BBV - ballots go to clerk's own PO box. Clerk married to candidate.

[harmonyguy]

GREENSBORO - A day after the news that Hale County absentee voter ballots were being sent to a Sawyerville address rather than the typical county seat courthouse address, Circuit Clerk and absentee manager Gay Nell Tinker still has not responded to The Demopolis Times.

Questions arose Tuesday after residents receiving absentee ballots noticed the address was not one they had seen before, but a post office box in the clerk's hometown of Sawyerville. Tinker, who would not respond to questions on the phone, said she would send a statement to The Times. No such statement ever arrived, and Tinker could not be reached at home Wednesday.
(snip)
Raising still more eyebrows is the fact that the same clerk who has strayed from the norm when it comes to ballot return addresses is married to one of the candidates in the special election set for Oct. 26. The same election that votes for are being sent to a personal post office box.

"If I was in her case I would want those ballots going to the courthouse so they could be viewed in the light where everyone could see," Melton said. "Putting them in a post office box where there is only one key and no one else has access to them, it just sheds more light of suspicion on her."

http://www.demopolistimes.com/articles/2004/10/21/news/story02.txt

[Catch22Dem]

1. What's the problem? What are all you commie leftists crying about?

There's nothing wrong with this. Nothing at all. :eyes:

[Trajan]

4. Those who object ....

obviously hate america ...

[Catch22Dem]

5. No kidding!

Don't they know they just embolden the terrorists with this kind of anti-American activity? They put our troops at risk!
:evilgrin:

[VolcanoJen]

2. Ohfercryingoutloud!!!

What the hell is wrong with people?? What was this idiot clerk thinking???

Amazing, the way certain folks have just taken the election into their own personal hands. She should be fired, immediately. Yesterday.

[Onlooker]

3. By the way, there's a poll on the upper left that needs to be DUed

Interesting story. Wonder how many elections have been stolen down there in the past?

[MADem]

6. Worth sending out to national media

Salon, Air America, anyone who might run with it. It is one story, but there are many others--send it along to anyone you think might mention it!!!!

[Andy_Stephenson]

7. More ballot trouble?

No it can't be. This is just a minor glitch...no really!

[harmonyguy]

8. I can just hear it.....

"....my spouse was going to help me sort all the absentee ballots from our normal bills. Oh, the shredder? It's only here for our personal documents to help prevent identity theft."

HG

[ParanoidPat]

9. These are the people that provide the other "multiple levels" of security

.....missing from the Diebold machines. :(

[harmonyguy]

10. Why, yes - of course !

Multiple levels of security AND triple redundent backups.

Level 1 - screwup the ballot printing
Level 2 - put the wrong election date on the ballot
Level 3 - ensure the ballot is too big, so the postoffice delays them
Level 4 - send the ballots to an obscure address
Level 5 - remove half the ballots for the candidate you dislike
Level 6 - If the ballot needs to be voted in pen, tell voters to use pencil
Level 7 - If the ballot needs to be uncrinkled, use envelopes that are too small

Redundant backup 1 - have your cousin check to ensure enough ballots were invalidated
Redundant backup 2 - Carry the vote cartridge across a nice dry carpet
Redundant backup 3 - Leave the DRE in the bar or on the sidewalk after you're done.

Extra precautions - memo to staff - No selling DREs on eBay, ok?


HG;)