a tale of two letters

Dear Friends,

I sent a couple of letters recently (one yesterday and one just a minute ago) that you might be interested in.

The first was sent to an old high school classmate that happens to work for ES&S.

The back story is that I got up yesterday morning thinking I would go back to Bev Harris’s book, Black Box Voting (BBV), and start reading from the back forward, as I wasn’t so much interested in the latter chapters of that book when I first started reading it. (These latter chapters have been a gold mine.)

I didn’t have to read very far yesterday before I stumbled upon the name of a person that looked familiar. The name was Richard/Dick Jablonski. I graduated from high school with a kid by that name. I wondered if they were the same person, so I did a little internet searching. Sure enough, they were. Dick (as he went by in high school, and still goes by) works for ES&S as VP of Finance. He’s been doing it for over 37 years. Before that, he worked for the Omaha World Herald, that had a stake in ES&S back in the day (pg 66 of BBV).

I decided to write him a letter (ES&S personnel email addresses are easy to come by). Here’s what I sent:

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subject: Hi Dick

Hey Dick,

Remember me from Pius?

I came across this, from Black Box Voting by Bev Harris recently:

November 1998, Honolulu, Hawaii: A state senate investigation was conducted into the 1998 malfunction of voting machines in seven precincts at once. ES&S acknowledged the error and paid more than $250,000 for the recount, in which the biggest expense was hand counting, according to Vice President Todd Urosevich. ES&S financial officer Richard Jablonski said ES&S would have saved a lot of money if it had been permitted to do only a [secret] machine recount [i.e., "recount"], giving voice to a financial incentive for vendors to get rid of paper ballots.

...and I was just curious. Was this a mechanical malfunction, or a software "malfunction"? If the latter, does software ever really MALfunction, or does it function exactly the way it was written?

I'm finding lots of people throughout Nebraska, and the nation, who are not happy with the fact that their vote-counts are being farmed out by corrupt politicians to a secret, private corporation with secret software, secret hardware and no accountability to the people . . . and it's obvious that this corporation is being protected by these corrupt politicians.

Needless to say, I tend to sympathize with these unhappy people. After all, elections belong to them (the collective body politic), from beginning to end. That is, from the casting of votes to the COUNTING of votes.

What say you about the total lack of transparency and accountability by your employer to the people of Nebraska?

We do have a saying, you know, engraved over the front door of our Capitol building, that says, The Salvation of the State is Watchfulness in the Citizen. (Watchfulness, not trust.)

And nowhere is Watchfulness more important than in our all important elections, where power is conferred to make life and death decisions and trillions of dollars hang in the balance. Yet we are totally denied that Watchfulness, by both our politicians and high-ranking ES&S staff. Of course, like I said above, the former tries hard to cover for the latter, as if they are being paid by the latter to do so. But I've heard politicians AND ES&S staff alike lie through their teeth to citizens with my own ears.

Again, what say you, if you don't mind? Can you give me something that doesn't require credulity on my part?

One more thing. We also have a Constitution that says all government is by Consent of the people, via their elective franchise. Anything that subverts that process is treason. If trying to overthrow one's government is treason, then trying to overthrow the means by which that government is supposed to be chosen is also treason.

Let me know your thoughts. I wanted to give you a perspective different from the one you probably hear everyday inside ES&S. But then again, maybe not. I've heard, second hand, that ES&S employees (some) like to brag about the fact that every "machine" has a "back door."

Sincerely,

Robert J. Borer
In the postscript, I included a link to this video.

No reply yet, and I don’t think I’ll get one.

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letter #2
Letter #2 was a response to the Attorney General’s (AG) office over a Lancaster County public records request denial that they reinforced.

For those who might not know the process. When a Public Records Request is denied, a person can send an appeal, under the title “Public Records Petition.” to the AG’s office for review, in the hopes that they will overturn the denial.

In this case, my Public Records Request was for surveillance footage from a dropbox camera where some shenanigans appeared to be going on. I asked for specific footage between 4 pm and 430 pm. Lancaster County [fake] Election Commissioner Todd Wiltgen, with the help of Lancaster County attorneys, denied my request, under what I considered the color of law. “Under the color of law” is a legal term/phrase that describes when someone appears to have the legal right to do something when they actually do not.

They cited Nebraska Revised Statute 84.712.05(9) as their basis. The AG’s office stood behind that. Below was my response to the AG’s office this morning (I included Lancaster County attorneys in on it). Note: bracketed text was not part of the letter.

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subject: Re: Public Records Matter Involving the Lancaster County Election Commissioner

Ms. Donley- [assistant attorney general]

Thank you for your letter.

I have never said that access to public records is absolute. But feel free to continue making that moot point if you so desire. I will just ignore it. [She opened up by implying that I assumed the right to public records was absolute. Quoting: “As you know from multiple disposition letters we have sent you over the years, access to public records is not absolute.”]

We both know that 84-712.05(9), which finds its meaning following the "such as," has nothing to do with my request. 84-712.05(9) has to do with protecting secret security "information" designed to protect "public property and persons" from criminal acts.

Simple surveillance footage from a camera monitoring a ballot dropbox does not disclose secret security information designed to protect "public property and persons" from criminal acts. Its simple purpose is to *catch people abusing the dropbox. Anyone with binoculars could easily have seen what the surveillance footage I've asked for reveals.

We both know that if someone had been caught, via surveillance footage, abusing the dropbox in any way other than stuffing it, that it would have been all over the news. Criminals don't get to hide from their crimes when caught. At least not in a civil society.

For all practical purposes, a ballot dropbox is a remote polling place, albeit one not having the security of a normal polling place. In a normal polling place, we watch people carry their ballots from one spot to another spot and back again and think nothing of it.

What are you hiding by not releasing some simple video footage of a few people placing their ballots in a dropbox? Dishonesty on Wiltgen's part? Incompetence on Wiltgen's part? The unnecessary secrecy implies some form of maladministration or malfeasance.

The Salvation of the State is Watchfulness in the Citizen. Watchfulness, not trust.

With all due respect, you do not appear to be practicing law. You appear to be practicing lawfare, and/or engaging in deprivation of rights under the color of law.

I'll be sharing this far and wide.

Thanks again.

Robert J. Borer

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That’s it. That was fun for the day, yesterday and this morning. These people deserve to be trolled.

I’ll close with a recent quote from Bev Harris on X. When she refers to Bennie Smith (she spells his name wrong), she’s referring to the video link I provided above in the first letter. It’s a great watch

Thank you for reading.

God bless,

Robert J. Borer
P.S.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (Pro 3:5-6)