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#	Name	Comments
1	Joy Cobler	We've been waiting since 2004!
2	Sheri Myers	I am all for getting to the truth.
3	Paddy Shaffer	Jennifer Brunner and Marc Dann need to immediatly begin serious investigation into the theft of the 2004 election in Ohio, other election crimes, and start the legal prosecution of those individuals. A plan for transparency needs to be in place for the public to be able to view the progress, so we know that it is finally happening. Today is September 11, 2007. In 111 days it will be 2008, this work must begin immediatly! Sincerely Concerned, Paddy Shaffer Founder, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign
4	Stephen Caruso	Please make justice a priorty, otherwise there is no mercy shown to thiose who have infringed.
5	Adele Eisner	It's time to act from the fact that in the U.S., thus Ohio, it's the People who are the stakeholders/the owners of elections, not boards of elections nor their staffs, which are too often maintained through political patronage and means other than the proven meritorious conduct we their bosses deserve and demand; not any "experts" , commercial, academic or otherwise, chosen/hired and kept isolated by politicians, the political dynamic and (supposedly) elected officials; and certainly not the vendors of electronic voting systems. As the owners, the bosses, we the People must be able to see what is occurring among our elections staffs - top to bottom; and we must be able to see that the leaders of those staffs - whom to date are circularly chosen/hired to those positions and maintained there by an out of date, proven non-trustworthy self-serving political dynamic, and ultimately by the very elections which now lie sorely and urgently at the heart of the deserved massive distrust - must demonstrate availability to input from the people; and that where laws are broken by those chosen, paid and bound to keep them for the people; and where election trust is not warranted, that there are negative consequences, and dramatic changes to assure that provable, consistent (not "trust-based" ) changes that are for the People are being clearly and swiftly introduced Protected, isolated perches which continue and deepen the notion of the people being the "outsiders" of elections; that people who want to reform the election process for the good of the whole, not to control, and who care so deeply about the good of the whole and democracy that we give months and years of effort and expertise are "crazy" "bad" or "infiltrators"; that the People need to accept election outcomes, stories and dictums based on blind trust and spin have no place in Ohio.
6	Jason M Parry	I would urge SOS Brunner and Ohio AG Dann to review election laws and enforce them. It appears to be an open and shut case here. ================================= 42 U.S.C. § 1974. Retention and preservation of records and papers by officers of elections; deposit with custodian; penalty for violation Every officer of election shall retain and preserve, for a period of twenty-two months from the date of any general, special, or primary election of which candidates for [federal office], all records and papers which come into his possession relating to any application, registration, payment of poll tax, or other act requisite to voting in such election [...] Any officer of election or custodian who willfully fails to comply with this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. ================================= 42 U.S.C. § 1974a. Theft, destruction, concealment, mutilation, or alteration of records or papers; penalties Any person, whether or not an officer of election or custodian, who willfully steals, destroys, conceals, mutilates, or alters any record or paper required by section 1974 of this title to be retained and preserved shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. ================================= O.R.C. §3505.31 [...] if an election includes the nomination or election of candidates for any [federal office], the board shall carefully preserve all ballots prepared and provided by it for use in that election, whether used or unused, for twenty-two months after the day of the election. ================================= O.R.C. §3501.13 Duties of director. (B) Before entering upon the duties of the office, the director shall subscribe to an oath that the director will support the Constitution of the United States and the Ohio Constitution, perform all the duties of the office to the best of the director’s ability, enforce the election laws, and preserve all records, documents, and other property pertaining to the conduct of elections placed in the director’s custody. ================================= O.R.C. §3599.16 Misconduct of member, director, or employee of board of elections - dismissal. No member, director, or employee of a board of elections shall: (A) Willfully or negligently violate or neglect to perform any duty imposed upon him by law, or willfully perform or neglect to perform it in such a way as to hinder the objects of the law, or willfully disobey any law incumbent upon him so to do; (D) Carry away, destroy, or mutilate any registration cards or forms, pollbooks, or other records of any election; Whoever violates this section shall be dismissed from his position as a member or employee of the board and is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. ================================= CBE-6 (050-036) Records Retention Schedule - County Boards of Election (Revised 1996) Ballots Cast (actual ballots, non-partisan, primary, absentee, questions and issues, etc) (Special Note Federal ballots must be retained for 22 months) ================================= Directive 2004-43 (October 25, 2004) Ballot security is important at all