SARASOTA, FLORIDA 2008
Part 1: "Observing the Lack of Observation"...
Well--new year, new system, SAME OLD PROBLEMS. Seems there is a back door to Diebold software that not many of us had considered--the ability to completely override the central tabulator MANUALLY FROM THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS OFFICE.
Okay, no biggie, as long as someone representing BOTH PARTIES is on hand, WATCHING to make sure the CORRECT NUMBERS are being entered into the system...right?
Oddly enough, FLORIDA SECRETARY OF STATE, KURT BROWNING issued a letter advising SARASOTA SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS, KATHY DENT, that "election code is silent about who is permitted in the tabulation room
to observe..."
BROWNING also argues that "tabulating"
is not "counting". This missive barred some of FLORIDA's most renown election experts (including the amazing Susan Pynchon "Hacking Democracy")from witnessing YOUR VOTE BEING COUNTED...or NOT COUNTED...or PURGED, ERASED, SHREDDED, TRASHED or now--even OVERRIDDEN.
I was not allowed in the tabulation room, but was forced to film from outside the "election terrarium", behind glass, from 20 feet away. If it hadn't been for a sharp eyed OBSERVER who was allowed to view the TABULATION ROOM and the MODEM UPLOADS, I could not have confirmed what I thought saw and filmed...a manual override of the central tabulator by election officials--who for some reason don't want you to watch them.
I have been haunted by these events of JAN. 29th, 2008...hoping this video will shed some light on this knee-slapping, horror story: the nation's unreliable voting systems and the felon-vendors who profit from them. Even more egregious, at least in PART 1, is the yammering of the MADDENING MEDIA. This video is as much of an
indictment of them, as it is of our failed voting systems.
Good video--very, very bad day.
Please help me circulate this and part 2 part series, as it will probably be my FLORIDA ELECTION VIDEO SWAN SONG...
I figure it doesn't get any better AND worse than this! Nowhere to go but UP and down. And up and down. And up...
Thanks!
Jeannie Dean
keep telling it!
you rock, thanks for taking video!
texxs01 3 years ago
"Please remember there were non I mean no protests on this election, even by the videographer." Another blatant lie.
What's wrong with you guys, really?
Do you even know you are lying when you do it or do you believe the things you say?
here's the evidence so don't try to say, EVER AGAIN< that no one complained.
texxs01 3 years ago
(con't.)
And, Eric, c'mon now. Of course there weren't protests. It's SARASOTA.
Please pay more attention, Dude. Maybe even ask some questions; help me to restore my confidence in my voting system, my state, and my PARTY.
jeanniedean 3 years ago
(con't.)
As a citizen with no access to the tabulation room, I'm counting on YOU as my party designee to stay vigilant on my behalf. I need you to make sure my REPUBLICAN ballot is counted as cast--not illegally discarded, not lost, not disappeared into the ether, or OVERRIDDEN.
As for my "agenda"--I am giving you the benefit of the doubt when I assume it is the same as yours: making sure every vote in Sarasota County is counted. That's all.
jeanniedean 3 years ago
(con't.)
...as I would expect you to know that PRECINCT BY PRECINCT TOTALS are how we do that (irregardless of your unsourced, silly stab at the 99.99999999% statistic of presupposed voter interest, you silly.)
I'm really glad you saw this video, Eric. I was hoping you would. As you are the Chair of the Sarasota Republican Party, and I am a registered REPUBLICAN VOTER--you represent ME when you observe, or don't observe, the elections process...
jeanniedean 3 years ago
Hello, Eric~!
You're correct. This piece WAS heavily edited--I took great care to show your odd behavior ONLY ONCE. I left out the 2 hours of you and Mrs. Farrington chatting, eating, and staring at the MONITOR instead of actually watching the DIEBOLD CENTRAL TABULATOR SYSTEM OVERRIDE which was occurring not 20 feet away from where you WEREN'T observing.
With all due respect, Eric, we both know that on election night, you and the Democratic party observer did very little that resembled...
jeanniedean 3 years ago
(cont'd)...can you imagine, VERN BUCHANAN's SARASOTA FORD adopts NORTHPORT? Won't THAT make it all too easy?...Crazy. Everyone needs to keep their eye on that broad.
Thanks again, WN! Adore you.
REALLY looking forward to running into you SOON.
Mad love.
jeanniedean 4 years ago
Thanks, Vickie. More video from NH with wonderful YOU coming soon!
jeanniedean 4 years ago
(cont'd)...her combined, collective "mistakes" and "misinformation" must trump some kind of record for S.O.E. misdeeds...
You won't believe what she's up to, now~!
"ADOPT A PRECINT PROGRAM"--get this:
PRIVATE COMPANIES "ADOPT" a Sarasota County precinct and send in THEIR OWN POLLWORKERS--assigned and TRAINED by...guess who?...
jeanniedean 4 years ago
Hi, Sister!!! Great to hear from you/ seeing you all over these threads and it's GREAT. Can't thank you enough for paying such close attention (you always come through!)
RE: The absentees...I know. Freaky, right? Yah, I don't know exactly how that all happened; perhaps an honest mistake by the SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE combined with DENT's belligerence and antipathy for the voters she is elected to represent?...
jeanniedean 4 years ago