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| (TN) 5/12 - CAUGHT RED HANDED |
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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11613
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 23 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 11:53 am: | 
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By Bev Harris
UPDATE: I will be posting a follow up story shortly; I am pleased to see that Congressman Steve Cohen has referred this matter to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Elections administrator Richard Holden has responded to this article by pretending that this problem does not exist. To be absolutely clear: The crux of Mr. Holden's rebuttal is that documents he has released to the public do not match documents on the internal Shelby County system.
Now imagine this scenario: You do a public records request for a budget. You receive a budget which omits a sensitive set of expenditures. When you point out that the expenditures were somehow deleted, the official tells the media, "Well that is just the budget report given to the public; in my own budget, the expenditures show up in my own internal report."
Public records must provide a true and accurate copy of what is in the government's own records. Clearly, that is not the case in Shelby County.
ORIGINAL STORY:
Four hundred and eighty-eight voters, every one of them in the Tennessee district of US Rep Steve Cohen (D-09), all but four lifelong Democrats, and nearly all Black, had their voting history erased by Shelby County election workers, setting them up for purge from the voter list.
To alter voting histories for a selected set of voters, putting them at risk for strategically selected purge, is to demean them, to treat them as if they have less worth as human beings than they do. And to demean them is to wrong them. What Shelby County's election staff has done, in altering the records, is morally wrong.
Below is the list of voters whose voting records have been altered. Scroll down for the rest of the story, after this list. If you know someone on this list, please let them know about this.
First Last VoterID Race Congressional District
BARBARA ABRAM 0672633 B 09
DAVID ACEY 0402377 B 09
YVONNE ACEY 0446013 B 09
MAGNOLIA ACKERS 0680905 O (changed; was Black) 09
RONALD ACKERS 0816075 O 09
STEVEN ALEXANDER 0207441 B 09
DORIS ALLEN 3437222 B 09
MARY ALSTON 0650420 B 09
ANN ANDERSON 3292497 B 09
LUCY ANDERSON 9900111288 O 09
KIMBERLY ANTHONY 9900208037 O 09
CHARLES AVANT 0573646 B 09
PATSY AVANT 0647499 B 09
VIRGIE AYERS 0845206 B 09
HELEN BACHUS 0347236 B 09
LENZINE BACHUS 0786122 B 09
HATTIE BANGER 0758630 B 09
JAMES BANGER 0950834 B 09
GEORGIA BARNES 0628110 B 09
LILLIAN BARNETT 0372368 B 09
BRIAN BARTLETT 3202552 B 09
BOBBIE BATES 0942605 B 09
GILES BATES 0187262 B 09
VIRGIE BELL 3338077 O 09
BROWN BERRY 0446644 B 09
KARL BERRY 0955970 B 09
SYLVIA BLACK 0649991 B 09
GRACIE BOBO 0685084 B 09
HELEN BOBO 0562559 B 09
JERALDINE BOBO 0910511 B 09
LATEISHA BOBO 9900212097 B 09
JAMES BOGARD 0919457 B 09
ELAINE BOLDEN 0820688 B 09
VICKI BOLDEN 0320284 B 09
EUNICE BOLTON 3034757 B 09
GEORGE BONDS 0642808 B 09
E BOOKER 0602308 B 09
FRED BOOKER 0587771 B 09
HELEN BOWEN 3401791 B 09
TOMMIE BOWEN 0604659 B 09
VIRGINIA BOWEN 0403630 B 09
VIVIAN BOWEN 3428437 B 09
LORIE BOWMAN 9900211222 O (changed; was Black) 09
BETTY BOYD 0709496 B 09
CARDELL BOYD 0224301 O (changed; was Black) 09
CLAUDETTE BOYD 3339055 B 09
GERALD BOYD 0793698 B 09
LINDA BOYD 9900007584 O 09
NATHANIEL BOYD 0828780 B 09
ROOSEVELT BOYD 0406109 B 09
ERMA BRADLEY 0511194 B 09
JOHN BRADLEY 0441603 B 09
MELANIE BRADLEY 3367125 O 09
JOHN BRATCHER 0533119 B 09
MARCELL BRATCHER 0482538 B 09
ANTHONY BRIDGFORTH 3181428 O 09
ANNIE BROOKS 0442150 B 09
HATTIE BROOKS 0766184 B 09
RICHARD BROOKS 9900222371 B 09
SAMUEL BROOKS 0471881 B 09
BEATRICE BROWN 0168714 B 09
CAPRICE BROWN 3317541 B 09
CLOREECE BROWN 3097248 B 09
EDDIE BROWN 0644784 B 09
GLORIA BROWN 0630565 B 09
HAYWARD BROWN 0879416 B 09
JUANITA BROWN 0468017 B 09
MARTHA BROWN 0922845 B 09
MONICA BROWN 3121405 B 09
BRENDA BUGGS 0888044 B 09
LATASHA BURNETT 3133611 B 09
BETTY BURTON 0608338 B 09
