On December 8 2004,John Conyers convened a hearing of an ad hoc committee on voting irregularities in Ohio.
Nov. 2, 2004,” said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who called for an audit of discarded ballots
“Paper ballots,” U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York declared at the hearing, “are extremely susceptible to fraud.”
John Kerry’s supporters filed Freedom of Information Act requests, asking for the logs from every voting machine .
John Kerry’s supporters filed a lawsuit against the voting machine company, which an appellate court eventually tossed out because by then, the election machines had been replaced.
In August, 2005, Conyers issued a report about Ohio’s voting discrepancies—you can still buy it on Amazon
Steve Freeman, then a research scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, did a statistical analysis of the Ohio vote. He concluded that “fraud was an unavoidable hypothesis.”
Freeman, who dug into the exit poll numbers, also circulated a story centered on fraud that occurred after the vote—via those high-tech voting machines,
Jonathan Simon, a onetime pollster-turned-lawyer-turned-chiropractor who worked with Freeman on his early analysis, summed up the prevailing view at a congressional hearing after the 2004 vote....... the 2004 election was a sham, and that it exposed a sweeping, anti-democratic cabal.
Simon, who still questions the 2004 election but doesn’t buy Trump’s 2020 claims.
