Reply #15: My bad and apologies to Bev: she is not the source for the 6,802 "phantom votes" number

[Fly by night]

Bev emailed me to say she was not the source for the earlier number. I checked and found the source was an August 25 press release related to two lawsuits filed in Shelby County over the recent August 5 election theft. Here's a segment of the press release.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 25, 2010

A PRESS CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25TH, AT 11:00 AM ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE COURTHOUSE AT 140 ADAMS AVENUE.

AUGUST CANDIDATES FORMALLY SUE DUE TO IMPROPRIETIES IN ELECTION

Ten coun­ty­wide can­di­dates in the August 5th elec­tion have for­mally filed an elec­tion con­test in Shelby County Chancery Court request­ing injunc­tive relief. The ten plain­tiffs in the suit include cer­tain non-partisan judi­cial can­di­dates as well as cer­tain Demo­c­ra­tic nom­i­nees, all of whom com­peted in the County Gen­eral Elec­tion ear­lier this month. Based on an inspec­tion and inves­ti­ga­tion of the Shelby County Elec­tion Com­mis­sion (SCEC) and of August 5th elec­tion records, the suit claims that the elec­tion process was incur­ably flawed to the extent that the cit­i­zens of Shelby County were denied a free and equal elec­tion as required by Arti­cle I of the Ten­nessee Constitution.

The suit alleges wide­spread irreg­u­lar­i­ties, impro­pri­eties, dis­crep­an­cies and vot­ing prob­lems so sig­nif­i­cant as to have affected the out­come of the August elec­tion and to have caused the elec­tion results to be incur­ably uncer­tain. Already known is the mas­sive error already acknowl­edged by the SCEC and described by the SCEC itself as “unac­cept­able” where invalid and inac­cu­rate voter eli­gi­bil­ity records were pro­vided to polls on Elec­tion Day poten­tially affect­ing 5,400 vot­ers and turn­ing away thousands.

“This law­suit is intended to assure that the OTHER sub­stan­tial and appalling impro­pri­eties which occurred in the August elec­tion are brought to light, inves­ti­gated and resolved for all cit­i­zens and for every future elec­tion. The han­dling and mis­han­dling of the August elec­tion by the SCEC is an embar­rass­ment to our county and a vio­la­tion of every prin­ci­ple on which our coun­try was founded. Regard­less of race, party or gen­der, every cit­i­zen is enti­tled to bet­ter and is enti­tled to an unim­peded and trans­par­ent vot­ing process. Our upcom­ing Novem­ber elec­tion, includ­ing the vote on con­sol­i­da­tion of Mem­phis and Shelby County, is impor­tant to many, and we intend to do every­thing in our power, with the approval of the courts, to assure that every citizen’s vote counts. None of us should tol­er­ate incom­pe­tence or impropriety.”

Exam­ples of prob­lems from the suit:

1. Votes With­out Vot­ers: Accord­ing to SCEC records, the Par­tic­i­pat­ing Vot­ers List for the August elec­tion includes 176,119 vot­ers. With­out expla­na­tion, the Cer­ti­fied State­ment of Votes Cast shows 182,921 votes as being cast in the August 2010 elec­tion. Thus, accord­ing to SCEC’s own records, 6,802 more votes were cast than indi­vid­u­als who par­tic­i­pated in the August 2010 election.
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Here's a link to the entire story. It is amazing what we already know about the Shelby county election theft. One wonders just how much we'll see in the next few weeks.

http://blogs.tennessean.com/politics/2010/democratic-candidates-challenge-shelby-county-election/


The good news about all this is that this larger number was data provided directly by the Shelby County Election Commission that reflected the entire election and not just the election day votes cast at the polls (which was the focus of Bev's report.) Thus, the great news is that both Bev's announced number and this larger number may be correct, with Bev's number being a subset of the larger figure.

It's clear that these numbers support allegations that a multi-faceted election fraud was committed at all levels of the recent Shelby county election and affected not only the fraudulent counts of votes cast on August 5 but also the early voting and absentee voter numbers. This mounting evidence of felonious election fraud demands that any and all questions about the recent election be answered without further delay AND that any and all data, hardware, software and related materials relevant to a forensic investigation of this election be surrendered immediately.

Anything less is more evidence of the crime and adds other felony charges against these corrupt country-club cracker perps ... in the birthplace of the blues.