SYLVESTER BUTLER 9900165096 B 09
CHARLENE CALLAHAN 0797275 B 09
GWENDOLYN CALLIAN 0000031 B 09
VINELLA CALVIN 0636212 B 09
APRIL CAMPBELL 9900145637 B 09
DELOIS CAMPBELL 1012060 B 09
DELOIS CAMPBELL 0897680 B 09
ELISHA CAMPBELL 0088536 B 09
HERRY CAMPBELL 0520756 B 09
VELVIS CAMPBELL 0963617 B 09
CHARLES CARPENTER 0766491 O 09
ERNEST CARPENTER 0364270 B 09
WILLIE CARPENTER 9900147719 O 09
FRANK CARR 0865998 B 09
NORMAN CARSON 0489303 B 09
LINDA CARTER-CHILDS 0995363 B 09
MOSES CATHEY 0163980 B 09
REGENIA CATHEY 0104295 B 09
TELITHA CAVINESS 0434866 B 09
LISA CHAIRS 3044255 O 09
DAVID CHAMPION 0768735 B 09
ANITA CHAPA 3412802 O 09
SOL CHEEKS 0369269 B 09
ERNESTINE CLARK 0831528 B 09
NICHELLE COBBS 3132693 O (changed; was Black) 09
MILDRED COBURN 0906505 B 09
CHESTER COLLINS 0430701 B 09
MAUDE COLLINS 0642791 B 09
CYNTHIA COMBS 3090380 B 09
GREGORY CONWAY 3384913 B 09
HARRY CONWAY 3314333 B 09
GEORGE COWAN 0531037 B 09
TODDY COWAN 0857333 B 09
BETTY CUMMINGS 0872150 B 09
WILLIE CUMMINGS 0078727 B 09
WILLIE CUMMINGS 0462526 B 09
BERNIA DAUGHERTY 0613815 B 09
BENNIE DAVIS 3012292 B 09
BERNARD DAVIS 9900129038 B 09
CHERRY DAVIS 3272578 O 09
TEKELIA DAVIS 3432403 B 09
DESSIE DEAN 3018714 B 09
MARY DENNIS 0631246 B 09
FAYE DILWORTH 0689136 B 09
JOHN DILWORTH 0834150 B 09
CLARICE DOCKINS 0443469 B 09
ANNER DOSS 0879404 O (changed; was Black) 09
REGINA DRAKE 0912136 B 09
EDWARD DUMAS 0161087 B 09
CORNELIA DURHAM 0646084 B 09
HARRY DURHAM 0646012 B 09
ROSIE DYE 0605396 B 09
JACQULIN EDWARDS 3321160 B 09
DOROTHY ELLIS 3039838 B 09
ERNEST ELLIS 0851485 B 09
ELIZABETH ENGLISH 0809100 B 09
WILLIAM ENGLISH 0586684 B 09
JULIETTE ESKRIDGE 0686780 O 09
BESSIE EVANS 0531360 B 09
BETTY EVANS 0159637 B 09
TOMMIE EVANS 0306268 B 09
CHARLES EVERETT 3190550 B 09
PEARLIE EVERHEART 0529941 O 09
MARZIE FAYNE 0659163 B 09
JESSIE FISHER 0444159 B 09
ELLA FLANNAGAN 0587504 B 09
CAROLYN FLOWERS 0673219 B 09
CHESTER FLOWERS 0748361 B 09
CLARA FORD 0568183 B 09
EDMUND FORD 3416406 B 09
NINA FORD 0919051 B 09
MAE FREEMAN 0570339 B 09
CELESTINE FRENCH 0599791 B 09
SOLOMON GARRETT 0639038 O (changed; was Black) 09
CARROLL GHOLSTON 0926717 B 09
ANNE GIBSON 0709867 B 09
DONALD GIBSON 0117212 B 09
PRISCILLA GIBSON 3097252 B 09
WALTER GIBSON 0403094 B 09
FREDDIE GILBERT 0754880 B 09
CEASER GILLESPIE 0435150 B 09
ADDIE GILLISPIE 0849793 B 09
ADRIENNE GOOCH 9900060402 B 09
ERNESTINE BILLS 0596462 B 09
DYRIE GOODS 3139438 B 09
FRANKIE GRACE 0208663 W 09
BERNICE GRANT 0439124 B 09
GAVINN GRANT 9900230057 B 09
ARTHUR GRAY 9900029663 O (changed; was Black) 09
HARRY GRAY 0409058 B 09
NOLA GRAY 0904204 B 09
BRENDA GREEN 3326291 B 09
CARL GREER 0216001 B 09
THELMA GREER 0019361 B 09
JAMES GREGORY 0385798 B 09
DAVID GROSS 0626721 B 09
JOANN GROSS 0697270 B 09
RAY GUICE 1025578 B 09
ANANIAS GUMBUS 0657728 B 09
LILLIE GUMBUS 0727528 B 09
JAMES HALEY 0445491 B 09
EDDLINGTON HALFACRE 0836332 B 09
ALFRED HALL 9900099675 B 09
DOLLIE HALL 0768540 O (changed; was Black) 09
HORACE HALL 0402815 B 09
JAMES HALL 0551651 B 09
LASONYA HALL 9900091109 B 09
CLARENCE HALMON 0686199 B 09
JACQUELINE HAMPTON 0686122 B 09
BILLIE HANSBROUGH 0509941 B 09
BELINDA HARDRICK 0092966 B 09
SANDRA HARDRICK 0934334 B 09
GRACE HARDY 0918630 B 09
WILLIE HARDY 0519550 B 09
JOHNNY HARE 3137297 B 09
GOLDIE HARRELL 0542085 B 09
BOBBIE HARRIS 0537959 B 09
DARRICK HARRIS 1031362 B 09
FRANK HARRIS 0756036 B 09
JOSEPH HARRIS 0453202 O (changed; was Black) 09
JOYCE HARRIS 0021022 B 09
RAYMOND HARRIS 3117019 B 09
EDITH HATLEY 0773116 B 09
ZOLA HAYES 0494503 B 09
JEARLEAN HAYNES 0592208 B 09
JOYCE HAYWOOD 0662224 B 09
BRADY HENDERSON 0667170 B 09
KATIE HENDERSON 0398582 B 09
CYNTHIA HENNING 9900119809 B 09
HERMAN HENNING 9900106150 O 09
DOROTHY HESTER 0393189 B 09
JEFFREY HIGGS 0918129 B 09
FRANCES HIGHTOWER 0439265 O (changed; was Black) 09
DENISE HILL 3096964 B 09
TERRENCE HILL 3435012 B 09
LOUIS HINES 0920465 B 09
EARLIE HOBSON 0710322 B 09
LARQUIETTA HOBSON 0092130 B 09
ELLENORA HOGG 0622847 B 09
MARY HOLLERMAN 0758702 B 09
BARBARA HOLMES 0506224 B 09
DORA HOLMES 0553575 B 09
DERRICK HOLT 9900157371 O (Changed; was Black) 09
EDDIE HOUSTON 0495752 B 09
KATIE HOUSTON 0950894 B 09
FRANCES HUDSON 0945784 B 09
LUCILLE HUGGINS 0670116 B 09
