Ohio: FORMER ES&S employee allowed on main computer

Chili

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Sat Nov-27-04 10:04 AM
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Ohio: FORMER ES&S employee allowed on main computer

http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3748

I know this is old, but it bears looking at again:

"In a letter dated Oct. 21, Ken Nuss, former deputy director of the Auglaize County Board of Elections, claimed that Joe McGinnis, a former employee of Election Systems and Software (ES&S), the company that provides the voting system in Auglaize County, was on the main computer that is used to create the ballot and compile election results, which would go against election protocol. Nuss claimed in the letter that McGinnis was allowed to use the computer the weekend of Oct. 16.

Nuss, who resigned from his job Oct. 21 after being suspended for a day, was responsible for overseeing the computerized programming of election software, according to his job description. His resignation is effective Nov. 11."

Auglaize County uses punchcards. Sooooo... what was he doing on the "main computer" before the election? And a FORMER employee of ES&S? He was no longer even authorized to represent ES&S?

Tiny mention of it here: http://wapakdailynews.com/articles/2004/11/04/news/news01.txt

This was originally posted here, but I don't see any replies, there were probably hundreds of threads that day:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=172&topic_id=4121

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nodictators

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Sat Nov-27-04 11:50 AM
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1. Gee, Auglaize County results took a nasty 5% plunge in Kerry's...

vote percentage in the dark of the night.

Guy, you gotta do a better job and watch that "election protocol"!

Isn't this the same kind of crap that happened in Florida 2000? There were two civil lawsuits re Repub operatives having been allowed in the back rooms with the computers in two county election supervisors' offices.

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New Earth

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Sat Nov-27-04 11:53 AM
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2. well this time it better not go without investigation

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k8conant

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Wed Dec-01-04 09:42 AM
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3. State Rep. Derrick Seaver, of Auglaize County, OH, turns Republican!!

I wonder how this is related to the information about the Auglaize County Board of Elections...

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/10216821.htm

Posted on Thu, Nov. 18, 2004
Lawmaker says presidential election convinced him to switch parties

ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A state lawmaker who announced Thursday he's switching parties to become a Republican blames what he calls the Democratic party's liberal stances.

...His future father-in-law - Seaver is getting married next month - is an Auglaize County commissioner who also switched to the GOP, he said.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/10242674.htm
Posted on Mon, Nov. 22, 2004

PERSPECTIVE: Ambition, hope for power, drives party switching politicians

ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio - First his future father-in-law switched parties, becoming a Republican before running again for county commissioner. Then state Rep. Derrick Seaver's fiancee defected from the Democrats - to vote for her father in a 2003 primary.

Then it was Seaver's turn to leave the Democrats, the first Ohio lawmaker in 22 years to make the switch but one in a long history of politicians around the country parting ways with their party.

Lawmakers who make the switch do it for their conscience, their short-term gain or their long-term ambition, say observers of the jump from one side of the aisle to the other.

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spoogly

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Wed Dec-01-04 09:54 AM
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4. What a dweeb!!

This guy looks like a Repuke dweeb. Check out the mug shot:

http://www.house.state.oh.us/jsps/MemberDetails.jsp?DISTRICT=78

Here is his Email address:

district78@ohr.state.oh.us

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