Tim and Roberta Kettler voted at approximately 10:15 am, November 7 in the Monroe Twp. precinct in Coshocton County. Two Diebold machines were available for use. We experienced difficulty in recording the votes we cast and the machines required several touches of the screen in order to record a screen response. Also the printed audit tape was not entirely visible on the bottom of the final page and could not be advanced in order to view the final choice on the tape. However I was able to view the choice by lifting the access door to the tape which was left unsecured (unlocked) One of the poll workers stated that she had the same problem when she voted herself. The poll workers said the they had been having trouble with the machines all morning and that the service technician had been there all morning "recalibrating" the two machines. Both machines had unsecured paper audit tape access doors.

Tim Kettler

Great to see you guys on Lou Dobbs. Dobbs is one of my favorites because he really is trying to get the truth out.

I have followed your good work for 2 years....I even tried, one week after the election to get a senior person on Senator Biden's staff to consider that the Republicans stole the 2004 election by rigging the e-voting machines. He didn't believe me, said the results weren't close enough. Then, I didn't exactly know how they did, but I knew that something was wrong, since I had worked in Florida, NH and PA on behalf of the Kerry campaign.

My take then, as now, is that the only reliable way for a vote is the German system: that is using paper ballots, using civil servants to count with all parties overseeing. The people know who wins the next day due to the exit polls but the final count takes two - three weeks. I hope you would start to lobby for that kind of system. Don't you think that would be more secure?

Please make sure that candidates in close elections with a preponderance of e-voting machines don't concede. That's important.

Ron Rich

PS I have volunteered for John Hall in New

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I just found out that the Republicans are calling up voters again this year and giving them the wrong location to vote at. They did this in 2004 and a democrat got such a call tonight in Athens County and reported it to me. I am demanding the County Prosecutor make a statement condemning this and launching an immediate investigation there must be some way to track the villains. Warn others and if they get a number on a caller ID be sure they save it. I understand this has been on the national news today that this is happening.

Please beware of calls regarding your precinct. Call us at 594-8686 which is my law office if you need to confirm your precinct.

Susan Gwinn
Chair, Athens County Democratic Party

It used to be that the positions of candidates, their charm, their charisma, their connection to the people, their policy innovation and other substantive matters having real connection with the job function of public office won or lost major campaigns. Not so any longer.

Now it's all in catching the cheaters with their hands in the cookie jars.

It has been repeatedly stated loudly from 2000 onward, and more particularly after the theft of the 2004 Presidential election that the whole game is in how the votes are counted- or not.

Notwithstanding this glaringly obvious truth, all major campaigns and the DNC are still running themselves like nineteenth century popularity contests, as if voting technology had not yet been invented.

Instead, they should be expending huge amounts of resources and energy in engaging software engineers to examine and study all the various voting technologies and create fool proof security measures to meet the challenges of the new technology in preventing wireless hacking, remote breaking and entering of reverse engineered machinery and the like.