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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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I seriously doubt the election clerk in that last incident was a Republican. Contrary to the implications of this article, Texas does NOT register voters by political party. And even if they did, why would a republican direct not one but two GOP voters to punch straight ticket 'rat and turn the dial to the D straight ticket selection for them?
1 posted on 11/01/2002 3:24:15 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
No way was that judge a Pubbie. Give me a break you lying rat!
This election and all elections from now on are going to be fiascos thanks to Gore and his attempted coup in Florida. The rats learned just how much they can get away with in the open as opposed to NOP of fraud behind closed doors.
2 posted on 11/01/2002 3:28:48 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: GOPcapitalist
I'm still reeling from the shock of discovering that there are any Republicans in Travis County at all...
3 posted on 11/01/2002 3:29:32 PM PST by Own Drummer
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To: GOPcapitalist
I am dead set against any kind of electronic balloting.
4 posted on 11/01/2002 3:36:57 PM PST by Carry_Okie
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To: ladyinred
Go get em as you speak the truth. It will never be the same again after what Al Gore did to this nation That little commie rat! The democrats have gotton away with stealing elections for too long now but they will not get away with it this year!
5 posted on 11/01/2002 3:43:04 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: GOPcapitalist
Straight party voting in one action should not be legal. All and all I am afraid that this election is going to be nothing more than one giant fraud. It will not even reflect who the people wanted to vote for. There are more voter scam frauds out there than you could begin to count. And our system has been deliberately altered to allow it.
6 posted on 11/01/2002 3:47:24 PM PST by Revel
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To: Own Drummer
"I'm still reeling from the shock of discovering that there are any Republicans in Travis County at all..."

Travis County was carried by GW in 2000, thanks to all the Greens who voted for Nader1
7 posted on 11/01/2002 3:48:35 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
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To: GOPcapitalist
Okay, you want to file a complaint? Just set the dial to the complaint icon which looks like a donkey and push the 'Done' button.
8 posted on 11/01/2002 3:49:05 PM PST by Eastbound
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To: GOPcapitalist
I hope Republicans have their own lawyers ready to fight all this fraud.
9 posted on 11/01/2002 3:52:29 PM PST by dalebert
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To: GOPcapitalist
I find it hard to believe a voting machine has a dial that can select a straight party-line ticket.
10 posted on 11/01/2002 3:56:42 PM PST by mlo
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To: GOPcapitalist

11 posted on 11/01/2002 4:00:34 PM PST by mlo
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To: GOPcapitalist
"The irony, DeBeauvoir said, is that the judge happens to be a Republican."

Naw, a graduate seminar caller who also went to the Dimocrat Vote Fraud Seminar.

12 posted on 11/01/2002 4:00:45 PM PST by holyscroller
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To: Own Drummer
Cheer up!

Got one THC (Travis Heights Crew) Republican here!

I know of 3 others!

We all voted early at the Oltorf HEB. Everything seemed to be run well at that location, at that time. However their surely were a number of rats scurrying about.

Leave it to the genius Guilty White Liberals over Lakeway to screw it up. ;)

Let the THC flame war begin!
13 posted on 11/01/2002 4:03:57 PM PST by jrawk
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To: Revel
Straight party voting in one action should not be legal.

You should see the ballot in my county. I'll bet there were at least 20 races where the Republican had NO opponent.

I didn't vote straight party ONLY because I like to enjoy the feeling of voting for each and every one of them. But it certainly would have saved me a bunch of time.

14 posted on 11/01/2002 4:05:37 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: GOPcapitalist
Note that the election "judge" is nameless so nobody can independently check on the RAT's claim that he's a Pubbie.
15 posted on 11/01/2002 4:06:17 PM PST by steveegg
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To: jrawk
Did you use this eSlate machine?
16 posted on 11/01/2002 4:07:38 PM PST by mlo
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To: Revel
We've been trying to get rid of straight ticket voting in Texas for a while. There was a bill to do it in the last session that I worked for heavily. Banning straight ticket voting is part of the GOP platform, but the bill was actually sponsored by a rural semi-conservative Democrat.

Unfortunately the radical wing of the 'rat party has a stranglehold on the Elections Committee in the House (hopefully that will change thanks to redistricting). It's been run with an iron fist for years by 'rat state rep. Debra Danburg. Danburg is often called the most liberal member of the Texas legislature, so you can guess exactly how far the bill got.

Add the committee membership in and you get an even better picture. There are 3 republicans and 6 or 7 'rats on the committee. Among the 'rats are one of the Dem caucus leaders who is constantly suing the state for "discrimination" via MALDEF et al whenever something doesn't go his way in the legislature. Another is a black democrat Sheila Jackson Lee Jr. named Terry Hodge from Dallas. She screams "intimidation" every time somebody proposes to do something that would get dead people off the voter roles. Another black democrat on the committee has offered pro bono legal representation to Nation of Islam thugs and Quannel X's neo-black panthers. That's what we're currently up against for electoral reform in Texas thanks to 'rat speaker Pete Laney.

Redistricting should give the GOP a majority in the legislature next year, though it may not be enough to defeat Laney for speaker, meaning the committee would stay the same. A couple of RINO state reps named Delwin Jones and Brian McCall, you see, are expected to vote for Laney no matter who has the majority.

17 posted on 11/01/2002 4:11:11 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: Dog Gone
How's the job situation there? I may be looking for a new domicile come Nov. 6.

Seriously, even though I know the folks that run my poll (helps that my mother is one of them), and I know the machine (optical scan), I still mark each and every race individually.

18 posted on 11/01/2002 4:12:52 PM PST by steveegg
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To: GOPcapitalist
Well, in Wisconsin I voted yesterday morning because I'm working at the polls on election day. Our newly remodeled City Hall offers no place to fill out your ballot in private. The clerk stood right over me and watched me fill in all the little ovals. She knows every vote I cast and even knows that I wrote in a candidate's name instead of voting for one of the printed choices. After she finished watching me, she watched my husband.
19 posted on 11/01/2002 4:13:35 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: steveegg
See # 19.
20 posted on 11/01/2002 4:14:31 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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