Jailbreak!

What does it take to break out of Death Row?

Evidently not much.

Start off by making sure prison officials are tipped off. Twice. But ignore the warnings.

Follow that by hiding a 13 1/2 foot ladder made of rolled up magazines and blankets under a snow bank.

Then hoard water, candy bars, matches, and extra clothing.

Finally, make a break for it.

The two were able to scale the outdoor cage [of the Death Row complex] "because of staff complacency, gross deficiencies in supervision, decision making and policy compliance," the report said.

The two were caught when alarm bells sounded as they were climbing the prison's perimeter fences.

I guess maybe I should start paying more attention to those signs "Don't pick up Hitchhikers" signs around Mansfield.

Ohio University Assistant Coach Blogs from Iraq

Last August, Ohio University Men's Assistant Basketball coach, Kevin Kuwik, was called up to serve in Iraq.

He completed his recruiting responsibilities for the Bobcats, and reported for Fort Sill, Oklahoma on October 23, 2004 for training. At that point, he began sending regular emails which have been posted to the OU website.

On December 20th, he went to Kuwait. On January 9th, he went into Iraq.

All the while, balancing his military responsibilities with his love of Bobcat basketball, routinely listening to the games on the Internet at 2:00 in the morning.

Here are a couple of excerpts. Go read the rest for yourself.

Wednesday, January 5

Hey everyone, I’m actually writing this on the 6th, at 2:12 am, as I sit on the computer cleaning up my inbox for the first time in a few days, and more importantly, get ready to tune in to Derek Scott and hear the Bobcats take on Ball State. That will make for a pretty sleepless night, but hopefully we can shake our road blues and get some momentum heading back to The Convo on Sunday.

I haven’t had an entry in a few days because we’ve been swamped – early mornings (a given with the Army) and late nights as we do all the planning and preparation for our move. I always thought moving a basketball team and its traveling party of 20-25 for a road game was a pain, but that pales in comparison to moving all our soldiers and all our equipment.

Since I last checked in, there have been plenty of adventures to go around. First off was my first sand storm on the 2nd. Although people who have been out here for a while tell me it was an easy one, the amount of sand that got in my ears and teeth and in general all over my body was quite the nuisance. I never thought I’d long for a good old Buffalo snowstorm, but at least the snow melts and becomes water and goes bye-bye!

Saturday, January 29

A great win for the Bobcats over 1st-place Bowling Green! We seemingly couldn’t get over the hump all second half but the defense really bore down over the last five minutes and we pulled it out, making four wins in our last five games. Now it’s back to my hometown to play Buffalo on Wednesday – they beat us pretty good last year in front of many of my family and friends so hopefully we can get a little payback.

The game was a good escape from what has been a very busy week for me. Obviously, the elections in Iraq are a huge story and will take place tomorrow, and Mosul is at the forefront of all that. Our unit has worked through the night the last couple nights to get all the polling sites ready and hopefully safe to vote at. But there definitely is some uncertainty here as no one knows how many people will really come out to vote. Not to mention how much violence there may be. So tomorrow probably will be one of the most memorable days of my life, one way or the other.

Wednesday, February 2

Over here, the elections went fairly well. Relatively speaking, there was a low turnout in Mosul due to all the violence and intimidation that has been going on but the numbers were considerably higher than what was expected – as a matter of fact, additional ballots had to be rushed in. One of the best stories I heard was at a polling site which had over 200 people milling around it as the polls opened but everyone was afraid to actually walk up to vote. Finally a very elderly woman had the courage to walk up and everyone else followed suit.

For our unit, despite only having been here a few weeks, we were thrown into the fire as we were responsible for emplacing over 800 concrete barriers at all the polling sites in Mosul to protect against vehicle borne explosives – a serious threat out here. Our soldiers ran all night for two consecutive nights to get the job done and it can be considered a mission well-done as there were no vehicular incidents at the polling sites. And then we had to turn around and spend two nights hauling them all back in.

