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<ri’e JJortlanb (Obstruer celebrates PageA2 KVMNZAA December 15, 2004 Doubts Persist About Election Results Integrity of vote questioned (AP) — Concerns persist about the integrity of the nation's voting system - particularly in Ohio, where details continue to emerge of tech nology failures, voter confusion and overcrowded polling stations in minority and ptx>r neighbor hoods. Reported problems include in sufficient or incomplete provisional ballots and, in some places, brazen partisan shenanigans. Democratic congressman John Conyers Jr. o f Michigan, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and presidential can didates of the Green and Libertar ian parties - are questioning the accuracy of certified results and dem anding investigations. O f greatest concern is the extent of disenfranchisement in the criti- In Columbus, Ohio, Melissa Hedden draws attention to irregularities and possible fraud in the way elections officials counted the votes that gave President Bush a slim victory in the state. (AP photo) Carnage Builds with Suicide Bombings (A P) — A suicide car bom ber killed seven people at a G reen Zone checkpoint i n Baghdad early T uesday, the second attack in tw o days near the district that houses Iraq’s interim governm ent and the U.S. Em bassy, officials said. The earlier blast killed 13 and injured 15 people. No U.S. troops were killed in either blast, but the American mili tary said two Marines from the I st Marine Expeditionary Force based in western Iraq died in combat Monday, bringing the number of Marines killed to 10 in three days. A US soldier inspects the site where a suicide car bomber killed seven people Tuesday at a Green Zone checkpoint in Baghdad's district that houses Iraq's interim government and foreign embassies. (AP photo) E lsew here in B aghdad, the chairm an o f the Joint C hiefs o f S taff announced the U.S. m ilitary will have a record-high 150,000 troops in Iraq through the Jan. .30 elections and "a little bit after.” The previous high for the U.S. force in Iraq was 148,000on May 1, 2(X)3, when President Bush declared that major combat operations were over and most soldiers thought the war had been won. D espite repeated forecasts in the past that successes on the battlefield and the arrests of most o f Saddam H ussein’s top aides w ould w eaken the insurgency, the num ber o f attacks on U.S. tr o o p s and th e in te r im g o v e rn m e n t’s secu rity forces has not decreased. A bout 550 U.S. soldiers died in the first year after the in v a sion was launched; alm ost 750 tro o p s have died in the nine m onths that follow ed. cal swing state of Ohio, whose 20 electoral votes guaranteed Bush's victory. The n atio n ’s voting system , despite im provem ents since the 2000 Florida fiasco, remains a lo cally ad m in istered p atchw ork whose lack of national uniformity distinguishes the United States from many other democracies. Although most complaints have come from Democrats and the third- party candidates. Republicans and bipartisan groups acknow ledge problems. The Government A c countability Office is investigating election problems. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio and chairman of the House A dm inistration Com mittee, will oversee an inquiry next year. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission, created in 2002, is also scrutinizing the outcome. It plans to p u b lis h in Ja n u a ry the governm ent’s first report on the voting, which will serve as the ba sis for congressional recommenda tions and reforms. Rev. Jackson and other activists want wholesale changes in the U.S. voting process, ideally before the 2(X)6 midterm elections. Jackson says the most distressing problem appears to be the lack of nation wide standards. No federal agency enforces regulations when states or counties fail to comply with in ternal procedures. Without national standards, he said, some poor counties have infe rior equipm ent and insufficient numbers o f voting machines to support dense populations. Conyers, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Com mittee, began examining O hio’s problems in a hearing this past week attended by eight Democratic lawmakers. Among his concerns was that voters in urban, minority and Demo cratic precincts waited in lines up to eight hours. Conyers also charged that a “campaign o f deception” di rected some Democrats to wrong polling places, where they were forced to cast provisional ballots. Foster Parents Charged sault charge. Additional charges could come after detectives speak with the little girl, who remains in serious condi (A P )— Additional charges may tion at a Portland hospital, said be filed against the foster parents C la c k a m a s C o u n ty S h e r if f ’s o f a 5-year-old girl who was hospi Deputy Joel Manley. talized after authorities responded Investigators have interview ed to a call that the child had suffered the o th er seven ch ild ren w ho a seizure after a head injury and lived with W illiam and T helm a found her weighing just 28 pounds. Beaver near Sandy, M anley said. Wi lliam and Thelma Beaver, the T hree o f the other children were foster parents o f Jordan Knapp, foster children, three were the were arrested last week on charges B eaver’s biological children and of criminal mistreatment. Thelma one was a foreign exchange stu Beaver, 39, faces an additional as dent from Korea. M a ln o u rish ed girl hospitalized The Portland Observer welcomes freelance submissions. 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