Recount news from NH - It's not over

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THE MEDIA DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT:

1. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE is conducting a hearing on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 1:0 THE MEDIA DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT:

1. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE is conducting a hearing on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 1:00PM, Legislative Office Building Room 201, Concord, New Hampshire.

2. The people in this room (Gary Francoeur, Chairman, N.H. Ballot Law Commission) have the power to OVERTURN the results of the NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY and DECLARE that Hillary Clinton and John McCain were not the first and second place winners.

3. United States Presidential Candidate Albert Howard raised $55,600 and is the first African-American to receive a New Hampshire Primary Recount and to submit an official Petition of Appeal to the N.H. Ballot Law Commission.

4. WE THE PEOPLE have the VICTORY in this situation when we show up in Concord, N.H. on April 18th and PROTEST AND PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS AND SUPPORT THIS HISTORIC HEARING.

5. THE OFFICIAL LETTER THAT WAS SENT TO ME CAN BE VIEWED AT:
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NOTICE THEY INTENTIONALLY DELETED THE ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS ON THE LETTERHEAD.

DONATE NOW AT THE PAY PAL LINK:
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I will personally be in Washington, D.C. to meet and greet you on April 15th.

I also look forward to seeing the MILLIONS OF SUPPORTERS on April 18th in Concord, New Hampshire.

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WHAT YOU MAKE HAPPEN FOR OTHERS GOD WILL MAKE HAPPEN FOR YOU

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An original investigation by Black Box Voting

Last week, I described a way to alter ballots using the techniques used to remove ink from old, archival paper documents and old books. Archivists and custodians of rare books and documents are generally familiar with these techniques, because they are needed to restore documents.

These techniques have been adapted by modern-day criminals to "wash" the writing off of checks, and this is why it's dangerous to send checks by putting them in your mailbox with the little red flag up. Criminals have learned that they can remove the ink -- the amount written and the payee -- without disturbing the information printed on your check by the bank.

BALLOT WASHING

Archivists know this technique as a document repair method, criminals know it as "check washing." If you have the right chemicals, can you remove votes from ballots, allowing election-riggers to "re-vote" the ballots before they are counted, recounted, or audited?

Yes. We have been able to remove votes marked in ink from ballots without leaving a trace. Using this technique, insiders can alter votes on ballots.

HAVE INSIDERS EVER ACTUALLY BEEN CAUGHT TAMPERING WITH BALLOTS?

Yes. We now know that an aide to Maine Speaker of the House John Martin, together with a legislative aide, pleaded guilty in 1994 to rigging ballots in a recount structured almost identically to the New Hampshire presidential primary recount. Ballots had been packed up in cardboard boxes "sealed" with tape (a practice that the media called "an invitation to ballot-rigging") and transported to a central location for a recount.

The state attorney general and the Maine secretary of state were criticized for stonewalling the investigation after the insiders were caught red-handed, and the speaker of the house was not prosecuted, though he was alleged to have had inside information. The ballot-riggers got a few months in jail, a $2000 fine, and a sentence for community service. At least one of the perps did not pay all of his fine nor complete his community service requirement. Next time you're told to "trust" election insiders, laugh at that, ignore the advice, and keep asking sensible follow up questions!

In response to this "ballot-gate" scandal, the state of Maine invested $60,000 in more secure ballot boxes and changed policy to store them in an evidence vault used to secure evidence in pending criminal cases.

New Hampshire has known of this incident for at least 14 years, but failed to act to secure its own ballots.

New Hampshire ballot boxes - Presidential primary, 2008

THIS EXPERIMENT IS RELEVANT TO MAIL-IN VOTING, CENTRAL COUNT SYSTEMS, AUDITS, AND RECOUNTS

If it's possible for insiders to "wash" the votes off of paper ballots, all systems which give insiders access to ballots before they are publicly counted are at risk. The special risk is that ballot washing would enable vote alteration even when all ballots are accounted for. In other words, instead of substituting one ballot for another, ballot washing allows votes on the SAME ballot to be changed.

We have been experimenting with this. We learned that Premier/Diebold sells Eberhard-Faber black felt tip pens. We were not allowed to buy the Accuvote pens from Premier/Diebold because we do not have an account with them, but we purchased the same pens from another supplier.

Jim March and John Brakey came through with some genuine Diebold ballots, extras that had been used for a private election. In addition, Black Box Voting has a few Diebold ballots from the famous garbage raid outside the Volusia County, Florida warehouse. These ballots are not the same as New Hamshire presidential primary election ballots, which appear to be on thinner stock, with a colored bar along the top. We have thus far been unable to obtain a specimen ballot for New Hampshire.

