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"Sarasota Florida's Election Director, Kathy Dent, is a Liar"

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... Jeannie Dean in FL-13 said on 4/30/2008 @ 1:19 pm PT...



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... Dredd said on 4/30/2008 @ 4:28 pm PT...



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... youngharry said on 4/30/2008 @ 4:57 pm PT...



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... Dredd said on 4/30/2008 @ 5:20 pm PT...



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... Jeannie Dean in FL-13 said on 4/30/2008 @ 10:28 pm PT...



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... John Martin said on 5/1/2008 @ 2:40 am PT...



Wait a minute, Liar. It was all Kate harris' fault because the district belonged to her and there would not have even been a need for an election if that freak stayed to terrorize the people of Sarasota for another 2 years? Does that not freak anyone else out? Hey liar what makes you think there wouldn't have been a malfunction of voting machines if Harris was in the race? Brad, I hope you don't take Antonin Scalia's advice and just get over this. Why arent' there a thousand protesters a day at liar's office calling for LIAR's resignation. Signs that say LIAR LIAR and WE DEMAND PAPER TRAILS. If LIAR'S loony toons cell phone ringer that just happened to be left on and ringing during LIAR'S Liefest got LIAR to pee LIAR'S pants, think what the American people out for justice could do to LIAR.

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... Jill sarasota said on 5/1/2008 @ 6:35 am PT...



In the Defense of Kathy Dent this exceptional public official I offer the following….

a. She was with a “power users” group from ES&S at the same convention so what else could she say…. It was a joint conference….

b. She was so nervous she did not recall who paid for her way out there and what about social drinks and jet lag…

c. She told them there was an “SQL” worm in early voting but she had backup.. now that was exceptional planning… but turns out she just was not clear on the State required election report where it was stated that it was just an “outage” with some libraries.. the County IT report stated that the “hacker captured” the system operator passwords,, ,not any kind of SQL worm know to man.. more like a Trojan horse… in the form of an SQL worm….. taking over passwords and closing off the system for two hours with voters data sent all over the internet world…..

d. As President of the Florida Supervisors of Election’s she deserves more respect,,.. activists she said are good and bad just check with Kathy to get the list.. as an example in the recount in Nov 2006 the present Sec of State, ESS Executives, her lawyer a registered lobbyist, lawyers from the State division of elections, the chief of certification for the State of Florida, even the public relations outside consultants for ES&S all in one warehouse. So many turning out to support her that there was not room for public observers… then one of the “bad” activists strikes! .. and reminds the horde of legal staff that they are not following the Florida Election Code… and the bad activist is armed with a copy of the law the only one in the building… they borrow it and a Judge finds that bad activist is the only one there who knows the law…. Poor Kathy, President of all the SOE’s in Florida had to say that it was an “archaic” law but just to go that extra mile they would then follow it…. so much on her mind…. Like ten machines with broken seals on them and the “archaic” law that required calling out the poll tapes…to the public.

e. She told the conference audience about all that security, first mission for her and her staff.. but the speakers time was short so she did not have time to tell the audience that she used 4 “election ID spare cards” that did not have logs and which could be given out to anyone and were.. in that secure warehouse….and that she had to investigate herself when some of the bad activists discovered the widespread use of bogus ID cards on election night, during the recount, and prior to the election……she did not have time to tell them that they feel now the warehouse with all the special voting equipment in it is now secure with all the changes she made after the election…. And then there was that VP of ES&S who had an active ID Card even after the election and a history of being in the industry with a voting machine company where the president was found to provide retirement benefits as extra compensation to public officials for purchase of his machines. How could anyone expect one person to clean up the whole industry and run elections at the same time and how could voters expect her to know that her warehouse was not secure when the State Audit said it was ….

f. Another problem with the time she was given to speak…. Again she was not able to tell the audience about that contract her husband drafted for her and sent to ES&S which the Canvass board later refused to sign even with her, ES&S and the head of Florida Certification pleading with them…she was only able to tell about how it protected the voters from any PUBLIC election data that ES&S might leak out…. There just was not time to tell the audience that article #20 appointed ES&S as a consultant in their own audit of the machines….. and how she wanted to save the county money by having ES&S “contact” her husband for questions as he was not an overworked county employee, restricted from employment according to Florida Laws, thus he would have more time to “help out” given she had to deal with silly public document requests from the “bad” activists…and the mountain of legal suits.

g. She was so limited with speaker time that she could not tell the audience of the rich heritage Sarasota Florida has as the home of Kathryn Harris former Sec of State when one candidate lost the election for president and Florida helped him out……they will even have a movie on her HBO May 25, called RECOUNT. I am sure Kathy Dent is deserving of her own movie….

h. Supervisor Dent looks after voters in her county, she knows “the voters do not know how to vote” as she told them after the Nov 7th, 2006 election and wants to help them. She even went as far as ordering in “Hype over Hacking” Pro T-Screens reprints in an election that had an active ballot item to do away with the T-Screen voting in Sarasota after she had been “hacked” just days earlier. And again was exonerated in a police investigation for placing them inside the polling area, saying she did not have “intent” to influence voters a felony.. she did say in an interview that “obviously not too many were influenced” when asked by the press about it…. “tell the people it (the ballot item to get rid of T-Screen DRE voting machines) passed”!

i. Supervisor Dent has taken extraordinary steps to educate the voters and the county commission…. In 2004 appearing in front of them in an official hearing she stated three times “the machines do not have software” when discussing voter intent in T-Screen voting Vs. paper ballots and the iVotronic voting machines she purchased instead of scanners. This look into computer technology shared by Kathy Dent could set back the computing industry to its very roots, but Kathy had the courage to tell us what MIT and Cal Tec would not….

j. Supervisor Dent time after time has told the voters how well the T-Screen machines worked and even went as far as keeping secret that all the T-Screen parts in Sarasota County had to be replaced…. Installing voter “confidence” at the price of loss of confidence in herself when the bad activists made it public… now that is dedication.

k. Supervisor Dent has also stated that all this concern about her and the voting machines is just “sore losers” talk in elections,,,, and she is supported by her boss the Secretary of State. In a recent speech he stated that “sore losers” were responsible for all the legal suits, and he does know about that ,, he filed a suit with Supervisor Dent to repeal the vote in Sarasota County by a majority of its voters, (to only use scanners and get rid of the T-Screens as well provide a comprehensive audit for its elections.) Again dedication at any price to the tax payers…

We could go on and on with the dedication of this public official to keep voters confidence up at any taxpayer cost, but what difference does it make, the “voters do not know how to vote” anyway, as she told them.…..