"Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach, Fl"

reagan.com ^ | REPOST - 09 November, 2000 | Robert A. Cook, PE

[tlb]

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:3bMnm3_qmmQJ:abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/florida_votamatic_001115.html+missing+mechanism++abc+++florida++votomatic++machine+returned&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


A little news item I kept bookmarked. The story seems only available in the Google snapshot. No attention was paid to the incident in the national press beyond this initial report.:


Missing Voting Mechanism Recovered

Police Say Florida Democrat Had a ‘Votomatic’ in His Car

By Chris Vlasto and David Ruppe

Nov. 15 — Several days after presidential votes were tallied in what has become the hotbed of Florida’s post-election confusion, police in Palm Beach County confiscated a ballot-box mechanism from the car of a well-known local Democrat.

The mechanism, called a “Votomatic,” did not contain any ballots. It’s a device used on some types of ballot boxes to punch votes through ballot cards, which are then tallied by computers.

According to a police report filed at the Palm Beach County sheriff’s office and obtained by ABCNEWS, Irving Slosberg, 53, pulled the mechanism from his car and handed it over to police on Nov. 11 after denying to a county government employee that he had it.

When told of the incident, Palm Beach County’s supervisor of elections, Theresa LePore, declined to press charges, according to the report.

“She noted that this incident did occur during the hand count of the presidential election and LePore stated she did not wish to pursue further this matter at this time due to extenuating circumstances,” it said.

No further action was taken.


Slosberg, a 53-year-old resident of nearby Boca Raton who owns a handbag company, recently won a seat in the state Legislature amid allegations he tried to buy his election.

The officer who filed the report, Deputy Sheriff Daniel Grose, had been working a special elections detail when he was contacted by Denise Cote, director of public affairs for Palm Beach County. Cote said she believed Slosberg had an official Palm Beach County ballot box, according to the police report.

Cote told the deputy she first wanted to speak with Slosberg alone to convince him to give the machinery back, but she asked the officer to stand by. Ten minutes later, Cote returned to the officer and said Slosberg had become confrontational and denied having the mechanism.

“I asked Mr. Slosberg to return it to me, and he said no, he intended to use it,” Cote told ABCNEWS.com. She said Slosberg did not say how he wanted to use it and he declined to say how he had obtained it.

“I was told by the county’s attorney’s office that it must have been taken from a voting booth, because there was no other way that he could have obtained it,” Cote said.

When the officer asked Slosberg whether he had the item, Slosberg led the officer to his car and handed over the Votomatic, according to the police report.

Just days before a Democratic runoff, which he won, his opponent, incumbent Curt Levine, filed a state ethics complaint, accusing Slosberg of trying to buy the election by giving away thousands of handbags and paying retirees phony consulting fees.

Slosberg’s defeat of Levine practically guaranteed him a term that reportedly pays nearly $27,000 a year for representing the Boca Raton district. On Nov. 7, he defeated a lesser-known write-in candidate, Robert A. Sloan III, in the general election.

In the primary election, Slosberg had barely squeaked past Levine. He reportedly had 50.5 percent of the votes to Levine’s 49.5 percent.

Palm Beach Post political columnist wrote Monday that Slosberg had been “schlepping” the mechanism around the county government center “like a traveling election equipment salesman.”

“He was happy to provide a demonstration of the county’s ballot problems for anyone with a TV camera last week,” wrote columnist George Bennett.

But Slosberg was no longer toting the visual aid Saturday night, after Mary McCarty, a Palm Beach County commissioner, demanded to know how he got his hands on a piece of official county voting machinery, Bennett wrote.

“It disappeared,” Slosberg said Sunday when asked about the Votomatic.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Includes 15k from 1996.

[MHGinTN]

Your analysis will not be 'proven' wrong because you hit the ball out of the park with your first swing! Clearly, the democrat machine cheated in 2000, one of their operatives was found to have a 'spare' punch machine in his trunk! The media don't want the truth open to the general national populace because it would potentially decrease the money the networks would make with close races and decrease the democrat power which the debauched networks depend upon.

[CyberAnt]

Yes he was .. and this constant harping is just another democrat strategy to keep people from seeing or finding out the truth about what really happened in FL.

I was sure it was a staged mess when the DEMOCRAT election official was found to have a ballot machine in her car. And .. if anybody was paying attention .. ALL THE DISTRICTS IN FL THAT HAD ANY PROBLEMS .. THOSE DISTRICTS WERE RUN BY DEMOCRATS.

[Publius]

Collusion: The Day Before the 2000 Election

[Pest]

bump

[normy]

If 19,120 is 33,000 too many, then this guy - despite his impressive credentials - needs to go back and take 3rd Grade math over again.

15,000 from '96 plus 19,120 from 2000 minus 1800 it should have been equals 32,320 or roughly 33,000 too many. It makes sense doesn't it?

