Ballots and election materials stolen in San Francisco on election day (Then dumped in a lake)

[Zephie]

SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco polling inspector has pleaded not guilty to stealing dozens of ballots and other elections material.

Karl Bradfield Nicholas was arraigned on Friday on two counts of unlawful tampering with voting machines and ballots and a felony computer crime charge.

Prosecutors alleged the 50-year-old Nicholas stole about 75 ballots, the voter roster and the voting machine memory pack and access key from a polling site in the city's southernmost district in the middle of Election Day on Tuesday.

The ballots were later found floating in a pond at the Palace of the Fine Arts in the city's Marina neighborhood.

Nicholas is due back in court for a preliminary hearing on Nov. 19.

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/11/04/3160984/missing-sf-ballots-found-floating.html

[Pab Sungenis]

1. And what candidates were the ballots for?

I will bet you they were all straight Democrat.

[tabatha]

2. Registered Republican

San Francisco police have arrested a. election worker for allegedly stealing 75 ballots. Karl Bradfield Nicholas, 50, San Francisco, left his post at 4:15 p.m. at the election station on Knott Court with the ballots and a memory card that recorded the votes cast.........He faces felony counts of burglary and two election code violations. He is formerly of Kentfield and San Rafael, a computer repairman and registered Republican. He represents himself in lawsuits and has a website in which he rails against the court system.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/03/BAJO1G6ETJ.DTL&feed=rss.news#ixzz14QW7IZ1I