Arpaio: Congressional probe good next step..... Confirms hunt for perpertrators of fraud over Obama documents to continue... March 1, 2012 by WND

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Arpaio: Congressional probe good next step

Confirms hunt for perpetrators of fraud over Obama documents to continue

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County today defended the work of his volunteer Cold Case Posse from charges by reporters at a news conference that he was accusing Barack Obama of forgery and that his investigation overlooked the “work” of the 50 states where Obama already was investigated.
“I’m not accusing him of lying or a crime,” Arpaio said, “We have documented evidence of violations of the law. We’re investigating those crimes.”
The news conference presented the preliminary findings of the Cold Case Posse’s work into Obama’s eligibility to be president. The team believes there is probable cause that the document released by the White House last year as Obama’s birth certificate is a computer-generated forgery.
Arpaio confirmed the investigation will continue, but he could not say exactly where it will lead. He suggested a congressional investigation would be appropriate.
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The investigative team has asked Arpaio to elevate the investigation to a criminal probe that will make available the resources of his Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
The posse says it has identified at least one person of interest in the alleged forgery of Obama’s birth certificate.
In fact, chief investigator Mike Zullo reported, “We have identified the computer manufacture, [and] where that document resided 20 minutes before it was uploaded onto the White House website.”
The issue of Obama’s birth certificate centers on his eligibility to be president, since the Constitution requires that a president be a “natural-born citizen.”
The term is not defined in the Constitution, but at the time the document was written, many experts believe it referred to the offspring of two citizens of the country. Some critics say the place of birth is irrelevant, since Obama has written that Barack Obama Sr., his father, never was a U.S. citizen.
The posse report included a number of videos explaining the evidence and the conclusion that members believe forgers committed two crimes. First, they say it appears the White House fraudulently created a forgery that it characterized as an officially produced governmental birth record. Second, the White House fraudulently presented to the residents of Maricopa County and to the American public at large a forgery represented as “proof positive” of President Obama’s authentic 1961 Hawaii long-form birth certificate.
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The posse also said evidence suggests the Hawaii Department of Health has engaged in a systematic effort to hide from public inspection any original 1961 birth records it may have in its possession.
Arpaio said he went into the investigation, at the request of 250 of his constituents, hoping to provide proof for Obama’s eligibility. Zullo said the issue was not even on his radar when he was called in to the sheriff’s office to begin the work.
But the law enforcement officers explained that they had had an allegation of a possible crime, and now they have evidence to back it up.
Reporters after the presentation badgered Arpaio and Zullo, accusing them of making accusations against the president and questioning how they could ignore the vetting work done by all 50 states on Obama.
However, Arpaio and Zullo say they have evidence of two crimes but have not named anyone as a suspect. And the investigation done by Arpaio’s officers is the first formal law enforcement investigation into any of the issues.
Other probes have been done by private investigators, but in the 2008 election there was no procedure, authority or system to make sure that presidential candidates qualified under the Constitution.
Several dozen court cases have emerged in the last few weeks to get state elections officials to begin that work.
To the accusation by reporters that the county was dealing with something that should be addressed at another level, Zullo said, “The fact that that document was put up on the website of the White House for distribution for anyone in the country was a representation made to the people of Maricopa, including at a press conference, where the president attested that this is my document, proof positive.”
He said if it’s a fraud on one person, it’s a fraud on everyone.
Arpaio said he might suggest a congressional investigation to resolve the concerns, but he wasn’t sure where the case would go next. He emphasized, however, that it would continue.
“We would like to start with the person who pressed the upload button,” Zullo said.
Arpaio added, “We don’t have the person yet. That’s what we’re working to find out.”
If Obama has explanations for the evidence, he said, he’d like to see it, because then “we all win.”
Zullo specifically discounted the value of newspaper publications of announcements purporting to document Obama’s birth in Hawaii in 1961, explaining that there is evidence that some 3-year-olds were registered as newborns, and some foreign-born children were registered as Hawaii residents.
Thus, the newspaper information is “not credible,” he said.
The posse was made up of former law enforcement officers and lawyers with law enforcement experience. It interviewed dozens of witnesses and examined hundreds of documents. It also has taken numerous sworn statements from witnesses around the world, including one that Zullo described as a former government official.
That person, Zullo said, was prepared to testify that in the 1980s, when he was visiting at the home of Obama buddy Bill Ayers’ mother, he was introduced by Ayers’ mother to a “foreign student” who was being helped with his education. That “foreign student” was identified as Barack Obama, he said.
In addition, investigators say they have developed credible evidence that President Obama’s Selective Service card was a forgery, based on an examination of the postal date stamp on the document. Also, records of Immigration and Naturalization Service cards filled out by passengers arriving on international flights originating outside the United States in the month of August 1961, examined at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., are missing records for the week of President Obama’s birth.