EBONI HUMES 9900039090 B 09
LILLIE HUMES 3098820 B 09
CARITA HURT 0796623 B 09
EARLINE JACKSON 0625260 B 09
GLORIA JACKSON 0562211 B 09
OPAL JACKSON 0358152 B 09
PATRICIA JACKSON 3443575 B 09
ROBERT JACKSON 0586743 B 09
WAYNE JACKSON 0691451 B 09
WERTICE JACKSON 0750195 B 09
CLAUDE JAMES 0549090 B 09
FLORINE JAMES 0593246 B 09
ELSIE JAMISON 0762302 B 09
SAMETRUIS JENKINS 9900202397 B 09
ALICE JOHNSON 0925632 B 09
AUBREY JOHNSON 0434695 B 09
HALLIE JOHNSON 0542164 B 09
JANICE JOHNSON 3160192 O 09
JOSEPH JOHNSON 0870517 B 09
LUERUNIA JOHNSON 0508009 B 09
MARY JOHNSON 0705086 B 09
ALBERT JONES 0820840 B 09
ALONZO JONES 0463018 B 09
BARBARA JONES 0681936 B 09
DOROTHY JONES 0801140 B 09
ESSIE JONES 0691056 B 09
GLADYS JONES 3344121 O 09
JAMES JONES 0326205 B 09
LAVERNE JONES 0906830 B 09
LILLIE JONES 0023096 B 09
MARIAN JONES 0479146 B 09
MARVIS JONES 0426853 B 09
MARY JONES 1023035 B 09
MCQUITA JONES 1032404 B 09
NATHANIEL JONES 3142279 B 09
RUFUS JONES 0422273 B 09
FANNIE HUNTER 0818218 B 09
CHARLOTTE JOYNER 1028444 O (changed; was Black) 09
ROOSEVELT JOYNER 0996581 B 09
VELMA KELLY 0484029 B 09
SOLOMON KEYS 0784888 O (changed; was Black) 09
HERBERT KING 0681247 B 09
JOYCE KING 0890976 B 09
JOANNE KIRK 3442911 B 09
CLYDE LAKE 0157507 B 09
WANDA LANGFORD 0193783 B 09
DEBORAH LEE 0184729 B 09
JAMES LEWIS 0682893 B 09
SARA LEWIS 0346043 B 09
ALICIA LINDSEY 3024939 O 09
CHARLES LIPSCOMB 3368008 B 09
CLEMMIE LIVINGSTON 0107097 B 09
KATIE LONG 0582103 B 09
TWILLA LOVE 9900081058 O (changed; was Black) 09
MINNIE LOVE-SANDERS 3096172 B 09
MARY MACKEY 9900190813 B 09
KATIE MACLIN 3007214 B 09
CHELSA MAHONE 9900231085 O 09
CHRISTINE MALONE 0383777 B 09
MARY MARSHALL 0701248 B 09
LINDA MARTIN 0918867 O (changed; was Black) 09
CAROLYN MASONJOYNER 3035454 B 09
DARVIS MASSEY 3030171 B 09
EVELYN MATLOCK 0436081 B 09
CHARLES MAXWELL 0730288 W 09
DEBORAH MAXWELL 0109054 O 09
GLORIA MAXWELL 0001228 B 09
BURNETTE MAYS 0845288 B 09
DONISHA MCDANIEL 0955692 B 09
SAMMIE MCDANIEL 0810372 B 09
DOUGLAS MCDONALD 0561863 B 09
GERALINE MCDONALD 0559771 B 09
ZELLA MCDONALD 0486905 B 09
ALBERTA MCDUFFIE 0602029 B 09
ROSIE MCDUFFIE 0791628 B 09
ROBERT MCFARLAND 0394138 B 09
YNELL MCFARLAND 0537499 B 09
GARRY MCGORY 0019024 B 09
GEORGIA MCKINLEY 3392021 B 09
J MCLIN 0907414 B 09
MOLLIE MCLIN 0150283 O (changed; was Black) 09
ALBERT MEEKS 0681156 B 09
THOMAS MILAM 0659649 B 09
BARBARA MILLER 0555609 B 09
LEE MILLER 3277543 B 09
MARTHA MILLER 0843587 B 09
OLGA MILLS 0558433 W 09
REGINALD MILTON 0922699 B 09
ARNETT MONTAGUE 3004291 B 09
VALERIA MONTAGUE 0199077 B 09
BRENDA MOORE 3139931 B 09
MINNIE MOORE 0147906 B 09
RANDY MORGAN 3139727 B 09
ANITRA MORGAN-GILLIOM 3012887 B 09
CHARLES MORRIS 0358889 B 09
JOHNNIE MOSLEY 0989707 B 09
MELANIE MOSLEY 3077820 O 09
ARCHIE MUHAMMAD 0852195 B 09
JOHN NEAL 0333095 B 09
ALFORDSON NELSON 0148965 B 09
GWENDOLYN NELSON 0608501 B 09
MARY NEWBERRY 3210938 B 09
MARVIN NEWSUM 0661162 B 09
RALPH NICHOLS 0954620 O 09
DONNA NOEL 3155001 B 09
TRAKIDA NORFLEET 3408839 B 09
MILDRED NORMAN 0499231 B 09
WILSON NORMAN 0459414 B 09
WILLIE NUNLEY 0857302 B 09
SIDNEY ODELL 0187658 B 09
JAMES OLIVER 0612401 B 09
CARDELL ORRIN 3260448 B 09
CLEOPHES OWENS 0453333 B 09
JAMES OWENS 0989517 B 09
MARIE OWENS 0608218 B 09
MYRON OWENS 3247966 B 09
CONSTANCE PARKER 3453460 B 09
ROSIE PARKS 0535318 B 09
SAM PARKS 0405338 B 09
FRANK PATTERSON 0450269 B 09
JOHN PAYNE 0366580 B 09
JAMES PAYTON 0389723 B 09
CHARLES PENDLETON 0757006 O 09
LURLINE PERRY 0445825 B 09
OTHAREE PERRY 0513414 B 09
RUTH PHELPS 0537477 W 09
WILLIE PHELPS 0639408 B 09
JACQUELYN PHILLIPS 0460940 B 09
CHRISTINE PIPKIN 0564857 B 09
KELVIN POLLARD 3395495 B 09
GLORIA PORTER 3151526 B 09
MORRIS PORTER 3214059 O (changed; was Black) 09
PERCY PORTER 3151523 B 09
LYNNWOOD POWELL 0791409 B 09
BEN PRATT 0079192 B 09
LEOLA PREWITT 0662199 B 09
LILLIE PREWITT 0506366 O 09
ERNESTINE PRIMES 0484113 B 09
FAYE PRITCHARD 0731905 B 09
LILLIAN PRITCHARD 0236501 B 09
SUSIE PURDY 9900074153 B 09
TINA QUATTLEBAUM 3370861 B 09
EMMA RANDOLPH 0381506 B 09
PRAMOD RAVADE 0808352 O 09
ALMA REED 0632804 B 09
GLORIA REED 0930587 B 09
JOHNNIE REED 0595529 B 09
ZENOBIA REED 0444496 B 09
ALMA RHODES 0924987 B 09
