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Here's the QUOTABLE QUOTE:
"While any of us are out there trying to find the truth there are people trying to hide the truth. That’s my experience."
Transcript of Speech given at the May 7th, Ohio Teach-In Sponsored by Case Ohio.
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PAUL HARMON: (Lawyer Running for Judge, Lost His Bid for Judge in Licking County, Finished 2nd Place, Lost by 189 Votes But Found a 40% Undervote problem and is suing, his court case went to Ohio Supreme Court)
I am an attorney and I’ve been a lawyer for 25 years, my office is in Newark Ohio, and I’ve practiced here in Licking and as well as most of the surrounding counties in this area. And Last summer I decided to run for domestic relations Court Judge, I’m an independent, I didn’t take any money from anybody, I shutdown my law practice and went door to door went to pretty much every home in licking county, and frankly I didn’t give alotta thought to how it worked,how they counted votes, I made the assumption that we would be able , that the people in power want votes counted fairly and accurately.
AND BOY WAS I WRONG. Audience reaction.
I saw the returns and the returns alone were enough to raise a lot of red flags.
There were 5 candidates for domestic relations court judge, none of the candidates won. Undervotes won in a landslide. (audience laughing)
UNBELIEVABLE, UNBELIEVABLE
Of the candidates, I finished 2nd by 189 votes.
The areas where I did the best had a 40% undervote.
Just looking at the numbers, I though wow, how could undervotes win an election.
I’ve never heard of such a thing, and I asked around in fact I got calls from members who had served on the Licking county board of elections that said they had never seen anything like that. So That immediately raised red flags.
But I accepted the result. I was Obviously not happy about it, but to be careful I wrote a letter to the Director of the Board of Elections, Mary Jo Long
And I said, Don’t touch any of the paperwork, don’t touch any of the voting machines until I have a chance to see them.
And I wrote her several times over the period of a couple of weeks, not expecting much to come of that but to be safe I wanted to look in licking county there are punch cards in little boxes
These are little cases about yea big, you pop open the top, legs come out
And You take your computer punch card and stick it in and you use your stylus to make your vote
And I thought well maybe pages were missing and they didn’t vote in the judicial races or maybe the rotation of the names was wrong
That’s really what I was looking for
And about a month after the election I went to the board of elections because I lost by 3 tenths of one percentage point which required an automatic revote, I’m sorry not revote, recount.
And I arrived thinking the way I chose to do things was look at the machine for each precinct they were setup correctly and then I looked at punchcards.
Well when I got to the board of elections, I suggested that process as a way to do all of that.
They locked the doors and the press was there in the hallways and they voted unanimously not to let me look at the Votematics machines, which frankly surprised me
And I said well, I’m not going to be able to tell much by looking at the punchcards and see how how they intended to vote,
well that wasn’t going to happen, in addition to that I took family members Mike Periwinkle and myself and we were demeaned like you wouldn’t believe “NO TALKING” it was like you know in ?? school
While any of us are out there trying to find the truth there are people trying to hide the truth. That’s my experience.
I hate to say it but the boards of elections, the members of board get paid, they get state retirement, they get state insurance, they don’t keep track in other states they are political players and they very active political people, and they are not looking to be real, they are looking to cover up fraud, that’s my experience.
I went to the recount and I was told if you want to look at those Votermatics, they’re really our public records, that you have to sue us.
(laughs)
Uh, I’m pretty stubborn, I said alright
AND THAT’S WHAT I DID.
(Big applause from audience)
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