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Hot off the press from The Hill, the straw poll at the annual meeting of “CPAC” (Conservative Political Action Committee) voted on candidates they’d like to see on a conservative ticket in 2012:

#1: Ron Paul (31% of the vote)
#2: Mitt Romney (22%)
#3: Sarah Palin (Erick’s fav at 7%)
#4: Tim Pawlenty (6%)
#5: Mike Pence (5%)
#6: Newt Gingrich (4%)

There’s a story posted on the PeachPundit.com blog regarding John Oxendine. The author of it is “Icarus”, whose real name is Charlie Harper (no, not the TV character, a real person).

Within the story, Harper weaves a little bit of fact with a lot of conjecture and innuendo directed at innocent bystanders. In one of his paragraphs, he writes:

“Behind the scenes, some are getting nervous about the reflection on the Republican party as a whole, and it was under this guise that Matt Towery called Congressman Westmoreland last week emphatically telling him he had to drop his claims against Oxendine. Towery documented the number of politicians connected with SEUS and numerous claims were made about the issue taking the whole party down. For the good of the party, Lynn needed to stand down.“

AND, then, there’s this paragraph in which Harper decides he has the right to malign as many people as possible in his usual attempt to paint a broad brush of, well, dare I say it: “Karen-Handel-esque” verbiage (which is quite suitable since Icarus is a devout Handel supporter):

“The question remains as to why Towery allowed himself to be dragged into the middle of this. He generally is considered to be a bright man, and understands that Ox is on the verge of toxic. So why was Towery calling a Congressman who gave exactly one interview on this topic weeks ago asking him to stand down? Why was this call made with Oxendine present?

I guess if I was being asked these questions, I would add Dick Pettys’ name to a story I wrote claiming I had a bad head injury too.“

There are several FACTS that I know of here that Harper neither knows, nor cares that he doesn’t know (which is worse than merely “not knowing”):

1) Matt Towery does have a head injury as described by this article on the Insider Advantage (“IA”) Website. He is recovering from a concussion brought about by a fall from the onset of vertigo that was triggered in the flight he had just taken.

2) The story was put out a few weeks after his fall because rumors were swirling at the Gold Dome that Towery was at death’s door and they decided to write the story before the AJC wrote the story. And, point of fact, Towery was very close to death at a time shortly after his fall. Contrary to Harper’s innuendo, the story was not published to “cover-up” any of Towery’s actions with regards to Congressman Lynn Westmoreland.

3) Matt Towery is an attorney with McKenna, Long

4) Matt Towery was in Oxendine’s office on behalf of a client (I am not going to release the name of that client as it doesn’t appear to be public info at the moment. It isn’t germane to the facts of this story, and unlike Charlie Harper, I do not think it is anyone else’s business who a lawyer has as a client.)

5) While Towery was in Oxendine’s office, Oxendine was ranting and raving about Westmoreland, and since he could not get Oxendine to chill-out and focus on his client’s matter, Towery did place a call to Westmoreland (someone he has known and been friends with since they were both young lads).

I do not know the contents of that call (and, neither does Charlie Harper, despite what Westmoreland or whoever his “sources” may have claimed to him), but the call was not made, as Charlie Harper claimed it was, under any “guise” of the “old Republican guard” being onboard the Ox’s campaign.

Now, I realize Harper hates Oxendine. But, for that hate to creep in the direction of maligning everyone who is known to be in the vicinity of Oxendine is a pathetic excuse for someone who tries to paint himself as a “blogger of integrity.”

In the last paragraph I excerpted from Harper’s post, Harper slams Dick Pettys, a well-respected journalist who has been around Georgia for…what?…20+ years? (Good one, Charlie. Way to…demonstrate just how much of a freaking moron you are.)

Now…to be clear, I am neither defending John Oxendine here, nor attempting to malign Lynn Westmoreland in this ongoing drama of Gubernatorial Candidate vs. Gubernatorial Candidate’s Supporter. The fact is, I do not know what the truth is between these two. And, neither does Harper.

But, one person I do know is Matt Towery. And, I personally know him to be a man of great integrity. I didn’t always know him this way. In my younger days, I was kind of like Little Charlie Harper and just dissed the crap out of Towery because of what “other people claimed” he was like. Well…I discovered I was wrong about Matt when I had the opportunity to get to know him several years ago. I discovered I had been an idiot for a number of years based on certain people lying to me (and some of those folks apparently have discovered Icarus to be a useful channel for their current lies).

