Reply #51: Conyer's Hearing Mon. 12/13

[JoAnnSimon]

I just sent this message to Bob Fitrakas, editor of FreePress in Ohio. He's been on top of the election problems there, so I hope he responds.

Dear Bob Fitrakas,

Someone listening to the hearings today, posted this on Democratic Underground today:

---"Here is a very rough transcript of what David Cobb reported at the Conyers hearing today: There were a lot of dropouts on the audio, so some was garbled, so it's not a completely exact transcript, but darn close.
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Rep Conyers, I have the most recent, breaking information, it will be brief but I think very important.

It's probably the most ? incident that has been related to my campaign, it was related only on Sunday, Dec 12th, regarding a very shocking event that occurred last Friday, Dec 10th. The person who is reporting it, at this point, wishes to remain anonymous but I will bring it to this committee because this must be investigated

A representative from Triad Systems came into this county's BOE offices unannounced on this Friday. He said he was just stopping by to see if they had any questions about the upcoming recount. He then headed into the back room where the Triad ?? that is, the machine that COUNTS the ballots, is kept.

The Triad representative then told them that there was a problem with the system, that the system had a bad battery and had quote "lost all it's data" endquote

He then took the computer apart and started swapping parts in and out of it and in another spare ??? (tower PC?) in the room

(garbled -- something about having spare parts in his coat?)

...he finally reassembled everything and said that it was working, but that not to turn it off.

He then asked which precincts would be counted in the 3% recount test, and the ones which had been selected, as if it had the right number of votes, was relayed to him, and he did something else to the tabulator.

The Triad Systems representative suggested that if the hand recount had to match the machine count exactly, and since it would be hard to memorize the several numbers that would be need to get the count to come out exactly right, that they should post this series of numbers on the wall where they would not be noticed by observers, such that to make them look like employee information or something similar. The people doing the hand count could then, he said, (garbled -- record? those numbers?) no matter what they actually counted in the ballots.

This would then quote "match" endquote the tabulator report for this precinct exactly.

Conyers then replied: "David Cobb I need you to arrange a meeting with our staff immediately as soon as possible so we can go into detail on this matter"----

I presume you were at the hearing. Can you verify that the above is factual, and, if so, can you fill in some of the blanks and give us more information on this. Obviously, since the mainstream media is ignoring/dismissing the Ohio recount, we out here who question what went on in the Ohio vote don't have access to news of what's happening on the ground out there.

I'd appreciate hearing from you on this, and if you have clarification on the above complaint, that you send or copy your response to http://www.buzzflash.com http://www.democraticunderground.com and to http://www.dailykos.com, as well as publishing this information in your Free Press.

Thank you very much. I'm not an Ohioan, but I'm one of millions across this county that believe our Presidential election has been stolen again, and I'm not going to silently sit by and let it happen!

Sincerely, Jo Ann Simon Camden, Maine