# 48. Now broadly suspicious, Complainant without anyone's knowledge created his own informal security system to reveal to him of any breaches to the building after hours.
# 49. In furtherance, he placed a large pile of leaves behind each of the three rear entry points of the building where the absentee voter containers were being stored during the recount. Each day before the days count began he checked the leaves for any disturbance.
# 74. Finally, on Monday, December 21, 2009, Complainant and his Team arrived at the recount location to obtain an explanation of why numerous time clocks on numerous polling computers showed dates and times which seemingly indicated that the polls had been electronically closed hours before the statutory required 8pm poll closing time.
# 75. However, before entering the building as was his daily ritual, Complainant did his normal walk around of the building but this time discovered that the rear door leaves had been pushed back and were now in a straight line. The door had been opened and the building had been entered!
# 76. Complainant immediately confronted county recount election staff who called the weekend security guard. After speaking with the guard in full sight of the room of observers, Ms Cynthia Hawthorne, explained to the room of over 30 people that the guard just admitted to her that 2 people had indeed come to the door, the door was opened and the guard invited the strangers in and allowed them to tour the "secure" area ...
Footnote # (10) Indeed, precinct 20-04 [certified as having hundreds of ballots] was an empty case with no voted, unused or spoiled ballots inside.
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Black Box Voting is helping to bring attention to this case with the goal in mind to raise the bar on compliance and consequences. We have called for the Detroit election officials to be removed from their positions.
In addition, we will be arranging for examination of some specific public documents to put more light on the role the ES&S M100 and ES&S absentee counting voting machines may have played to cause discrepancies, and we will be looking into why a Premier voting machines technician got involved.
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# 49. In furtherance, he placed a large pile of leaves behind each of the three rear entry points of the building where the absentee voter containers were being stored during the recount. Each day before the days count began he checked the leaves for any disturbance.
# 74. Finally, on Monday, December 21, 2009, Complainant and his Team arrived at the recount location to obtain an explanation of why numerous time clocks on numerous polling computers showed dates and times which seemingly indicated that the polls had been electronically closed hours before the statutory required 8pm poll closing time.
# 75. However, before entering the building as was his daily ritual, Complainant did his normal walk around of the building but this time discovered that the rear door leaves had been pushed back and were now in a straight line. The door had been opened and the building had been entered!
Footnote # (10) Indeed, precinct 20-04 [certified as having hundreds of ballots] was an empty case with no voted, unused or spoiled ballots inside.
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Black Box Voting is helping to bring attention to this case with the goal in mind to raise the bar on compliance and consequences. We have called for the Detroit election officials to be removed from their positions.
In addition, we will be arranging for examination of some specific public documents to put more light on the role the ES&S M100 and ES&S absentee counting voting machines may have played to cause discrepancies, and we will be looking into why a Premier voting machines technician got involved.
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