'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida (in trash)

[Whoa_Nelly]

Bev Harris discovers public poll tapes in garbage bags, and videotapes the evidence!
Don't know if this has already been posted, but is definitely worth noting!!
MODS please delete if this thread post is a repeat.

'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida
by Thom Hartmann

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.

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Bev showed up bright and early the morning of Wednesday the 17th - well before the scheduled meeting - and discovered three of the elections officials in the Elections Warehouse standing over a table covered with what looked like poll tapes. When they saw Bev and her friends, Bev told me in a telephone interview less than an hour later, "They immediately shoved us out and slammed the door."

In a way, that was a blessing, because it led to the stinking evidence.

"On the porch was a garbage bag," Bev said, "and so I looked in it and, and lo and behold, there were public record tapes."

Thrown away. Discarded. Waiting to be hauled off.

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"We caught the whole thing on videotape," she said. "I don't think you'll ever see anything like this - Bev Harris having a tug of war with an election worker over a bag of garbage, and he held onto it and she pulled on it, and it split right open, spilling out those poll tapes. They were throwing away our democracy, and Bev wasn't going to let them do it."

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

[xultar]

1. If you haven't donated to Blackboxvoting.org please do.

that gives bev the $$$ she needs to rip trash bags and hire lawyers.

[havocmom]

2. And pray daily for Bev's safety and continued good health

She is a true patriot.

Send this story far and wide.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. For Bev

and the evening crowd...:kick:

[PhuLoi]

4. I was waiting to see when this would be posted, my wife picked

it up two days ago. I was/am hoping to hear from some of the DUers who said there was no election fraud, we lost because we aren't mainstream (read right wing) enough.