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
posted it to the website. The page is still on our website exactly as it
was shortly after midnight at
http://www.co.miami.oh.us/elections/index.htm
. No one has access to this computer but me.
The reason for the confusion is probably due to the fact that absentee
ballots were counted during the day on Tuesday and the count was placed in
the individual precincts of the absentee voters. As a result each of the
reports, even the 20% report said at the top "82 out of 82" (precincts).
The report you saw the following morning at 9:00 was probably either the
60% or the 80% report.
If there was fraud in Miami County (and I have no reason to believe that
there was any), it had to be in the tabulation, not the reporting. As you
can see on the website all of the votes, including the 19,000, were
included in the midnight report. They were not reported after 9:00 am the
following day.
I'm not sure how clear this is, but feel free to call if you have any
additional questions. Keep up the good work!
Roger Kearney
Rhombus Technologies, Ltd.