Shortly after this encounter with Ox and Westmoreland, Towery recused himself from representing his client and other lawyers with McKenna, Long will handle the matter.

Matt told me personally that he has no ill will towards Harper for the story he wrote, but he would like it if Harper and the PeachPundit folks kept his name out of any future stories they write about Ox or anyone else for that matter.

So, Towery is an innocent bystander in this story. As is Dick Pettys. As is Tom Baxter. And, whether Charlie Harper believes in the “surrealness” of the IA story about Towery’s head injury, and the number of big-name politicians (and a former football coach of some dinky college in northeast Georgia that uses the colors of red and black) who have come to his aid in this matter, it is not important that Harper be “satisfied” with whether it is a believable story.

From my perspective, dare anyone ask how long has Mr. Harper been around, exactly? Two years, three years, maybe? Who the eff is Charlie Harper? Wow, a blog poster? Wow! All Republicans must gather around and worship and follow the Pied Piper of Georgia, eh?

Of course, it doesn’t matter that he actually hasn’t been around and accomplished anything of any signficance in this state.

Talk about “dumbing-down” the party, one only needs to look at Charlie Harper (the perfect useful idiot) and the handful of characters who apparently believe everything he says: That is, the folks who follow the useful idiots who cannot, themselves, think on their own in politics.

Introduction

Rumors have it that when Governor Perdue’s recently appointed Atlanta Circuit Superior Court Judge Shawn LaGrua takes her oath of office in a few months, the life, liberty, and property of every single man, woman, and child that comes before her court will be put in serious jeopardy in her courtroom.

How can this be? Well…according to the evidence we are about to present, LaGrua appears to have quite the documented history of pathological and psychopathic behavior when it comes to her method of practicing the law.

But…let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves…let’s go back to somewhat of the beginning of LaGrua’s history in the practice of law.

The Early Years

We don’t actually know that much about LaGrua in her “formative” years of practicing law. She graduated from GSU Law, and was admitted to the bar in 1987.

According to the GSU Law Alumni Website, she “started her career as an assistant district attorney in Dekalb County and moved to the Fulton County DA’s Office where she became Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney. After working for the Tallapoosa DA’s Office and again for Dekalb’s, she was appointed in 2004 as Solicitor General for DeKalb County.”

LaGrua’s current “title” is “Inspector General” of the Secretary of State. And, the “Inspector General” is in quotes because according to the 2009 Georgia Department of Audits’ Report, a position by that title doesn’t actually exist in the Secretary of State’s office. LaGrua’s official job title is “Legal Services Officer.”

Now, that appointment to Solicitor General of DeKalb County in 2004 is when things started getting weird around Shawn LaGrua…

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1) OCGA Code 16-10-2 (bribery)

16-10-2: (a) A person commits the offense of bribery when:

(1) He or she gives or offers to give to any person acting for or on behalf of the state or any political subdivision thereof, or of any agency of either, any benefit, reward, or consideration to which he or she is not entitled with the purpose of influencing him or her in the performance of any act related to the functions of his or her office or employment.

2) GA Code 21-5-70 (Lobbyist expenditures)

(1) ‘Expenditure’:
(A) Means a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, or conveyance of money or anything of value made for the purpose of influencing the actions of any public officer or public employee;
(B) Includes any other form of payment when such can be reasonably construed as designed to encourage or influence a public officer;
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Now, 16-10-2 (2) does go on to describe another kind of bribery: the quid-pro-quo.  But the parts are separate. They are completely independent of one and other, so the part (1) briber can commit the act while the recipient remains unknowing and innocent.  Perhaps, the recipient is simply trying to make an informed decision…

It would appear that anyone who has documented an expenditure has admitted to bribery.

At least it might perhaps warrant a Judicial review.

February 4, 2010
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SAVANNAH, GA – Former Republican Chatham County Commissioner, Jeff Rayno, announced today that he is filing a letter of complaint with the U.S. Justice Dept. The complaint cites potential Constitutional violations committed by former Secretary of State (SOS) Karen Handel and her Inspector General (IG) Shawn Lagrua during the December 16, 2009 State Election Board (SEB) meeting. His complaint, which also cites SEB member Kent Webb, is the fourth one filed by four different citizens against Shawn LaGrua’s IG office in the last two months.

