I read your article with considerable interest. I am a Miami County
democrat who believes that there was probably considerable fraud in the
election. But your article has some incorrect information about the Miami
County election results. Your critics will try to use the bad info to
repudiate your entire article.
I was in the Miami County Board of Elections most of the evening on
November 2. We have a small family company that developed and hosts the
website for the Miami County Board of Elections. I always post election
results on the website. I was at the Board waiting for the final results.
I watched as Steve Quillen, the Board Director, put floppy disks that he
had taken from the tabulating computer and put them into the reporting
computer. He did this at about 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100% of the count.
Each time he added more votes, he generated a paper report which was
duplicated and passed out to reporters waiting in the hall outside. I
looked at each of the reports. When the final one came out about midnight,
we copied the report file onto my floppy disk. I came home and immediately