had such an extensive list of
voters rights and regulations that they had to follow, including it
being illegal to have any partisan buttons, etc., in the polling place,
yet the ballots for voters in over 40 precincts were put in the hands
of Bush-Cheney partisans.



I don't
know whether the Bush partisans did or didn't play any games with the
ballots they received, but it sure doesn't look good, and I wonder
whether it's even legal. And let's not forget, this is a state that was
already well on its way to becoming the new Florida of GOP election
fraud.



Stefan
says he has 6 or 7 witnesses who also saw the sticker on the truck. I
have Stefan's contact info for members of the media.



Thanks
to Ellen Ballas of Rapid Response – Iowa for putting me onto this
post.  Ellen and Trish Nelson, the Co-coordinators of Iowa Rapid
Response have done a stellar job, and deserve a great big THANK YOU!