Press Release
October 3, 2006
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bob Cooper, prguynow@yahoo.com, 401-447-6474 Days/Evenings
Hillary Joyce Scott, 261-2319, Wilbur Jennings, 401-461-3176
Atty Keven A. McKenna's
office - 273-8200
Candidate Questions Voting Machines
Filings made today in RI Supreme Court
(Providence, Rhode
Island,
USA)
“The R.I. State Board of Elections has essentially ratified ballot
stuffing and denial of counting of votes duly made, because of mistakes by
optical scanning machines, and election officials . . . ,“ Attorney
Keven A. McKenna wrote in a brief to the Rhode
Island Supreme Court today.
McKenna represents Wilbur W. Jennings in the 8th ward
Providence Council race where only a handful of votes separate
Jennings from Leon
Tejada.
McKenna filed the papers today, and in a statement said, “The Supreme
Court will be serving all concerned if it will address the statutory deficiencies
with optical scanning.”
"This current process encourages ballot stuffing and lack of proper vote
accounting,” McKenna said.
“From a statutory point of view, too many checks and balances
have been eliminated for the sake of computer
efficiency. Can you just imagine
if these problems arose on November 7th?”
Jennings is not alone in his
complaint. Ward 8 neighborhood
activists have organized, and some have already testified to the Rhode Island
Board of Elections of specific incidents voter fraud that the Board has referred
to the State Police.
The group has also complained publicly that Mayor
Cicilline has improperly interfered in the
8th ward election.
Cicilline endorsed and promoted his chosen
candidate, Leon Tajeda from ward 9, who registered
a change in his voting address to the 8th ward just before the
deadline. He also lent the use
of his campaign headquarters, his phone bank, and
personnel. Ward 8
residents claim this is just one of the wards in
Cicilline’s plan of control of the city council,
and will hamper their resistance to a city school being built on a hazardous
chemical dump site.
The group has been joined in speaking out against the election
by other city council candidates from the 8th ward democratic
primary election who finished behind
Jennings.
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