Letter to the Bureau of Elections detailing election manipulations both in Allegan and Kalamazoo counties. The Bureau of Elections continue to stonewall us on our complaints. See also the pages that are marked bold on the left and right sides specifically for election investigations.

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Chris Thomas, Director of the Bureau of Elections, refuses to address concerned citizen groups regarding possible illegal actions they are taking for the upcoming election. He still refuses to address numerous criminal complaints against election officials like Joyce Watts, Allegan County Clerk in a letter sent to the Bureau of Elections. The question is simple. Can we as a democratic society continue to allow government officials to disregard the law, control our elections through machines, and not allow us to see or audit the results? The ballots from the 2006 General Election will be destroyed this September without anyone having the right to see or count them. Mr. Thomas is on the record trying to have them destroyed within 30 days of the election.

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In 2006, after Black Box Voting.org published our election videos of Joyce Watts, the Allegan County Clerk to the world with over a quarter million views, Secretary of State, Terri Lynn Land commanded Michigan's clerks to follow a rule that did not undergo the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules procedures, which entails legislative and public scrutiny of a rule proposed by an administrator. Secretary Land's non-rule rule posted states: "no cell phones, cameras, or other recording devices allowed in the precinct during voting." This means not even from the public areas of the precinct. For the Allegan County Lee Township situation (as seen in the above video) the important elements are:

 

      1. "During voting" of this non-rule rule

      2. The video was taken during a "canvass of votes" (after election vote counting).

      3. The video was taken from the designated public area.

A citizen goes into the Lee Township Hall after the Primary Election on August 5, 2008 to video the process of counting the votes after the election which is open to the public after each election. He is in the designated public area of the precinct. He is then ushered out by a sheriff's deputy after Jackie King, the Township Clerk tells him that cameras are not allowed. The sheriff's deputy points to the sign on the window which states: "no cell phones, cameras, or other recording devices allowed in the precinct during voting."  Of course, this is after the precinct has been closed to any further voting.

Sheriff cars were parked both in front by the main door, and in the back next to the back entrance of the precinct all day during the election to intimidate voters from coming to vote. Complaints will be filed with Chris Thomas of the Bureau of Elections, but we do not expect him to do anything but continue to stonewall as he has done in the past.

Joyce Watts had just told all the clerks that Green Party Election Challengers were not allowed in any precincts during the Primary Election because they were not on the ballot. It appears that Ms. Watts is not only wrong about her decision, but it was a felony for her to stop it. These challengers were going in to request an audit of at least one race. They were going to do the Republican race for state representative. At this point, there will be a thorough investigation of all the circumstances with possible criminal charges to be filed. Ms. Watts comment to telling her that the Green Party was a state wide party with the right to challenge any election within the state was: "SUIT ME".

Consider some of the applicable laws:

168.801 Canvass of votes by precinct inspectors; public access.
Sec. 801. Immediately on closing the polls, the board of inspectors of election in each precinct shall
proceed to canvass the vote. Such canvass shall commence by a comparison of the poll lists and a correction
of any mistakes that may be found therein until they shall be found or made to agree. Such canvass shall be
public and the doors to the polling places and at least 1 door in the building housing the polling places and
giving ready access to them shall not be locked during such canvass.

15.263 Meetings, decisions, and deliberations of public body; requirements; attending or
addressing meeting of public body; tape-recording, videotaping, broadcasting, and
telecasting proceedings; rules and regulations; exclusion from meeting; exemptions.
Sec. 3. (1) All meetings of a public body shall be open to the public and shall be held in a place available
to the general public. All persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting except as otherwise provided in this
act. The right of a person to attend a meeting of a public body includes the right to tape-record, to videotape,
to broadcast live on radio, and to telecast live on television the proceedings of a public body at a public
meeting. The exercise of this right shall not be dependent upon the prior approval of the public body.

Police in front of Lee Township Precinct all day on Election Day intimidating the poor residents of Lee Township, while allowing out of state summer residents to vote with Illinois and Indiana drivers licenses.

 Election Challengers including attorney Roy Heibert  after the 2006 General Election in Casco Township in Allegan County read the law to Peter Allegrina of the Bureau of Elections allowing us to count the ballots. We are not even allowed to see the ballots.

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Karen Wellman checks the "chain of custody" of the Diebold voting machines during voting machine calibrations in Manlius Township in Allegan County, Michigan before the 2006 General Election. Why are some machines away from the calibration area, and what was the meaning of the Manlius Township Clerk's initial statement: " they are back here till we take them home with us." Please check the next audio of Joyce Watts statement concerning telephone modem connections to these machines.

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