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"Not from around here," they seemed to be thinking, so we stopped and chatted with a couple friendly women, who told why they put their trash in cages. "To keep out the dogs and bears," they said. They didn't know Joe or where he lived. 
We had no luck at all finding Joe Bolton, but later I did reach him later on a cell phone number provided by staff members at the Floyd County Elections office. I've spoken to Joe Bolton three times now and he answered a lot of my questions. 

INTERVIEW WITH JOE THE VOTING MACHINE GUY:
BH = Bev Harris 
JB = Joe Bolton 
PART 1
BH: Do you ever communicate with candidates when you're programming the election stuff? 
JB: No, I don’t work with the candidates personally. 
BH: Okay. Would you consider it proper or improper to be communicating with candidates for someone who does what you do? 
JB: Yeah, 'cause I don't do nothin' like that! 
BBV: Okay. Well you've been doing this for 35 years, has anyone ever asked you to do something that made you uncomfortable? 
JB: Oh, absolutely, get it all the time, I get that all the time you know. 
BH: You're kidding me! 
JB: "Could you rig this machine?" And I don't know whether it's a conspiracy or a joke, you know, "Could you rig these machines for me Joe? How much would it cost me?" I've heard that for 35 years. 
BH: So how did you get involved in this 35 years ago, I didn't think there were voting machines 35 years ago? 
JB: Yeah, we had machines. The old mechanical machines. 
BH: Oh, lever machines. I have never seen a lever machine and I probably never will see one, either. Darn! 
JB: You get to Kentucky, I got a little museum in my garage. 
BH: That's great! You may have the last remaining lever machines, before they sell them off for the scrap heaps. 
BH: Okay, so what do you do with those MicroVote and ES&S machines, I've never been clear what the subcontractors do. 
JB: Well, you know, all I do is I make sure that they're working as the PEBs come in. ES&S, they do the programming and stuff, all I do is I, me and my men go out and check and make sure that the ballot is the proper ballot for that particular precinct and everything is working, set 'em up, wait for Election Day. 
BH: So you sort of do – is that a logic & accuracy test? Is that what that is? 
JB: Yes. 
BH: Okay, so basically ES&S programs them, they send you the PEB, and then you- 
JB: I'll look at the candidates and make sure the PEB is working before I ship it to the clerks. 
BH: Is there a central tabulator or is there like a machine like a central election management system with these? 
JB: ERM 
BH: Yeah, that's what it's called, ERM or Unity or something like that. And so, do you work with that too, or just the PEBs. 
JB: I don't work with it personally myself, I have guys, that are trained.
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