DOROTHY RHODES 0668772 B 09
LEONIA RICE 0375350 B 09
CURTIS RICHMOND 0902023 B 09
MAMIE RICHMOND 0653508 B 09
OLLIE ROBERTSON 0746750 B 09
CHARLENE ROBINSON 0850791 B 09
MARY ROBINSON 0291601 B 09
NATHAN RODGERS 0829858 B 09
CARLENE ROGERS 0302043 B 09
CHARLES ROGERS 0931013 B 09
DEBRA ROGERS 0847656 B 09
LUCIUS ROGERS 0302350 B(changed; was Black) 09
ARTICE RUFFIN 0595891 O 09
LINDA RUFFIN 0825455 B 09
TOYA SAMUELS 3402459 B 09
CLEO SANDERS 0887121 B 09
CLYDE SAUNDERS 0502140 B 09
GEORGIA SAUNDERS 0507155 B 09
EMMETT SAVAGE 0705018 B 09
BRENDA SCOTT 0700034 B 09
IRA SCOTT 0661330 B 09
MARIE SCOTT 0506216 B 09
SAFIYYAH SHARRIEFF 9900179244 O 09
MARY SHEAD 0651863 B 09
ISABELLA SHERROD 0442993 B 09
JUAN SHIPP 0394034 B 09
JUDY SHIPP 0471481 B 09
WILLIAM SHIPP 0518747 B 09
NANCY SHOLAR 0860077 B 09
ERDYNE SKATES 0895668 B 09
LARRY SKATES 0580055 B 09
ALVIN SMITH 0897404 O (changed; was Black) 09
BESSIE SMITH 0354413 B 09
BOBBIE SMITH 0652181 B 09
DOROTHY SMITH 0474231 O (changed; was Black) 09
GLORIA SMITH 9900001006 O 09
IVORY SMITH 0343116 B 09
JOHNNIE SMITH 0562505 B 09
OPHELIA SMITH 0164821 B 09
RAY SMITH 0643769 B 09
JOAN SOMERVILLE 0930936 B 09
JOHN SOMERVILLE 3429216 B 09
DANIELLE SPEARS 3279151 B 09
JAMES SPRAGGINS 0884043 B 09
DELEON STANLEY 9900156265 B 09
PERRY STEELE 0146465 O 09
MARGARET STEWART 9900294085 O (changed; was Black) 09
GERALDINE STOKES 0670259 B 09
GREGORY STOKES 3280091 B 09
VALERIA STOKES 3268053 B 09
KEITH STREET 0994728 B 09
CHARLIE STRICKLAND 3003388 B 09
ELOISE STRONG 0496227 B 09
HUGH STRONG 0448529 B 09
VERNA PIGUES 0453982 O (changed; was Black) 09
PATRICIA SWIFT 3097379 B 09
MONA TAYLOR 0964720 B 09
PAUL TAYLOR 0799222 B 09
ROSEMARY TAYLOR 3030275 B 09
SHIRLEY TAYLOR 0636969 B 09
BOBBIE THOMAS 0768166 B 09
DEARIS THOMAS 3085459 B 09
DOROTHY THOMAS 0302604 B 09
JAMES THOMAS 3349610 B 09
MARY THOMAS 0424744 B 09
TONEY THOMAS 1003599 B 09
ELSIE THOMPSON 0951883 B 09
RALPH THOMPSON 0354954 B 09
CHRISTOPHER TOMPKINS 3134240 B 09
GEORGE TRUITT 0530933 B 09
GEORGE TRUITT 0993986 B 09
GLORIA TRUITT 0608342 B 09
VIRGINIA TUBBS 0683612 B 09
CARRIE TURNER 0398378 B 09
CORRINE TURNER 0710628 B 09
JOHNNIE TURNER 0516285 B 09
EMMA VASSAR 0940746 B 09
ROY VAUGHN 0894496 B 09
DOROTHY WALK 0607761 B 09
EDDIE WALSH 0520812 B 09
ALGENOY WARD 0918488 B 09
SAM WARD 0816439 B 09
PATRICIA WARE 0023504 B 09
MAGGIE WARREN 3227828 B 09
TAMARA WASHINGTON 3279580 B 09
BARBARA WATSON 0679876 B 09
FANNIE WEBB 9900086630 B 09
MCLISSA WEBB 0934259 B 09
JAMES WHERRY 0522471 B 09
CLARK WHITE 0526327 B 09
DEMETRA WHITE 0988042 B 09
MAURICE WHITE 0389080 B 09
MILDRED WHITE 0381356 B 09
OPHELIA WHITE 0903730 B 09
ROSIE WHITE 0878298 B 09
WALTER WHITE 0707400 O (changed; was Black) 09
GRETA RAINEY 9900056881 B 09
JEWEL WHITING 0442099 B 09
BETTYE WILLIAMS 0909345 B 09
ERMA WILLIAMS 3211092 O 09
GILDA WILLIAMS 3088991 B 09
MATTIE WILLIAMS 0847463 B 09
PEARLINE WILLIAMS 0323909 B 09
SHANTELLE WILLIAMS 3055029 O 09
FRANCETTA WILLINGHAM 9900058789 B 09
O WILLINGHAM 0505052 B 09
ROSIE WILLINGHAM 0611604 B 09
PAULINE WILLIS 0783869 B 09
JEANETTE WILSON 0064270 B 09
KAY WINTERS 0110893 B 09
BETTY WOODARD 0077166 B 09
MAGGIE WOODARD 0427437 B 09
MARY WOODS 3004252 B 09
STEVELEAN WOODY 0857317 B 09
CHARLES WOOTEN 0619429 B 09
JEROME WRIGHT 0630355 B 09
ELEANOR YATES 0709619 B 09
EMMA YATES 0449703 B 09
IMOGENE YOUNG 0500253 B 09
DETAILS ON SHELBY COUNTY VOTER LIST ALTERATIONS
Shelby County voters owe a debt of gratitude to Darrick "D" Harris (no relation). This information has come to light because, when I spoke with Harris by telephone recently, he expressed concern to me about his discovery that his voting history had somehow evaporated.
An active Democratic voter and political consultant, Harris had copies of voter databases containing his own voter history. He knows he votes regularly, but as of Oct. 2011, the voter list reports that he has never voted -- not once!
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
When voters fail to vote for two federal general elections, a purge process is initiated.
Your voter history should never vary. If it says you voted in the Nov. 2008 presidential election in 2010, in 2011 it should not report that you DIDN'T vote in 2008. The only way the database can alter your voting history is if someone changes the information in the database.