WE WANT TO FIND OUT:

a) Which pens put your vote in the most jeopardy

b) Which pens have ink that is most difficult to remove

c) What effect different kinds of paper and paper coating have on ability to remove the vote mark from the ballot.

d) How the "official" pens and ballots fare when someone attempts to wash the votes off the ballots.

PRELIMINARY RESULTS

I'll be posting a formal report with photos and a video when we've completed all the tests. Preliminary tests indicate more work is needed and we are awaiting a shipment with additional materials for this project. Here's what we've found so far:

INK FROM BALL POINT PENS CAN BE LIFTED RIGHT OFF THE BALLOT

Both blue and black ball point pen can be removed easily with denatured alcohol. The amazing thing about removing ink with denatured alcohol is that even if you spill solvent all over the ballot it leaves NO EVIDENCE that the paper was ever wet. Of course, slopping solvent on the paper is not necessary because all you need is a plastic applicator bottle and bits of paper towel for easy, quick removal of the vote. The ink lifts off the page with the only evidence being slight indentations -- and those only exist if the voter pressed hard with his pen.

CONCLUSION: Ball point pen should never be used to mark ballots. In reality, this means mail-in votes are in special jeopardy, because it will be nearly impossible to stop people from picking up whatever pen is handy. Even in the polling place, some people may choose to use their own pens, thinking any black pen will suffice -- and for most modern optical scan voting machines, those marks will be read just fine. The problem is, the marks can be lifted right off the ballot leaving no trace, and insiders can re-mark the ballots.

We understand that banks are now using a special coating when printing some checks, which reveals the presence of solvents if they are applied. We should learn more about that to see if such a coating does indeed exist and whether it could be used for absentee ballot paper stock.

FELT TIP PENS, SHARPIES, "PERMANENT" MARKERS

We were able to lift BIC "Mark-It" fine point black "permanent marker" with denatured alcohol, but not completely. There was still some evidence that the mark had been made, though it was much lighter and "bled" to leave visible evidence. And it took two applications of solvent to get the marks half-way lifted.

We were not able to lift Sharpie fine point permanent marker at all. However, it is unlikely that this pen will be chosen to mark ballots by any election administrator, since it sometimes bleeds through the paper which would be undesirable for two-sided ballots.

This brings us to the Eberhard-Faber black felt tip pen sold by elections vendors for the purpose of marking optical scan ballots.

http://www.premierelectio...

Accuvote marking pen

http://www.amazon.com/Ebe...

Eberhard Faber(R) Porous Point Pens

Amazingly, this pen fails the "spit test" -- when we got the pens we ordered, before doing any official tests we marked a cardboard mailing container, moistened a fingertip with saliva, and part of the mark came off! It did leave a smear and was by no means removed altogether, and spit is a poor choice of solvent because unlike denatured alcohol, it leaves a watermark.

When we applied denatured alcohol, however, the Eberhard-Faber pens performed better than any of the other brands. The denatured alcohol had no effect whatsoever on the mark. Marks made by the Eberhard-Faber pens appeared to be indelible, impervious to the standard check-washing solvents.

NOT SO FAST -- "SPIT" WORKED BETTER THAN SOLVENT?

If you can lift part of the mark with plain ol' spit, but denatured alcohol leaves it entirely intact, it seems logical that the chemicals in Eberhard-Faber ballot marking pens may respond to a different approach. Indeed, that proved to be the case.

In a much more pleasant experiment (denatured alcohol, acetone and the like are toxic, flammable and nasty to work with) -- it turns out that Old Spice "Whitewater" after shave lotion partially lifted the Eberhard-Faber ink, and a second application lifted it further. But if you have to manipulate a lot of votes, it wouldn't be efficient to do repeat applications, and the ballots would come out with a telltale scent. Old Spice after shave lotion provided clues, but not answers. Based on the Old Spice after shave result, we've ordered some new substances to see if they lift Eberhard-Faber ink from ballots.

WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO THE PAPER STOCK YET

All of the above experiments were done on uncoated cardstock, and it stands to reason that coatings on the paper might make the ink easier to "wash".

AND NOW, A WORD ABOUT CARTING FLAMMABLES AROUND IN BALLOT TRANSPORT VANS

Ordinary solvents can be used to lift the ink off of any ballot marked with ball point pen, and this will include many of the absentee ballots, some of the polling place ballots, and many of the hand counted ballots. But how practical is it to tote tins of flammable solvents with toxic fumes around in a ballot transport van in the winter?

You've probably seen what these cans look like. Paint thinner, turpentine, what have you -- these chemicals are sold in square cans with a screw-on cap on the flat top surface. Glug-glug-glug-- not the kind of thing you want to splash around with in the passenger seat.

