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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA WAKE COUNTY BEFORE THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS IN THE MATTER OF: PROTEST OF ELECTION TO BRUNSWICK COUNTY COMMISSIONER, DISTRICT 9 (DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY) BROUGHT BY ALAN CARTER LEWIS
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RECORD ON APPEAL SUBMITTED BY BRUNSWICK COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Order of Brunswick County Board of Elections ........................................................................................... 1 Original Protest ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Hearing Transcript ........................................................................................................................................ 8 Exhibits (1-28) .......................................................................................................................................... 116
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ORDER OF THE BRUNSWICK COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS
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ORIGINAL PROTEST
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TRANSCRIPT
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Deposition of Date: May 4, 2016 Volume: I Case: IMO: Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
Aurelia Ruffin _ Associates, Inc. Phone:(910)343-1035 Email:[email protected] Internet: www.peterruffin.com
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BEFORE THE BRUNSWICK COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS BOLIVIA, NORTH CAROLINA ____________________________________
In the Matter Of: Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis _____________________________________
______________________________________________________ Transcript of Hearing ______________________________________________________
REPORTED BY: LAURA L. VAN SANDT, Court Reporter and Notary Public AURELIA RUFFIN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 215 S. Water Street, #104 Post Office Box 2025 Wilmington, North Carolina 28402-2025 TELEPHONE: 910-343-1035 [email protected]
DATE REPORTED:
May 4, 2016
LOCATION:
Bolivia, NC
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APPEARANCES
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SARA KNOTTS, Director
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MELISSA MONROE, Deputy Director
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ROBERT V. SHAVER, JR., County Attorney
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Board Members
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STUART SMITH, Chairman
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RANDY PELTON
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BOYD WILLIAMSON
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The following hearing was held on Wednesday, May 4, 2016 before the Brunswick County Board of Elections beginning at 9:00 a.m., 75 Stamp Act Drive, County Government Center, Bolivia, North Carolina and was reported by LAURA L. VAN SANDT, Notary Public and Court Reporter for the Firm of AURELIA RUFFIN & ASSOCIATES, INC.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TITLE PAGE
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APPEARANCES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PROCEEDINGS
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STATEMENT BY MR. ALAN LEWIS
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STATEMENT BY MR. LOUIE LEWIS
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STATEMENT BY MR. MICHAEL FORTE
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STATEMENT BY MR. JOSEPH AGOVINO
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CERTIFICATION
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EXHIBITS
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Number 1, Notice of Candidacy
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Number 2, Address History
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Number 3, GIS Showing 227 Ocean Hwy East
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Number 4, Photograph of 227 Ocean Hwy East
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Number 5, Blow Up of Exhibit 4
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Number 6, Improvement Permit
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Number 7, Tax Info for 227 Ocean Hwy East
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Number 8, Photo of 237 Ocean Hwy East
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Number 9, Enlarged Photo of 237 Ocean Hwy East
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Number 10, Enlarged Photo of Exhibit 9
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Number 11, 2015 Revaluation Informal Decision
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Notice
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Number 12, Photo of 341 Southport-Supply Road
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Number 13, Property Card of 341 Southport-
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Supply Road
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Number 14, Broad-view Photo of 341 Southport-
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Supply Road
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Number 15, Broad-view Photo of 341 Southport-
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Supply Road
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Number 16A, Petition
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Number 16B, Continuation of Petition
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Number 16C, Petition
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Number 17, Brunswick County-Basic Search of
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Tax Records
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Number 18, Registration Card
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Number 19, Registration Card
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Number 20, Deposit Slip
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Number 21, Bank Statement
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Number 22, Check
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Number 23, Driver's License
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Number 24, Electric Bill
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Number 25, Residency Changes by Elected Officials
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Number 26, Utility Records, 227 Ocean Hwy
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Number 27, Utility Records, 237 Ocean Hwy
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Number 28, Utility Records, 431 Southport-Supply
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P R O C E E D I N G S
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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meeting to order.
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of Allegiance.
I would like to call this
First thing is stand for the Pledge
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(THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WAS RECITED)
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
This morning we're here to
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resolve a challenge by Mr. Alan Lewis about the
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candidacy or the eligibility or Mr. Louie Lewis to run
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in this election.
And the first order here would be
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to ask Mr. Alan Lewis to state his case.
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will come up, Mr. Lewis, and I would like to swear you
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in.
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WHEREUPON,
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ALAN CARTER LEWIS, was duly sworn by Chairman Smith.
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And if you
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Would you like to proceed with
your --
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Board
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members, members of the public.
I'm here today before
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you as a result of my protest in the District 4
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Republican primary.
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Michael Forte and Louie Lewis.
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establish a record demonstrating with beyond
My opponents in that primary were Today I intend to
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reasonable doubt that Mr. Lewis does not reside in
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District 4 as is required.
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evidence to the Board, when Mr. Lewis filed for
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candidacy he entered his residential address as 227
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Ocean Highway East.
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could present this for the record.
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If I may present some
I would like to briefly, and if I
I'd like to also preface my comments by reviewing
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with the Board Mr. Lewis's address history as it's
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contained in the public records of the Brunswick
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County Board of Elections --
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MR. SHAVER:
Mr. Chair, I'm sorry for
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interrupting but as exhibits are handed up and
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introduced, just to keep the record clear if we could
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announce what they are and what they've been labeled.
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So what has he handed up here?
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 1 is Notice of
Candidacy of Mr. Louie Lewis, Sr.
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MR. SHAVER:
Thank you.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The next exhibit that I will
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present to the Board is Louie Lewis's address history.
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The record show that his original registration date
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was April the 20th of 1968.
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entered 234 Ocean Highway East and also had a 341
On that document he
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Southport-Supply Road, Bolivia written above.
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January the 31st of 2006 Mr. Lewis changed his
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residence address from 341 -- to 341 Southport-Supply
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Road.
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Southport-Supply Road, Bolivia instead of Supply, and
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he gave a mailing address of 237 Ocean Highway East,
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Supply.
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Then in
That was entered into the county system as
Then two weeks later on February the 13th of 2006 he changed his residence address to 237 Ocean Highway
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East, Supply.
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of 2006 his residence address was changed to 341
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Southport-Supply Road.
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into the system as 431 Southport-Supply Road
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Southeast, Bolivia, and again provided a mailing
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address of 237 Ocean Highway East, Supply.
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Subsequently in -- on February the 20th
It was entered incorrectly
Then July the 14th of 2010 he did not make an
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address change but he changed his party affiliation
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from Democrat to unaffiliated.
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2015 he established his residence address as 655
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Governors Road, Southeast and again provided the same
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mailing address of 237 Ocean Highway East.
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that time he changed his party affiliation to
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Republican.
In October the 2nd of
And at
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Then on the latest entry on December the 18th of
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2015 the address was given as 227 Ocean Highway East.
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The date that he filed for candidacy of -- for
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District 4 county commissioner.
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this Exhibit 2 into the record along with this
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supporting documentation from the Brunswick County
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Board of Election files.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
I would like to enter
Exhibit 2 is the history that
Mr. Alan Lewis has presented of Louie Lewis's address history.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The next exhibit I'd like to
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present is a copy of the Brunswick County GIS mapping
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system which shows --
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Brunswick County GIS showing the location of 227 Ocean
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Highway, East.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
it's a photograph from the
Exhibit 3 is a GIS photo of
227 Ocean Highway, East.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The next exhibit I would like
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to enter into the record is a photograph of 227 Ocean
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Highway, East demonstrating that that address is not a
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residence but a business.
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MS. KNOTTS:
I'll hold the official one.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 4 is a photograph of
227 Ocean Highway, East.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The next exhibit is a blow up
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of the prior photograph.
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photographs were taken this morning.
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that that business name is Lewis Autos Sales and
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Salvage.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
This was taken -- these This documents
Exhibit 5 is a blow up of a
business located at 227 Ocean Highway.
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
If I may, what exhibit number
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was just -- the first photo?
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MS. KNOTTS:
Four.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
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present to the Board.
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the public records of the Brunswick County Health
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Department.
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signed an application for an improvement permit for a
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septic system on September the 4th, 2002.
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signed the document.
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authorized agent he covenants that the contents of the
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application are true and represents the maximum
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facilities to be placed on the property.
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that the permit may be revoked if the site plan or the
Exhibit 6 I would like to It's a couple of documents from
At 227 Ocean Highway, East Mr. Lewis
And he
And as the owner or as
I understand
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intended use is changed.
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commercial business for auto parts, indoors for four
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employees.
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This application was for a
In with this package is the improvement permit
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that was issued by the health department on November
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the 21st of 2002, and the authorization for waste
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water construction permit.
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gallon septic tank and a waste water system that would
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serve four commercial employees was granted.
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At this time a 1,000
That's
Exhibit 6.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 6 is an Improvement
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Permit from Brunswick County Health Department for a
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septic tank.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Exhibit 7 that I will present
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to the Board is from the public records of the
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Brunswick County Tax Department showing that the
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address of 227 Ocean Highway, East is a one-story auto
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parts facility.
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tax department and it shows that there is a half bath,
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no bedrooms in that facility.
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document in this package is also a Brunswick County
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Notice of Decision by the Board of Equalization and
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Review to deny his request for lower -- lowering the
This is the property card out of the
In addition with this
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tax valuation of the property.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 7 is the tax
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information for 227 Ocean Highway, East with all the
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values and so on.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Mr. Chairman and Mr. Attorney,
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I have some other exhibits that I can present if
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they're warranted regarding other properties.
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point if I could be allowed a rebuttal after the other
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participants speak, and present that additional
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At this
evidence if necessary.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. SHAVER:
Sure.
That's fine.
Mr. Chairman, would
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it be all right if I asked him some questions of
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Mr. Lewis --
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. SHAVER:
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
MR. SHAVER:
When the filing period closed, did
you check to see who else had filed to run?
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I filed in early December of
2015 on the first day of filing.
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-- to clarify the record.
Mr. Lewis, when did you file as a candidate?
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Sure.
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
I did not come up to the Board
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know, public comment that Mike Forte had filed and
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Louie Lewis had filed.
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MR. SHAVER:
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At that time did you -- were you
familiar with Mr. Louie Lewis?
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
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MR. SHAVER:
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Yes, I was.
Did you know where he lived? I knew where he lived but I
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did not know that where he lived was not in District
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4.
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MR. SHAVER:
When did you come to believe he
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did not live in District 4?
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
That was in late January of
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2016 when I was approached and made aware that the
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address on Southport-Supply Road, 341 was not actually
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in District 4 but is in -- was located in District 3.
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I consulted county Republican leadership and at that
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time I was advised that it was too late to form any
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protest of candidacy because that date had expired on
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December the 31st, and that I should wait until after
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the election and see how the results go and if
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necessary, file a protest at that time.
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MR. SHAVER:
Thank you.
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MR. SHAVER:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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No. Mr. Boyd, do you have any
questions?
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
Not at this time.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Randy?
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MR. PELTON:
Yes, I do.
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confused.
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here.
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is 237 Ocean Highway, East.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
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MR. PELTON:
Mr. Lewis, I'm
We're dealing with two different addresses
One is number 227 Ocean Highway, East and one
Mr. Lewis --
And I will ask Mister -- and if
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you'll excuse me, I'll use first names.
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Louie later on.
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material you presented here today do you know the
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difference, which one is which?
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supposed to be a residence and then there's supposed
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to be a commercial operation and I'm not sure.
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seems to be some confusion which is which.
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But from your understanding from the
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Yes, sir.
There's obviously
There
There I can present
an additional exhibit to follow-up on --
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MR. PELTON:
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MR. ALAN LEWIS: --
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I'll ask
Thank you. your question.
I did some
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the discussions.
Mr. Lewis has in the past put that
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as his residency on prior filings.
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which is what; Exhibit 7?
This exhibit,
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MS. KNOTTS:
Eight.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS: -- 8, is a map of the Brunswick
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County GIS Department that shows the location of the
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adjacent residential building that is located at 237
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Ocean Highway --
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MR. PELTON:
Okay.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
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MR. PELTON:
-- East.
On Exhibit Number 3 there's a red
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roofed building behind the commercial building.
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would be this one here?
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
That
Yes, and the next photograph
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that you're going to see has a dot on that which shows
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that that is 237 Ocean Highway, East.
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MR. PELTON:
Okay.
This -- when I passed this
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this morning, I made a point of looking and it's a
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white brick house -- I'll call it a house -- with a
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red roof and then the buildings in the front are
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obviously the commercial buildings.
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know that Louie uses 237 as a mailing address, which
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is perfectly legal but --
And I bet -- I
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
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MR. PELTON:
And he has used --
I just want to make sure I
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understand which is which.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
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And he has also used 227 as a
mailing address.
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MR. PELTON:
Okay.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And backing up here for the
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court reporter, Exhibit 8 is a photograph that shows
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237 Ocean Highway, East.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
And Exhibit 9 will be a
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photograph that was taken this morning.
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photograph of the structure that's located at 237.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
And the next one I'll give you
is actually a larger version, Stuart.
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And Exhibit 9 is the enlarged
photograph of 237 Ocean Highway, East.
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This is a
MR. PELTON:
I'll correct myself.
This photo
shows a tan brick building, not white but --
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
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MR. PELTON: -- that shows you what you're going
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That's correct.
to see going by.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MS. KNOTTS:
This is Exhibit 9?
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Ten is simply a blow up of
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
I will testify also that I
nine.
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have been by that particular address very frequently,
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almost every evening for the last four or five months
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and have yet to see any evidence of any habitation at
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that address.
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Ocean Highway, East as well.
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obtained out of the public records of the Brunswick
The next exhibit has to do with 237 This information was
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County Tax Department.
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have his tax valuation reduced at 237 East Ocean
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Highway because he disagreed with the county's
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valuation.
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building and land at an excess of $265,000.
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Mr. Lewis believed that the fair market value of that
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address was $250,000 based on what he considered to be
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the market at that time.
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Mr. Lewis filed a request to
The county had it valued at, with the And
The minutes of the meeting show that the Board of
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Equalization and Review denied his request.
They did
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lower it a little bit but no where near the $250,000
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that was requested.
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submitted to the tax department mentions that it was
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built in 1970, has no plumbing, and is vacant.
And on the notes that were
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 11 is a 2015
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Revaluation Informal Decision Notice by the Brunswick
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County Tax Administration.
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
If I may for the record, I sat
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on the Board of Equalization and Review and I sat on
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this Board of Equalization and Review.
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stated for the record, I had no prior knowledge that
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any of this was going to be entered as evidence.
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if it looks like there's some sort of a collusion or
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something, that wasn't the case.
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of me knowing this.
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And as I
So
So this is the first
Thank you.
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Thank you, Mr. Williamson.
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And it's obvious that that action occurred well before
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the filing period even came around.
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has to do with 341 Southport Road.
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photograph showing the property address of 341.
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examination of the Brunswick County Commissioner and
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Board of Education District Map it became clear to me
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that that property is located in District 3.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
The next exhibit This is a Upon
Exhibit 12 is a photograph, a
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Google Earth photograph of 341 Southport-Supply Road,
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Southeast.
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card out of the Brunswick County Tax Department that
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provides the documentation and information of the
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residence that is located at 341.
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(EXHIBIT 13 WAS MARKED FOR IDENTIFICATION)
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Here is a broad view of the
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address 341 Southport-Supply Road.
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exhibit is a blow up of that address.
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MR. PELTON:
And my follow-up
Mr. Chairman, the exhibit with the
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picture of 341 or 3 whatever the correct number is, I
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know there's some discrepancy in that, what is -- what
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is this exhibit?
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CHAIRMAN SMITH: now --
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MR. PELTON:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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We're up to Exhibit 14 and 15
Okay. -- which are both photographs
of 341?
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
341 --
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
341 --
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
-- Southport-Supply Road.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
-- Southport-Supply Road.
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MR. SHAVER:
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Was the tax property card
introduced?
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
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MR. SHAVER:
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
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MR. SHAVER:
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So that is Exhibit 13? That is correct.
Fourteen's a broad-view photograph
of 341 Southport Road and 15's another photograph?
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
The tax record here says 431.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
That's correct.
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Sara about that.
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of digits as well.
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431.
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I talked with
There was a problem with transposing The correct address is 341 not
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
Thank you.
So the
voter registration that says 431 is really 341?
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MS. KNOTTS:
We entered it differently than it
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was listed on that registration document.
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the registration form.
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MR. PELTON:
Just a typo?
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MS. KNOTTS:
I'm assuming it was human error in
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the office typing the number in.
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Let me find
MR. PELTON:
Being dyslexic I have a lot of
sympathy for that.
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
If I may, how many residences
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are there in your opinion on Southport-Supply Road
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341?
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residence on that parcel.
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
Okay.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
There's another parcel behind
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that address which is Mr. Lewis's daughter's address.
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MS. KNOTTS:
And just to clarify, after you and
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I spoke about that, I believe that -- there's a small
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side road there and that address is listed on that
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side road.
435 Kayanna.
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MR. PELTON:
That's the house --
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MS. KNOTTS:
That's the property that's behind
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the --
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MR. PELTON:
The one with the swimming pool?
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
That's correct.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
I'll again just wrap up my
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initial comments as it addresses the 341 address.
I
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would like to testify of personal knowledge.
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the attorney asked me when I became aware of where
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Mr. Lewis lived, and when that was -- if that was
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located in District 4 or outside of District 4.
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would like the Board to know that last summer I was
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looking at purchasing a farm -- a garden tractor and I
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had heard that Mr. Lewis, Louie Lewis had some used
Again,
I
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tractors for sale.
So I had his cell phone number.
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called him and asked him if he had some used tractors
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and he said yes.
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could view the tractors, and he said don't you know
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where I stay.
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exactly where you stay.
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that I met him at 341 Southport-Supply Road, at which
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time he came out of the house and we discussed and
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talked about the possible purchase of a tractor.
And I said -- asked him where I
And I said, no, sir, I'm not sure And he gave me the directions
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
When was that?
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
This was in late summer of
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
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2015.
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Boyd?
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Any further questions
Randy? MR. PELTON:
I have a question and I'm not
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sure, perhaps Boyd can help me with this because
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you're more familiar with these things.
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document that appealed -- Mr. Alan Lewis had mentioned
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there was a statement in here about not having
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plumbing at the address.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
On this
Where would that be in that?
It's on the front,
highlighted.
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MR. PELTON:
Okay.
In the handwritten note on Page 21
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the front then?
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
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MR. PELTON:
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
Whose handwriting would that
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The tax department told me
5
That's correct.
Okay.
be?
6 7
that it had to be Mr. Lewis's because it wasn't
8
theirs.
9
MR. WILLIAMSON:
10 11
MR. PELTON:
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
I'll affirm but I'm going to
tell you the truth.
16 17
We'll call Mr. Louie Lewis,
and if you'd like to come up and I'll swear you in.
14 15
I have nothing further at this
time.
12 13
Okay.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
WHEREUPON,
18
LOUIE LEWIS, was duly affirmed by Chairman Smith.
19
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
First of all the plumbing is
20
correct.
Temporarily I was out, the plumbing was out.
21
But if you'll go check, the plumbing's all back in
22
now.
23
plumbing -- somebody stole some of my plumbing.
That was correct when I talked to you, the
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That's correct.
2
correct.
3
I was out of it temporarily.
That's
But I've -- I got the rules and regulations.
4
This was thought about before the primary.
You
5
brought it up.
6
brought it before the people to talk about.
7
didn't you do this all before the primary and we
8
wouldn't have been through this.
9
some money if what you're saying is true.
You didn't bring it to me but you Why
I could have saved Because you
10
knew where I lived before if you -- because you just
11
testified you come over to where I was at.
12 13
MR. SHAVER:
Mr. Lewis, you need to address the
Board.
14
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
15
MR. SHAVER:
16
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Okay, okay.
Sorry. You knew where I was at and
17
you thought about doing this before the primary but
18
for some reason -- and the only question I got is why
19
didn't you do it before the primary.
20
question for you and the Board.
21
a, it would have saved a lot of us trouble and I
22
wouldn't have caused Mr. Mike to get elected.
23
anyway I stay -- I built this house in 1970.
That's my
If you would of had
But I guess, Page 23
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I guess I was supposed to bring today -- this is just
2
--
3 4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
What house are we talking
about?
5
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
We'll talk about -- well,
6
actually it's 237 is the correct address for my
7
residence, 237.
8
on some of what he said.
9
at, the red top house that you've seen this morning.
The office is 227.
10
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
11
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
And he's correct
237 is where the house is
And that's where you say -That's where -- is my primary
12
residence because in reading the rules and
13
regulations -- I got them from Ms. Sara because I want
14
to make sure I was on the good ground when I filed,
15
and it had already been talked about being protested.
16
But why he didn't I don't know.
17
here "163-57 Residence defined for registration and
18
voting.", if you got a copy of this.
19
place that considered the residence of person in which
20
that person's habitation is fixed to which whatever
21
that person's absent, the person has intentions of
22
returning.
23
And this here right
Number 1.
A
I'm not a good politician, so if I get excited, Page 24 IMO:
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don't worry about it.
And down there number 2.
2
person shall not be considered to have lost that
3
person's residence if that person leaves home and goes
4
to another state, county, (INAUDIBLE), precinct, ward
5
or other election district of this state for temporary
6
purposes only with intentions of returning.
7
been my primary.
8
blessed.
9
about that.
And I got third and fourth.
10
got a list.
I'm blessed.
11
you a few.
12
because like I say, I'm not a politician.
13
for a living.
I got secondary homes.
A
This has
I'm
My secondary is on the river where he said In fact I
This is just -- I'll give
And I probably won't be able to remember I just work
14
This is just -- Exhibit 1 is just a few
15
signatures of people who know where I live for the
16
last 50 years.
17
houses that I happen to pay taxes on in Brunswick
18
County.
19
Let's see.
Exhibit 2 is just a few lists of the
He's presented a real good case.
20
He's nearly convinced me.
Well, I'm not supposed to
21
say that.
22
Three is a registration card of -- this is a truck
23
that's -- it's listed under Supply but it's still
Exhibit -- what, did I give you two so far?
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237.
2
had a mailbox at 341, never no mail coming.
3
I've been blessed.
4
whatever exhibit you want to put on it, for a
5
trailer.
6
to.
7
All my mail goes to 237 Ocean Highway.
I never Of course
And here's a registration card,
There's one bank statement where it comes
And by the way, I couldn't bring the insurance
8
policy.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
My
9
insurance has elapsed and I got a 200,000 dollar loan
10
on a house and the bank had let it slip for years.
11
They got a home equity loan on that piece of property
12
at First Bank.
13
And I'm trying to get it renewed now.
14
where my First Bank -- there's the thing from my First
15
Bank.
16
No.
At First Citizens for $200,000. And there's
There's one for BB&T.
If you can't establish a residence in 50 years, I
17
don't know how long it will take.
18
license.
19
house.
20
there's a light bill.
21
turned off.
22
this thing real good before I went up and filed.
23
There's my driver's
And yes, temporarily I was out of that
Yes, sir.
I don't know what that is.
Oh,
The lights had never been
Of course, this is where -- I studied
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Road to make sure I was going to be in the right
2
district in case I had to move.
3
That house on Governors Road, I purchased it just to
4
make sure and I was going move up there if I had to.
5
But come to find out the house I had where I was
6
living was -- it was already in District 4, so I
7
didn't have to move to Governors Road.
I did do that too.
8
I tried to -- because I didn't like what went on
9
when our commissioners went and purchased a three and
10
a half million dollar tract of land, and it got me
11
stirred up a little bit.
12
this stuff but anyway, and so I decided if I could
13
make any change, I was willing to serve the people.
14
And I had to run.
15
my name down to serve, and I was willing to serve.
16
But I left it in the good Lord's hands and he decided
17
Mr. Mike would be the best, so he appointed him.
18
I was too young to mess with
In other words, I didn't -- I put
But anyway, we're here to establish where the
19
primary residence is.
And I'm -- I'm glad I got you
20
fellows a job.
21
requirements.
22
the election rules and regulations.
23
may have and actual abode, residence in one place, and
But I read all -- I read the And here's another one on -- this is on It says a person
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his permanent established home dominically (sic) in
2
another.
3
person intends to return.
4
persons have one domonical for voting purposes.
5
answer your questions now.
6
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
A dominical (sic) is the place in which the The law records (sic) all I'll
Let me start here for the
7
court reporter's benefit, Exhibit 16A is a petition
8
that apparently Mr. Louie Lewis had that his primary
9
address has been maintained for 50 years at 237 Ocean
10
Highway, East.
11
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
I could have got some more
12
signatures.
13
wanted a few to show you.
14 15
I just didn't take time to do it.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
It's got some signatures on
it. 16B, I guess, is a continuation of the same thing.
16
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Yeah, yeah.
17
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And 16C is --
18
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
19
I just
I got --
I made some more and didn't
even get a chance to bring it.
20
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- more of the same petition.
21
Seventeen is a basic search of the tax records for
22
Brunswick County concerning 237 Ocean Highway, East.
23
MS. KNOTTS:
It's a stack of multiple records. Page 28
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MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
2
didn't bring them all.
3
of them.
4
MS. KNOTTS:
That's just some more.
The girls just run off a few
I believe that's the properties
5
that Mr. Lewis said he owns.
6
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
7
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Paying taxes on them.
8
MR. WILLIAMSON:
That's not all of them.
9
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
16
MS. KNOTTS:
Vehicle registration.
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
-- driver's license.
Vehicle registration which
shows an address of 237 Ocean Highway, East.
20
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
That's correct.
It used to
be route 223 but they changed it over the years.
22 23
I got a picture of my
That's a registration card.
17
21
Exhibit 18 is a copy of his
driver's license --
15
19
No.
North Carolina --
13 14
Is this all the properties --
That's not all of them.
10
12
I
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Nineteen is another
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showing an address of 237 Ocean Highway, East.
2
Exhibit 20 is a check --
3
MS. KNOTTS:
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Deposit slip. First Bank deposit slip
5
showing Mr. Lewis's address as 237 Ocean Highway,
6
East.
7
2-10-16 from First Bank with an address of 237 Ocean
8
Highway, East.
9
Louie A. Lewis, Sr. on it with an address of 237 Ocean
Here we have -- 21 is a bank statement dated
Exhibit 22 is a check with the name of
10
Highway, East.
And 23 is a driver's license which
11
shows for Louie Al Lewis at 27 Ocean Highway, East.
12
It was issued 4-9-2015.
13
representative showing Louie A. Lewis at 237 Ocean
14
Highway East.
And also a copy of a sales
15
And a copy of an electric bill from Brunswick
16
Electric, Exhibit 24, for Louie A. Lewis, Sr., 237
17
Ocean Highway, East showing a electric bill for --
18
let's see the...I was looking for the time period.
19
Service from 2-29-16 to 3-30-16 in the amount of
20
$34.37.
21
Boyd, do you have any questions?
22 23
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I have a couple.
Mr. Lewis,
have you been aware all along that the property at 341 Page 30 IMO:
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was in District --
2
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
3
MR. WILLIAMSON: -- Commissioner District Number
4
I knew --
3?
5
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
6
MR. WILLIAMSON:
7
Oh, sure.
Yeah, I knew that. And you knew that from the
beginning?
8
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
9
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Yes, sir. Okay.
Is your contention that
10
regardless of what the 237 or the 227, your point is
11
that your business is conducted based on all your
12
exhibits, your business is conducted out of your
13
office off of your desk at the location at 227 --
14
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
15
MR. WILLIAMSON:
16
business is conducted?
17
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
18
MR. WILLIAMSON:
227 is the office. Right.
Yeah.
That's where all your
237's the house.
And one final question.
I
19
thank you.
When -- at the end of the day -- and I
20
know you have a lot of long days because you get up
21
early and you go to bed late and you're probably one
22
of the hardest working people in Brunswick County.
23
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after you toiled all day where do you go?
2
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, I have slept on -- at
3
the secondary and at the primary.
4
same place every night.
5 6
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I don't sleep the
Secondary or primary.
Where --
7
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
8
MR. WILLIAMSON:
9
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Most, most of the time --- address. On the river.
Most of the
10
time I stay over on the river.
11
maintain my primary for this reason for the last 50
12
years.
13
are the rules and regulations I didn't find anywhere
14
that said to tell you where you have to sleep.
15 16
I sleep there when I want to.
MR. WILLIAMSON:
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
18
341 Ocean Highway.
19
do, yes, sir.
20 21
And in these
That's just a
Thank you.
A lot of the times I go to
I mean Supply -- a lot of times I
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Thank you, sir.
Thank you,
Mr. Lewis.
22 23
I understand.
question for my clarification.
17
Most of the time but I
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
I'd like a clarification here.
Go out of order here a second.
You said on the Page 32
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river.
2 3
What address is on the river?
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
That's 341.
That a secondary
home.
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
5
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
Any other questions?
I have a question for Sara.
Sara,
6
Mr. Lewis has testified that 227 Ocean Highway, East
7
is his office.
8
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
9
MR. PELTON:
That's correct.
If that is -- and that is where
10
his registration has him placed.
11
address.
12
it's a commercial address?
13 14
Is there an issue with the registration if
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
MR. PELTON:
16
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
17
MR. PELTON:
Well, you know --- do what you want to but --
--- we keep bouncing around 237,
227 --
19 20
That was a error on my part.
I mean --
15
18
That is a commercial
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Okay.
Do what you need to
do --
21
MR. PELTON:
-- and, you know, I'm just
22
curious.
All of your business mail goes to 237 which
23
is the house and not the office? Page 33 IMO:
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MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
and that's where the tax bills come.
3 4
You got it all there, sir,
MR. PELTON:
That -- I'm confused by that.
Just simple old me.
5
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
It confused me over the years
6
with two address -- the mailbox sets right together.
7
The places set right together.
8 9
MR. PELTON:
You know, and I have a concern
that you actually registered to vote at Governors Road
10
and you've never lived there.
11
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
12
move up there if necessary.
13 14
MR. PELTON:
I was going -- I was going to
Going to doesn't cut it.
I'm
sorry.
15 16
That's another issue.
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, that's all right.
do it anyway you want to.
17
MR. PELTON:
You
I'm not going to argue.
Sara, do we know what the GIS
18
classification for 227 and 237 Ocean Highway, East
19
are?
20 21
MS. KNOTTS:
GIS, I've got tax records, which I
believe have already been submitted --
22
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
23
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MR. PELTON:
As far as we go from registrations
2
we go by GIS; do we not?
3
MS. KNOTTS:
Yes.
4
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
5
MS. KNOTTS:
Yes.
When we get records from
6
GIS, we don't necessarily receive information about
7
whether they're residential or business addresses.
8
MR. PELTON:
All right.
9
MS. KNOTTS:
We get from GIS what districts
10
they would be in, what precinct and how to assign them
11
to all of those districts.
12
out if they're business or residential.
13
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
14
MS. KNOTTS:
Uh-huh.
15
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
16
MR. PELTON:
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Thank you.
Do you have any other
I have nothing else at this time. I have a couple questions.
You state that your domicile is 237 --
20
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
21
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
22
All right.
questions?
17
19
We don't necessarily find
That's correct. Correct.
And that you've
lived there for 51 years?
23
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
That's correct.
Off and on. Page 35
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Not every day but I'm there every day but I lived
2
other places too.
3
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Domicile -- you have one
4
domicile and you keep that until you take up another
5
domicile.
6
your domicile for the last 51 years has been 237 --
And I think what you're saying here is that
7
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
9
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
10
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
11
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
12
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
That's correct. Okay. What I believe. What? That's what I believe anyway. Okay.
In 2006 your voter
13
registration says that you -- your domicile was 341
14
Southport-Supply Road.
15
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
I did vote in that residence
16
for one -- I got married a second time.
17
that as my secondary home and I did vote in that
18
residence.
19
In that's district.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
I established
I did.
And you kept that registration
20
from 2006 and actually you used that address to run
21
for office --
22
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
I think so --
23
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- in District 3 and for Page 36 IMO:
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sheriff --
2
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
3
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Yep. -- years later.
You didn't
4
change your voting address until 2015 from 4 -- from
5
341 Southport-Supply Road to the 227, and you're
6
saying that was a mistake.