D. Harris did not just have his 2008 voting history erased. Every vote he had ever cast, going back to 2000, had been erased. I took the official Shelby County voter list, filedate 2010 (obtained by court order in a lawsuit) and compared it with the voter history list from 2011.
488 voters had their histories erased.
ALMOST ALL VOTERS WERE BLACK
Of these, according to the 2011 database, 430 are Black. It is against the law to alter voter records. It is a civil rights violation to select Black voter records for alteration.
WHY DILUTION OF RACIAL IDENTITY IS SIGNIFICANT
Last year, I reported that in Shelby County, they have been diluting the racial identifier so that thousands of Black voters are now reported as "other." Twenty-four of the voters with histories erased had also had their racial identifiers removed. In fact, 454 out of 488 on the erased list are Black, and only four are White, leaving all the others marked "other." Most likely, out of 488 erasures, 484 are Black.
ALMOST ALL ARE DEMOCRAT
Only five voters in the erased list show that they have ever voted Republican, but you'll notice that I listed that as just four in my opening paragraph. That's because Shelby County has also been altering party choice in its voter records. It is possible that Ruth Ann Phelps, one of the five so-called Republicans, never voted Republican at all.
Ruth Ann Phelps is reported as selecting a Republican ballot in the May 2010 primary, but her records show she is a lifelong Democrat. I found hundreds of lifelong Democrats whose voter history preference was altered in the May and August 2010 elections.
Phelps is an interesting case. She used to be one of the key employees at Shelby County Elections. She at one time had a password to the GEMS election management system, but the audit log for the GEMS database shows that Ruth Ann Phelps password was revoked in June 2010. Phelps at one time worked at the main elections operation center, where she had access to voter list maintenance systems, but in 2010 she was transferred to a downtown office. By 2011, her voter history had been erased. Right around this time, she retired.
THE SELECTIVE PREPARATION FOR PURGE TARGETS U.S. CONGRESSMAN STEVE COHEN
Not only are almost all the altered records Democrat, not only are they almost all Black, but every single one of them is in Congressional District 09.
POLITICAL TALK
I have heard that Cohen's seat is not considered at risk, though with redistricting and a well financed opponent, and paperless touchscreen voting machines, and selective removal of voters from his voting base, who knows?
I have also heard that the most astute political strategists focus on changing not just the weather (short term election results), but the climate (long term voting environment).
At any rate, it doesn't matter what Cohen's chances are. The rights that were violated are those of Shelby County VOTERS, who have a right to vote for the candidate of their choice, and who are entitled to accurate records.
And I have a question: How widespread is this problem? Are there other counties where voter histories are strategically eroding? I have spoken with both Democratic and Republican election integrity enthusiasts, and one of my frustrations is that the Democrats count on their VAN system and the Republicans count on their VOTER VAULT system to keep them up to date on voter list data. Neither of these systems is the real, working data. It should be possible to detect alterations like this in other counties, but since purges are performed using the actual county database, skip the VAN and VOTER VAULT: Examine the actual lists. As we see in Shelby County, there is no reason to believe that the raw data matches VAN or VOTER VAULT. The raw data is getting altered from time to time.
To detect this kind of alteration, a database created and saved in 2010 should be compared for changes with more recent iterations, but the actual county database should be used for the exam, rather than relying on proprietary party databases.
THEY SEND A LETTER BEFORE PURGING, DON'T THEY?
