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To: Ilaine who wrote (39035)	11/19/2000 11:14:03 AM
From: Shelia Jones	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 436258

Cobalt, I truly hope you can "do something about it". If there is anyway I can assist in some small way with Wisconsin let me know. I have many true stories that objective people would be royally Pi$$ed by concerning some of the stuff that goes on here. Of course we have all seen the videotape of the people from New York that came down here and took homeless men from the Milwaukee Rescue Mission in Milwaukee out for absentee ballots and then gave them cigarettes. The director of the Mission had to complain when these NY's invaded the place. We now use the Optek machine where I work on election days. It reads graphite. You connect arrows for your candidates. Up till 4 years ago we counted them by hand in our county. At the end of the day we paired off in groups of 2 with big batches of ballots. One person read the names off the ballot - the other one made HASH MARKS next to their name on a plain piece of paper they had wrote everyone's name down on. NO ONE worked to oversee that the person was reading what was actually on the ballot or that the other person was making the hash mark for the correct candidate. In Wisconsin just about any party can be on the ballot. We have the Socialists, US Taxpayer Party, Libertarians, a bunch of others - can make for a large ballot. Once we ran out of ballots from the county. The ballots were larger than a legal sized sheet of paper (the largest on hand). The poll chairperson called the county to tell her we were about to run out. The county supposedly told our chair to use the copier to make more ballots. Only problem the ballots were bigger than the paper we had. Since the parties are alphabetized on the ballot we ended up giving out ballots WITHOUT the US TAXPAYER PARTY ON IT. As the copier cut them off.