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DEL.ICIO.USSOS to Kenney: County, Diebold didn’t steal your election
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Well, perhaps we can finally declare the 2006 4th district commission race over.
On Monday, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office rebuffed a complaint filed by John Kenney, that he wuz robbed.
Kenney, you may recall, was the Democratic opponent of Kevin Kenerly, in the November general election.
(We’re not sure if Kenerly knew that. After surviving a bruising primary race, the county commissioner seem to spend more time coaching his youth league football team than campaigning.)
After getting pummeled by Kenerly, Kenney filed a formal complaint with the Secretary of State.
Kenney’s allegation: “the Gwinnett County Board of Elections and Registration and Diebold Elections Systems modified and/or tampered with GEMS operational software, and altered the Gwinnett County election results.”
It was an interesting allegation. We figured Kenney lost because the 4th district is overwhelmingly Republican. But then, what do we know?
A preliminary investigation by Georgia elections officials found Kenney’s complaint groundless. But last week the state Elections Board voted for a independent review of the county election. That review was conducted by the Kennesaw State University’s Center for Election Systems.
On Monday, Secretary of State spokeswoman Vicki Gavalas, said the review found Kenney’s complaint also to be groundless.
“We knew where that was going before we even got started,” said Kenney, who complaint that the elections board gave him only five minutes to make his case. Kenney insists that the evidence is “substantial” that the 2006 vote from the top of the ballot to the bottom, had been tampered with.
Well John, there’s always 2008.
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By John Dunn
March 20, 2007 7:14 AM | Link to this
….and 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and so on and so on and so on.
By Bruce Wilcox
March 20, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this
Is that what the recount proved? Oh, wait, in Georgia we have no way to do a recount. I guess when the Republican Sec. of State rules, it is final.
Plus Diebold, a voting machine, designed and manufactured by a major Bush contributer must be infallible, infallible, infallible…
What a bunch of GOP lemmings.
By Reba
March 20, 2007 3:11 PM | Link to this
Remember, this is the county where the DA brought charges against two people to make sure his golden boy was reelected. Sure, we can’t have elections by ambush, but we can have the DA saying that other candidates are uncooperative in investigations, and assuring us that more arrests are forthcoming. Oh, has anyone else been charged? No, and no one should’ve been charged with anything in the first place. You’d think if DA Porter is truly so concerned about campaign ethics, he’d be out there investigating Kenerly’s links to the developers who just happened to be in Vegas at the same time he was there on a family vacation - without his wife or kids.
Kenerly got 60% of the vote to Kenney’s 40%. Hardly seems like a blow-out in an “overwhelmingly Republican” district. And AJC, come look at the 4th District. You’ll find our demographics are far from the typical Republican lemming district. And it sure sounds like a lot of us (40%) are tired of the good old boy network, but won’t be able to do anything about it while Republicans are still running Gwinnett. Now that there is no paper trail to follow, Gwinnett will always be Republican, even if every single registered voter is Democrat. I’ve voted for the Republican candidate in approximately 90% of all elections in the past 22 years, but after the behavior of the Republicans in this election, I will be voting Libertarian all the way going forward.
By Joe
March 22, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this
Speaking of useless, it was good to see Mr. Dunn Done too.
By Bruce Wilcox
March 24, 2007 7:53 AM | Link to this
DeKlab fined $15,000 for having wet voting machines, the Republican Sec. of State is about as fair and balanced as fox news.