7
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
You really meant it to be the
10
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Yes, I think that's correct.
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
9
I think I --
237.
I guess I have a concern on
12
that, that you signed a voter registration form which
13
says you recognize that misstating something on that
14
form could be a class one felony.
15
telling us that that really wasn't your domicile.
16
that correct?
17 18
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
And now you're Is
Telling -- telling you what
weren't my real address?
19
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
That your 431 Southport-Supply
20
Highway was not your domicile when you ran for those
21
offices?
22 23
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
It was at that time but I
went back to the 237 there for when I -Page 37 IMO:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
years your domicile has been at 227 --
3
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
4
residence.
5
since then.
6 7
it.
I have maintained that
I have maintained that house and residence That's right.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
8 9
But you just told the last 51
I understand you've maintained
The question is where your domicile is. MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, I don't know.
I lived
there part time and part time the other place, so I
10
live in both places.
11
place.
12
for -- I stayed at both places and I slept other
13
places too.
14
I didn't stay there at one
I didn't have but stayed at one place and then
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
But what you told the Board of
15
Elections and signed on your voter registration form
16
was that you for --
17 18
MR. LOUIE LEWIS: about now?
19 20
Which period are you talking
When I filed the commissioner's --
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
2006 until 2015 your voter
registration was 341 Southport-Supply Highway.
21
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Okay.
When I -- when I
22
turned around and filed for the commissioner, I
23
changed it back.
I changed my address back.
I mean I Page 38
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went back.
2
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
I understand you changed it.
3
But you're also telling us that your domicile for 51
4
years was 237.
5
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, I don't know.
It
6
maybe, maybe it's just confusion in there but I had
7
both places.
8 9
I've lived at both places.
CHAIRMAN SMITH: domicile.
But you can only have one
And you --
10
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, you got one --
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
-- keep one domicile --
12
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
-- that's one.
And you got a
13
primary and a secondary as I understand it.
14
understand it you got a primary and a secondary; is
15
that correct?
16
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
17
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
19
If I
No. Is that correct? There is one domicile and
only one domicile.
20
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, let's go back to this
21
other one.
It has primary.
It says you can leave if
22
your intention is to return.
23
intended to return to that address.
Well, I've always Now that's what Page 39
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that has.
2 3
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
You have always intended to
return to --
4
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
5
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- 237?
6
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
7
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
That's
So that was your domicile the
entire time?
10
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
12
-- Ocean Highway.
right.
8 9
To 237 --
Do what now? That was your domicile the
entire time --
13
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- because that's where you
15
intended to return?
16 17
Well --
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Sure, I have.
Yeah, sure I
intended to.
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Then when you ran for office
19
in 2006 and 2007, you didn't really live where you
20
said you lived?
21
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, according to what
22
you're saying I could have stated it wrong.
23
have stated it wrong.
Could
It's possible. Page 40
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
2
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Mr. Chairman, may I make a
3
comment?
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Yes.
5
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
For a clarification to the
6
record, according to my investigations Mr. Lewis filed
7
in 2006 in the Democratic primary for county
8
commissioner against Marion Davis.
9
primary, his residence address listed as 341
He had his
10
Southport-Supply Road.
11
District 2 county commissioner when he lived in
12
District 3.
13
establish a pattern for the Board.
14
And he ran in the primary for
The purpose for this information is to
I would also like to submit an additional
15
exhibit.
16
changes by elected officials, Coates' Canons.
17
I've got these paragraphs highlighted.
18
foremost everyone -- everybody has one and only one
19
residence for voting present -- voting purposes.
20
may own and spend time at two or more houses, but only
21
one can be your voting residence.
22 23
This is -- this came out of residency And
First and
"You
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affirmatively change it to a new residence."
The
2
state supreme court has ruled versus -- in the case
3
Lloyd versus Babb, 296NC416, 449 in 1979 as that court
4
put it, a person acquires a new residence for voting
5
purposes when he, 1, has abandoned his prior home; has
6
a present intention to make that place his home; and
7
has no intention to leave that place.
8
In Farnsworth versus Jones, 114, North Carolina
9
Court of Appeals 182, 189 in 1994 your intent counts
10
predominantly.
11
than expression of intent.
12 13
Conduct is of greater evidential value
I would like to submit this document as an additional exhibit.
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 25 is Residency
15
Changes by Elected Officials.
16
Joyce.
17
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The author was Robert
I would like to point out also
18
he claimed 237 was his address in 2016.
That's in
19
District 4 and again was running for primary in
20
District 2 county commissioner.
21
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Any further comments, Boyd?
22
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I got one question for Sara.
23
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you have to have declaration of your residence?
2
other words -- do you understand my question?
3
MS. KNOTTS:
Yes.
I think so.
In
An individual
4
can update their registration address on the same day
5
that they file for office.
6
they live in the district or jurisdiction that they're
7
running for and be eligible to vote, so that would be
8
30 days before the election.
9
before then, so theoretically somebody could come in
The requirement is that
Of course filing is much
10
the day they file, and it has happened, and update
11
their address and then file for office.
12
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Thank you.
13
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Randy, anything else?
14
MR. PELTON:
15
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
16
couldn't find a minute ago.
17
do a voter registration application, at the bottom you
18
sign it and there is a warning beside it that says if
19
you sign this form and know it to be false, you can be
20
convicted of a class one felony.
21
Okay.
Not at this time. I guess I'll go back to what I I'll just read.
When you
Do we have any other -- anybody else that
22
would like to testify today?
Mr. Forte, if you would
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MR. WILLIAMSON: WHEREUPON,
3 4
Thank you, Mr. Lewis.
MICHAEL FORTE, was duly sworn by Chairman Smith.
5
MR. FORTE:
Okay.
Sixteen exhibits, wow.
If
6
you worked this hard, Alan, during the election, you'd
7
of won.
8
going to kill any more trees.
9
contention of this whole protest seems to hinge on
10
where Mr. Lewis, Louie Lewis -- can I just go with
11
Louie and Allan?
I have no exhibits.
12
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
13
MR. FORTE:
14
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
15
MR. FORTE:
I got nothing.
I'm not
You got enough.
The
Louie is good with me.
Alan, are you fine with that? Of course, Mike.
When we were here two weeks ago,
16
Alan had said to me right out here that -- and this is
17
a quote, "I just want a fair shake and I don't think I
18
got it."
19
True?
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
20
MR. FORTE:
True.
Okay.
I can't understand that for
21
the life of me.
He had the exact same chance to win
22
this election as Louie or myself.
23
four to one.
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but I'm sure it was by even more than that.
2
over a thousand signs, billboards, the 4 by 8s to my
3
500.
4
the support of nearly every elected official in the
5
county.
6
1970 and 2001.
7
live in December when he filed and where does he live
8
now.
9
lay his head at night.
10
I have no idea how many Louie put out.
He had
He had
And he's giving you documents from, like, Who gives a damn.
It's where did he
And it's where his primary is.
Where does he
Alan should have just plain worked harder.
He
11
wasn't at -- he was never at any of the polling places
12
during early election.
13
day.
14
than 500 votes, he would have probably won.
15
This position wasn't a birthright because you were
16
born here.
17
and before early voting I spent my days in Wal-Mart
18
shaking hands with people every day seven, eight hours
19
a day to introduce myself.
20
Southport, that's what I did.
He wasn't out there primary
Had he worked harder, I mean we're talking less
Okay.
I worked hard.
Okay.
Before the primary
Whether it was Leland or He didn't.
Okay.
21
If we're going to worry about him using a
22
business address as to his residential address, well
23
then we need to be consistent.
Pat Sykes used her Page 45
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business address as well when she filed.
2
her business and her home are both in the district, so
3
I don't think it's a big deal.
4
her business address when she filed.
5
Okay.
Now, both
But she did use
If we want to go by what's right, his driver's
6
license, a state issued document, has 237 as his
7
address.
8
known Louie for decades, and they all know that his
9
house is at 237 behind the used car lot.
10
Okay.
I have spoken to people that have
known him for years and years.
11
People have
Okay.
This is a very self-serving protest.
He did know
12
about this way back, could have said something then.
13
Louie might have been able to come in here in January
14
and said, oop, I kind of screwed up.
15
And but he didn't.
16
He could have said it to Louie.
I just hope that today we have the fortitude to
17
put this to bed.
18
election fair and square.
19
dignified race by all three of us.
20
nice clean race.
21
silliness.
22 23
Let's fix this.
It's gone on long enough.
I won the
It was a very clean and Everybody ran a
Let's not muddy the waters by
Let's move on.
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
And I'm done.
Mr. Chairman, I would like to
object to Mr. Forte's testimony.
It amounts to Page 46
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hearsay.
2
hard I worked during the election and what polls that
3
I worked and what I did not work and how often I went
4
to shake hands.
5
time to get out during the day as Mr. Forte does as
6
retired because I hold a full-time business and work
7
during the day.
8
me to get out during the days it took to shake hands.
9
But I would ask that this Board for the record
10
object -- I object to that testimony because it
11
amounts to hearsay.
12
He does not have personal knowledge of how
I will concede that I don't have the
And it was very, very difficult for
MR. PELTON:
Mr. Chairman, I took that comment
13
that, you know, what we're ruling on here today is not
14
necessarily how hard any of these gentlemen worked and
15
what their availability for campaigning was.
16
we're worried about is residency --
17
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
18
MR. PELTON:
19
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
What
The only question is --
-- for Mr. Lewis. -- where does Mr. Louie
20
Lewis -- where was his domicile on election day.
21
that's the only thing.
22
MR. PELTON:
23
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And
How hard people worked --
Right. -- doesn't enter into the Page 47
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equation.
2
today?
3
Anybody else that would like to testify
Sara, do you have some information for us?
MS. KNOTTS:
The only other thing that I have
4
that was not introduced -- and I'm sure Alan if he had
5
received it from me, would have introduced it.
6
tried to get electric bill records from Brunswick
7
Electric.
8
without a subpoena, so he requested that we issue a
9
subpoena for that, which we did.
Alan
They would not provide him with that
And so I just
10
thought that to make sure you have all the information
11
I want to introduce -- I need stickers.
12
is a summary of the last 12 months of electric usage
13
for three addresses.
What this is
What number are we on?
14
MS. MONROE:
Twenty-six.
15
MS. KNOTTS:
Number 26 is the record for 227
16
Ocean Highway, East.
17
utility history from 237 Ocean Highway, East.
18
will be the utility history from 431 Southport-Supply
19
Road.
20
MR. FORTE:
21
MS. KNOTTS: Sorry.
And 27 is going to be the And 28
341. 341.
You all got me confused
22
about it.
Well, this does say 431.
23
think there was a record for 341.
I don't
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 26 is the utility --
2
electric information for 227 Ocean Highway, East and
3
shows a reporting revenue of $163.02 from month 1 to
4
12; 13 through 24 is $160.38; 25 through 36 is
5
$159.46.
6
shows reporting revenue for month 1 through 12 is
7
$26.22; 13 through 24 is $26.04 and 25 through 36 is
8
$24.52.
9
Southport-Supply Road and reporting revenue is $213.98
10
for 1 through 12; $201.94 for month 13 through 24 and
11
$191.09 for month 25 through 36.
12
Exhibit 27 is for Ocean Highway 237 and that
And Exhibit 28 is 430 -- it says 431
Any other information for us?
13
MS. KNOTTS:
Not unless you have specific
14
questions, no, sir.
15
been brought up yet, I think part of the premise of
16
the protest was the vote margins and I don't believe
17
that it's been stated for the record, so maybe I will
18
just read the totals that everybody had after we
19
canvassed the votes for the March 15th primary.
20
Lewis received 6,911 votes.
21
2,819 votes and Mike Forte received 7,371 with Mike
22
Forte prevailing by 460 votes was the difference.
23
MR. PELTON:
It -- just because this has not
Alan
Louie Lewis received
Mr. Chairman, I have a couple of Page 49
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questions if I could, please.
2
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
3
MR. PELTON:
Yes.
In Mr. Lewis's, Alan Lewis's
4
original statement he indicated that he had spoken
5
with the leadership of the Republican party in
6
Brunswick County in January of some time.
7
wondering if I might call Mr. Agovino.
8
comment on that as chairman of the Brunswick County
9
Republican party or...
10
MR. AGOVINO:
No, sir.
I was
Do you have a
I remember the
11
conversation we had was at a -- was at a meet and
12
greet --
13 14
CHAIRMAN SMITH: WHEREUPON,
15 16
JOSEPH AGOVINO, was duly sworn by Chairman Smith.
17 18
Do we need to swear Joe in.
MR. AGOVINO:
The -- it was at a -- one of
Mr. Lewis's, Alan Lewis's meet and greets --
19
MR. PELTON:
20
MR. AGOVINO:
Uh-huh. -- at the senior center in
21
Shallotte.
He did mention the fact that he became
22
aware of the fact that Mr. Lewis was -- had the wrong
23
address or he was not living in the district or Page 50 IMO:
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changed his address at that particular time.
2
time I asked him, well why don't you do something
3
about it.
4
time for challenging had passed at that particular
5
time.
6
think, was the -- I don't remember the exact date but
7
I do remember the conversation.
8 9 10
At that
And he indicated that the time for -- the
And I guess it was in -- it was in January, I
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Well, from my previous
testimony I had stated that I became aware that where Louie lived was not in District 4 in January.
11
MR. AGOVINO:
Okay.
12
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Filing at the time for a
13
protest of candidacy residency expires 10 days after
14
the filing period which would have been December 31st.
15
So therefore, I couldn't -- I was too late to
16
challenge the residency at that time when it became
17
known to me.
18
MR. PELTON:
19
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
20
MR. PELTON:
December 21.
21
MS. KNOTTS:
And it's actually 10 business
22
The filing period closed on -The 21st.
days.
23
MR. AGOVINO:
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MR. PELTON:
No, thank you, sir.
I have one
2
other question for Mr. Shaver, please.
Reading the
3
decision that was in Exhibit 25, in Mr. Lewis's --
4
Louie Lewis's case he owns multiple residential
5
properties within the county.
6
understanding that even -- if he's spending time in
7
multiple properties, he has the option of saying which
8
one is his primary residence at a given point in time?
9
Is that -- am I correct in that or not?
Am I correct in
10
MR. SHAVER:
Well, he has a primary residence.
11
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
12
MR. SHAVER:
Whatever -- no matter how many
13
houses he owns, he has a primary residence.
14
MR. PELTON:
Uh-huh.
15
MR. SHAVER:
And his testimony as to what his
16
primary residence is and his intent to return
17
certainly gets accorded weight.
18
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
19
MR. SHAVER:
You also weigh conduct, actions,
20
other evidence.
You know, so if he says this is my
21
primary residence but he also says but most nights I
22
don't sleep there, I stay somewhere else, you have to
23
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exhibits and testimony from everyone to decide whether
2
you believe there's substantial evidence that the
3
address he listed as his primary address wasn't really
4
his primary address.
5
If you -- if you don't find substantial evidence
6
to convince you that it was not his primary address,
7
then the petition will be dismissed.
8
substantial evidence that his primary address is other
9
than the one he listed, then you have to move forward
If you find
10
with a conclusion as to further action in this.
11
at that point, and then we're pretty much at that
12
point to where what you would be doing is you would
13
have to find that there was a substantial irregularity
14
-- well, a substantial evidence of an irregularity in
15
the conduct of the election and that it was
16
sufficiently serious to cast doubt on the results.
17
you find those two things, then you're -- really at
18
this point your option is to send the decision to the
19
State Board for them to decide the proper measure to
20
remedy the situation.
21
MR. PELTON:
22
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
23
Okay.
And
If
Thank you.
I understood, Sara, that there
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237 Ocean Highway was habitat (sic).
2 3
MS. KNOTTS:
Mr. Alan Lewis did submit that.
It was the re-val.
4
MR. WILLIAMSON:
5
MS. KNOTTS:
Uninhabitable.
Uninhabitable, yes.
It was the
6
information from the Board of Equalization and
7
Review.
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
It stated that 237 Ocean
9
Highway was uninhabitable?
10
MR. SHAVER:
It said it lacked plumbing.
11
MS. KNOTTS:
Lacked plumbing.
12
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
13
At that time it did but it
does now.
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
As I follow the chain here, I
15
guess you have a domicile, a single domicile until you
16
establish new domicile.
17
voter registration information says that Mr. Louie
18
Lewis said that his domicile was at 341 Southport-
19
Supply Highway.
20
Governor's Road just two months before filing and then
21
two days before filing ended he changed his voter
22
registration again to 227 Ocean Highway which he
23
stated he really meant that to be 237 Ocean Highway.
For a number of years the
He changed that when he -- first at
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We have some tax records here that -- if I understand
2
it, claim that 237 Ocean Highway had some habital --
3
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Uninhabitable.
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Was uninhabitable.
We also
5
have some electric bills which say that for 10 years
6
the average electric -- the average electric bill
7
there was $26 and some cents.
8
341 Supply -- Southport-Supply was significantly
9
greater.
10
The electric bill at
I personally have a significant question
about living at 237 Ocean Highway.
11
MR. WILLIAMSON:
As far as the tax record
12
Mr. Lewis indicated on two or three occasions here
13
today that it was a temporary situation, so as far as
14
I'm concerned I can't say that it was like that for
15
six months or six years.
16
they removed -- somebody had vandalized and came in
17
and removed some stuff.
18
weight to that.
19
could -- that carries greater weight than a
20
temporary -- a house that is temporarily uninhabitable
21
in my opinion but...
22 23
I do recall him saying that
But I don't put a lot of
But the electric bill, you know, I
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Let me -- you being an expert
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and asks for a reduction in assessment, is that
2
because of a temporary situation or a permanent
3
situation?
4
MR. WILLIAMSON:
5
asking for relief based on the condition of the
6
property January 1st of the year that they're
7
appealing it, that situation could be overcome,
8
corrected and the assessment could be increased
9
probably through a building permit or some electrical
10
or air condition -- heat and air-conditioning permit
11
that he would get from the building inspections
12
department.
13
when he goes and gets a permit, that becomes apart of
14
the record and then the reduction is changed, so yes.
15
It could be short term or it could be long term.
16
could be, you know, overcoming a mechanical
17
situation.
18
like, you know, somebody testifying that their whole
19
house is covered in mold or something.
It could very well be.
If they're
So he's got a temporary situation if and
It
The structure's probably not -- nothing
20
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
21
MR. PELTON:
Randy?
Just for the record,
22
Mr. Williamson is a retired director of -- what do you
23
-- what was it?
That's why Stuart referred you as an Page 56
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expert in that area.
2
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I guess so.
Yeah, I spent 30
3
years in the county tax office, 25 as a tax assessor.
4
And again, I do serve on the Board of Equalization and
5
Review and recall many conversations with Mr. Louie
6
Lewis about his property.
7
whatever evidence was gathered was unbeknownst to me.
8
I wasn't a party to either side of gathering the
9
evidence or discriminating information, so I just want
10
And again, I -- you know,
to clarify that again, please.
11
MR. PELTON:
But that's --
I don't think anybody thinks
12
that's an issue here.
13
MR. WILLIAMSON:
14
MR. PELTON:
Thank you.
Personally, Mr. Lewis, I would
15
encourage you very, very strongly to please clarify
16
with the Board of Elections where your residence is.
17
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
18
MR. PELTON:
19
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
20
Well, you know... According to my -- according
to the rules and regulations --
21
MR. PELTON:
22
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
23
It's right where I told you.
Okay. -- it's still my primary
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MR. PELTON:
Saying this is cloudy at best is
probably being kind so...
3
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
If this had all been
4
clarified before the primary, we wouldn't even be here
5
today --
6
MR. PELTON:
7
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
8
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
9
No, we wouldn't. -- and he had plenty of time. Could I address that?
And I
addressed that in my opening remarks.
10
MR. PELTON:
11
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
12
primary was March 15.
13
when I only discovered it in January because the
14
deadline for filing a candidacy residency protest was
15
ten business days after the filing period.
16
know of that where he lived was in fact in District 3
17
and not in District 4 until January.
18
not bring it up before the primary.
19
availability for me to bring it up before the primary.
20 21
Uh-huh.
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Before the primary -- the I had no avenue to address this
I didn't
That's why I did There was no
You stated that you come to
my house and you knew where I lived.
22
MR. SHAVER:
Mr. Lewis --
23
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Gentlemen, please address your Page 58
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comments through me.
2
MR. SHAVER:
Mr. Chairman, probably at this
3
point if there are further questions that the Board
4
has of any of the witnesses, I would ask them now or
5
otherwise consider that you've closed the evidentiary
6
portion of the hearing and receive no further comments
7
and then just begin your deliberation.
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
9
MS. KNOTTS:
Let me --
If I may --
10
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
11
MS. KNOTTS:
Yes.
-- just because this does kind of
12
touch on what was just said, just for clarification
13
purposes, the challenge to a candidacy law
14
specifically does state, and just so that you're fully
15
aware that this is what the law says, if defect
16
discovered after the deadline -- which was ten
17
business days -- protest is available.
18
challenger discovers one or more grounds for
19
challenging a candidate after the deadline in
20
Subsection A of this section, the grounds may be the
21
basis for a protest.
22
that that is the avenue that the law would have --
23
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
If a
I just wanted it to be clear
It would appear to me that Page 59
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this was the only course of action that Mr. Lewis,
2
Alan Lewis could take.
3
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I don't understand -- I
4
understand what she's saying.
5
you in agreement that he had no further course of
6
action after -- in January when he -- when he learned,
7
or he did have course of action?
8 9 10
CHAIRMAN SMITH: January.
He had no course of action in
His only course of action was after canvass
you have two days to challenge things.
11 12
Now you're saying are
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Okay.
Is that what you just
read to us?
13
MS. KNOTTS:
Yes.
Yes, after the deadline for
14
a challenge to a candidacy the other option is to file
15
a protest.
16
MR. WILLIAMSON:
17
MS. KNOTTS:
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
After canvass you've got two
MR. WILLIAMSON:
So that substantiates Mr. Alan
19
A protest when?
Which would be after the election.
days.
20 21
Lewis's statement that he had nowhere to go at the
22
time he learned the situation; correct?
23
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questions to answer and several possible ways to go.
2
The first is domicile of Mr. Lewis -- Alan -- I mean
3
Louie Lewis at 237 Ocean Highway or some place else.
4
The second part of it then would be to decide if it
5
made any difference if we determine he did not live in
6
District 4, did it make a difference in the election.
7
We also, according to the law, if I can find it here
8
--
9 10
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Have we concluded the
testimony phase of this?
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Yes.
12
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Okay.
Is that my
13
understanding, so we're moving to deliberation, so
14
there's no further testimony and no further comments
15
from -- okay, thank you.
16
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
17
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
18
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
19
got two goats to milk.
Do you need me anymore? What? Do you need me anymore?
20
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Go milk your goats.
21
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Thank you, Louie.
22
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
23
I
I'll see if I can find my way
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
The pertinent thing -- you
2
know, the two things that I get out of the law are the
3
protest should be dismissed because there is no
4
substantial evidence of a violation of the election
5
law or other irregularity, or misconduct.
6
is that there is substantial evidence to believe that
7
a violation of the election law or other irregularity
8
or misconduct did occur and that it was sufficiently
9
serious to cast doubt on the apparent results of the
10
The other
election.
11
If we conclude that, we may order any of the
12
following:
13
County's Board decision be sent to the State Board for
14
action by it.
15
determine what law is applicable to the findings of
16
fact, we can send our findings of fact to the State
17
Board for it to determine the applicable law.
18
And in this case that the protest and the
And the other is if we are unable to
(DISCUSSION OFF RECORD)
19
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
20
recess if that's okay.
21
MR. SHAVER:
22
We'd like to take a ten-minute
Yeah.
You can recess but your
deliberations need to stay in the open session.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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recess.
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questions?
We have returned from our
And, Mr. Boyd, any further discussion,
5
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Not at this time.
6
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Mr. Randy?
7
MR. PELTON:
8
have no more questions.
9
--
Are we into the deliberation -- I
10
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
11
MR. PELTON:
12
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
13
our path forward.
14
MR. PELTON:
Are we into deliberations or
Yes.
-- or just going to... Whatever we need to resolve
Let me say this, that Mr. Louie
15
Lewis's track record of residency and all of the
16
things that he's done involved filing for office in
17
the past is certainly cloudy at best in my mind.
18
I'm not sure exactly what his intentions were at any
19
particular point.
20
been the best way to approach it, I think Mr. Lewis --
So, you know, while it may not have
21
MR. SHAVER:
Which one?
22
MR. PELTON:
Louie Lewis.
23
And
Thank you.
You
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of his residency -- claimed his residency and his
2
mailing address in January when he filed for the
3
office.
4
use that as his residence, and I don't know that I can
5
argue with that a whole lot at this point.
6
it's certainly a gray cloudy area in my mind at best
7
but that's kind of where my head is at the moment.
He stated that that was his intent, was to
You know,
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Boyd?
9
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I think the -- I think the
10
evidence shows overwhelmingly that not many nights are
11
spent by anybody at 237 with a light bill of $20 a
12
month.
13
you file and you state the residence, have you met the
14
intent of the law to establish that you live somewhere
15
and that's where you live and that's what you call
16
home whether you spend a night there or not?
17
the other side of the equation.
18
unusual to have -- people in Washington, DC probably
19
don't spend three nights a year, three nights in a
20
year in their home district.
21
Georgetown or somewhere but --
My question to Sara was, is when you go in and
22
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
23
question is domicile.
That's
I know it's not
They all live in
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the
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establish a new domicile.
2
MR. PELTON:
Right.
3
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And it would appear, based on
4
what you said and my personal feeling, is that his
5
domicile certainly wasn't 237 Ocean Highway previous
6
to filing because of the electric bill and all the
7
other problems.
8
established that as his domicile.
9
is that he's claimed that for the last 51 years that's
10
his domicile when clearly he certainly wasn't sleeping
11
there much at all with an electric bill like he had.
12
He certainly told the Board of Elections on several
13
occasions and for a long time that his domicile was at
14
341?
He could have at filing time
15
MR. PELTON:
16
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
17
MS. KNOTTS:
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Where I am troubled
341 I guess. 341 Ocean Highway, Southport-
Southport-Supply. -- Supply Road.
And it would
19
appear that based on his running for office twice from
20
that address and things like that, that for a number
21
of years and the electric bill would seem to establish
22
that somebody was living there for a long time.
23
question, I think, would be did he truly move his
The
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domicile to 237 Ocean Highway or not.
2
opinion he -- that wasn't his domicile prior to filing
3
based on the electric bill there and the electric bill
4
for 341 Southport-Supply Road.
5
MR. PELTON:
But in my
I would agree with you.
I think
6
he's probably spending the majority of his time on the
7
Southport-Supply Road address, whether that's 431 or
8
341.
9
having two residency and is it illegal for him to
And I keep coming back though, to the line about
10
establish a primary domicile where he doesn't spend
11
most of his time.
12
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
13
MR. PELTON:
14
Yes.
Then you get into intent, and I --
you know, I guess --
15
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
16
determine intent.
17
multiple residences.
And that's our job to
There are a lot of people with
18
MR. PELTON:
Right.
19
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
You have one domicile.
You
20
may go some place else for many years as a matter of
21
fact --
22
MR. PELTON:
Uh-huh.
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return to a particular place --
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MR. PELTON:
3
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- then that is your domicile.
4
MR. PELTON:
5
intended to do.
Uh-huh.
Which is what Mr. Louie said he
That is part of his testimony.
6
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
7
MR. PELTON:
8
That he what?
He --
Intended to return to the Ocean
Highway address --
9
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Well, but he intended to
10
return there but what the information shows is he
11
never was there in the first place.
12
he was there but the utility bills and the other
13
information says that --
14
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
You know, he says
My question is and perhaps
15
Mr. Shaver can help us with this is, is that a
16
violation?
17
my primary domicile I intend to make 227 Ocean Highway
18
although I'm spending 9 out of 10 nights somewhere
19
else, his second residency?
20
I mean is it still legitimate to say that
MR. SHAVER:
You decide.
You will decide if
21
the facts support his expression of intent.
22
expressed his intent --
23
MR. PELTON:
He
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MR. SHAVER:
-- and that's certainly something
2
that you have to take into consideration and give
3
weight to.
4
really his, his residence.
But do all the facts support that that was
5
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
6
MR. SHAVER:
I believe he also testified that
7
he spent most of his nights at the river address.
8
MR. PELTON:
Correct.
Yeah.
9
MR. SHAVER:
So he's -- he says it's his
10
primary residence but he also says he doesn't spend
11
most of the nights there.
12
MR. WILLIAMSON:
So that's my dilemma.
I think
13
the greater weight of evidence is that he does not
14
stay there.
15
when he listed a place that he has called home for 50
16
years as being where he lived.
17
the law.
18
The question is did he do anything wrong
MR. SHAVER:
I mean in the eyes of
If he didn't live there, he wasn't
19
qualified to run as a candidate for office in that
20
district.
21
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
You have a domicile.
22
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I understand.
23
I understand.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
He could establish a new
2
domicile at 227 Ocean Highway.
But I have a hard time
3
saying that's where he intended.
4
domicile some time in the past and he intended to
5
return there based on a number of things; partly
6
utility bills and partly his filing with the voter
7
registration.
8
years said he lived on Southport-Supply Road and he
9
ran for office from there several times.
That that was his
Voter registration for a number of
10
MR. PELTON:
11
changing his primary --
12
filing to register -- register to vote there.
13 14
But that doesn't preclude him from
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
excuse me.
His domicile and
He could have decided to move
his domicile from there to 227 Ocean Highway --
15
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
16
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- and he filed a voter
17
registration to say that that's what he -- he wanted
18
his domicile to be.
I think then the question is --
19
MR. PELTON:
Does that comply with the law, I
20
guess is my question --
21
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And if it does the question is
22
has he really moved there.
23
that's his domicile.
Has he really established
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MR. PELTON:
Then you come to intent and what's
2
in the man's head.
3
the word that he's -- what he's testified here today
4
so...
5 6
I don't -- all I can do is taken
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Well, I have a hard time
believing that his domicile is 227 Ocean Highway.
7
MR. PELTON:
You know, I would have a hard time
8
believing that's his, quote, primary place of
9
residence.
I would agree with you.
But I guess my
10
question comes back to what is the legal -- and
11
perhaps Bob can help us with this -- the legal
12
definition of a domicile.
13
majority of your time or where --
14 15
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
MR. PELTON:
17
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
MR. PELTON:
20
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Uh-huh. And he can say he established
a new one if we believe he, he lives there.
22 23
But you establish one and you
keep it until you establish a new one.
19
21
-- where you intend to return
too.
16
18
Is it where you spend the
MR. PELTON:
The --
Well, whether or not we believe he
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sufficient to say that's my new domicile.
2
obviously owns the property.
3
there, you know.
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
He
There's no argument
Well, he has to establish it.
5
I'd like to see his electric bills again.
6
Particularly the electric bill for the last two
7
months.
8 9
MR. PELTON:
I wish my electric bills were that
low.
10 11
Did he live there the last two months?
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
end of December was zero.
12
MR. PELTON:
13
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
14
units.
15
and April 89.
16 17
Well, his usage up through the
Uh-huh. Okay.
January he used 11
February he used 2 units and March he used 56 At the same time --
MS. KNOTTS:
If I may, Stuart, I just want to
point out --
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Uh-huh.
19
MS. KNOTTS: -- that there are two sheets of
20
paper on Exhibit 27.
The first is the service
21
description is house.
The second is service
22
description shop.
23
Just --
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MS. KNOTTS: -- if there are two pieces of
2
paper, it's because there are two structures on the
3
property.
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
5
MS. KNOTTS:
6
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
Just so that you -Yeah, the shop -- the shop
7
used a good bit of power.
8
unit, February used 5, March used 5, April used 19.
9
The Southport-Supply address usage has been on the
10
order of 2,500 units.
11
1,602.
12
was 1,424.
13
Let's see.
February was 2,785.
Well, January was
March was 2,538 and April
So he's using a lot of power --
MR. PELTON:
It would be consistent with just
14
having an electric HVAC --
15
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
16
MR. PELTON:
17
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
18
But in January only used 1
Yeah.
