Well then, this is sure to help, I got this email today from a man who attended a meeting of the Ohio Election Justice Campaign. Apparently everybody there was given documents that go into more detail about exactly what was happening.
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It was a very informative meeting and they covered at many issues. I'll briefly go over some of the things they mentioned. They gave us copies of all documents.
1. They have documented evidence that ballots were destroyed for the Ohio general election in 2004.
2. They have documented evidence that some paper ballots were tampered with in which Kerry votes were replaced with Bush votes.
3. They have a statement from an Ohio official that admitted that the Ohio Election laws were not always applied and were optional.
4. All precincts that could not account for all their ballots were to write a letter to explain why. One wrote that a self collapsed and broke a single 10 cup coffee pot and broken glass and coffee stained six boxes of ballots. They immediately took all the boxes and dumped them into a dumpster.
5. Another county admitted they they intentionally destroyed unused ballots and have done this for years. This is a felony to destroy ballots. Also, if you destroy the unused ballots, how do you know all the ballots were unused? There is no way to verify.
6. The Ohio law for audits and recounts defines random for a random audit by saying the first precinct in each county should be audited. Thus, even before the election starts, they know which precincts will be audit and thus they know which precinct to avoid tampering with and which ones that would be audited at all. In 2004, Kerry performed significantly better in counties they knew that would be audited.
7. The electronic touch screen machines can be tampered in less than 3 secs. The person who writes the software for the computers can put in secret programs called an Easter Egg that can remain hidden. No matter what testing is done, this Easter Egg will never be found. The software person can tell 15 to 30 people the secret code that launches the Easter Egg and the machines start switching votes. When the voting machine is shut down the secret program destroys itself so no one can know it was there. The only solution is to have a paper trail to make sure that what you voted for is printed on paper. This is done in Ohio but few check to see if what they voted for is printed on the paper. Some states like Georgia have no paper trail. So there is no way to verify if the machines are recording the right votes.
8. The people representing the vendors are also representing the Ohio election board. Conflict of interest.
9. The Democrats and Republicans seem to be working together to make voting unverifiable and keeping the process of counting votes a secret that the public should stay out of. The public has a right to election results and the process of counting the votes should be done in the open. For if it is done in the open, the harder it is to tamper with the election results.
10. Ohio has a sleep over rule. Poll workers are to take the voting machines home the Friday before the election and keep them at their home until the election day.
On New Hampshire
1. In some of the counties, memory cards where wiped clean the day after the election. This made verifying impossible.
2. The recount is still in progress but the election board is dragging their feet and delaying as long as possible.
3. The ballots were not placed in a secure location that was locked, rather anyone could walk in the building where the ballots were stored.
4. The people in charge of transporting the ballots had drug convictions.
5. The NH election board paid for home additions for poll workers so they could have the poll station in their homes. Conflict of interest.
6. The seals on the boxes could be taken off and put back on with tearing or leaving a single mark like a post it note.
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Quite frankly, this stuff horrifies me.