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"Not from around here," they seemed to be thinking, so we stopped and chatted with a couple friendly women, who told why they put their trash in cages. "To keep out the dogs and bears," they said. They didn't know Joe or where he lived.
We had no luck at all finding Joe Bolton, but later I did reach him later on a cell phone number provided by staff members at the Floyd County Elections office. I've spoken to Joe Bolton three times now and he answered a lot of my questions.

INTERVIEW WITH JOE THE VOTING MACHINE GUY:
BH = Bev Harris
JB = Joe Bolton
PART 1
BH: Do you ever communicate with candidates when you're programming the election stuff?
JB: No, I don’t work with the candidates personally.
BH: Okay. Would you consider it proper or improper to be communicating with candidates for someone who does what you do?
JB: Yeah, 'cause I don't do nothin' like that!
BBV: Okay. Well you've been doing this for 35 years, has anyone ever asked you to do something that made you uncomfortable?
JB: Oh, absolutely, get it all the time, I get that all the time you know.
BH: You're kidding me!
JB: "Could you rig this machine?" And I don't know whether it's a conspiracy or a joke, you know, "Could you rig these machines for me Joe? How much would it cost me?" I've heard that for 35 years.