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It's Sunday December 3, 2000 in the Leon County Circuit Court with Judge Sander Sauls. The Bush Campaign team of so-called out classed lawyers continues to score judicial victory after judicial victory at the expense of Al Gore and his team of Keystone Cop virtual election thieves and accomplices!
The Bush statistician, Doctor Laurentius Marais from William E. Wecker Associates, was a true professional, the complete opposite of the piker brought in by the Gore team yesterday. Phil Beck was still in command of the court room, as he examined the distinguished PHD.
Marais was brought in to debunk the false notion by the Gore Campaign that six hundred votes could be picked up in Miami-Dade County, saying, " It is based on a false premise ". He clarified, " The portions of the precincts that were recounted were heavily Democrat, where the Gore victory was over seventy-five percent. Many of the remaining precincts were where Bush won ". He proved through expert testimony that the higher under vote percentages is only ASSOCIATED with the Vote-a-matic machines and NOT CAUSED by them. To heap more disgust, dishonor and disdain on the Gore Campaign ( crooked? ) lawyers, Beck walked Marais through another replay of yesterday's false affidavit and proffer, which the Gore people filed in both Leon County and before the Florida Supreme Court. Marais had the columes correct and was a professional, as opposed to the cracked hack Hengartner ( Does that mean chicken coop keeper in German? ). I thought the DIRTYcRATS were supposed to be the good lawyers, but their expert was an associate professor ( teacher's assistant? ) and the Bush expert was a full PHD practising in the real world ( as opposed to at a so-called institute of higher learning? ).
David Boies only succeeded in making his client and his defense team look even more shifty than they probably are not? Yeah, right. Boies took a really cheap shot at Marias, trying to associate him with lead paint manufacturers in a lawsuit? Besides looking stupid like a bully; Beck shot him down with an objection!
The next Bush expert witness examined by Phil Beck was John Ahmann an election supply company owner from Napa, Czechslofornia. He was a fair balanced witness who would shine some non-partisan like on a dark time, though he was or claimed to be friends with Theresa LaPorte? Have you had experience with punch card ballots? " Since 1966 ". He then described his background. He designed the " large sign to show the voter to turn the ballot over and get rid of all hanging chad ". Ahmann's company actually manufactured the Vote-a-matic machines used in Paml Beach and Broward County. He was " familiar with the Poll Star ". SHEESH STEVE ZACK IS A MORON. SAULS HAD TO OVER RULE HIM AGAIN AND AGAIN! Ahmann continued, " The sample ballots are made with old tools; the actual ballots are made of thinner material, subject to nicks and dings in handling ". He added, " Carriers ( ballot ) have to be padded inside ". Questioned; Can those kind of things ( dimples ) be caused by handling? " Yes; they have to be handled carefully ", Ahmann answered. Questioned again, Is it possible to get hanging chads? " Yes ", Ahmann added, " Going through the card reader, there can be damage ". More; Is it possible to make a dimple with the stylus? " Yes ". STEVE ZACK GOT OVER RULED AGAIN ON STILL ANOTHER FRIVILOUS OBJECTION. Ahmann finished, " He can dimple the ballot with no intention to vote ". That was an important answer for the Bush Campaign, but the next one was to be just as monumental! Can you determine if a dimple or indentation came from the stylus? " Yes; use a very strong magnifying glass, a very strong one ", Ahmann offered a final straw to test the spinal rigidity of all attentive RATS, " I seriously doubt that a voter would fail to push the chad through in a normal voting situation ". MISTER ZACK, YOU GOT AN OBJECTION OVER RULED ( Zack, sit...Zack down...Zack stay )! Ahmann finished the thought, presumably with what the Gore lawyers ( liars? ) didn't want the judge to hear, " It makes it easier to punch through ( When the rubber t-strip begins to wear. ) ". Another question; piles of chad might build up in the machines causing a dimple?, was answered, " No, I do not believe it is possible ". Following up; assuming there were thousands ( instead of a hundred or two ) voting, is it even remotely possible? " No, you could probably use it ( a Vote-a-matic ) for fifty years and not fill it up ". Following;, in a Poll Star unit? Ahmann expertly opined, " The Poll Star unit needs to be cleaned out more often ". Finally, referring to the Poll Star which the Gore team showed with what seemed to be a large amount of chad in it; but we couldn't tell if the chad was shaken down to that end or not ( yeah, right? ), " Would build up at the clean out hole cause a non-vote? Ahmann finished, " No, assuming it has been cleaned out in the last election cycle ". This is very clear, NOT EACH ELECTION, but EACH ELECTION CYCLE!
