The Mahablog: O-hi-o

Matt Taibbi writes in the New York Press (via Smirking Chimp) about a recent epiphany regarding the elections, Ohio 2004.

I was inclined to dismiss as a waste of time any discussion of what happened in Ohio. The story wasn't going anywhere. Even if there was evidence of wrongdoing, how could it possibly be more incontrovertible than the evidence in Florida? And given that nothing happened when Bush stole the election in front of the entire world in Florida, why bother making a fuss now in Ohio--especially since John Kerry was clearly many millions of votes less of a victim than Al Gore?

Well, I don't think that way anymore. After attending this panel, and speaking to the congressmen involved in the preparation of the Conyers report (in particular Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a former Ohio secretary of state) I'm convinced that Ohio was a far more brazen and frightening subversion of democracy than Florida.

The panel was a Harper's Magazine Forum on Voting Irregularities in the 2004 Election. I didn't attend the panel, but I did read an article by Mark Crispin Miller on the Ohio 2004 vote in the August 2005 issue of Harper's (three monkeys on the cover). The article is titled "None Dare Call It Stolen," and it's the most thorough exposé I've seen yet on how GOP operatives stole the state for Bush.