Renovation of S.B. County Registrar of Voters' Office Begines! (Press Enterprise Sept 19, 2007)

Renovation of S. B. County registrar of voters' office begins

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08:26 AM PDT on Wednesday, September 19, 2007

By IMRAN GHORI
The Press-Enterprise

Survey: Do you think the move from electronic voting to paper ballots is a good idea?

A tangle of wires, exposed pipe and bare, torn walls greet visitors to the San Bernardino County registrar of voters' office.

The county has begun a $3.4 million renovation of the offices on East Rialto Avenue in San Bernardino even as the registrar's staff is preparing for four elections over the next year and a change in voting systems.

The project, which will add 5,145 square feet of space to the complex, is the first expansion since the registrar's office moved into the building in 1979.

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The renovated San Bernardino County registrar of voters' office will include a 4,300-square-foot room for handling absentee ballots, which numbered about 200,000 in 2006 -- up from 13,901 in 1976.

Registrar Kari Verjil said the improvements have been on the top of her list since she took over two years ago.

"We're running out of space," she said.

The staff has grown along with the number of voters over the years, but the workers have continued to operate in the same space, Verjil said. Training for poll workers sometimes spills into the hallway when they form groups because of tight space.

The number of absentee voters has increased from 13,901 in 1976 to about 200,000 in 2006, but staff still has had to use the same 900-square-foot room for counting ballots.

The renovated office will include a 2,000-square-foot room dedicated to poll worker training with a more user-friendly classroomlike setup. Verjil expects to train about 3,000 poll workers for the Nov. 6 election. The room, a former cafeteria that sat vacant for five years, can double as a media center on election nights, she said.

The absentee-ballot room is being expanded to 4,300 square feet. The layout will allow for the painstaking tasks involved in sorting and counting ballots to be separated into a logical flow, starting with the delivery of the ballots, their verification and sorting, counting by computer and then storage.

"You're not going to be bouncing around like a pingpong ball," Verjil said, describing what the process was like under the current setup.

The counting process will be visible to observers through a glass wall, an improvement over the current observation room that has a few windows, she said.

"The plan is to present an open environment for our voters," Verjil said.

The front area is being redesigned with a larger counter space and employees who deal with the public most often -- candidate and voter registration services -- situated nearby.

The renovations had been planned for early next year, with completion by April, but were moved up after the primary was split into a February presidential primary and a June state primary.

The work is expected to be complete by Dec. 1, just in time for the office to start preparing for the February primary, Verjil said.

A second phase of the expansion, in which a mezzanine will be added to the warehouse area, will take place next year after the primary.

Since Aug. 20, when work began, the registrar's staff has been housed in a smaller office in the same building down a series of hallways. Employees made the transition to their temporary office over a weekend without any difficulties, Verjil said.

In addition to the renovations, the office is switching from electronic voting to paper ballots for this November's election, when some city, college and school district races are being held. Voter turnout typically is lower in such off-year elections and Verjil said the smaller election will allow her staff time to be ready for the transition.

Last month, Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified electronic voting machines used by San Bernardino, Riverside and other counties, citing security concerns. Counties were ordered to switch to different systems by February.

San Bernardino County will use optical-scan ballots, the same it uses for absentee ballots. At least one touch-screen machine still will be available at each polling place under Bowen's order. The rest of the machines will sit stacked in the registrar's warehouse.

Riverside County also is planning to use optical-scan ballots but has asked Sequoia Voting Systems, the vendor for its voting equipment, to lend ballot counting equipment for the February primary.

Reach Imran Ghori at 909-806-3061 or ighori@PE.com

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BS Ranch Perspective

It is totally unusual to me that they would request to have the Electronic Voter Machines Deactivated even if the Volume of Voters is down when there is an off year to the voting year! I have to say that if they kept the Electronic Machines in use at this time that the Voting Public would have been up rather then down for this time of year! As the Voters have been up over all because of the Electronic Machines.