Steve Zack, looking still intimidated from all his over rulings, approached the witness for some cross examination, which minus one upbeat moment, was a complete ZACK SNACK. The Zackster was visibly shaken, using his notes fumblingly and the courtroom version of the Al Gore elementary school teacher monotone delivery. He only succeeded in making a fool ( not a complete one, though ) out of himself. He tried over and over again to put his own words in Ahmanns' mouth, but Ahmann expertly replied, " You are telling me now, that happened ". Showing his extreme desperation, Zack brought up the Texas statute. Ahmann debunked the DIRTYcRAT twisting of the Texas statute as allowing so-called dimpled chad, clearly stating, " These are hanging chads only connected by up to two pieces ". ZACK IS TOAST. ZACK IS A HACK. Judge Sauls allowed him to do a DIRTYcRAT TALKING HEAD MONLOG on how important the right to vote was? Wow, this guy Ahmann is friends with the DIRTYcRATS Theresa LaPorte and Jackie Winchester?
Sauls to Zack, " Don't be asking this witness what he saw on CNN ". Zack could only apologize with, " I appreciate the admonishment your honor ".
Beck intimiated Zack ( as easy as falling off a log? ) by looking over his shoulder while he read the only damaging information he posessed, taking away the only semi-moment he had, as he read from Ahmann's application for additional patents. This did include a portion about chad build-up, but didn't mention dimpled chad. Zack did have one more moment, if you could call it that, and he made the best of it; asking if a hand count was good in a close election. Obviously Ahmann answered, " Yes " ( A Gore witness would have hemmed and hawwed for fifteen minutes before finally surrending the answer? ). Zack started feeling better, but then he got confused and mixed up between the Palm Beach and Miami-Dade issues! Ahmann, got irritated and paid him back for any prior discomfort with, " Everybody keeps saying those ballots haven't been counted; they have been counted twice "! Zack got on the defensive, realizing he was losing it, you could hear the trembling in his voice. Zack was really reaching. The only thing he could get Ahmann to say to his crazy hypotheticals was, " Not impossible ",
I guess their only victory could be that they got Ahmann to say, " You need a manual recount in a very close election ". This may sound good to the DIRTYcRATS, but you must remember; if they aren't counting dimpled chads, Bush would be leading by more than one thousand votes!
OH MAN, ZACK JUST CAME OUT AND LIED TO THE MEDIA THAT AHMANN SAID THE VOTING MACHINES IN PALM BEACH WERE DEFECTIVE. ZACK WAS BEAMING WHILE LYING THAT AHMANN SAID TO CLEAN THEM OUT AFTER EVERY ELECTION, PRESUMABLY FORGETTING HE SAID ' ELECTION CYCLE '?
Gored, Dexter Douglas whined extremely anxiously and pleadingly to the judge about starting to count ballots again, but Sauls firmed, " We are not going another day or two. The court has to establish a fact before aordering anything. " Getting only slightly more irritated than a hound dog sleeping on the front porch, Sauls finished, " Let's quit talking about it and move ahead "!
