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Tag(s): 2008 Election Presidential Primary; Election Crime; Election Recounts Protests; Fraud; Heroes; Investigations; Local Heroes; New Hampshire; Optical Scan Voting Machines; Secrecy - Transparency; (more...) Video; Voting; Voting Integrity; Voting Laws State (less...)
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January 25, 2008 at 07:03:26

Headlined on 1/25/08:
Hot on the trail of Democracy: NH recount video evidence

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Black Box Voting : Latest Investigations from Black Box Voting: 1-24-08: Now posting - New Hampshire video evidence
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Posted by Bev Harris on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 12:31 am:

We have collected over 20 hours of video taken by six different people. It will tell much of the story of the New Hampshire recount.

After some thought, I think the best way to do this is with as little
editing as possible, to allow viewers to reach their own conclusions
based on what they see. I will organize clips into uniform topics and
will keep them short, with a few captions to provide context.

Links will appear on the Black Box Voting home page. For those of you
who receive automatic e-mails, I'll post an announcement with a link
when each new video goes up.

While Gardner may win the prize for the most circuitous and
nonresponsive answers, ballot guy David Scanlan will win the award for
belligerence.

The New Hampshire Chain of Custody Sham

I posted this one first because I was so haunted by New Hampshire
Secretary of State Bill Gardner's demeanor and the expression on his
face on the night he chose not to put the ballots in the vault. This
6-minute video contains three related clips: Frank Mevers, who holds a
key to the ballot vaults, describing that the white tape seals the
boxes; Sec. State Bill Gardner along with Frank Mevers, Brian Burford
and Karen Ladd, as he is questioned about the decision not to use the
vault; and a demonstration of the sham seal.

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKQEQ7qHvgM

Participants

The first voice you hear, questioning Mevers about the seal, is that
of Paddy Shaffer of the Ohio Election Justice Project.

The voice questioning Bill Gardner over the decision not to use the
vault is mine. The voice telling him he did not answer the question is
Sally Castleman of Election Defense Alliance.

Susan Pynchon (Florida Fair Elections Coalition) and I chased the
ballot van on Jan. 17; on Jan. 22, Vickie Karp (Vote Rescue) and I
chased the van, and on Jan. 23, due to speeding and evasive maneuvers
by the ballot van, two teams followed the van with video cameras: Team one, Vickie Karp and Jeannie Dean (Sarasota, Florida); Team Two, me and Kathy Greenwell (Bullitt County, Kentucky.)

How we came to find ballot boxes and a supply box containing unused
"seals"

We returned to the archive building to wait for Butch and Hoppy to
return the ballots they'd picked up. We were shocked to see that the
building appeared to be deserted, but was unlocked, and the counting
room was unlocked, and contained empty ballot boxes and a supply box
with seals, tape etc.

For the benefit of the police

In order to determine whether there were ballots in the boxes or not,
I gently nudged the boxes with my shoe. The light weight indicated the
ballot boxes were empty. At least one ballot box, for the town of
Plaistow, contained the original sham seal signed by the moderator and
selectmen. It was empty.

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Bev Harris is executive director of Black Box Voting, Inc. an advocacy group committed to restoring citizen oversight to elections.

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Erik Larson, Human Being and concerned Citizen. Member of 911Truth.org Advisory Board. Opinions expressed here are my own. I only advocate and practice non-violent methods of social and political activism & change.

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This isn't a chain of custody, it's a disgrace.

Does your bank handle your money like this? If not, then why is the future of the nation and the Republic being handled like this? Paper ballots, hand-counted the night of the election, with results posted in the precinct and everything in full public view the whole time is the most secure way to conduct an election. Who's afraid of clean elections? If someone wants to vote on a DRE, fine, but everyone who wants to vote on a paper ballot and monitor the vote count has the right to do so as well. Op Scan machines with secret software make it impossible to monitor the vote count. Hand-counting takes hours, the error rate is much lower, reconciliation can often be done the same night, fraud is easier to guard against and to expose.

by Better World Order (4 articles, 417 quicklinks, 27 diaries, 881 comments) on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 11:09:01 AM

Dbkchi is a 47 year old professional commuter and activist in Los Angeles California. When not stuck in traffic, he enjoys live music, beach volleyball and snow skiing.
DigitboyDbkchi is a 47 year old professional commuter and activist in Los Angeles California. When not stuck in traffic, he enjoys live music, beach volleyball and snow skiing.

Bev, YOU ARE A TRUE PATRIOT!

I can't thank you enough for your efforts and tenacity.

Voting in America = Farting into a Hat

by Digitboy (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 26 comments) on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 2:21:55 PM

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Char StellamarisI am a 61 year old grandmother---an old leftie. Used to be a dairy farmer---am now disabled, and am living on SS-Disability. I love OpEd news and if I ever get into a more solvent financial situation, I will contribute. I value the site. Don't know how to do a photo---am a techno-neophyte.

Thank You Bev Harris

What would we do without the election protection patriots who do this hard, thankless work day after day. And not a peep from the MSM. Will the fruits of these considerable efforts ever see the light of day? Despair for our failing democracy trails me like an icy shadow---it is good to be able to feel a sense of pride in Bev Harris' and other's efforts. Let us all hope and pray that such work will eventually pay off. Seems increasingly obvious that either from actual complicity in the initial fraud, or later trying to cover it up out of embarrassement for a job "negligently done" the SOState officials are facilitating a recount that sure as hell looks like it is fraudulant. God help us on Feb 5th! How can we care at all when it is clear we have no say in who will make the laws and "administer them." The fix is already in, I fear.

by Char Stellamaris (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 35 comments) on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 9:55:52 PM