Reply #5: Here's DUer's work - these were new HAVA Sequoia machines

[KatieB]

Innocently, while trying to help the Green Party last week - 271 votes
were discovered on "vote cartridges" from the brand new paper trailed Sequoia machines at our Elko County clerk's office in Nevada.

I can't post the link to the story in tonight's local paper but I will tomorrow as soon as it goes up. Someone from the Green Party in Vegas had asked me to see if I could get the precinct totals for this county to help them out with the recount they had initially filed. I sent a written request last Monday for the documentation to the Clerk. On Thursday, while entering the precinct votes into an Excel database ....from some other database (I was intially told), 271 uncounted votes were found on three separate precincts in the main population base of Elko County. Bush gained about 200 of these votes and Kerry gained 55. Just think, if I had not made that public information request for the Green Party that already bailed on their recount effort in Nevada, 271 people in my county's votes would never have been counted!!!

I will never vote in this state again.

Oh, forgot to add that the Clerk had to call Sequoia in California to help them "retrieve" the votes off the cartridges. What the hell does that mean? I'll let you guess.

Tell me lies, tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies ....

Do you think I should request this same thing from every county in Nevada now?

NVMojo (1000+ posts)
Wed Dec-08-04 02:56 AM
Response to Original message

1. ok, maybe no one else thinks this is important but I do



these were the brand new HAVA Sequoias with printers the Nevada SOS bragged about....

NVMojo (1000+ posts)
Wed Dec-08-04 03:07 AM
Response to Reply #3

5. sorry but I guess I am still upset about the cancellation of NV's recount



...this find was purely accidental. They have to recertify the vote at the SOS's office now.

And, by the very short period of time that I posted the first post and then posted the second one, Eloriel, that post was second from the bottom, that's why I did this.
This is the DU member formerly known as NVwriter.

4. Hi NVMojo...

Edited on Wed Dec-08-04 03:06 AM by Niche

Yes, request. I know that NV is split in its reps and dems but there are a few weird things there. I have posted this from looking at the numbers across the board - registered and totals - that 100% turn out for rep and 70% turn out for dems. In many counties this happened. Also, have been curious about hearing that 20,000 plus people in clark county signed a legalize marijuana petition and when asked what happened the signatures were lost. Do you know about that? The feedback I'm getting from friends and family there is that they aren't hearing anything about anything (on the news! haha) so they're not sure what to do. My mother is even starting to doubt my reports and emails and has stopped passing anything on. What do we do now? They were pissed off at first no

NVMojo (1000+ posts)
Wed Dec-08-04 03:12 AM
Response to Reply #4

7. Niche, then I guess we have to be vigilantes in NV



I think bigger fraud would be easier to pull in Vegas then on all these rural counties and their new Sequoias with printers. I have been totally disgusted at the State Dems, they did nothing to even reach out and acknowledge the Green Party when they were still trying to get a recount going.

I did hear about that marijuana petition. I had signed it in Reno while in line to see Michael Moore just before the election.

And then there is the issue of why Nevada was charging so much to do a recount for the population base of Nevada. They said they had to bring Sequoia in to help. Just like what here, they had to call Sequoia in California to help them retrieve the 271 uncounted votes on the cartridges last week. What is up with that? Who owns those machines? Sequoia is the only one who can do a recount or retrieve votes? Why bother voting with such a system?