Phil Beck couldn't be everywhere, so Irv Terrell examined William John Rohloff, a law enforcement officer in Palm Beach. He described his actions in voting, and not voting for a candidate for president, in the last election. " When I got to the presidential election I was undecided and put the stylus over the hole. I decided not to vote ". This man may have created a dimple on a chad? Denno Kitchen cross examined, presumably because Zach was still feeling too humiliated to continue?
Thomas Spencer from Miami was examined by Irv Terrell. Spencer had lived there since he was fifteen years old, for forty years. He was a commercial litigation lawyer in election matters and an active Republican. He observed the second machine count of the Miami-Dade ballots and was there, " from November 8th through the 22nd ". Describing the trial manual recount in Miami-Dade, he said, " These were precincts hand picked by the Democrats...in extent of ninety percent ( for Gore ) ". How many Gore votes did they get, was answered, " Six ". " The canvassing board decided by majority vote not to go forward ( David Lehy, Judge King, Judge Lehr - sic ) ". Terrell asked about political party afilliation. Lehy and Lehr were independent and King was a Democrat. Terrell asked; Who voted to go forward? Spencer answered, " Judge King the Democrat ". They went through the November 14th board meeting where L and L voted no and K voted yes. November 15th, Gore filed a motion to try to get them to start counting again. Lehy voted against restarting the recount on November 17th. Did you start counting the precincts by the numbers ( The Democrat precincts being the lowest numbered ones! )? " Yes; starting with the Democrat precincts ". ( On November 22nd ) " the board decided there was not enough time left to do a proper count ", said Spence. Continuing, Spence offered, " The 388 ( votes ) being talked about are from the predominately Democrat districts ". Asked; they aren't really votes are they, he plied, " No, they are not ". Why don't they submit the votes gathered from the Democrat districts? " That would not be fair, because the Republican areas haven't been counted or observed ". On ballot confusion, he said, " The procedure ( voting ) is very simple and very clear ". He characterized the counters in Miami as, " On the job training ", adding quite seriously, " An entire tray of precinct cards, the 214th I believe, was dropped on the floor and picked up ".
Approaching the witness for cross, THE DESIGNATED DIRTYcRAT Deeno Kitchen admitted and declared, " he had a dog in the fight ", attempting to implicate Spencer. Spencer firmly said he, " left his dog out in the hallway when he entered the court room ". THIS ILLUSTRATES PERFECTLY THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DIRTYcRATS AND THE GOP!!! Kitchen tried to drag " his dog " out again, but it pissed on his leg in front of everybody. Kitchen whined with vibrato; like a ...DOG. " I believe every decision they made was very carefully considered ".
Judge Sander Sauls asked a few questions.
Sauls: " Did you see the system they used to hand count the twenty percent "?
Spencer: " If there was a dimple, Judge King would decide...Lehy used a different approach, hold the ballot up to the light...Judge Lehr looked for a paper separation. There was no standard being used ".
Sauls: " Were they unanimous "?
Spencer: " The vast majority were only majority decisions, with King and one or the other. The one consistency was that Judge King always saw a dimple ".
Sauls: " If I put three different people in would they come up with a different number "?
Spencer: " Yes ".
Dr. Thomas Spargo, practising election law lawyer not trying to hide he was a partisan Repubclican, was also examined by Irv Terrell. He was an observer from November 18 thru 22 of the " ballot sorting ". He described, " twenty five tables ". He then relayed a very disturbing incident of loosened chand littering the room where they were manipulating ballots, when he asked to, " vacuum up the chads ". He said the answer was, " that request was denied ". He characterized it as, " thousands of chads ". THE RATS OBJECTED TO THE WORD ' MANIPULATE ', BECAUSE THEY KNEW IT WOULD BE THE NEXT MEDIA MANTRA DESCRIBING THEM. Spargo then said, " mishandling ". THE RATS WENT NUTS BUT WERE OVER RULED!
Joe Klock got his chance. Spargo observed, " They were always fanning them ( ballots ) ". Klock asked if a dimple could be a vote or a mistake? Spargo answered, " Yes ".
