Richard Hayes Phillips Declaration: "Direct Evidence of Ballot Tampering"

[eomer]

This declaration filed in court on 9/1/2006 contains Phillips' findings to date in his recent examination of 2004 ballots and other records in eleven counties in Ohio. These findings lead him to the conclusion that "there is direct evidence of ballot tampering".

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/DeclarationofRichardHayesPhillipsfiledbyRichardHayesPhillips.pdf

Use the link above to see the declaration in full. Start at paragraph 9 if you want to jump to Phillips' recent work. Paragraphs 1 - 8 have some preliminaries and background on older investigation.

Here's just a shell of the declaration:

_______________________________________________________________________________________

DECLARATION OF RICHARD HAYES PHILLIPS
_______________________________________________________________________________________

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1746, I, Richard Hayes Phillips, declare the following:          

1. I have personal knowledge of the facts alleged herein.                              

                                  -snip-                                               

61. Having reviewed a substantial amount of forensic evidence, it is my conclusion that
    there is direct evidence of ballot tampering in each of the eleven counties whose  
    public records I have examined, and that there is a compelling need to protect the 
    evidence from destruction, presently scheduled to take place on or shortly after   
    September 2, 2006.  The Court should order all Boards of Elections to continue to  
    preserve and protect all ballots, poll books, voter signature books, and associated
    records from the November 2, 2004 election until a suitable repository is found for
    their permanent preservation.                                                      

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.             

Executed this      first      day of September, 2006.                                  

                                               ___________________________________     
                                                    Richard Hayes Phillips             

[FogerRox]

1. "YEs", love it. K & freakin R

[Botany]

2. Fucking Jackpot Baby!

Spin this Columbus, Dispatch
Tell me I am conspiracy nut NY Times
Deny the hard evidence Washington Post
CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, CNN, & MSNBC try to kill this story!

[Seabiscuit]

43. Mark my word: This story will NEVER air on CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, et. al.

That's how those media whores/Bush propagandists "kill" a story - they never mention it.

[Botany]

59. We must bypass the media and make a "buzz" about this story

Then "they" will have to cover it.

[autorank]

51. Like your 'tude!

But didn't the Dispatch spin their own poll right into the ground after the 30% last minute swing in
the special issues election? They're spinmeisters extraordinaire...

Phillips is first rate. I read his stuff on SW Ohio...the guy has it down.

Happy days.

[Botany]

60. I tease their political reporter with e mails all the time

When RFK Jr's article came out I sent it to him .....

he sent this nugget back;

The analysis is incorrect. The dispatch and other Ohio papers have looked at these issues and come up with different conclusions. Salon, not a conservative bastion, did a critique of the rfk article that hits the major points. Thanks for writing.

his name is Jonathan Riskand


BTW go down thread and look @ the ballots (mod mom's post ????)

The Claremont County ballot w/ the sticker over Kerry's punch is so fucking balls out cheating ....

[autorank]

77. Hey Botany, wanna really piss him off....

This will do it...Salon, Mother Jones & the Tortured Dialogue. It's heavily referenced & this is the "Print" version. The links just shine.

He'd also get a kick out of this one re: the stickies on ballots;) - DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN? DEMOCRAT HACKETT LOSES A SQUEAKER IN OHIO’S 2nd CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT:

"In Clermont, irregularities and hostilities were the order of the day, according to three eye witnesses who gave affidavits to the Conyers committee. Stephen Spraley, an electrician and Ohio Democratic Party recount volunteer, offered a report of major significance. He saw a number of ballots with oval white stickers placed next to the candidate’s name and covering the Presidential selection. Spraley approached Assistant Board Director Kathy Jones, a Democrat, with a ballot on which a Kerry choice was covered with a sticker. Before Jones could speak, Dan Bare, the board chairman, said this would be addressed later at a board meeting. At the meeting, the board agreed that the stickers were part of a process in Ohio to avoid spoilage.

Spraley called Carolyn Betts, who was working as a recount observer in Hamilton County. Betts has both MBA and JD degrees, as well as impressive experience with white collar crime, fraud cases, and contentious financial transactions. Betts confirmed Spraley’s observations and concerns about altered ballots found during the recount. This observation carries added weight because it is contemporaneous and consistent with Spraley’s. Betts noted that Danny Bare said that using white sticker on candidate selections was an acceptable means of fixing ballot problems prior to vote counting. Bare restated and confirmed this position at the Clermont Board’s certification meeting for the recount. Betts also noted that Spraley told her he had asked to take a photograph of one of the altered ballots and was denied this request."

Tell him there will be a quiz and he needs to be prepared. What a bunch of wimps. Their own poll shows major problems (special issues) and they cave in like a cheap pup tent. Sweet!

