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Are vaccinations by the WHO (World Health Organization) and the United Nations a terrorist plot to exterminate large portions of the North American population. While this article appears at first glance to be very extreme, I give you a link to it because in early February this year I received as an accountant annual reports for my corporate clients. Along with these reports came a notice from the state to employers to prepare their businesses for a pandemic flu. This notice was received over 6 weeks before anything became public about the swine flu. You should question anyone pressuring you to take a vaccination. Read the article.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delivery of Freedom of Information Requests

 

The Great American Revolution

    

Saugatuck Health Care Reform Debate

September 2, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Bonnie Wilkins, Sylvia Dapple, and others worked together to put on a health care demonstration in a park on the north side of Saugatuck across the street from Monroes. One speaker after another got up and told their heart wrenching stories in their fight to have Insurance Companies pay their health bills after paying them premiums for years. It certainly did not leave much doubt about the "public option" that is so controversial today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Great American Revolution is a peaceful revolution with it's main intent to put power back into the hands of the people by using laws that will be enforced by public opinion. Your seeing our investigations and telling your friends, and their telling their friends will force our government officials to follow the laws of our country.

      In the State of Michigan, which is similar to every state within our union, our elections are neither audited, nor verifiable. In order for a democracy to exist, we as a nation must create honest, verifiable elections that will put the power of government back into the hands of the people, rather than the few who now control it. In Allegan County, over half the precincts in the 2008 General Election could not even be counted during a recount for Circuit Court Judge. On election night, we were at Ganges Township asking for just a test count of one race to compare it to the machine counts quoting Michigan Election Law that allowed us to do that. The clerk who was on the ballot came running out of the back room with a letter from Chris Thomas, the Director of Elections in Michigan saying that we could not see the ballots, let alone count them. His letter was used to disregard the actual statute in Michigan Election Law that would allow us to have at least taken a test count of those ballots on election night.

     We have started a campaign on August 24th with four groups consisting of Republicans, Democrats, Third Party, and Independents serving Freedom of Information Requests to clerks within Allegan County. We started at 8 am, and by 9:36 am every clerk in the county received an email  from the county election coordinator saying that "the ballots cannot be released through FOIA".........only the State Board of Election Canvassers could give us permission to see them according to Brad Whitman of the State Bureau of Elections. We were able to count one precinct, and our preliminary count of those ballots show significant differences from the "official totals". All the other precincts have sent us denial letters. A letter from the Law Firm of Clark Hill distinctly shows how they are trying to mislead us by quoting an Administrative Rule as a specific exemption, while FOIA law only permits statutes to be used as exemptions. While Mr. Smith also quotes MCL 168.1, which is election law or a statute, this section says nothing about the Board of Election Canvassers controlling the ballots during their retention period of 22 months from the date of the election.

     Our appeal to 18 cities and townships will be held within the next month. We are hoping to add additional precincts to the one we have now on our federal complaint. With your help and backing by passing this information onto to your friends and relatives, we hope to force the Obama administration into taking action against the election fraud here in Michigan. If you wish to call an Allegan City or Township to add your support to our action to see and photograph the ballots for all to see, then you can call:

                 Cities involved are highlighted

                 Townships involved are highlighted

Stay tuned! We have a recent development that may blow the lid off election fraud not only in Allegan county, but throughout the state. We are holding off on the next newsletter until our discussions with the state police, and the feds are completed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allegan Township, Precinct 2

2008 General Election

3rd Party Results for President

 

                            Greens    US Taxpayers    Libertarian   Natural Law

Actual Results

    video above              8*       +           5             +         4          +       4     =     21

 

Official Results             4         +          2              +         3          +       2     =     11

 

Undercounted              5                      3                         1                    2     =     10

 

% Undercounted      100%              150%                   33%            100%        91%

 

*After publishing, I noted two Green ballots that appeared to be the same. I corrected the totals above. It happened during a break in taking pictures of the videos we had. There are still similiar differences on the Senator's and Congressmen's races.