-- system. And almost certainly he isn't
using any air conditioning or heating at 227.
19
MR. PELTON:
Well, not electric anyway.
20
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
21
MR. FORTE:
22
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
23
MR. SHAVER:
Yeah.
Can I ask Mr. Shaver a question?
No.
No. There is no -- going back to Page 72
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your question about --
2
MR. PELTON:
Uh-huh.
3
MR. SHAVER:
-- about residence, there's no
4
formula.
It's not a simple matter of do you spend
5
more nights one place than another.
6
statutory definition for what it is worth that says
7
the place considered the residence is that in which
8
the person's habitation is fixed and to which whenever
9
they are absent, they have the intent to return.
10
Habitation fixed, primary place you live and when
11
you're away, you intend to return and live there.
You have the
12
So you have a residence and for it to change you
13
abandon the one you are at and you intend to make the
14
new one your home and not leave.
15
back.
16
evidence you have before you between the expression of
17
intent and the other evidence of actual usage and
18
behavior.
19
substantial evidence one way or the other.
20
You intend to come
And so that's where you have to weigh the
And you will decide whether there is
Basically as you have seen this unfold and you
21
see what your choices are for findings and
22
conclusions, you know that if you believe that
23
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the ten business days after that Mr. Louie Lewis did
2
not live in the district, then he should have filed
3
the challenge to candidacy then and that this --
4
making this protest not timely.
5
testified, if you believe that he did not know within
6
that filing period, then his remedy was to file the
7
protest petition he filed.
However, if as he's
So that's one avenue.
8
Now, as far as the evidence today if you believe
9
that Alan Lewis in conjunction with all the testimony
10
and all the evidence you've heard today does not --
11
has not presented substantial evidence of an
12
irregularity in the election, then that would also
13
move to dismissal.
14
substantial evidence of an irregularity, namely that
15
Mr. Louie Lewis was not qualified to run in the
16
district and you find that there was -- that it caused
17
sufficient -- it was sufficiently serious to cast
18
doubt on the apparent results -- that's the language,
19
sufficiently serious to cast doubt on the apparent
20
results, then you would find that a violation occurred
21
and that you would likely then refer the decision to
22
the State Board.
23
about tabulation of votes that has been raised.
However, if you find that there's
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not about recounting.
2
about as much guidance as I can give about the
3
parameters of what you have in front of you and what
4
the law says about residency.
5
hard job of determining what you believe to be the
6
case, what you believe carries the day from all the
7
evidence in front of you as --
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
9
MR. SHAVER:
10
So, you know, that -- that's
And now you have the
And let me read --
-- the facts.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
-- something else here that
11
the State Port Pilot had that -- on domiciles that I
12
think they took from law cases if the reference was
13
correct.
14
must show an actual abandonment of the first domicile
15
coupled with no intent to return.
16
of a new domicile by actual residence with the intent
17
of making the new -- the newer residence a permanent
18
home.
And I think that came apparently from a court
19
case.
That isn't exactly what the law says but it's
20
from a court case.
21
To establish a change in domicile a person
MR. WILLIAMSON:
And the acquisition
Backing up just to something
22
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23
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said that nobody here -- nobody came to rebut that, so
2
I think for all intents and purposes we got to assume
3
that he didn't know before.
4
in and said they talked about it within ten days of
5
filing.
6 7
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
I think there was some
additional testimony that collaborated that.
8 9
Somebody could have come
MR. WILLIAMSON:
The other thing is and it's
been stated to me, not by any legal scholar but that
10
the fact that unless Mr. Lewis gave you an address
11
that was a vacant corn field, establishing intent is
12
almost impossible in law.
13
assumption?
14
MR. SHAVER:
Is that -- is that a fair
Well, no.
I mean you -- the first
15
evidence of intent is what he says his intent was.
16
But the second evidence is does conduct -- is conduct
17
consistent with that.
18
he listed things in his address.
19
Highway address he had a driver's license.
20
other evidence that suggests he didn't stay there that
21
much.
22
evidence and some of it could be used as supporting
23
the position.
And you have some evidence that In that 237 Ocean You have
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difficult as the fact finder to decide what you
2
believe the substantial weight of the evidence shows.
3
MR. PELTON:
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
5
It certainly isn't clear. Well, it's -- I think you
described it well in the beginning.
6
MR. PELTON:
Cloudy at best.
7
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Cloudy at best.
I think where
8
I come out on this though, is that for many years he
9
clearly told the Board of Elections at least that his
10
domicile was on --
11
MR. PELTON:
Southport --
12
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
13
MR. PELTON:
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Southport-Supply Road.
Uh-huh. And clearly from the electric
15
bills that would indicate that he spent a lot of time
16
there and I think his comment was he spent a lot of
17
time there.
18
MR. PELTON:
Uh-huh.
19
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
He certainly could have
20
decided to change his domicile to 237 Ocean Highway
21
when he filed --
22 23
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to Southport-Supply Road.
2
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
3
MR. PELTON:
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
5
Is that correct?
MR. PELTON:
He changed February 20th, 2006 is
his voter registration record change.
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
9
MR. PELTON:
10
Yeah.
So he'd been there for close to
ten years.
11 12
-- it was a long time ago
because 2006 he was using Supply --
6 7
If he was --
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Yep.
Close to ten years and
he ran for office twice using that address --
13
MR. PELTON:
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- so to me that established
15
Uh-huh.
his domicile as being there.
16
MR. PELTON:
17
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
18
there to 237 Ocean Highway.
19
electric bill at least certainly doesn't seem to
20
support that.
21
MR. PELTON:
Right. Did he move his domicile from And the utility bills,
Well, I guess, you know, just
22
looking at it from what we have the history in 2006 he
23
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Ocean Highway to the 341 Southport-Supply Road
2
address.
3
that as his primary address for voter registration
4
purposes until October of 2015 when he changed it to
5
Governors Road in Winnabow, although he did testify
6
that he never lived there.
7
pointed out before, you may have a potential violation
8
of election law there because for filing an incorrect
9
statement but that's not the issue here with us
And he continued to reside there with using
As you had correctly
10
today.
11
December 18th of 2015.
12
was his intent to use that as his domicile when he did
13
that in December.
14
the 227 by Louie Lewis's own testimony is the office,
15
his commercial address, not a residential address.
16
But you could argue 227, 237 is the same property I
17
guess.
18
Then again he changed to 227 Ocean Highway in He made the statement that it
Now, my concern is the fact that
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Well, I think the argument was
19
that he made a mistake on the address and he meant to
20
put 237.
21
MR. PELTON:
Yeah.
Okay.
Now, I guess my
22
question at this point is by doing the change of
23
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for office, to whether it was 227 or 37 it doesn't
2
matter I don't think, is that sufficient to comply
3
with the law to say that that's now his voting
4
domicile.
5
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Well, I think what he has to
6
do is establish -- we have to decide that he has made
7
that his domicile --
8 9 10
MR. PELTON:
Or he intended to.
think we've pretty well established that he hasn't physically moved there on a full-time basis --
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
12
MR. PELTON:
13
Because I
At least --
-- and that's not the argument I
guess.
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
No.
He -- well, I think what
15
the law says, and Bob can correct me, he had to be a
16
legitimate voter on election day --
17
MR. PELTON:
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
19
Uh-huh. -- at that address according
to --
20
MR. PELTON:
21
legitimate voter?
And what qualifies him to be a
22
CHAIRMAN SMITHER:
23
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That's his domicile.
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MS. KNOTTS:
2
interrupt.
3
purposes.
Excuse me.
I'm just going to
Thirty days is the residency for voting
4
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
5
MS. KNOTTS:
Thirty days prior to an election.
6
MR. PELTON:
Having filed; correct?
7
MS. KNOTTS:
Uh-huh.
8
MR. PELTON:
Right.
9
But, you know, how do we
define residency I guess is that point.
You know, is
10
it his intent to make that and just hasn't physically
11
moved in yet, or does he physically have to be there
12
even though you're in the process of making that the
13
new home.
14 15
A gray area at best.
MR. SHAVER:
Well, I don't think I could add
anything other than to read what I've already --
16
MR. PELTON:
Right.
17
MR. SHAVER:
-- sort of read.
If intent and
18
intent alone carries the day, I don't think you'd have
19
these challenges.
20
challenge and there has been a challenge.
21
decide was it really --
22 23
It may stand until there is a
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
So now you
Utility bills says he hasn't
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least.
2
but I'm not very happy with it personally is that we
3
can simply refer it to the State Board and let them
4
decide the law.
5 6
The other option that I think we might have
But I think --
MR. SHAVER:
But if you do that, you have to
find the facts.
7
MR. PELTON:
Right.
8
MR. SHAVER:
The way that reads is if you are
9
not able to determine what law is applicable to the
10
findings of fact, then you send it to the State
11
Board.
12
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
13
MR. SHAVER:
14
So at the least you need to
establish what you find to be the facts.
15 16
Yeah.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And again I think it's
preponderance of the evidence and our opinion.
17
MR. PELTON:
I guess in my opinion at the
18
moment, you know, as Mr. Louie Lewis had stated that
19
he intended to make 237 Ocean Highway his primary
20
domicile when he filed and changed his registration in
21
December.
22
of the most current electric bills.
23
Obviously he hasn't physically done that as
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Right. Page 82
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MR. PELTON:
Which may or may not mean his
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intent was misstated or just hasn't fulfilled that
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yet.
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hasn't done that, whether that's the -- his intent was
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to do it but he hasn't physically done it yet, whether
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that's sufficient in terms of actions to say that
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that's not really his domicile at 237 Ocean Highway.
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And I didn't -- I did not state that very well but it
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sounded better in my head than it came out of my
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And I don't know that that's -- the fact that he
mouth.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Boyd?
Go ahead.
Randy?
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
This is difficult at best I
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believe.
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was the tax assessor, that I was probably the most
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lied to man in the county.
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said one thing and turned around and did something
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else.
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then I knew I was the most lied to man in the county.
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I used to -- I used to tell people when I
Everybody'd come in and
I thought that until I became a magistrate,
I think that -- I think that Mr. Lewis has been
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less than forthcoming in his candidacy.
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his involvement in this situation has obviously had an
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effect on the outcome of the election.
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MR. PELTON:
I think that
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
And there's no way of knowing
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who would have won in a two-way race or whatever.
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name confusion, the number of votes, margin of
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difference, and it is for that reason that I make a
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motion that we move forward, approve the protest by
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Mr. Alan Lewis based on the evidence submitted, and
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Bob can give the jargon as to what had significant --
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had a material effect on the outcome of the election;
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is that right?
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MR. PELTON:
The
Do we need that in one motion or
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two?
Do we need to find that in fact the primary
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residence was not 237 at first, and then whether or
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not it had a -- is that a two-step process, Bob?
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MR. SHAVER:
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doesn't matter --
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MR. PELTON:
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
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Okay.
All right.
I'm finding both and that's my
motion.
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If you're finding them both, it
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Any discussion?
All in favor
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MR. PELTON:
Wait a minute.
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MR. PELTON:
Okay.
All right.
Go ahead. Page 84
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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(AYES RESPOND)
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. SHAVER:
All in favor?
Motion carries.
How about would you -- Mr. Chair,
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would you have the Board entertain another motion to
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ask me to draw the order and gives you the authority
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to sign an order consistent with the findings of
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evidence.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH: to do that.
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MR. PELTON:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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with helping us.
Thank you. So moved.
So moved. All in --
Aye. You are officially blessed
Thank you.
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MR. SHAVER:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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We would be very happy for you
You're welcome. I take it you'll prepare the
proper paperwork and then I need to sign it.
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MR. SHAVER:
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That is correct.
(COMMENTS OFF RECORD)
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Just to clarify, your intention is Page 85
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to send it to the State Board; correct?
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. SHAVER:
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case.
Yes.
That's our only option.
I thought -- I though that was the
I just wanted to make sure it was clear.
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
I make a motion to adjourn.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
We're adjourned.
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(Whereupon, the hearing was concluded
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at 11:05 p.m.)
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
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COUNTY OF BRUNSWICK
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CERTIFICATION OF REPORTER
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I, LAURA L. VAN SANDT, Notary Public and
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Court Reporter, have read the foregoing
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transcript, which was taken down and
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transcribed by me for the firm of AURELIA
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RUFFIN & ASSOCIATES, INC., and I find the
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contents of same to be true and correct, to the
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best of my knowledge and belief.
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I further certify that the above-named
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witness was duly sworn by me prior to the
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taking of the foregoing deposition.
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This the 11th day of May, 2016.
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_____________/S/____________
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Notary Public, #201401500140
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
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COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
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CERTIFICATION
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I, PETER B. RUFFIN, III, Notary Public, Court
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Reporter and President of AURELIA RUFFIN & ASSOCIATES,
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INC., do hereby certify that the foregoing transcript
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constitutes a true and correct record of the testimony
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of the Brunswick County Board of Elections Hearing,
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the same having been taken down and transcribed by
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LAURA L. VAN SANDT, Notary Public and Court Reporter
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for the firm of AURELIA RUFFIN & ASSOCIATES, INC., on
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the date and at the place set forth in the record and
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before those persons named therein;
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FURTHER, that we are not related to any of
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the Counsel; we are not employed by any of Counsel or
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parties to this action, save and except for the
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explicit purpose of taking down the testimony herein
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and transcribing same; and that we, in no way, are
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interested in the outcome of said litigation;
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FURTHER, that the original of this transcript
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will be found for filing with the State of North
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Carolina Superior Court, New Hanover County, and will
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Brunswick County Board of Elections, 75 Stamp Act
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Drive, NE, Bolivia, North Carolina for hand-delivery
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to the Court at the time of trial.
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THIS the 12th day of May, 2016.
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Notary Public, #19971470080
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Page 90 A a.m (1) 2:16 abandon (1) 73:13 abandoned (1) 42:5 abandonment... 75:14 able (3) 25:11 46:13 82:9 abode (1) 27:23 above-named ... 87:11 absent (2) 24:21 73:9 accorded (1) 52:17 acquires (1) 42:4 acquisition (1) 75:15 Act (2) 2:16 89:1 action (9) 17:13 53:10 60:1,6,7 60:8,9 62:14 88:16 actions (3) 41:23 52:19 83:6 actual (4) 27:23 73:17 75:14,16 add (1) 81:14 addition (1) 10:20 additional (6) 11:9 13:20 41:14 42:13 53:23 76:7 address (86) 3:13 6:4,8,20 7:3,6,9,11,15 7:17,19,21 8:2 8:9,20 10:17 12:14 14:22 15:5 16:4,7,16 17:16 18:6,7 19:8 20:4,4,7 20:16 21:20 IMO:
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agreement (1) 60:5 ahead (2) 83:11 84:23 air (2) 56:10 72:18 air-conditioni... 56:10 Al (1) 30:11 Alan (75) 1:6 3:6 5:7,10,14 5:18 6:19 8:9 8:11,18 9:3,13 10:14 11:5,18 11:22 12:5,7 12:12 13:10,19 13:22 14:5,10 14:14 15:1,4 15:10,15,19 16:3 17:12,23 18:5,17,19,23 19:2,6,23 20:3 20:13,15 21:11 21:18,21 22:2 22:6 41:2,5 42:17 44:6,13 44:14,16,19 45:10 46:22 48:4,5 49:19 50:3,18 51:8 51:12,19 54:2 58:8,11 60:2 60:20 61:2 73:23 74:9 84:6 Allan (1) 44:11 Allegiance (2) 5:4,5 allowed (1) 11:8 amount (1) 30:19 amounts (2) 46:23 47:11 announce (1) 6:14 answer (2) 28:5 61:1 anybody (4)
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changed (19) 7:2,9,11,17,22 10:1 29:21 38:23,23 39:2 51:1 54:19,21 56:14 78:6,23 79:4,10 82:20 changes (3) 4:20 41:16 42:15 changing (1) 69:11 check (5) 4:17 11:21 22:21 30:2,8 choices (1) 73:21 Citizens (1) 26:12 claim (1) 55:2 claimed (3) 42:18 64:1 65:9 clarification (4) 32:16,22 41:5 59:12 clarified (1) 58:4 clarify (5) 11:16 20:5 57:10,15 85:23 class (2) 37:14 43:20 classification (1) 34:18 clean (2) 46:18 46:20 clear (5) 6:13 17:18 59:21 77:3 86:4 clearly (3) 65:10 77:9,14 close (2) 78:9,11 closed (3) 11:20 51:18 59:5 cloudy (5) 58:1 63:17 64:6 77:6,7 Coates' (1) 41:16
collaborated (1) 76:7 collusion (1) 17:9 come (17) 5:11 11:22 12:10 13:23 22:13 23:11 27:5 34:2 43:9,23 46:13 58:20 70:1 73:14 76:3 77:8 83:15 comes (3) 26:5 55:23 70:10 coming (2) 26:2 66:8 comment (5) 12:1 41:3 47:12 50:8 77:16 comments (7) 6:7 20:16 42:21 59:1,6 61:14 85:22 commercial (8) 10:2,9 13:17 14:12,21 33:10 33:12 79:15 commissioner ... 8:4 17:17 31:3 38:22 41:8,11 42:20 commissioner'... 38:18 commissioner... 27:9 comply (2) 69:19 80:2 concede (1) 47:4 concern (3) 34:8 37:11 79:13 concerned (1) 55:14 concerning (1) 28:22 conclude (1) 62:11
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Page 94 31:21 45:12,17 Earth (1) 17:21 East (42) 3:14 3:15,18,19,20 6:5,23 7:6,10 7:15,21 8:2,15 8:17,20 9:2,16 10:17 11:3 13:8,9 14:10 14:16 15:9,14 16:8,11 28:10 28:22 29:19 30:1,6,8,10,11 30:14,17 33:6 34:18 48:16,17 49:2 Education (1) 17:18 effect (2) 83:22 84:8 eight (2) 14:4 45:18 either (1) 57:8 elapsed (1) 26:9 elected (5) 4:20 23:22 41:16 42:15 45:4 election (26) 1:6 5:9 8:7 12:20 25:5 27:22 43:8 44:6,22 45:12 46:18 47:2,20 53:15 60:17 61:6 62:4,7,10 74:12 79:8 80:16 81:5,23 83:22 84:8 Elections (10) 1:1 2:16 6:10 11:23 38:15 57:16 65:12 77:9 88:8 89:1 electric (26) 4:19 30:15,16 30:17 48:6,7 48:12 49:2 55:5,6,6,7,18 IMO:
65:6,11,21 66:3,3 71:5,6,8 72:14,19 77:14 78:19 82:22 electrical (1) 56:9 eligibility (1) 5:8 eligible (1) 43:7 employed (1) 88:15 employees (2) 10:3,9 encourage (1) 57:15 ended (1) 54:21 enlarged (3) 3:20,21 15:13 enter (3) 8:4,19 47:23 entered (6) 6:4 6:23 7:4,12 17:8 19:12 entertain (1) 85:5 entire (2) 40:9 40:12 entry (1) 8:1 Equalization (6) 10:22 16:19 17:5,6 54:6 57:4 equation (2) 48:1 64:17 equity (1) 26:11 error (2) 19:16 33:13 establish (16) 5:23 26:16 27:18 41:13 54:16 64:14 65:1,21 66:10 69:1 70:17,18 71:4 75:13 80:6 82:14 established (9) 7:19 28:1 36:16 41:22 65:8 69:22
70:20 78:14 80:9 establishing (1) 76:11 evening (1) 16:5 everybody (3) 41:18 46:19 49:18 Everybody'd (1) 83:15 evidence (33) 6:3 11:10 16:6 17:8 52:20,23 53:2,5,8,14 57:7,9 62:4,6 64:10 68:13 73:16,17,19 74:8,10,11,14 75:7 76:15,16 76:17,20,22 77:2 82:16 84:6 85:8 evidential (1) 42:10 evidentiary (1) 59:5 exact (2) 44:21 51:6 exactly (3) 21:6 63:18 75:19 examination (1) 17:17 excess (1) 16:14 excited (1) 24:23 excuse (3) 13:12 69:11 81:1 exhibit (55) 3:16 3:21 6:16,19 8:5,8,11,16,18 8:23 9:1,3,8,10 9:13 10:10,11 10:14 11:2 13:20 14:2,3 14:11 15:8,10 15:13,22 16:7 17:1,14,20,23 18:4,7,8,11,12 19:1 25:14,16
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
25:21 26:4 28:7 29:11 30:2,8,16 41:15 42:13,14 49:1,5,8 52:3 71:20 exhibits (7) 3:11 6:12 11:6 31:12 44:5,7 53:1 expert (2) 55:22 57:1 expired (1) 12:18 expires (1) 51:13 explicit (1) 88:17 expressed (1) 67:22 expression (3) 42:11 67:21 73:16 eyes (1) 68:16 F facilities (1) 9:22 facility (2) 10:18 10:20 fact (13) 25:9 50:21,22 58:16 62:16,16 66:21 76:10 77:1 79:13 82:10 83:3 84:11 facts (5) 67:21 68:3 75:9 82:6 82:14 fair (4) 16:15 44:17 46:18 76:12 false (1) 43:19 familiar (2) 12:4 21:17 far (5) 25:21 35:1 55:11,13 74:8 farm (1) 20:22 Farnsworth (1)
42:8 favor (2) 84:19 85:1 February (6) 7:8 7:10 71:14 72:8,11 78:6 feeling (1) 65:4 fellows (1) 27:20 felony (2) 37:14 43:20 field (1) 76:11 file (9) 11:17 12:21 43:5,10 43:11 60:14 63:23 64:13 74:6 filed (23) 6:3 8:3 11:18,21 12:1 12:2 16:10 24:14 26:22 38:18,22 41:6 45:7 46:1,4 64:2 69:16 74:2,7 77:21 79:23 81:6 82:20 files (1) 8:7 filing (23) 11:19 11:20 17:14 42:23 43:8 51:12,14,18 54:20,21 58:14 58:15 63:16 65:6,7 66:2 69:6,12 73:23 74:6 76:5 79:8 88:21 filings (1) 14:2 final (1) 31:18 find (18) 19:13 27:5 32:13 35:11 43:16 53:5,7,13,17 61:7,22 74:13 74:16,20 82:6 82:14 84:11 87:8 finder (1) 77:1
LEWIS 104
Page 95 finding (2) 84:14,17 findings (5) 62:15,16 73:21 82:10 85:7 fine (2) 11:12 44:13 firm (3) 2:18 87:7 88:11 first (21) 5:3,9 9:11 11:19 13:12 17:10 22:19 26:12,12 26:14,14 30:4 30:7 41:17 54:19 61:2 67:11 71:20 75:14 76:14 84:12 five (1) 16:5 fix (1) 46:14 fixed (3) 24:20 73:8,10 follow (1) 54:14 follow-up (2) 13:20 18:6 following (2) 2:15 62:12 foregoing (3) 87:5,13 88:6 foremost (1) 41:18 form (6) 12:17 19:14 37:12,14 38:15 43:19 formula (1) 73:4 Forte (14) 3:8 5:22 12:1 43:22 44:3,5 44:13,15,20 47:5 48:20 49:21,22 72:21 Forte's (1) 46:23 forth (1) 88:12 forthcoming (1) 83:20 fortitude (1) 46:16 IMO:
forward (4) 43:23 53:9 63:13 84:5 forwarded (1) 88:23 found (1) 88:21 four (5) 9:12 10:2,9 16:5 44:23 Fourteen's (1) 19:3 fourth (1) 25:9 frequently (1) 16:4 front (5) 14:20 21:21 22:1 75:3,7 fulfilled (1) 83:2 full-time (2) 47:6 80:10 fully (1) 59:14 further (13) 21:13 22:10 42:21 53:10 59:3,6 60:5 61:14,14 63:3 87:11 88:14,20
