Mods: This is a GD topic, not Election Reform, since Ms. Harris obtained MUCH money from DUers in general to support her organization and these people have a right to see some accounting of it. If the topic is moved to the Election forum, fewer DUers will see it who, I feel, have a right to see it.
Also, we would like to invite DUers with CPA/accounting backgrounds to analyze the filing.
Again, this is an accounting of how money many people on DU donated to Bev has been accounted for.
I had said I would stay out of this topic since it was causing grief to the Mods, but since Bev now has a proxy once again making claims that I have ties to Diebold, I cannot remain silent and see my reputation called into question.Bev has FINALLY posted her IRS Form 990 (about a year late) for 2004. A few DUers have been mulling over the documents and trying to make sense of it.
http://www.thoughtcrimes.org/bbv//f990bbv.... (I have posted it on my web site as Bev's postings have a tendency to vanish when they prove embarrassing.)
What has been found so far has not instilled confidence in BBV's operations. The form is chock full of math errors, BASIC errors that no 1st year accountant would make. Given the fact that any reputable accountant (and Bev claimed that a top firm specializing in non-profits was working on this) would use a software package which would do the math for you, we must assume that this form was NOT done, as Bev claimed, by a professional. This is born out by the absence of a signature identifying the accounting firm.
The 990 is signed by Vickie Karp, yet directly underneath this signature where the IRS instructs you to print the name of the signature is written "Bev Harris - Director".
DUer Troubleinwinter has background on her long arduous journey in getting BBV.org to provide her with a copy of this document (as required by law) here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... I would also advise folks to listen to this MP3 of Bev on Randi Rhodes "explaining" herself and her actions:
http://www.whiterosesociety.org/bev_randi.... An annotated and documented transcript may be found hear (Bev claims this is a Diebold site, but provides ZERO evidence of this claim):
http://blackboxwatchdog.com/node/13 I find it ironic that a person involved in the pursuit for accurate and transparent elections can't add and has to be pushed kicking and screaming into accounting for their use of donated funds.
David Allen
www.blackboxvoting.com www.thoughtcrimes.org