Altering the records is illegal, and a civil rights violation, regardless of whether voters can halt the purge process by responding to a letter. If voters were purged after wrongfully being targeted, set in motion by illegally altering their permanent voter record, it is not appropriate to blame the voter, whether or not they responded to a letter.
Taking the position that this is a minor matter, or that a purge would be the voter's own fault, claiming that voters wrongfully targeted for purge can always reinstate themselves by responding to a purge letter is like saying "false arrest doesn't matter, because you can always prove you are innocent".
The wrongful act, in case of purge for voters whose histories were altered, is not on the part of the voter.
And there is such a thing as justice.
"Oppressors do all they can to prevent use of the category of justice; they do all they can to cast the situation in terms of good behavior and bad behavior ... sometimes our frameworks of conviction lead us to discount the significance of what we see and hear. We regard the one before us as a candidate for charity, should we be so inclined, or we insist that his condition is his own fault."
-- Justice: Rights and Wrongs, by Nicholas Wolterstorff.
What happened to the strategically selected voters in Shelby County, whose records were altered to put them at special risk for purge, is a moral wrong.
And it is illegal.
I cannot tell whether more voters may have been affected. Comparing the two databases, I see that over 8,000 voters in District 09 were removed after August 2010 but before the Oct. 2011 database was produced. I do not know the reason for these 8,000 removals.
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Tom Courbat
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Username: Leftisbest
Post Number: 124
Registered: 6-2006
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Hi Bev,
This is totally outrageous!! Is there some way that those responsible for this can be dragged into court and tried for their crimes?
This shows the depths to which a political party (in this case, the Republicans) will go to cheat to win an election. And it shows the absolute importance of intense focus by election integrity folks to be sure to catch these kinds of illegal shenanigans.
An example needs to be made of these criminals so that others will think twice before taking such illegal and disgusting actions.
Great work and reporting on your part, and excellent vigilance by Mr. Harris. Everyone keep up the good work. |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11614
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 2 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 12:22 pm: |
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Hi Tom,
You are right on all counts. It is my position that this matter should be investigated by the voting rights division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice.
We will see what happens. |
Charles Christopher
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Ilikeinfo
Post Number: 336
Registered: 11-2006
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Votes: 1 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 3:14 pm: |
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Thank you for all you do Bev!
Problem definition *FIRST*, solution formulation *SECOND*.
The frog just needs to *SEE* the thermometer
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Frank Henry
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Username: Fmhenry4netzerocom
Post Number: 5
Registered: 3-2008
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 3:49 pm: |
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Hi Bev,
This situation should be flagged with the DOJ and
with the TN state and county officials for review
and action.
Ouestions:
1. Per review of 2010 Shelby County demographics
Blacks about 48%, Whites about 48%...So the
high dump of Blacks voters does look odd.
2. Your report indicates "...raw data is getting
altered from time to time..." Is people doing
the alteration or is the data base files being
messed up by faulty software or hardware???
Thanks for taking the lead in "election systems
and process integrity."
Frank Henry
Cottonwood, Arizona
Tel: 928-649-0249
e-mail: fmhenry4@netzero.com |
Colin McDermott
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Colmcd
Post Number: 8
Registered: 8-2009
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Votes: 1 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 4:56 pm: |
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Wow.... I am lost for words.
I rarely respond to request to renew my details and I always double check them (ie go to the website rather then respond to the email/mail). Even so I fail to see a reason why it is needed.
Ok this is a modern database, which user did the deletion? Where is the BACKUP that we can ask for to determine when this deletion was done? More then that Who will HANG for this breech and what will change! |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11615
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 1 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 5:03 pm: |
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Hi Frank,
I don't think it is possible for faulty software to selectively wipe out only Black, Democratic voter histories in a particular congressman's district, in addition to wiping out the incorrect record of one possible whistleblower employee.
The raw data being altered from time to time is being altered by human beings, however much they might wish they could blame it on software. I call this "the personnel problem" and I am surprised it has not been dealt with decisively by now.
The pattern I show above, and other patterns I have not reported on yet (such as altering records from the electronic pollbooks), are, let's just say, "insufficiently random".
I'm not going to submit this to law enforcement agencies, but I am confident that will happen. The appropriate agency to investigate this is the US DoJ, not the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), which is the last law enforcement agency this should go to. The TBI is, if anything, complicit in what's been going on in Shelby County. |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11616
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 1 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 5:09 pm: |
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Colin, you are indeed astute. Among the documents we recovered from the Shelby County litigation are examples of transaction logs. Using these, I was able to determine exactly which employee was removing racial identifiers, and when.
Furthermore, these records are required to be kept for 22 months because they relate to a federal election.
I am not able to request the documents necessary myself (in Tennessee, you must be a resident to get public records), but am helping to prepare appropriate public records requests for Shelby County citizens.
I plan to get these to interested Shelby County citizens tomorrow so they can follow up. By the way, if you live in Shelby County and would like to conduct an inspection under public records law, it doesn't cost anything and I will be happy to show you the ropes. |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11617
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 2 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 5:12 pm: |
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Woops, I should clarify: My transaction log documents demonstrate that such records exist, but I obtained them in 2010, and do not have the 2011 transaction logs needed to find out who erased voter histories as described in this story. Thus the need for a Shelby County citizen to follow through pronto. Email me if you would like to help with boots on the ground to inspect documents for the 2011 voter list alterations. |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11618
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 1 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 5:15 pm: |
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I will also let folks know that I have been in contact with a member of the Shelby County Board of Elections (the BOE functions like a board of directors over the employees that did this) and I have spoken with a staff member for the honorable Rep. Steve Cohen. And I've done a little more networking in other places ... but I am primarily a researcher and writer. If people believe this is important, they will act. |
Diane Cambron
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Shelby_county_dem
Post Number: 1
Registered: 5-2012
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 5:09 am: |
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I am a Shelby County Democrat, and having been active in the local political scene for a few years, I recognize a few names on this list. One of them is a current vice chair of the SCDP; another is a campaign manager of one of our congressional candidates; another is a union leader; and you know Dee Harris. I can't believe this was done intentionally, but you never know. If it was, they made an incredibly stupid choice of names - because this is definitely not the group you want to pick on. |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11620
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 2 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 8:44 am: |
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Hi Diane,
Yes, these are politically active and astute voters. I do believe it was done intentially, because it is unlikely to have a "glitch" that just says to itself, "I'm going to affect only Black Democrats in District 9, but not all of them, plus one key election office employee, who may be a whistleblower."
