TO: THE OFFICE OF THE PROSECUTOR OF FIRST DEGREE COURTS
Common recipients: 1. Ministry of Interior, Elections Administration
2. Municipality of Neon Iraklion, Electoral Section
3. Supreme Court, Pertinent Section
FROM CITIZEN: TANYA-MARIA YERITSIDOU
Child – Educationalist
29 Elpidos Street,
141-21 Athens
URGENT – ELECTORAL
Re: ‘Objection against by Assignment as Member of the Electoral Committee’
According to no. 8679/1-6-2012 electoral order, you made
it known to me that I have been assigned to serve for yet another time
as a reserve member of the electoral committee of the 211th electoral
polling station, of Prasinos Lofos, of the electoral district of
Iraklion, of the regional district of the north sector of Athens, of
the second electoral district of Athens, pursuant to the orders of the
Athens first degree courts regarding the parliamentary elections of
June 17th 2012.
Given the real data that I will furnish below, I take full
responsibility in declaring that the whole electoral process as this
has been handled so far, has failed to convince me as a social
researcher with experience on social research that the required
reliability and validity standards have been kept to ensure that such
process is unbiased, objective and unadulterated. Further,
statistically impossible situations have led me to the conclusion that
even this very process of the selection of the members of the
electoral committee for the polling station is far from being truly
random as it is supposed to be, but at best it is biased and therefore
constitutes grounds for your abuse of power to assign members of the
electoral committee and suggests that other co-Cotizens are probably
excluded from ever taking part in this service.
More specifically, it so happened that I got randomly selected to
serve as a member of the committee three consecutive times (!) in four
electoral processes, a fact that defies any probability due to the
number of the registered voters of the Citizens / inhabitants of the
particular electoral district. It is therefore impossible for such a
fact to occur unless randomness is tempered with by human
intervention.
Up until this day, and to the extent that I had even the slightest
trust to the reliability of the electoral process, I happily served on
the committee both as a full and as a reserve member. In fact other
co-Citizens had informally commented that it was precisely because of
my immediate and effective service that I have been kept on call by
mysteriously being ‘chosen’ to serve, a fact that would have been
regarded as an honor if it was officially communicated to me, and if
such criteria for distinction were truly observed.
As a result, even this small part of the electoral process appears to
be not only to have been tempered with but also highly suspect,
because if such random ‘draws’ are biased by preferential criteria
that none knows about (since no such criteria are referred to in PD
16/2012 with regard to the draw itself), we have no guarantee that
these criteria are free of personal opinion, motives and stances of
each and every official. Thus, based on the various admissions on the
part of officials that such interventions have in deed taken place
during electoral processes, this particular instance comes as further
corroboration of the above and further shutters my remaining trust in
the current electoral process.
But this is not the only phenomenon of possible tampering. During my
appointed service during the previous elections in 2009, I came to
witness a plethora of vote mongering and of procedural malfunctions
which could confirm that a generalized vote mongering was being
attempted, which I communicated in a report to the pertinent authority
myself, since the court representative at the particular polling
station I was serving who was supposed to oversee and guarantee the
validity and reliability of the vote count, declined to take any
action, despite the fact that she herself had admitted to seeing the
said vote mongering (indicatively but not restricted to: document no.
9931/30-11-2009 addressed to the Municipality of Iraklion Attikis). To
these reports not only did I not receive any satisfactory response but
no action was taken, despite the fact that as a member of the
appointed committee my duties included the overseeing of the voting
procedure and taking all action necessary to ensure that due process
was kept.
As a result, and because I respect both myself and my Nation, and the
Constitution of Greece, I refuse to partake in a parody presented to
the voting citizens as guaranteeing the due electoral process and
therefore aiding and abetting this crime of falsifying a Democratic
Process and the Democratic Regime which in reality is neither
preserved nor allowed. In other words, not only do I feel I am being
mocked as a Citizen, but that I am called again to play a part in
masking a statistically-biased and completely fraudulent process so as
to acquiesce my co-Citizens into believing the contrary as I can
corroborate as a scientist and a specialist on large scale research.
Further, there are additional problematic parameters which are also
related to the observance of due process during election time that
should have been in place, and which alone are quite serious breaches
of pertinent laws as observed by a truly Democratic and unbiased
process, and the lack of which would have constituted grounds for
annulment carrying possible criminal changes for all those permitting
the blatant and apparent breach of one of our most important
Democratic Institutions. On the contrary, and as you can easily see
for yourself on the basis of a plethora of publicized statements made
by various pertinent officials, such as Mrs Georganta of ELSTAT, there
are serious problems as regards the censuses on the basis of which
vital parameters of the electoral process are based, such as the
distribution of parliamentary seats.
Apart from the 2011 census which is already under serious doubt as
regards its validity, as can easily be proven under scrutiny by any
committee of social scientists not appointed by local or international
officials having a vested interest in its results, that is really a
pathetic sample of miscarried sampling of societal populations and an
exemplar of what should be avoided, taught to first-year social
statistics students, there are also serious doubts that the 2001
census was similarly flawed. The Ministry of the Interior declined to
furnish evidence of its validity while ELSTAT claims that they are not
in possession of any related evidence (!) and puts all blame on the
Ministry as it became apparent via Mrs Vrontou’s written answer on its
behalf.
But even if we assume, a dangerous assumption, that the 2001 census
was properly carried out, methodologically and statistically, after a
ten-year period it is certain that population data recorded in 2001
are by now outdated and no longer provide any objective measure of the
current population size, thus also corroborating the de facto vote
mongering and the adulteration of the electoral process as regards the
counting and distribution of parliamentary seats.
The above constitute grounds for a blatant transgression of the
equality of the vote of the Citizens, a cornerstone of the Democratic
Electoral Process, since any distribution of parliamentary seats which
is based on outdated data is mathematically certain that would have
been the result of biasing a portion of the Citizens’ vote, reducing
the whole electoral process to a parody in which I do not want and
have a Right and Obligation on the basis of the Constitution to refuse
to take part in and support with my presence and condoning.
As a result, and on the basis of the above, I declare INCAPACITY TO
PARTICIPATE due the extremely serious nature of unconstitutionality
which is clearly apparent to me as a social scientist but also due to
my past service in the said committee during which the hopelessness of
the whole procedure was affirmed and the futility of my personal
participation in the electoral committee in effecting unbiased vote
count was confirmed. Thus, based on my Obligation on the basis of the
Constitution, I refuse to participate in any clearly visible
unconstitutional procedure that carries such grave consequences for my
Nation and Country.
Reserving all my legal rights,
Tanya-Maria Yeritsidou,
Athens, June 14, 2012
Translation courtesy of Michael T.