Vote fraud: Fitrakis responds to the whitewash

If you haven't read it yet, you must take a look at Bob Fitrakis' response to the Justice Department.s alleged investigation of election abuses in Franklin County, Ohio. An excerpt:

Your startling conclusion, that it was really white people who had been discriminated against because their "precincts averaged 172 votes per machine while black precincts averaged 159 votes per machine" is absurd.

Let’s try some more math. Let's assume there are two machines at a precinct and blacks wait in line for three hours and slowly cast 215 votes on each machine. Hundreds leave the precinct before casting their vote. The Washington Post put the figure at between 15-20,000 disenfranchised voters in Franklin County alone. Now, if you wheel in a machine at 7:30pm and 47 people vote on it, you have averaged 159 votes per machine.

Why didn't you report on or look at the vote on each machine? Why did you average the votes per machine, including those that were hardly in use in the inner city?

Also, did you consider that the former Chair of the Franklin County Republican Party and his boss, the Co-Chair of the Bush-Cheney Re-election Committee, may have disenfranchised so many black citizens that their voter turnout was abnormally suppressed?

Simply put, whites cast more votes because they didn't have to wait in long lines. In one black precinct canvassed by The Free Press, 20% of registered voters said they attempted to vote at least once and many two and three times. This directly purports with the sworn statements of hundreds of registered voters in Franklin County.

There's much more -- it's a must-read.

I'm reminded of something George Bernard Shaw once wrote -- was it in Man and Superman? I can't recall the exact phrasing, but the gist is this: The white man in America (in Shaw's time) allowed the black man to do little beyond shining shoes -- and then the white man says: "Of course he's inferior. After all, he's just a bootblack."