times. As soon as any ballot tabulation is completed, all ballots must be stored in a safe, dry place secured with two locks: one lock that can be opened by the director, and the other lock by the deputy director or other designated employee of the opposite of party of the director. All used and unused ballots must be retained for at least 22 months." ================================= Directive 2006-59 (September 1, 2006) I am instructing all county Boards of Elections [...] to comply with the public record laws of Ohio under §149.38 [...] be advised that no records can be destroyed without the consent of the County Records Commission. ================================= O.R.C. §149.38 (C) When the county records commission has approved county records for disposal, a copy of a list of those records shall be sent to the auditor of state. If the auditor of state disapproves the action by the commission in whole or in part, the auditor of state shall so inform the commission within a period of sixty days, and those records shall not be destroyed. Before public records are to be disposed of, the commission shall inform the Ohio historical society and give the society the opportunity for a period of sixty days to select for its custody such records as it considers to be of continuing historical value. ================================= Hamilton County BOE Director John Williams -- "the above ballots were inadvertently shredded between January 19th and 26th of '06" Putnam County -- "all unused ballots were destroyed for security purposes." Warren County BOE Director Michael E. Moore -- "The unused ballots were destroyed 60 days after the 2004 election." Holmes County BOE Director Lisa Welch -- "Many of the stored items had to be destroyed due to the broken glass and hot coffee." Allen County BOE Director Keith Cunningham -- "much of what was stored in our vault, including the 2004 general election ballots, were compromised by water damage and subsequently destroyed on or about August 20, 2006." Guernsey County BOE Director Jacqueline Newhart -- "The unused ballots as well as the punch card ballot pages were destroyed in error"
7	Ellie Inglesi	We know what happened. We will not go away.
8	Patricia Marida	If we believe in the rule of law, we must hold people accountable for their crimes. With no accountability, these crimes will continue to be committed, and we will lost our vote and our democracy. This is an extremely serious matter.
9	Gail Larned	Can we save Democracy in our own country? I believe we can by exposing the irregularities and outright fraud of the 2004 election. I voted for you. Are you going to honor your promises of the campaign or are you just like the bums we voted out? i hope not, otherwise what hope have we?
10	Alex Cohen
11	Holly C. Wendell	I wonder if I might have already signed this at the Free Press office when I saw the movie/documentary "Commander n Thief"? Holly C. Wendell It is about time that this fraud is revealed to the American public.
12	jane hubbard
13	Janis Pentz
14	Ronald lee Vaught	Dennis Kucinich great guy from ohio. Yes what can i do to expose michael vu in san diego? I live in orange county,ca
15	Victoria Parks	Never in our history is democracy more threatened than it is now. It is painfully obvious our elections are rigged. That is why we voted in Brunner and Dann (by even larger margins than the offical results). We want election integrity and transparency and right now we have neither. Even the democrats are being obstructionist. This has to change if democracy is not to perish from the Earth.
16	Caryl Brt
17	Judith Alter	I was prepared to go to Ohio to help with the recount in Nov,-Dec, 2004. i am still working for election justice. Please investigate all the illegal behavior of the election officials that occurred. Thank you.
18	Wayne Stinson
19	Anonymous
20	Joseph Davis	Remove all machinery from voting and have paper ballots hand-counted. Counting usually does not take that long, and there are almost always enough volunteers for ballot counting.
21	Eve Roberson	I am a former election administrator of many years who spent Dec. 2004 and part of Jan. 2005 in Greene County , OH uncovering and documenting election official fraud there. The long lines in the rain and wrongly disenfranchised voters shown on TV motivated me to make the trip to see for myself.
22	HERBERT davis	burn the machins.......
23	Robert Halfhill
24	Karl Pavloff	We need to abolish all Electronic Voting Systems to preserve the accurate counting of our votes in this country. Fair and accurate elections are the foundation of maintaining a functioning democratic republic.
25	Jennifer Alexander
26	Edward Bowen
27	Scott Rice
28	jeannine Jacobs	Dear SOS Jennifer Brunner, Diebold was remiss in changing out software in 17 counties of CA on the GEMS systems (Opti-scanners), after the machines had been certified. Of course the County Clerks, who rely so heavily on the technicians from the company are so very trusting of whatever they may wish to do. We object to the underhanded way that this company has behaved in California. They even neglected to show up to an investigative committee hearing. This contempt of court was uncalled for. Now our Secretary of State has many new policies that improve the process and the security; yet, this particular issue has not been addressed, a there may be no record of what exactly they reconfigured or added after the certification process. Personally, I object to our national and state elections being controlled by the proprietary source code of these vendors. I suggest a video-taped hand count of all paper ballots. Jeannine Jacobs Earth Awake
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30	Linda Hermanson
31	Micki Gutierrez	I want a fair election. Only honestly registered Americans
32	Betty Brown