Rayno asserts in the complaint that his Sixth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution were violated when he was referred to the Attorney General’s office for a felony investigation without probable cause or evidence that he had done anything wrong. He described that he was refused details of the accusations against him and therefore, denied due process and the standard presumption of innocence afforded to all Americans. The transcript of the meeting appears to corroborate his claims.

During the meeting, LaGrua stated that Rayno submitted forged petitions he collected on a drive to help get Chatham County Commission candidate, David Osbourne, on the ballot for the general election. Rayno determined that only one of 200 signatures was in question and asked to see it. LaGrua could not produce it, but she still recommended to the board that Rayno be referred to the office of the Attorney General for further investigation and prosecution. Board member, David Worley, sought to remove Rayno from being referred due to lack of evidence but Chairwoman Handel disagreed and instructed Mr. Webb to make a motion. Mr. Webb then motioned to refer Rayno to the Attorney General’s office and then Handel seconded the motion to pass it despite opposition from Mr. Worley.

In the letter Rayno contends that his case is not isolated but highlights another example of a systemic problem in the IG office. He cited the case of Laura Gallegos, one of three other complainants, as an example. Gallegos was charged with five matters asserted against her for an election certification error committed by the Lowndes County Board of Elections. Potential violations committed by her supervisor were ignored in the investigation. Although Mrs. Gallegos’ case was eventually dismissed, she spent thousands of dollars on attorney fees, suffered a foreclosure and was terminated from her job.

Rayno stated that he believes these dubious investigations are politically motivated. He explained that he was collecting signatures for a candidate who opposed Helen Stone, an associate of Karen Handel, who escorted Mrs. Handel when she visited Savannah prior to her campaign. Laura Gallegos has also stated that her supervisor, Deb Cox, was on a first name basis with Karen Handel and had gone to lunch with her when she visited the office.

All complaints and their supporting documentation are available on the Complaints tab of the www.voterga.org web site. VoterGA plans to submit a corroborating letter to the Justice Department describing why they also believe that there is a systemic problem in the office of the Secretary of State.

Apparently, Alan Peake still has no idea what he’s doing.  And it’s contagious:

For our Dear Readers’ consideration:

2 Study Committee meetings.  What did they study?  What were their findings?  How was the decision to proceed to full committee made?  Why was there a Full Committee meeting already scheduled for today even before yesterday’s final study meeting?

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To: burke.day@house.ga.gov, delane.roberts@house.ga.gov, willie.talton@house.ga.gov, pamela.lewis@house.ga.gov, billy.maddox@house.ga.gov, julie.jordan@house.ga.gov

Cc: ellis.black@house.ga.gov,  doug.collins@house.ga.gov,   gloria.frazier@house.ga.gov,  bob.hanner@house.ga.gov,  billy.horne@house.ga.gov,  mack.jackson@house.ga.gov,  jay.neal@house.ga.gov,  alan.peake@house.ga.gov, amos.amerson@house.ga.gov

Re: HB 944(?) Texting While Driving

Esteemed Committee,

Thank you for the very direct and clear line of questioning you presented in the first hearing on this subject.

In the interest of public safety…

In observing and testifying before the study committee, I never heard any discussion on the qualification and standards by which police officers and first responders are made able to safely drive while operating their mobile devices, even at normal operating speeds and under normal operating conditions.

According to Terry Norris, Executive Director of the Georgia Sheriff’s Association, all enforcement officers receive dispatch information through their on-board computers. He also told us that there is no training specific to operation of these devices while driving, nor standards by which officers competency to do so is gauged.

Other professional drivers, up to and including Class A CDL, have not been offered any exemption under this new law.
Please send this bill back to the study committee to determine how this might be justified.

Also, we have not seen any directives as to how this legislation might be enforced, except, of course, Rep Peake’s notion of suspending our right to privacy, allowing enforcement access to our cell phone records.

There was some discussion that “other states seem to be able to enforce it”, but no one in this study committee offered any studies from those other states.

Please send this bill back to the study committee to more clearly determine now this might be done, as well as the the cost to local law enforcement of whatever possibilities the committee might recommend.

