Arizona GOP Delegate Vote Bogus – Revote!

UPDATE 5/3/2016:  JUST RECEIVED A TEXT THAT IN REALITY I WAS NOT ON THE FINAL SLATE, YET I VERIFIED WITH ANOTHER TRUMP ARIZONA TEAM MEMBER THAT I WAS.  FOR THE RECORD, CONSIDER ME NOT ON THE TRUMP FINAL SLATE.  HAS THE FINAL SLATE EVER BEEN MADE PUBLIC?

VOTE AGAIN – HERE IS WHY!

I have received a note from a senior member of the Arizona Cruz Team.  This is a person I have known for a number of years and I have no reason at all to doubt his veracity.  Thus I am sharing his three point message.  The message read:

Three points:

1) The Trump campaign was responsible for setting their electronic slate and double checking to be sure it was accurate. They dropped the ball. Everyone else got their slate done right.

2) The voters are ultimately responsible. If you press the slate button that is a convenience for you, but if you really care about someone being a delegate it is super easy to look at their name and ensure that their box was checked. If it wasn’t, you check it. Then you get a second chance to get it right because after you’ve made your choices you get the second screen you have on your comment asking if you are sure that these are your choices. And again, the voters are responsible.

3) Adding ten more names to your ballot wouldn’t have made any real difference. Those names that were on the slate correctly got the full support of Team Trump and all the Trump voters in the room. And they all still lost, except for Arpaio (who got crossover support) and Michele Reagan (who ended up on all four slates). Nothing you are complaining about would give the bulk of the Trump slate any more votes or any more delegates/alternates.

No doubt that he is correct on point number one.  The Trump camp failure to issue a paper slate to the Trump supporting state delegates for the “At Large” voting is an example of sloppiness, not reaching the point of malfeasance or mismanagement.  This paper slate would have let the voters double check who was on the slate or allow the voter to vote the slate individually.  Why wasn’t this done?

Jeff Dewit, do you care to explain to the loyal Trump supporters why no paper slate was distributed?

The point in number two is related to number one, in that if the voter does not know who is on the slate, then you can check nothing.  I disagree that the voters are responsible to insure that online computer based black box voting is functioning properly, especially without knowing who the slate candidates are.  This is on the Arizona GOP for validation and on the Trump team for no paper slate and for corroborating the programming and the data input.  Did this happen?  Apparently not!

Point number three I disagree with, in that, if the slate was set up properly on the computer online system then my receipt would have had 56 names (delegates and alternates) and not 46, ignoring for the moment whether the names were correct.

As a voter on a smart phone, at the end of a long day, with my phone battery dying, and no charging stations made available by the convention team – it becomes highly incumbent on the folks who put the voting together, including slate management, 1) to have the input of slates and candidates for each camp to a computer based system and 2) the programing of the system professionally checked and signed off for the Trump team.  Again, did this happen?  We can only assume that this was not done based on the outcome.  There was an old Republican who used to state: “Trust but verify”.

Yes the AZ GOP made 7 or 8 electronic voting machines available in a room for those without smart phones in a convention of 1,200+ people.  Needless to say the lines were large and the same problems found on the smart phone would also exist, save the dying battery.

Let’s put another spike into the heart of the Arizona GOP.  Many of the names of winners in the morning vote for the congressional district delegates, were not removed from the “At Large” ballot.  Thus allowing a morning winner to garner votes that should have gone to true “At Large” candidates.

While he makes some good points, nothing of what this Arizona Cruz Team senior member says changes the fact that the numbers did not foot – yes that accounting term again.  Auditors love the term, because it means that everything makes sense and is accurate.  If it does not foot, then you have a problem.

Repeating the number analysis from, Trump Arizona Delegates Stolen, on this convention’s vote, I offer:

The top vote getter was Mark Brnovich, Arizona Attorney General – not necessarily a Trump supporter, at 766. He supposedly was on all 4 slates – why?  Each of his slates received 430 (Trump slate), 409 (Cruz slate), 57 (Kasich slate), 29 (Unity – the AZ GOP slate) votes totaling 925.  According to the computer people, SimplyVoting, 187 delegates did not vote slates, but voted individual delegate candidates. If each slate vote was counted for each candidate then why did he receive 766. Should not his position on supposedly 4 slates getting a total of 925 votes mean that he gets all the votes to each slate, 925.

This is not a charge against the Cruz team for unethical behavior – I have absolutely no idea of their capability or involvement, but this is a charge against the seriously unprofessional and almost tainted approach of the Arizona GOP and the Trump team.

If you have an electronic vote and the numbers do not add up, foot, or simply make sense, then you do not have a vote.  Until or when the numbers are explained or the vote is trashed and a new vote is taken, this will not be resolved.

Since the vote was totally online, then a new vote could be accomplished by offering the delegates a new password and proceed with the re-vote without traveling to a convention site.

Thoughts – comments?

Trump Arizona Delegates Stolen?

