MO's SoS & "Paper Ballots, Paper Trail, e-vote Questions"

[galloglas]

News from the Show Me State

As of 3-29-2005, I have heard from the SoS office that Missouri, before the 1-1-2006 HAVA deadline will be using V.V.P.A.T. No vendor picked, no machine, no dealine before 1-1-2006. But VVPAT records that will *never* see the light of day, and no pending legislation to implement voting on these machines

Most disturbing of all is that the SoS has a man (presumably a holdover from Blunt) named Mark F. "Thor" Hearne on her Statewide Database/ Provisional Voting/ Voter Identification Subcommittee.

The same "Thor" Hearne who testified for AC4VR.com as a general counsel for this "Voter's Rights Group" (which had been in existence some four days, existing on a Go Daddy web site) and living in one of Bobby Eberle's Texas Mail Boxes, one with little bitty Swift Boats sailing inside. He was the *only* "Voter's Rights" person to testify for Rep. Bob Ney's Committee on Ohio Vote Fraud. Grooooan!

See details at BradsBlog: http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001281.htm#comments

My question about our Dem SoS, is "Who's on First?" Or, maybe, just "Did the MO. Dem Party just default this game to Diebold"?

[galloglas]

1. Blunt was "e-Promoted"

Wilms had asked about this, below:

"What happened to Blunt?"
"Did he ruffle feathers?"

This is the sad answer:

As SoS, Blunt certified his own election in 2004. It's an advantage when you count your own ballots. Our analysis shows Claire McCaskill won by 2%

"Thor" Hearne was Blunt's general counsel... and chief spokesman, apparently, for the reign of the machines. A Diebold machine was used (no paper trail) in Jefferson County, MO on the 4-6-2006 election when there were supposed to be punch cards machines still up.

The SoS has holdovers from Blunt... and is keeping them. But a guy with connections to Bobby Eberle, and was using the same mail box as "Jeff Gannon" at the same time? Sure sounds like the SoS is "in the right" on this one.

"Right" in the (greased?) palms of the machine vendors. Where is the State legislation for this? Maybe she should just change parties, like Sen. Ben "Nighthorse" Campbell (D-then-R CO) did.

Well, Gannon is on a panel at the Press Club on Friday. Maybe he can tell use how big the Hammer is that "Thor" swings at Dems in Mo. And at whom.

[Wilms]

2. Went to dig up stuff on the Missouri SoS website. Look what I found.

[galloglas]

4. Went to dig up stuff on the Missouri SoS website. Look what I found.

Wilms,

My monitor is so old and fuzzy, I could not see what the URL on the blank page said.

Does your empty browser window mean you got nothing? They have taken down the "Thor" information, or what?

Happy to confirm if you could not get at it. Or did they, as usually happens to me, start up their "MO Homeland Security" intrusions on you. My Firewall is about ready to issue warnings saying "You really wanna go back there?"

[Wilms]

5. The site was down.

Hence, the blank screen.

So I googled what I was looking for - Blunt's VVPAT directive.

Google Cache has it.

http://tinyurl.com/4a5jp

[Helga Scow Stern]

3. Thanks for posting.

We've been afraid this was happening. Look at New Mexico, for instance.

Here is a post about the danger:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=354708&mesg_id=354722

[Wilms]

6. kick n/t