What David Cobb Said at Conyers Hearing Today in Ohio
By dotcosm
Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 02:00 PM by dotcosm
Here is a very rough transcript of what David Cobb reported at the Conyers hearing today: There were a lot of dropouts on the audio, so some was garbled, so it's not a completely exact transcript, but darn close.
[Editor's note:the actual transcript of Mr. Cobb's statement is in the box below]:
Mr. Chairman, though our time is limited, I must bring to the committee's attention the most recent and perhaps most troubling incident that was related to my campaign on Sunday, December 12, about a shocking event that occurred last Friday, December 10.
A representative from Triad Systems came into a county board of elections office un-announced. He said he was just stopping by to see if they had any questions about the up-coming recount. He then headed into the back room where the Triad supplied Tabulator (a card reader and older PC with custom software) is kept. He told them there was a problem and the system had a bad battery and had "lost all of its data". He then took the computer apart and started swapping parts in and out of it and another "spare" tower type PC also in the room. He may have had spare parts in his coat as one of the BOE people moved it and remarked as to how very heavy it was. He finally re-assembled everything and said it was working but to not turn it off.
He then asked which precinct would be counted for the 3% recount test, and the one which had been selected as it had the right number of votes, was relayed to him. He then went back and did something else to the tabulator computer.
The Triad Systems representative suggested that since the hand count had to match the machine count exactly, and since it would be hard to memorize the several numbers which would be needed to get the count to come out exactly right, that they should post this series of numbers on the wall where they would not be noticed by observers. He suggested making them look like employee information or something similar. The people doing the hand count could then just report these numbers no matter what the actual count of the ballots revealed. This would then "match" the tabulator report for this precinct exactly. The numbers were apparently the final certified counts for the selected precinct.
Triad is contracted to do much of the elections work in this county and elsewhere in Ohio. This included programming the candidates into the tabulator, and coming up with the rotation of candidates in the various precincts (that is, the order of which candidate is first changes between precincts). They also have a technician in the office on election night to actually run the tabulator itself.
Triad also supplies the network computers on which all of the voter registration information and processing is kept for the county.
It was unusual for the computers to be taken apart. At least one member of the Board of Elections was told the tabulator was in pieces when he called to check on the office.
The source of this report believes that the Triad representative was "making the rounds" of visiting other counties also before the recount. This person also stated they would not pass on the suggestion of the "posted" hidden totals, and would refuse to go along with it if it were suggested by the others in the office at the time.
The source of this information believes they could lose their job if they come forward.
Conyers then replied: "David Cobb I need you to arrange a meeting with our staff immediately as soon as possible so we can go into detail on this matter."
first as the Green nominee he made sure he didn't campaign in states which held the key to the election. Second, he has really been pushing the vote fraud problems. He seems like a good guy.
by WI_DEM on Mon Dec-13-04 01:40 PM
of the ballot box be allowed to access it behind closed doors and do anything to it? I don't think so...yet why is it okay that this private for profit corporate employee can access this, no questions asked? And if the battery was bad, why now, right before the recount?
by Pachamama on Mon Dec-13-04 01:46 PM
What are they, nuts? This is incredible.
by cny2 on Mon Dec-13-04 01:43 PM
"When Did Bush Know?"
by understandinglife on Mon Dec-13-04 01:43 PM
I keep saying: "That is exactly how I would do things"? Cobb is savvy as hell and hardworking. One thing is for sure. They are getting a well deserved reputation as real freedom loving patriots in this fight to expose voting fraud.
by Carl Brennan on Mon Dec-13-04 08:25 PM
You want to register Green. :-)
by jamboi on Mon Dec-13-04 01:43 PM
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