NEVADA LEGAL SHOWDOWN

From: Audrey Franklin (audreyafranklin@comcast.net)

NEVADA INAUGURAL DAY SHOWDOWN AND COURT ROOM DRAMA PROMISED.
Public invited. Details, Patricia Axelrod 775-787-1909

NEVADA LEGAL SHOWDOWN
Patricia Axelrod vs State of Nevada
SET FOR INAUGURATION DAY, JAN 20, 1:30PM,
in the First Judicial Court of the State of Nevada, 885 E. Musser, before Judge William Maddox.

January 20, Carson City, Nevada, 1:30 PM, Judge William Maddox is expected to order Dean Heller, the Nevada Secretary of State, to surrender the public records of the Nevada 2004 Presidential Election to citizen activist/writer Patricia Axelrod. George Bush claimed victory in Nevada and Axelrod says she wants to see in black and white how the State was won. Axelrod sued the State of Nevada December 7 charging The Secretary of State with unlawfully withholding public records. December 21, the State moved to dismiss the case. That same day Judge Maddox gave the Secretary a deadline of January 11 to show just cause – under oath - why the State could not produce the records. A hearing on the matter was set for January 18. On January 11 the Secretary violated the direct court order and produced another motion to dismiss rather than an explanation as to why the State could not produce the records. January 18, Deputy Attorney General Joshua Hicks claiming stomach flue asked the court for a sick day off and requested an extension that Axelrod agreed to until January 20.

George Bush won Nevada by 22,000 votes but Patricia Axelrod believes human malfeasance, malfunctioning electronic voting machines, and simple error may have swayed the election outcome away from John Kerry and she has asked for the records to confirm or deny her hypothesis. Axelrod says she first agreeably asked for the records only resorting to litigation after the Nevada Secretary of State became increasingly hostile to her Public Records request. “I knew it was time to sue when Rhonda Moore, the Nevada Secretary of State in Charge of Elections told me she was charging me $1.00 per page for every copy of every public record she saw fit to release if and when she chose to. Moore drove me to court when she set the Capitol Police on me to silence my objections.”

Axelrod, whose work has earned her a John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant as well as a Project Censored Award, explains that her preliminary investigation into Nevada county and state vote tabulations and outcomes reveals unexplained under and over votes and a disparity between the number of ballots issued and the number of votes cast. There is a significant and unexplained post election increase in the voter’s registration total Axelrod claims, and votes cast in small precincts have disappeared into cyber space.

Nevada Secretary of State, Dean Heller and Attorney General Brain Sandoval are rising Republican stars. Each has been openly publicly supportive of George Bush. Heller frequently campaigned for the Bush re-election. Sandoval, currently under consideration for a Federal Judgeship, headed up the Nevada Bush re-election effort for which he was rewarded with prime time Republican convention face time. “Heller and Sandoval’s serious commitment to the Bush re-election surely helped the President win Nevada says Axelrod, “Inauguration Day is a great day for this suit to come to court.”