Not to get preachy or sentimental but the last two days were very meaningful for me. First, I ate the first meal in the newly-opened dining facility that replaces the one destroyed by the December bombing. There was a commemorative flag that everyone there signed which will be on permanent display. Then tonight I watched “Miracle,” the story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic gold medal team and its dramatic victory over the Soviet Union. I can’t say for sure how Operation Iraqi Freedom will be looked back on in history but what I do know is that the men and women that I am serving with over here, with as ordinary of backgrounds as they come, display that extraordinary resilience and dedication that makes our country what it is. And as much as I’m missing not being with the Bobcats this season, I’m gaining just as much through the chance to experience everything that I have.

So, go USA, and go BOBCATS!

Saturday, February 12

After we got this brief, we rolled out the gate and headed into town [Mosul]. The first thing that struck me was all the little kids lined up on each side of the road waving at us – definitely tugs at your heart.

Sunday, February 20

Not so fast, however – at this point it was 0700, the sun was up and we faced the unenviable task of rolling right through the best parts of Mosul (not!) with our snail-like engineer equipment. Well, thankfully we had a safe 30-minute ride back to the base (not a lot of people waving at the Americans in this part of town, however). Before I got to go to sleep, I had to sit through a 45-minute meeting, spend another half an hour coordinating events for the day, check in on the Bobcat game on the internet (not good) and finally, at 1000, I was able to sneak to my living unit and steal three hours of sleep. Just another day in Mosul.

And I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that there was joy in Mosul at about 0200 this morning as I jumped around in my living unit and probably woke up some terrorists when Jeremy Fears’ 3-pointer at the buzzer went in and Derek Scott went crazy as a short-handed Bobcat squad showed a lot of heart in coming back to beat Detroit. Just wish I could have been there for the backflip!

Have a great day – go Bobcats, beat Eastern!

The OU Bobcats are currently in a 4 way tie for second place in the MAC East with a 10-6 conference record.

As you can tell, Cpt. Kuwik is doing even better.

You can send him an email at the following address: kevin.kuwik@us.army.mil

Another Ohio Supreme Court Justice Hits the Headlines

Terrence O'Donnell is the latest Ohio Supreme Court Justice to be in the news. Seems he had $18,000 in cash stolen from his car.

"I recognize that this is very odd," O'Donnell said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. "But I also recognize ... that it's my money, and I would like it back."

"It's just the oddest, most peculiar circumstance," he said. "One, that you would have that much money; two, you'd have it with you; three, that it would be on that night; and four, you'd be in that place where this would occur," he said. "I don't know what I can tell you. It's just very unsettling, as you can imagine."

He said he's kept cash at home "for a very, very, very long time."

"It's kind of the way that I operate. I have money in bank accounts, but this is another source, I guess, is all I can tell you," he said.

Ouch!

Congress Investigates Ohio's Provisional Ballots

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission came to Columbus today to gather information on Ohio's provisional ballots.

The panel will meet in Columbus to gather information on how provisional voting fared around the country. Voters who appear to be unregistered vote provisionally and their voter record is checked later. In Ohio, 77 percent of the 153,539 provisional ballots cast were found to be valid.

With all the voting problems in Ohio, it makes perfect sense to look into how goofed up Ohio was compared to the rest of the country, right?

Glad our government is focusing on the problem areas, right?

Coming with recommendations on how we can be more like the rest of the country, right?

Except...

Nationally, 32% of provisional ballots cast in last year's election were thrown out. Most states were using them for the first time.

Ohio's rate of invalid provisional ballots was 9% points lower than the national average.

The whole thing reminds me of the joke of the drunk searching for his lost keys under the streetlight. He lost them in a dark alley, but he can see better under the light.

No reason to look here, or here, or even here.

UPDATE: Dan Tojaki was a participant on the panel and I expect he will post something soon.

Ohio Governor Candidate For Sale On EBay

Now's your chance to buy your very own Governor. Ebay bidding starts at $900.

Greetings:

My name is Larry Bays. I am a Republican for the working people, and I am running for Governor of Ohio. In an attempt to raise money for my campaign, I am auctioning myself off to the highest bidder. I will come to your home or business anywhere in Ohio one (1) eight-hour day each month during the first year that I am in office. I will paint, clean, any handy man job you have.

The Akron Beacon Journal says it's legal.

Carlo LoParo, a spokesman for the secretary of state's office, said Bays may have found "a gray area in the law."

"While Ohio's election bribery statutes refer to offering something of value for a vote, they do not specifically address offering something of future value for a campaign contribution," LoParo said.