75:2 84:7 given (2) 8:2 52:8 gives (2) 45:6 85:6 giving (1) 45:5 glad (1) 27:19 go (19) 12:20 22:21 31:21 32:1,17,23 35:1,2 39:20 43:15 44:10 46:5 60:21 61:1,20 64:12 66:20 83:11 84:23 goats (2) 61:19 61:20 goes (4) 25:3 26:1 33:22 56:13 going (18) 14:15 15:20,21 17:8 22:14 27:1,4 34:11,11,13,16 44:8 45:21 48:16 63:11 72:23 77:23 G 81:1 G (1) 5:1 good (7) 24:14 gallon (1) 10:8 24:23 25:19 garden (1) 20:22 26:22 27:16 gathered (1) 44:12 72:7 57:7 Google (1) 17:21 gathering (1) Government (1) 57:8 2:17 gentlemen (3) Governor's (1) 47:14 51:23 54:20 58:23 Governors (6) Georgetown (1) 7:20 26:23 64:21 27:3,7 34:9 girls (1) 29:2 79:5 GIS (10) 3:14 granted (1) 10:9 8:12,14,16 gray (2) 64:6 14:6 34:17,20 81:13 35:2,6,9 greater (4) give (6) 15:15 42:10 55:9,19 25:10,21 68:2 68:13
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
greet (1) 50:12 greets (1) 50:18 ground (1) 24:14 grounds (2) 59:18,20 guess (18) 23:23 24:1 28:15 37:11 43:15 51:5 54:15 57:2 65:15 66:14 69:20 70:9 78:21 79:17,21 80:13 81:9 82:17 guidance (1) 75:2 H habital (1) 55:2 habitat (1) 54:1 habitation (4) 16:6 24:20 73:8,10 half (2) 10:19 27:10 hand-delivery... 89:2 handed (2) 6:12 6:15 hands (4) 27:16 45:18 47:4,8 handwriting (1) 22:4 handwritten (1) 21:23 Hanover (2) 88:2,22 happen (1) 25:17 happened (1) 43:10 happy (2) 82:2 85:9 hard (9) 44:6 45:16 47:2,14 47:21 69:2 70:5,7 75:5
harder (2) 45:10 45:13 hardest (1) 31:22 head (4) 45:9 64:7 70:2 83:9 health (3) 9:15 10:5,12 heard (3) 11:23 20:23 74:10 hearing (5) 1:10 2:15 59:6 86:7 88:8 hearsay (2) 47:1 47:11 heat (1) 56:10 heating (1) 72:18 held (1) 2:15 help (3) 21:16 67:15 70:11 helping (1) 85:17 highlighted (2) 21:22 41:17 Highway (68) 6:5,23 7:6,9,15 7:21 8:2,15,17 8:20 9:2,9,16 10:17 11:3 13:8,9 14:8,16 15:9,14 16:8 16:12 26:1 28:10,22 29:19 30:1,5,8,10,11 30:14,17 32:18 33:6 34:18 37:20 38:20 40:6 48:16,17 49:2,5 54:1,9 54:19,22,23 55:2,10 61:3 63:23 65:5,16 66:1 67:8,17 69:2,14 70:6 76:19 77:20 78:18 79:1,10 82:19 83:7
LEWIS 105
Page 96 hinge (1) 44:9 history (8) 3:13 6:8,20 8:8,10 48:17,18 78:22 hold (2) 8:22 47:6 home (15) 25:3 26:11 28:1 33:3 36:17 42:5,6 46:2 61:23 64:16,20 68:15 73:14 75:18 81:13 homes (1) 25:7 hope (1) 46:16 hours (1) 45:18 house (21) 14:19 14:19 20:9 21:8 23:23 24:3,8,9 26:10 26:19,23 27:3 27:5 31:17 33:23 38:4 46:9 55:20 56:19 58:21 71:21 houses (3) 25:17 41:20 52:13 human (1) 19:16 HVAC (1) 72:14 Hwy (7) 3:14,15 3:18,19,20 4:21,22 I idea (1) 45:3 IDENTIFICA... 18:4 III (1) 88:4 illegal (1) 66:9 impossible (1) 76:12 improvement ... 3:17 9:17 10:4 10:11 INAUDIBLE ... 25:4 incorrect (1)
IMO:
79:8 incorrectly (1) 7:12 increased (1) 56:8 indicate (1) 77:15 indicated (3) 50:4 51:3 55:12 individual (1) 43:3 indoors (1) 10:2 Info (1) 3:18 Informal (2) 3:22 17:2 information (... 11:3 16:8 18:2 35:6 41:12 48:2,10 49:2 49:12 53:23 54:6,17 57:9 67:10,13 initial (1) 20:16 inspections (1) 56:11 insurance (2) 26:7,9 intend (6) 5:22 67:17 70:14 73:11,13,14 intended (12) 10:1 39:23 40:2,15,17 67:5,7,9 69:3,4 80:8 82:19 intends (1) 28:3 intent (25) 41:23 42:9,11 52:16 64:3,14 66:13 66:16,23 67:21 67:22 70:1 73:9,17 75:15 75:16 76:11,15 76:15 79:12 81:10,17,18 83:2,4 intention (4)
39:22 42:6,7 85:23 intentions (3) 24:21 25:6 63:18 intents (1) 76:2 interested (1) 88:19 interrupt (1) 81:2 interrupting (1) 6:12 introduce (2) 45:19 48:11 introduced (4) 6:13 18:22 48:4,5 investigations ... 41:6 involved (1) 63:16 involvement (1) 83:21 irregularity (6) 53:13,14 62:5 62:7 74:12,14 issue (6) 33:11 34:10 48:8 57:12 70:23 79:9 issued (3) 10:5 30:12 46:6
50:15 Joyce (1) 42:16 JR (1) 2:4 July (1) 7:16 jurisdiction (1) 43:6
K Kayanna (1) 20:8 keep (6) 6:13 33:17 36:4 39:11 66:8 70:18 kept (1) 36:19 kill (1) 44:8 kind (4) 46:14 58:2 59:11 64:7 knew (9) 12:7 23:10,16 31:2 31:5,6 58:21 73:23 83:18 Knotts (41) 2:2 8:22 9:12 14:4 15:23 19:12,16 20:5,10 28:23 29:4,16 30:3 34:20,23 35:3 35:5,9,14 43:3 48:3,15,21 49:13 51:21 54:2,5,11 59:9 J 59:11 60:13,17 January (15) 65:17 71:16,19 7:2 12:12 72:1,5 81:1,5,7 46:13 50:6 88:23 51:5,10 56:6 know (51) 12:1 58:13,17 60:6 12:6,8 13:14 60:9 64:2 14:22 18:10 71:13 72:7,10 20:21 21:4 jargon (1) 84:7 24:16 25:15 job (4) 27:20 26:17,19 31:20 66:15 75:5 33:15,21 34:8 76:23 34:17 38:8 Joe (1) 50:13 39:5 43:19 Jones (1) 42:8 44:23 46:8,11 JOSEPH (2) 3:9 47:13 52:20
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
55:18 56:16,18 57:6,18 58:16 62:2 63:19,23 64:4,5,17 66:14 67:11 70:7 71:3 73:22 74:5 75:1,23 76:3 78:21 81:8,9 82:18 83:3 knowing (2) 17:11 84:1 knowledge (5) 17:7 19:23 20:17 47:1 87:10 known (3) 46:8 46:10 51:17 L L (4) 1:14 2:17 87:4 88:10 labeled (1) 6:14 lacked (2) 54:10 54:11 land (2) 16:14 27:10 language (1) 74:18 larger (1) 15:16 late (5) 12:12,17 21:11 31:21 51:15 latest (1) 8:1 LAURA (4) 1:14 2:17 87:4 88:10 law (22) 28:3 59:13,15,22 61:7 62:2,5,7 62:15,17 64:14 68:17 69:19 75:4,12,19 76:12 79:8 80:3,15 82:4,9 lay (1) 45:9 leadership (2) 12:16 50:5
LEWIS 106
Page 97 learned (2) 60:6 60:22 leave (3) 39:21 42:7 73:14 leaves (1) 25:3 left (1) 27:16 legal (4) 14:23 70:10,11 76:9 legitimate (3) 67:16 80:16,21 Leland (1) 45:19 let's (7) 25:19 30:18 39:20 46:14,20,21 72:10 Lewis (194) 1:6 3:6,7 5:7,8,10 5:11,14,18,22 6:1,3,17,19 7:2 8:9,11,18 9:3,6 9:13,16 10:14 11:5,14,17,18 11:22 12:2,4,5 12:7,12 13:6 13:10,10,19,22 14:1,5,10,14 15:1,4,10,15 15:19 16:3,10 16:15 17:12,23 18:5,17,19,23 19:2,6,23 20:3 20:13,15,19,23 20:23 21:11,18 21:21 22:2,6 22:12,14,18,19 23:12,14,16 24:5,11 28:8 28:11,16,18 29:1,5,7,10,13 29:20 30:9,11 30:13,16,22 31:2,5,8,14,17 32:2,7,9,17,21 33:2,6,8,13,16 33:19 34:1,5 34:11,15 35:20 35:23 36:7,9 36:11,15,22 IMO:
37:2,7,10,17 37:22 38:3,8 38:17,21 39:5 39:10,12,17,20 40:4,6,10,13 40:16,21 41:2 41:5,6 42:17 44:1,10,10,12 44:14,19 46:22 47:18,20 49:20 49:20 50:22 51:8,12,19 54:2,12,18 55:12 57:6,14 57:17,19,22 58:3,7,8,11,20 58:22 60:1,2 61:2,3,16,18 61:22 63:20,22 73:23 74:1,9 74:15 75:23,23 76:10 82:18 83:19 84:6 Lewis's (15) 6:8 6:20 8:9 20:4 22:7 30:5 50:3 50:3,18,18 52:3,4 60:21 63:15 79:14 license (7) 4:18 26:18 29:14,15 30:10 46:6 76:19 lied (2) 83:15,18 life (1) 44:21 light (2) 26:20 64:11 lights (1) 26:20 line (1) 66:8 list (1) 25:10 listed (8) 19:13 20:7 25:23 41:9 53:3,9 68:15 76:18 lists (1) 25:16 litigation (1) 88:19 little (2) 16:20
27:11 live (16) 12:11 25:15 38:10 40:19 43:6 45:7,7 61:5 64:14,15,20 68:18 71:7 73:10,11 74:2 lived (18) 12:6,7 12:8 20:19 23:10 34:10 35:22 36:1 38:8 39:7 40:20 41:11 51:10 58:16,21 68:16 69:8 79:6 lives (2) 70:21 70:23 living (5) 25:13 27:6 50:23 55:10 65:22 Lloyd (1) 42:3 loan (2) 26:9,11 located (7) 9:9 12:15 14:7 15:12 17:19 18:3 20:20 location (4) 1:22 8:14 14:6 31:13 long (9) 26:17 31:20 42:23,23 46:17 56:15 65:13,22 78:4 looked (1) 34:23 looking (4) 14:18 20:22 30:18 78:22 looks (1) 17:9 Lord (1) 26:8 Lord's (1) 27:16 lost (1) 25:2 lot (12) 19:18 23:21 31:20 32:17,18 46:9 55:17 64:5 66:16 72:12
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
77:15,16 Louie (112) 3:7 5:8,22 6:17,20 8:9 12:2,4 13:13 14:22 20:23 22:12,14 22:18,19 23:14 23:16 24:5,11 28:8,11,16,18 29:1,7,10,13 29:20 30:9,11 30:13,16 31:2 31:5,8,14,17 32:2,7,9,17 33:2,8,13,16 33:19 34:1,5 34:11,15 35:20 35:23 36:7,9 36:11,15,22 37:2,7,10,17 37:22 38:3,8 38:17,21 39:5 39:10,12,17,20 40:4,6,10,13 40:16,21 44:10 44:11,12,12,22 44:23 45:3 46:8,13,15 47:19 49:20 51:10 52:4 54:12,17 57:5 57:17,19,22 58:3,7,20 61:3 61:16,18,21,22 63:14,22 67:4 74:1,15 79:14 82:18 low (1) 71:9 lower (2) 10:23 16:20 lowering (1) 10:23 M magistrate (1) 83:17 mail (3) 26:1,2 33:22
mailbox (2) 26:2 34:6 mailing (6) 7:6 7:14,21 14:22 15:5 64:2 maintain (1) 32:11 maintained (4) 28:9 38:3,4,6 majority (2) 66:6 70:13 making (3) 74:4 75:17 81:12 man (2) 83:15 83:18 man's (1) 70:2 map (2) 14:5 17:18 mapping (1) 8:12 March (5) 49:19 58:12 71:14 72:8,11 margin (1) 84:3 margins (1) 49:16 Marion (1) 41:8 MARKED (1) 18:4 market (2) 16:15,17 married (1) 36:16 material (2) 13:14 84:8 matter (6) 1:5 52:12 66:20 73:4 80:2 84:15 maximum (1) 9:21 mean (9) 32:18 33:14 38:23 45:13 61:2 67:16 68:16 76:14 83:1 meant (3) 37:8 54:23 79:19
LEWIS 107
Page 98 measure (1) 53:19 mechanical (1) 56:16 meet (2) 50:11 50:18 meeting (2) 5:3 16:18 MELISSA (1) 2:3 members (3) 2:5 5:19,19 mention (1) 50:21 mentioned (1) 21:18 mentions (1) 16:22 mess (1) 27:11 met (2) 21:7 64:13 Michael (3) 3:8 5:22 44:3 Mike (6) 12:1 23:22 27:17 44:14 49:21,21 milk (2) 61:19 61:20 million (1) 27:10 mind (2) 63:17 64:6 minute (2) 43:16 84:21 minutes (1) 16:18 misconduct (2) 62:5,8 misstated (1) 83:2 misstating (1) 37:13 mistake (2) 37:6 79:19 Mister (1) 13:11 mold (1) 56:19 moment (2) 64:7 82:18 money (1) 23:9 IMO:
MONROE (2) 2:3 48:14 month (5) 49:3 49:6,10,11 64:12 months (6) 16:5 48:12 54:20 55:15 71:7,7 morning (5) 5:6 9:5 14:18 15:11 24:9 motion (6) 84:5 84:10,18 85:3 85:5 86:5 motor (1) 29:23 mouth (1) 83:10 move (11) 27:2,4 27:7 34:12 46:21 53:9 65:23 69:13 74:13 78:17 84:5 moved (6) 69:22 80:10 81:11,23 85:12,13 moving (1) 61:13 muddy (1) 46:20 multiple (4) 28:23 52:4,7 66:17 mysterious (1) 26:8
necessary (3) 11:10 12:21 34:12 need (13) 23:12 33:19 45:23 48:11 50:13 61:16,18 62:22 63:12 82:13 84:10,11 85:20 never (7) 26:1,2 26:20 34:10 45:11 67:11 79:6 new (15) 42:1,4 54:16 65:1 69:1 70:18,21 71:1 73:14 75:16,17 81:13 81:23 88:2,22 newer (1) 75:17 nice (1) 46:20 night (3) 32:4 45:9 64:16 nights (8) 52:21 64:10,19,19 67:18 68:7,11 73:5 nine (1) 16:2 Nineteen (1) 29:22 North (9) 1:2,16 2:17 29:12 42:8 87:1 88:1 88:21 89:2 N Notary (7) 1:14 N (1) 5:1 2:17 87:4,19 name (4) 9:6 88:4,10 89:8 27:15 30:8 note (1) 21:23 84:3 notes (1) 16:21 named (1) 88:13 Notice (5) 3:12 names (1) 13:12 3:23 6:16 NC (1) 1:22 10:22 17:2 NE (1) 89:2 November (1) near (1) 16:20 10:5 nearly (2) 25:20 number (46) 45:4 3:12,13,14,15 necessarily (3) 3:16,17,18,19 35:6,11 47:14 3:20,21,22 4:1
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
67:7,17 69:2 69:14 70:6 76:18 77:20 78:18 79:1,10 82:19 83:7 October (2) 7:18 79:4 office (22) 1:15 19:17 24:7 31:13,14 33:7 33:23 36:21 40:18 42:23 O 43:5,11 55:23 O (1) 5:1 57:3 63:16 object (3) 46:23 64:3 65:19 47:10,10 68:19 69:9 obtained (1) 78:12 79:14 16:9 80:1 obvious (1) offices (1) 37:21 17:13 official (2) 8:22 obviously (5) 45:4 13:15 14:21 officially (1) 71:2 82:21 85:16 83:21 officials (3) 4:20 occasions (2) 41:16 42:15 55:12 65:13 Oh (2) 26:19 occur (1) 62:8 31:2 occurred (2) okay (53) 14:9 17:13 74:20 14:17 15:6 Ocean (72) 3:14 18:14 19:10 3:15,18,19,20 20:2,14 21:13 4:21,22 6:5,23 21:23 22:3,9 7:6,9,15,21 8:2 22:16 23:14,14 8:14,17,19 9:2 31:9 33:4,19 9:9,16 10:17 34:22 35:4,13 11:3 13:8,9 36:8,12 38:21 14:8,16 15:9 41:1 43:21 15:14 16:8,11 44:5,20 45:14 26:1 28:9,22 45:16,20 46:3 29:19 30:1,5,7 46:7,10 51:11 30:9,11,13,17 52:11,18 53:21 32:18 33:6 57:21 60:11 34:18 40:6 61:12,15 62:20 48:16,17 49:2 67:14 68:5 49:5 54:1,8,22 69:15 70:16 54:23 55:2,10 71:13 72:4 61:3 63:23 79:21 80:23 65:5,16 66:1 81:4 84:16,22 4:2,4,6,8,9,10 4:11,13,14,15 4:16,17,18,19 4:20,21,22,23 9:10 13:8 14:11 18:9 19:17 21:1 24:18 25:1 31:3 48:13,15 54:16 65:20 69:5,7 84:3
LEWIS 108
Page 99 old (1) 34:4 once (1) 41:22 one-story (1) 10:17 oop (1) 46:14 open (1) 62:22 opening (1) 58:9 operation (1) 13:17 opinion (5) 19:21 55:21 66:2 82:16,17 opponents (1) 5:21 option (5) 52:7 53:18 60:14 82:1 86:2 order (7) 5:3,9 32:23 62:11 72:10 85:6,7 original (3) 6:21 50:4 88:20 outcome (3) 83:22 84:8 88:19 outside (1) 20:20 overcome (1) 56:7 overcoming (1) 56:16 overwhelming... 64:10 owner (1) 9:19 owns (4) 29:5 52:4,13 71:2
41:17 parameters (1) 75:3 parcel (2) 20:1,3 part (7) 33:13 38:9,9 49:15 55:23 61:4 67:5 participants (1) 11:9 particular (5) 16:4 51:1,4 63:19 67:1 Particularly (1) 71:6 parties (1) 88:16 partly (2) 69:5,6 parts (2) 10:2,18 party (5) 7:17 7:22 50:5,9 57:8 passed (2) 14:17 51:4 Pat (1) 45:23 path (1) 63:13 pattern (1) 41:13 pay (1) 25:17 Paying (1) 29:7 pbruffiniii@a... 1:17 PELTON (122) 2:7 13:6,11,21 14:9,11,17 15:2,6,17,20 18:8,14 19:15 19:18 20:9,12 P 21:15,23 22:3 P (1) 5:1 22:10 33:5,9 p.m (1) 86:8 33:15,17,21 package (2) 10:4 34:3,8,13,17 10:21 34:22 35:1,4,8 PAGE (1) 3:2 35:13,17 43:14 paper (2) 71:20 47:12,18,22 72:2 49:23 50:3,19 paperwork (1) 51:18,20 52:1 85:20 52:11,14,18 paragraphs (1) 53:21 56:21 IMO:
57:11,14,18,21 58:1,6,10 63:7 63:11,14,22 65:2,15 66:5 66:13,18,22 67:2,4,7,14,23 68:5,8 69:10 69:15,19 70:1 70:7,16,19,22 71:8,12 72:13 72:16,19 73:2 77:3,6,11,13 77:18,22 78:3 78:6,9,13,16 78:21 79:21 80:8,12,17,20 80:23 81:4,6,8 81:16 82:7,17 83:1,23 84:10 84:16,21,23 85:11,13,15 people (11) 23:6 25:15 27:13 31:22 45:18 46:7,9 47:21 64:18 66:16 83:13 perfectly (1) 14:23 period (8) 11:20 17:14 30:18 38:17 51:14,18 58:15 74:6 permanent (3) 28:1 56:2 75:17 permit (9) 3:17 9:17,23 10:4,7 10:12 56:9,10 56:13 person (8) 24:19 24:21 25:2,3 27:22 28:3 42:4 75:13 person's (4) 24:20,21 25:3 73:8 personal (3)
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20:17 47:1 65:4 personally (3) 55:9 57:14 82:2 persons (2) 28:4 88:13 pertinent (1) 62:1 PETER (1) 88:4 petition (7) 4:8 4:9,10 28:7,20 53:7 74:7 phase (1) 61:10 phone (1) 21:1 photo (9) 3:19 3:20,21 4:1,4,6 8:16 9:11 15:17 photograph (1... 3:15 8:13,19 9:1,4 14:14 15:8,11,12,14 17:16,20,21 19:3,4 photographs (2) 9:5 18:15 physically (5) 80:10 81:10,11 82:21 83:5 picture (2) 18:9 29:13 piece (1) 26:11 pieces (1) 72:1 Pilot (1) 75:11 place (19) 24:19 27:23 28:2 32:4 38:9,11 38:11 42:6,7 61:3 66:20 67:1,11 68:15 70:8 73:5,7,10 88:12 placed (2) 9:22 33:10 places (8) 34:7 36:2 38:10,12 38:13 39:7,7
45:11 plain (1) 45:10 plan (1) 9:23 please (5) 50:1 52:2 57:10,15 58:23 Pledge (2) 5:3,5 plenty (2) 52:23 58:7 plumbing (8) 16:23 21:20 22:19,20,23,23 54:10,11 plumbing's (1) 22:21 point (14) 11:8 14:18 31:10 42:17 52:8 53:11,12,18 59:3 63:19 64:5 71:17 79:22 81:9 pointed (1) 79:7 policy (1) 26:8 politician (2) 24:23 25:12 polling (1) 45:11 polls (1) 47:2 pool (1) 20:12 Port (1) 75:11 portion (1) 59:6 position (2) 45:15 76:23 possible (3) 21:9 40:23 61:1 Post (1) 1:15 potential (1) 79:7 power (2) 72:7 72:12 precinct (2) 25:4 35:10 preclude (1) 69:10 predominantl... 42:10 preface (1) 6:7 premise (1)
LEWIS 109
Page 100 49:15 prepare (1) 85:19 preponderanc... 82:16 present (11) 6:2 6:6,20 8:12 9:14 10:14 11:6,9 13:19 41:19 42:6 presented (4) 8:9 13:14 25:19 74:11 President (1) 88:5 pretty (2) 53:11 80:9 prevailing (1) 49:22 previous (3) 51:8 65:5 77:23 primary (48) 5:21,21 23:4,7 23:17,19 24:11 25:7 27:19 28:8 32:3,5,11 39:13,14,21 41:7,9,10 42:19 45:8,12 45:16 49:19 52:8,10,13,16 52:21 53:3,4,6 53:8 57:22 58:4,11,12,18 58:19 66:10 67:17 68:10 69:11 70:8 73:10 79:3 82:19 84:11 prior (9) 9:4 14:2 17:7 42:5 42:23 66:2 77:23 81:5 87:12 probably (10) 25:11 31:21 45:14 56:9,17 IMO:
58:2 59:2 64:18 66:6 83:14 problem (1) 19:7 problems (1) 65:7 proceed (1) 5:16 PROCEEDIN... 3:5 process (2) 81:12 84:13 proper (2) 53:19 85:20 properties (5) 11:7 29:4,6 52:5,7 property (16) 4:2 9:22 10:18 11:1 17:16,19 17:23 18:21 20:10 26:11 30:23 56:6 57:6 71:2 72:3 79:16 protest (18) 1:6 5:20 12:18,21 44:9 46:11 49:16 51:13 58:14 59:17,21 60:15,16 62:3 62:12 74:4,7 84:5 protested (1) 24:15 provide (1) 48:7 provided (2) 7:14,20 provides (1) 18:2 public (13) 1:14 2:17 5:19 6:9 9:15 10:15 12:1 16:9 87:4 87:19 88:4,10 89:8 purchase (1) 21:9
46:20 84:2 raised (1) 74:23 ran (6) 37:20 40:18 41:10 46:19 69:9 78:12 Randy (7) 2:7 13:5 21:14 43:13 56:20 63:6 83:11 re-val (1) 54:3 read (9) 27:20 27:20 43:16 49:18 60:12 75:8 81:15,17 87:5 Q reading (2) qualified (2) 24:12 52:2 68:19 74:15 reads (1) 82:8 qualifies (1) real (3) 25:19 80:20 26:22 37:18 question (26) really (12) 19:11 13:22 21:15 37:8,15 40:19 23:18,20 31:18 53:3,17 54:23 32:16 33:5 68:4 69:22,22 38:7 42:22 81:21 83:7 43:2 47:17 reason (4) 23:18 52:2 55:9 32:11 74:22 64:12,22,23 84:4 65:23 67:14 reasonable (1) 68:14 69:18,20 6:1 69:21 70:10 rebut (1) 76:1 72:21 73:1 rebuttal (1) 11:8 79:22 recall (2) 55:15 questions (16) 57:5 11:13 12:23 receive (2) 35:6 13:3 21:13 59:6 28:5 30:21 received (4) 48:5 33:4 35:16,18 49:20,20,21 49:14 50:1 recess (4) 62:20 51:23 59:3 62:21 63:1,3 61:1 63:4,8 RECITED (1) quote (2) 44:17 5:5 70:8 recognize (1) 37:13 R record (24) 5:23 R (1) 5:1 6:6,13,21 8:5 race (3) 46:19 8:19 11:16 purchased (2) 27:3,9 purchasing (1) 20:22 purpose (2) 41:12 88:17 purposes (8) 25:6 28:4 41:19 42:5 59:13 76:2 79:4 81:3 put (8) 14:1 26:4 27:14 42:4 45:3 46:17 55:17 79:20
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17:4,7 19:5 41:6 47:9 48:15,23 49:17 55:11 56:14,21 62:18 63:15 78:7 85:22 88:7,12 records (15) 4:12,21,22,23 6:9 9:15 10:15 16:9 28:3,21 28:23 34:20 35:5 48:6 55:1 recounting (1) 75:1 red (3) 14:11,20 24:9 reduced (1) 16:11 reduction (2) 56:1,14 refer (2) 74:21 82:3 reference (1) 75:12 referred (1) 56:23 regarding (1) 11:7 regardless (1) 31:10 register (2) 69:12,12 registered (1) 34:9 registration (32) 4:13,14 6:21 19:11,13,14 24:17 25:22 26:3 29:16,17 29:18,23,23 33:10,11 36:13 36:19 37:12 38:15,20 43:4 43:17 54:17,22 69:7,7,17 78:7 78:23 79:3 82:20
LEWIS 110
Page 101 35:1 regulations (5) 23:3 24:13 27:22 32:13 57:20 related (1) 88:14 relief (1) 56:5 remains (1) 41:22 remarks (1) 58:9 remedy (2) 53:20 74:6 remember (4) 25:11 50:10 51:6,7 removed (2) 55:16,17 renewed (1) 26:13 reported (3) 1:13,21 2:17 reporter (7) 1:14 2:18 15:8 87:3,5 88:5,10 reporter's (1) 28:7 reporting (3) 49:3,6,9 representative... 30:13 represents (1) 9:21 Republican (5) 5:21 7:23 12:16 50:5,9 request (3) 10:23 16:10,19 requested (2) 16:21 48:8 required (1) 6:2 requirement (1) 43:5 requirements ... 27:21 research (1) 13:23 reside (2) 6:1 79:2 IMO:
residence (47) 7:3,9,11,19 8:21 13:16 18:3 20:1 24:7 24:12,17,19 25:3 26:16 27:19,23 36:15 36:18 38:4,4 41:9,19,21,22 41:23 42:1,4 43:1 52:8,10 52:13,16,21 57:16,23 64:4 64:13 68:4,10 70:9 73:3,7,12 75:16,17 78:23 84:12 residences (2) 19:20 66:17 residency (17) 4:20 14:2 41:15 42:14 47:16 51:13,16 53:23 58:14 63:15 64:1,1 66:9 67:19 75:4 81:2,9 residential (7) 6:4 14:7 35:7 35:12 45:22 52:4 79:15 resolve (2) 5:7 63:12 RESPOND (1) 85:2 result (1) 5:20 results (5) 12:20 53:16 62:9 74:18,20 retired (2) 47:6 56:22 return (14) 28:3 39:22,23 40:3 40:15 52:16 67:1,7,10 69:5 70:14 73:9,11 75:15 returned (1)
63:2 returning (3) 24:22 25:6 77:22 Revaluation (2) 3:22 17:2 revenue (3) 49:3 49:6,9 Review (6) 10:23 16:19 17:5,6 54:7 57:5 reviewing (1) 6:7 revoked (1) 9:23 right (26) 11:13 24:16 27:1 31:15 34:6,7 34:15 35:8,13 38:5 40:7 44:16 46:5 47:22 57:17 62:23 65:2 66:18 78:16 81:8,16 82:7 82:23 84:9,16 84:23 river (6) 25:8 32:9,10 33:1,1 68:7 road (39) 4:1,3,5 4:7 7:1,4,5,12 7:13,20 12:14 17:15,21 18:6 18:19,20 19:4 19:21 20:7,8 21:7 27:1,3,7 34:9 36:14 37:5 41:10 48:19 49:9 54:20 65:18 66:4,7 69:8 77:12 78:1 79:1,5 Robert (2) 2:4 42:15 roof (1) 14:20 roofed (1) 14:12
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
route (1) 29:21 RUFFIN (6) 1:14 2:18 87:8 88:4,5,11 ruled (1) 42:2 rules (5) 23:3 24:12 27:22 32:13 57:20 ruling (1) 47:13 run (7) 5:8 11:21 27:14 29:2 36:20 68:19 74:15 running (3) 42:19 43:7 65:19 S S (2) 1:15 5:1 S/ (1) 87:18 sale (1) 21:1 sales (2) 9:6 30:12 Salvage (1) 9:7 SANDT (4) 1:14 2:17 87:4 88:10 Sara (11) 2:2 19:7 24:13 33:5,5 34:17 42:22 48:2 53:22 64:12 88:23 sat (2) 17:4,5 save (1) 88:16 saved (2) 23:8 23:21 saying (10) 23:9 36:5 37:6 40:22 52:7 55:15 58:1 60:4,4 69:3 says (22) 19:5,11 27:22 36:13 37:13 39:21 43:18 49:8 52:20,21 54:17 59:15 67:11,13
68:9,10 73:6 75:4,19 76:15 80:15 81:22 scholar (1) 76:9 screwed (1) 46:14 search (2) 4:11 28:21 second (7) 32:23 36:16 41:22 61:4 67:19 71:21 76:16 secondary (8) 25:7,8 32:3,5 33:2 36:17 39:13,14 section (1) 59:20 see (11) 11:21 12:20 14:15 15:21 16:6 25:19 30:18 61:22 71:5 72:10 73:21 seen (2) 24:9 73:20 self-serving (1) 46:11 send (4) 53:18 62:16 82:10 86:1 senior (1) 50:20 sent (1) 62:13 September (1) 9:18 septic (3) 9:18 10:8,13 serious (4) 53:16 62:9 74:17,19 serve (5) 10:9 27:13,15,15 57:4 service (3) 30:19 71:20,21 session (1) 62:22 set (2) 34:7 88:12 sets (1) 34:6 seven (1) 45:18
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Page 102 28:21 shake (3) 44:17 47:4,8 shaking (1) 45:18 Shallotte (1) 50:21 Shaver (48) 2:4 6:11,18 11:12 11:16,20 12:3 12:6,10,22 13:1 18:21 19:1,3 23:12 23:15 52:2,10 52:12,15,19 54:10 58:22 59:2 62:21 63:21 67:15,20 68:1,6,9,18 72:21,23 73:3 75:9 76:14 81:14,17 82:5 82:8,13 84:14 85:4,18,21,23 86:3 sheets (1) 71:19 sheriff (1) 37:1 shop (4) 71:22 71:23 72:6,6 short (1) 56:15 show (4) 6:21 16:18 28:13 75:14 showing (8) 3:14 8:14 10:16 17:16 30:1,5 30:13,17 shows (14) 8:13 10:19 14:6,15 15:8,18,20 29:19 30:11 49:3,6 64:10 67:10 77:2 sic (4) 28:1,2,3 54:1 side (4) 20:7,8 57:8 64:17 sign (4) 43:18,19 IMO:
85:7,20 19:5,10 20:14 signatures (3) 21:10,13 22:12 25:15 28:12,14 22:16,18 24:3 signed (4) 9:17 24:10 28:6,14 9:19 37:12 28:17,20 29:6 38:15 29:11,15,18,22 significant (2) 30:4 32:22 55:9 84:7 33:4 35:15,18 significantly (1) 35:21 36:3,8 55:8 36:10,12,19,23 signs (1) 45:2 37:3,8,11,19 silliness (1) 38:1,6,14,19 46:21 39:2,8,11,16 simple (2) 34:4 39:18 40:2,5,8 73:4 40:11,14,18 simply (2) 16:1 41:1,4 42:14 82:3 42:21 43:13,15 single (1) 54:15 44:4 47:17,19 sir (10) 13:19 47:23 49:1 21:5 26:19 50:2,13,16 31:8 32:19,20 53:22 54:8,14 34:1 49:14 55:4,22 56:20 50:10 52:1 58:23 59:8,10 site (1) 9:23 59:23 60:8,18 situation (9) 60:23 61:11,17 53:20 55:13 61:20 62:1,19 56:2,3,7,12,17 62:23 63:2,6 60:22 83:21 63:10,12 64:8 six (2) 55:15,15 64:22 65:3,16 Sixteen (1) 44:5 65:18 66:12,15 sleep (4) 32:3,12 66:19,23 67:3 32:14 52:22 67:6,9 68:21 sleeping (1) 69:1,13,16,21 65:10 70:5,14,17,20 slept (2) 32:2 71:4,10,13,18 38:12 71:23 72:4,6 slip (4) 4:15 72:15,17,20,22 26:10 30:3,4 75:8,10 76:6 small (1) 20:6 77:4,7,12,14 Smith (180) 2:6 77:19 78:2,4,8 5:2,6,15,16 78:11,14,17 6:16 8:8,16 9:1 79:18 80:5,11 9:8 10:11 11:2 80:14,18 81:22 11:11,15 12:23 82:12,15,23 13:2,5 15:7,13 83:11 84:19,22 15:22 16:1 85:1,3,9,14,16 17:1,20 18:12 85:19 86:2,6 18:15,18,20 SMITHER (1)
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80:22 somebody (7) 22:23 43:9 55:16,23 56:18 65:22 76:3 sorry (4) 6:11 23:15 34:14 48:22 sort (2) 17:9 81:17 sounded (1) 83:9 Southeast (3) 7:14,20 17:22 Southport (4) 17:15 19:4 45:20 77:11 Southport- (5) 4:2,4,6 54:18 65:16 Southport-Su... 4:1,23 7:1,3,5 7:12,13 12:14 17:21 18:6,19 18:20 19:21 21:7 36:14 37:5,19 38:20 41:10 48:18 49:9 55:8 65:17 66:4,7 69:8 72:9 77:12 78:1 79:1 speak (1) 11:9 specific (1) 49:13 specifically (1) 59:14 spend (7) 41:20 64:16,19 66:10 68:10 70:12 73:4 spending (3) 52:6 66:6 67:18 spent (8) 44:22 44:23 45:17 57:2 64:11
68:7 77:15,16 spoke (1) 20:6 spoken (2) 46:7 50:4 square (1) 46:18 Sr (3) 6:17 30:9 30:16 stack (1) 28:23 Stamp (2) 2:16 89:1 stand (2) 5:3 81:19 start (1) 28:6 state (20) 5:10 25:4,5 35:19 42:2 46:6 53:19 59:14 62:13,16 64:13 74:22 75:11 82:3,10 83:8 86:1 87:1 88:1 88:21 stated (11) 17:7 40:22,23 49:17 51:9 54:8,23 58:20 64:3 76:9 82:18 statement (12) 3:6,7,8,9 4:16 21:19 26:5 30:6 50:4 60:21 79:9,11 statutory (1) 73:6 stay (9) 21:5,6 23:23 32:10 38:10 52:22 62:22 68:14 76:20 stayed (2) 38:11 38:12 stickers (1) 48:11 stirred (1) 27:11 stole (1) 22:23 Street (1) 1:15 strongly (1) 57:15
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Page 103 15:12 structure's (1) 56:17 structures (1) 72:2 Stuart (4) 2:6 15:16 56:23 71:16 studied (1) 26:21 stuff (2) 27:12 55:17 submit (3) 41:14 42:12 54:2 submitted (3) 16:22 34:21 84:6 subpoena (2) 48:8,9 Subsection (1) 59:20 Subsequently ... 7:10 substantial (11) 53:2,5,8,13,14 62:4,6 73:19 74:11,14 77:2 substantiates ... 60:20 sufficient (4) 71:1 74:17 80:2 83:6 sufficiently (4) 53:16 62:8 74:17,19 suggests (1) 76:20 summary (1) 48:12 summer (2) 20:21 21:11 Superior (1) 88:22 Supply (13) 4:3 4:5,7 7:5,7,10 7:15 25:23 32:18 54:19 55:8 65:18 IMO:
78:5 support (4) 45:4 67:21 68:3 78:20 supporting (2) 8:6 76:22 supposed (4) 13:16,16 24:1 25:20 supreme (1) 42:2 sure (17) 11:11 11:15 13:17 15:2 21:5,16 24:14 27:1,4 31:2 40:16,16 45:1 48:4,10 63:18 86:4 swear (4) 5:11 22:13 43:23 50:13 swimming (1) 20:12 sworn (5) 5:14 44:3 50:15 75:22 87:12 Sykes (1) 45:23 sympathy (1) 19:19 system (6) 7:4 7:13 8:13 9:18 10:8 72:16 T TABLE (2) 3:1 3:4 tabulation (1) 74:23 take (7) 26:17 28:12 36:4 60:2 62:19 68:2 85:19 taken (7) 9:4,5 15:11 63:1 70:2 87:6 88:9 talk (2) 23:6 24:5 talked (5) 19:6
21:9 22:22 24:15 76:4 talking (3) 24:3 38:17 45:13 tan (1) 15:18 tank (2) 10:8,13 tax (23) 3:18 4:12 10:16,19 11:1,2 16:10 16:11,22 17:3 18:1,21 19:5 22:6 28:21 34:2,20 55:1 55:11,23 57:3 57:3 83:14 taxes (2) 25:17 29:7 TELEPHON... 1:16 tell (3) 22:15 32:14 83:13 telling (4) 37:15 37:17,17 39:3 temporarily (4) 22:20 23:1 26:18 55:20 temporary (5) 25:5 55:13,20 56:2,12 ten (8) 15:23 16:1 58:15 59:16 74:1 76:4 78:10,11 ten-minute (1) 62:19 term (2) 56:15 56:15 terms (1) 83:6 testified (5) 23:11 33:6 68:6 70:3 74:5 testify (5) 16:3 20:17 43:22 48:1 79:5 testifying (1) 56:18 testimony (14) 46:23 47:10
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
51:9 52:15 53:1 61:10,14 67:5 74:9 75:22 76:7 79:14 88:7,17 thank (22) 5:18 6:18 12:22 13:21 17:11,12 19:10 31:19 32:16,20,20 35:13 43:12 44:1 52:1 53:21 57:13 61:15,21 63:22 85:11,17 theirs (1) 22:8 theoretically (1) 43:9 thing (9) 5:3 26:14,22 28:15 47:21 48:3 62:1 76:8 83:16 things (8) 21:17 53:17 60:10 62:2 63:16 65:20 69:5 76:18 think (39) 36:5 36:22 37:7,10 43:3 44:17 46:3 48:23 49:15 51:6 57:11 60:23 63:20 64:9,9 65:23 66:5 68:12 69:18 75:12,18 76:2 76:6 77:4,7,16 79:18 80:2,5,9 80:14 81:14,18 82:1,4,15 83:19,19,20 thinks (1) 57:11 third (1) 25:9 Thirty (2) 81:2,5 thought (6) 13:23 23:4,17
48:10 83:17 86:3 thousand (1) 45:2 three (7) 25:22 27:9 46:19 48:13 55:12 64:19,19 time (55) 7:22 10:7 12:3,17 12:21 13:4 16:17 21:8 22:11 28:12 30:18 32:7,10 32:10 35:17 36:16 37:22 38:9,9 40:9,12 41:20 43:14 47:5 50:6 51:1 51:2,3,4,5,12 51:16 52:6,8 54:12 58:7 60:22 63:5 65:7,13,22 66:6,11 69:2,4 70:5,7,13 71:15 73:23 77:15,17 78:4 79:23 89:3 timely (1) 74:4 times (3) 32:17 32:18 69:9 TITLE (1) 3:2 today (15) 5:19 5:22 13:14 24:1 31:23 43:22 46:16 47:13 48:2 55:13 58:5 70:3 74:8,10 79:10 toiled (1) 32:1 told (6) 22:6 38:1,14 57:17 65:12 77:9 top (1) 24:9 totals (1) 49:18 touch (1) 59:12
LEWIS 113
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RECORD ON APPEAL SUBMITTED BY BRUNSWICK COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS
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Order of Brunswick County Board of Elections ........................................................................................... 1 Original Protest ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Hearing Transcript ........................................................................................................................................ 8 Exhibits (1-28) .......................................................................................................................................... 116
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Deposition of Date: May 4, 2016 Volume: I Case: IMO: Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
Aurelia Ruffin _ Associates, Inc. Phone:(910)343-1035 Email:[email protected] Internet: www.peterruffin.com
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BEFORE THE BRUNSWICK COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS BOLIVIA, NORTH CAROLINA ____________________________________
In the Matter Of: Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis _____________________________________
______________________________________________________ Transcript of Hearing ______________________________________________________
REPORTED BY: LAURA L. VAN SANDT, Court Reporter and Notary Public AURELIA RUFFIN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 215 S. Water Street, #104 Post Office Box 2025 Wilmington, North Carolina 28402-2025 TELEPHONE: 910-343-1035 [email protected]
DATE REPORTED:
May 4, 2016
LOCATION:
Bolivia, NC
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APPEARANCES
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SARA KNOTTS, Director
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MELISSA MONROE, Deputy Director
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ROBERT V. SHAVER, JR., County Attorney
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Board Members
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STUART SMITH, Chairman
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RANDY PELTON
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BOYD WILLIAMSON
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The following hearing was held on Wednesday, May 4, 2016 before the Brunswick County Board of Elections beginning at 9:00 a.m., 75 Stamp Act Drive, County Government Center, Bolivia, North Carolina and was reported by LAURA L. VAN SANDT, Notary Public and Court Reporter for the Firm of AURELIA RUFFIN & ASSOCIATES, INC.
