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West Michigan News Company

January 21, 2008

Mike Ryder

Michigan Department of State

Bureau of Elections

PO Box 20126

Lansing, Michigan 48901-0726

Re: Allegan County 2006 General Election

Dear Mr. Ryder:

I would appreciate the Bureau of Election’s answers for a final disposition of the following issues that occurred

both before and after the 2006 General Election:

(a) Two criminal complaints were filed with Detective Doan of the Wayland State Police Post regarding the

failure of election officials to allow us to see and count the ballots physically at:

(i) At the recount for the recall election of all of Lee Township’s Board, Joyce Watts, the County Clerk

and the Board of Election Canvassers failed to allow us to see each and every ballot and take notes

during the recount after the Law giving us that right was read to them. (video on wmnc.biz and

blackboxvoting.org)

(ii) At Casco Township on the night of the election, a group of Election Challengers requested to see and

count the ballots after an attorney read to Mr. Peter Allegrenie of your office the law allowing us to

do that. The township clerk and Mr. Allegrenie both failed to comply with that law. (video on wmnc.

biz)

(b) After the 2006 General Election at a recount for Neva Tice for Trustee of Lee Township, the following

irregularities took place:

(i) The ballot canister was removed from Lee Township immediately after the election by Joyce Watts,

the County Clerk, and after a seal number was requested from the township clerk, we were told that

she could not give us one because Joyce Watts had it in her office.

(ii) The Poll Book showed 1,200 ballots for this election and apparently that is what the election officials

including the township clerk said at this recount. That should have left 189 unused or spoiled ballots

after the election. Yet there were no unused ballots in that container, and Ms Watts showed up with a

bag having over 500 ballots in it saying that the election workers could not fit them into the container.

During this recount, we were talking to these election officials, and they had told us that there

were only 1,200 ballots and the 189 unused ballots were placed in that container.

(iii) During the recount, there were three vote counters including myself, and we all had observed that at

least 50+ ballots had been printed and not completed by hand. Considering that this printer had broken

down early on election day, and was placed in a corner so voters could not use it, we are wondering

how they were printed and if anyone has even looked in this container to determine if our

charges are correct.

(c) While I was on both Julie Roger’s and Neva Tice’s recount groups, I was actually counting your boss’s

election, Terri Lynn Land, in four precincts, because your office would not allow our request for a recount

for the Green candidate running against her. I testified before the state senate committee on elections

in front of your boss, Chris Thomas that in all four precincts, the machines gave her from 3 to 5.5%

more than the actual ballots. Since your office controls elections in this state, what measures have you

taken to audit the actual ballots in the coming election?

This letter is an open letter and will be published. The citizens of Allegan County, the State of Michigan,

and avid readers from other states are concerned about the answers you are going to give to these questions.

Detective Doan told us that he had talked with your office and was told that everything was “OK”.

With the Reverend Pinkney from Benton Harbor in jail for election violations that he was cleared of in a

lie detector test for far less than what I have just listed, the world awaits your answers.

Sincerely,

Pat Foster, Editor

the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln