Election Staff Convicted of Rigging Recount!

Cleveland, OH: Cuyahoga County, which was crucial to delivering Ohio to Bush in 2004, should have received a full, in-depth hand recount. In order to avoid such a (required by law, democratic, American) result, two election workers tampered with and pre-selected ballots that would not show a discrepancy when checked by hand. Because these pre-selected ballots seemed to match the machine count, a full hand recount was never ordered.

Jacqueline Maiden, elections coordinator of the Cuyahoga County Elections Board, and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer each were convicted of a felony count of negligent misconduct of an elections employee. They also were convicted of one misdemeanor count each of failure of elections employees to perform their duty.

Current Official American Casualties in Iraq: 3,063 killed, 22,951 wounded.

But who's counting? Not Cuyahoga County, that's for sure.

Source: The Associated Press