'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida

[NewHampshireDem]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-22.htm

Sorry if this has already been posted.

There was something odd about the poll tapes.

A "poll tape" is the phrase used to describe a printout from an optical scan voting machine made the evening of an election, after the machine has read all the ballots and crunched the numbers on its internal computer. It shows the total results of the election in that location. The printout is signed by the polling officials present in that precinct/location, and then submitted to the county elections office as the official record of how the people in that particular precinct had voted. (Usually each location has only one single optical scanner/reader, and thus produces only one poll tape.)

Bev Harris of www.blackboxvoting.org, the erstwhile investigator of electronic voting machines, along with people from Florida Fair Elections, showed up at Florida's Volusia County Elections Office on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 16, 2004, and asked to see, under a public records request, each of the poll tapes for the 100+ optical scanners in the precincts in that county. The elections workers - having been notified in advance of her request - handed her a set of printouts, oddly dated November 15 and lacking signatures.

Bev pointed out that the printouts given her were not the original poll tapes and had no signatures, and thus were not what she'd requested. Obligingly, they told her that the originals were held in another location, the Elections Office's Warehouse, and that since it was the end of the day they should meet Bev the following morning to show them to her.

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[Ruffhowse]

1. Anyone who doesn't think there was tremendous Republican led voter

fraud this election is in denial. Bush has stolen the Presidency again, and a complicit media and a apathetic electorate are going to let him get away with it. I am just sick about all this.

[blitzburgh55]

2. From the Daytona Beach News - Black Box Voting

Watchdog group focusing on optical scan voting

By CINDY F. CRAWFORD
Staff Writer

Last update: November 19, 2004


After finding voting documents from Nov. 2 in trash cans behind two county buildings, a national watchdog group has named Volusia County one of its top priorities for investigation in the country.

Bev Harris, founder of Black Box Voting, a Seattle-based organization of elections activists, said Thursday her group is forming a team of investigators and attorneys to look into possible voting irregularities in Volusia County.

Their interest was piqued when representatives found polling place tapes, which show a printed record of ballots fed into optical scanning machines, in the garbage at the Department of Elections' warehouse on State Road 44 in DeLand and at the office behind the county administration building in downtown DeLand.

"Finding the tape in the garbage was beyond comical," Harris said in a phone interview. "The American people want an answer."

Elections Supervisor Deanie Lowe said the tapes were duplicates and the originals are still available for anyone to see. She said the duplicates provide a backup voting record as a safeguard.

Today, Black Box Voting representatives plan to officially request a hand-count in Volusia County to see the ballots in at least 50 precincts. That could involve election officials holding up thousands of ballots individually for those in the audience to see.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/03AreaWEST06EPOL111904.htm

[ElementaryPenguin]

3. Keep it kicked!

Can't have enough out on this!

[NewHampshireDem]

4. kick

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