[Botany]

80. Bottom Line

"They" know it was dirty because they have the same info we do .....
it is all about plausible deniability and repeating the company line.


<Betts noted that Danny Bare said that using white sticker on candidate selections was an acceptable
means of fixing ballot problems prior to vote counting.>

Good Lord what a crock of shit .... stickers on optiscan ballots = no vote.

[autorank]

82. Thanks for deepening my understanding...

I can't imagine what it's like. Of course everybody knows its corrupt...everybody, they just won't admit it and it must be aggravating in the extreme and even laughable at times.

I'm promising to show up at the Strickland inauguration just to feel see the joy and get a little satisfaction myself from all that's gone on.

Ohio deserves much better, particularly the activists.

Get 'em...and keep on that Dispatch guy. They deserve it.

[blm]

3. Great news.

.

[Democrafty]

4. K&R

[eppur_se_muova]

5. OMG! Who is Richard Hayes Phillips? Why haven't I heard of him before? nt

[acmejack]

11. Richard Hayes Phillips Ph.D., Geomorphology,

RESUME
Richard Hayes Phillips

DEGREES AWARDED
Ph.D., Geomorphology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1987.

M.A., History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 1983.

M.A., Geography, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 1982.

B.A., Political Science and Geography (double major), State University of New York, Potsdam, New York, 197

Resume

snip>
Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D. is a professional hydrologist, well versed in standard techniques of statistical analysis, with special expertise in spotting anomalous data.

He analyzed unofficial results from the 2004 general election in Columbus and Cleveland.

Dr Phillips says, "There is compelling evidence of systematic withholding of voting machines from predominantly Democratic wards in Columbus, many of them with high black populations. This action severely restricted voter turnout in these wards, and cost John F. Kerry upwards of 17,000 votes. Franklin County Board of Elections Director Matt Damschroder is known to have made this decision, and he is known to have met with Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and President George W. Bush in Columbus on Election Day."

[GregD]

44. radio archives from KPFA

http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=5328

[lfairban]

46. You're not kidding!

Polling location in Grandview Heights (Columbus), Ohio.

[kelliebrat]

67. Kicked again

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[emlev]

48. Not just Columbus and Cleveland

Richard Hayes Phillips, with the help of a team of people I coordinated, analyzed the Ohio 2004 presidential election results at the precinct level in counties representing over 60% of Ohio's voters.

Check out more of the work here.

[Febble]

53. Thanks for doing

what needed to be done.

[mod mom]

12. He is a multi-talented patriot who has worked with Fitrakis and others at

Free Press since the '04 election. DU's own Emlev worked with him after the '04 election. As the court paper's have noted he has written a multitude of articles for Freepress.

[eppur_se_muova]

26. Thanks. Once I started into the file he started to sound more familiar.nt

edit to add: The patience and tenacity this guy has shown in putting all this together is just staggering. If I were up against him I know I'd just throw in the towel.

Can an atheist nominate someone for sainthood?

[Divine Discontent]

85. the compliment surely doesn't hurt! I'm sure he'd appreciate the comp n/t

[Tigress DEM]

6. When people say, "Respect him, he's the President." NEW Reply.

Are you talking about John Kerry or *ush the Commander and Theif?

If they get riled, just say, "Would you ask me to respect the leader of ANY OTHER COUNTRY that got into office by rigging the election?"

He's NOT MY PRESIDENT.

[Tigress DEM]

7. Pump it up People! Get this party started! kick it up!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[Botany]

8. kick the hell out of this thread

Delaware County, Ohio trying to get ballots in 06 from EES to put in so everything looks
"kosher" for an audit of 04?

[Divine Discontent]

86. explain for my slow mind at 5am, please

I know delaware county very well, what are they doing?

[eomer]

87. It's 9 am, the sun is up, and I've had a couple of coffees...

so I'll hazard a guess.

The most obvious explanation would be that some of the original supply of ballots were used to commit fraud like ballot stuffing. They are supposed to retain the unused ballots and the spoiled ballots for the same amount of time as the voted ballots so that they can later be audited to show that the actual number of unused ballots is equal to the number that should have been left over from the original supply. The only purpose of these control measures is to make it more difficult to commit fraud.

If they were trying to surreptitiously order ballots after the election that they would be able to slip in as if part of the original supply then this would be a clear indication of criminal ballot tampering.

Edit: apparently I haven't had enough coffee yet. I should probably have said "ballot swap" instead of "ballot stuffing". With just straight stuffing then the accounting of ballots would have looked okay. But if they swapped out true ballots, discarded them, and replaced them with "punch party" ballots then the accounting wouldn't add up correctly. Or if they just discarded some of the true ballots without replacing them. Either way they would need to order up some ballots if they wanted the count to come out right.

