Deposition of Dennis Joyner, 11/30/2000
[Assistant Supervisor of Elections, Seminole County]
[He said that no staff, only Michael Leach, filled in any info on absentee ballot requests forms.]
Q: Did you segregate the Republican request forms, the ones that were identified as part of the mass mailing,
by the Republican Party separate from other absentee ballot request forms?
A: Yes.
Q: And at whose instructions did you do that?
A: Ms. Goard.
Q: Did she tell you why she wanted you to do that?
A: No, we were to separate them, and those that did not have the number on them, you know, we were to
give them to Michael. . . .
[About 20-30% had the number on it in the GOP mailing.]
[No change in procedures were made after Bob Poe complained 11/30.]
Q: When Mr. Leach filled in information on the cards, and they were then – who then picked them up from
Mr. Leach?
A: I did.
Q: And when you picked them up, did anybody go back to verify that the voter identification numbers that
he put on there were accurate numbers?
A: We basically used the address.
Q: So the answer is no, you did not verify to make sure that the number he then put on there was correct; is
that right?
A: Yes.
Q: So you have, in effect, if he put a number on there, you don’t know whether that was the correct number
for that voter, or a bogus or incorrect number, do you?
[Young objection]
Q: Do you?
A: The number was looked at , you know, I mean all the staff was told to look at the number.
Q: Do you know whether anybody looked, once it came back the number on there, do you know that
anybody looked at it to check –
A: No.
Q: That it was accurate for that voter.
A: No.
Q: Was there a policy that if someone asked for a voter identification number from this office that that would
not be given out.
A: It was not given out.
[ from that same link ]
Imagine the outcry if the Dems had done this!! |
