Eight members of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign filed papers on Thursday in United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio, asking Hon. Judge Algernon Marbley to begin criminal contempt proceedings for the destruction of ballots from the November 2004 election.
Judge Marbley had ordered all ballots from all 88 counties to be preserved until the case King Lincoln, et al. v. Brunner, et al. (Civ. No. C2 06 745) was settled; however, boards of elections in seven counties have stated that they have destroyed all of their ballots from the November 2004 election, and the boards in 55 others have destroyed some of the ballots from that election.
The Ohio Election Justice Campaign also requested a special grand jury to investigate the ballot destruction and to issue a public report. This appears to substantiate charges made by Bob Fitrakis and others, reported in this space Dec. 21, 2007.
While I remain skeptical about conspiracy theories related to that election; the direct violation of a court order is a serious matter that does need to be investigated. If the special grand jury is empaneled and issues its report, we should all look forward to reading it.
A virtual buckeye goes to FrankRep at the Ohio Freedom Alliance Forum.
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