Maps showing deceased voters locations

Click here to see a pinmap showing that the problem of dead voters is all over the city. It also includes Republicans, Democrats, blacks, whites, others, males and females. Either dead people have voted, or the election commission has bad data.

Dead voter update

Well, I finally completed processing the 150,000 oldest voters and the new total is 8,803 possibly deceased voters! There are probably that many more in that group that can be purged if can get access to the social security numbers.

I wonder how difficult it would be to absentee vote people if you owned . . . say, maybe, hmmmmm . . . a funeral home? That's one reason I find it very disturbing that having deceased voters in the database doesn't alarm the election commission. I would like to see the public contact the county commission and ask them to withhold any funding for the election commission until they fix the problems with their data.

Your thoughts . . . .

Election Commission - Fat, Dumb and Happy?

What is the job of the election commission if not to maintain the voter database and ensure a fair process? Recently I pointed out that there were felonious voters and many people who had partial information in the database. Many showed to be over 100 years old and some who weren't even born yet - based on the listed dob. Greg Duckett says those were just minor "typographical errors." I maintain there is no place for typos in this system and a properly written system would check for data errors. Having said that, I decided to look into the age question and wrote a program that checked 11,000 of the oldest voters. Yep, over 2,000 of those appear to be deceased. You can view the entire list at www.johnharveysheriff.com . People in the community need to bring pressure on the election commission and force them to do their job!

Shall we follow the law?

Recently, I helped my friend, Terry Roland, in his campaign for senate district 29. I built Terry's website, generated phone call lists, wrote programs that pulled voter phone numbers from the internet, and even ran an autodialer to call potential voters. I also helped by looking at the voter data as it came in during both early and regular voting. This was the first time I've actually seen the voters names after they voted in a particular election. The data I received during and after early voting was the voter's name, address and registration number. I wrote a program that took the election data and retrieved additional information from the master voter database like, the address where they registered, their sex, race, dob and senate district. That program allowed us to look at where votes were coming from and to make some judgements about how we were doing. It also allowed me to check the voters against the general sessions and criminal court clerks websites by name and dob. I initially found about 16 felons, but 11 of those have apparently had their rights restored. That leaves five people who should not have voted.

It has now been almost a month since the election and no one has said anything about investigating this problem or any pending indictments. Since none of the "law enforcement" leaders have taken steps to ensure this doesn't happen in the future, I have prepared a document that I will deliver to the foreman of the Grand Jury this week seeking an indictment of the five felonious voters and an investigation of the election commissions database. The five felons I found came from the pool of about 8,000 voters. The entire database contains over 608,000 potential voters. If that percentage holds true for the rest of the data, there could be as many as 375 additional felons.

A cursory examination of the voter's database shows there are all kinds of problems with the data. There needs to be a detailed analysis of the data and an inquiry as to whether there are any deceased people included and whether or not there are any non-existant addresses, etc. I have been told the commission knows the data is corrupt, but they don't think it is a problem. Keep in mind there is a Democrat majority on the commission and therefore, th Republicans have virtually no say. Party affiliation aside, the process should not be skewed to favor one side or the other. For voters who don't subscribe to either party, I feel for them because they are truly disenfranchised.

Why doesn't the election commission want a clean database? Can it be in the interest of certain Democrats to have corrupt data? I think we already know that is the case, but hopefully the grand jury will look into this matter and force a fair election.

www.johnharveysheriff.com

What to do?

What do you do with the situation in New Orleans, go about your daily routine in your nice, dry, comfortable home, or put your hands on the plow? Not everyone can go there, but most can find some way to help. I recommend people take time to put themself in our fellow citizen's shoes. Wouldn't you think help was on the way? Wouldn't you think, this is the U.S.A. and we take care of our own? Not only do we take care of every other nation in the world, we take care of our own, especially in times of trouble. Today is the day! Take a stand for what is right and get on board.

My friend, Randy Wade and I have been discussing what we might possibly do to help in the relief effort in New Orleans and have come to a decision –ROAD TRIP! We are getting a bunch of cops (retired and active) to go down and try to help out. This trip will be Sept 25th – 30th and even though this is the first day, we have already got several on board.

From the Sheriff’s Office:

Retired Captain Mike Bonham
Sgt. Michael Pope
Officer Michael Pryor
Retired Chief Joe Gurley
Retired Adm Asst. Randy Wade
Lt. John Harvey
Retired Capt. John Boggan

I’ve also contacted a few of my (smokeeater friends) because firemen tend to be a lot like us, in that they hired on to help.

If you can go and feel led to do that, we would welcome you. If you can’t go, but can help raise funds for the trip, or get some water, food or toilet items, that will help too. I am going to be taking a mobile satellite system down and setting up a network so some of the people will be able to communicate with their families. We will also be working through FEMA and the Red Cross on where we are needed. I’ve got something in the works from FedEx to help get whatever we gather shipped down there.

This is the day to take a stand and do what you would hope others would do for you, if you were so unfortunate as to have had this catastrophe land in your back yard. Talk to God and see what He would have you do, then follow His lead.

Thanks,

John Harvey

Jail Privitization - Follow the Money

So they say publicly that they don't think jail privitization is a good fit. Privately, according to the Commercial Appeal, they have their minions meeting to work out the details. How long will the public be fooled by these slick politicians. "Hear what they say, but watch what they do!" I say follow the money. It's the same issue as the outsourcing of inmate feeding. Both the jail and the correctional center spend $5.00 per day, per inmate to a company called Aramark for food. On a daily average inmate population of 5,000 that works out to 9.125 million per year! If we trimmed our costs like they have in Phoenix, AZ it would result in a savings of 8.03 million per year. Even in Tipton county, where their feeding costs used to run $6.00 per day, they have cut it to $1.00 per day, per inmate by taking charge of the situation and making it happen - without outsourcing. Using the dollar-a-day forumula Shelby County would save over 29 million in just four years.

Privitization is about feeding the rich, not about cutting costs. The good ole boys are at work again behind the scenes. Don't let them pull a fast one!

Your thoughts?

Why is Memphis the 2nd most dangerous Metro area in the US?

I believe we live in such a dangerous environment because of the failed policies of law enforcement and other leaders in this community. Show me one leader with a vision and/or a passion for their job beyond pulling down a fat check. What is their plan of attack on the problems that are causing people to flee Shelby County like rats leaving a sinking ship? You are right, they don't have one. Raise your taxes, then lie to you while looking you square in the eyes, saying it's not a tax increase. If it's not a tax increase, then just send the same amount of money you sent last year when the tax bill comes due. Our good county mayor just doesn't want to admit that he doesn't have any plans other than tax and spend. That's the same model our previous mayor had. Now we're billions in debt.

We have elected people who can talk the talk, but can't walk the walk. Sheriff Luttrell says we can't arrest our way out of the crime problem. Isn't that how they cleaned up New York City under Rudy Guiliani? I think it's called Zero Tolerance, or what I call the "hot plate" approach to law enforcement. Here in Memphis we have maximum tolerance and zero prisoner retention, which is why it is so dangerous to live here! He is also concerned about overcrowding the jail, which is at the heart of the problem in our community. If the criminals aren't behind bars, where are they? Yep, they are wreaking havoc on the community. If we have to erect tent cities, we need to incarcerate the violent criminals and keep them there. If criminals aren't doing time, they're doing crime! Strict enforcement of curfew laws on juveniles in gang infested areas could also have an immediate impact.


John
www.johnharveysheriff.com