Reply #14: Cuyahoga Catapillar crawl

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CATERPILLAR CRAWL IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY
Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
Presented to Election Assessment Hearing
Houston, Texas, July 29, 2005



In the State of Ohio, the law requires that the order in which the candidates’
names appear on the ballot, (or, more precisely, on the voting machines), must
rotate from precinct to precinct. The rationale for this is that voters are
stupid or lazy, and are more likely to vote for the first candidate listed on
the ballot. In practice, “ballot rotation” is an open invitation to fraud
because, more often than not, at least in Cuyahoga County, voters from more
than one precinct vote at the same polling place.

In all precincts in all counties, five columns appear in the vote totals, in
this order: Badnarik, Bush, Kerry, Candidate Disqualified, and Peroutka. I
have abbreviated these names as bBKdp for each precinct analyzed in this paper.
On the voting machines themselves, the candidates’ names might appear in a
different order. The sequence, however, is always the same. Only the starting
point differs. Thus, if voters from one precinct were given the correct punch
cards but went to the wrong voting machine, they would vote for the wrong
candidates, ones not of their choosing. In a precinct where Kerry would have
gotten 95% of the vote in a free and fair election, no organized effort was
necessary to commit election fraud. A mere lack of supervision would suffice.

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It is my expectation, after performing an exhaustive and comprehensive study of
polling places in Cleveland, that these uncounted punch cards will provide
conclusive proof of election fraud. Some of them will indeed be “undervotes”
incompletely punched for Kerry. But many of them will be “overvotes,” with a
hole for Kerry punched by the voter, and a hole for Bush punched by a criminal.
And many of them will contain votes for Candidate Disqualified, explainable in
such large numbers only by criminal intent to utilize ballot rotation to siphon
votes from the rightful candidate. We need to look at the forensic evidence.



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