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2008
Feb 8: Why doesn't the Department of Justice (DOJ)
investigate electronic vote fraud? Is it that DOJ and the FBI have
long been involved in it, themselves?
Read:
The 1987 Leonard Gates Deposition --
Gates, a Cincinnati Bell employee for 23 years, testified that in the late 1970's and 80's, the
FBI assisted telephone companies with hacking into mainframe election
computers in cities across the country. The first election Gates provided
the hack for was in 1979, see http://www.sos.state.oh.
PLUS...
1985 Background Material from Jim Condit, Jr.
and also see:
DOJ
& FBI Jan 10: There's a History of Suspected Vote Fraud In NH - Forget 'Official Recounts', Do Citizen Audits 2007 Dec. 22: Lynn's Affidavit for National Clean Elections lawsuit Mar 12: The “Voter Confidence” Bill. IT’S CONFUSING - Electronic Tallies Can Still Trump Paper Ballots on Election Day Feb: Florida Gov. Crist's suggestion that ballot scanners are the answer to touchscreen machines is a cynical ploy. State officials plan to use ES&S ballot markers plus ballot scanners. No hand count. Both machines are computers and can be easily programmed to rig an election. Florida also has a law on the books that the electronic tally, not a hand count, will be the official election result in the case of a recount. In addition, counties that used ballot scanners in the 2004 presidential election showed a massive and highly suspicious crossover vote from Democratic voters (and other parties) to Bush. Bush posted vote totals of 200%, 300%, 400%, and in one county 600% over Republican registration. See the chart - http://www.ecotalk.org/Florida Feb: Rush Holt's bill HB 811 is very disappointing. Check out Nancy Tobi's comments. My full review coming soon. We need Kucinich to re-introduce HB 6200, paper ballots, hand-counts only. Jan 15: The Landes Report To Congress On Voting - A call for total transparency in voting, Open Voting. Rescind laws that allow voting by machines, absentee, early, and secret ballot. 2006 Nov 14: Dems! Why Elect Majority Leader By 'Secret Ballot'? Nov 6: RED ALERT - Will Cheney be hunting fowl or orchestrating election results? Cheney's hunting destination (South Dakota) is next door to Nebraska and Offutt Air Force Base - home of ES&S, the nation's largest counter of our votes. http://www.utulsa.edu/ ES&S CEO Bill Welsh was profiled in the University of Tulsa Magazine, Fall 2001. An interesting excerpt: "Given the fundamental importance and the logistical complexity of elections, Welsh and company leave nothing to chance: they had four business jets and two turboprops on standby; as well as more than 1,000 temporary employees, some drawn from Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.ES&S staff were ready to be anywhere at a moment's notice to help iron out unexpected kinks." Comment: Why does ES&S go to an air force base for temporary personnel? Nov 2: URGENT! Candidates Advised To 'Citizen Audit' Race Before Conceding Aug 21: Caught On Tape, The Fix Is In, news release / postcard Jan 30: Landes Lawsuit Reaches U.S. Supreme Court - See lawsuit at www.EcoTalk.org/lawsuit.doc 2005 Nov 4: Scrap the "Secret" Ballot - Return to Open Voting Sep 28: Do Feds Secretly Control The States' Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC)? Sep 14: Hurricane Katrina - Who are the 75,000 body bags for? Sep 3: American Meltdown - Get Ready For Next Un-Natural Disaster Jun 23: Paper Ballots and Hand Counts ONLY (no machines, no audits, no absentees, no early voting)
Mar 29: Lynn filed appeals in 3RD Circuit Court in Philadelphia Mar 20: READ ABOUT THE FIRST PARALLEL ELECTION! by Ellen Brodsky
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14:
Democrats!
Mar 3: Exit Poll Madness - Analyst Steve Freeman & Company Offer False Choice - this article got lots of reaction - See Dave Dodge and Kathy Dopp. Feb 26: Oakland, CA - Lynn gives speech at teach-in organized by http://www.democraticre Feb 14: The biggest problem with VIVA 2005 election reform bill by Ensign that is being pushed by Ballot Integrity is that is calls for audits rather than our constitutional right to have every vote counted. Jan 18: Plan B: Organize Parallel Elections & Signed Ballots Jan 5: Did Networks Fake Exit Polls, While AP 'Accessed' 2,995 Mainframe Computers? 2004 Dec 11: Voting Rights Groups 'Block' Talk of Machine-Free Elections Dec 6: Lynn submits written testimony to Rep. Conyers hearing. Dec 6: Machine-Free Election solution is Winning Poll on RedefeatBush.com! Dec 4: Lynn speaks at rally in Columbus, Ohio sponsored by CASEohio, urges civil disobedience option Nov 27: Lynn is invited to send message to 3rd Panhelladic Conference in Athens, Greece Nov 23: Lynn files appeal to Third Circuit Court Nov 19: Coalition's Support of Voting Machines Causes ConfusionNov 13: Lynn speaks at hearings in Columbus, OH sponsored by CASEohio Nov 04: Lynn's chart on Florida 2004 election Oct 31: If This Election Is Stolen, will it be by enough to stop a recount? Oct 26: Landes submits brief to United States Supreme Court - This is a long shot, but I felt I had to do something. Lynn Oct 22: Could the Associated Press (AP) Rig the Election?
