RTA Polls Showed Voters Would Approve Sales Tax

The election-integrity gang that has cooked up the notion that the 2006 Regional Transportation Authority election was rigged cites a key piece of “evidence” in their arguments.
They claim that polls before the election showed the RTA propositions, which approved both a transportation plan and a half-cent sales tax to pay for it, were going down [...]

Risner to Attorney General: Count the RTA Ballots!

Here is a copy of a letter from attorney Bill Risner to Attorney General Terry Goddard explaining why he should continue investigating Pima County 2006 RTA election. Risner sent the letter on July 14.
Dear Mr. Goddard:
I sent you a short letter on July 9th, 2008, together with Mr. Zbigniew Osmolski’s Affidavit.
I will be out [...]

The Boondocks Affair, Part 2: Zbig Reveal

We reported last week that attorney Bill Risner had unveiled an affidavit from Zbigniew Osmolski, a former county employee who said under oath that Bryan Crane, a programmer in the county’s elections division, confessed to him that he has flipped the 2006 Regional Transportation Authority election at the order of his bosses.
Osmolski said in his [...]

RTA Boss: Recount the Ballots

After the latest round of headlines regarding the 2006 RTA election, Gary Hayes, executive director of the Regional Transportation Authority, is offering to pay for the cost of recounting the ballots from the 2006 RTA election.
In a letter today to County Administrator Chuck Huckelbery, Hayes writes that even though voters passed the propositions on the [...]

RTA Big Reveal: The Boondocks Affair

After spending much of yesterday talking to lawyers, we think we have a better understanding of the fight to preserve the ballots from the 2006 Regional Transportation Authority election, which Pima County Treasurer Beth Ford has said she is ready to destroy.
We’ll get to the part about how secrets may or may not have been [...]

UPDATE: Pima County Treasurer Beth Ford: There Is A Plan To Destroy RTA Ballots

Pima County Treasurer Beth Ford says she sent notice to the political parties last month that she would be destroying the 2006 RTA ballots unless she heard an objection by Friday, July 11.
Ford says she has held off on following the state law that requires the destruction of ballots six months after an election because [...]

UPDATE: Chuck Huckelberry: No Plans To Destroy RTA Ballots

Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry says he’s unaware of any plans to destroy the ballots from the 2006 RTA election, as alleged by attorney Bill Risner in a press release yesterday.
“I have said, ‘Do not destroy them under any circumstances,’” Huckelberry says. “My instructions to the county attorney were to go to court if [...]

Pima County To Destroy RTA Ballots?

Attorney Bill Risner and his election-integrity gang say Pima County Treasurer Beth Ford is getting ready to get destroy the ballots from Pima County’s 2006 RTA election.
In a press release issued this evening, they also say they’ve got a former county employee who will testify under oath that a member of the Pima County Elections [...]