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Larry L. Burks Donating Member (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:35 AM
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Poll worker Deleted Vote??????
What do you mean. A poll worked deleted a vote?


http://www.ourvotelive.org/responses.php?op=show&id=22577


Just how long has this been going on?


There is a Federal law that states that 90 days before Election Day. You can't delete any names or votes from the records.

This Poll worked has just committed a Felony.


If one poll worker can delete votes. AT will.

Then all poll workers can delete votes. At will.

I knew that they were deleting eligible voters from the registered voters list. At will

But now. At this late date and time. A sad state of a fairs.

I find out that they can delete all ready cast votes. At will.

It makes me wonder. What else are they doing?

When the poll worker deleted the other person's vote.

This was the evidence that would prove that some one has stolen his vote. Or this person is voting more than once. This evidence should have been persevered and turned over to the FBI.

Either way. The poll worker just destroyed the evidence. She has just aided and abetted a Felon. Who is committing Voter Fraud. A Felony.

Destroying evidence in a Felony Case. Is a Felon with in it's self.

What or who are they moving to cover up.

When ever there is smoke. There is fire.

We need to find out right a way. Just how big and how wide spread this is? And just how long has this been going on?

Is it as big as Texas it's self.

I would hate to think that after I just voted. And turned by back and as I was walking out of the front door of the polling place. The poll worked was over there deleting the vote that I just cast.

Is this what they have in story for the rest of us. On Nov. 4 th.?

Is this why the exit polls never add up in Texas. Could be.

Larry L. Burks.
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sonias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:52 AM
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1. Good catch Larry
Certainly poll workers should not have the authority to delete votes. And how do they know how the "earlier voter" voted? What exactly is the process. That certainly needs to be investigated.

I'll pass that along to some of my election voter protection group members here in Texas.

Sonia
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MrsBrady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 01:54 PM
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2. i am an alternate election judge
i am trained on the e-slate machines.

there is no way to "delete" a vote. we don't have access to the "brains" of the e-slate. The entire machine gets sent to the individual county headquarters.

We have no access to how people voted or who they voted for...there are records kept for us to keep track IF one early votes to prevent double voting.

perhaps they pulled up someone with a similar name.
I'm not saying there was not a problem here, but there is no way to "delete" a vote.

So there is a misunderstanding either in terminology or process in this instance, in my opinion.
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flamin lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-08 10:12 AM
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3. Votes cannot be deleted on E-slate, period.
What the election judge probably did was to allow the voter to vote a provisional ballot on the e-slate. The provisional ballot will be researched before vote totals are certified. If there is an over vote a decision will be made on what action to take.

A vote cannot be deleted on E-slate, period.

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efrx214 Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-08 11:10 AM
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4.  Marking Paper Ballets
In rural Johnson County, TX they only have paper ballots. Every time I have ever voted in this county, they have either marked my ballot by scribbling some code onto it; or more recently, they have started giving me three or four ballots (all consecutively numbered), and insist I choose one. Whenever I demand to pick a randomly numbered ballot from the stack, they give me a bunch of crap about how it's their job to account for how all the ballots are used. At first they pretend to be too dense to understand that it's the same result as marking ballots. Once I explain it to them, it becomes an honor issue. Then they go on about how they've known each other forever, and they're all kin to one another, and they've all gone to church together forever, etc. Once I jotted down the number of the ballot I cast, and told them I would feel better if I could be there at the end of the day when the votes were counted to see my ballot. They told me that was not allowed. Other counties I've lived in that have paper ballots have a machine the voter has to feed it through for their vote to be counted. Here, you put it in a box with a slit large enough for anyone to see how you voted, or take it out when there are no voters around -- which is most of the time!
As far as straight-ticket voting, I've been doing good to find out IF and WHEN there is an election, let alone who's for what. Since the Repub's are the cheating party, I vote straight-ticket Dem. by filling in one circle up until this last election. Since I just got internet access, I saw where Johnson County said on the internet that if you mark the straight-ticket circle AND a circle for a candidate of the OTHER ticket, BOTH votes will be counted. I figured if they counted my ballot at all, they'd count all my votes twice. It's not any wonder everyone here is a Republican, and the County Judge, Tax Assessor, etc. always run against themselves!
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-08 11:47 AM
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5. By Texas state law, each polling place
is required to have a Republican and a Democrat. If the election judge is a Republican, the alternate judge is a Democrat. I suggest you contact your county party and see if you can volunteer to be an election official. That way you will get a first hand view of how it works in your county and be able to influence at least that one polling place.

As far as choosing ballots from a stack, it's against Texas state law for them to hand you a ballot; you have to have several to choose from. I don't know why they are marking your ballot. Ours are in fact numbered as well, but the numbers are printed on them. We do have to account for all ballots, but not number-by-number... just the grand total of the ballots.
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