 

      When you look at the numbers, they are small, but the percentages are very large. Now consider that this is only one precinct out of thousands across the state. If these uncounted differences are true in the majority of other precincts throughout the state, this would lead you to ask some very important questions. Is there collusion between the two main political parties, Democrats and Republicans to minimize the results of the 3rd Party movement? Do they control access to the ballots, so that information like this does not become public? While we cannot affirmatively answer these questions at this point, we can certainly look at their behavior in attempting to hide these ballots from public scrutiny. Too many people have paid the ultimate sacrifce for our democracy to allow a few to take it away from us.

 

     This editor and the volunteers of all political persuasions that accompanied me on August 24th wish to thank Ms. Linda Evans, the Clerk of Allegan Township for being the only one to immediately look at the law and allow us to video tape the ballots in her uncountable precinct. She derserves the respect and honor of every citizen in Allegan County, the State of Michigan, and the United States of America. Our country is built on people like her.

 

     A question was asked if we are intruding upon the privacy of the individual voters by asking to see the ballots. The answer is NO. Everybody is guaranteed the right to a "secret ballot". You vote in private, and before you insert your ballot into the reader, the number on your ballot is removed by an election worker. It then becomes a "public document" that should be available to anyone who wishes to see them in total. There are no marks allowed on a ballot so that it can be referred back to you the voter. If the only people ever allowed to see the ballots are those who control our government, we do not have a democracy, because we have no way of verifying what they tell us is true. The Freedom of Information Acts are based upon the publics right to know what is happening even in elections. If you want your ballot to be counted as you voted it, then it is in your best interest that as many diverse people as possible look at those ballots to make sure they agree with totals from machines that have proven to be unreliable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Legal Fund

We need to ask for funds to bring legal action against the townships and cities that refuse to allow us to see the ballots. To date, we have not received any replies from a city or township that have met the Freedom of Information Acts' exceptions. If you just wish to make a tax deductible contribution under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code  then you can contribute to the Michigan Election Reform Alliance.org. Make your check to:

 

               MERA - Legal Fund

               6079 Mallard Drive

               Fennville, Michigan 49408

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

Communities Served Freedom of Information Act Requests

City or Township                      Current Status  

City of Allegan                                  Council turned down appeal - Clark Hill Lawfirm is recommending they agree

City of Douglas                                 Ballots photographed - Unused ballots unavailable - Results inconclusive

City of Fennville                                City Council is stonewalling us - Wait for some interesting info on this.

City of Holland                                  City Council is trying to dodge the bullet by handing it off to the city manager

City of Otsego                                  Council turned down appeal - Clark Hill Lawfirm is recommending they agree   City of Plainwell                                Council turned down appeal - Clark Hill Lawfirm is recommending they agree

City of Saugatuck                              City turned down our appeal

 

Allegan Township                              Patriot - Legally recognized our FOIA - differences above

Dorr Township                                   Turned down our appeal

Ganges Township                              Appeal accepted - Board is stonewalling us on costs that do not apply

Gun Plain Township                           Board turned down our appeal

Heath Township                                 Ballots photographed but not counted - Unused ballots may be available

Laketown Township                            Township Board has accepted appeal with costs that do not apply

Manlius Township                              Township Board has accepted appeal

Otsego Township                               Township Board has denied appeal

Saugatuck Township                          Township Board has accepted appeal with costs that no not apply

Valley Township                                Board has agreed to our request - Clerk has not responded to us in 2 weeks

Watson Township                              Township Board has not responded to us

 

 

 

Note: Many of these communities are awaiting a legal opinion from Attorney General Mike Cox. He is the state's attorney, not the attorney for either the townships or cities. Will he make a political decision to say that we cannot see the ballots in the face of clear evidence of ballot manipulations. If he wants to be governor, he should be trying to prosecute election fraud, rather than aiding it?

                                          

                 

 

 

 

 

 

 Ask your clerk to see the ballots

 

It appears that the state and federal governments do not have any real legal grounds to keep us from seeing the ballots. They have just been using a huge bluff. You should do your own Freedom of Information Act request to see the ballots in your own precincts. Use our sample FOIA request. Your actions will force government to give us honest elections. If you encounter any problems, please feel to call me. Help is very close! Your freedom and control over your own life is at stake. Not one issue that you feel strongly about is possible without your voice be heard through the ballot box. Give that voice some strength by speaking out now to your government by demanding to see the ballots and count them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Why is the economy in such bad shape?

The Federal Reserve does not even know who it has given trillions of dollars to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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