Decide for yourself what to make of this video of New Hampshire officials refusing to secure ballots in the ballot vault -- a deviation from their normal procedure. This video reveals the fraudulent "seals" that peel off and reaffix like high-priced Post-It notes.
While Sec. State Bill Gardner may win the prize for the most circuitous and nonresponsive answers, New Hampshire ballot guy David Scanlan will win the award for belligerence, as you'll see in upcoming videos from Black Box Voting.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE CHAIN OF CUSTODY SHAM
I was 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.
The first voice you hear, questioning Mevers about the seal, is that of Paddy Shaffer of the Ohio Election Justice Project.
The voice questioning Secretary of State 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"
We returned to the archive building to wait for the two men who pick up and deliver all New Hampshire ballots, "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.
When we left, a small car literally ran us out of the parking lot all the way to the road. It was not a security professional, but one of the workers in the archive building. About 15 minutes after we left, "Butch and Hoppy" arrived to deliver the ballots. No citizen witnesses were present, nor was the candidate notified so he could have his own witnesses.
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.
It was my decision to demonstrate the sham seals on videotape. I will be happy to reimburse the state of New Hampshire for the $1 or so cost for the sham "seal", since I used a blank seal on an empty box. Of course, as you will see in the video above, these seals are reusable, worthless, and fraudulent.
Either these voting officials are stupid with a capital "S," or they are merely pretending to exercise integrity. But I doubt if they are stupid (although they evidenced the classic "deer in the headlights look.") Rather, they are obviously engaging in a duplicitous effort seemingly to allow "adjustment" of vote tallies. What other explanation could there be, aside from (sic) sheer stupidity?
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Lover of Truth (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 24 comments)
on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 4:42:26 PM
My understading is that one of the issues leading Dennis Kucinich to move for a recount in the NH Primary was the glaring discrepency in the pre-primary polls and the actual voting results.
Having read Mr. Kucinich's remarks on this matter, it apparently seems the reason for this discrepency was assumed to possibly be due to some crookedness conducting the vote count. Hence, a starting point for commenting on this BlackBoxVoting expose'.
First -- and this is not a slam on Dennis; I am still supporting his campaign for Congress -- no one asks whether the MSM conducting the pre-primary polls could have purposely misreported their results. It seems this, too, is a distinct possibility. But this is not my reason for writing here.
Instead, I have two other points I wish to make.
1. This video does not prove fraud occurred in conducting the vote count. It only suggests such fraud could occur by presenting how this might happen.
2. One of the most sacred principles of justice in the United States of America is that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. Avoiding the danger of inciting a mob rule mentality is one reason why this principle exists. Thus, proving a defendant's guilt necessarily requires incontrovertible facts.
I went over to YouTube to check out the comments on this video, since my comment here is only the second to appear. (I thought this strange, possibly indicating others similarly reacted to this article and video as I did.)
Here are the kind of remarks I read:
"Have you ever seen people look so guilty???"
"Bald dude with glasses looks defiantly like he does not give a shit that WE KNOW THEY ARE MANIPULATING THE VOTE"
"outrageous proof of voting fraud! what more do you need?"
"woowheeee those guys are SHADY!!!!!"
"OMFG are these clowns for real? Bill Gardner is a fucking traitor and must be sent to prison for election fraud like the two from ohio!"
... and hundreds more comments just like this.
Look, I am not writing to say nothing in this report was revealed.
I am not claiming everything with the election process is hunky dory.
Nor am I suggesting vote fraud could not possibly have occurred, given what was presented here.
Neither do I suppose that, if conclusive proof of vote fraud were, in fact, uncovered, then the MSM would pick up the story.
I'm simply saying the lemming effect leading to all sorts of wild claims being made, where adequate proof is lacking, reveals a DANGEROUS trait in people, one they might better avoid like the plague.
Maybe this is just unavoidable? Maybe the urge to believe a preconceived notion is so great, the burden of proof no longer becomes necessary?
I don't have an answer. However, I wish to conclude this comment by asking a very provocative, controversial question:
How do you suppose the Nazis recruited so many million loyal Brown Shirts?
(This question is principally directed to the good people at BlackBoxVoting, requesting they raise their standards for meeting the burden of proof, if only to avoid inciting irrational mob rule. Please take no offense.)
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GoldenT (6 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 50 comments)
on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 12:45:20 AM
Bev Harris appeared @ a meeting of Progressive Democrats, Riverside (CA) county a couple years ago and made an excellent presentation regarding the lack of legal compliance on the part of the country Election official, a woman who, like the "deer in the headlights" guys in this video, apparently has no problem with ignoring legal requirements/constraints. I think Bev Harris's credibility is above reproach, but the previous writer makes a valid point: no matter how ignorant one is, they're still innocent until proven guilty.
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L. RETZACK (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 41 comments)
on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 12:44:55 PM
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