Nuts & Bolts of AZ state election fraud investigation by Jim March
4/7/2009
The total hand count of what are alleged to be the 2006 Pima County Regional Transportation Authority bond measure ballots are being counted right now in Maricopa County, Arizona. Eight teams of three people each (all Maricopa Elections Division employees) are doing the “sort and stack” method to pile ballots into three piles for each question.
It’s impossible to state how tight the information flow is here. The process is non-transparent.
In broad strokes, the preliminary counts are being reported to match the official final totals from 2006. Ballot forensics are going to be a factor here, and the chain of custody of these ballots (read: are they even the original ballots?) is open to question.