[Kurovski]

9. K&R, and bookmarked! (nt)

[acmejack]

10. Oh my Goodness!

Yeessssssssss, Baby!

[drmondo]

13. Yea but...

Pardon my cynicism, I just voted today and could not believe there actually was a line to use the electronic machine. People freely hand their vote over without a paper trail.

Although it seems, even with a paper trail nobody cares. They suck on their big gulp and watch TV, screaming that we're tearing America apart because we want the results to actually be counted correctly.

I can see one problem with Phillips' argument, it is possible that a long series of Bush votes could be cast in a row if a busload of Republicans had just come in from some fundamentalist church of Satan.

[ElboRuum]

66. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! K&R

:toast: None of this: :nopity: for anyone's head which may roll from this!

[MissWaverly]

14. to all who would not shut up about the stolen 2004 election

Please take a bow, you are true patriots, you fought many battles for this day,
thanks, my friends

:-)

[mod mom]

15. Court Case Photos from my post from earlier:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30467815@N00

[Botany]

18. I have heard about these but this is my first time seeing 'em.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30467815@N00/236965142/

Sticker over optical scan ballot = no vote

[karynnj]

22. Same here -

Is the idea that the sticker is applied later on top of a ballot marked for Kerry - then revoted for Bush? So, these would have been tampered with between when they were voted and when they were counted?

Aren't their bi-partsan people involved in counting the votes? This looks too blatant not to be noticed. How is this coming out now? Have they released things not seen before? (Even RFK jr, who seemed to have investigated relatively thoroughly had nothing like this.)

- I would be thrilled (and infuriated at the Republicans) if Kerry really won.

[Botany]

24. No they just went of Kerry votes.

Bush votes were left to be counted

[emlev]

47. They *were* noticed

during the so-called recount.

Here's one link about them.

About your "bi-partisan people" question, the answer is yes and no. County Boards of Election in Ohio do have to have employees who are registered Democrat and employees who are registered Republican. However, anybody can register in any party or change their registration, right? I think it was in Ohio that the term "DINO" was coined. It stands for "Democrat in Name Only." Poke around a bit and you'll find examples where the "Democratic" staff people in Ohio BOE offices were anything but.

Time to be thrilled and infuriated. Kerry really won.

And oh, BTW, RFK didn't so much investigate thoroughly as he (and at least one other person who worked on the article, I believe) reviewed work by people like Richard Hayes Phillips and Bob Fitrakis and restated it to a larger audience.

If you want to see RHP's original work, you can find lots of it at freepress.org or go to Richard Hayes Phillips's website.

[truedelphi]

68. People need to realize that a majority of election officials

Are Republicans or DINOS, or anything but Democrats

Perhaps there are a few places qualifying aws exceptions
like CHicago Illinois and Boston MA but the overall
status of electionofficials is Republican.
That is why even in liberal Marin COunty, you have People
like Elaine ginnold and Michael SMithwho talk about being
registered "Independents" but who act like they are the
Diebold payroll

[rox63]

16. K&R!!!!!!! n/t

[Patsy Stone]

17. Wheeeee!

K&RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

[Botany]

19. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fav EDV?

click on the link I have 2 posts up.

The PDF is the mother load of data.

[Patsy Stone]

20. The feeling is mutual

as you'll see in the clubhouse. Can't wait to read this.

[Ellipsis]

21. K&R

[bleever]

23. Woo damn hoo.

:kick:

[Berry Cool]

25. Hurray!!

Which counties does this cover??

[Melissa G]

27. K and effing R!!! Thanks eomer for the post! n/t

[glitch]

28. K & R nt

[robinlynne]

29. Woohoo!

[DemReadingDU]

30. Good news for Ohio!

K&R

[kpete]

31. "I have personal knowledge of the facts alleged herein."

love it!!!

[AtomicKitten]

32. WOW

just effin wow

[Stevepol]

33. K&R!!!!!

[philb]

34. Lots of other problems in Ohio election other than tampering

Touchscreen switching in several counties
Illegal dirty tricks in minority areas in many counties
registration irregularities and supression of minority and student voting
absentee ballot irregularities

insufficient voting machines in Dem areas and manipulation of vote count in many counties

http://www.flcv.com/ohiosum.html

fraud and manipulation in many counties
www.flcv.com/greenrc.html

[AntiFascist]

35. K&R...mess with DEMOCRACY will you?! n/t

[bleever]

38. As someone recently said: "Stolen elections have consequences."

:thumbsup:

[New Earth]

36. this is awesome

thank you for posting :)
more good news.

[bleever]

39. Please note:

The erroneous term "voter fraud" is not to be found in this post.

:)

[New Earth]

76. haha aren't you funny

most in ERD forum know this. GD is another story :P

[bleever]

83. I's just giving you credit.

:hi:

[bleever]

37. God I love it when Election Reform forum threads climb way up.

If I may quote the Beatles: "I got a feelin'..."

