When Glenda Young called Black Box Voting she was a woman with a mission. "I need a lawyer," she said. "Can you help?"
Her plain spoken Southern drawl was laced with urgency and determination. "I believe that a great injustice has been done. When seven candidates join together from different parties to contest an election because they believe it was not honest, something's terribly wrong."
After questioning her, Kathleen Wynne of Black Box Voting was sufficiently concerned about procedural violations in the election that she took it upon herself to contact several attorneys on Glenda's behalf. The first attorney to understand the urgency and importance of this case was Paul Lehto, a formidable advocate for clean elections from Everett, Washington.
According to Lehto & Gilbert's legal brief:
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The Court must recall at all times that the voting here in question involves invisible electronic ballots which have not been inspected at any time by any party hereto, even the County Clerk has not counted them. Rather, the electronic ballots have been purported to be counted in secret by trade secret counting software owned by the vendors.
There is no reason at all or basis for confidence in the electronic counting until verified by the plaintiffs not only because the Clerk himself is a defendant-candidate here, but also because it is the nature of the computer to do precisely as it is told without reference to any laws, morals or ethics.
Lehto explains: "Computers do what they're told -- without regard to laws, ethics or morals, and THAT's the problem. They can put computers into elections when they find a computer that fears going to jail."
A copy of the plaintiff's supplemental response to the motion to dismiss can be seen here:
http://www.bbvdocs.org/legal/kentucky-dismissal.pdf
Here is a copy of Lehto and Gilbert's offer of proof for the motion to dismiss:
http://www.bbvdocs.org/legal/lehto-dismissal-response.pdf
Copy of original petition:
http://www.bbvdocs.org/legal/kentucky-original.pdf
Glenda Young is a prime example of the backbone of America. One person CAN make a difference. When she called Black Box Voting, we realized that she was as serious as a heart attack. It was clear that there was no way she was going to back down, whether we helped her or not. This is the kind of tenacity it's going to take to reclaim our elections.
"I never believed this would happen in my own back yard," Young says. "It is up to us as the people of America to take a stand."
Lehto explains:
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