What I think we should look at is whether a larger set of voters had their histories removed, most of whom are not on the list above because they were actually purged. But a hand picked subset of politically astute people, who would go "wait a minute! What do you mean I haven't voted!" were witheld from the purge, leaving only the telltale sign that something happened to their histories. (Sloppy work, wasn't it?)
There were over 13,000 people actually purged between the 2010 and 2011 lists. Most of these had a very active voting history in the 2010 list, but we don't know whether their history was erased in 2011, because they no longer exist on the list at all.
It is true that voters can be purged because they move, die, etc. But if you mix in a few thousand Black Democrats from District 9, erasing their histories to qualify them for purge, who would know?
I found a huge purge in 2009, of about 65,000 people. Of these, they claim that 56,000 had not voted. But the data is missing to corroborate that. In ALL of the All Details files for the time period from Nov. 2006 through Sept 2009, the federal election voting history is left off. They just omitted the columns with that information in it, for all voters, for all voter lists created.
So now I'm very, very curious. Did all of the 56,000 people purged in 2009 actually not vote, or were histories erased for some of them, strategically selected? In taped depositions during the 2010 lawsuit, administrators admitted that a whole lot of people have access to the voter list data. But I did find some interesting files, indicating that Holden was pulling past racial data and asked for one file that was for all past and current Democrats only (but did not ask for same file of Republicans).
Obviously, if you actually purge people in the powerful Ford family, and political consultants like D Harris and Cardell Orrin, they are going to scream bloody murder. So, you know, you don't actually purge those people. The erased histories may be a pointer to a significantly bigger problem. With accounting anomalies, that is often the case. |
kelly mac gardner
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Username: Mac_gardner
Post Number: 1
Registered: 5-2012
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 6:17 pm: |
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Bev, this may not be related exactly to this voter list, but do they use Diebold Vote a matic machines in your area? Mr.Diebold,who lives in Ohio, was "W" Bush's campaign manager for Ohio in 2000. I've seen a letter addressed to Bush in which he promised to "Deliver Ohio" to Bush. His machines were used in many locations in Florida in 2000, and they found a machine which had the software disk programmed to count Gore's votes backwards. The Vote a matics are used here, and are optical scanner type machines instead of touch screen or machines which produce "chads", and one good thing about the Vote a matic is that there is a paper ballot backup for every vote. In Florida when the election officials were looking for the ballots from a machine they knew had the disk improperly programmed to count Gore votes backwards, the boxes of paper ballots mysteriously disappeared from a bonded secure warehouse, and not surprisingly, the machine was in a heavily populated and heavily democratic voting area. This one precents votes probably would have given the presidency to Gore instead of "W" Bush. |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11621
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2012 - 7:27 am: |
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Hi Kelly,
Well, the points you bring up are (mostly) true, and of great concern. I'm not sure any Mr. Diebold was Bush's Ohio campaign manager; I'd like to see a source on that. The man who promised to "deliver Ohio to Bush" was Wally O'Dell, at that time, the CEO of Diebold Inc.
Absolutely true that the Diebold optical scan machines (which do have a paper ballot, by the way) were used in 2000 in many Florida locations, and that in Volusia County they counted minus 16,000 votes for Gore, which caused the spread necessary for the networks to call the election for Bush. The details of several of these stories are in my book, linked for free on the home page of this site; look at chapter 8 and 13.
The Volusia votes were eventually hand counted, and I have not heard that the ballots disappeared before counting, and would be interested in more information on that. The warehouse incident you are thinking of may be the one in the film Hacking Democracy, where Black Box Voting's Kathleen Wynne and I showed up at the warehouse after the 2004 election, and caught them destroying documents and falsifying records.
A Volusia County citizen, Susan Pynchon, became so concerned by these matters that she founded the Florida Fair Elections Coalition; she was with me personally in Shelby County as we assisted plaintiffs in litigation in securing documents. And speaking of destroying documents and falsifying records, Pynchon has captured crucial video and continues to help towards unraveling the truth in Shelby County.
The Diebold machines are used in Shelby County Tennessee; they use one of the worst models, which has no voter verified paper trail at all, and which is enabled for clandestine wireless communication. That machine is the subject of a Black Box Voting report called the Hursti II report. Enter Hursti II in the search box at this Web site to get that report. Shelby County then made a bad situation worse, by performing customizations on their Diebold system, which introduce custom-programmed software into the midst of the voting machine system.
The Diebold machines generated impossible results in Shelby County in 2010; that is, the votes counted by the machines don't match the number of voters and the voters in the electronic pollbooks don't match the voters listed as voting.
The machines showed a large number of crossover Republican votes in county races for persons who are lifelong Democrats and who chose Democratic ballots in the Aug. 2010 primary. (Now I ask you: How likely is it that Black lifelong Democrats who chose a Democratic ballot in the primary/general would decide to vote against all the Black Democratic candidates in the county race, instead choosing only White Republicans? Not likely. Borders on preposterous. But that's how the Diebold machines counted many of the votes.)
