Pooh Butt Media cites only long lines & Ballot Confusion
News outlets gave only cursory attention to the findings in a January 5
report on election irregularities in Ohio, released by Representative
John Conyers Jr. (D-MI), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary
Committee.The report's release coincided with a January 6 joint session
of Congress in which Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) formally objected to the certification of
Ohio's 20 electoral votes, basing their objection on the report's
findings. While the media did report on Boxer's and Tubbs Jones's
objection -- only the second such objection since 1877 --and the
release of the House Judiciary Committee report, they made only vague
and partial reference to the extensive findings set out in the report.
The Conyers Report presented a litany of facts to support allegations
of fraud and other irregularities that the report asserts "resulted in
a significant disenfranchisement of voters." The executive summary
lists 12 specific examples of fraud or other irregularities in voting
or vote counting, which are further explored and explained in detail in
the body of the report.* The Democratic members of Congress who
objected to President Bush receiving Ohio's electoral votes did so
based upon of the findings of the Conyers report, according to a
January 6 "Inside Politics" report on CNN.com...But despite the fact
that the Conyers Report forms the basis of the objections of Boxer and
Tubbs Jones, the media has given cursory attention to the actual
content of the report. [more]
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