2. "Life and Liberty for All Who Believe" hosted by the late Burt Lancaster, a powerful, 28 minute video documenting the birth of the Moral Majority, partly filmed in Arizona. Produced by People for the American Way in 1982, shows actual footage of the politicization of what has become the dominionists movement. (Edited 2004) Play the Real Video version or the WMV Video version.
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HOW THE "TRICK AND SWITCH" WAS WORKED WITH PROVISIONAL BALLOTS ON ELECTION DAY 2004 AT PCT 324, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA
By John R. Brakey and Dr David L. Griscom
Maria, a 27- year-old Democrat, was the 435th voter on Election Day Nov 2nd, 2004. Maria ordered an early ballot from the Recorders Office. Like many Americans she procrastinated too long and misplaced her early ballot. To make sure her vote counted, she went to her precinct to vote. When Maria arrived at the precinct she was required to vote a Provisional ballot, and rightfully so. Maria then signed all documents necessary as per the request of the poll workers, put her vote in an envelope, signed the affidavit on the outside and left.
What Maria didn't know was that she had become a victim of voter identity theft and disenfranchisement.
Right after she voted and left, the poll workers re-entered Maria's name on the Consecutive Number Register (CNR) as voter #444 and wrote "spoiled" next to her name on the CNR at position #435, indicating that she made a mistake and needed a replacement ballot - which absolutely was not the case according to Maria.
Then, if they wished, the poll workers' were in a position to turn Maria's validly cast vote for Kerry into an ersatz spoiled ballot and then re-cast an illegal vote for Bush, alleging it to be Maria's "spoil replacement."
In any event, when Maria signed the "regular" Signature Roster, as instructed by the poll workers, she unknowingly rendered her Provisional ballot useless. If by accident it had been turned in, it would have been declared null and void. But a check of the records revealed that it was never was turned in. Furthermore, the Recorder could not have accepted it, because her signature on the "regular" Signature Roster would have made it look like a felonious double vote. This was just one example of what happened to at least 22 electors at Pct. 324 on Election Day 2004, according to a painstaking citizen audit of all public records.
The major reason why it takes so long to count the provisional ballots after an election is that the county Recorder's office has to first determine from the "regular" Signature Roster the names of voters who cast regular ballots and then enter these names into their computer data base before deciding which of the provisional ballots can be accepted. It should be noted that the Recorder uses only the signed affidavits off the provisional-ballot envelopes to decide who actually cast provisional ballots. That is, the Provisional Ballot Signature Roster serves no official purpose at all. Nevertheless, a citizen audit found 11 signatures on the Provisional Ballot Signature Roster made by persons whose names were not listed on the CNR, and there were 11 names (with signatures) on provisional ballots sent to the Recorder's office that did not match any signature on any of the Signature Rosters, or any name printed by the poll workers on the CNR. The latter could well have been identical with the 11 provisional ballots determined by the Recorder to have been invalid - which they would have been if, for example, the signatures on the affidavits had been forged. (These anomalies constitute only a small part of the citizen-audit-based case for poll-worker fraud at Pct. 324 on Election Day 2004.)
By Arizona law, Maria should have been instructed by poll workers to sign the Provisional Ballot Signature Roster. The 'regular" Signature Roster should be signed only by voters whose ballots are entered into the precinct optical scanner. However, there are insufficient checks and balances (outside of citizen audits) to determine if the law has been correctly followed. The CNR and precinct's Official Ballot Report and Certificate of Performance go to the Election Department, while both the "regular" and Provisional Ballot Signature Rosters go to the Recorder's office. These two offices do not do cross comparisons these data!
At the end of the day, what really matters to any Election Department is the poll-worker-completed Official Ballot Report and Certificate of Performance, which documents the votes and is the only check and balance system available to the two major parties. Unfortunately, both parties have neglected this electoral accounting system, choosing NOT to remain vigilant, as history teaches us we must. The citizen audit of Pct. 324 found that the only way to reconcile the full body of the public record with the poll workers' Official Ballot Report and Certificate of Performance required the conclusion that there were 11 felony double votes and that 39 ballots that should have been cast as provisionals were illegally fed into the optical scanner on Election Day 2004.
The Election Department counts on the bipartisanship of poll workers and therefore never audits the Official Ballot Report and Certificate of Performance if it is signed by all poll workers. Accordingly, poll workers with different official party registrations who nevertheless secretly share highly partisan sympathies would be free to make mischief with high confidence of not being caught. Historically, the Election Department does not even do simple things like counting the number of spoiled ballots the poll workers claimed to have turned in or checking to see if all unused ballots are returned.
Note: Nathan Sproul knows this, he been running a Jim Crow operation since 1994 in Arizona. In 2004 he exported what he learned and taught others.
If you break down the payments by description from the RNC to Nathan Sproul.
VOTER REGISTRATION EFFORTS $2,043,551
GENERIC MEDIA BUYS $1,006,755
LODGING, TRANSPORTATION $4,022
MAILING COSTS $450,257
POLITICAL CONSULTING $4,854,576 Or slush fund - pious poll workers?
Total $8,359,161
" Interestingly enough the largest single payment was Nov 1st 2004 for $1,668,733 listed as POLITICAL CONSULTING.
" Sproul also worked in Ohio and many other states. AUDIT-AZ theorizes $5 million was a slush fund for teaching the "Trick and Switch" and building "STACKS" to loyal ideologically-minded members of the Radical Christian Right.