More to come... |
Bryan Hudspeth
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Heathhud
Post Number: 1
Registered: 5-2012
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2012 - 8:03 pm: |
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It is sad that something like this happens and immediately there are conspiracies that this was politically and racially motivated. It sounded like from the interview that the report was in error because the database shows them still active. I would however support an outside source reviewing the details of the registry. If we have an outside source look at this discrepancy maybe they can include concerns with voter fraud and registration fraud. Maybe we could make sure that deceased registrations are removed too. Ever since I moved to the Memphis area my friends in other states have joked with me that at least I get to vote twice in Memphis. Lets clean this situation and others up and give Memphis back a reputation that we can be proud of. |
Laurence Schechtman
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Username: Laurenceofberk
Post Number: 1
Registered: 5-2012
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2012 - 2:58 pm: |
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Has anyone sent this data directly to the Department of "Justice?"
They should already have been on it, but this is Obama/Holder who have done nothing about paper trail.
Nevertheless, "Justice" should be notified and picketed, and the media should be informed. |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11622
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2012 - 3:04 pm: |
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Hi Bryan,
Certainly not. The election commission has confirmed the information in this report. It is actually MORE troubling that elections administrator Holden is now saying that the "real" report shows the histories but the monthly reports omit selected histories. That means the data coming into the reports released to the Democratic and Republican parties, and to the Shelby County Election Commission, is drawn from a different source than whatever Mr. Holden is creating.
This is not about a conspiracy or political or racial motivation. It is simply about facts. The reports, created and provided by Shelby County, omit the history for 488 voters, who are non-random and are basically all Black and all Democrat.
Regarding deceased registrations, the state of Tennessee provides those monthly to each county elections office, and they are removed. When people die, a death certificate is created; this information goes to the state, from whence it makes its way back to the county promptly, and the records are removed.
It is true that people can vote twice in Shelby County (or someone votes twice in their name, which is the more common scenario). That is the subject of the story I am working on right now. However, the multiply-voted names are not mostly from one political party or race.
The important thing about being able to vote more than once in Shelby County is that their system does not catch it. Even though a voting machine records more than one vote, the voter history reports it as a single vote.
That's why it is of particular concern that Shelby County has a history of having more votes than voters. |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11623
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, May 28, 2012 - 3:11 pm: |
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Hi Laurence,
Yes. Congressman Cohen held a press conference yesterday, and announced he had referred this matter to the justice department. Here is a TV news story on it:
http://wreg.com/2012/05/27/cohen-calls-for-investigation-into-voter-history-controversy/
I was interviewed by FoxTV News today; I expect they will be running the story tonight.
Here it is in the Memphis Flyer:
http://www.memphisflyer.com/JacksonBaker/archives/2012/05/27/erased-voters-gaffe-may-force-changes-on-election-commission |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 11624
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 1 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 7:50 am: |
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An article here:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/may/29/election-chief-disputes-voting-histories-02/
indicates that elections administrator Richard Holden has created or located a different file, or a file drawn from a different source.
This is even a BIGGER concern, because it indicates that the elections office draws the data provided to commissioners and the public from a different source than the data they now say they actually have. Federal law requires that a single, uniform source be used.
I was pleased to see that some of the reporters who reported this story asked to examine that actual files. I make those available to any reporter, and of course, any reporter can simply ask the election commission for an original. The essence of real journalism is to take a look at the underlying documents themselves.
Holden refers to my "handling of the data."
I cannot tell you how absurd this is. The data is simply a list of names, readable by anyone, with no need to "handle" it or do anything to it other than just read down the list.
The reporter references an email sent to him by Holden. That's nice, but anyone can go to the old database and get the old histories. Holden himself has multiple copies of the older databases on his hard drive. If Holden is running a different report for the public than he really had, then the question becomes, why is there a difference in the data? The list contains 600,000 names and addresses. Holden simply "exports" the data. It is an automated process, and really quite impossible to explain why any system would accidentally not export just the voter history portion for just Black Democrat voters in Dist. 9.
But even if that were explained, what no reporter has asked Holden is this: When you generate a list of voters to send mailers enroute to purge, which of your two lists do you draw this from?
The fact that Holden could only come up with 15 histories indicates he is not just pushing the export button. It takes only about two minutes to generate the full list of 600,000 voters with histories. If Holden has to go look up the rest of them, he is doing some kind of process by hand; I guarantee you that the thousands of voters who receive mailings are not selected one by one, by hand.
Whereas most TV news reporters contacted me and some requested copies of the documents themselves, the reporter for the Commercial Appeal and also the reporter for the Memphis Flyer never even asked for the documents.
As Mark Twain said, "First get the facts, before you distort 'em."
C'mon boys. Get the facts, and those facts are in the All Details document. Then find out exactly how the purge lists are generated and what source of data is used.
Election chief disputes voting histories claim
Article regarding 500 Democrats 'incorrect'
By Clay Bailey
Posted May 29, 2012 at midnight, updated May 29, 2012 at 12:07 a.m.
The Shelby County Election Commission will check today to assure voting histories they are providing the public are correct.
But the administrator of elections said Monday that an accusation that such history information has been deleted for almost 500 African-American Democrats is inaccurate.
Rich Holden said the office has the records on file, supporting his point by providing an e-mail sent out last week showing the voting histories of about 15 of the people identified as being deleted on blackboxvoting.org, a site run by blogger Bev Harris, who is based in the Seattle area.
"The article from blackboxvoting is incorrect," Holden wrote in the e-mail. "(The attached list of histories) is from the voter registration records on file in our office. We can produce the remaining 400+ if necessary to prove their handling of data is, at best, questionable."
In a May 12 blog entry called "Caught Red-Handed," Harris stated the voting histories of 488 Shelby County voters were deleted, a step, according to her, that could lead to purging those voters from the rolls.
Holden's e-mail last week provided the history for some of the more prominent names on the list, including David and Yvonne Acey, Johnnie Turner and Edmund Ford.
According to Harris, the 488 voters are primarily African-American Democrats in U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen's District 9.
"All these people can vote, and they are still in the database," Holden said by telephone Monday. "That proves they are still in the system and can still vote."
Holden said he plans to review office procedures, but the commission's "records are correct." He said the question may arise from the information provided to the public requesting such data.
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