Then, there is still some discussion as to what constitutes a “mobile device” and “use”: What about an iPod touch, which looks exactly like an iPhone? How about other mp3 players? Some have the ability to download data wirelessly and some do not.

What if a mobile device has “push” notifications?

How about the communication and advertising that scrolls across all of our car stereos now?

Can drivers use GPS? What if it’s in their phone or hybrid? What if its an in-dash component in the car?

What happens when a driver has read a message, then did not close it, but just laid it down on his seat? (Rep Neal’s example)

How about “OnStar”?

Please send this bill back to the study committee to more clearly define “mobile devices” and “use”

Lastly, there was no discussion of how wireless use statistics were taken before bans in other states, to determine “drop in use” after bans.

Nor was there any data presented to prove that bans reduce accidents. In fact, a recent 3-year study showed NO reduction in traffic accidents in 3 states with TOTAL bans!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/29/cellphone.study/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

Then, of course, there’s my now-famous chart, showing traffic deaths in Georgia declining as mobile communication and the population grew over the last 30 years. http://twitpic.com/117vt0

Please send this bill back to the study committee to find evidence and facts regarding how data is collected and what effect any ban or law might have on actual traffic incidents.

Given all of these yet unaddressed concerns, this bill does not deserve a favorable vote at this time. Please stick to your guns! To my knowledge, no answers to your first full committee hearing questions were answered in this study. In fact, the committee did not even vote on any amendments, substitutions, or recommendations.

Kill this bill or send it back to the study, with clear directives to answer these questions, but please DO NOT send this out of your full committee to the floor.

-Rob Miller, Lobbyist for Life and Liberty

There is a new breed of lobbyist roaming the State Capitol these days during the 2010 Georgia General Assembly

These lobbyists are ordinary Georgians, not paid by any corporate interests for their lobbying work, but are lobbyists who volunteer their own time to participate in studying, tracking, and testifying for or against certain legislative bills in front of the committees.

These are not “children”, nor are they there for a lark. They are people who are fed-up with the way they’ve observed over the years how their own interests as citizens get hijacked by well-heeled corporate lobbyists who ply their trade with (for example) $200 hockey tickets for people like (as just an example) State Senator Don Balfour who traded his “humble service” to his state senate district to help Georgia Power ram-down legislation like last year’s SB-31, a bill written exclusively for the benefit of Georgia Power.

These new “citizen lobbyists” call themselves “Lobbyists for Life & Liberty“, which is not any kind of official group name. It just defines what they believe in.

Now, before your little minds start to spinning about what “Life” means and what “Liberty” means, I thought it might be a good idea to let the leaders of this new cause provide you with some straightforward Q & A. My interview was with Aaron Coalson, who is one of the founders of this cause:

PV: Explain to us a little bit about what a “Life & Liberty Lobbyist” is, and what your goals are.

A: Our goal is to help empower as many citizens as possible to be able to exercise their right to petition their government as mentioned in the First Amendment to the US Constitution. We are non-partisan and simply wish to speak up for our own life and liberty. Our main focus is constitutionally-restrained government. We are not exclusively a pro-life organization, though most of our fellow lobbyists are of that belief.

The “Life” in ‘Lobbyist for Life and Liberty’ is a much broader term than the “pro-life” term used in politics. We refer to an individual’s right to live his life as he or she sees fit, free from the intrusion of another violating their life or property.

Our purpose is to build an organization that believes in constitutionally-restrained government and each trained citizen be empowered to lobby on behalf of the beliefs they hold. We do not require our members to pass any sort of litmus test as to beliefs to get involved in taking back their government. We will train anyone (Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative, whoever) who wishes to learn how to help take back their government.

PV: If citizens go through your training, do they need to agree to lobby your causes of “Life & Liberty” exclusively?

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Lobbyist Boyd Pettit apparently recently advised the Bartow County School Board to appropriate $17,000 to begin to fund a suit on behalf of Lamar Grizzle, School Board Chairman, whose daughter is the Assistant Principal of Pine Log Elementary School, in Bartow County.

This is on the heels of HB 251, in which the Legislature asserts a rule against nepotism in School Board Elections.

