Certain customers are always 
            providing opportunities for additional sales.  Hamilton County, 
            TN is one such customer.  No reflection on Cathi 
            Smothers.
             
            In the March 2000 election a ballot 
            box was delivered to a volunteer fire department on Friday.  
            Over the weekend the firehouse was used for a party.  Needing a 
            trash container, a volunteer fireman cut the top 
            lock off the box and used it for a trash bin.
             
            In the recent August 3rd Primary, a 
            ballot box was delivered to a precinct that was locked.  The 
            ballot box was left outside a Goodwill store next to the 
            precinct.  Not knowing what it was the workers at the Goodwill 
            store tried to sell the box over the weekend.  After no buyers 
            they had the box along with other scrap items thrown into the 
            crusher on Monday morning.  One of the ladies that worked at 
            the store recognized the box while voting and confessed to the 
            disappearance of the missing ballot box.
             
            At this rate, Hamilton will replace 
            all their ballot boxes over the next several years.  All 
            replacements are sold at full market value.
             
            Barry 
            Proud Sales Rep of Hamilton 
            County