LoParo said Bays' auction will not violate any campaign finance laws as long as the winning bid does not exceed the $2,500 limit for an individual contribution to a campaign.

Guess that means you can Buy It Now for $2,500.

UPDATE: What is it with Ohioans and Ebay today? OSU President Karen Holbrook was also on Ebay, but they pulled her auction after bidding exceeded $10,000,000.

Ohio Vote Fraud Conviction

Remember the guy who registered the likes of Dick Tracey and Mary Poppins in return for crack cocaine? Well, he just pleaded guilty to 10 counts of false registration.

Two months after pleading not guilty to faking voter registration forms in exchange for crack cocaine, a Defiance man has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of false registration.

Chad Staton, 22, of Stratton Street appeared in Defiance County Common Pleas Court Thursday to enter pleas to the 10 counts of the fifth-degree felony. In December, a grand jury returned indictments against him for filing forms in the names of Mary Poppins, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Michael Jordan, Dick Tracy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Brett Favre, George Foreman, Maria Lopez, and George Lopez.

He faces a $2,500 fine and a year in prison for each count.

Let's hope he gets jail time. Lots of it.

An Open Letter to the Columbus Dispatch

On Sunday, a column by Dispatch editor Benjamin Marrison touted many advances of the dispatch.com website and asked for feedback. Like most columns on the Dispatch site, you need a paid subscription to access it.

That prompted this feedback:

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Mr. Marrison,

I read your column in the Columbus Dispatch today commenting on your web site, dispatch.com, and asking for feedback.

I wanted to take a couple of minutes to give you some feedback.

I agree that the dispatch.com site it one of the top Ohio based newspaper sites. Obviously it is the premier site for OSU news. It also has very strong coverage of Ohio and national politics.

Recently, I have noticed the real time updates for breaking local news. Again, another step forward and a feather in your cap.

Unfortunately, most Ohioans - and non-Ohioans for that matter - will never know this. And the reason is simple. It is your policy of charging nonsubscribers to access the site and limiting access to your archive.

I run a blog at ohiovoter.blogspot.com. It was started after the November election and provides a conservative view on Ohio politics. I routinely excerpt, link, and comment on articles written in Ohio's newspapers, the Dispatch included.

Unfortunately, because most of my readers do not have a Dispatch subscription, I am often forced to link to your competitors. Even when you have superior coverage. As one example, your analysis of the distribution of voting machines in Franklin county was outstanding and of interest to many outside the state. Unfortunately, few had the chance to recognize that fact.

The Akron Beacon Journal has also started to post breaking stories on their site and I have begun to link to them. The Enquirer is also a good source that I have started to use.

I understand your need to make a profit and I have no idea how much you make on your web subscriptions versus the ad revenue from your site. However, I am writing this email so that you understand that your actions are driving readers to your competitors.

You have the writing and reporters to make the Dispatch Ohio's premier news source. Your access policy however, will not allow it.

If you don't believe me, ask your own columnist, Michael Meckler. On his blog, red-state.com, he has recently linked to articles in the Enquirer and area television stations instead of the corresponding articles in the Dispatch. I assume he did so for the same reasons I did, so my readers can have access to the original source.

The blogs are not your competitors. They can drive traffic to your site that would never visit otherwise. If you allow them.

In fact, by adding a Trackback feature that is common among blogs and is now starting to take hold on some mainstream sites, you would be able to see who is linking to your site and why. And bloggers would like it because it would also drive traffic to their sites as well. Taking this action would easily set your site apart from Ohio's other news sites.

If you truly want dispatch.com to become the premier source, I strongly encourage you to open access to your site and find other ways to make it blog-friendly. If you don't, you will have the best site no one has ever seen.

I will be posting this letter to my blog and look forward to your reply.

David
ohiovoter.blogspot.com

No Blogs at City Hall

Cincinnati City Hall has banned access to blogs. Evidently, they have been using a software program to limit access to specific sites since 2002.

But last week, the program apparently started to forbid access to any site in the blogspot.com domain - a popular place for posting web diaries called "blogs." Websense categorized them as message boards, which are forbidden on city computers.