[libstripper]

Remember all the hanging chads? The easiest way to create those is to stack ballots up in a box and multiply punch them. That's who going to the electronic touch screens is such a good idea.

[Tribune7]

ping

[Temple Owl]

Editor's Note: The following statistical analysis was sent to me by Robert Cook, PE, a nuclear engineer, with an MS in statistical quality control, a software testing specialist and QA manager, who has a track record for analyzing and correcting trends, errors, and mistakes in heavy construction projects (ships, power plants, nuclear reactors, military and aerospace vehicles, etc. for more than twenty years.

Can you just imagine the fun this guy would have in Philly?

[swampfox98]

remind everyone of the FRAUD perpetrated on the American People by the Democratic Party.

That doesn't even include the military votes Gore had thrown away in Florida because he knew they had voted for Bush and not him.

America is a nation with no laws, no borders, and no future.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Fraud most likely occurred several different ways in the different counties, and at different times as well.

More confusing, "deliberate fraud" does get mixed in with "accidental double punches" and with "confused (or manual) double punches." Worse, the democrats deliberately started confusing the whole issue with double-punching WITH their claims of confusion in the "butterfly ballot syndrome."

Fraud IS NOT an issue with the butterfly ballot, but the butterfly ballot CAN BE used to cover up fraud, and also to show where fraud happened. See, I believe that at least some, perhaps several hundred votes in all, of the Buchanan-Gore double punches WERE CAUSED by an attempt at fraud that some democrat operator simply screwed up. When the democrats discovered their error sometime around 3:00 pm, they immediately began the "push-polling" phone calls from Texas to cover-up their error and start their appeal to the news media.

(Push-polling to Palm Beach precincts started well before ANY ballots were counted, but the democrats KNEW they had to explain double Buchanan-Gore votes!)

Let's call a "manual double punch" one where there are two punches on the
ballot in the presidential race, and they are caused by somebody punching
two holes because they got confused somehow because of the democrat-designed
ballot.

Call a "fraudulent double punch" one where some democrat deliberately
punched one or more ballots with a Gore vote, thereby either removing a
Bush, or Buchanan, or Libertarian vote, or converting a "Blank" (protest)
vote into a Gore vote. Fraudulent double punches will happen ONLY in the
presidential race, and will ONLY be represented by a "Gore+somebody else",
or (as I suspect!) a "Buchanan + somebody else" when the cheater
double-punched the WRONG hole. unfortunately, since the ballots have been
multiply shuffled, creased, and "folded, spindled and mutilated" during the
recount, we can never find the "blank/protest" ballots converted to Buchanan
and Gore votes.

Call an "accidental double punch" one where some random errors have occurred
accidentally in randomly scattered places on the ballot. Accidents, by
nature, are mistakes, and will be randomly scattered across all ballots, and
across all races on the ballot.

Call a "blank ballot" a valid vote in all regards, but one where the voter
DELIBERATELY left no vote in one or more races. Usually, this happens in
lower races, where the voter has no preference, no knowledge, or simply
doesn't care. RARELY - the voter will leave a blank presidential
(top-of-the-ballot) race blank, but even the nbr two race in FL for the
Senate seat had consistently fewer votes than the presidential race.
Further, the difference between presidential and Senate votes was consistent
across all counties in FL -> EXCEPT in the those specific counties where
democratic fraud is suspected.

Call a "presidential protest ballot" a valid vote in all regards, but one
where the voter DELIBERATELY left no vote in the presidential race.

[Alamo-Girl]

Great article! Kudos!!!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

This brings back memories! Your article mattered during those difficult weeks when the left was working to steal the election.

We KNOW much can't be proven...it doesn't have to be. We were there. We witnessed enough to KNOW, and remember, and share.

We also have numbers, history, truth, logic ~ and election 2002 on our side. (^:

8 What I KNOW about election 2000

[ladyinred]

I always thought this is exactly what they did there. Now I suppose they will find a way to mess with the computer to assure a democrat win in Florida. I don't trust elections anymore after seeing that outright attempt to steal the Presidency before the eyes of the world, and then to turn it around and say the victim of their fraud is the one who cheated.

[Revel]

All started here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a0d90902e02.htm

Also see:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a0c85230a29.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a0e38ab70ec.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a0f64dc7a8d.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a1345ae4107.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a0a52eb1d57.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a1be22909c7.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a1d34c113fa.htm

[Revel]

see post above for how it went down on free republic back then.

[ladyinred]

Thanks for the memories. I am reading those links. Give me nightmares again, but I think we need to remember exactly how devious these thieves are.

[NormsRevenge]

Yikes BUMP!!!

[TaxRelief]

Every Freeper in America
needs to be poll-watching
on election day this year.

Plan your vacation days from work, now.

Nothing is more important than this year's elections!