:thumbsup:

[Triana]

40. Question is - WHO will do anything about this?

Nobody....Where are our beloved Democrats?


(que crickets chirping....)

[Seabiscuit]

45. You're right - absolutely nobody. We'll talk about it on DU for a day,

then the story's dead. Except for those of us who periodically browse the archives and bring up old stories, as this will soon become.

Ever thus has fascism truly arrived on our shores.

[farmbo]

54. er...This affidavit was filed as part of a federal lawsuit.

This suit is being aggressively pressed forward in US District court in Columbus by Cliff Arnebeck and a team of elections lawyers before Judge Algernon Marbley, a Clinton appointee who is as serious as a heart attack about enforcing equal protection and due process in the Ohio electoral system. This is Blackwell's worst nightmare.

Enough with the nay saying.

Stop wringing your hands and use them to write this team a $25 check!

[Stardust]

41. THE single most important issue of our day!!!

But what will this bring about?

[Straight Shooter]

42. I still want people prosecuted for the "terror threat" in Warren County.

But I'll start with news like this and remain cautiously optimistic.

Thank you for posting this. May we give a thousand cuts to the current one-party rule.

[truedelphi]

84. Amen to that. In my mind it be treason,

and bodies should have hung.

[emlev]

49. Messages for Richard Hayes Phillips? Post 'em here.

I'll send some or all of this thread to him.

[Fly by night]

62. To Richard "Purple Hayes" Phillips: keep up the country-saving work...

... someone has to do it.

We here in the Orange State support you and are proud to know you. It has been nice to see the brick walls of the Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church (Nashville) framing your fury in not one, but two, election reform videos this week. I hope our paths cross again soon.

BOP #16502-075

[nicknameless]

50. R'ed before.

Here's a Kick.

Excellent news!

[autorank]

52. Hi eomer! Of course Kerry won;)

It's called a "pattern of deception" ... here or there...doesn't matter, it's the same people.

Thanks for posting this. Check this out http://electionfraudnews.com/

[RedEarth]

55. I wonder if the media will pick this up.....just guessing I would say no..

...great information...thanks for posting....

[yellerpup]

56. K&R!

Now THIS is Hard Work! Thanks to Richard Hayes Phillips. :kick: :kick: :kick:

[progressoid]

57. I was wondering who Richard Hayes Phillips is & found something interesing

A quick Google gave me a lot of discriptions:

Richard Hayes Phillips, a researcher... (Online Journal)

Richard Hayes Phillips, a scientist... (Cincinnati Enquirer)

Richard Hayes Phillips, a private investigator... (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Richard Hayes Phillips, a Canton, NY, resident... (Columbus Dispatch)

Mathematician Richard Hayes Phillips... (Columbus Free Press)

Statistician Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips... (OpEdNews)

:shrug:

[OnTheOtherHand]

63. well, it's not his fault

As someone noted upthread, he is a geologist, indeed a geomorphologist, by training. So, certainly a researcher and a scientist. Certainly conversant in mathematics and statistics, although those are not his fields. A "private investigator" in the sense that he has conducted investigations on his own -- no relation to Sam Spade. Also a self-described "lyric poet" and "wandering minstrel" (http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/). A man of many talents, but not of multiple personalities.

I've never met RHP, but I think he's done good stuff, although I disagree with some of his statistical extrapolations.

[NJCher]

73. just an FYI

Gifted people, as this man no doubt is, are not just gifted in one area, as a general rule. They are gifted in many areas.

No surprise to me that he is versatile and multifaceted as a personality.

It's a stereotype in American culture that the more dedicated one is to one area, the better or more professional one is. Simply not the case.




Cher

[OnTheOtherHand]

74. I absolutely agree

I would hold up Febble as another example. Not long ago I was googling for one of her New Mexico analyses, or something like that, and came across a review of a performance that included one of her compositions for voice.

[Name removed]

78. Deleted message

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[OnTheOtherHand]

81. the answer is, No (rolling my eyes) n/t

[emlev]

69. More background on Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips

This is a long document. Near the beginning it describes how his geomorphology work trained him to search for anomalous data during statistical analysis.

[mod mom]

75. and you forgot accomplished musician.

[kaygore]

58. Think Olbermann will have the guts to report this?

[Botany]

61. Send it to him I did

[kaygore]

65. Great idea. Thank you. I'll do that.

[PleadTheFirst]

64. BIG K&R!

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

70. Great Caesar's Ghost

Big time K&R

[Martin Eden]

71. When do we start the revolution?

There is a usurper on the throne.

[Tigress DEM]

79. NOW!

[Christa]

72. K & R

:kick: