Bob Fitrakis live radio guest later this hour

[Algorem]

http://www.awfradio.com

Ignore That Man Behind the Screen, Dorothy

By Greg Palast

http://commongroundmag.com/2006/07/as_dorothy0607.html

...A month after the election, I flew to Columbus, Ohio, and met with investigators Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman. Unlike the Mercury and the rest of the media’s see-no-evil gang, Fitrakis and Wasserman thought they should actually get these basic documents that backed up the touch-screen tallies. As was their right under the states’ Freedom of Information Law. They petitioned officials in the state to produce their voting-machine backup logs. The first reply was none too comforting.

“The backup tapes have been destroyed so as not to conflict with the official tally and create confusion.”

Huh? The computer logs were different than the “official” totals... so the county did the right thing: threw the evidence in the garbage.

Wasserman and Fitrakis were gob smacked—not just because the true vote was tossed out but because, as lawyers, they told me that chucking voting records is a crime. But heck, if a presidental election can be shoplifted, early recycling of some official papers seems like pretty small stuff...

[mod mom]

1. backup tapes have been destroyed so as not to conflict with the off tally

and they have the audacity to call us conspiracy theorists.

You gotta love Palast: "early recycling" -The GOP's part in helping clean the environment!

:argh:

[garybeck]

2. archive recording?