Brendon Cull, press secretary for Mayor Charlie Luken, immediately requested - and received - permission to view two local blogs on his computer only: Brian Griffin's Cincinnati Blog (cincinnati.blogspot.com), and Nathaniel Livingston's Black Cincinnati Blog (blackcincinnati.blogspot.com). That gives Cull - and only Cull - the ability to read those sites from his city computer.

First, I can understand wanting to limit the ability to access Blogger to make posts from work. I can see how this could easily start to take productive time from city employees. I could also see that there are probably some sites that are less than "business related."

But at the same time, there are many blogs that I think would be of interest to city employees and government officials. Banning them all is overkill. I suspect that the total ban is the only technical solution to the "problem", and if you have to throw the baby out with the bathwater, so be it.

But it also appears, as though the press secretary - and only the press secretary - will have access to his favorate left leaning sites.

Brendon Cull, press secretary for Mayor Charlie Luken, immediately requested - and received - permission to view two local blogs on his computer only: Brian Griffin's Cincinnati Blog (cincinnati.blogspot.com), and Nathaniel Livingston's Black Cincinnati Blog (blackcincinnati.blogspot.com). That gives Cull - and only Cull - the ability to read those sites from his city computer.

This is probably more disturbing. On a couple fronts.

The obvious question is why should Cull get special access to the sites, and none of the other employees.

But the bigger question is why would Cull want access to these two blogs, but none of the other Cincinnati based ones. Is Cincy City Hall interested in hearing the voices of it's citizens - as long as they come from the left. Or even more specifically, from these two blogs. All other bloggers need not apply.

As the blogosphere continues to grow, access to blogs will give government officials insights into the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of many of their constituents that they would otherwise not have.

To ban access to them is a short sited decision. It throws away a tool that has tremendous potential in the future.

City Hall should embrace blogs, not ban them.

Hat Tip: A Face Made 4 Radio, A Voice Made 4 the Internet

But What about the Husbands?

Michelle Malkin links to a study explaining how women who argue with their husbands are 4 times less likely to die from heart disease than those who don't argue.

LONDON - A WOMAN who keeps quiet during an argument with her husband is four times more likely to die from heart disease and other causes, according to a study published in the American Heart Association (AHA) journal.

Researchers believe women who argue with their husbands are warding off heart disease and other causes of death.

No word on the life expectancy of their husbands though.

More on the Ohio Use Tax

In the previous post, I explained how the Ohio Department of Taxation is going after people who bought tobacco products online without paying taxes. Technically, they should be paying an Ohio use tax on the purchase.

Knowing that all Ohio Voter readers are good, law-abiding citizens, I thought I would provide a list of sample items that are subject to the Ohio use tax if you didn't pay sales tax at the time of purchase.

• All Internet purchases
  
• All catalog orders
  
• All direct sales purchases such as those Ginsu knife you called up and ordered at 2:00am in a moment of weakness
  
• All out-of-state purchases made while traveling or vacationing in another state with a different state tax rate than Ohio

Luckily, being the law-abiding citizen that you are, you dutifully kept your receipts for all of the above purchases throughout the year. Unfortunately, there's still another situation you need to watch out for.

• All purchases you made in another Ohio county with a lower sales tax rate than your resident county.
  

Yes, you read that correctly.

Ohio's 88 counties have 6 different sales tax rates, ranging from 6.5% to 8.0%. If you happen to live in Cuyahoga county - which has a sales tax rate of 8% - and you bought anything in another Ohio county, you need to pay the difference in the tax rate between the county you purchased the item in and your 8% rate.

I hope you kept your receipts Cleveland.

OK, so now you got to the point where you've gathered up all of your receipts from your out-of-county purchases, figured out the diffences in the tax rates and added the total to all of your other purchases listed above. You are ready to join the 1% of all Ohio taxpayers who declared any use tax last year.

You must be fine now.

Well, only if you were very careful in filling out your federal taxes too.

You see, federal law allows you to deduct state income taxes from your federal return. It does not allow you to deduct state use taxes. If you mistakenly deduct your use taxes (which are reported and paid as part of your income tax form) from your federal taxes, then the IRS can come after you with fines.

So there you have it. A quick guide to Ohio's use case tax. Have a nice day and have fun gathering your receipts.

Hat tip to Douglas L Oliver from The Buckeye Institute and his article "Ohio's Useless Tax", the source of much of this information.

