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Comment Submitted by Aaron Payment:
With no criminalization of election violations, the Election Committee is free to corrupt the process for their own personal gain. When I became Chair, I checked to see if there were any pecuniary benefit for suspected election fraud. Sure enough, Cathy's (McCoy-Abramson) relatives and former employees all received raises at twice the rate of others. Half the committee received regular raises, while some got twice the increase. The worst case scenerio? Vicki Pudokious got a 30% raise the day the ballots were mailed out.
How do they corrupt the process?
1. The candidate hires an outside polling firm to conduct polls to see how far off the mark they are? In otherwords, how many votes are needed for their candidate to get the most votes?
2. The Election Committee Chair simply goes to the Post Office to get a quantity of bad address ballots that are returned to fill out for the candidate they wish to win.

Some will say, then how did Aaron Payment win in 2004 if Bouschor stacked the ballots? The answer is that they wanted it to look close so the number of ballots stuffed was estimated at the number to win and their number's guys just got it wrong. This is how McCoy made up the difference in the 2008 election. I received 49.6% of the vote in a primary. Theoretically, I only needed the other .04% to win. Anonymous election polls were conducted again during this cycle. Thus, McCoy knew how many ballots to stuff.

Guess what the Election Committee Chair's mother's maiden name was? McCoy! How to you think Cathy continously gets elected when she represents to substance? Her nephews (two of them) are on the Election Committee and the Chair of the Election Committe has unlimited access to the ballots. Remember, there is no sanction or criminal violation for stuffing ballots.
Aaron Payment
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Now from me...
During the election I received numerous phone calls, emails and third hand reports from several members who did not receive a ballot in either the primary or general election. After bringing it up again in an email and posting it on this site, I have again received several confirmations from members who did not get to vote in the election because they did not receive ballots. Some received theirs only 2-3 days before the election.
Some of the responses received when their calls were directed to the Election Chair or other members of the committee were:
1. "You must have moved and didn't update your address."
2. "It must have gotten lost in the mail"
3. "I don't know why but its too late now anyway."
4. "Did you send a copy of a bill and your proof of identification when you changed your address?" (This person did receive the campaign flyers.)
Many others had to leave a message and never got a call back.

If these people are contacting me, who do you suppose they didn't intend to vote for?
By no means will I assume that everyone who didn't receive a ballot made me aware of it. Remember that there were more than 3000 'bad addresses' named in the Sault Tribe Non-newspaper. A statistical wild guess would indicate that approximately 20% of all voting age members have bad addresses. I would be very interested to know how many of those listed, received campaign materials. What is even more interesting is that the names of several of the people that contacted me could not be found on the bad address list. Perhaps some 'corrected' their information but some did not because they received all other tribal mail.

One gentleman(who will remain unidentified)had this to say, "To hell with them. I been living in the same place all my adult life and I get all the rest of the crap they send except the ballots, and most of the benefits I started gettin' a long time ago are gone now too. We all talk about it all the time but I don't have one of them computers so I rely on my mouth and ears. I may not get to vote on a piece of paper cause they don't want me to but I can sure as hell talk. I tell everyone I see to get those SOB's off that board and get that Sugar Island bunch away from the ballot box." When asked who the Sugar Island bunch is he replied, "All them McCoys. Half that damn board and election committee are McCoys or related to them or married to them. Just ask 'em who each of 'em are related to but they will probably just lie about it anyway."

A family tree showing the connection between the Board of Directors of the Sault Tribe and the election board would be interesting. Conflict of Interest questions to add to the application to be on the board (if there is ever an opening) would be:
1. Are you related to the Chairperson, any sitting directors, or to any member of the election committee?
2. Have you ever had any close personal relationsips with any of the above mentioned?

If you answer yes to any part of the questions above, you are not eligible to participate on the election committee or in any other election volunteer capacity that requires handling of the ballots. Failure to answer truthfully to any part of the above questions will result in termination of all rights as a member of the Sault Tribe for a period of four years.

(This should apply to the Election Chairman, the committee and all volunteers.)

You are also ineligible to participate as a member of the election committee if any of the above questions (or parts of) apply to candidates running for a seat in all future elections. You are required to inform the election chairman immediately if, at any time, you discover that any of the above situations exist.

I, so and so, hereby state that the above statements are true and I agree to any and all consequences if it is proven by a randomly chosen committee of Elders (who were chosen randomly by Elders)that I was intentionally lying through my teeth.

Sign and date here:

I think this would solve a whole lot of problems, don't you?

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