Blackbox Voting Exposes Poll Tape Fraud (Shallow Thoughts)

Blackbox Voting Exposes Poll Tape Fraud

Installment one of Bev Harris and BlackBoxVoting.org's Freedom of Information Request: the Stinking Poll Tapes.

Harris & company went to Volusia County, Florida to request the "poll tapes" from the election: the printed record that each machine produces at the end of the day, signed and dated by election workers.

What they were given was unsigned printouts dated November 16, the day before their arrival.

Upon investigating, they found several curious things:

1. Elections officials meeting clustered over poll tapes, who shut the door on them when they asked what was going on;
2. A garbage bag full of original, signed poll tapes, dated the day of the election;
3. Another garbage bag of original poll tapes at a different location;
4. Apparent discrepancies between the original, signed, dated poll tapes and the supposed copies which the elections officials had originally tried to give them.

This is all over the blogosphere, but doesn't appear to have hit much of the mainstream press so far, not even Wired, except for one early article in the East Volusia News-JournalOnline. But the story making the rounds claims Black Box Voting has it all on video.

Stay tuned!

Tags: politics, election04, elections, voting
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