One of the few citizen observers who watched the Sarasota county elections board counting the ballots on election night, that is, she was able to see , through a glass window, the central tabulator reading the memory cards from each Optical Scan machine from each precinct, reported that she saw a tabulator failure, causing the officials to override the machine count, and enter vote tallies by hand, as guided by the vendor of the voting machines. ( This was Jeannie Dean who is will be posting her video footage of this incident.)
WHO is watching the vote count? Where are the citizens overseeing our elections? The activist observer who reported this to me said the press and party officials were all talking among themselves about trivia and were schmoozing socially, while the count was being manipulated.
Was fraud being committed? Were the totals from each precinct machine being entered correctly? Who on earth can tell? NO real citizen oversight was allowed. And WHEN will the precinct totals be released? The Sarasota chief election official said it may be days. Meanwhile citizen pollsters will sit on their data, not wanting to allow the official precinct data possibly to be changed to match it. The exit poll canary who can help signal fraud will be silenced for now, but is still alive and awaiting some fresh air and the light of transparent elections in Florida and in the rest of the country.
Marj Creech, Election Defense Alliance, Sarasota, Florida, February 4, 2008
See also http://www.projectvotecount.com/ and http://www.recallvotingmachines.com
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