Is Amazon Next?

I haven't seen this touched on yet.

The Ohio Department of Taxation wants to collect on thousands of dollars in unpaid cigarette taxes from Internet sales and plans to mail about 1,000 letters demanding payment from Ohio residents.

Evidently, the agency has already sent out 25 letters requesting $5,000 in lost taxes. They aren't saying how much more money they expect from to get from the remaining letters, but it's safe to assume they went after the biggest offenders first.

Even assuming everyone who receives a letter pays immediately and they continue to average $200 per letter, the state will pull in a total $205,000 in lost taxes. Now do you really think they're going to pay immediately. How many follow-ups will be needed? Will a lawyer have to get involved?

It doesn't take long before we spend over $200K collecting our lost taxes.

The point is clearly not the taxes. Or at least not these taxes.

The point is to generate visibility and publicity to scare Ohioans about all of their Internet purchases. It's just easier to get the list of tobacco sellers. Plus, it's always safe to pick on the smokers.

In 2001, Ohio added a line to it's tax form where Ohioans can enter a Use Tax, for any out-of-state purchases made over the Internet or through catalogs. No one heard of it then.

In a statewide survey done for ODT, nearly 86 percent of respondents had never heard of the use tax. More than 77 percent were not aware that Ohio charges tax on purchases from out-of-state catalog and internet retailers.

Commissioner Zaino said overcoming that lack of awareness is critical for both the retail industry and state and local government, "We have a lot at stake here -- thousands of retail jobs and a vital source of revenue for both local and state government services. I believe taxpayers will understand the importance of this issue and be responsive. If we can’t slow the losses, it’s not hard to imagine a scenario where you’d have to raise other taxes to compensate."

That was in 2001. It's safe to say little has changed except that the lost revenue continues to grow. Nothing a little free press about the threat of lawsuits can't help.

It is a little ironic to see the Ohio Department of Taxation taking the same approach to a problem as the RIAA. I just don't know which one has the worst reputation to be hurt by the comparison.

Wrong Number

An 84-year-old Fairview Park man is facing charges of killing his neighbor's dog. Among the evidence again him are dozens of threatening phone messages left on the answering machine of of another person he called, mistakenly thinking it was his neighbor.

Dibin said she tried to tell Taips that he called the wrong person, but she says he just kept dialing, making dozens of calls over a three-month period.

In one message, Taips said, "Your damn dog woke me up 10 o'clock last night, 5 o'clock this morning. You're asking for real trouble."

In another message he said, "We have a right to sleep, understood by your dog. And you will pay for this, you (expletive)."

The man is currently undergoing a mental assessment.

I really hope they find he's not all there mentally.

Ohio Republicans, Round 2

Less than two years before Ohio's 2006 gubernatorial race and the Republican candidates are at it again.

At a 2005 Associated Press forum, the three Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidates took potshots at each other. Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell started it off.

"My constitutional amendment has been maligned by people who haven't read it," he said in response to a question about Taft's budget calling for a cut to local government aid.

Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro responded.

Of the 20 states with some sort of restraints in place, Petro said, "This one (Blackwell's) is probably the most gimmicky of all."

And not to be left out, State Auditor Betty Montgomery made sure to get her point in too.

Later, as Montgomery started answering the day's last question, on the state's Third Frontier technology investment program, she realized she hadn't brought up the issue of collecting on Medicaid overpayments.

"I'm going to do a Ken Blackwell for a moment and divert," she said, before making her point.

Meanwhile, Democratic candidate Michael Coleman was in northern Ohio talking about the importance of lower taxes and decrying a proposed introduction of parking fees at state parks.


UPDATE: The Cincinnati Enquirer has more fun quotes.

Montgomery managed to jab both of her opponents at once - noting that her office is more productive today than when Petro ran it three years ago, while also criticizing Blackwell's plan as "doing government by autopilot."

Blackwell called Montgomery's autopilot statement "foolish."

"Wait a minute, this sounds like a Jerry Springer show," Montgomery interjected.

Ohio Republicans better get the act together quickly or they will be the sideshow even after Springer enters the race.

Not a good sign, and no reason to believe the rhetoric will tone down.

