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"That girl that was with her, she keeps changing her story," the father said of Kim Roberts Pittman, the dance partner of the accuser. "She's not a credible person to me."

A liar calling a liar "a liar."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607267/posts

The father of the woman who has accused members of the Duke lacrosse team of sexually assaulting her said he didn't find out that his daughter was the reported victim - and that she is an exotic dancer - until a reporter visited his house.

The retired trucker who lives in Durham said he saw his daughter the day after the reported attack, but she didn't say anything was wrong. She even left her car at the house for several days because he said she didn't want to drive it.

Her father, a quiet man who tinkers on cars as a hobby, said he saw news reports about the attack.

"I didn't know it was my daughter," he said. The Charlotte Observer generally does not name victims of sexual assault, so his name is being withheld to protect the identity of his daughter.

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Last week, a reporter stopped by the reported victim's house looking for her, the woman's father said, but he said he didn't know what was going on. He called his daughter and she said the district attorney told her not talk to anyone.

"(She) didn't tell us anything about it," he said.

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/425344.html

The father said Tuesday that early on the morning of March 14, he went to Duke Hospital with his son and waited more than two hours to see his daughter. Doctors wouldn't say why she was there, he said.

The father went home and waited for word from his daughter. Later that morning, she came to her parents' house with her boyfriend.

"After she came home, that's when I knew she had been beaten up," her father said.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/17/ng.01.html

GRACE: Have you talked to her about the incident since that day?

TRAVIS: Yes, I have.

GRACE: What is she saying?

TRAVIS: Well, she didn`t go through a lot of it. She didn`t tell me a lot of the details, but she did tell me that three boys had raped her. And I asked her where was it at, where did it happen at? And she said at that house. And then I felt horrible, because that was the same place that she asked me how to get to.

GRACE: Sir, I just -- I hate what you are going through right now. (DRAMA QUEEN ALERT!) When you spoke to her afterwards, did she talk to you about having to go through the whole examination, and talking to police, and so forth?

TRAVIS: Yes, she mentioned something about where she said she had -- the next day, she had to go to see or identify the people, I think it was, the way she put it.

Voter rolls get a boost in Durham

Anne Blythe, Staff Writer, Modified: Oct 14, 2006 03:50 AM

DURHAM - Fueled by voter registration drives at Duke University and N.C. Central University, new registrations surged Friday.

Mike Ashe, director of the Durham County Board of Elections, said his office had been inundated on the final day to register for the Nov. 7 election.

"It seems like everybody from the procrastinator party came in," Ashe said. "The last day is always busy. This is the busiest nonpresidential year that I've had."

On Friday, Ashe said, he collected at least 350 new voter registration forms from NCCU students and 350 from Duke students.

Interest in the Duke lacrosse rape case sparked voter registration drives on the college campuses.

Stefanie Sparks, a paralegal with Ekstrand and Ekstrand, a Durham law office representing lacrosse players who were not indicted in the case, helped Duke students with their voter drive.

Sparks said Friday she thought the registration drive had netted more than 1,000 new Duke voters.

Ashe said that by his count -- and he said the official count would go on through the weekend -- the Duke voter drive had brought in nearly 750 new registrations.

Sparks is part of Ethical Durham, a political group endorsing Lewis Cheek, the county commissioner whose name was added to the ballot this summer amid outrage over District Attorney Mike Nifong's handling of the lacrosse case.

Sparks said some forms collected in the Duke drive were from students in off-campus housing.

In past elections, Duke students have not made up a high percentage of the 140,897 registered voters.

In late August, there were 650 registered voters on Duke's East Campus and 712 registered voters on West Campus, according to Ashe, the elections director.

At NCCU, the school where the accuser in the rape case is a student, 1,357 students were registered to vote in late August.

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/498352.html

* Keep your eyes on the wire.