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. When he was hired, however, I thought 
that was kind of like what happens in professional sports - hire the manager 
or coach who recently was fired by some other team because of a losing 
record.
Larry


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bev Harris" <bev@blackboxvoting.org>
To: "Lowenstein, Daniel" <lowenstein@law.ucla.edu>
Cc: "Smith, Brad" <BSmith@law.capital.edu>; "Larry Levine" 
<larrylevine@earthlink.net>; "election-law" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [EL] Wisc

Larry, if the County Clerk wants to look for a job someplace where such
practices are the custom, I'd recommend she apply to King County, 
Washington.

LOL. But the perp in that, Dean Logan, has now moved on to Los Angeles 
County,
where he can find or lose lots more ballots. The no-fault absentee system
conceals who actually voted from the public, so a government worker can 
find,
lose, or (most dangerous) substitute ballots or fill in blanks on the
down-ballot races. King County not only "found" ballots (four times) in 
the
Rossi-Gregoire race, but at another point discovered bags of years-old 
ditched
absentee ballots behind a copier in black trash bags.

But my first question is: In a close rase like this, didn't candidates 
notice
that Brookfield had not reported?

Did Brookfield report NO votes in ANY race or did Brookfield just omit 
this one
race? Or were some Brookfield votes reported in full, but not all? If 
either of
the first two scenarios are the case, the campaign wasn't doing its job, 
or
perhaps more likely, the Democratic candidate decided not to alert the 
media to
a large number of omitted ballots from a Republican municipality. There 
are
ways to check poll worker reconciliations on this.

Now, that said, apparently this is one of the locations where they claimed 
to be
running out of ballots and had more shipped in during the election. If so,
that's a dangerous scenario, blanks are needed to substitute. And by the 
way,
substitute ballots will pass any "audit," Minnesota-style or not.

It was a bogus "running out of ballots" in New Hampshire in 2008, among 
other
things, that caused me to go follow the chain of custody that crashed and
burned there. (The invoices and ultimately, the Secretary of State himself 
said
more ballots were not ordered even though news outlets witnessed them 
being
delivered mid-election; poll worker reconciliations also did not 
corroborate
that more ballots were needed.)

But the underlying problem is America's absurd acceptance of turning over 
full
power to handful of cronies to count votes in secret with a non-public 
chain of
custody. What do we expect? You cannot substitute a handful of buddies,
bipartisan or not, for the public right to authenticate the original 
count.
Hope the Brookfield follies made at least a few stomachs churn.

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

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