" Sproul and Associates were caught destroying democratic voter registration forms, misrepresenting themselves to democratic voters, and skewing voter registrations to the Republican party in Oregon and Nevada in 2004. The US Department of Justice took up the case and it has never been heard from again. Not unlike the DOJs taking of the LD 20 ballots preventing a hand audit.
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HOW THE "TRICK AND SWITCH" WAS WORKED WITH PROVISIONAL BALLOTS ON ELECTION DAY 2004 AT PCT 324, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA
By John R. Brakey and Dr David L. Griscom
Maria, a 27- year-old Democrat, was the 435th voter on Election Day Nov 2nd, 2004. Maria ordered an early ballot from the Recorders Office. Like many Americans she procrastinated too long and misplaced her early ballot. To make sure her vote counted, she went to her precinct to vote. When Maria arrived at the precinct she was required to vote a Provisional ballot, and rightfully so. Maria then signed all documents necessary as per the request of the poll workers, put her vote in an envelope, signed the affidavit on the outside and left.
Right after she voted and left, the poll workers re-entered Maria's name on the Consecutive Number Register (CNR) as voter #444 and wrote "spoiled" next to her name on the CNR at position #435, indicating that she made a mistake and needed a replacement ballot - which absolutely was not the case according to Maria.
Then, if they wished, the poll workers' were in a position to turn Maria's validly cast vote for Kerry into an ersatz spoiled ballot and then re-cast an illegal vote for Bush, alleging it to be Maria's "spoil replacement."
In any event, when Maria signed the "regular" Signature Roster, as instructed by the poll workers, she unknowingly rendered her Provisional ballot useless. If by accident it had been turned in, it would have been declared null and void. But a check of the records revealed that it was never was turned in. Furthermore, the Recorder could not have accepted it, because her signature on the "regular" Signature Roster would have made it look like a felonious double vote. This was just one example of what happened to at least 22 electors at Pct. 324 on Election Day 2004, according to a painstaking citizen audit of all public records.
The major reason why it takes so long to count the provisional ballots after an election is that the county Recorder's office has to first determine from the "regular" Signature Roster the names of voters who cast regular ballots and then enter these names into their computer data base before deciding which of the provisional ballots can be accepted. It should be noted that the Recorder uses only the signed affidavits off the provisional-ballot envelopes to decide who actually cast provisional ballots. That is, the Provisional Ballot Signature Roster serves no official purpose at all. Nevertheless, a citizen audit found 11 signatures on the Provisional Ballot Signature Roster made by persons whose names were not listed on the CNR, and there were 11 names (with signatures) on provisional ballots sent to the Recorder's office that did not match any signature on any of the Signature Rosters, or any name printed by the poll workers on the CNR. The latter could well have been identical with the 11 provisional ballots determined by the Recorder to have been invalid - which they would have been if, for example, the signatures on the affidavits had been forged. (These anomalies constitute only a small part of the citizen-audit-based case for poll-worker fraud at Pct. 324 on Election Day 2004.)
By Arizona law, Maria should have been instructed by poll workers to sign the Provisional Ballot Signature Roster. The 'regular" Signature Roster should be signed only by voters whose ballots are entered into the precinct optical scanner. However, there are insufficient checks and balances (outside of citizen audits) to determine if the law has been correctly followed. The CNR and precinct's Official Ballot Report and Certificate of Performance go to the Election Department, while both the "regular" and Provisional Ballot Signature Rosters go to the Recorder's office. These two offices do not do cross comparisons these data!
At the end of the day, what really matters to any Election Department is the poll-worker-completed Official Ballot Report and Certificate of Performance, which documents the votes and is the only check and balance system available to the two major parties. Unfortunately, both parties have neglected this electoral accounting system, choosing NOT to remain vigilant, as history teaches us we must. The citizen audit of Pct. 324 found that the only way to reconcile the full body of the public record with the poll workers' Official Ballot Report and Certificate of Performance required the conclusion that there were 11 felony double votes and that 39 ballots that should have been cast as provisionals were illegally fed into the optical scanner on Election Day 2004.
The Election Department counts on the bipartisanship of poll workers and therefore never audits the Official Ballot Report and Certificate of Performance if it is signed by all poll workers. Accordingly, poll workers with different official party registrations who nevertheless secretly share highly partisan sympathies would be free to make mischief with high confidence of not being caught. Historically, the Election Department does not even do simple things like counting the number of spoiled ballots the poll workers claimed to have turned in or checking to see if all unused ballots are returned.
Note: Nathan Sproul knows this, he been running a Jim Crow operation since 1994 in Arizona. In 2004 he exported what he learned and taught others.
If you break down the payments by description from the RNC to Nathan Sproul.
VOTER REGISTRATION EFFORTS $2,043,551
GENERIC MEDIA BUYS $1,006,755
LODGING, TRANSPORTATION $4,022
MAILING COSTS $450,257
POLITICAL CONSULTING $4,854,576 Or slush fund - pious poll workers?
Total $8,359,161
" Interestingly enough the largest single payment was Nov 1st 2004 for $1,668,733 listed as POLITICAL CONSULTING.
" Sproul also worked in Ohio and many other states. AUDIT-AZ theorizes $5 million was a slush fund for teaching the "Trick and Switch" and building "STACKS" to loyal ideologically-minded members of the Radical Christian Right.
" Sproul and Associates were caught destroying democratic voter registration forms, misrepresenting themselves to democratic voters, and skewing voter registrations to the Republican party in Oregon and Nevada in 2004. The US Department of Justice took up the case and it has never been heard from again. Not unlike the DOJs taking of the LD 20 ballots preventing a hand audit.
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