After reading this amazing news about the rigged 2004 election (via C&L) in Brad Blog...
Two election workers in the state's most populous county were convicted Wednesday of illegally rigging the 2004 presidential election recount so they could avoid a more thorough review of the votes....I rushed to the main news outlets to see what was being said about it there. I mean, what news could possibly be bigger than confirmed fraud in the election of the most powerful person in the world?
A third employee who had been charged was acquitted on all counts.
Jacqueline Maiden, the elections' coordinator who was the board's third-highest ranking employee when she was indicted last March, and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer each were convicted of a felony count of negligent misconduct of an elections employee.
Maiden and Dreamer also were convicted of one misdemeanor count each of failure of elections employees to perform their duty.
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[Special prosecutor Kevin] Baxter said he intends to speak with Maiden and Dreamer before their scheduled sentencing on Feb. 26 to see if they wish to make any statements that might influence the sentence.
"We'd like to listen to them if they had anything to say, if anyone else was involved with this. We still haven't been able to determine that," he said.
Headlines from CNN.com: “‘Grey’s Star’ in Counseling after Anti-Gay Slur” and “Road Video Shows Crashes, China’s Bad Drivers.”
Headlines from MSN.com: “Zapping dry sponges in microwaves leads to fires” and “WP: Can Obama appeal to blacks?”
Headlines from MSNBC.com: “The real news behind State of the Union kisses” and “Odor and out? Aroma cell phones unveiled.”
Headlines from foxnews.com (boy, I feel dirty for clicking here): “New Jersey: Please Don’t Eat the Squirrels” and “Chavez: Castro Not Dying, ‘Almost Jogging’.”
Top Stories from Google News: “PS3 coming to NZ in March” and “Soccer unites Iraqis at UAE pitches, unlike home.”
Strange. No mention whatsoever. Didn’t see that coming at all. I won't mention which "progressive" blogs on which I saw nothing about this either. I mean, it only hints that the '04 "conspiracy theorists" might have had something after all...but what does that matter...
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