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PROCEEDINGS
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STATEMENT BY MR. ALAN LEWIS
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STATEMENT BY MR. LOUIE LEWIS
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STATEMENT BY MR. MICHAEL FORTE
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STATEMENT BY MR. JOSEPH AGOVINO
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CERTIFICATION
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Number 1, Notice of Candidacy
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Number 2, Address History
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Number 3, GIS Showing 227 Ocean Hwy East
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Number 4, Photograph of 227 Ocean Hwy East
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Notice
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Number 12, Photo of 341 Southport-Supply Road
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Number 13, Property Card of 341 Southport-
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Supply Road
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Supply Road
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Tax Records
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Number 26, Utility Records, 227 Ocean Hwy
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Number 27, Utility Records, 237 Ocean Hwy
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P R O C E E D I N G S
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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meeting to order.
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of Allegiance.
I would like to call this
First thing is stand for the Pledge
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(THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WAS RECITED)
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
This morning we're here to
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resolve a challenge by Mr. Alan Lewis about the
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candidacy or the eligibility or Mr. Louie Lewis to run
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in this election.
And the first order here would be
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to ask Mr. Alan Lewis to state his case.
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will come up, Mr. Lewis, and I would like to swear you
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in.
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WHEREUPON,
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ALAN CARTER LEWIS, was duly sworn by Chairman Smith.
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And if you
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Would you like to proceed with
your --
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Board
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members, members of the public.
I'm here today before
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you as a result of my protest in the District 4
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Republican primary.
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Michael Forte and Louie Lewis.
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establish a record demonstrating with beyond
My opponents in that primary were Today I intend to
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reasonable doubt that Mr. Lewis does not reside in
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District 4 as is required.
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evidence to the Board, when Mr. Lewis filed for
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candidacy he entered his residential address as 227
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Ocean Highway East.
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could present this for the record.
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If I may present some
I would like to briefly, and if I
I'd like to also preface my comments by reviewing
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with the Board Mr. Lewis's address history as it's
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contained in the public records of the Brunswick
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County Board of Elections --
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MR. SHAVER:
Mr. Chair, I'm sorry for
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interrupting but as exhibits are handed up and
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introduced, just to keep the record clear if we could
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announce what they are and what they've been labeled.
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So what has he handed up here?
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 1 is Notice of
Candidacy of Mr. Louie Lewis, Sr.
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MR. SHAVER:
Thank you.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The next exhibit that I will
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present to the Board is Louie Lewis's address history.
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The record show that his original registration date
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was April the 20th of 1968.
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entered 234 Ocean Highway East and also had a 341
On that document he
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Southport-Supply Road, Bolivia written above.
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January the 31st of 2006 Mr. Lewis changed his
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residence address from 341 -- to 341 Southport-Supply
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Road.
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Southport-Supply Road, Bolivia instead of Supply, and
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he gave a mailing address of 237 Ocean Highway East,
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Supply.
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That was entered into the county system as
Then two weeks later on February the 13th of 2006 he changed his residence address to 237 Ocean Highway
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East, Supply.
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of 2006 his residence address was changed to 341
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Southport-Supply Road.
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into the system as 431 Southport-Supply Road
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Southeast, Bolivia, and again provided a mailing
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address of 237 Ocean Highway East, Supply.
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Subsequently in -- on February the 20th
It was entered incorrectly
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address change but he changed his party affiliation
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from Democrat to unaffiliated.
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2015 he established his residence address as 655
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Governors Road, Southeast and again provided the same
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mailing address of 237 Ocean Highway East.
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that time he changed his party affiliation to
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Republican.
In October the 2nd of
And at
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Then on the latest entry on December the 18th of
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2015 the address was given as 227 Ocean Highway East.
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The date that he filed for candidacy of -- for
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District 4 county commissioner.
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this Exhibit 2 into the record along with this
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supporting documentation from the Brunswick County
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Board of Election files.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
I would like to enter
Exhibit 2 is the history that
Mr. Alan Lewis has presented of Louie Lewis's address history.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The next exhibit I'd like to
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present is a copy of the Brunswick County GIS mapping
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system which shows --
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Brunswick County GIS showing the location of 227 Ocean
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Highway, East.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
it's a photograph from the
Exhibit 3 is a GIS photo of
227 Ocean Highway, East.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The next exhibit I would like
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to enter into the record is a photograph of 227 Ocean
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Highway, East demonstrating that that address is not a
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residence but a business.
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MS. KNOTTS:
I'll hold the official one.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 4 is a photograph of
227 Ocean Highway, East.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The next exhibit is a blow up
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of the prior photograph.
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photographs were taken this morning.
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that that business name is Lewis Autos Sales and
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Salvage.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
This was taken -- these This documents
Exhibit 5 is a blow up of a
business located at 227 Ocean Highway.
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
If I may, what exhibit number
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was just -- the first photo?
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MS. KNOTTS:
Four.
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present to the Board.
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the public records of the Brunswick County Health
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Department.
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signed an application for an improvement permit for a
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septic system on September the 4th, 2002.
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signed the document.
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authorized agent he covenants that the contents of the
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application are true and represents the maximum
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facilities to be placed on the property.
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that the permit may be revoked if the site plan or the
Exhibit 6 I would like to It's a couple of documents from
At 227 Ocean Highway, East Mr. Lewis
And he
And as the owner or as
I understand
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intended use is changed.
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commercial business for auto parts, indoors for four
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employees.
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This application was for a
In with this package is the improvement permit
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that was issued by the health department on November
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the 21st of 2002, and the authorization for waste
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water construction permit.
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gallon septic tank and a waste water system that would
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serve four commercial employees was granted.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 6 is an Improvement
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Permit from Brunswick County Health Department for a
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septic tank.
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Exhibit 7 that I will present
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to the Board is from the public records of the
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Brunswick County Tax Department showing that the
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address of 227 Ocean Highway, East is a one-story auto
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parts facility.
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tax department and it shows that there is a half bath,
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no bedrooms in that facility.
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document in this package is also a Brunswick County
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Notice of Decision by the Board of Equalization and
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Review to deny his request for lower -- lowering the
This is the property card out of the
In addition with this
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tax valuation of the property.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 7 is the tax
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information for 227 Ocean Highway, East with all the
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Mr. Chairman and Mr. Attorney,
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I have some other exhibits that I can present if
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they're warranted regarding other properties.
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point if I could be allowed a rebuttal after the other
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participants speak, and present that additional
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. SHAVER:
Sure.
That's fine.
Mr. Chairman, would
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Mr. Lewis --
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MR. SHAVER:
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MR. SHAVER:
When the filing period closed, did
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I filed in early December of
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-- to clarify the record.
Mr. Lewis, when did you file as a candidate?
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know, public comment that Mike Forte had filed and
2
Louie Lewis had filed.
3
MR. SHAVER:
4
At that time did you -- were you
familiar with Mr. Louie Lewis?
5
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
6
MR. SHAVER:
7
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Yes, I was.
Did you know where he lived? I knew where he lived but I
8
did not know that where he lived was not in District
9
4.
10
MR. SHAVER:
When did you come to believe he
11
did not live in District 4?
12
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
That was in late January of
13
2016 when I was approached and made aware that the
14
address on Southport-Supply Road, 341 was not actually
15
in District 4 but is in -- was located in District 3.
16
I consulted county Republican leadership and at that
17
time I was advised that it was too late to form any
18
protest of candidacy because that date had expired on
19
December the 31st, and that I should wait until after
20
the election and see how the results go and if
21
necessary, file a protest at that time.
22
MR. SHAVER:
Thank you.
23
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MR. SHAVER:
2
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
3
No. Mr. Boyd, do you have any
questions?
4
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Not at this time.
5
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Randy?
6
MR. PELTON:
Yes, I do.
7
confused.
8
here.
9
is 237 Ocean Highway, East.
10
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
11
MR. PELTON:
Mr. Lewis, I'm
We're dealing with two different addresses
One is number 227 Ocean Highway, East and one
Mr. Lewis --
And I will ask Mister -- and if
12
you'll excuse me, I'll use first names.
13
Louie later on.
14
material you presented here today do you know the
15
difference, which one is which?
16
supposed to be a residence and then there's supposed
17
to be a commercial operation and I'm not sure.
18
seems to be some confusion which is which.
19 20
But from your understanding from the
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Yes, sir.
There's obviously
There
There I can present
an additional exhibit to follow-up on --
21
MR. PELTON:
22
MR. ALAN LEWIS: --
23
I'll ask
Thank you. your question.
I did some
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the discussions.
Mr. Lewis has in the past put that
2
as his residency on prior filings.
3
which is what; Exhibit 7?
This exhibit,
4
MS. KNOTTS:
Eight.
5
MR. ALAN LEWIS: -- 8, is a map of the Brunswick
6
County GIS Department that shows the location of the
7
adjacent residential building that is located at 237
8
Ocean Highway --
9
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
10
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
11
MR. PELTON:
-- East.
On Exhibit Number 3 there's a red
12
roofed building behind the commercial building.
13
would be this one here?
14
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
That
Yes, and the next photograph
15
that you're going to see has a dot on that which shows
16
that that is 237 Ocean Highway, East.
17
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
This -- when I passed this
18
this morning, I made a point of looking and it's a
19
white brick house -- I'll call it a house -- with a
20
red roof and then the buildings in the front are
21
obviously the commercial buildings.
22
know that Louie uses 237 as a mailing address, which
23
is perfectly legal but --
And I bet -- I
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MR. ALAN LEWIS:
2
MR. PELTON:
And he has used --
I just want to make sure I
3
understand which is which.
4
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
5
And he has also used 227 as a
mailing address.
6
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
7
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And backing up here for the
8
court reporter, Exhibit 8 is a photograph that shows
9
237 Ocean Highway, East.
10
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
And Exhibit 9 will be a
11
photograph that was taken this morning.
12
photograph of the structure that's located at 237.
13 14
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
And the next one I'll give you
is actually a larger version, Stuart.
17 18
And Exhibit 9 is the enlarged
photograph of 237 Ocean Highway, East.
15 16
This is a
MR. PELTON:
I'll correct myself.
This photo
shows a tan brick building, not white but --
19
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
20
MR. PELTON: -- that shows you what you're going
21
That's correct.
to see going by.
22
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
23
MS. KNOTTS:
This is Exhibit 9?
Ten. Page 15
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Ten is simply a blow up of
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
I will testify also that I
nine.
3 4
have been by that particular address very frequently,
5
almost every evening for the last four or five months
6
and have yet to see any evidence of any habitation at
7
that address.
8
Ocean Highway, East as well.
9
obtained out of the public records of the Brunswick
The next exhibit has to do with 237 This information was
10
County Tax Department.
11
have his tax valuation reduced at 237 East Ocean
12
Highway because he disagreed with the county's
13
valuation.
14
building and land at an excess of $265,000.
15
Mr. Lewis believed that the fair market value of that
16
address was $250,000 based on what he considered to be
17
the market at that time.
18
Mr. Lewis filed a request to
The county had it valued at, with the And
The minutes of the meeting show that the Board of
19
Equalization and Review denied his request.
They did
20
lower it a little bit but no where near the $250,000
21
that was requested.
22
submitted to the tax department mentions that it was
23
built in 1970, has no plumbing, and is vacant.
And on the notes that were
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 11 is a 2015
2
Revaluation Informal Decision Notice by the Brunswick
3
County Tax Administration.
4
MR. WILLIAMSON:
If I may for the record, I sat
5
on the Board of Equalization and Review and I sat on
6
this Board of Equalization and Review.
7
stated for the record, I had no prior knowledge that
8
any of this was going to be entered as evidence.
9
if it looks like there's some sort of a collusion or
10
something, that wasn't the case.
11
of me knowing this.
12
And as I
So
So this is the first
Thank you.
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Thank you, Mr. Williamson.
13
And it's obvious that that action occurred well before
14
the filing period even came around.
15
has to do with 341 Southport Road.
16
photograph showing the property address of 341.
17
examination of the Brunswick County Commissioner and
18
Board of Education District Map it became clear to me
19
that that property is located in District 3.
20
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
The next exhibit This is a Upon
Exhibit 12 is a photograph, a
21
Google Earth photograph of 341 Southport-Supply Road,
22
Southeast.
23
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card out of the Brunswick County Tax Department that
2
provides the documentation and information of the
3
residence that is located at 341.
4
(EXHIBIT 13 WAS MARKED FOR IDENTIFICATION)
5
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Here is a broad view of the
6
address 341 Southport-Supply Road.
7
exhibit is a blow up of that address.
8
MR. PELTON:
And my follow-up
Mr. Chairman, the exhibit with the
9
picture of 341 or 3 whatever the correct number is, I
10
know there's some discrepancy in that, what is -- what
11
is this exhibit?
12 13
CHAIRMAN SMITH: now --
14
MR. PELTON:
15
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
16
We're up to Exhibit 14 and 15
Okay. -- which are both photographs
of 341?
17
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
341 --
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
341 --
19
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
-- Southport-Supply Road.
20
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
-- Southport-Supply Road.
21
MR. SHAVER:
22
Was the tax property card
introduced?
23
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
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MR. SHAVER:
2
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
3
MR. SHAVER:
4
So that is Exhibit 13? That is correct.
Fourteen's a broad-view photograph
of 341 Southport Road and 15's another photograph?
5
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
The tax record here says 431.
6
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
That's correct.
7
Sara about that.
8
of digits as well.
9
431.
10 11
I talked with
There was a problem with transposing The correct address is 341 not
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
Thank you.
So the
voter registration that says 431 is really 341?
12
MS. KNOTTS:
We entered it differently than it
13
was listed on that registration document.
14
the registration form.
15
MR. PELTON:
Just a typo?
16
MS. KNOTTS:
I'm assuming it was human error in
17
the office typing the number in.
18 19
Let me find
MR. PELTON:
Being dyslexic I have a lot of
sympathy for that.
20
MR. WILLIAMSON:
If I may, how many residences
21
are there in your opinion on Southport-Supply Road
22
341?
23
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residence on that parcel.
2
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Okay.
3
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
There's another parcel behind
4
that address which is Mr. Lewis's daughter's address.
5
MS. KNOTTS:
And just to clarify, after you and
6
I spoke about that, I believe that -- there's a small
7
side road there and that address is listed on that
8
side road.
435 Kayanna.
9
MR. PELTON:
That's the house --
10
MS. KNOTTS:
That's the property that's behind
11
the --
12
MR. PELTON:
The one with the swimming pool?
13
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
That's correct.
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
15
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
I'll again just wrap up my
16
initial comments as it addresses the 341 address.
I
17
would like to testify of personal knowledge.
18
the attorney asked me when I became aware of where
19
Mr. Lewis lived, and when that was -- if that was
20
located in District 4 or outside of District 4.
21
would like the Board to know that last summer I was
22
looking at purchasing a farm -- a garden tractor and I
23
had heard that Mr. Lewis, Louie Lewis had some used
Again,
I
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tractors for sale.
So I had his cell phone number.
2
called him and asked him if he had some used tractors
3
and he said yes.
4
could view the tractors, and he said don't you know
5
where I stay.
6
exactly where you stay.
7
that I met him at 341 Southport-Supply Road, at which
8
time he came out of the house and we discussed and
9
talked about the possible purchase of a tractor.
And I said -- asked him where I
And I said, no, sir, I'm not sure And he gave me the directions
10
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
When was that?
11
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
This was in late summer of
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
12
2015.
13 14
I
Boyd?
15
Any further questions
Randy? MR. PELTON:
I have a question and I'm not
16
sure, perhaps Boyd can help me with this because
17
you're more familiar with these things.
18
document that appealed -- Mr. Alan Lewis had mentioned
19
there was a statement in here about not having
20
plumbing at the address.
21 22
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
On this
Where would that be in that?
It's on the front,
highlighted.
23
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
In the handwritten note on Page 21
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the front then?
2
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
3
MR. PELTON:
4
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Whose handwriting would that
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The tax department told me
5
That's correct.
Okay.
be?
6 7
that it had to be Mr. Lewis's because it wasn't
8
theirs.
9
MR. WILLIAMSON:
10 11
MR. PELTON:
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
I'll affirm but I'm going to
tell you the truth.
16 17
We'll call Mr. Louie Lewis,
and if you'd like to come up and I'll swear you in.
14 15
I have nothing further at this
time.
12 13
Okay.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
WHEREUPON,
18
LOUIE LEWIS, was duly affirmed by Chairman Smith.
19
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
First of all the plumbing is
20
correct.
Temporarily I was out, the plumbing was out.
21
But if you'll go check, the plumbing's all back in
22
now.
23
plumbing -- somebody stole some of my plumbing.
That was correct when I talked to you, the
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That's correct.
2
correct.
3
I was out of it temporarily.
That's
But I've -- I got the rules and regulations.
4
This was thought about before the primary.
You
5
brought it up.
6
brought it before the people to talk about.
7
didn't you do this all before the primary and we
8
wouldn't have been through this.
9
some money if what you're saying is true.
You didn't bring it to me but you Why
I could have saved Because you
10
knew where I lived before if you -- because you just
11
testified you come over to where I was at.
12 13
MR. SHAVER:
Mr. Lewis, you need to address the
Board.
14
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
15
MR. SHAVER:
16
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Okay, okay.
Sorry. You knew where I was at and
17
you thought about doing this before the primary but
18
for some reason -- and the only question I got is why
19
didn't you do it before the primary.
20
question for you and the Board.
21
a, it would have saved a lot of us trouble and I
22
wouldn't have caused Mr. Mike to get elected.
23
anyway I stay -- I built this house in 1970.
That's my
If you would of had
But I guess, Page 23
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I guess I was supposed to bring today -- this is just
2
--
3 4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
What house are we talking
about?
5
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
We'll talk about -- well,
6
actually it's 237 is the correct address for my
7
residence, 237.
8
on some of what he said.
9
at, the red top house that you've seen this morning.
The office is 227.
10
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
11
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
And he's correct
237 is where the house is
And that's where you say -That's where -- is my primary
12
residence because in reading the rules and
13
regulations -- I got them from Ms. Sara because I want
14
to make sure I was on the good ground when I filed,
15
and it had already been talked about being protested.
16
But why he didn't I don't know.
17
here "163-57 Residence defined for registration and
18
voting.", if you got a copy of this.
19
place that considered the residence of person in which
20
that person's habitation is fixed to which whatever
21
that person's absent, the person has intentions of
22
returning.
23
And this here right
Number 1.
A
I'm not a good politician, so if I get excited, Page 24 IMO:
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don't worry about it.
And down there number 2.
2
person shall not be considered to have lost that
3
person's residence if that person leaves home and goes
4
to another state, county, (INAUDIBLE), precinct, ward
5
or other election district of this state for temporary
6
purposes only with intentions of returning.
7
been my primary.
8
blessed.
9
about that.
And I got third and fourth.
10
got a list.
I'm blessed.
11
you a few.
12
because like I say, I'm not a politician.
13
for a living.
I got secondary homes.
A
This has
I'm
My secondary is on the river where he said In fact I
This is just -- I'll give
And I probably won't be able to remember I just work
14
This is just -- Exhibit 1 is just a few
15
signatures of people who know where I live for the
16
last 50 years.
17
houses that I happen to pay taxes on in Brunswick
18
County.
19
Let's see.
Exhibit 2 is just a few lists of the
He's presented a real good case.
20
He's nearly convinced me.
Well, I'm not supposed to
21
say that.
22
Three is a registration card of -- this is a truck
23
that's -- it's listed under Supply but it's still
Exhibit -- what, did I give you two so far?
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237.
2
had a mailbox at 341, never no mail coming.
3
I've been blessed.
4
whatever exhibit you want to put on it, for a
5
trailer.
6
to.
7
All my mail goes to 237 Ocean Highway.
I never Of course
And here's a registration card,
There's one bank statement where it comes
And by the way, I couldn't bring the insurance
8
policy.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
My
9
insurance has elapsed and I got a 200,000 dollar loan
10
on a house and the bank had let it slip for years.
11
They got a home equity loan on that piece of property
12
at First Bank.
13
And I'm trying to get it renewed now.
14
where my First Bank -- there's the thing from my First
15
Bank.
16
No.
At First Citizens for $200,000. And there's
There's one for BB&T.
If you can't establish a residence in 50 years, I
17
don't know how long it will take.
18
license.
19
house.
20
there's a light bill.
21
turned off.
22
this thing real good before I went up and filed.
23
There's my driver's
And yes, temporarily I was out of that
Yes, sir.
I don't know what that is.
Oh,
The lights had never been
Of course, this is where -- I studied
And by the way, I did buy a house on Governors Page 26 IMO:
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Road to make sure I was going to be in the right
2
district in case I had to move.
3
That house on Governors Road, I purchased it just to
4
make sure and I was going move up there if I had to.
5
But come to find out the house I had where I was
6
living was -- it was already in District 4, so I
7
didn't have to move to Governors Road.
I did do that too.
8
I tried to -- because I didn't like what went on
9
when our commissioners went and purchased a three and
10
a half million dollar tract of land, and it got me
11
stirred up a little bit.
12
this stuff but anyway, and so I decided if I could
13
make any change, I was willing to serve the people.
14
And I had to run.
15
my name down to serve, and I was willing to serve.
16
But I left it in the good Lord's hands and he decided
17
Mr. Mike would be the best, so he appointed him.
18
I was too young to mess with
In other words, I didn't -- I put
But anyway, we're here to establish where the
19
primary residence is.
And I'm -- I'm glad I got you
20
fellows a job.
21
requirements.
22
the election rules and regulations.
23
may have and actual abode, residence in one place, and
But I read all -- I read the And here's another one on -- this is on It says a person
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his permanent established home dominically (sic) in
2
another.
3
person intends to return.
4
persons have one domonical for voting purposes.
5
answer your questions now.
6
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
A dominical (sic) is the place in which the The law records (sic) all I'll
Let me start here for the
7
court reporter's benefit, Exhibit 16A is a petition
8
that apparently Mr. Louie Lewis had that his primary
9
address has been maintained for 50 years at 237 Ocean
10
Highway, East.
11
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
I could have got some more
12
signatures.
13
wanted a few to show you.
14 15
I just didn't take time to do it.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
It's got some signatures on
it. 16B, I guess, is a continuation of the same thing.
16
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Yeah, yeah.
17
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And 16C is --
18
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
19
I just
I got --
I made some more and didn't
even get a chance to bring it.
20
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- more of the same petition.
21
Seventeen is a basic search of the tax records for
22
Brunswick County concerning 237 Ocean Highway, East.
23
MS. KNOTTS:
It's a stack of multiple records. Page 28
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MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
2
didn't bring them all.
3
of them.
4
MS. KNOTTS:
That's just some more.
The girls just run off a few
I believe that's the properties
5
that Mr. Lewis said he owns.
6
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
7
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Paying taxes on them.
8
MR. WILLIAMSON:
That's not all of them.
9
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
16
MS. KNOTTS:
Vehicle registration.
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
-- driver's license.
Vehicle registration which
shows an address of 237 Ocean Highway, East.
20
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
That's correct.
It used to
be route 223 but they changed it over the years.
22 23
I got a picture of my
That's a registration card.
17
21
Exhibit 18 is a copy of his
driver's license --
15
19
No.
North Carolina --
13 14
Is this all the properties --
That's not all of them.
10
12
I
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showing an address of 237 Ocean Highway, East.
2
Exhibit 20 is a check --
3
MS. KNOTTS:
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Deposit slip. First Bank deposit slip
5
showing Mr. Lewis's address as 237 Ocean Highway,
6
East.
7
2-10-16 from First Bank with an address of 237 Ocean
8
Highway, East.
9
Louie A. Lewis, Sr. on it with an address of 237 Ocean
Here we have -- 21 is a bank statement dated
Exhibit 22 is a check with the name of
10
Highway, East.
And 23 is a driver's license which
11
shows for Louie Al Lewis at 27 Ocean Highway, East.
12
It was issued 4-9-2015.
13
representative showing Louie A. Lewis at 237 Ocean
14
Highway East.
And also a copy of a sales
15
And a copy of an electric bill from Brunswick
16
Electric, Exhibit 24, for Louie A. Lewis, Sr., 237
17
Ocean Highway, East showing a electric bill for --
18
let's see the...I was looking for the time period.
19
Service from 2-29-16 to 3-30-16 in the amount of
20
$34.37.
21
Boyd, do you have any questions?
22 23
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I have a couple.
Mr. Lewis,
have you been aware all along that the property at 341 Page 30 IMO:
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was in District --
2
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
3
MR. WILLIAMSON: -- Commissioner District Number
4
I knew --
3?
5
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
6
MR. WILLIAMSON:
7
Oh, sure.
Yeah, I knew that. And you knew that from the
beginning?
8
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
9
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Yes, sir. Okay.
Is your contention that
10
regardless of what the 237 or the 227, your point is
11
that your business is conducted based on all your
12
exhibits, your business is conducted out of your
13
office off of your desk at the location at 227 --
14
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
15
MR. WILLIAMSON:
16
business is conducted?
17
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
18
MR. WILLIAMSON:
227 is the office. Right.
Yeah.
That's where all your
237's the house.
And one final question.
I
19
thank you.
When -- at the end of the day -- and I
20
know you have a lot of long days because you get up
21
early and you go to bed late and you're probably one
22
of the hardest working people in Brunswick County.
23
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after you toiled all day where do you go?
2
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, I have slept on -- at
3
the secondary and at the primary.
4
same place every night.
5 6
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I don't sleep the
Secondary or primary.
Where --
7
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
8
MR. WILLIAMSON:
9
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Most, most of the time --- address. On the river.
Most of the
10
time I stay over on the river.
11
maintain my primary for this reason for the last 50
12
years.
13
are the rules and regulations I didn't find anywhere
14
that said to tell you where you have to sleep.
15 16
I sleep there when I want to.
MR. WILLIAMSON:
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
18
341 Ocean Highway.
19
do, yes, sir.
20 21
And in these
That's just a
Thank you.
A lot of the times I go to
I mean Supply -- a lot of times I
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Thank you, sir.
Thank you,
Mr. Lewis.
22 23
I understand.
question for my clarification.
17
Most of the time but I
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
I'd like a clarification here.
Go out of order here a second.
You said on the Page 32
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river.
2 3
What address is on the river?
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
That's 341.
That a secondary
home.
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
5
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
Any other questions?
I have a question for Sara.
Sara,
6
Mr. Lewis has testified that 227 Ocean Highway, East
7
is his office.
8
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
9
MR. PELTON:
That's correct.
If that is -- and that is where
10
his registration has him placed.
11
address.
12
it's a commercial address?
13 14
Is there an issue with the registration if
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
MR. PELTON:
16
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
17
MR. PELTON:
Well, you know --- do what you want to but --
--- we keep bouncing around 237,
227 --
19 20
That was a error on my part.
I mean --
15
18
That is a commercial
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Okay.
Do what you need to
do --
21
MR. PELTON:
-- and, you know, I'm just
22
curious.
All of your business mail goes to 237 which
23
is the house and not the office? Page 33 IMO:
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MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
and that's where the tax bills come.
3 4
You got it all there, sir,
MR. PELTON:
That -- I'm confused by that.
Just simple old me.
5
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
It confused me over the years
6
with two address -- the mailbox sets right together.
7
The places set right together.
8 9
MR. PELTON:
You know, and I have a concern
that you actually registered to vote at Governors Road
10
and you've never lived there.
11
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
12
move up there if necessary.
13 14
MR. PELTON:
I was going -- I was going to
Going to doesn't cut it.
I'm
sorry.
15 16
That's another issue.
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, that's all right.
do it anyway you want to.
17
MR. PELTON:
You
I'm not going to argue.
Sara, do we know what the GIS
18
classification for 227 and 237 Ocean Highway, East
19
are?
20 21
MS. KNOTTS:
GIS, I've got tax records, which I
believe have already been submitted --
22
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
23
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MR. PELTON:
As far as we go from registrations
2
we go by GIS; do we not?
3
MS. KNOTTS:
Yes.
4
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
5
MS. KNOTTS:
Yes.
When we get records from
6
GIS, we don't necessarily receive information about
7
whether they're residential or business addresses.
8
MR. PELTON:
All right.
9
MS. KNOTTS:
We get from GIS what districts
10
they would be in, what precinct and how to assign them
11
to all of those districts.
12
out if they're business or residential.
13
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
14
MS. KNOTTS:
Uh-huh.
15
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
16
MR. PELTON:
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Thank you.
Do you have any other
I have nothing else at this time. I have a couple questions.
You state that your domicile is 237 --
20
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
21
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
22
All right.
questions?
17
19
We don't necessarily find
That's correct. Correct.
And that you've
lived there for 51 years?
23
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
That's correct.
Off and on. Page 35
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Not every day but I'm there every day but I lived
2
other places too.
3
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Domicile -- you have one
4
domicile and you keep that until you take up another
5
domicile.
6
your domicile for the last 51 years has been 237 --
And I think what you're saying here is that
7
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
9
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
10
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
12
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
That's correct. Okay. What I believe. What? That's what I believe anyway. Okay.
In 2006 your voter
13
registration says that you -- your domicile was 341
14
Southport-Supply Road.
15
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
I did vote in that residence
16
for one -- I got married a second time.
17
that as my secondary home and I did vote in that
18
residence.
19
In that's district.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
I established
I did.