According to Article VIII. Section V. Paragraph I, of the Georgia Constitution, all elections are held as provided by law, and since the General Assembly is the lawmaking body in the state, they would assume such a right.  Further, Article IX, Section II, Paragraph I (c) specifically states that the General Assembly has the right to take “Action affecting the composition, form, procedure for election or appointment, compensation, and expenses and allowances in the nature of compensation of the county governing authority.”

The suit states, among other things, that in order to be elected in Bartow County, Grizzle MUST be able to run as a Republican, a position which I cannot find the General Assembly attempting to assert anywhere, but it does open up the door for the suit:

The suit names everyone from the Secretary of State down to the local GOP- with one exception- the County Board of Elections.

Pettit, coincidentally, lists the Bartow County Board of Elections among his clients.

Watch his presentation to the School board here:

You Tube: Pettit Testimony 1/19/10

Here’s the first page of  the 73-page injunction, naming Grizzle as the Plantiff:

Bartow County has specific procedures for purchasing, requiring, in the case of big ticket items like this, three formal bids to be requested and approved through the purchasing department.

When asked about the bid process, a  Bartow Purchasing Manager told Aaron Coalson of Lobbyists for Life and Liberty that there were no bids, and that he assumed that the Superintendent had “handled it.”  The Manager went on to say he also assumed that they would use the regular attorney for the schools, Boyd Pettit.

Pettit’s name is found nowhere on this complaint.

The illegal alien is not taking tax money from the citizens of the State of Georgia.
The federal government is. And rather than fix the problems in their own bureaucracy and do their job, they would mandate the sovereign state of Georgia and her sisters force its citizens- the very ones who are paying for all of this- prove that they are who they say they are!

Our citizens work hard, and in working have been forced, under threat of imprisonment, to fund unconstitutional entitlements from public schools to medicaid.

We should be angry!  But not that someone would act like a free man and use these available resources, rather that we have been made slaves to a state who would now force us to prove our worth in order to continue to participate in the forced removal of our very property.

Should employers, who are already having a hard enough time maintaining their stated business purpose, be also made unpaid law enforcement agents in these difficult financial times?
How about shopkeepers? Should patrons be required to present your papers in order to purchase a gallon of milk?

Will the State of Georgia simply hand over her sovereignty to the Federal Government?

We should be upset. We have a right to be so upset. But not so much at the alien as our own civil government. Rather we should cut this problem off at the root- not the Rio Grande, but Washington DC.

Honorable Brian Kemp:

Due to a conversation I had yesterday with your legal counsel, Vincent Russo, I took it upon myself to do a little bit of research on Mr. Russo.

Mr. Kemp, according to the Georgia State Ethics Commission Website, Mr. Russo has made significant contributions to Gubernatorial Candidate Karen Handel, his former superior. Specifically:

December 16, 2009: $1000 contribution paid to Karen Handel for Governor, Inc.
June 25, 2009: $1000 contribution paid to Karen Handel for Governor, Inc.

Additionally, Mr. Russo has demonstrated that he is actively involved in supporting Ms. Handel for Governor by putting his name on a Host Committee for a fundraiser last Fall (not that there’s anything wrong about that per se), which may also indicate something more than just financial support:

“Young Professional Kick-Off Event a Huge Success

Last week we kicked-off the Young Professionals for Karen with an event in Atlanta. It was a huge success with almost 200 young professionals attending and showing their support for Karen.

We want to send a special thanks to the host committee for putting together such a strong event, and to all those who attended and joined Karen’s “Bring it On” campaign.

The hosts for the event were: Charlene Marino, Sarah Hawkins, Brian Stimson, Andrew Allman, Daniel Allman, Charlie Ozburn, Hunter Hill, Vincent Russo, Bo Keatley, Clay Cheshire, David Gordon, Andre Egros, Ginger DuBose, Rob Fortson, Steve Rickman, Danielle Simms, Jennifer Tommasello, Amy Salloum, Steve Butler, Jason Lunsford, Tray Guepet, Mike Kerfeld, Chris Wagner, Baoky Vu, Emily Culbertson, Craig Cancienne, Glenn Harvin, Amy Shultz, Lesley Newell and Chad Wingate.”

Source: http://republicancandidates.blogspot.com/2009/09/handel-for-governor-e-update.html

Mr. Kemp, I do not know what your office policy is, or if there is any state law regarding an employee being prohibited from contributing money to a political office, or actively participating in support of a candidate.