UPDATE 5/3/2016:  JUST RECEIVED A TEXT THAT IN REALITY I WAS NOT ON THE FINAL SLATE, YET I VERIFIED WITH ANOTHER TRUMP ARIZONA TEAM MEMBER THAT I WAS.  FOR THE RECORD, CONSIDER ME NOT ON THE TRUMP FINAL SLATE.  HAS THE FINAL SLATE EVER BEEN MADE PUBLIC?

Political one upmanship, fraud, or malfeasance!

Picture of an old voting machine.  Now we use electronic online voting subject to massive voter fraud.  Ask the Trump campaign or the delegates at the GOP Arizona State Convention.  I was one of them, a state delegate and a national delegate candidate, and this is an eyewitness account of the serious voting irregularities.

TRUMP AZ DELEGATES STOLEN?

Ladies and gentlemen, we have been had by “electronic voting” for the Arizona GOP “At Large” national delegate candidates.

I verified that I was on the Trump “at large” slate before voting. I voted the one button “Trump” slate (this one button votes for all of the candidates listed on the Trump slate). My voting receipt of 56 names did not include my name.  I should have received at least my vote.

This happened to a half dozen others that I know of speaking to them first hand, including former Governor Jan Brewer who may not have even been placed on the electronic ballot.   Ballot placement is the responsibility of the Arizona GOP and not the Trump team.  The oddity is that the Trump slate (a one button elects all trump supporters) received the majority of one button slate votes, yet the Cruz delegates ended up in the majority.

Chairman Robert Graham told me about a proposed fix “we are moving a few names”.  He did not seem to care when I questioned his “fix” even after I had explained to him just what had occurred about the missing votes – a sign of an election gone awry.  Instead, he blew me off, so I told him I was then going to the media. He said go ahead. So I went to the Associated Press who was sitting 75′ away. He is quoted by CNN as calling any thought of party rigging “laughable”.  Robert, even though I told you about the missing votes you seem not concerned, so explain how these election numbers do not add up!

Something smells at the AZ GOP.

THE SPECIFICS:

It was the “The Trump Slate” or was it?

This is the receipt of vote I received after voting on my smart phone the Trump slate for the “At Large” delegates to the national by using the Trump slate button.  If you, the reader, were on the Trump slate your name should be on this receipt.  If not, comment on this post, complain to the Trump Arizona organization, and the media, especially the Associated press, Phoenix office.

I verified that I was on the slate before voting, but apparently not after voting. It shows that I received zero votes, not even my own vote, thus I did not register on my receipt.

Review this slate and tell me that this is the slate intended by the Trump organization.  This receipt has been sent to a Trump Arizona organization representative to be compared to the slate they approved for use in the electronic voting.  If it is not the slate they intended, then this is an electronic voting fiasco and votes were stolen.

Now for the numbers that don’t add up, Mr. Graham.  The Trump “one button slate” received 430 votes, per the online voting people (Simply Voting). I received 8 non slate votes and thus I should have ended up with 438 votes. I got 8.

The top vote getter was Mark Brnovich, Arizona Attorney General – not necessarily a Trump supporter, at 766. He supposedly was on all 4 slates – why?  Each of his slates received 430 (Trump slate), 409 (Cruz slate), 57 (Kasich slate), 29 (Unity – the AZ GOP slate) votes totaling 925.  According to the computer people, SimplyVoting, 187 delegates did not vote slates, but voted individual delegate candidates. If each slate vote was counted for each candidate then why did he receive 766. Should not his position on supposedly 4 slates getting a total of 925 votes mean that he gets all the votes to each slate, 925.

If this was the Trump slate that was submitted, then malfeasance for the Trump team. If this was not what the Trump slate submitted by the Trump people, then FRAUD and it points to the Arizona GOP.

When I pointed this debacle out in detail to Arizona Republican Committee Chairman – Robert Graham, immediately after the voting irregularity became apparent to me – minutes after voting ended, he told me that is was only a couple of people and it would be fixed.  I told him that another vote was needed, cancelling the first vote, after fixing the slates.  He told me no.  I pointed out that I would go to the media and he stated “Go to the media”.  I did, to the Associated Press whose re[porter was 75′ away.

I gave the AP reporter the entire story and with apparent disbelief he indicated he would follow it.  I have reviewed the AP reporting on this matter and it is neither accurate nor complete.

The Cruz people say Trump people have bad math, well I am good in math and nothing adds up.  The math does not foot, using an accounting term.  One Arizona Cruz leader said there is no constitutional right to a slate button – what???

This debacle of an important national delegate election needs to be addressed now by an independent group specializing in voter election fraud.

The PDF linked below is the comprehensive listing of the recipient of every vote cast in this questionable election, provided to me by SimplyVoting.  You do the math on these delegate voting results of the gop convention.

Now it is up to the Arizona GOP to either proclaim that they did certify the correct electronic delegate list was input or that the Arizona GOP committed FRAUD on the delegates, and the Republican voters who participated in the Presidential Preferential Election.  Graham calls any thought of party rigging “Laughable”.

To sum this up, either the Trump people allowed an incorrect slate to be input to the voting apparatus, or the correct slate was entered and the online voting was modified to indicate trhe correct Trump slate, but to deliver votes to other people.  The numbers sited earlier seem to lean this way.

What do you think – comment?  What does the Trump Arizona team think?