A quick visit to the hardware store nearest the archive building, where the New Hampshire recount ballots were being counted, did yield an unexpected result: While the shelves were fully stocked for all the other supplies, someone had purchased FIVE CANS of denatured alcohol during the last days of the Republican recount.

5 large cans denatured alcohol purchased in hardware store near New Hampshire recount

I asked the clerk how often they restock the shelves, and he said they do so every couple days. During the last days of the Republican recount, they were counting a lot of hand-count ballots, which are more likely to have marks made with ball point pen, so this did raise our eyebrows.

We followed this discovery up with a public records request for invoices, receipts etc. for purchases of products like this; the cost would have been about $75. We have not yet received those documents.

SOLVENT APPLICATOR BOTTLES?

We learned, as anyone else would who needs to remove stray ink marks from archived documents or old books, that it doesn't matter whether you are in a vehicle or not -- the most convenient way to remove marks with solvents is to keep the solvent in small plastic applicator bottles. These small plastic bottles have a nozzle that shuts off air flow when not in use -- necessary both to eliminate fumes and to reduce evaporation, because these chemicals evaporate quickly when the air hits them.

As an extra precaution, if carrying solvent applicator bottles in a vehicle, you'd want to keep them in a ziplock bag.

Here are two photographs taken by Susan Pynchon in the New Hampshire ballot transport van on Jan. 17, 2008. We are interested in getting your input on what you see inside the ziplock bag. Post away.

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WHAT'S IN THE VIDEOS:

1. Election Reality TV - BUTCH & HOPPY CHASE Part I (split into two parts for
YouTube length limits), The Butch & Hoppy Chase begins with Susan Pynchon and
Bev Harris's initial foray into the field following a ballot transport van. This
video raises questions, many of which will be answered in subsequent Election
Reality TV videos. Some answers will be troubling and will spur reforms.

2. Election Reality TV - PROCEDURAL FAILURES

Black Box Voting is focusing on a nationwide "election chain of custody" project
thoughout 2008. We have adjusted communications format to focus on video,
because it is getting more 15-30 year old citizens involved.

Collection of evidence through video, ESPECIALLY WHEN SEVERAL CITIZENS FAN OUT
WITH CAMERAS TO WATCHDOG A SINGLE ELECTION EVENT AND SHARE FOOTAGE, will be of crucial importance in election
2008. Take note and follow suit.

Click the links below for the new videos. Most of the issues being uncovered our
"ELECTION REALITY TV" series apply to MANY STATES, not just the state used to
illustrate.

Higher quality versions are posted on Black Box Voting -
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to "Videos") if you need to download for meetings. Please be considerate of
our bandwidth. Please download ONLY when needed and use YouTube links for casual
viewing and sharing.

WHAT'S TO COME:

An analysis of blow-ups of these video shots, examined frame by frame, has
revealed new information that we believe will be highly significant for fraud
prevention, particularly in an environment of paper ballots with manual spot
checks. Findings originating from these videos will prove to be critically
important to any new audit bill legislation, which MUST include rigorous chain
of custody controls.

The information in these videos has led us to a "theory of the crime" scenario
for New Hampshire. This doesn't prove there was a crime, but (pending completion
of our current testing) will show that the New Hampshire presidential primary
could have been stolen, even on a large scale.

New Hampshire is currently the most auditable state in the nation, with 100
percent hand recounts available for any candidate, at reasonable prices, as well
as good observation and videotaping rights for chain of custody examinations.
THIS TRANSPARENCY SHOULD BE RETAINED!

However, there were breaks in the chain of custody in New Hampshire, such that
there is no reason to believe that the ballots counted in the recount were the
same as the ballots cast by the voters.

And as for the many locations that still use paperless DREs or fail to audit
chain of custody and procedural safeguards, as they say in New York,
"fahgeddaboudit." There is no reason whatsoever to trust those elections.

Our work continues on chain of custody in several states.

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OK assume the boxes were stuffed to match the posted results.
That means blank ballots were marked up to replace the true ones.
The SOS orders the ballots and has a receipt X number of ballots were printed.
Ballots used Y plus ballots not used Z equals total ballots printed X.
If not true then the difference is the number of ballots stuffed.

This is why the law suite is being pressed as the SOS says the recount is over and he doesn't need to supply this information.

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Watch and feel the power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This man deserves some support in what he's doing. We sent him there in the first place, correct?

We know how it was rigged up in NH. I was there for 3 weeks watching the whole thing unfold. Stay with it there will be more interesting things unfolding up there. Also check in with blackboxvoting.org for updates. I have been in touch with Albert we should not let this go. Lets take back our vote

TOTAL F@)*(#&$^)@&*(#$^ING DECOY!!!!

