The Ohio Project

An Outline of the Evidence Available About the Ohio Election of 2004

This is an ongoing project which seeks to organize in outline format the available evidence relating to the Ohio Election of 2004,
especially insofar as it relates to issues of disenfranchisement, voter suppression, fraud, vote machine tampering, and recount
obstruction.

It is a work in progress.As available evidence is reviewed and organized, it will be added in.

This is a volunteer project. If you are available to put in at least 5 hours a week towards reading and characterizing evidentiary
material, and submitting your work product by email on at least a weekly basis, please email us at
evidence@ohioelection2004.com

-The Ohio Project                   

I. Pre-Election

A. Disenfranchisement
1. Not sending absentee ballots
  a. Thousands of absentee ballots not sent, yet no provisional ballots.
http://ohioelection2004.com/WordHost/hearingnov13.txt      
       November 13th hearing at New Faith Baptist Church. ("November 13th Hearing") Robert Rubin, testimony, page 10.
   b.
http://ohioelection2004.com/WordHost/hearingnov13.txt . November 13th Hearing. Sharon Lettmann testimony, page 15.
2. Not accepting valid registrations
3. Not confirming registrations
4. Not telling registrants to vote
5. Not recording registrations
6. Sending false information about polling places
7. Making false notations in poll books
8. Sending false information about voting "days"
9. Disenfranchising people on 'felony' grounds
  a. People who were validly disenfranchised but not given timely opportunity to reregister
  b. People who were disenfranchised invalidly
  c. People who were intimidated by the 'Texas' crew
10. Excessive absentee votes from Republicans
  a. Sending Republicans extra blank absentee ballots
  b. Counting more absentee votes than there were absentee voters
  c. Not counting Democratic absentee votes
  d. Leaving blank absentee ballots unattended
  e. Opening absentee ballots prior to election day out of presence of monitors
11.Putting Ralph Nader on ballot illegally
12. Giving misleading information about right to vote
   a. misleading information about provisional ballots
   b. misleading information about where to vote
13. Misallocation of voting machines
   a. Unequal allocation of voting machines, Republican v. Democratic precincts
      (i) Cuyohoga County
      (ii) Franklin County
      (iii) Knox County
   b. Not using voting machines
      (i) Franklin County
         [A]
         [B]
         [C]
      (ii) Knox County
        [A]
         [B]
         [C]
14. Misallocation of voting personnel      
15. Rejecting absentee ballots
    a. Bexley, OH, voter. Ballot rejected because elections board had wrong address; rejection notice sent to right address.              
        Election official said they were "swamped" with work of rejecting absentee ballots.                                                             
        
http://ohioelection2004.com/WordHost/hearingnov13.txt November 13th Hearing. Harvey Wasserman testimony, page 27.


   
II. Election Day

A. Disenfranchisement
III. Post Election
IV. Opinion Evidence
Contributors to the Ohio Project: Ray Beckerman, Victoria Lovegren, Dale Tavris