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WAS THERE THE CISS VICE PRESIDENCY ELECTION VOTE SWITCH AT 2005 CONGRESS IN AUSTRALIA?
 
By Rafael Pinkhasov Pinchas, CISS Ombudsman
 
SUMMARIES:
 
* WHO DID ACTUALLY WIN CISS VICE PRESIDENCY ELECTION POSITION?
 
* THE SWEDES ARE SILENT
 
* CISS OMBUDSMAN VISITS ISRAEL
* $12,500 PENALTY DEBT BY ISRAELIS
 
* ANARCHISTS JORDAN AND AMMONS FAVORED LANESMAN OVER THE DISLIKED RUKHLEDEV
 
* LANESMAN, LIKE AMMONS, AN ILLEGALLY-ELECTED CISS OFFICIAL
 
* A FOILED FACE-TO-FACE MEETING BETWEEN LANESMAN AND CISS OMBUDSMAN
New York, USA - Another tactics of dirty politics inside the CISS administration may be uncovered.
 
During the first twelve days of the month of December, 2005, this Ombudsman received one and same rumor from various sources which questioned the election procedure for the position of the CISS Vice President during the 39th CISS Congress session held on January 4, 2005.
 
The rumor was ( and still is ) that the Russian Valery Rukhledev actually won election by collecting 66 or 62 votes.
 
But Lennart Edwall, the Jerald Jordan-encouraged and appointed chief scrutineer of the election session from Sweden ( he was also known as a bitter political rival of Rukhledev in the European Deaf Sports Organization ( EDSO ) along with Jordan secretly, intentionally and skillfully SWITCHED all these votes to David Lanesman, an underdog candidate from Israel!
 
This way Lanesman, instead, "won" the election for this position.
 
Lanesman "got" 62 votes, Rukhledev - 39, Jessica Rohde of Denmark - 15, while 4 votes were placed as void ones
 
 
This Ombudsman also received information that immediately after the end of election for the Vice Presidency position Edwall dealt with Jordan by delivering to him all delegates' voting ballots in person alone ( we have a September 3, 2005 document produced by Jordan himself, which mentioned that "he ( Jordan ) was the very person to provide the blank printed voting ballots to scrutineers ( or tellers ) and that he was the very last person to collect and retain the counted voting ballots" ).
 
On that document Jordan also wrote to say that "he did not run the elections," which was a lie ( on the opposite, the 39th CISS Congress Minutes report clearly show the name of Jordan as a floor meeting leader )
 
 
Following the reception of these rumors and in order to responsibly double-check and verify the facts, on December 13, 2005 this Ombudsman made a swift move: he sent an-email letter to the Executive Board of the National Deaf Sports Association of Sweden ( SDI ) and its President Arne Lundquist, by asking them to request their member Edwall to provide his detailed explanation as to what he, as a chief scrutineer of the 39th CISS Congress election session, exactly did on January 4th.
 
Alas, to this minute, there has been no response from Sweden at all!
WHAT CISS OMBUDSMAN LEARNED DURING HIS TRIP TO ISRAEL
 
Recently this Ombudsman made his investigative trip to Israel where he had the opportunity to meet and talk with various Israelis ( this Ombudsman is fluent in both Hebrew and Hebrew Sign Language ).
 
On December 26, 2005, there was held a huge funeral ceremony for Moshe Shemtov, the late President of the National Deaf Association in Israel, in a cemetery outside the city of Tel Aviv. By attending such a funeral ( by coincidence, Lanesman also was present there ), this Ombudsman learned first-hand the following facts from the Israelis:
 
- before the start of the elections, that is, on January 2 or 3, 2005, Lanesman spent considerable amount of time meeting in private with Jordan, the would-to-be chief architect of the January 4th election fraud scheme, at the hotel premises in Melbourne ( there, Lanesman also secretly met with the so-called would-to-be new CISS President, Donalda Ammons );
 
- personally, Lanesman was "very surprised" that he won the Vice Presidency position by defeating the Russian Rukhledev and that he initially expected that he would, instead, win the lesser position - Member-at-Large;
 
- Lanesman, as it was disclosed through the grapevine, boasted that he won the election thanks to the "help, encouragement and support" he received from the deaf Americans Jordan, Ammons, Tiffany Granfors and her husband Roland Granfors ( all of these four Americans were in Australia during the election ) and that the Americans made sure that the loathsome Russian Rukhledev would not get any seat position in the new CISS Executive Committee;
 
- many Israelis were unaware of the fact that before the start of the 39th CISS Congress, Israel owed to the CISS a total of $12,500 in penalties, that is, $5,000 for its withdrawal in hosting the 2003 Deaf World Championship in Orienteering, $2,500 for its withdrawal of Men's Football team from the 20th Deaflympics Qualifying Round, and $5,000 for its withdrawal of Men's Basketball team from the 20th Deaflympics Final Round;
 
- many Israelis were shocked to learn that by owing $12,500 to the CISS and by violating certain CISS rules, Lanesman was still allowed to be nominated - and to run - for the CISS Vice Presidency position, and
 
-many Israelis also expressed their disbelief over the fact that an Israeli ( Lanesman ) beat the Russian ( Rukhledev ) in the election because they believe that Russia is a world sports power and pays to the CISS a hefty $1,000 in its annual membership dues, while Israel, with its limited number of deaf sports members and programs, gives away to the CISS a mere $100 or $150 in annual membership dues.
 
In addition, before, during and after the December 26th funeral ceremony, through the two middlemen - deaf and non-deaf - a good-faith attempt was made to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Lanesman and this Ombudsman. The main aim of such a proposed meeting was to verify and obtain certain facts and evidence from Lanesman directly. However, an insecure and uncooperative Lanesman chose to decline to meet with the Ombudsman in any manner.
 
Another attempt - obtaining the documentary proof on whether Israel actually paid the $12,500 penalty fee to the CISS - was made. Again, Lanesman flatly evaded to cooperate in producing such a document. Nevertheless, one high-ranking Israeli official informed this Ombudsman that they have no evidence to support the claim that the $12,500 penalty debt was ever paid to the CISS!
 
Thus, the two January 4, 2005-raised cardinal issues are up in the air now: was there a CISS Vice Presidency election vote switch and how and why was Lanesman allowed to run for the high-ranking CISS position?
 
Let the world investigate further and make an appropriate move.