Activists crash tribute to LePore at election supervisors meeting

[Rose Siding]

Even as colleagues tearfully eulogized her controversial tenure as Palm Beach County's election supervisor, Theresa LePore had to fend off verbal attacks by critics who crashed the surprise tribute.

Speaker after speaker, many choked with emotion, heaped praise on LePore at a meeting of county supervisors at an Orlando hotel on Tuesday. Suddenly, two women and a man, one with a handheld video camera, burst in through an exit door in the back of the room and stomped onto the podium.

One woman, identified as Bev Harris of Black Box Voting by several supervisors, announced she was "serving" LePore with papers regarding a dispute with her office over public records.

As the crowd realized the drama was real, not part of a farewell skit as some first thought, the supervisors booed and screamed as a woman with a video camera panned the room.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flepore01dec01,0,4605093.story?coll=sfla-news-palm

[rockedthevoteinMA]

1. Oh this part's just great (sarcasm)

"Cowles said that for LePore to reach a full 30 years of service with Palm Beach County and get full retirement benefits, she would go to work at the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office for six months as an election fraud investigator."

[IndianaGreen]

2. Kudosfor Bev Harris, boo for LePore

Having LePore work as an election fraud supervisor is like making John Gotti the head of the FBI.

[mrtibbs]

21. Agreed.

[zann725]

7. What a crock?!! Do they NOT think we see?

This is one part of the election process which definitely IS 'transparent'!!!

[blm]

13. Well, then WHEN was she working for Adnan Khashoggi? Seems to me

that it's a bit odd that she would have been working as a "stewardess" for his private plane while he was doing arms deals with Poppy Bush and terrorists, AND was employed with Palm Beach County during that same time.

[xchrom]

3. lepore

may she go to jail!

[whistle]

4. It looks like Theresa LaPore gets a dream position. . .

. . .<snip from same article>

"Cowles said that for LePore to reach a full 30 years of service with Palm Beach County and get full retirement benefits, she would go to work at the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office for six months as an election fraud investigator."

Kind of like having the fox guard the chickens in the hen house!

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. kick

serving papers on LePore? Go Bev!

[zann725]

8. Kick!

:kick:

[noclonyofthechimp]

6. She get's to be on the "Elections Fraud Committee!" What the

heck is wrong with this picture?

[zann725]

9. Jessie Jackson needs to comment on THIS!

And if Ralph Nader is on the side of Truth, why has he not spoken out on this?

[goforit]

10. Now this is what ACTION is all about!!!.........Hats off to resolution!!!!

[Pepper32]

11. I love the verbs they used to make Bev and Crew

...appear unruly :eyes:

Like they "burst" through the door, I prefer stormed.

And they "stomped" onto the podium, I prefer rushed.


I guess I just prefer the way Bev described ENTIRE event...

I hope T. Lepore's legs curls up like the witch on the Wizard of OZ. :nuke:

[Blue_Tires]

12. Bev is my idol!!!!

[w4rma]

14. Anderson seems like a good guy but he definitely needs to read up on this

stuff.

Firstly, online voting has the exact same problem that electronic ballot voting has: the electronic "ballots" can be too easily changed by hacking the system or by putting a "fix" in the code.

Secondly, I like that he's talking in terms of paper ballots. I also like that he doesn't sound like a hardheaded radical to the other election folks in the state, since he needs to talk to them and help get them to switch from unsecure voting methods.

Thirdly, he needs to make sure that there is enough voting equipment at the polls he is responsible for to prevent a line that requires more than a 5 - 10 min wait during the busiest hours and dates.

Fourthly, he needs to make sure that the printers are printing out BALLOTS, and those voter-verifiable BALLOTS are COUNTED, rather than some 1s and 0s inside of that very unsecure and hackable voting booth/computer. (Note, that the ballots themselves can - and he'll probably want to - be counted exactly as punchcard ballots or optical scan ballots.)

[uncle ray]

15. LBN for people that live in a cave.

this happened a week ago and the bruhauhau that ensued got bev banned from DU. check out the election forum.

[Rose Siding]

16. This article was posted on Dec 1.

The tribute was on Tuesday, and this was posted in a timely manner.

[GRLMGC]

17. Banned?

why?

[uncle ray]

18. here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=108750&mesg_id=108750

i don't care to argue it, so i won't comment on the situation. it's all been said.

[shance]

19. Bev Harris you are terrific. You are a true activist.

Thank you.

[goodhue]

20. Bev rocks!

But sadly has been banned from DU because of some infighting way beyond my understanding.