Reply #87: I approached the punch card question from a tabulation fraud perspective..

[roseBudd]

I found very little information on punch cards. I corresponded with Dr. Doug Jones and a pre-election certification volunteer from Indiana with specific questions, but they related to covering up tabulation fraud. I was trying to figure out how a county such as Warren might be able to cover their tracks in the event of a hand recount. I determined that Kerry voted ballots could be culled and replaced with machine punched Bush ballots. In fact some recount volunteers for other Ohio counties stated they saw ballots that had been sorted and held together with rubber bands.

I approached the idea of a stolen election in OH from the tabulation angle because I knew that Arnebeck and CASE-Ohio believed that Kerry votes had been flipped to Bush in reliably GOP counties, especially in SW Ohio, where the assumption is that these majority white counties are almost all Bush voters and would be less likely to arouse suspicion. I do consider the C. Ellen Connaly vote anomaly to be very suspicous. But that is because I live here, and was immediately in contact with a Warren County Kerry campaign volunteer, who expressed her suspicions directly to me based on her election day experience in Warren. I also found the Warren County lockdown highly suspicous. The Kerry campign lawyer was eventually allowed in on election night, but he did have to split his time between 2 rooms. I did also inspect poll books in Warren County and I definitely could tell the BoE employees did not like it one bit.

I can visit the Hamilton County BoE on my lunch break tomorrow and inquire as to whether the tabulator knows what precinct it is tabulating, or whether an operator has to tell the tabulator which program to use to interpret the ballots based on precinct. I found the woman I spoke to at the Hamilton county BoE shortly after the election to be very helpful and forthcoming.