From Peak to Vally in Less Than 90 Minutes

Rob Bernard tracks several posts from the official Kerry-Edwards blog from election night.

It starts at 11:15 with "My analysis of the numbers indicates Kerry will almost certainly win Ohio".

But by 12:37, "May god have mercy on all of us".

Check out the whole thing and try not not to smirk.

It's a Girl

A pregnant Cincinnati woman, Sarah Brady, who fought off and killed a knife wielding attacker ealier this month gave birth to a baby girl.

Brady, laid off from a bank, became a media sensation after she killed a woman who police think was trying to steal her fetus.

"I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child," Brady said on TV.

Commonwealth's Attorney Bill Crockett said an investigation might not be completed for several weeks, but everything appears to support Brady's statements that she killed the woman in self-defense.

We here in the Voter household are expecting our first in just over a month. It's been an amazing 8 months for both of us and we are very excited. I can't imagine any like this.

It's Over

No hockey in 2005.

In Columbus, the Blue Jackets played in the new Nationwide Arena in the Arena District downtown, home of several bars, restaurants, and other entertainment venues.

At the start - or more accurately, the non-start - of the season, Nationwide cut the rent in half for restaurants and bars in the area.

"We thought reducing rent was the fair thing to do," Ellis said. "These restaurants have depended on and planned for Blue Jackets games - they were an important part of their business plans."

Meanwhile, John H. McConnell, owner of the Columbus Blue Jackets has refused to lay off any fulltime Blue Jacket employees.

The Blue Jackets have not laid off any workers, although around 35 people have left the franchise since last fall and have not been replaced. Still, no season means no jobs for the roughly 1,000 people who are employed by the franchise as vendors, ushers, ticket-takers, security officers and janitors at a typical game.

The impact on the local bars and restaurants, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Not far away, Stewart Miller sits in a deserted bar and wonders when the athletes, agents, owners, and league officials lost touch with the real world.

"We'll still be here next year," said Miller, who figures his bar will lose $200,000 to $300,000 because of the lockout. "I sure hope they come back and get their act together."

So do I.

Ohio Sets the Trend

I know, I'm making a big deal out of nothing.

First Bar Fined for Ignoring Columbus Smoking Ban

The first bar has been fined for ignoring the Columbus smoking ban. Just didn't expect it to be 5 minutes from where I live.

I never realized we lived in such a crime infested area.

Source of Gahanna Vote Tally Error Discovered

The source of the problem causing a Gahanna voting tabulation error has been found.

The maker of Franklin County's election machines has pinpointed the error that made a laptop computer give thousands of extra votes to President Bush on election night: Just like any overworked and distracted human, the machine was trying to do too much at once.

The mistake, caught days after the election, had Bush receiving 4,258 votes in a precinct in the Columbus suburb of Gahanna, where only 638 voters cast ballots. The corrected official count shows 365 votes for Bush.

The problem was a concurrency error that occurred when the computer was performing one task at the exact same time data was being downloaded from another machine.

Technicians concluded the laptop was completing another task just as numbers from that precinct were being fed into it.

"As a result, the laptop did not receive the data as fast as it was sent," said an elections board report. "Consequently, data was lost."

Danaher went further, identifying what computer bytes in the data disappeared. By feeding in data missing those bytes, technicians produced the same wrong vote total.

Another conspiracy goes down the drain.

Source of Gahanna Vote Tally Error Discovered

The source of the problem causing a Gahanna voting tabulation error has been found.

The maker of Franklin County's election machines has pinpointed the error that made a laptop computer give thousands of extra votes to President Bush on election night: Just like any overworked and distracted human, the machine was trying to do too much at once.

The mistake, caught days after the election, had Bush receiving 4,258 votes in a precinct in the Columbus suburb of Gahanna, where only 638 voters cast ballots. The corrected official count shows 365 votes for Bush.

The problem was a concurrency error that occurred when the computer was performing one task at the exact same time data was being downloaded from another machine.

Technicians concluded the laptop was completing another task just as numbers from that precinct were being fed into it.

"As a result, the laptop did not receive the data as fast as it was sent," said an elections board report. "Consequently, data was lost."

Danaher went further, identifying what computer bytes in the data disappeared. By feeding in data missing those bytes, technicians produced the same wrong vote total.

Another conspiracy goes down the drain.