Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

Case #07-120588
May 24, 2007 rev]
Witness Statement
Deq I
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
The urn ... transit company required that for us to get permission to register people to vote
on their .. .in the ... within their scope of their operation ...
Mmhm.
... so at any of the transit points that we needed to urn ... apply and have a calendar of
what occasions we would do that on and um ... this looks like that. These are all transit
locations urn ... and the ftrst copy .. .I think that they must have .. .I know that the first. . .I
know that when I submitted the schedule it was hand written.
Mmhm.
Because it was a surprise to me that it needed to be in such great detail. And so I sat
down in their office on the day that I turned it in and completed it. And it had numerous
uh, other things. They had a photograph of the location where we were supposed to
stand. Fortunately they didn't hold urn ... hold the staff to that once ... once it was, the
schedule was approved they were very accommodating about when and where ...
Okay.
... and for how long people were present.
And did you try and send people out on those dates to those places?
Yes.
Okay.
Witness: And often made a specific assignments ... not that people stayed were I sent them ... but ...
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
That was the goal.
That was the idea. To make full use of the time urn ... more than to be restrictive to the
staff. Urn ... that was considered the best places that ... that could locate folks.
Okay. Vh ... the staff is ... was paid by the hour. Is that right?
Yes.
Eight dollars an hour. Were they ... other than being let go if they weren't pulling enough
cards ... was there a financial incentive for them to collect cards?
No.
They had to fill out their time sheets like in exhibit five here ... (unintelligible) they'd
come in ... they'd sign in and ...
Mmhm. They would sign in and it was my goal to get them out the door within half an
hour.
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