VoterGA Supporters,
I am going to Valdosta this week to
provide expert witness testimony in the bizarre case against Laura
Gallegos that will be heard on Thursday January 14th at the
Lowndes County Courthouse. In this case, a known voting machine defect
allowed 947 test votes to be included in the 2008 Lowndes County
certified election results. The supervisor never reconciled the voting
machine recap votes cast with the poll book registration total voters
to detect the error. When the state found the error, the supervisor
orchestrated an attempt to place the blame on Logic an Accuracy testing
conducted by Mrs. Gallegos, who had nothing to do with the faulty
accumulation process that incorporated test votes into election
results. More details can be found on the voterga.org web site under
the Complaints tab.
Valdosta is the town where Ray Lemme was
found dead in room 132 at the Knights Inn hotel on July 1 of 2003 just
months before his only daughter was to get married. Mr. Lemme was a
“stellar” investigator on an award winning investigation team for the
Florida Dept. of Transportation. He was involved in incredibly high
profile investigations regarding Clint Curtis’s 2001 whistleblower
complaint against Yang Enterprises, Inc. which was eventually found to
have overbilled FDOT by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Clint Curtis
testified before the U.S. Congress that he was solicited by the Speaker
of the House in the state of Florida to rig elections using electronic
voting machines. Evidence collected by Mr. Lemme in these
investigations clearly seemed to implicate individuals at the top of
the Florida government.
The Valdosta police quickly ruled that
Lemme committed suicide and never conducted an autopsy or forensic
investigation. Brad Friedman of BradBog.com has pointed out numerous
discrepancies in the evidence and the police work. For example, the
hotel check-in receipt indicated that he checked in the night before
his death when he was actually at home. The hotel check-out receipt
indicated that he checked out on the morning when he actually arrived.
The police report stated that the crime scene pictures could not be
produced because of a flash memory card failure. However, after Insider
Magazine published the photos and an in depth story, the Valdosta
police reopened the investigation. Soon after that though, the
department closed the case again but were never able to adequately
explain the discrepancies that exist in the evidence or identify a
plausible motive as to why Mr. Lemme would go to Valdosta to commit
suicide. For more details on th e case you can start with this link: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=1244
I am mentioning all of this because
before I leave to go there I want everyone to know that I am not
suicidal. I love my daughter and want to see her grow up. I have a 90
year old mom who needs me. My employer and teammates think I am doing a
great job and the VoterGa work is starting to bear more and more fruit.
Furthermore, suicide is against my beliefs as a Christian. I love all
people but I have made a few enemies in exposing the corruption that
has existed in the office of the Secretary of State for the last 8
years. In addition, my testimony is adversarial to the elections
supervisor whose deceased husband was a top official in the Valdosta
police department at the time of Ray Lemme’s death. If I do not return
and the Valdosta police or any other governmental agency claims that I
committed suicide, please let it be known immediately that elements
within those agencies are likely involved in my murder.
Garland
