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Travis GOP reports problems at poll ('rats commit ballot fraud in early voting)
Austin American Statesman ^ | Friday, November 1, 2002 | Jonathan Osborne

Posted on 11/01/2002 3:24:15 PM PST by GOPcapitalist

Officials with the Travis County Republican Party say there's something rotten at the early voting polls this year. And they say they've got affidavits to prove it.

Alan Sager, chairman of the party, said that at least twice while demonstrating the new eSlate voting system, election clerks turned the dial so that it stopped on a ballot for a straight-Democratic vote.

"We've had five or eight different people say that Democratic clerks showed them how to run the system and vote straight Democrat," Sager said Thursday.

In one instance, Sager said, two people who wanted to vote for a Republican candidate were instructed during the demonstration to cast the ballot for the straight Democratic ticket and unwittingly did.

According to affidavits, relatives of the two voters were not allowed to assist the pair during the incident at H-E-B at 7th Street and Pleasant Valley Road. Sager said he will give their testimony to the Travis County district attorney today.

Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir, a Democrat, said she had not seen the affidavits but said her office investigates any irregularity reported to them.

"Even if I get a vague rumor over the telephone, we do take it seriously," DeBeauvoir said. "Every time Alan has told me some vague rumor, I send out a notice to all locations."

DeBeauvoir said she's done that at least twice since early voting began.

But she said she was aware of at least one problem Sager referred to Thursday and had taken immediate corrective action.

At the Randall's grocery store in Lakeway, the election judge had failed to set up a demonstration of the eSlate system.

Marc and Beverly McCord went to cast their ballots at the store earlier this week. They say the judge reached into their booth, operated the system for them and turned the dial to a straight Democratic ticket.

After Marc McCord made a mistake, the judge came over and "reached in again and dialed up the straight Democratic ticket again and said, 'Now hit enter,' " McCord said. "He sat there and watched while I dialed up my votes. I found out in comparing with my wife that he had done the same thing for her."

DeBeauvoir said the judge has since been told that's not how things are supposed to operate and he's corrected his procedures.

"We have since talked with that judge and said, 'What were you thinking?' " DeBeauvoir said. "We have since instructed him, 'Do not go in the booth with the voters.' He insists he never told anybody which party to vote."

The irony, DeBeauvoir said, is that the judge happens to be a Republican.

josborne@statesman.com; 445-3621

To report fraud

The U.S. attorney's office and the FBI are asking that any allegations of fraud on Election Day, including voter bribery, voter intimidation and ballot forgery, be reported directly to either agency.

To report a violation, the public can call the FBI 24 hours a day at (210) 225-6741. During business hours, they can contact the U.S. attorney's Austin office at 916-5858.


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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Chuck-n-Char. Yyyyyep.

I like Dr. Stan too. Still, he alienates people by hitting them over the head trying to show them how much he knows.

He lost a lot of credibility over Y2K.

I sure wish I could get some time to educate the local party bigwigs about how many creative solutions to social problems can originate from conservative principles. They do a rotten job of communicating that.
81 posted on 11/02/2002 7:55:05 AM PST by Carry_Okie
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon
Thanks for the clarification. Actually I was thinking more along the lines of our current democrats and what their stand would be at the Alamo.
82 posted on 11/02/2002 7:58:25 AM PST by Blue Screen of Death
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To: sam_paine
When you submit your ballot, a little flag appears on the screen (and if you voted Republican, your selections are electronically discarded.)

I LOVE FReeper droll humor:^)

Cordially,

83 posted on 11/02/2002 8:43:20 AM PST by Diamond
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To: GOPcapitalist
** VOTER GUIDE ** By: David Osborne, Leon County, Florida

http://www.vote2002.davidosborne.net


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/779559/posts
84 posted on 11/02/2002 12:05:43 PM PST by davidosborne
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To: GOPcapitalist
These election clerks should be charged with felonies and put on trial!
85 posted on 11/02/2002 2:23:28 PM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: GOPcapitalist
Here are a couple of recent examples of DemocRAT attempts to cheat in the Maryland election. One apparently successful and in the other, the jury is still out.

http://www.sunspot.net/news/elections/bal-md.workers02nov02,0,3991028.story?coll=bal%2Dhome%2Dheadlines

http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20021101-23453916.htm
86 posted on 11/02/2002 2:47:39 PM PST by jackbill
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon
LOL! Tell Teresa to keep an eye on Harris County's straight ticket totals next Tuesday - not Fort Bend. I guarantee the gains from straight ticket down there will be dwarfed by what comes out of the fifth ward precincts in Harris.

During the last session when I was pushing for that bill, I talked to one of the suburban GOP state reps from an outlying county around Dallas. He was arguing that it helped the GOP because his county was majority republican and in that county, the straight ticket votes were overwhelmingly republican. I asked him to take a look at the stats for Houston in 98 and 00. Out of the total votes cast countywide here, we've averaged 54% of voters using that straight ticket option. Keep in mind that Harris is a GOP county with roughly a 55-56 ORVS on any given day. But when you look at the straight ticket voters alone and which party they picked, the Dems matched us in 1998 and outvoted us in 2000. The same thing happens in most urban counties because the Dems, like sheep, use that one button as their ONLY guide on how to vote in every single race on the ballot. Marginal GOP and former GOP states up north have discovered this and moved to change the law, albeit too late. Now they're in the minority or barely in a majority without the votes to change the law. Texas needs to wake up before that happens here.

87 posted on 11/02/2002 4:29:25 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
Very interesting. No one can claim you are ignorant that is for sure. And it sounds like you really are trying to change things. Good Job. You have more hope than I do. If only we could throw the whole bunch of them out and appoint "Regular Citizens". How did we get to the point where cheating is rampant and very few people ever get punished for it. I just saw some figures on Fox news claiming that 74% of young people are saying they have cheated at school. WOW! Well I guess it is the least we can expect when most of our leaders are nothing to be proud of. I mean you have to deal with people like Sheila Jackson Lee J. I guess we can't expect to much from the next generation when they have examples like that. Take Care
88 posted on 11/02/2002 5:57:49 PM PST by Revel
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