93,000 Extra Votes In Cuyahoga County - Outrage In Ohio

You may have seen the associated press story about the precinct in Cuyahoga county that had less than 1,000 voters, and gave Bush almost 4,000 extra votes.  But that turns out to be only the tip of a very ugly iceberg. The evidence discovered by some remarkably careful sleuthing would convince any reasonable court to invalidate the entire Ohio election.  In last Tuesday's election, 29 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, reported votes cast IN EXCESS of the number of registered voters - at least 93,136 extra votes total. And the numbers are right there on the official Cuyahoga County Board of Elections website:

• Bay Village - 13,710 registered voters / 18,663 ballots cast

• Beachwood - 9,943 registered voters / 13,939 ballots cast

• Bedford - 9,942 registered voters / 14,465 ballots cast

• Bedford Heights - 8,142 registered voters / 13,512 ballots cast
• Brooklyn - 8,016 registered voters / 12,303 ballots cast 
• Brooklyn Heights - 1,144 registered voters / 1,869 ballots cast 
• Chagrin Falls Village - 3,557 registered voters / 4,860 ballots cast
  
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Other Ohio Voting Irregularitites

• In Miami County (Ohio), with 100% of the precincts reporting at 9am EST Wednesday, Nov. 3, Bush had 20,807 votes (65.80%) and Kerry had 10,724 (33.92%). Miami reported 31,620 voters. Inexplicably, nearly 19,000 new ballots were added after all precincts reported, boosting Bush's vote to 33,039 (65.77%) to Kerry's 17,039 (33.92%). CASE is investigating why the percentage of the vote stayed exactly the same to three one-hundredths of a percentage point after nearly 19,000 new ballots were added. CASE members speculate that it's either a long-shot coincidence with the last three digits remaining the same, or that someone had pre-set a database and programmed a voting machine to cough up a pre-set percentage of votes. Miami County uses an easily hackable optical scanner with the central counter provided by the Republican-linked vendor ES&S.
• In Warren County, administrators and election officials locked down the county administrative building and prohibited all independent election observers from watching the vote count. County officials cited "homeland security," according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. WCPO-TV Channel 9 News Director Bob Morford told the Enquirer that he had "never seen anything like it." Morford asserted that throwing the media and independent observers out of the centralized counting area under the guise of "homeland security" was a "red herring." He said, "That's something to put up when you don't know what else to put up to keep us out." In Warren County, Bush picked up an additional 12,000 votes over his 2000 election total.[more