ELECTION DAY: While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” washington voters approve Initiative 872 (YEA, 60%; NAY, 40%), replacing all party primary elections with a single “blanket” primary in which the two candidates who receive the most votes compete against each other in the general election—regardless of political affiliation.  This place alternative candidates (Constitution, Green, Libertarian, et cetera) at a further disadvantage, and further entrenches the duopoly of the two status quo parties (Democratic and Republican).

       Chicanery across the Federal enclave of Ohio flips the presidential election from senator John F. Kerry, of the commonwealth of massachusetts, nominee of the Democratic (socialist/fascist) party, to Republican (fascist/socialist) de facto President George W. Bush (having received an unlawful advantage of 52 ineligible Electoral votes):

• In Gahanna, a town with only 800 registered voters, 4,518 votes were recorded for the two status quo (Republican and Democratic) presidential candidates;
• In Ashland, Couhocton and Portage, counties, ballots were improperly unsealed or stored.
• In Belmont County, an independent programmer was hired to reprogram the counting machines so that they would only count votes for President during the recount;
• In Cuyahoga County, ten Cleveland precincts “reported an incredibly high number of votes for alternative party candidates who have historically received only a handful of votes from these urban areas”—mystery votes that would mostly otherwise have gone to Kerry;
• In Cuyahoga and Franklin Counties, the arrows on absentee ballots are not aligned to the correct punch holes causing many votes to be misdirected;
• In Franklin County, Bush collected almost four-thousand additional votes from one computer;
• In Hamilton County, Democratic nominee John Kerry had inadvertently been removed from absentee ballots, along with independent-consumerist candidate Ralph Nader, whom the Ohio supreme court ordered to be eliminated;
• In Lucas County, which is very skewed toward the Democratic party, voting machine kept failing; one polling place never opened because all the machines were locked up in a warehouse and no one had the key;
• In Lucas and Washington counties, ballots were marked or altered, apparently to ensure that the hand recount would equal the machine count;
• In Mahoning County, “25 electronic machines transferred an unknown number of Kerry votes to the Bush column”;
• In Mercer County, seven percent of the vote for president (about four-thousand in all) inexplicably vanished;
• In Miami County, an additional 18,615 votes were mysteriously added to the final vote count—all of the precincts had reported their totals;
• In Perry County, the number of votes for the two status quo presidential candidates surpassed the number of registered voters;
• In Warren County, the Board of Elections contrived a phantom terrorist threat to prevent monitoring of their vote counting.

       Postscripts:

• In Allen, Holmes, Huron, Licking, Mahoning, Medina, Morgan, Putnam, Stark, Summit, and Warren counties, Democratic and Green (environmentalist) observers were denied access to absentee, and provisional ballots, or were not allowed to monitor the recount process;
• Three years later all ballots and election records in 56 of Ohio’s 88 counties—despite a Federal court order for their preservation—had been destroyed.

       [restored 12/30/2023]