And you kept that registration
20
from 2006 and actually you used that address to run
21
for office --
22
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
I think so --
23
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- in District 3 and for Page 36 IMO:
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sheriff --
2
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
3
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Yep. -- years later.
You didn't
4
change your voting address until 2015 from 4 -- from
5
341 Southport-Supply Road to the 227, and you're
6
saying that was a mistake.
7
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
You really meant it to be the
10
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Yes, I think that's correct.
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
9
I think I --
237.
I guess I have a concern on
12
that, that you signed a voter registration form which
13
says you recognize that misstating something on that
14
form could be a class one felony.
15
telling us that that really wasn't your domicile.
16
that correct?
17 18
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
And now you're Is
Telling -- telling you what
weren't my real address?
19
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
That your 431 Southport-Supply
20
Highway was not your domicile when you ran for those
21
offices?
22 23
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
It was at that time but I
went back to the 237 there for when I -Page 37 IMO:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
years your domicile has been at 227 --
3
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
4
residence.
5
since then.
6 7
it.
I have maintained that
I have maintained that house and residence That's right.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
8 9
But you just told the last 51
I understand you've maintained
The question is where your domicile is. MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, I don't know.
I lived
there part time and part time the other place, so I
10
live in both places.
11
place.
12
for -- I stayed at both places and I slept other
13
places too.
14
I didn't stay there at one
I didn't have but stayed at one place and then
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
But what you told the Board of
15
Elections and signed on your voter registration form
16
was that you for --
17 18
MR. LOUIE LEWIS: about now?
19 20
Which period are you talking
When I filed the commissioner's --
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
2006 until 2015 your voter
registration was 341 Southport-Supply Highway.
21
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Okay.
When I -- when I
22
turned around and filed for the commissioner, I
23
changed it back.
I changed my address back.
I mean I Page 38
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went back.
2
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
I understand you changed it.
3
But you're also telling us that your domicile for 51
4
years was 237.
5
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, I don't know.
It
6
maybe, maybe it's just confusion in there but I had
7
both places.
8 9
I've lived at both places.
CHAIRMAN SMITH: domicile.
But you can only have one
And you --
10
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, you got one --
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
-- keep one domicile --
12
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
-- that's one.
And you got a
13
primary and a secondary as I understand it.
14
understand it you got a primary and a secondary; is
15
that correct?
16
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
17
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
19
If I
No. Is that correct? There is one domicile and
only one domicile.
20
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, let's go back to this
21
other one.
It has primary.
It says you can leave if
22
your intention is to return.
23
intended to return to that address.
Well, I've always Now that's what Page 39
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that has.
2 3
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
You have always intended to
return to --
4
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
5
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- 237?
6
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
7
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
That's
So that was your domicile the
entire time?
10
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
12
-- Ocean Highway.
right.
8 9
To 237 --
Do what now? That was your domicile the
entire time --
13
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- because that's where you
15
intended to return?
16 17
Well --
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Sure, I have.
Yeah, sure I
intended to.
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Then when you ran for office
19
in 2006 and 2007, you didn't really live where you
20
said you lived?
21
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Well, according to what
22
you're saying I could have stated it wrong.
23
have stated it wrong.
Could
It's possible. Page 40
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
2
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Mr. Chairman, may I make a
3
comment?
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Yes.
5
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
For a clarification to the
6
record, according to my investigations Mr. Lewis filed
7
in 2006 in the Democratic primary for county
8
commissioner against Marion Davis.
9
primary, his residence address listed as 341
He had his
10
Southport-Supply Road.
11
District 2 county commissioner when he lived in
12
District 3.
13
establish a pattern for the Board.
14
And he ran in the primary for
The purpose for this information is to
I would also like to submit an additional
15
exhibit.
16
changes by elected officials, Coates' Canons.
17
I've got these paragraphs highlighted.
18
foremost everyone -- everybody has one and only one
19
residence for voting present -- voting purposes.
20
may own and spend time at two or more houses, but only
21
one can be your voting residence.
22 23
This is -- this came out of residency And
First and
"You
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affirmatively change it to a new residence."
The
2
state supreme court has ruled versus -- in the case
3
Lloyd versus Babb, 296NC416, 449 in 1979 as that court
4
put it, a person acquires a new residence for voting
5
purposes when he, 1, has abandoned his prior home; has
6
a present intention to make that place his home; and
7
has no intention to leave that place.
8
In Farnsworth versus Jones, 114, North Carolina
9
Court of Appeals 182, 189 in 1994 your intent counts
10
predominantly.
11
than expression of intent.
12 13
Conduct is of greater evidential value
I would like to submit this document as an additional exhibit.
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 25 is Residency
15
Changes by Elected Officials.
16
Joyce.
17
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
The author was Robert
I would like to point out also
18
he claimed 237 was his address in 2016.
That's in
19
District 4 and again was running for primary in
20
District 2 county commissioner.
21
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Any further comments, Boyd?
22
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I got one question for Sara.
23
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you have to have declaration of your residence?
2
other words -- do you understand my question?
3
MS. KNOTTS:
Yes.
I think so.
In
An individual
4
can update their registration address on the same day
5
that they file for office.
6
they live in the district or jurisdiction that they're
7
running for and be eligible to vote, so that would be
8
30 days before the election.
9
before then, so theoretically somebody could come in
The requirement is that
Of course filing is much
10
the day they file, and it has happened, and update
11
their address and then file for office.
12
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Thank you.
13
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Randy, anything else?
14
MR. PELTON:
15
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
16
couldn't find a minute ago.
17
do a voter registration application, at the bottom you
18
sign it and there is a warning beside it that says if
19
you sign this form and know it to be false, you can be
20
convicted of a class one felony.
21
Okay.
Not at this time. I guess I'll go back to what I I'll just read.
When you
Do we have any other -- anybody else that
22
would like to testify today?
Mr. Forte, if you would
23
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MR. WILLIAMSON: WHEREUPON,
3 4
Thank you, Mr. Lewis.
MICHAEL FORTE, was duly sworn by Chairman Smith.
5
MR. FORTE:
Okay.
Sixteen exhibits, wow.
If
6
you worked this hard, Alan, during the election, you'd
7
of won.
8
going to kill any more trees.
9
contention of this whole protest seems to hinge on
10
where Mr. Lewis, Louie Lewis -- can I just go with
11
Louie and Allan?
I have no exhibits.
12
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
13
MR. FORTE:
14
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
15
MR. FORTE:
I got nothing.
I'm not
You got enough.
The
Louie is good with me.
Alan, are you fine with that? Of course, Mike.
When we were here two weeks ago,
16
Alan had said to me right out here that -- and this is
17
a quote, "I just want a fair shake and I don't think I
18
got it."
19
True?
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
20
MR. FORTE:
True.
Okay.
I can't understand that for
21
the life of me.
He had the exact same chance to win
22
this election as Louie or myself.
23
four to one.
He out spent me
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but I'm sure it was by even more than that.
2
over a thousand signs, billboards, the 4 by 8s to my
3
500.
4
the support of nearly every elected official in the
5
county.
6
1970 and 2001.
7
live in December when he filed and where does he live
8
now.
9
lay his head at night.
10
I have no idea how many Louie put out.
He had
He had
And he's giving you documents from, like, Who gives a damn.
It's where did he
And it's where his primary is.
Where does he
Alan should have just plain worked harder.
He
11
wasn't at -- he was never at any of the polling places
12
during early election.
13
day.
14
than 500 votes, he would have probably won.
15
This position wasn't a birthright because you were
16
born here.
17
and before early voting I spent my days in Wal-Mart
18
shaking hands with people every day seven, eight hours
19
a day to introduce myself.
20
Southport, that's what I did.
He wasn't out there primary
Had he worked harder, I mean we're talking less
Okay.
I worked hard.
Okay.
Before the primary
Whether it was Leland or He didn't.
Okay.
21
If we're going to worry about him using a
22
business address as to his residential address, well
23
then we need to be consistent.
Pat Sykes used her Page 45
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business address as well when she filed.
2
her business and her home are both in the district, so
3
I don't think it's a big deal.
4
her business address when she filed.
5
Okay.
Now, both
But she did use
If we want to go by what's right, his driver's
6
license, a state issued document, has 237 as his
7
address.
8
known Louie for decades, and they all know that his
9
house is at 237 behind the used car lot.
10
Okay.
I have spoken to people that have
known him for years and years.
11
People have
Okay.
This is a very self-serving protest.
He did know
12
about this way back, could have said something then.
13
Louie might have been able to come in here in January
14
and said, oop, I kind of screwed up.
15
And but he didn't.
16
He could have said it to Louie.
I just hope that today we have the fortitude to
17
put this to bed.
18
election fair and square.
19
dignified race by all three of us.
20
nice clean race.
21
silliness.
22 23
Let's fix this.
It's gone on long enough.
I won the
It was a very clean and Everybody ran a
Let's not muddy the waters by
Let's move on.
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
And I'm done.
Mr. Chairman, I would like to
object to Mr. Forte's testimony.
It amounts to Page 46
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hearsay.
2
hard I worked during the election and what polls that
3
I worked and what I did not work and how often I went
4
to shake hands.
5
time to get out during the day as Mr. Forte does as
6
retired because I hold a full-time business and work
7
during the day.
8
me to get out during the days it took to shake hands.
9
But I would ask that this Board for the record
10
object -- I object to that testimony because it
11
amounts to hearsay.
12
He does not have personal knowledge of how
I will concede that I don't have the
And it was very, very difficult for
MR. PELTON:
Mr. Chairman, I took that comment
13
that, you know, what we're ruling on here today is not
14
necessarily how hard any of these gentlemen worked and
15
what their availability for campaigning was.
16
we're worried about is residency --
17
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
18
MR. PELTON:
19
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
What
The only question is --
-- for Mr. Lewis. -- where does Mr. Louie
20
Lewis -- where was his domicile on election day.
21
that's the only thing.
22
MR. PELTON:
23
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And
How hard people worked --
Right. -- doesn't enter into the Page 47
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equation.
2
today?
3
Anybody else that would like to testify
Sara, do you have some information for us?
MS. KNOTTS:
The only other thing that I have
4
that was not introduced -- and I'm sure Alan if he had
5
received it from me, would have introduced it.
6
tried to get electric bill records from Brunswick
7
Electric.
8
without a subpoena, so he requested that we issue a
9
subpoena for that, which we did.
Alan
They would not provide him with that
And so I just
10
thought that to make sure you have all the information
11
I want to introduce -- I need stickers.
12
is a summary of the last 12 months of electric usage
13
for three addresses.
What this is
What number are we on?
14
MS. MONROE:
Twenty-six.
15
MS. KNOTTS:
Number 26 is the record for 227
16
Ocean Highway, East.
17
utility history from 237 Ocean Highway, East.
18
will be the utility history from 431 Southport-Supply
19
Road.
20
MR. FORTE:
21
MS. KNOTTS: Sorry.
And 27 is going to be the And 28
341. 341.
You all got me confused
22
about it.
Well, this does say 431.
23
think there was a record for 341.
I don't
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Exhibit 26 is the utility --
2
electric information for 227 Ocean Highway, East and
3
shows a reporting revenue of $163.02 from month 1 to
4
12; 13 through 24 is $160.38; 25 through 36 is
5
$159.46.
6
shows reporting revenue for month 1 through 12 is
7
$26.22; 13 through 24 is $26.04 and 25 through 36 is
8
$24.52.
9
Southport-Supply Road and reporting revenue is $213.98
10
for 1 through 12; $201.94 for month 13 through 24 and
11
$191.09 for month 25 through 36.
12
Exhibit 27 is for Ocean Highway 237 and that
And Exhibit 28 is 430 -- it says 431
Any other information for us?
13
MS. KNOTTS:
Not unless you have specific
14
questions, no, sir.
15
been brought up yet, I think part of the premise of
16
the protest was the vote margins and I don't believe
17
that it's been stated for the record, so maybe I will
18
just read the totals that everybody had after we
19
canvassed the votes for the March 15th primary.
20
Lewis received 6,911 votes.
21
2,819 votes and Mike Forte received 7,371 with Mike
22
Forte prevailing by 460 votes was the difference.
23
MR. PELTON:
It -- just because this has not
Alan
Louie Lewis received
Mr. Chairman, I have a couple of Page 49
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questions if I could, please.
2
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
3
MR. PELTON:
Yes.
In Mr. Lewis's, Alan Lewis's
4
original statement he indicated that he had spoken
5
with the leadership of the Republican party in
6
Brunswick County in January of some time.
7
wondering if I might call Mr. Agovino.
8
comment on that as chairman of the Brunswick County
9
Republican party or...
10
MR. AGOVINO:
No, sir.
I was
Do you have a
I remember the
11
conversation we had was at a -- was at a meet and
12
greet --
13 14
CHAIRMAN SMITH: WHEREUPON,
15 16
JOSEPH AGOVINO, was duly sworn by Chairman Smith.
17 18
Do we need to swear Joe in.
MR. AGOVINO:
The -- it was at a -- one of
Mr. Lewis's, Alan Lewis's meet and greets --
19
MR. PELTON:
20
MR. AGOVINO:
Uh-huh. -- at the senior center in
21
Shallotte.
He did mention the fact that he became
22
aware of the fact that Mr. Lewis was -- had the wrong
23
address or he was not living in the district or Page 50 IMO:
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changed his address at that particular time.
2
time I asked him, well why don't you do something
3
about it.
4
time for challenging had passed at that particular
5
time.
6
think, was the -- I don't remember the exact date but
7
I do remember the conversation.
8 9 10
At that
And he indicated that the time for -- the
And I guess it was in -- it was in January, I
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Well, from my previous
testimony I had stated that I became aware that where Louie lived was not in District 4 in January.
11
MR. AGOVINO:
Okay.
12
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
Filing at the time for a
13
protest of candidacy residency expires 10 days after
14
the filing period which would have been December 31st.
15
So therefore, I couldn't -- I was too late to
16
challenge the residency at that time when it became
17
known to me.
18
MR. PELTON:
19
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
20
MR. PELTON:
December 21.
21
MS. KNOTTS:
And it's actually 10 business
22
The filing period closed on -The 21st.
days.
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MR. AGOVINO:
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MR. PELTON:
No, thank you, sir.
I have one
2
other question for Mr. Shaver, please.
Reading the
3
decision that was in Exhibit 25, in Mr. Lewis's --
4
Louie Lewis's case he owns multiple residential
5
properties within the county.
6
understanding that even -- if he's spending time in
7
multiple properties, he has the option of saying which
8
one is his primary residence at a given point in time?
9
Is that -- am I correct in that or not?
Am I correct in
10
MR. SHAVER:
Well, he has a primary residence.
11
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
12
MR. SHAVER:
Whatever -- no matter how many
13
houses he owns, he has a primary residence.
14
MR. PELTON:
Uh-huh.
15
MR. SHAVER:
And his testimony as to what his
16
primary residence is and his intent to return
17
certainly gets accorded weight.
18
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
19
MR. SHAVER:
You also weigh conduct, actions,
20
other evidence.
You know, so if he says this is my
21
primary residence but he also says but most nights I
22
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exhibits and testimony from everyone to decide whether
2
you believe there's substantial evidence that the
3
address he listed as his primary address wasn't really
4
his primary address.
5
If you -- if you don't find substantial evidence
6
to convince you that it was not his primary address,
7
then the petition will be dismissed.
8
substantial evidence that his primary address is other
9
than the one he listed, then you have to move forward
If you find
10
with a conclusion as to further action in this.
11
at that point, and then we're pretty much at that
12
point to where what you would be doing is you would
13
have to find that there was a substantial irregularity
14
-- well, a substantial evidence of an irregularity in
15
the conduct of the election and that it was
16
sufficiently serious to cast doubt on the results.
17
you find those two things, then you're -- really at
18
this point your option is to send the decision to the
19
State Board for them to decide the proper measure to
20
remedy the situation.
21
MR. PELTON:
22
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
23
Okay.
And
If
Thank you.
I understood, Sara, that there
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237 Ocean Highway was habitat (sic).
2 3
MS. KNOTTS:
Mr. Alan Lewis did submit that.
It was the re-val.
4
MR. WILLIAMSON:
5
MS. KNOTTS:
Uninhabitable.
Uninhabitable, yes.
It was the
6
information from the Board of Equalization and
7
Review.
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
It stated that 237 Ocean
9
Highway was uninhabitable?
10
MR. SHAVER:
It said it lacked plumbing.
11
MS. KNOTTS:
Lacked plumbing.
12
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
13
At that time it did but it
does now.
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
As I follow the chain here, I
15
guess you have a domicile, a single domicile until you
16
establish new domicile.
17
voter registration information says that Mr. Louie
18
Lewis said that his domicile was at 341 Southport-
19
Supply Highway.
20
Governor's Road just two months before filing and then
21
two days before filing ended he changed his voter
22
registration again to 227 Ocean Highway which he
23
stated he really meant that to be 237 Ocean Highway.
For a number of years the
He changed that when he -- first at
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We have some tax records here that -- if I understand
2
it, claim that 237 Ocean Highway had some habital --
3
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Uninhabitable.
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Was uninhabitable.
We also
5
have some electric bills which say that for 10 years
6
the average electric -- the average electric bill
7
there was $26 and some cents.
8
341 Supply -- Southport-Supply was significantly
9
greater.
10
The electric bill at
I personally have a significant question
about living at 237 Ocean Highway.
11
MR. WILLIAMSON:
As far as the tax record
12
Mr. Lewis indicated on two or three occasions here
13
today that it was a temporary situation, so as far as
14
I'm concerned I can't say that it was like that for
15
six months or six years.
16
they removed -- somebody had vandalized and came in
17
and removed some stuff.
18
weight to that.
19
could -- that carries greater weight than a
20
temporary -- a house that is temporarily uninhabitable
21
in my opinion but...
22 23
I do recall him saying that
But I don't put a lot of
But the electric bill, you know, I
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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and asks for a reduction in assessment, is that
2
because of a temporary situation or a permanent
3
situation?
4
MR. WILLIAMSON:
5
asking for relief based on the condition of the
6
property January 1st of the year that they're
7
appealing it, that situation could be overcome,
8
corrected and the assessment could be increased
9
probably through a building permit or some electrical
10
or air condition -- heat and air-conditioning permit
11
that he would get from the building inspections
12
department.
13
when he goes and gets a permit, that becomes apart of
14
the record and then the reduction is changed, so yes.
15
It could be short term or it could be long term.
16
could be, you know, overcoming a mechanical
17
situation.
18
like, you know, somebody testifying that their whole
19
house is covered in mold or something.
It could very well be.
If they're
So he's got a temporary situation if and
It
The structure's probably not -- nothing
20
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
21
MR. PELTON:
Randy?
Just for the record,
22
Mr. Williamson is a retired director of -- what do you
23
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That's why Stuart referred you as an Page 56
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expert in that area.
2
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I guess so.
Yeah, I spent 30
3
years in the county tax office, 25 as a tax assessor.
4
And again, I do serve on the Board of Equalization and
5
Review and recall many conversations with Mr. Louie
6
Lewis about his property.
7
whatever evidence was gathered was unbeknownst to me.
8
I wasn't a party to either side of gathering the
9
evidence or discriminating information, so I just want
10
And again, I -- you know,
to clarify that again, please.
11
MR. PELTON:
But that's --
I don't think anybody thinks
12
that's an issue here.
13
MR. WILLIAMSON:
14
MR. PELTON:
Thank you.
Personally, Mr. Lewis, I would
15
encourage you very, very strongly to please clarify
16
with the Board of Elections where your residence is.
17
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
18
MR. PELTON:
19
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
20
Well, you know... According to my -- according
to the rules and regulations --
21
MR. PELTON:
22
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
23
It's right where I told you.
Okay. -- it's still my primary
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MR. PELTON:
Saying this is cloudy at best is
probably being kind so...
3
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
If this had all been
4
clarified before the primary, we wouldn't even be here
5
today --
6
MR. PELTON:
7
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
8
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
9
No, we wouldn't. -- and he had plenty of time. Could I address that?
And I
addressed that in my opening remarks.
10
MR. PELTON:
11
MR. ALAN LEWIS:
12
primary was March 15.
13
when I only discovered it in January because the
14
deadline for filing a candidacy residency protest was
15
ten business days after the filing period.
16
know of that where he lived was in fact in District 3
17
and not in District 4 until January.
18
not bring it up before the primary.
19
availability for me to bring it up before the primary.
20 21
Uh-huh.
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
Before the primary -- the I had no avenue to address this
I didn't
That's why I did There was no
You stated that you come to
my house and you knew where I lived.
22
MR. SHAVER:
Mr. Lewis --
23
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Gentlemen, please address your Page 58
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comments through me.
2
MR. SHAVER:
Mr. Chairman, probably at this
3
point if there are further questions that the Board
4
has of any of the witnesses, I would ask them now or
5
otherwise consider that you've closed the evidentiary
6
portion of the hearing and receive no further comments
7
and then just begin your deliberation.
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
9
MS. KNOTTS:
Let me --
If I may --
10
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
11
MS. KNOTTS:
Yes.
-- just because this does kind of
12
touch on what was just said, just for clarification
13
purposes, the challenge to a candidacy law
14
specifically does state, and just so that you're fully
15
aware that this is what the law says, if defect
16
discovered after the deadline -- which was ten
17
business days -- protest is available.
18
challenger discovers one or more grounds for
19
challenging a candidate after the deadline in
20
Subsection A of this section, the grounds may be the
21
basis for a protest.
22
that that is the avenue that the law would have --
23
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If a
I just wanted it to be clear
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this was the only course of action that Mr. Lewis,
2
Alan Lewis could take.
3
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I don't understand -- I
4
understand what she's saying.
5
you in agreement that he had no further course of
6
action after -- in January when he -- when he learned,
7
or he did have course of action?
8 9 10
CHAIRMAN SMITH: January.
He had no course of action in
His only course of action was after canvass
you have two days to challenge things.
11 12
Now you're saying are
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Okay.
Is that what you just
read to us?
13
MS. KNOTTS:
Yes.
Yes, after the deadline for
14
a challenge to a candidacy the other option is to file
15
a protest.
16
MR. WILLIAMSON:
17
MS. KNOTTS:
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
After canvass you've got two
MR. WILLIAMSON:
So that substantiates Mr. Alan
19
A protest when?
Which would be after the election.
days.
20 21
Lewis's statement that he had nowhere to go at the
22
time he learned the situation; correct?
23
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questions to answer and several possible ways to go.
2
The first is domicile of Mr. Lewis -- Alan -- I mean
3
Louie Lewis at 237 Ocean Highway or some place else.
4
The second part of it then would be to decide if it
5
made any difference if we determine he did not live in
6
District 4, did it make a difference in the election.
7
We also, according to the law, if I can find it here
8
--
9 10
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Have we concluded the
testimony phase of this?
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Yes.
12
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Okay.
Is that my
13
understanding, so we're moving to deliberation, so
14
there's no further testimony and no further comments
15
from -- okay, thank you.
16
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
17
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
18
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
19
got two goats to milk.
Do you need me anymore? What? Do you need me anymore?
20
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Go milk your goats.
21
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Thank you, Louie.
22
MR. LOUIE LEWIS:
23
I
I'll see if I can find my way
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
The pertinent thing -- you
2
know, the two things that I get out of the law are the
3
protest should be dismissed because there is no
4
substantial evidence of a violation of the election
5
law or other irregularity, or misconduct.
6
is that there is substantial evidence to believe that
7
a violation of the election law or other irregularity
8
or misconduct did occur and that it was sufficiently
9
serious to cast doubt on the apparent results of the
10
The other
election.
11
If we conclude that, we may order any of the
12
following:
13
County's Board decision be sent to the State Board for
14
action by it.
15
determine what law is applicable to the findings of
16
fact, we can send our findings of fact to the State
17
Board for it to determine the applicable law.
18
And in this case that the protest and the
And the other is if we are unable to
(DISCUSSION OFF RECORD)
19
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
20
recess if that's okay.
21
MR. SHAVER:
22
We'd like to take a ten-minute
Yeah.
You can recess but your
deliberations need to stay in the open session.
23
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2
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
3
recess.
4
questions?
We have returned from our
And, Mr. Boyd, any further discussion,
5
MR. WILLIAMSON:
Not at this time.
6
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Mr. Randy?
7
MR. PELTON:
8
have no more questions.
9
--
Are we into the deliberation -- I
10
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
11
MR. PELTON:
12
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
13
our path forward.
14
MR. PELTON:
Are we into deliberations or
Yes.
-- or just going to... Whatever we need to resolve
Let me say this, that Mr. Louie
15
Lewis's track record of residency and all of the
16
things that he's done involved filing for office in
17
the past is certainly cloudy at best in my mind.
18
I'm not sure exactly what his intentions were at any
19
particular point.
20
been the best way to approach it, I think Mr. Lewis --
So, you know, while it may not have
21
MR. SHAVER:
Which one?
22
MR. PELTON:
Louie Lewis.
23
And
Thank you.
You
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of his residency -- claimed his residency and his
2
mailing address in January when he filed for the
3
office.
4
use that as his residence, and I don't know that I can
5
argue with that a whole lot at this point.
6
it's certainly a gray cloudy area in my mind at best
7
but that's kind of where my head is at the moment.
He stated that that was his intent, was to
You know,
8
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Boyd?
9
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I think the -- I think the
10
evidence shows overwhelmingly that not many nights are
11
spent by anybody at 237 with a light bill of $20 a
12
month.
13
you file and you state the residence, have you met the
14
intent of the law to establish that you live somewhere
15
and that's where you live and that's what you call
16
home whether you spend a night there or not?
17
the other side of the equation.
18
unusual to have -- people in Washington, DC probably
19
don't spend three nights a year, three nights in a
20
year in their home district.
21
Georgetown or somewhere but --
My question to Sara was, is when you go in and
22
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
23
question is domicile.
That's
I know it's not
They all live in
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the
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establish a new domicile.
2
MR. PELTON:
Right.
3
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And it would appear, based on
4
what you said and my personal feeling, is that his
5
domicile certainly wasn't 237 Ocean Highway previous
6
to filing because of the electric bill and all the
7
other problems.
8
established that as his domicile.
9
is that he's claimed that for the last 51 years that's
10
his domicile when clearly he certainly wasn't sleeping
11
there much at all with an electric bill like he had.
12
He certainly told the Board of Elections on several
13
occasions and for a long time that his domicile was at
14
341?
He could have at filing time
15
MR. PELTON:
16
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
17
MS. KNOTTS:
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Where I am troubled
341 I guess. 341 Ocean Highway, Southport-
Southport-Supply. -- Supply Road.
And it would
19
appear that based on his running for office twice from
20
that address and things like that, that for a number
21
of years and the electric bill would seem to establish
22
that somebody was living there for a long time.
23
question, I think, would be did he truly move his
The
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domicile to 237 Ocean Highway or not.
2
opinion he -- that wasn't his domicile prior to filing
3
based on the electric bill there and the electric bill
4
for 341 Southport-Supply Road.
5
MR. PELTON:
But in my
I would agree with you.
I think
6
he's probably spending the majority of his time on the
7
Southport-Supply Road address, whether that's 431 or
8
341.
9
having two residency and is it illegal for him to
And I keep coming back though, to the line about
10
establish a primary domicile where he doesn't spend
11
most of his time.
12
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
13
MR. PELTON:
14
Yes.
Then you get into intent, and I --
you know, I guess --
15
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
16
determine intent.
17
multiple residences.
And that's our job to
There are a lot of people with
18
MR. PELTON:
Right.
19
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
You have one domicile.
You
20
may go some place else for many years as a matter of
21
fact --
22
MR. PELTON:
Uh-huh.
23
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return to a particular place --
2
MR. PELTON:
3
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- then that is your domicile.
4
MR. PELTON:
5
intended to do.
Uh-huh.
Which is what Mr. Louie said he
That is part of his testimony.
6
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
7
MR. PELTON:
8
That he what?
He --
Intended to return to the Ocean
Highway address --
9
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Well, but he intended to
10
return there but what the information shows is he
11
never was there in the first place.
12
he was there but the utility bills and the other
13
information says that --
14
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
You know, he says
My question is and perhaps
15
Mr. Shaver can help us with this is, is that a
16
violation?
17
my primary domicile I intend to make 227 Ocean Highway
18
although I'm spending 9 out of 10 nights somewhere
19
else, his second residency?
20
I mean is it still legitimate to say that
MR. SHAVER:
You decide.
You will decide if
21
the facts support his expression of intent.
22
expressed his intent --
23
MR. PELTON:
He
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MR. SHAVER:
-- and that's certainly something
2
that you have to take into consideration and give
3
weight to.
4
really his, his residence.
But do all the facts support that that was
5
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
6
MR. SHAVER:
I believe he also testified that
7
he spent most of his nights at the river address.
8
MR. PELTON:
Correct.
Yeah.
9
MR. SHAVER:
So he's -- he says it's his
10
primary residence but he also says he doesn't spend
11
most of the nights there.
12
MR. WILLIAMSON:
So that's my dilemma.
I think
13
the greater weight of evidence is that he does not
14
stay there.
15
when he listed a place that he has called home for 50
16
years as being where he lived.
17
the law.
18
The question is did he do anything wrong
MR. SHAVER:
I mean in the eyes of
If he didn't live there, he wasn't
19
qualified to run as a candidate for office in that
20
district.
21
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
You have a domicile.
22
MR. WILLIAMSON:
I understand.
23
I understand.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
He could establish a new
2
domicile at 227 Ocean Highway.
But I have a hard time
3
saying that's where he intended.
4
domicile some time in the past and he intended to
5
return there based on a number of things; partly
6
utility bills and partly his filing with the voter
7
registration.
8
years said he lived on Southport-Supply Road and he
9
ran for office from there several times.
That that was his
Voter registration for a number of
10
MR. PELTON:
11
changing his primary --
12
filing to register -- register to vote there.
13 14
But that doesn't preclude him from
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
excuse me.
His domicile and
He could have decided to move
his domicile from there to 227 Ocean Highway --
15
MR. PELTON:
Okay.
16
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- and he filed a voter
17
registration to say that that's what he -- he wanted
18
his domicile to be.
I think then the question is --
19
MR. PELTON:
Does that comply with the law, I
20
guess is my question --
21
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And if it does the question is
22
has he really moved there.
23
that's his domicile.
Has he really established
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MR. PELTON:
Then you come to intent and what's
2
in the man's head.
3
the word that he's -- what he's testified here today
4
so...
5 6
I don't -- all I can do is taken
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Well, I have a hard time
believing that his domicile is 227 Ocean Highway.
7
MR. PELTON:
You know, I would have a hard time
8
believing that's his, quote, primary place of
9
residence.
I would agree with you.
But I guess my
10
question comes back to what is the legal -- and
11
perhaps Bob can help us with this -- the legal
12
definition of a domicile.
13
majority of your time or where --
14 15
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
MR. PELTON:
17
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
MR. PELTON:
20
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Uh-huh. And he can say he established
a new one if we believe he, he lives there.
22 23
But you establish one and you
keep it until you establish a new one.
19
21
-- where you intend to return
too.
16
18
Is it where you spend the
MR. PELTON:
The --
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sufficient to say that's my new domicile.
2
obviously owns the property.
3
there, you know.
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
He
There's no argument
Well, he has to establish it.
5
I'd like to see his electric bills again.
6
Particularly the electric bill for the last two
7
months.
8 9
MR. PELTON:
I wish my electric bills were that
low.
10 11
Did he live there the last two months?
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
end of December was zero.
12
MR. PELTON:
13
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
14
units.
15
and April 89.
16 17
Well, his usage up through the
Uh-huh. Okay.
January he used 11
February he used 2 units and March he used 56 At the same time --
MS. KNOTTS:
If I may, Stuart, I just want to
point out --
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Uh-huh.
19
MS. KNOTTS: -- that there are two sheets of
20
paper on Exhibit 27.
The first is the service
21
description is house.
The second is service
22
description shop.
23
Just --
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MS. KNOTTS: -- if there are two pieces of
2
paper, it's because there are two structures on the
3
property.
4
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
5
MS. KNOTTS:
6
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Okay.
Just so that you -Yeah, the shop -- the shop
7
used a good bit of power.
8
unit, February used 5, March used 5, April used 19.