Kendall Coffey stood up to do his RAT THING on cross. He quickly asked, " Have you taken the 5th Amendment "? Sauls was visibly irritated this time at this action, saying, " This better have some relevence or we are going to have a subsequent hearing ". SAULS GAVE HIN ANOTHER CHANCE AND THEN CALLED AN IMMEDIATE RECESS. We were not to hear another peep out of Coffey on this subject! Coffey made no headway with the witness and Judge Sauls finallt had to cut him off, saying, " MAY THE WITNESS STAND DOWN "?
Mark Lampkin, Republican vote count observer at Miami-Dade when they were supposed to be transporting the so-called under votes to Tallahassee and the Democrat's worst nightmare, was both calm and truthful. He was there, " from 9AM to 7PM ". He had , " Defendant's exhibits 62 and 63 ", possibly the smoking gun of ballot box stuffing and tampering for sure! He described 62 as, " a compillation of votes from the floor ", and 63 as, " I saw them preparing 63 using 62 on November 29th ". To the question of whay was going on with the ballots on November 29th ( the day they were being shipped ), Lampkin replied, " Four tables of county officials were retrieving from trays, the under votes from various precincts. They opened the envelopes and counted each precinct's under votes, then marked the sheet ". Terrell continued with the natural follow up question; what was Dade County doing still counting the under votes? Lampkin revealed the source of the stench, " They were trying to ascertain the actual number of under votes ". Asked about the difference between the two so-called lists, he replied, " 34 ( precinct under vote counts ) went up ", but " 120 ( precinct vote counts ) went down ". I contend that if Lampkin hadn't been there, these counts would all have gone up, but certainly not down! IT ONLY GOT WORSE FOR THE MIAMI-DADE DIRTYcRATS, as Lampkin also saw, " ballots rerun through the machine...it stopped when an under vote was identified ". Terrell inquired if they were run through for a fourth time? " YES " This is bad folks, as well as being obviously an illegal or immoral act of cheating! On even more chad, Lampkin said, " Four or five incidents where you see chad in a previously cleaned area "!
MAN, THIS IS UGLY, SO UGLY FOR THE DEMOCRAT CRIMINALS FROM MIAMI-DADE WHO HAVE BEEN EXPOSED OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR THE DIRTYcRATS THEY ARE. NOW WE ALL UNDERSTAND WHY THE OBSERVERS WERE SO ANIMATED WHEN THEY WENT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS TO COUNT!!!
Deeno Kitchen tried to cook up some trouble, as Zack was busy looking for another line of work. He was crude and rude to Lampkin, accusingly asking; You're not trying to tell us we can't rely on the ballots. He could only offer the truth, " I am only bringing you the evidence ". Kitchen whined whimperingly that they had to handle them, but Lampkin was not to be denied, saying, " They added an extra step to carrying the closed ballot boxes ". Yeah baby, you tell 'em; I contend they added the hanky-panky shinanigans step! Clarifying, Lampkin said again, " They opened the precinct and took out the under vote ". He bushwhacked Kitchen by going through the entire questionable ( and that is putting it as mildly as it possibly be put ) procedure of them opening all the boxes and running them through the machines for a fourth time! Kitchen left the podium with his virtual tail between his legs!
Shirley King of the Nassau County Canvassing Board was examined by Fred Bartlit. Bartlit questioned; the next day, did you do a machine recount? King answered, " Yes ". On November 8th they realized the vote total was less, being the only county in the state where the vote total went down. " Almost immediately we knew what had happened ", said King. They had two types of ballots and the red line type were accidentally left upside down and didn't get counted the second time ( because they were upside down obviously ). The total came out with 218 ballots less than election day night. Asked; have the seals on the ballot cases been broken, she responded, " Not since the 8th ( of November ) ". She firmly continued, " On many occasions I did request a third count. I wanted every vote to count ". She waited and waited, until the last possible moment to call a meeting of the canvassing board where they had a , " three to zero vote to amend the vote ( back to the November 7th number ) ".
