Volusia County newspaper reports on Bev's visit.

[John Q. Citizen]

Duer's write a letter to the editor and tell them original machine tapes were found in the trash and the stuff is under lockdown
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Vote fraud investigators visit Volusia


Staff Report

Last update: November 17, 2004

For those who thought the 2004 election was over: Surprise.

Representatives of a Seattle-based organization investigating possible election fraud visited the Volusia County elections department Tuesday after being provided reprints of voting machine records instead of originals.

The activist group, Black Box Voting, is conducting investigations of voting records throughout the United States, said Bev Harris, its executive director. Volusia County is its first Florida stop.

"We just look at it as an audit," she said Tuesday afternoon as a British documentary crew filmed officials securing records for review today.

Harris said the group requested the receipt-like records, known as polling place tapes, late last week, but on Monday, Supervisor of Elections Deanie Lowe provided newly printed tapes. Depending on its inquiry, the group could request hand recounts in selected precincts or try to contest the election, Harris said.

County attorney Daniel Eckert said Lowe had reprinted records because she believed poll workers' signatures on originals were protected under public records law. He said the county is providing the records as requested.

[McCamy Taylor]

1. done

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Thanks! Good work.

I sent mine last night.

There story looks like it was done over the phone.

[flpoljunkie]

3. Followup article in today's News-Journal.

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/WestVolusia/03WVolWEST04EPOL111804.htm

Watchdog group requests Volusia vote tallies

By CHRISTINE GIRARDIN
Staff Writer

Last update: November 18, 2004


DELAND -- An activist group investigating possible irregularities in the Nov. 2 election requested copies of all Volusia County voter tallies Wednesday.

<>Harris also wants to examine each ballot from up to 50 precincts in Volusia County, to see whether election totals match voter tallies on polling place tapes.

It is these receipt-like documents that Harris sought copies of Wednesday. However, by 6 p.m., after the office had closed, Harris had not returned to pick up the copies, Elections Supervisor Deanie Lowe said. The documents show a printed record of each ballot fed into 179 optical scanning machines used in the election.

Harris went to the Department of Elections' warehouse on State Road 44 in DeLand on Tuesday to inspect original Nov. 2 polling place tapes, after being given a set of reprints dated Nov. 15. While there, Harris saw Nov. 2 polling place tapes in a garbage bag, heightening her concern about the integrity of voting records.

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[John Q. Citizen]

4. Cool, and they put a real person on the story.

The first one was written by "staff"

[Straight Shooter]

5. "activist group" is a dismissive, pejorative term

They should call it "nonpartisan investigative team"