9
The Southport-Supply address usage has been on the
10
order of 2,500 units.
11
1,602.
12
was 1,424.
13
Let's see.
February was 2,785.
Well, January was
March was 2,538 and April
So he's using a lot of power --
MR. PELTON:
It would be consistent with just
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having an electric HVAC --
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MR. PELTON:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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But in January only used 1
Yeah.
-- system. And almost certainly he isn't
using any air conditioning or heating at 227.
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MR. PELTON:
Well, not electric anyway.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. FORTE:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. SHAVER:
Yeah.
Can I ask Mr. Shaver a question?
No.
No. There is no -- going back to Page 72
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your question about --
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MR. PELTON:
Uh-huh.
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MR. SHAVER:
-- about residence, there's no
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formula.
It's not a simple matter of do you spend
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more nights one place than another.
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statutory definition for what it is worth that says
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the place considered the residence is that in which
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the person's habitation is fixed and to which whenever
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they are absent, they have the intent to return.
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Habitation fixed, primary place you live and when
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you're away, you intend to return and live there.
You have the
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So you have a residence and for it to change you
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abandon the one you are at and you intend to make the
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new one your home and not leave.
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back.
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evidence you have before you between the expression of
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intent and the other evidence of actual usage and
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behavior.
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substantial evidence one way or the other.
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You intend to come
And so that's where you have to weigh the
And you will decide whether there is
Basically as you have seen this unfold and you
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see what your choices are for findings and
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conclusions, you know that if you believe that
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the ten business days after that Mr. Louie Lewis did
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not live in the district, then he should have filed
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the challenge to candidacy then and that this --
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making this protest not timely.
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testified, if you believe that he did not know within
6
that filing period, then his remedy was to file the
7
protest petition he filed.
However, if as he's
So that's one avenue.
8
Now, as far as the evidence today if you believe
9
that Alan Lewis in conjunction with all the testimony
10
and all the evidence you've heard today does not --
11
has not presented substantial evidence of an
12
irregularity in the election, then that would also
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move to dismissal.
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substantial evidence of an irregularity, namely that
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Mr. Louie Lewis was not qualified to run in the
16
district and you find that there was -- that it caused
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sufficient -- it was sufficiently serious to cast
18
doubt on the apparent results -- that's the language,
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sufficiently serious to cast doubt on the apparent
20
results, then you would find that a violation occurred
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and that you would likely then refer the decision to
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the State Board.
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about tabulation of votes that has been raised.
However, if you find that there's
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not about recounting.
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about as much guidance as I can give about the
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parameters of what you have in front of you and what
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the law says about residency.
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hard job of determining what you believe to be the
6
case, what you believe carries the day from all the
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evidence in front of you as --
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
9
MR. SHAVER:
10
So, you know, that -- that's
And now you have the
And let me read --
-- the facts.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
-- something else here that
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the State Port Pilot had that -- on domiciles that I
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think they took from law cases if the reference was
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correct.
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must show an actual abandonment of the first domicile
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coupled with no intent to return.
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of a new domicile by actual residence with the intent
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of making the new -- the newer residence a permanent
18
home.
And I think that came apparently from a court
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case.
That isn't exactly what the law says but it's
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from a court case.
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To establish a change in domicile a person
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And the acquisition
Backing up just to something
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said that nobody here -- nobody came to rebut that, so
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I think for all intents and purposes we got to assume
3
that he didn't know before.
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in and said they talked about it within ten days of
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filing.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
I think there was some
additional testimony that collaborated that.
8 9
Somebody could have come
MR. WILLIAMSON:
The other thing is and it's
been stated to me, not by any legal scholar but that
10
the fact that unless Mr. Lewis gave you an address
11
that was a vacant corn field, establishing intent is
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almost impossible in law.
13
assumption?
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MR. SHAVER:
Is that -- is that a fair
Well, no.
I mean you -- the first
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evidence of intent is what he says his intent was.
16
But the second evidence is does conduct -- is conduct
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consistent with that.
18
he listed things in his address.
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Highway address he had a driver's license.
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other evidence that suggests he didn't stay there that
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much.
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evidence and some of it could be used as supporting
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the position.
And you have some evidence that In that 237 Ocean You have
You have the -- you have a wide variety of
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difficult as the fact finder to decide what you
2
believe the substantial weight of the evidence shows.
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MR. PELTON:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
5
It certainly isn't clear. Well, it's -- I think you
described it well in the beginning.
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MR. PELTON:
Cloudy at best.
7
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Cloudy at best.
I think where
8
I come out on this though, is that for many years he
9
clearly told the Board of Elections at least that his
10
domicile was on --
11
MR. PELTON:
Southport --
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
13
MR. PELTON:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Southport-Supply Road.
Uh-huh. And clearly from the electric
15
bills that would indicate that he spent a lot of time
16
there and I think his comment was he spent a lot of
17
time there.
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MR. PELTON:
Uh-huh.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
He certainly could have
20
decided to change his domicile to 237 Ocean Highway
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when he filed --
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to Southport-Supply Road.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. PELTON:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
5
Is that correct?
MR. PELTON:
He changed February 20th, 2006 is
his voter registration record change.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
9
MR. PELTON:
10
Yeah.
So he'd been there for close to
ten years.
11 12
-- it was a long time ago
because 2006 he was using Supply --
6 7
If he was --
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Yep.
Close to ten years and
he ran for office twice using that address --
13
MR. PELTON:
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH: -- so to me that established
15
Uh-huh.
his domicile as being there.
16
MR. PELTON:
17
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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there to 237 Ocean Highway.
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electric bill at least certainly doesn't seem to
20
support that.
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MR. PELTON:
Right. Did he move his domicile from And the utility bills,
Well, I guess, you know, just
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looking at it from what we have the history in 2006 he
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Ocean Highway to the 341 Southport-Supply Road
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address.
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that as his primary address for voter registration
4
purposes until October of 2015 when he changed it to
5
Governors Road in Winnabow, although he did testify
6
that he never lived there.
7
pointed out before, you may have a potential violation
8
of election law there because for filing an incorrect
9
statement but that's not the issue here with us
And he continued to reside there with using
As you had correctly
10
today.
11
December 18th of 2015.
12
was his intent to use that as his domicile when he did
13
that in December.
14
the 227 by Louie Lewis's own testimony is the office,
15
his commercial address, not a residential address.
16
But you could argue 227, 237 is the same property I
17
guess.
18
Then again he changed to 227 Ocean Highway in He made the statement that it
Now, my concern is the fact that
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Well, I think the argument was
19
that he made a mistake on the address and he meant to
20
put 237.
21
MR. PELTON:
Yeah.
Okay.
Now, I guess my
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question at this point is by doing the change of
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for office, to whether it was 227 or 37 it doesn't
2
matter I don't think, is that sufficient to comply
3
with the law to say that that's now his voting
4
domicile.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Well, I think what he has to
6
do is establish -- we have to decide that he has made
7
that his domicile --
8 9 10
MR. PELTON:
Or he intended to.
think we've pretty well established that he hasn't physically moved there on a full-time basis --
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
12
MR. PELTON:
13
Because I
At least --
-- and that's not the argument I
guess.
14
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
No.
He -- well, I think what
15
the law says, and Bob can correct me, he had to be a
16
legitimate voter on election day --
17
MR. PELTON:
18
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
19
Uh-huh. -- at that address according
to --
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MR. PELTON:
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legitimate voter?
And what qualifies him to be a
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CHAIRMAN SMITHER:
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MR. PELTON:
That's his domicile.
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MS. KNOTTS:
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interrupt.
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purposes.
Excuse me.
I'm just going to
Thirty days is the residency for voting
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MR. PELTON:
Okay.
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MS. KNOTTS:
Thirty days prior to an election.
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MR. PELTON:
Having filed; correct?
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MS. KNOTTS:
Uh-huh.
8
MR. PELTON:
Right.
9
But, you know, how do we
define residency I guess is that point.
You know, is
10
it his intent to make that and just hasn't physically
11
moved in yet, or does he physically have to be there
12
even though you're in the process of making that the
13
new home.
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A gray area at best.
MR. SHAVER:
Well, I don't think I could add
anything other than to read what I've already --
16
MR. PELTON:
Right.
17
MR. SHAVER:
-- sort of read.
If intent and
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intent alone carries the day, I don't think you'd have
19
these challenges.
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challenge and there has been a challenge.
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decide was it really --
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It may stand until there is a
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
So now you
Utility bills says he hasn't
moved to that new domicile as of the election at Page 81 IMO:
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least.
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but I'm not very happy with it personally is that we
3
can simply refer it to the State Board and let them
4
decide the law.
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The other option that I think we might have
But I think --
MR. SHAVER:
But if you do that, you have to
find the facts.
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MR. PELTON:
Right.
8
MR. SHAVER:
The way that reads is if you are
9
not able to determine what law is applicable to the
10
findings of fact, then you send it to the State
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Board.
12
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
13
MR. SHAVER:
14
So at the least you need to
establish what you find to be the facts.
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Yeah.
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
And again I think it's
preponderance of the evidence and our opinion.
17
MR. PELTON:
I guess in my opinion at the
18
moment, you know, as Mr. Louie Lewis had stated that
19
he intended to make 237 Ocean Highway his primary
20
domicile when he filed and changed his registration in
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December.
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of the most current electric bills.
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Obviously he hasn't physically done that as
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MR. PELTON:
Which may or may not mean his
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intent was misstated or just hasn't fulfilled that
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yet.
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hasn't done that, whether that's the -- his intent was
5
to do it but he hasn't physically done it yet, whether
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that's sufficient in terms of actions to say that
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that's not really his domicile at 237 Ocean Highway.
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And I didn't -- I did not state that very well but it
9
sounded better in my head than it came out of my
10
And I don't know that that's -- the fact that he
mouth.
11
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Boyd?
Go ahead.
Randy?
12
MR. WILLIAMSON:
This is difficult at best I
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believe.
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was the tax assessor, that I was probably the most
15
lied to man in the county.
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said one thing and turned around and did something
17
else.
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then I knew I was the most lied to man in the county.
19
I used to -- I used to tell people when I
Everybody'd come in and
I thought that until I became a magistrate,
I think that -- I think that Mr. Lewis has been
20
less than forthcoming in his candidacy.
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his involvement in this situation has obviously had an
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effect on the outcome of the election.
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MR. PELTON:
I think that
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
And there's no way of knowing
2
who would have won in a two-way race or whatever.
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name confusion, the number of votes, margin of
4
difference, and it is for that reason that I make a
5
motion that we move forward, approve the protest by
6
Mr. Alan Lewis based on the evidence submitted, and
7
Bob can give the jargon as to what had significant --
8
had a material effect on the outcome of the election;
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is that right?
10
MR. PELTON:
The
Do we need that in one motion or
11
two?
Do we need to find that in fact the primary
12
residence was not 237 at first, and then whether or
13
not it had a -- is that a two-step process, Bob?
14
MR. SHAVER:
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doesn't matter --
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MR. PELTON:
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
18
Okay.
All right.
I'm finding both and that's my
motion.
19 20
If you're finding them both, it
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
Any discussion?
All in favor
--
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MR. PELTON:
Wait a minute.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. PELTON:
Okay.
All right.
Go ahead. Page 84
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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(AYES RESPOND)
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. SHAVER:
All in favor?
Motion carries.
How about would you -- Mr. Chair,
5
would you have the Board entertain another motion to
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ask me to draw the order and gives you the authority
7
to sign an order consistent with the findings of
8
evidence.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH: to do that.
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MR. PELTON:
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
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MR. PELTON:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. PELTON:
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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with helping us.
Thank you. So moved.
So moved. All in --
Aye. You are officially blessed
Thank you.
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MR. SHAVER:
19
CHAIRMAN SMITH:
20
We would be very happy for you
You're welcome. I take it you'll prepare the
proper paperwork and then I need to sign it.
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MR. SHAVER:
22
That is correct.
(COMMENTS OFF RECORD)
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to send it to the State Board; correct?
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
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MR. SHAVER:
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case.
Yes.
That's our only option.
I thought -- I though that was the
I just wanted to make sure it was clear.
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MR. WILLIAMSON:
I make a motion to adjourn.
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CHAIRMAN SMITH:
We're adjourned.
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(Whereupon, the hearing was concluded
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at 11:05 p.m.)
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
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COUNTY OF BRUNSWICK
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CERTIFICATION OF REPORTER
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I, LAURA L. VAN SANDT, Notary Public and
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Court Reporter, have read the foregoing
6
transcript, which was taken down and
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transcribed by me for the firm of AURELIA
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RUFFIN & ASSOCIATES, INC., and I find the
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contents of same to be true and correct, to the
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best of my knowledge and belief.
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I further certify that the above-named
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witness was duly sworn by me prior to the
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taking of the foregoing deposition.
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This the 11th day of May, 2016.
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Notary Public, #201401500140
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
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COUNTY OF NEW HANOVER
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CERTIFICATION
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I, PETER B. RUFFIN, III, Notary Public, Court
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Reporter and President of AURELIA RUFFIN & ASSOCIATES,
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INC., do hereby certify that the foregoing transcript
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constitutes a true and correct record of the testimony
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of the Brunswick County Board of Elections Hearing,
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the same having been taken down and transcribed by
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LAURA L. VAN SANDT, Notary Public and Court Reporter
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for the firm of AURELIA RUFFIN & ASSOCIATES, INC., on
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the date and at the place set forth in the record and
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before those persons named therein;
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FURTHER, that we are not related to any of
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the Counsel; we are not employed by any of Counsel or
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parties to this action, save and except for the
17
explicit purpose of taking down the testimony herein
18
and transcribing same; and that we, in no way, are
19
interested in the outcome of said litigation;
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FURTHER, that the original of this transcript
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will be found for filing with the State of North
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Carolina Superior Court, New Hanover County, and will
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Brunswick County Board of Elections, 75 Stamp Act
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Drive, NE, Bolivia, North Carolina for hand-delivery
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to the Court at the time of trial.
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THIS the 12th day of May, 2016.
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beyond (1) 5:23 big (1) 46:3 bill (16) 4:19 26:20 30:15,17 48:6 55:6,7,18 64:11 65:6,11 65:21 66:3,3 71:6 78:19 billboards (1) 45:2 bills (10) 34:2 55:5 67:12 69:6 71:5,8 77:15 78:18 81:22 82:22 birthright (1) 45:15 bit (3) 16:20 27:11 72:7 blessed (4) 25:8 25:10 26:3 85:16 blow (5) 3:16 9:3,8 16:1 18:7 Board (40) 1:1 2:5,16 5:18 6:3 6:8,10,20 8:7 9:14 10:15,22 11:22 16:18 17:5,6,18 20:21 23:13,20 38:14 41:13 47:9 53:19 54:6 57:4,16 59:3 62:13,13 62:17 65:12 74:22 77:9 82:3,11 85:5 86:1 88:8 89:1 Bob (5) 70:11 75:22 80:15 84:7,13 Bolivia (7) 1:2 1:22 2:17 7:1,5 7:14 89:2 born (1) 45:16 bottom (1) 43:17
bouncing (1) 33:17 Box (1) 1:15 Boyd (9) 2:8 13:2 21:14,16 30:21 42:21 63:3 64:8 83:11 brick (2) 14:19 15:18 briefly (1) 6:5 bring (7) 23:5 24:1 26:7 28:19 29:2 58:18,19 broad (1) 18:5 broad-view (3) 4:4,6 19:3 brought (3) 23:5 23:6 49:15 Brunswick (26) 1:1 2:16 4:11 6:9 8:6,12,14 9:15 10:12,16 10:21 14:5 16:9 17:2,17 18:1 25:17 28:22 30:15 31:22 48:6 50:6,8 87:2 88:8 89:1 building (7) 14:7,12,12 15:18 16:14 56:9,11 buildings (2) 14:20,21 built (2) 16:23 23:23 business (19) 8:21 9:6,9 10:2 31:11,12,16 33:22 35:7,12 45:22 46:1,2,4 47:6 51:21 58:15 59:17 74:1 buy (1) 26:23
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
C C (1) 5:1 call (6) 5:2 11:23 14:19 22:12 50:7 64:15 called (2) 21:2 68:15 campaigning (... 47:15 candidacy (12) 3:12 5:8 6:4,17 8:3 12:18 51:13 58:14 59:13 60:14 74:3 83:20 candidate (3) 11:17 59:19 68:19 Canons (1) 41:16 canvass (2) 60:9 60:18 canvassed (1) 49:19 car (1) 46:9 card (11) 4:2,13 4:14 10:18 18:1,21 25:22 26:3 29:16,23 29:23 Carolina (9) 1:2 1:16 2:17 29:12 42:8 87:1 88:1,22 89:2 carries (4) 55:19 75:6 81:18 85:3 Carter (2) 1:6 5:14 case (11) 5:10 17:10 25:19 27:2 42:2 52:4 62:12 75:6,19 75:20 86:4 cases (1) 75:12 cast (4) 53:16 62:9 74:17,19
caused (2) 23:22 74:16 cell (1) 21:1 center (2) 2:17 50:20 cents (1) 55:7 certainly (11) 52:17 63:17 64:6 65:5,10 65:12 68:1 72:17 77:3,19 78:19 CERTIFICA... 3:10 87:3 88:3 certify (2) 87:11 88:6 chain (1) 54:14 Chair (2) 6:11 85:4 chairman (191) 2:6 5:2,6,14,16 5:18 6:16 8:8 8:16 9:1,8 10:11 11:2,5 11:11,12,15 12:23 13:2,5 15:7,13,22 16:1 17:1,20 18:8,12,15,18 18:20 19:5,10 20:14 21:10,13 22:12,16,18 24:3,10 28:6 28:14,17,20 29:6,11,15,18 29:22 30:4 32:22 33:4 35:15,18,21 36:3,8,10,12 36:19,23 37:3 37:8,11,19 38:1,6,14,19 39:2,8,11,16 39:18 40:2,5,8 40:11,14,18 41:1,2,4 42:14 42:21 43:13,15 44:3 46:22
LEWIS 101
Page 92 47:12,17,19,23 49:1,23 50:2,8 50:13,15 53:22 54:8,14 55:4 55:22 56:20 58:23 59:2,8 59:10,23 60:8 60:18,23 61:11 61:17,20 62:1 62:19,23 63:2 63:6,10,12 64:8,22 65:3 65:16,18 66:12 66:15,19,23 67:3,6,9 68:21 69:1,13,16,21 70:5,14,17,20 71:4,10,13,18 71:23 72:4,6 72:15,17,20,22 75:8,10 76:6 77:4,7,12,14 77:19 78:2,4,8 78:11,14,17 79:18 80:5,11 80:14,18,22 81:22 82:12,15 82:23 83:11 84:19,22 85:1 85:3,9,14,16 85:19 86:2,6 challenge (8) 5:7 51:16 59:13 60:10,14 74:3 81:20,20 challenger (1) 59:18 challenges (1) 81:19 challenging (2) 51:4 59:19 chance (2) 28:19 44:21 change (9) 7:17 27:13 37:4 42:1 73:12 75:13 77:20 78:7 79:22 IMO:
changed (19) 7:2,9,11,17,22 10:1 29:21 38:23,23 39:2 51:1 54:19,21 56:14 78:6,23 79:4,10 82:20 changes (3) 4:20 41:16 42:15 changing (1) 69:11 check (5) 4:17 11:21 22:21 30:2,8 choices (1) 73:21 Citizens (1) 26:12 claim (1) 55:2 claimed (3) 42:18 64:1 65:9 clarification (4) 32:16,22 41:5 59:12 clarified (1) 58:4 clarify (5) 11:16 20:5 57:10,15 85:23 class (2) 37:14 43:20 classification (1) 34:18 clean (2) 46:18 46:20 clear (5) 6:13 17:18 59:21 77:3 86:4 clearly (3) 65:10 77:9,14 close (2) 78:9,11 closed (3) 11:20 51:18 59:5 cloudy (5) 58:1 63:17 64:6 77:6,7 Coates' (1) 41:16
collaborated (1) 76:7 collusion (1) 17:9 come (17) 5:11 11:22 12:10 13:23 22:13 23:11 27:5 34:2 43:9,23 46:13 58:20 70:1 73:14 76:3 77:8 83:15 comes (3) 26:5 55:23 70:10 coming (2) 26:2 66:8 comment (5) 12:1 41:3 47:12 50:8 77:16 comments (7) 6:7 20:16 42:21 59:1,6 61:14 85:22 commercial (8) 10:2,9 13:17 14:12,21 33:10 33:12 79:15 commissioner ... 8:4 17:17 31:3 38:22 41:8,11 42:20 commissioner'... 38:18 commissioner... 27:9 comply (2) 69:19 80:2 concede (1) 47:4 concern (3) 34:8 37:11 79:13 concerned (1) 55:14 concerning (1) 28:22 conclude (1) 62:11
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
concluded (2) 61:9 86:7 conclusion (1) 53:10 conclusions (1) 73:22 condition (2) 56:5,10 conditioning (1) 72:18 conduct (5) 42:10 52:19 53:15 76:16,16 conducted (3) 31:11,12,16 confused (4) 13:7 34:3,5 48:21 confusion (3) 13:18 39:6 84:3 conjunction (1) 74:9 consider (1) 59:5 consideration ... 68:2 considered (4) 16:16 24:19 25:2 73:7 consistent (4) 45:23 72:13 76:17 85:7 constitutes (1) 88:7 construction (1) 10:7 consulted (1) 12:16 contained (1) 6:9 contention (2) 31:9 44:9 contents (4) 3:1 3:4 9:20 87:9 continuation (2) 4:9 28:15 continued (1)
79:2 conversation (2) 50:11 51:7 conversations ... 57:5 convicted (1) 43:20 convince (1) 53:6 convinced (1) 25:20 copy (5) 8:12 24:18 29:11 30:12,15 corn (1) 76:11 correct (36) 15:17,19 18:9 19:2,6,8 20:13 22:2,20,22 23:1,2 24:6,7 29:20 33:8 35:20,21,23 36:7 37:10,16 39:15,17 52:5 52:9 60:22 68:8 75:13 78:3 80:15 81:6 85:21 86:1 87:9 88:7 corrected (1) 56:8 correctly (1) 79:6 Counsel (2) 88:15,15 counts (1) 42:9 county (40) 1:1 2:4,16,16 6:10 7:4 8:4,6,12,14 9:15 10:12,16 10:21 12:16 14:6 16:10,13 17:3,17 18:1 25:4,18 28:22 31:22 41:7,11 42:20 45:5 50:6,8 52:5 57:3 83:15,18
LEWIS 102
Page 93 87:2 88:2,8,22 89:1 county's (2) 16:12 62:13 County-Basic ... 4:11 couple (4) 9:14 30:22 35:18 49:23 coupled (1) 75:15 course (9) 26:2 26:21 43:8 44:14 60:1,5,7 60:8,9 court (14) 1:14 2:18 15:8 28:7 42:2,3,9 75:18 75:20 87:5 88:4,10,22 89:3 covenants (1) 9:20 covered (1) 56:19 curious (1) 33:22 current (1) 82:22 cut (1) 34:13 D D (1) 5:1 damn (1) 45:6 date (6) 1:21 6:21 8:3 12:18 51:6 88:12 dated (1) 30:6 daughter's (1) 20:4 Davis (1) 41:8 day (19) 11:19 31:19,23 32:1 36:1,1 43:4,10 45:13,18,19 47:5,7,20 75:6 80:16 81:18 87:14 89:4
IMO:
days (15) 31:20 43:8 45:17 47:8 51:13,22 54:21 58:15 59:17 60:10,19 74:1 76:4 81:2 81:5 DC (1) 64:18 deadline (4) 58:14 59:16,19 60:13 deal (1) 46:3 dealing (1) 13:7 decades (1) 46:8 December (11) 8:1 11:18 12:19 45:7 51:14,20 71:11 79:11,13,23 82:21 decide (10) 53:1 53:19 61:4 67:20,20 73:18 77:1 80:6 81:21 82:4 decided (4) 27:12,16 69:13 77:20 decision (7) 3:22 10:22 17:2 52:3 53:18 62:13 74:21 declaration (1) 43:1 defect (1) 59:15 define (1) 81:9 defined (1) 24:17 definition (2) 70:12 73:6 deliberation (3) 59:7 61:13 63:7 deliberations (... 62:22 63:8 Democrat (1) 7:18 Democratic (1)
41:7 demonstratin... 5:23 8:20 denied (1) 16:19 deny (1) 10:23 department (11) 9:16 10:5,12 10:16,19 14:6 16:10,22 18:1 22:6 56:12 deposit (3) 4:15 30:3,4 deposition (1) 87:13 Deputy (1) 2:3 described (1) 77:5 description (2) 71:21,22 desk (1) 31:13 determine (5) 61:5 62:15,17 66:16 82:9 determining (1) 75:5 difference (5) 13:15 49:22 61:5,6 84:4 different (1) 13:7 differently (1) 19:12 difficult (3) 47:7 77:1 83:12 digits (1) 19:8 dignified (1) 46:19 dilemma (1) 68:12 directions (1) 21:6 director (4) 2:2 2:3 56:22 88:23 disagreed (1) 16:12 discovered (2) 58:13 59:16
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
discovers (1) 59:18 discrepancy (1) 18:10 discriminatin... 57:9 discussed (1) 21:8 discussion (3) 62:18 63:3 84:19 discussions (1) 14:1 dismissal (1) 74:13 dismissed (2) 53:7 62:3 dispute (1) 74:22 district (33) 5:20 6:2 8:4 12:8,11,15,15 17:18,19 20:20 20:20 25:5 27:2,6 31:1,3 36:18,23 41:11 41:12 42:19,20 43:6 46:2 50:23 51:10 58:16,17 61:6 64:20 68:20 74:2,16 districts (2) 35:9 35:11 document (7) 6:22 9:19 10:21 19:13 21:18 42:12 46:6 documentatio... 8:6 18:2 documents (3) 9:5,14 45:5 doing (3) 23:17 53:12 79:22 dollar (2) 26:9 27:10 domicile (61)
35:19 36:3,4,5 36:6,13 37:15 37:20 38:2,7 39:3,9,11,18 39:19 40:8,11 47:20 54:15,15 54:16,18 61:2 64:23,23 65:1 65:5,8,10,13 66:1,2,10,19 67:3,17 68:21 69:2,4,11,14 69:18,23 70:6 70:12 71:1 75:13,14,16 77:10,20,23 78:15,17 79:12 80:4,7,22 81:23 82:20 83:7 domiciles (1) 75:11 dominical (1) 28:2 dominically (1) 28:1 domonical (1) 28:4 dot (1) 14:15 doubt (5) 6:1 53:16 62:9 74:18,19 draw (1) 85:6 Drive (2) 2:16 89:2 driver's (7) 4:18 26:17 29:14,15 30:10 46:5 76:19 duly (5) 5:14 22:18 44:3 50:15 87:12 dyslexic (1) 19:18 E E (2) 5:1,1 early (4) 11:18
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Page 94 31:21 45:12,17 Earth (1) 17:21 East (42) 3:14 3:15,18,19,20 6:5,23 7:6,10 7:15,21 8:2,15 8:17,20 9:2,16 10:17 11:3 13:8,9 14:10 14:16 15:9,14 16:8,11 28:10 28:22 29:19 30:1,6,8,10,11 30:14,17 33:6 34:18 48:16,17 49:2 Education (1) 17:18 effect (2) 83:22 84:8 eight (2) 14:4 45:18 either (1) 57:8 elapsed (1) 26:9 elected (5) 4:20 23:22 41:16 42:15 45:4 election (26) 1:6 5:9 8:7 12:20 25:5 27:22 43:8 44:6,22 45:12 46:18 47:2,20 53:15 60:17 61:6 62:4,7,10 74:12 79:8 80:16 81:5,23 83:22 84:8 Elections (10) 1:1 2:16 6:10 11:23 38:15 57:16 65:12 77:9 88:8 89:1 electric (26) 4:19 30:15,16 30:17 48:6,7 48:12 49:2 55:5,6,6,7,18 IMO:
65:6,11,21 66:3,3 71:5,6,8 72:14,19 77:14 78:19 82:22 electrical (1) 56:9 eligibility (1) 5:8 eligible (1) 43:7 employed (1) 88:15 employees (2) 10:3,9 encourage (1) 57:15 ended (1) 54:21 enlarged (3) 3:20,21 15:13 enter (3) 8:4,19 47:23 entered (6) 6:4 6:23 7:4,12 17:8 19:12 entertain (1) 85:5 entire (2) 40:9 40:12 entry (1) 8:1 Equalization (6) 10:22 16:19 17:5,6 54:6 57:4 equation (2) 48:1 64:17 equity (1) 26:11 error (2) 19:16 33:13 establish (16) 5:23 26:16 27:18 41:13 54:16 64:14 65:1,21 66:10 69:1 70:17,18 71:4 75:13 80:6 82:14 established (9) 7:19 28:1 36:16 41:22 65:8 69:22
70:20 78:14 80:9 establishing (1) 76:11 evening (1) 16:5 everybody (3) 41:18 46:19 49:18 Everybody'd (1) 83:15 evidence (33) 6:3 11:10 16:6 17:8 52:20,23 53:2,5,8,14 57:7,9 62:4,6 64:10 68:13 73:16,17,19 74:8,10,11,14 75:7 76:15,16 76:17,20,22 77:2 82:16 84:6 85:8 evidential (1) 42:10 evidentiary (1) 59:5 exact (2) 44:21 51:6 exactly (3) 21:6 63:18 75:19 examination (1) 17:17 excess (1) 16:14 excited (1) 24:23 excuse (3) 13:12 69:11 81:1 exhibit (55) 3:16 3:21 6:16,19 8:5,8,11,16,18 8:23 9:1,3,8,10 9:13 10:10,11 10:14 11:2 13:20 14:2,3 14:11 15:8,10 15:13,22 16:7 17:1,14,20,23 18:4,7,8,11,12 19:1 25:14,16
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
25:21 26:4 28:7 29:11 30:2,8,16 41:15 42:13,14 49:1,5,8 52:3 71:20 exhibits (7) 3:11 6:12 11:6 31:12 44:5,7 53:1 expert (2) 55:22 57:1 expired (1) 12:18 expires (1) 51:13 explicit (1) 88:17 expressed (1) 67:22 expression (3) 42:11 67:21 73:16 eyes (1) 68:16 F facilities (1) 9:22 facility (2) 10:18 10:20 fact (13) 25:9 50:21,22 58:16 62:16,16 66:21 76:10 77:1 79:13 82:10 83:3 84:11 facts (5) 67:21 68:3 75:9 82:6 82:14 fair (4) 16:15 44:17 46:18 76:12 false (1) 43:19 familiar (2) 12:4 21:17 far (5) 25:21 35:1 55:11,13 74:8 farm (1) 20:22 Farnsworth (1)
42:8 favor (2) 84:19 85:1 February (6) 7:8 7:10 71:14 72:8,11 78:6 feeling (1) 65:4 fellows (1) 27:20 felony (2) 37:14 43:20 field (1) 76:11 file (9) 11:17 12:21 43:5,10 43:11 60:14 63:23 64:13 74:6 filed (23) 6:3 8:3 11:18,21 12:1 12:2 16:10 24:14 26:22 38:18,22 41:6 45:7 46:1,4 64:2 69:16 74:2,7 77:21 79:23 81:6 82:20 files (1) 8:7 filing (23) 11:19 11:20 17:14 42:23 43:8 51:12,14,18 54:20,21 58:14 58:15 63:16 65:6,7 66:2 69:6,12 73:23 74:6 76:5 79:8 88:21 filings (1) 14:2 final (1) 31:18 find (18) 19:13 27:5 32:13 35:11 43:16 53:5,7,13,17 61:7,22 74:13 74:16,20 82:6 82:14 84:11 87:8 finder (1) 77:1
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Page 95 finding (2) 84:14,17 findings (5) 62:15,16 73:21 82:10 85:7 fine (2) 11:12 44:13 firm (3) 2:18 87:7 88:11 first (21) 5:3,9 9:11 11:19 13:12 17:10 22:19 26:12,12 26:14,14 30:4 30:7 41:17 54:19 61:2 67:11 71:20 75:14 76:14 84:12 five (1) 16:5 fix (1) 46:14 fixed (3) 24:20 73:8,10 follow (1) 54:14 follow-up (2) 13:20 18:6 following (2) 2:15 62:12 foregoing (3) 87:5,13 88:6 foremost (1) 41:18 form (6) 12:17 19:14 37:12,14 38:15 43:19 formula (1) 73:4 Forte (14) 3:8 5:22 12:1 43:22 44:3,5 44:13,15,20 47:5 48:20 49:21,22 72:21 Forte's (1) 46:23 forth (1) 88:12 forthcoming (1) 83:20 fortitude (1) 46:16 IMO:
forward (4) 43:23 53:9 63:13 84:5 forwarded (1) 88:23 found (1) 88:21 four (5) 9:12 10:2,9 16:5 44:23 Fourteen's (1) 19:3 fourth (1) 25:9 frequently (1) 16:4 front (5) 14:20 21:21 22:1 75:3,7 fulfilled (1) 83:2 full-time (2) 47:6 80:10 fully (1) 59:14 further (13) 21:13 22:10 42:21 53:10 59:3,6 60:5 61:14,14 63:3 87:11 88:14,20
75:2 84:7 given (2) 8:2 52:8 gives (2) 45:6 85:6 giving (1) 45:5 glad (1) 27:19 go (19) 12:20 22:21 31:21 32:1,17,23 35:1,2 39:20 43:15 44:10 46:5 60:21 61:1,20 64:12 66:20 83:11 84:23 goats (2) 61:19 61:20 goes (4) 25:3 26:1 33:22 56:13 going (18) 14:15 15:20,21 17:8 22:14 27:1,4 34:11,11,13,16 44:8 45:21 48:16 63:11 72:23 77:23 G 81:1 G (1) 5:1 good (7) 24:14 gallon (1) 10:8 24:23 25:19 garden (1) 20:22 26:22 27:16 gathered (1) 44:12 72:7 57:7 Google (1) 17:21 gathering (1) Government (1) 57:8 2:17 gentlemen (3) Governor's (1) 47:14 51:23 54:20 58:23 Governors (6) Georgetown (1) 7:20 26:23 64:21 27:3,7 34:9 girls (1) 29:2 79:5 GIS (10) 3:14 granted (1) 10:9 8:12,14,16 gray (2) 64:6 14:6 34:17,20 81:13 35:2,6,9 greater (4) give (6) 15:15 42:10 55:9,19 25:10,21 68:2 68:13
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
greet (1) 50:12 greets (1) 50:18 ground (1) 24:14 grounds (2) 59:18,20 guess (18) 23:23 24:1 28:15 37:11 43:15 51:5 54:15 57:2 65:15 66:14 69:20 70:9 78:21 79:17,21 80:13 81:9 82:17 guidance (1) 75:2 H habital (1) 55:2 habitat (1) 54:1 habitation (4) 16:6 24:20 73:8,10 half (2) 10:19 27:10 hand-delivery... 89:2 handed (2) 6:12 6:15 hands (4) 27:16 45:18 47:4,8 handwriting (1) 22:4 handwritten (1) 21:23 Hanover (2) 88:2,22 happen (1) 25:17 happened (1) 43:10 happy (2) 82:2 85:9 hard (9) 44:6 45:16 47:2,14 47:21 69:2 70:5,7 75:5
harder (2) 45:10 45:13 hardest (1) 31:22 head (4) 45:9 64:7 70:2 83:9 health (3) 9:15 10:5,12 heard (3) 11:23 20:23 74:10 hearing (5) 1:10 2:15 59:6 86:7 88:8 hearsay (2) 47:1 47:11 heat (1) 56:10 heating (1) 72:18 held (1) 2:15 help (3) 21:16 67:15 70:11 helping (1) 85:17 highlighted (2) 21:22 41:17 Highway (68) 6:5,23 7:6,9,15 7:21 8:2,15,17 8:20 9:2,9,16 10:17 11:3 13:8,9 14:8,16 15:9,14 16:8 16:12 26:1 28:10,22 29:19 30:1,5,8,10,11 30:14,17 32:18 33:6 34:18 37:20 38:20 40:6 48:16,17 49:2,5 54:1,9 54:19,22,23 55:2,10 61:3 63:23 65:5,16 66:1 67:8,17 69:2,14 70:6 76:19 77:20 78:18 79:1,10 82:19 83:7
LEWIS 105
Page 96 hinge (1) 44:9 history (8) 3:13 6:8,20 8:8,10 48:17,18 78:22 hold (2) 8:22 47:6 home (15) 25:3 26:11 28:1 33:3 36:17 42:5,6 46:2 61:23 64:16,20 68:15 73:14 75:18 81:13 homes (1) 25:7 hope (1) 46:16 hours (1) 45:18 house (21) 14:19 14:19 20:9 21:8 23:23 24:3,8,9 26:10 26:19,23 27:3 27:5 31:17 33:23 38:4 46:9 55:20 56:19 58:21 71:21 houses (3) 25:17 41:20 52:13 human (1) 19:16 HVAC (1) 72:14 Hwy (7) 3:14,15 3:18,19,20 4:21,22 I idea (1) 45:3 IDENTIFICA... 18:4 III (1) 88:4 illegal (1) 66:9 impossible (1) 76:12 improvement ... 3:17 9:17 10:4 10:11 INAUDIBLE ... 25:4 incorrect (1)
IMO:
79:8 incorrectly (1) 7:12 increased (1) 56:8 indicate (1) 77:15 indicated (3) 50:4 51:3 55:12 individual (1) 43:3 indoors (1) 10:2 Info (1) 3:18 Informal (2) 3:22 17:2 information (... 11:3 16:8 18:2 35:6 41:12 48:2,10 49:2 49:12 53:23 54:6,17 57:9 67:10,13 initial (1) 20:16 inspections (1) 56:11 insurance (2) 26:7,9 intend (6) 5:22 67:17 70:14 73:11,13,14 intended (12) 10:1 39:23 40:2,15,17 67:5,7,9 69:3,4 80:8 82:19 intends (1) 28:3 intent (25) 41:23 42:9,11 52:16 64:3,14 66:13 66:16,23 67:21 67:22 70:1 73:9,17 75:15 75:16 76:11,15 76:15 79:12 81:10,17,18 83:2,4 intention (4)
39:22 42:6,7 85:23 intentions (3) 24:21 25:6 63:18 intents (1) 76:2 interested (1) 88:19 interrupt (1) 81:2 interrupting (1) 6:12 introduce (2) 45:19 48:11 introduced (4) 6:13 18:22 48:4,5 investigations ... 41:6 involved (1) 63:16 involvement (1) 83:21 irregularity (6) 53:13,14 62:5 62:7 74:12,14 issue (6) 33:11 34:10 48:8 57:12 70:23 79:9 issued (3) 10:5 30:12 46:6
50:15 Joyce (1) 42:16 JR (1) 2:4 July (1) 7:16 jurisdiction (1) 43:6
K Kayanna (1) 20:8 keep (6) 6:13 33:17 36:4 39:11 66:8 70:18 kept (1) 36:19 kill (1) 44:8 kind (4) 46:14 58:2 59:11 64:7 knew (9) 12:7 23:10,16 31:2 31:5,6 58:21 73:23 83:18 Knotts (41) 2:2 8:22 9:12 14:4 15:23 19:12,16 20:5,10 28:23 29:4,16 30:3 34:20,23 35:3 35:5,9,14 43:3 48:3,15,21 49:13 51:21 54:2,5,11 59:9 J 59:11 60:13,17 January (15) 65:17 71:16,19 7:2 12:12 72:1,5 81:1,5,7 46:13 50:6 88:23 51:5,10 56:6 know (51) 12:1 58:13,17 60:6 12:6,8 13:14 60:9 64:2 14:22 18:10 71:13 72:7,10 20:21 21:4 jargon (1) 84:7 24:16 25:15 job (4) 27:20 26:17,19 31:20 66:15 75:5 33:15,21 34:8 76:23 34:17 38:8 Joe (1) 50:13 39:5 43:19 Jones (1) 42:8 44:23 46:8,11 JOSEPH (2) 3:9 47:13 52:20
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
55:18 56:16,18 57:6,18 58:16 62:2 63:19,23 64:4,5,17 66:14 67:11 70:7 71:3 73:22 74:5 75:1,23 76:3 78:21 81:8,9 82:18 83:3 knowing (2) 17:11 84:1 knowledge (5) 17:7 19:23 20:17 47:1 87:10 known (3) 46:8 46:10 51:17 L L (4) 1:14 2:17 87:4 88:10 labeled (1) 6:14 lacked (2) 54:10 54:11 land (2) 16:14 27:10 language (1) 74:18 larger (1) 15:16 late (5) 12:12,17 21:11 31:21 51:15 latest (1) 8:1 LAURA (4) 1:14 2:17 87:4 88:10 law (22) 28:3 59:13,15,22 61:7 62:2,5,7 62:15,17 64:14 68:17 69:19 75:4,12,19 76:12 79:8 80:3,15 82:4,9 lay (1) 45:9 leadership (2) 12:16 50:5
LEWIS 106
Page 97 learned (2) 60:6 60:22 leave (3) 39:21 42:7 73:14 leaves (1) 25:3 left (1) 27:16 legal (4) 14:23 70:10,11 76:9 legitimate (3) 67:16 80:16,21 Leland (1) 45:19 let's (7) 25:19 30:18 39:20 46:14,20,21 72:10 Lewis (194) 1:6 3:6,7 5:7,8,10 5:11,14,18,22 6:1,3,17,19 7:2 8:9,11,18 9:3,6 9:13,16 10:14 11:5,14,17,18 11:22 12:2,4,5 12:7,12 13:6 13:10,10,19,22 14:1,5,10,14 15:1,4,10,15 15:19 16:3,10 16:15 17:12,23 18:5,17,19,23 19:2,6,23 20:3 20:13,15,19,23 20:23 21:11,18 21:21 22:2,6 22:12,14,18,19 23:12,14,16 24:5,11 28:8 28:11,16,18 29:1,5,7,10,13 29:20 30:9,11 30:13,16,22 31:2,5,8,14,17 32:2,7,9,17,21 33:2,6,8,13,16 33:19 34:1,5 34:11,15 35:20 35:23 36:7,9 36:11,15,22 IMO:
37:2,7,10,17 37:22 38:3,8 38:17,21 39:5 39:10,12,17,20 40:4,6,10,13 40:16,21 41:2 41:5,6 42:17 44:1,10,10,12 44:14,19 46:22 47:18,20 49:20 49:20 50:22 51:8,12,19 54:2,12,18 55:12 57:6,14 57:17,19,22 58:3,7,8,11,20 58:22 60:1,2 61:2,3,16,18 61:22 63:20,22 73:23 74:1,9 74:15 75:23,23 76:10 82:18 83:19 84:6 Lewis's (15) 6:8 6:20 8:9 20:4 22:7 30:5 50:3 50:3,18,18 52:3,4 60:21 63:15 79:14 license (7) 4:18 26:18 29:14,15 30:10 46:6 76:19 lied (2) 83:15,18 life (1) 44:21 light (2) 26:20 64:11 lights (1) 26:20 line (1) 66:8 list (1) 25:10 listed (8) 19:13 20:7 25:23 41:9 53:3,9 68:15 76:18 lists (1) 25:16 litigation (1) 88:19 little (2) 16:20
27:11 live (16) 12:11 25:15 38:10 40:19 43:6 45:7,7 61:5 64:14,15,20 68:18 71:7 73:10,11 74:2 lived (18) 12:6,7 12:8 20:19 23:10 34:10 35:22 36:1 38:8 39:7 40:20 41:11 51:10 58:16,21 68:16 69:8 79:6 lives (2) 70:21 70:23 living (5) 25:13 27:6 50:23 55:10 65:22 Lloyd (1) 42:3 loan (2) 26:9,11 located (7) 9:9 12:15 14:7 15:12 17:19 18:3 20:20 location (4) 1:22 8:14 14:6 31:13 long (9) 26:17 31:20 42:23,23 46:17 56:15 65:13,22 78:4 looked (1) 34:23 looking (4) 14:18 20:22 30:18 78:22 looks (1) 17:9 Lord (1) 26:8 Lord's (1) 27:16 lost (1) 25:2 lot (12) 19:18 23:21 31:20 32:17,18 46:9 55:17 64:5 66:16 72:12
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
77:15,16 Louie (112) 3:7 5:8,22 6:17,20 8:9 12:2,4 13:13 14:22 20:23 22:12,14 22:18,19 23:14 23:16 24:5,11 28:8,11,16,18 29:1,7,10,13 29:20 30:9,11 30:13,16 31:2 31:5,8,14,17 32:2,7,9,17 33:2,8,13,16 33:19 34:1,5 34:11,15 35:20 35:23 36:7,9 36:11,15,22 37:2,7,10,17 37:22 38:3,8 38:17,21 39:5 39:10,12,17,20 40:4,6,10,13 40:16,21 44:10 44:11,12,12,22 44:23 45:3 46:8,13,15 47:19 49:20 51:10 52:4 54:12,17 57:5 57:17,19,22 58:3,7,20 61:3 61:16,18,21,22 63:14,22 67:4 74:1,15 79:14 82:18 low (1) 71:9 lower (2) 10:23 16:20 lowering (1) 10:23 M magistrate (1) 83:17 mail (3) 26:1,2 33:22
mailbox (2) 26:2 34:6 mailing (6) 7:6 7:14,21 14:22 15:5 64:2 maintain (1) 32:11 maintained (4) 28:9 38:3,4,6 majority (2) 66:6 70:13 making (3) 74:4 75:17 81:12 man (2) 83:15 83:18 man's (1) 70:2 map (2) 14:5 17:18 mapping (1) 8:12 March (5) 49:19 58:12 71:14 72:8,11 margin (1) 84:3 margins (1) 49:16 Marion (1) 41:8 MARKED (1) 18:4 market (2) 16:15,17 married (1) 36:16 material (2) 13:14 84:8 matter (6) 1:5 52:12 66:20 73:4 80:2 84:15 maximum (1) 9:21 mean (9) 32:18 33:14 38:23 45:13 61:2 67:16 68:16 76:14 83:1 meant (3) 37:8 54:23 79:19
LEWIS 107
Page 98 measure (1) 53:19 mechanical (1) 56:16 meet (2) 50:11 50:18 meeting (2) 5:3 16:18 MELISSA (1) 2:3 members (3) 2:5 5:19,19 mention (1) 50:21 mentioned (1) 21:18 mentions (1) 16:22 mess (1) 27:11 met (2) 21:7 64:13 Michael (3) 3:8 5:22 44:3 Mike (6) 12:1 23:22 27:17 44:14 49:21,21 milk (2) 61:19 61:20 million (1) 27:10 mind (2) 63:17 64:6 minute (2) 43:16 84:21 minutes (1) 16:18 misconduct (2) 62:5,8 misstated (1) 83:2 misstating (1) 37:13 mistake (2) 37:6 79:19 Mister (1) 13:11 mold (1) 56:19 moment (2) 64:7 82:18 money (1) 23:9 IMO:
MONROE (2) 2:3 48:14 month (5) 49:3 49:6,10,11 64:12 months (6) 16:5 48:12 54:20 55:15 71:7,7 morning (5) 5:6 9:5 14:18 15:11 24:9 motion (6) 84:5 84:10,18 85:3 85:5 86:5 motor (1) 29:23 mouth (1) 83:10 move (11) 27:2,4 27:7 34:12 46:21 53:9 65:23 69:13 74:13 78:17 84:5 moved (6) 69:22 80:10 81:11,23 85:12,13 moving (1) 61:13 muddy (1) 46:20 multiple (4) 28:23 52:4,7 66:17 mysterious (1) 26:8
necessary (3) 11:10 12:21 34:12 need (13) 23:12 33:19 45:23 48:11 50:13 61:16,18 62:22 63:12 82:13 84:10,11 85:20 never (7) 26:1,2 26:20 34:10 45:11 67:11 79:6 new (15) 42:1,4 54:16 65:1 69:1 70:18,21 71:1 73:14 75:16,17 81:13 81:23 88:2,22 newer (1) 75:17 nice (1) 46:20 night (3) 32:4 45:9 64:16 nights (8) 52:21 64:10,19,19 67:18 68:7,11 73:5 nine (1) 16:2 Nineteen (1) 29:22 North (9) 1:2,16 2:17 29:12 42:8 87:1 88:1 88:21 89:2 N Notary (7) 1:14 N (1) 5:1 2:17 87:4,19 name (4) 9:6 88:4,10 89:8 27:15 30:8 note (1) 21:23 84:3 notes (1) 16:21 named (1) 88:13 Notice (5) 3:12 names (1) 13:12 3:23 6:16 NC (1) 1:22 10:22 17:2 NE (1) 89:2 November (1) near (1) 16:20 10:5 nearly (2) 25:20 number (46) 45:4 3:12,13,14,15 necessarily (3) 3:16,17,18,19 35:6,11 47:14 3:20,21,22 4:1
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
67:7,17 69:2 69:14 70:6 76:18 77:20 78:18 79:1,10 82:19 83:7 October (2) 7:18 79:4 office (22) 1:15 19:17 24:7 31:13,14 33:7 33:23 36:21 40:18 42:23 O 43:5,11 55:23 O (1) 5:1 57:3 63:16 object (3) 46:23 64:3 65:19 47:10,10 68:19 69:9 obtained (1) 78:12 79:14 16:9 80:1 obvious (1) offices (1) 37:21 17:13 official (2) 8:22 obviously (5) 45:4 13:15 14:21 officially (1) 71:2 82:21 85:16 83:21 officials (3) 4:20 occasions (2) 41:16 42:15 55:12 65:13 Oh (2) 26:19 occur (1) 62:8 31:2 occurred (2) okay (53) 14:9 17:13 74:20 14:17 15:6 Ocean (72) 3:14 18:14 19:10 3:15,18,19,20 20:2,14 21:13 4:21,22 6:5,23 21:23 22:3,9 7:6,9,15,21 8:2 22:16 23:14,14 8:14,17,19 9:2 31:9 33:4,19 9:9,16 10:17 34:22 35:4,13 11:3 13:8,9 36:8,12 38:21 14:8,16 15:9 41:1 43:21 15:14 16:8,11 44:5,20 45:14 26:1 28:9,22 45:16,20 46:3 29:19 30:1,5,7 46:7,10 51:11 30:9,11,13,17 52:11,18 53:21 32:18 33:6 57:21 60:11 34:18 40:6 61:12,15 62:20 48:16,17 49:2 67:14 68:5 49:5 54:1,8,22 69:15 70:16 54:23 55:2,10 71:13 72:4 61:3 63:23 79:21 80:23 65:5,16 66:1 81:4 84:16,22 4:2,4,6,8,9,10 4:11,13,14,15 4:16,17,18,19 4:20,21,22,23 9:10 13:8 14:11 18:9 19:17 21:1 24:18 25:1 31:3 48:13,15 54:16 65:20 69:5,7 84:3
LEWIS 108
Page 99 old (1) 34:4 once (1) 41:22 one-story (1) 10:17 oop (1) 46:14 open (1) 62:22 opening (1) 58:9 operation (1) 13:17 opinion (5) 19:21 55:21 66:2 82:16,17 opponents (1) 5:21 option (5) 52:7 53:18 60:14 82:1 86:2 order (7) 5:3,9 32:23 62:11 72:10 85:6,7 original (3) 6:21 50:4 88:20 outcome (3) 83:22 84:8 88:19 outside (1) 20:20 overcome (1) 56:7 overcoming (1) 56:16 overwhelming... 64:10 owner (1) 9:19 owns (4) 29:5 52:4,13 71:2
41:17 parameters (1) 75:3 parcel (2) 20:1,3 part (7) 33:13 38:9,9 49:15 55:23 61:4 67:5 participants (1) 11:9 particular (5) 16:4 51:1,4 63:19 67:1 Particularly (1) 71:6 parties (1) 88:16 partly (2) 69:5,6 parts (2) 10:2,18 party (5) 7:17 7:22 50:5,9 57:8 passed (2) 14:17 51:4 Pat (1) 45:23 path (1) 63:13 pattern (1) 41:13 pay (1) 25:17 Paying (1) 29:7 pbruffiniii@a... 1:17 PELTON (122) 2:7 13:6,11,21 14:9,11,17 15:2,6,17,20 18:8,14 19:15 19:18 20:9,12 P 21:15,23 22:3 P (1) 5:1 22:10 33:5,9 p.m (1) 86:8 33:15,17,21 package (2) 10:4 34:3,8,13,17 10:21 34:22 35:1,4,8 PAGE (1) 3:2 35:13,17 43:14 paper (2) 71:20 47:12,18,22 72:2 49:23 50:3,19 paperwork (1) 51:18,20 52:1 85:20 52:11,14,18 paragraphs (1) 53:21 56:21 IMO:
57:11,14,18,21 58:1,6,10 63:7 63:11,14,22 65:2,15 66:5 66:13,18,22 67:2,4,7,14,23 68:5,8 69:10 69:15,19 70:1 70:7,16,19,22 71:8,12 72:13 72:16,19 73:2 77:3,6,11,13 77:18,22 78:3 78:6,9,13,16 78:21 79:21 80:8,12,17,20 80:23 81:4,6,8 81:16 82:7,17 83:1,23 84:10 84:16,21,23 85:11,13,15 people (11) 23:6 25:15 27:13 31:22 45:18 46:7,9 47:21 64:18 66:16 83:13 perfectly (1) 14:23 period (8) 11:20 17:14 30:18 38:17 51:14,18 58:15 74:6 permanent (3) 28:1 56:2 75:17 permit (9) 3:17 9:17,23 10:4,7 10:12 56:9,10 56:13 person (8) 24:19 24:21 25:2,3 27:22 28:3 42:4 75:13 person's (4) 24:20,21 25:3 73:8 personal (3)
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
20:17 47:1 65:4 personally (3) 55:9 57:14 82:2 persons (2) 28:4 88:13 pertinent (1) 62:1 PETER (1) 88:4 petition (7) 4:8 4:9,10 28:7,20 53:7 74:7 phase (1) 61:10 phone (1) 21:1 photo (9) 3:19 3:20,21 4:1,4,6 8:16 9:11 15:17 photograph (1... 3:15 8:13,19 9:1,4 14:14 15:8,11,12,14 17:16,20,21 19:3,4 photographs (2) 9:5 18:15 physically (5) 80:10 81:10,11 82:21 83:5 picture (2) 18:9 29:13 piece (1) 26:11 pieces (1) 72:1 Pilot (1) 75:11 place (19) 24:19 27:23 28:2 32:4 38:9,11 38:11 42:6,7 61:3 66:20 67:1,11 68:15 70:8 73:5,7,10 88:12 placed (2) 9:22 33:10 places (8) 34:7 36:2 38:10,12 38:13 39:7,7
45:11 plain (1) 45:10 plan (1) 9:23 please (5) 50:1 52:2 57:10,15 58:23 Pledge (2) 5:3,5 plenty (2) 52:23 58:7 plumbing (8) 16:23 21:20 22:19,20,23,23 54:10,11 plumbing's (1) 22:21 point (14) 11:8 14:18 31:10 42:17 52:8 53:11,12,18 59:3 63:19 64:5 71:17 79:22 81:9 pointed (1) 79:7 policy (1) 26:8 politician (2) 24:23 25:12 polling (1) 45:11 polls (1) 47:2 pool (1) 20:12 Port (1) 75:11 portion (1) 59:6 position (2) 45:15 76:23 possible (3) 21:9 40:23 61:1 Post (1) 1:15 potential (1) 79:7 power (2) 72:7 72:12 precinct (2) 25:4 35:10 preclude (1) 69:10 predominantl... 42:10 preface (1) 6:7 premise (1)
LEWIS 109
Page 100 49:15 prepare (1) 85:19 preponderanc... 82:16 present (11) 6:2 6:6,20 8:12 9:14 10:14 11:6,9 13:19 41:19 42:6 presented (4) 8:9 13:14 25:19 74:11 President (1) 88:5 pretty (2) 53:11 80:9 prevailing (1) 49:22 previous (3) 51:8 65:5 77:23 primary (48) 5:21,21 23:4,7 23:17,19 24:11 25:7 27:19 28:8 32:3,5,11 39:13,14,21 41:7,9,10 42:19 45:8,12 45:16 49:19 52:8,10,13,16 52:21 53:3,4,6 53:8 57:22 58:4,11,12,18 58:19 66:10 67:17 68:10 69:11 70:8 73:10 79:3 82:19 84:11 prior (9) 9:4 14:2 17:7 42:5 42:23 66:2 77:23 81:5 87:12 probably (10) 25:11 31:21 45:14 56:9,17 IMO:
58:2 59:2 64:18 66:6 83:14 problem (1) 19:7 problems (1) 65:7 proceed (1) 5:16 PROCEEDIN... 3:5 process (2) 81:12 84:13 proper (2) 53:19 85:20 properties (5) 11:7 29:4,6 52:5,7 property (16) 4:2 9:22 10:18 11:1 17:16,19 17:23 18:21 20:10 26:11 30:23 56:6 57:6 71:2 72:3 79:16 protest (18) 1:6 5:20 12:18,21 44:9 46:11 49:16 51:13 58:14 59:17,21 60:15,16 62:3 62:12 74:4,7 84:5 protested (1) 24:15 provide (1) 48:7 provided (2) 7:14,20 provides (1) 18:2 public (13) 1:14 2:17 5:19 6:9 9:15 10:15 12:1 16:9 87:4 87:19 88:4,10 89:8 purchase (1) 21:9
46:20 84:2 raised (1) 74:23 ran (6) 37:20 40:18 41:10 46:19 69:9 78:12 Randy (7) 2:7 13:5 21:14 43:13 56:20 63:6 83:11 re-val (1) 54:3 read (9) 27:20 27:20 43:16 49:18 60:12 75:8 81:15,17 87:5 Q reading (2) qualified (2) 24:12 52:2 68:19 74:15 reads (1) 82:8 qualifies (1) real (3) 25:19 80:20 26:22 37:18 question (26) really (12) 19:11 13:22 21:15 37:8,15 40:19 23:18,20 31:18 53:3,17 54:23 32:16 33:5 68:4 69:22,22 38:7 42:22 81:21 83:7 43:2 47:17 reason (4) 23:18 52:2 55:9 32:11 74:22 64:12,22,23 84:4 65:23 67:14 reasonable (1) 68:14 69:18,20 6:1 69:21 70:10 rebut (1) 76:1 72:21 73:1 rebuttal (1) 11:8 79:22 recall (2) 55:15 questions (16) 57:5 11:13 12:23 receive (2) 35:6 13:3 21:13 59:6 28:5 30:21 received (4) 48:5 33:4 35:16,18 49:20,20,21 49:14 50:1 recess (4) 62:20 51:23 59:3 62:21 63:1,3 61:1 63:4,8 RECITED (1) quote (2) 44:17 5:5 70:8 recognize (1) 37:13 R record (24) 5:23 R (1) 5:1 6:6,13,21 8:5 race (3) 46:19 8:19 11:16 purchased (2) 27:3,9 purchasing (1) 20:22 purpose (2) 41:12 88:17 purposes (8) 25:6 28:4 41:19 42:5 59:13 76:2 79:4 81:3 put (8) 14:1 26:4 27:14 42:4 45:3 46:17 55:17 79:20
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
17:4,7 19:5 41:6 47:9 48:15,23 49:17 55:11 56:14,21 62:18 63:15 78:7 85:22 88:7,12 records (15) 4:12,21,22,23 6:9 9:15 10:15 16:9 28:3,21 28:23 34:20 35:5 48:6 55:1 recounting (1) 75:1 red (3) 14:11,20 24:9 reduced (1) 16:11 reduction (2) 56:1,14 refer (2) 74:21 82:3 reference (1) 75:12 referred (1) 56:23 regarding (1) 11:7 regardless (1) 31:10 register (2) 69:12,12 registered (1) 34:9 registration (32) 4:13,14 6:21 19:11,13,14 24:17 25:22 26:3 29:16,17 29:18,23,23 33:10,11 36:13 36:19 37:12 38:15,20 43:4 43:17 54:17,22 69:7,7,17 78:7 78:23 79:3 82:20
LEWIS 110
Page 101 35:1 regulations (5) 23:3 24:13 27:22 32:13 57:20 related (1) 88:14 relief (1) 56:5 remains (1) 41:22 remarks (1) 58:9 remedy (2) 53:20 74:6 remember (4) 25:11 50:10 51:6,7 removed (2) 55:16,17 renewed (1) 26:13 reported (3) 1:13,21 2:17 reporter (7) 1:14 2:18 15:8 87:3,5 88:5,10 reporter's (1) 28:7 reporting (3) 49:3,6,9 representative... 30:13 represents (1) 9:21 Republican (5) 5:21 7:23 12:16 50:5,9 request (3) 10:23 16:10,19 requested (2) 16:21 48:8 required (1) 6:2 requirement (1) 43:5 requirements ... 27:21 research (1) 13:23 reside (2) 6:1 79:2 IMO:
residence (47) 7:3,9,11,19 8:21 13:16 18:3 20:1 24:7 24:12,17,19 25:3 26:16 27:19,23 36:15 36:18 38:4,4 41:9,19,21,22 41:23 42:1,4 43:1 52:8,10 52:13,16,21 57:16,23 64:4 64:13 68:4,10 70:9 73:3,7,12 75:16,17 78:23 84:12 residences (2) 19:20 66:17 residency (17) 4:20 14:2 41:15 42:14 47:16 51:13,16 53:23 58:14 63:15 64:1,1 66:9 67:19 75:4 81:2,9 residential (7) 6:4 14:7 35:7 35:12 45:22 52:4 79:15 resolve (2) 5:7 63:12 RESPOND (1) 85:2 result (1) 5:20 results (5) 12:20 53:16 62:9 74:18,20 retired (2) 47:6 56:22 return (14) 28:3 39:22,23 40:3 40:15 52:16 67:1,7,10 69:5 70:14 73:9,11 75:15 returned (1)
63:2 returning (3) 24:22 25:6 77:22 Revaluation (2) 3:22 17:2 revenue (3) 49:3 49:6,9 Review (6) 10:23 16:19 17:5,6 54:7 57:5 reviewing (1) 6:7 revoked (1) 9:23 right (26) 11:13 24:16 27:1 31:15 34:6,7 34:15 35:8,13 38:5 40:7 44:16 46:5 47:22 57:17 62:23 65:2 66:18 78:16 81:8,16 82:7 82:23 84:9,16 84:23 river (6) 25:8 32:9,10 33:1,1 68:7 road (39) 4:1,3,5 4:7 7:1,4,5,12 7:13,20 12:14 17:15,21 18:6 18:19,20 19:4 19:21 20:7,8 21:7 27:1,3,7 34:9 36:14 37:5 41:10 48:19 49:9 54:20 65:18 66:4,7 69:8 77:12 78:1 79:1,5 Robert (2) 2:4 42:15 roof (1) 14:20 roofed (1) 14:12
Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
route (1) 29:21 RUFFIN (6) 1:14 2:18 87:8 88:4,5,11 ruled (1) 42:2 rules (5) 23:3 24:12 27:22 32:13 57:20 ruling (1) 47:13 run (7) 5:8 11:21 27:14 29:2 36:20 68:19 74:15 running (3) 42:19 43:7 65:19 S S (2) 1:15 5:1 S/ (1) 87:18 sale (1) 21:1 sales (2) 9:6 30:12 Salvage (1) 9:7 SANDT (4) 1:14 2:17 87:4 88:10 Sara (11) 2:2 19:7 24:13 33:5,5 34:17 42:22 48:2 53:22 64:12 88:23 sat (2) 17:4,5 save (1) 88:16 saved (2) 23:8 23:21 saying (10) 23:9 36:5 37:6 40:22 52:7 55:15 58:1 60:4,4 69:3 says (22) 19:5,11 27:22 36:13 37:13 39:21 43:18 49:8 52:20,21 54:17 59:15 67:11,13
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Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
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Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
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Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
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Election Protest by Alan Carter Lewis
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