I can hear it now -

"Yeah, just like it was rigged in NH"

Just because Mr Howard does not garner the MSM coverage or have name recognition here in NH or elsewhere for that matter, resulting in his vote count does not mean that he would be irresponsible in the Oval Office as you imply. WE have seen where that thinking has brought us these 8-16 years. True patriotic leadership which honors the oath to honor the Constitution has not been realized for a great many years.

There were serious and fraudulent irregularities in the ballot chains of evidence here in NH - Documented on film and written testimony thanks much to Bev Harris whom we are forever grateful to for her hard work and personal sacrifice.

For those who choose to believe the press' account of the tally yet ignore the tampered and manipulated ballot chain of evidence this was reported today.

HERE:http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=State+House+Dome%3a+Senate%27s+school-funding+vote+a+victory+for+Lynch&articleId=e17f843a-c4cb-4e0b-a8c4-e54137e7f121

PRIMARY RECOUNT
Results of the Republican presidential primary recount: John McCain still won, everyone else still lost. That includes Albert Howard of Ann Arbor, Mich., who demanded the recount and actually lost a vote in the process. His final tally is now 43, not 44. McCain's new total is 88,713, 142 more than on election night.

But we're not done yet. Howard, who paid for the recount with $56,000 from a Ron Paul supporter, has appealed to the state Ballot Law Commission.

Secretary of State William Gardner said he has forwarded Howard's appeal to the BLC, but no meeting has been scheduled yet to hear it.

Among his complaints: Tabulating machines were not properly handled and were not compliant with the Help Americans Vote Act, and questions over memory cards, ballot box transport and storage methods.

Even so, Howard wrote the BLC, "your standards for transparency and support of the democratic process are admirable and much appreciated."

Gardner spent nearly a month on recounts. He said Howard and his backers "have seen every single ballot that was used in the election." He said Howard is more concerned about finding flaws in the process than accuracy of the results.

Guys, the recount didn't find any significant skewing of the totals. Some votes got miscounted, but there really wasn't a significant effect on the final results.
I thank Mr. Howard for calling a recount, but there is no reason to re-recount. Dr. Paul got about the 8% he was reported as getting. This is a disappointment, but not a surprise when you figure the massive turnout by McCain and Romney supporters. If fewer of them had turned out, Dr. Paul may have finished with the 12-15% that was expected.

Mr Howard most certainly did not win, and the fact that he think he could have been robbed of a victory, or even of votes, confirms the fact that he probably shouldn't be elected to a position where he has access to nuclear launch codes. I think he actually lost 4 votes in the recount.

Also if he had a PayPal account we could send him some money that way too. We all need to thank Mr. Howard again for his great efforts. And thanks to the Granny Warriors again also. Glad you ladies are in Texas!

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Obama is only half black,but all communist.Just look at the posters in his offices.

and prove the machines steal our vote. Plus WE ASKED HIM. Can't leave him cold. Donate $20 or more

that this guy is a Ron Paul supporter, but rather a Obama supporter judging by the email address he just gave, did you check that out?!?!?!

You are a true patriot sir. I donated a little and pushed the topic initially, as I believe this cause is greater than any other at this time. We can never have an honest gov't without fair elections. I hope to have a few dollars to send in a week or so and hope many others will help you out. You have done an amazing job and we are all thankful.

Keep the faith.....we're with you 100% in spirit although not reasonably possible for many of us to be there physically.

the truth must be told.

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Dear Albert Howard,
Go to http://www.chipin.com and open an account so that you may accept donations, you can then put that code on a site, and receive donations.

Good Luck, and I hope you do not give up.

In Liberty's Cause

Where should we donate? To his general campaign fund, or is there a special fund for the recount?

Videos of the recount are on The Ridley Report YouTube channel:
http://ridleyreport.com

FYI... democracyfornewhampshire.com is embedding the Ridley videos of the recount into their site. Cool that the Socialists watch "our" media!!!! >:)

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Free State Project - Liberty in our Lifetime
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Its donating time!!!

Having taken absolutely no part in the recount, I am speaking from a very weak platform. However, what I will say that it is essential that the NH recount is completed soon. Americans and the media have short attention spans. It is likely that even if fraud occurred in NH, the point will be mooted by the passage of time and the completion of primaries in other states. Please hurry! I would help except I live at the furthest possible distance from NH.

We can't leave him out in the cold - he's making a stand for fair and just elections and I for one will continue to support him in any way I can.

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Live Free or Die - Amen to that

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