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Departments Media Watch Free Press story lands number 3 spot on Project Censored's list by Free Press staff in Journal issue September 8, 2005 Every fall, Project Censored presents the 25 most censored stories of the past year. The Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism (CICJ) is proud to announce that freepress.org Editor Bob Fitrakis and Senior Editor Harvey Wasserman's article "How a Republican election supervisor manipulated the 2004 Central Ohio vote, in black and white," posted November 23, 2004, was rated number three on the list of the 25 most censored stories of 2004-2005. The censored story focuses on the role of Franklin County Board of Elections Director Matt Damschroder, the former head of the county's Republican Party, and how he failed to put out 76 voting machines on Election Day, all of them in the Democratic city of Columbus and 42 of them in the heavily pro-Kerry majority African American wards on the city's east side. Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips estimates that this may have cost Kerry up to 17,000 votes. Damschroder was recently suspended for a month without pay for accepting a check in his office from a Diebold lobbyist made out to the Republican Party on the day bidding opened for voting machines in Franklin County. To make sure that this story becomes uncensored, read it at: www.freepress.org and click on Election Coverage. The CICJ is a nonprofit 501(C)(3) organization. Donations are accepted via paypal on our website in the Online Store or by check to: 1240 Bryden Rd., Columbus, OH 43205. Email this article to a friend |
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