Dexter Dougl(ass), Gore Lieberman 2000 attorney, cross examined her. He unsuccessfully tried to use a stipulation to testify and offered a pseudo-closing statement-like argument?
When it came time for Joe Klock, he clarified that two vote totals were finally certified; one for the absentee ballots and one for the actual election day total. Phil Beck offered, " YOUR HONOR THAT WAS OUR LAST WITNESS ". Irv Terrel objected to the Miami-Dade ballots as a whole, presumably because no witness triggered their inclusion as eveidence and/or they may be tainted evidence?
THE INTERVENOR ASYLUM ( Intervenors got to offer limited evidence and witnesses )?
Matt Butler, resident of Collier County, voted for " George Bush ", using a, " punchcard ", ballot type. He wanted his vote to count the same as the ones the Democrats are counting.
Keith Temple, Duvall County resident, voted for, " Bush ". As a variation on the same theme, he wanted to have the same standing. David Boies tried to do the crooked lawyer thing again, asking him two misleading questions about him ( Temple ) having, " the right to protest or contest this election ". BOIES IS LOW, V-E-R-Y L-O-W!!!
Teresa Cruz went to the county and filed a military absentee ballot prior to the election in person. She went on and on about the media calling the election early. " Voter News Service " was mentioned specifically and everybody knows that I think they should be called ' Democrat Dirtytrick Service ', but she said she, " didn't know ". Klock had to give them all some virtual PROZAC. OH, NO NOT MORE WITNESSES?
Jeanette Symore felt cheated. Her husband called her at work to tell her it was all over, so she didn't vote on the way home. " There are a lot of votes that would have been counted on the panhandle ( Western Florida in the Central Time zone ), whether they be for Bush or Gore; they should be counted "!
Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch added to the lateness of the Sunday services.
REBUTTAL DEJA'VU
Oh no, Professor Nicholas Hengartner scratched his way into the witness seat again. He looked like he hadn't slept since his testimony on Saturday. David Boies used Hengartner as a sounding board, startinf, " President Bush "...OOPS, that was a Freudian slip if I ever have heard one! He ( Hengartner ) did a RAT DANCE, though he isn't even an American citizen? " One of the things you have to take into account is that there are more under votes in Democrat areas ".
Phil Beck, Hengartner's worst nightmare incarnate, hammered on cross about the misleading Miami-Dade trial hand count numbers, questioning loudly and directly, " That approach is plain dead wrong "? Hengartner could only whimper sheepishly, " It is not an accurate projection ".
YES FOLKS, HENGARTNER DIDN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION OF WHY THE CHICKEN CROSSED THE ROAD, BUT WHY A CHICKEN SCRATCHES IN THE DIRT!
Next came: THE FUTURE PRESIDENT'S NEW CLOSE?
Dexter Douglass received from his grand daughter, " ALL CATS ARE GRAY IN THE DARK ". I would have preferred, ALL RATS SMELL THE SAME IN THE DARK? He spoke briefly on Nassau County. He cited some Florida statute saying, " I don't think the lady ( what, he couldn't remember her name? ) meant to do anything wrong, but she did ". He then introduced the HEAD FLORIDA DIRTYcRAT, David Boies, creaming, " Mister Boies has been a pleasure to have with us in the county ". Oh, please; this kind of drivvle is best kept in the RAT CAGE!
