We went through all manner of investigations trying to even locate Joe Bolton, and those are chronicled in the short video and the full reports. Eventually we caught up with him. He has been programming the voting machines in his home in a remote location that even the county election officials don't know much about.
AMONG THE MOST INTERESTING COMMENTS:
BH = Bev Harris
JB = Joe Bolton
BBV: Okay. Well you've been doing this for 35 years, has anyone ever asked you to do something that made you uncomfortable?
JB: Oh, absolutely, get it all the time, I get that all the time you know. "Could you rig this machine?" And I don't know whether it's a conspiracy or a joke, you know, "Could you rig these machines for me Joe? How much would it cost me?" I've heard that for 35 years.
Joe told us all kinds of things, like the Appalachian tradition of vote-buying -- whatever you may have heard, it is alive and well. He mentioned that his ex-wife, who had been an elections official while they were married, was "run outta town" -- and we soon found out why. She was indicted. This, after her uncle, who was the elections official before her, was also caught stealing.
We have a few more articles to go on the Moonshine series, and then we'll get to the "Godfather elections" series.
The entire voting machine industry and the kingpins -- politicians and bureaucrats -- who run our current election system have based this system on "trust."Our current investigative work explodes the "Trust Me" model altogether. While investigating the Moonshine jurisdictions, we learned a great deal about the specific mechanics of fraud -- information that has been very hard to come by, and without it, proposed remedies won't necessarily work!
We also were delighted to find that a few of the moonshine states have devised innovative methods to dismantle rural pockets of corruption,and we'll share some of those with you as this series progresses, along with some exciting new things citizens can do to protect elections.
Over the next three months, we will be distributing the information we've uncovered during the last several months of under-the-radar investigations. We believe the biggest target for fraud in the 2008 election will be the primaries this time. Let's get ready for it.
Enjoy the articles and video. If you find this unpalatable, wait until you see the next one!
Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
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