It is my belief that the Democratic Controlled San Bernardino Offices of the Registrar of Voter's Knows that the Electronic Voting Machines have brought New Voters to VOTE!!   The Democratic Registrar of Voters has requested and won to go back to the Optical Voting Machines, because the Democrats of California Found that they were more Successful when they used the Optical counting Machines, They found that they were more successful when they used that method of voting and so they want to go back to that method of counting votes, since The Computer, Electronic Counting machine counts the Votes right then and there, it draws more voters to Vote, however in my area the more voters are Republican Voters!! That is not good for them, so they want to go back to the old way of voting and make it so that there are less voters to come in and vote, and that way there might be more control on the count, as everyone knows that there are so much more ways to Modify the count on a Optical Eye Paper count, Every time that they did a recount of the presidential Campaign regarding President Bush, and Presidential Candidate Gore, in 2004, the count was different every time, especially in Florida, let alone in California.

Yet this is the system that they the Democrats want to go to, especially since the Democrats are in charge of the Federal Government for the Election!!! Very Interesting.....as the Detective Would Say with the Very Thick German Accent!! Very Interesting...Indeed!!

BS Ranch

San Bernardino Co. Consideres Return to Paper Ballots

San Bernardino Co. considers return to paper ballots

02:53 PM PDT on Friday, August 17, 2007

By IMRAN GHORI
The Press-Enterprise

San Bernardino County will consider going back to paper ballots for the November election and next year's presidential elections after the Secretary of State's decision earlier this month to decertify touch-screen voting machines.

The recommendation from county Registrar of Voters Kari Verjil, which goes to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, calls for spending $1.5 million to make the switch to optical scan ballots, the same system the county now uses for absentee ballots.

Secretary of State Debra Bowen's Aug. 3 decision decertifying electronic voting systems requires counties using those systems to have new voting equipment ready for use in the February presidential primary.

Verjil said she is proposing to change for the November election, when some city, school board and special district seats will be on the ballot, so that poll workers will be trained and ready for 2008.

"It would be a tremendous effort for our poll workers, who have worked so hard, to go back and forth," she said.

San Bernardino County first started using touch-screen voting machines, made by Sequoia Voting Systems, in March 2004 under a court mandate to stop using punch card ballots.

The touch-screen voting machines were briefly decertified later that year by then-Secretary of State Kevin Shelley which led some counties, including Riverside and San Bernardino, to sue the state. The machines were recertified in time for the November 2004 election, after the counties agreed to some security measures, including offering voters a choice of using paper ballots.

In November 2005, San Bernardino County was one of the first counties to start using electronic voting machines with a paper trail receipt, another measure asked for by Shelley.

The county has spent $16 million on its electronic voting machines, county spokesman David Wert said.

Riverside County Registrar Barbara Dunmore said earlier this week she would recommend purchasing a $7 million paper ballot and optical scanning system from Sequoia without seeking a competitive proposal.

The move was met with criticism from some voting rights advocates and county supervisors who said they wanted more than one option.

On Friday, Dunmore said her office would continue to explore options so she could bring more information to the Board of Supervisors when they consider her recommendations Aug. 28.

Riverside County has spent about $25 million on its Sequoia touch screen system since 2000.

Staff Writer Kim Trone contributed to this report.

Reach Imran Ghori at 909-806-3061 or ighori@PE.com

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BS Ranch Perspective:

One Giant Step Forward, Two Steps back, if you were to ask me!! I realize that the Counties Registrars of Voters Wants to have a Uniform Voter Ballot, however that is impossible, if they want to stay with the paper ballot, the last few times that I have been to my Local Polling Place (since the implementing of the Electronic Voting Machines) There has always been a long line to wait in to vote. I think the shortest time that I have waited was Twenty Minutes since there was so many people in there to vote, and it didn't matter what time that I voted, each time that I went to stand in line it was a different time of the day. The last time being at 1700 hrs, and I didn't get out of there until just after 1800 hrs. I felt it was a little crazy that I had to wait over an hour just to get to the touch screen machine to get my vote in for the ballots and the other major things that were going on for our county.

Now They are talking of going back to the Paper ballot, I suppose it is because there has been in increase of a voter in one party that isn't to the liking of the majority party that is in the major control of the Voting block, in this case the Registrar of Voters for San Bernardino County is in control of the Democrat and I suppose that there has been in increase in a Republican Vote, so they feel that they should do something to reduce the voting that is going on.

I am guessing of this of coarse and I want you to know that it is a huge mistake that the County of San Bernardino is even thinking of by wanting to go backwards. I being a member of the Voting Public, Vote Against the change.

BS Ranch