Glitch on Purpose (G.O.P.)

Someone has posted (was it you, Land Shark?) that smart votejackers would make sure that their hacks and vote thievery looked on the surface like a mistake, a glitch. Reasonable doubt, so if discovered, all could promise to look into it, and at the end, just say it was a mistake.

So when, on an election day, dozens and even hundreds of reports of problems surface, what we have are malfunctions by accident, and malfunctions on purpose.

Flaws. And fraud.

Some of what look like flaws, though, are a Glitch on Purpose.

Or, G.O.P. for short.

Make the process seem badly broken (while all the while defrauding it), in order to ensure that Congress will pass/strengthen the laws they've already implemented to "reform" our electoral process! Why? That doesn't make sense? It does, if you recognize that the laws Congress make and the billions of dollars they provide have been and are being used to make the system MORE, NOT LESS vulnerable!

Democrats: Congress! We have a Problem! Someone is Stealing Elections!

Congress: Okay, here's the Help America Vote Act (HAVA)... it'll fix the problem!

Fraudulent Republicans: Fantastic! Billions with which to EXPAND the use of untraceable electronic voting systems!!!

Democrats, December 2004: Wait! The election was Stolen Again!

Everybody Else: You Silly Democrats! We Fixed That Already! You're Paranoid.

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/elections/lucas.htm


This report includes the fact that REPUBLICAN VOLUNTEERS were allowed UNSUPERVISED ACCESS to UNSECURED BALLOTS prior to the election, as well as this list:

*failure to maintain ballot security
*Inability to implement and maintain a trackable system for voter ballot reconciliation .
*failure to prepare and develop a plan for the processing of the voluminous amount of voter registration forms received.
*issuance and acceptance of incorrect absentee ballot forms.
*manipulation of the process involving the 3% recount.
*disjointed implementation of the Directive regarding the removal of Nader and Camejo from the ballot .
*failure to properly issue hospital ballots in accordance with statutory requirements.
*failure to maintain the security of poll books during the official canvass
*failure to examine campaign finance reports in a timely manner.
*failure to guard and protect public documents ....etc.

-One-half of the ballots printed and used in the 2004 general election in Lucas county were stored in an open space on the fhird floor of the county warehouse with no security measures in place.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation on Lucas County BOE page 4



-Live ballots were delivered to polling locations a week in advance of the election. Although the ballots were retrieved, one board employee who was assigned to the warehouse informed the SOS staff that he did not believe all the ballots were successfully retrieved.
SOURCE; SOS Investigation, page 5



-Lucas County BOE failed to record or retrieve ballot stub numbers of absentee voters’ ballots as required by statute OH Revised Code 3505.23. It was reported by an elector that her mother had received not one, but three absentee voter ballots. there was no way to determine if similar incidents occurred and if so how many.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation, page 7




-October 4, 2004 was filing deadline for new voter registrations. At that point there were approximately 20,000 unprocessed voter registration applications with less than a month before the election. One mail tray containing 4,500-7,000 (estimates vary) unprocessed “Project Voter” registrations were discovered on or about October 18,2004.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation pg 10

***Of interest here is information obtained from the SOS website entitled ElectionsVoter/results 2003 and 2004 which show the # of registered voters number change from ‘03-’04 was 11,947 in Lucas County: reg voters 2003 in Lucas=288,190 ; registered voter in 2004=300,137.



-In late September or early October an employee of the Ohio Republican Party contacted Sam Thurber (*involved with politician wife Maggie Thurber in Noe scandal.) wanting to inspect and have copies made of all recently returned voter registrations, Ohio Republican Party offered to furnish volunteers to assist with copying postcards. No one at the Lucas County BOE can confirm that anyone was assigned to supervise Republican volunteers. On their second day of copying, a BOE employee, Jennifer Bernath, Democratic Booth Official) saw republican party volunteers peeling off the yellow return stickers applied by the post office. (Violation of RC 149.43 (B) (I) , and agruably a violation of 149.351.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation, pgs 18-19

*Among those whose donations have caught the attention of investigators are:

City Councilman Betty Shultz; former state representative Sally Perz, her husband, Joe, and her daughter, Allison; former county elections director Joe Kidd; county Auditor Larry Kaczala and his wife, Gina; County Commissioner Maggie Thurber and her husband, Sam; and two of Mr. Noe’s co-workers at Vintage Coins and Collectibles, partner Tim Lapointe and executive assistant Susan Metzger. Mr. Lapointe’s wife, Linda, also donated.

All of the above gave the campaign $2,000 except the Thurbers; each of them gave $1,950 to the campaign. The $23,900 in donations were made between Oct. 30 and Nov. 5, 2003.

Path of donations At issue is whether Mr. Noe gave people money in order for them to give to the Bush campaign, allowing Mr. Noe to exceed federal spending limits, law-enforcement sources said.
Source:
Toledo Blade - FBI Raids GOP Donor Noe's Condo
Friday, April 29, 2005




-The Swanton 3 poll book turned up missing and has never been recovered.
SOURCE: SOS Investigation pg 16

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Blackwell them fires the entire staff so he thinks he looks like the investigator, but in reality this county BOE was sited in 2002 and the problems allowed to fester.

Easy to do and escapes judical action for tampering with election results.

Just reduce and mis-align the zone on the touch screen and make it need three times the pressure to record the vote, so it's difficult to find the proper zone to record the vote.

In the 2004 election in West Palm Beach, 1450 of the 4500+ machines had to be recalibrated.

In addition, it was suspected that "Bush" was the default value. So if you couldn't find the "Kerry" zone, you voted for Bush by default!