[Voterescue] First-Hand Voter Fraud Account from Jim Welch, TX voter

[Vickie Karp]

  This was Jim Welch's original e-mail about the vote-flipping he
  experienced in Wharton County, Texas on November 6th.  We had Jim on
  our radio show two Sundays ago.  After researching the issue further
  (and we sent him some info to help), he is soundly of the mind that
  we need hand-counted paper ballot elections, with totals posted at
  the precint level. 

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  First-Hand Voter Fraud


  Subject: From November 6th election: FIRST HAND INFORMATION ABOUT
  VOTER FRAUD...

  Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 23:14:55 -0500
  From: Virginia Brooks <vareforms1 at bright.net>
  To: vareforms1 at bright.net

  *From:* Jim Welch <mailto:pbls40 at netscape.com>
  *- TEXAS 979-657-8109

  HE AND THE POLL WORKER WITNESSED HIS VOTE BEING CHANGED BEFORE THEIR
  EYES.  -  VIRGINIA BROOKS, 419-368-6074*

  I ask for your support on an issue that smacked me in the face when I
  went to vote yesterday.  If this is allowed to stand we shall surely
  hear the sound of the door on the boxcar slamming shut.

  I had read many reports about how the electronic voting machines had
  been compromised and how it had been proven over and over that the
  results could be manipulated. Frankly, like most people I trusted the
  "people in charge" would correct and take care of these problems and
  this could not really ever effect my
  vote.

  I was wrong.

  Yesterday, while I in the process of voting for the first time with
  an "electronic voting machine" (in Wharton County we had been using
  paper ballots up till now) I actually saw the machine change my vote!

  I was on page 2, item 11 (right hand column) when out of the corner
  of my eye I saw movement in the left hand column. In a blink of an
  eye my vote changed on Item 8 which I had already voted on.
  Incredulously I called for an election official to come over to my
  booth. With him looking on I changed my vote back to how I wanted it
  on Item 8 and then went on to my next item and we both witnessed Item
  8 change back again ON ITS OWN!!!! The "machine" overrode my vote!!!

  I am not naive enough to think this only happened once to me. How
  many other votes were changed is an answer I will never know. Even
  though a voter can review his votes on each issue before he
  "finalizes" his ballot there is absolutely no guarantee a change did
  not occur after he left a particular page, or even when he
  "finalized" his ballot.

  The election official called a lady who is charge of Wharton County
  elections, a Ms. Owens, and informed her what had happened. He came
  back to me and inquired if I wanted to continue with the ballot, or
  if I so desired I could have a "new" electronic ballot. I told him,
  "No." If the electronic voting machine could override and change my
  vote once it could do it again. What is the value of casting a vote
  if there is no way the voter can know WITH CERTAINTY THEIR VOTE HAS
  NOT BEEN ALTERED OR CHANGED??

  There is no value.

  I called Ms. Owens and she explained that a "paper trail" could be
  generated by the electronic voting equipment, but not as the voting
  occurred. In other words, we are asked to accept as factual the
  results generated at a future time, which is obviously not
  verifiable, by the same electronic voting system that we question and
  know as an indisputable fact can be manipulated or "adjusted".

  When we go in to vote we are asked to verify who we are and we are
  required to have proof of our identity. That is good. If history has
  shown one thing to be true it is that there have been many an
  election rigged by using nonexistent "voters" and changing election
  results.

  However, we, the voter, are being asked to accept ON BLIND FAITH as
  total fact that no one will change the vote by rearranging the 1’s
  and 0’s, that the electronic voting machines will not make arbitrary
  errors, and that no political agenda will have access to these
  electronic voting machines. We are being asked to believe that people
  are not bribable, that all politicians in power are honest, that
  special interest groups do not possess the knowledge, nor the money
  to acquire the knowledge, to hack into these electronic voting
  machines and change the votes. We are then further asked to believe
  that the machines themselves will tell us the results and print a
  report that we can believe!! As Josef Stalin said, "Those who cast
  the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide
  everything."

  Without a verifiable paper ballot generated at the time the vote is
  made there cannot exist, at this time, any way to 100% know the data
  is accurate and has been preserved and counted accurately.

  This "electronic voting" has all the markings of the end of the
  Liberty of the People and the rise of tyranny in America of
  unparalleled proportions.

  We are being told that we must use electronic voting machines because
  the Federal Government "requires" it. .... Seeking more information I
  called the Harris County Republican Party and spoke to Ms. Mandy Day,
  an Administrative Assistant, who assured me that since the decision
  to use these electronic machines in Texas was made by a Republican
  Secretary of State and "he is such a good man", I should not be
  concerned. 

  ....

  You can fool some of the people all the time. You can fool all of
  people
  some of time. But no matter how sharp the Texas politicians think
  they
  are, there will be hell to pay when the Texas voter wakes up and
  smell
  their voting Rights burning.

  Jim Welch

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