So far Logan seems to be doing a good job here in L.A. He's got a veteran
staff of very good people around him.

That's a politically correct and polite thing to say. But since the public
cannot authenticate any of the crucial election components in Los Angeles, how
would anyone know whether the count is correct or just skillfully executed by a
handful of insiders?

There need be no allegation of fraud; a structural defect exists which obstructs
the public ability to exercise its right to authenticate its own public
elections. You cannot cede public control over the choosing process to the
government without ultimately removing self-governance.

For 10 years, I have been doing field work.

So I will tell you what I observed in Los Angeles. The central tabulation was
performed in a room that not observable to the public, in violation of
California law. They took the public on a tour and pointed them to a bank of
voting machines which could seen through a window. However, upon questioning,
they admitted that these were not the machines processing the election. Those
were behind closed doors. I pulled it out the California statute which states
that the public must be allowed to view. Six sheriff's deputies then arrived
and stood in front of me to completely block my view. Now bear in mind that I
was polite and sitting down so that no one could claim I was resistive. I sat
quietly for the remainder of the time, my view obstructed by six deputies and a
closed door, behind which was another closed door, behind which were unknown
individuals controlling the computers producing the count.

The IT guy supervising at that time, Petrocelli or whatever, is still there.
He's one of those veteran staff members to whom the public is forced to turn
over their inalienable right to authenticate the count.

While you may trust Dean Logan or Petrocelli or whoever works in the darkness
there and whether they are nice or competent, I would contend, is irrelevant
because even if you choose to trust, that does not remove the rights of others.

Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org

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Government is the servant of the people, and not the master of them. The
people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right
to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to
know. We insist on remaining informed so that we may retain control over the
instruments of government we have created.



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