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>>/147093/, >>/147094/, >>/147095/, >>/147121/, >>/147122/, >>/147125/, >>/147126/, >>/147127/, >>/147129/, >>/147189/, >>/147190/, >>/147195/ pb Bev Harris @BevHarrisWrites THE HUNT FOR JOE BOLTON In case you don't read the whole article: 1: Scroll to the interview. 5 parts. Stay till the end, I guarantee you it's informative. 2. Please don't go chasing after this guy. I am certain he's no longer in the business, if he's still alive. But by all means, knock yourself out finding out about his counterparts because they still exist and they're scattered all over America. You'll find some of them with public records requests. * * * * * Public records request: DATE: Nov. 21, 2006 This is a request for all communications to or from your elections jurisdiction and Election Systems & Software (ES&S) and or Microvote, including the consultants and contractors hired to assist with the implementation of the ES&S or Microvote system for your jurisdiction. This is for ALL COMMUNICATIONS on all topics with ES&S and Microvote or any agent or contractor of ES&S or Microvote. The time frame that applies to this records request is Jan. 1, 2005 through the date that you fulfill this records request. * * * * * Subject: '06 gen election Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 Organization: Menifee County Clerk My office has not received anything in writing from candidates or anyone else pertaining to the 2006 General Election... I use Kentuckiana Election Service, Joe Bolton. Menifee County Clerk Jo Ann Spencer WHO'S JOE BOLTON? His territory in Kentucky counted 184,802 voters in the 2004 presidential election. I eventually caught up with Joe. I transcribed the interview, below. Again, skip to the interview if you don't want to read about the search process. Let's start with this: Procedures that give one guy access to voting machines that count nearly 200,000 votes with no oversight whatsoever are at the very least, not prudent. People had to trust their votes to someone named Joe, who was not an elected official and not even a government employee. They probably didn't even know they were trusting Joe with votes because newspapers didn't mention him and county clerks had no line item for his invoices. WHY PICK ON JOE? People like Joe control an essential part of the public commons. Basically, these people are acting on behalf of the state. KENTUCKIANA ELECTION SERVICES: THE SEARCH - No physical address. Post Office Box in a small town called Royalton. - Telephone search: No listings found within 50 miles of Royalton - News archive search going back 30 years: Nothing. Likewise for the name Joe Bolton – found SOME, none were the Joe Bolton who works with elections. - Corporations database: Found 1990 certificate showing that Kentuckiana's corporate credentials were revoked. Apparently never reestablished. Did he service voting machines in his house? - Background check: Once married to a Carla Bolton. - Search on Carla Bolton: She was County Clerk – that is, she ran elections – for Floyd County, Kentucky. With my assistant Natalie, I drove to Floyd County. At the Floyd County Courthouse was told that Carla Bolton was no longer county clerk. They hastily mentioned that she and Joe are no longer married. (Why so hasty? See the end of Joe's interview, part 5.) The new county clerk said Joe came in and picked up the voting computer's memory cards and worked on them in his home. She showed me the jail, where voting machines were stored. I ran a reverse search on a number found at the top of a public record and found it listed as Joe Bolton's home phone number, with a road but no address, located the road using Google satellite map, and drove to the remote location. We looked at every dwelling to see if Joe might be in there working on voting machines. It was a Sunday afternoon, and several residents got out of their lawn chairs to peer at us. cont...