David Boies described this case as a " contest action " ( Well, what else is (k)new? ). He then changed, " It is a protest action; a protest to particular counties and particular ballots ". He opined or misled, " There is no provision that says you must count all the votes ". Oh well, so much for fairness with this snake in the grass. He lied, " Judge Burton testified they had identified 216 votes ". Burton only agreed to accept the number as actual during his cross examination, answering in the affirmative. " The question is are those legal votes and have they been counted ", said Boies. DOES BOIES SORT OF LOOK LIKE BILL MURRAY'S EVIL AIDS INFECTED TWIN, OR IS IT NOSFORATU WITH HAIR PLUGS ( FOR DEMONS )? He was truthful with, " The statisticians both agreed on the arithmatic ". But then played fast and loose with the truth, putting the same sort of misleading words in the mouths of the Bush attorneys like he did with the words of Judge Burton. " These ballots have not been counted manually by anybody ". i think Mark Lampkin and exhibits 62 and 63 just about invalidate that statement!
Barry Richard began, " Since there is no common law right to contest elections...the legislature decides on whether or not there is a manual recount, 102.166 subsection 2 ". Richard pointed out firmly, " To that board and that board alone is entrusted with the right to order a manual recount ". He was light hearted but right on the beam with, " The right to a manual recount doesn't come from old rubber or chad build-up, but from the canvassing board ". On Miami-Dade, " They made decisions, changed it's mind...then changed it again ". " The burden is not on my client; the plantiff has the burden, he is trying to over turn a national election ". On Palm Beach County, " There was a rule applied years ago that certian ballots would not be counted. Congress says you can't change the rules while the election is in progress ". He hit upon the, " Illinois case notorious for being misquoted ", explaining, " There are still nineteen ballots with dimples and the Illinois court said fine, don't count them ". He dug into Boies for his misleading words, " He ( Boies ) said 218 votes; I thought it was 183 votes "? He ended with, " We certainly aren't dealing with plantiffs here who are shy at filing appeals ". He begged Sauls not to be, " The judge to hinge an election on those two witnesses presented by the plantiff ".
Joe Klock, " In Nassau County they don't want to hand count the votes, they want to go back to their count which is a mistake ". He beefed, " If you are going to challenge a state wide race, you must challenge every county ", and closed, " The Trojan Horse was the butterfly ballot ".
Micheal Mullin for Nassau County, " We have a DO RIGHT PROBLEM down in Nassau County ". He argued, " She ( King ) said I made an egregious error and I want to take care of it ", and that it was, " harmless error at best ". He closed with a plea to Sauls to, " Do the right thing morally and legally ".
Terry Madigan, Intervenor, " Mr. Richard and Mr. Klock made very good points ", but, " Mister Gore has taken selective action using three counties ". He threw the RATS back their MANTRA, with, " We hear that every vote counts; it is only votes for Mister Gore that he wants to count ". He finished, " The case by Mister Gore needs to be dismissed ".
Andrew Meyers of Broward County must have been filing his NASDAP membership papers as he dirtied them with, " The evidence reveals that Florida has hard working civil servants...hard work and honesty prevail ". THIS GUY WAS A CORNBALL, holding up the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. The next guy was an unpoped kernel, more poultry than meat, but gaining in carnage as it dragged on. The unmasked internevor, William Jennings ( Bryant? ) called it, " A CATCH-22 PROPOSITION ", as, " There were under votes in all the counties ".
Robert Vezina, attorney for intervenor John Trasher, former Florida Speaker pointed out, " The electors, they shall be elected ". He thought the Democratic electors should have been the actual plantifss. He then contended, " The contest statute only applies to someone winning an office...it does not apply to national elections ".
George Terwillinger, Bush Cheney 2000 argued the motion to dismiss, " The case be dismissed on failure to state cause ". He then did the old Alice on Wonderland routine, quoting The Red Queen, " No; verdict first, trial later "! He pointed to, " Require more than just the ballots in question be reviewed...the relief they aske for is a partial recount of the votes "!
David Boise closed ( his nightmare scenario brief? ). Your are getting sleepy, your eyelids are feeling heavy, SNORE. It all boiled down to: THE COURTS DO DO A MANUAL BALLOT BY BALLOT RECOUNT?
No dents, no dimples, no errors...
- Bongo ( Sendsome stale cheese bait? )