Whether there is or is not such a law is irrelevant, as I believe Mr. Russo, in any advice or counsel he gives you, will be giving you advice designed more to cover the actions of the former SOS (i.e., Karen Handel, and the person who originally hired him), than look out for your best interests.

I am also concerned with the possibility that he has been leaking information to the Karen Handel campaign about my (and anyone else’s) Open Records Requests sent to the SOS over the past few weeks.

In short, you may not have a general counsel in your employ who is truly looking out for your best interest. Please consider this a friendly notice whereby my only intention is to help protect your future endeavors as Georgia’s SOS.

Kindest regards,

BACKGROUND OF RELEVANT EVENTS

September 2008-October 2008 timeframe: Preparation for election commences with the checking-out process of the voting machines. Laura Gallegos (pronounced guy-AY-gos) and Gina Lofton (two Lowndes County BOE employees) placed each machine in pre-test mode and performed logic and accuracy testing (“L & A” tests) on the machines used for the general election as Gallegos had performed as trained for eight years. During the testing, Gallegos discovered that “Machine 17” would not print correctly. She believed that machine had a problem and marked the machine as needing repair to send to Kennesaw for repair as instructed by her supervisor, Lowndes County Elections Superintendent Deb Cox. Cox instructs Gallegos to mark the test card containing 947 test votes as a “bad card” and to place the card in a locked room. Gallegos applied a sticky note to the card and marked the note as the card being “bad” and not to be used, and placed the card in the locked room. Gallegos also notified Asst. Supervisor of Elections Susan Malkam about the card.

After she and Lofton performed all required testing, Gallegos proceeded to fill-out the L&A paperwork for the certification of the machine tests. At some time during this process of filling it out, she was called away from her desk, and she left the paperwork on her desk. That partially filled-out paperwork was removed without her knowledge and not seen again. (Note: this information on the election machine testing was derived from Laura Gallegos’s complaint filed with the SEB last December 8, 2009)

November 4, 2008 (Election Night): Gallegos was assigned to Precinct #21 at the First Christian Church. Supervisor Cox had sent only four machines to the precinct when the precinct had about ten thousand voters registered at that location. Poll lines were backed-up and people were being sent away to other locations by the poll workers. Gallegos remained at the precinct for the remainder of the day until after closing and tabulation was complete for that precinct.

At the Elections headquarters, someone performed the vote accumulation by uploading all memory cards into the machine. The Lowndes County Board of Elections later certified the results and uploaded the results to the Secretary of State.

Approximately two weeks after November 4, 2008: The county election office is notified by the Secretary of State’s office that there is a discrepancy between the number of votes received, and the number of actual voters who picked-up a ballot: The SOS claimed there were 947 extra votes that were included in the upload that could not be accounted for to match voters. Laura Gallegos worked on researching the issue and discovered that the card that had the 947 test votes on it (the one that was supposed to have remained in the locked room) were included in the actual election results during a re-accumulation. She reported it to Deb Cox.

Asst. Superintendent Susan Malkam asked Gallegos to complete the L&A paperwork regarding the machine testing (recall that the paperwork had been removed from her desk before Gallegos could finish it). Gallegos did as instructed, initialing the paperwork on behalf of both technicians who had performed the original testing.

Later, Malkam asked Gallegos to resign because of the problem with the test votes and Gallegos refused. Deb Cox requested the board to terminate Laura over objections from board member Cheryl Oliver. The board never questioned Gallegos about her actions and voted 2-1 to terminate her over the objections of Cheryl Oliver.

Deb Cox wrote a letter to the SOS-IG’s office stating that Gallegos may have “willfully interjected the bad card into the results, forged the initials of another worker, and maliciously purged a file to cover it up her failure to perform the L&A testing properly.” Cox also claims in this letter that Gallegos never told her about the bad card associated with “Machine #17″ as discovered back during the testing phase, pre-election time.

An investigator with the state elections division (Steve McBrayer) was assigned the case by either Shawn LaGrua or Chris Harvey. McBrayer proceeded to investigate the allegations and a report was written that laid all charges and the responsibility for the 947 extra votes against Laura Gallegos.

On June 2, 2009, a case was laid-out by Chris Harvey against Laura Gallegos. The SEB voted to bind the case over to the AG’s office for a probable cause hearing.

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