May 10: Federal Commission Nixes Talk of Paper-Only
Elections - Stacks Panel With Proponents of Paperless Touchscreens
Apr 27: Two Voting Companies & Two Brothers Will Count 80% of U.S. Election
Apr 13: Republicans Walk Out Of Federal Hearing On Voting Machines - While Some Civil Rights Groups Support 'Paperless' Elections
Apr 6: Faking Democracy - Americans Don't Vote, Machines Do, & Ballot Printers Can't Fix That
Mar 10: Philadelphia Hearing on Electronic Voting
Feb 10: Questions Mount Over New Hampshire's Primary
Jan 12: Democrats Send Mixed Signals in Voting Technology Debate - approved the use of Internet voting in 2000 Arizona primary and 2004 Michigan primary.
2003
Dec 15: NIST Ignores Scientific Method for Voting Technology
Oct 2: Republicans and Brits Will Count California's Recall Votes / California recall election: Voting systems - by county
Oct 2: Lynn submits comments to U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit for Susan Marie Weber case.
Sep 17: Lynn Landes submits comments to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on ACLU Foundation of Southern California case
Sept 7: Philadelphia Forum on 'Voting Technology & Democracy' Landes speech / press release
Aug 27: Internet Voting - The End of Democracy?
Aug 18: Voting Machine Fiasco: SAIC, VoteHere and Diebold...Scam To Vet Voting Software?
Aug 1: Computer Voting Expert Ousted From Elections Conference
Jul 16: Offshore Company Captures Online Military Vote
Apr 14: Voting Machines Violate Constitution - Who Will Launch Legal Challenge?
Jan 20: Suspicion Surrounds Voter News Service
2002 Nov 26: Mission Impossible - Federal Observers & Voting Machines Nov 8: 2002 Elections: Republican Voting Machines, Election Irregularities, and "Way-Off" Poll Results Oct 28: It's A High-Tech Ambush - Just Say "No" To Voting Machines / PR Newswire press release Sep 23: Election Night Projections - A Cover For Vote Rigging Since 1964? Sep 16: Elections In America - Assume Crooks Are In Control Aug 5: The Nightmare Scenario Is Here - Computer Voting With No Paper Trail |
Democracy demands
transparency, not trust.
Why one standard of voting for politicians and another for the public? Congress has legalized vote fraud by allowing non-transparent voting systems that prohibit direct access to a paper ballot and meaningful public oversight.
Danaher Corporation counts Philadelphia’s votes, while two other private companies (ES&S and Diebold), that were started by two brothers (Bob and Todd Urosevich), will count the other 80% of all votes in America - using computerized touchscreens or computerized ballot scanners! Their tallies are compared to results provided by the privately-owned major news networks & the Associated Press, who use non-transparent pre-election polls and their own non-transparent Election Day “Exit Poll”. It’s all non-transparent. SIGN UP AND BE COUNTED!
Today in America, there is no reason to believe in election results. Our vote counting system is not observable - not transparent in any meaningful manner. I believe that there should be only one standard of voting for both our political representatives and voters. I believe that all voting should be open and public - no machines, no absentee or early voting, and no secret ballots. Secret ballots are really an anonymous ballots that corrupt election officials can count any way they want. Our ballots should be a matter of public record. We all have an obligation to stand up and be counted. However, since many voters may not want to give up the secret ballot, and elected officials may not relinquish easily corruptible machines and voting procedures that got them into office, at least by 'going public' with our votes through Citizen Audits, we can get closer to the truth. So, support hand-counted paper ballots at your local precinct on election day only, and then go public with your vote through Citizen Audits (also called Parallel Elections). Lynn Landes (Learn more about Citizen Audits below) July 10, 2008 -- NEW SUMMATION: This is how, for all practical purposes, America’s voting process became completely nontransparent and highly vulnerable to vote fraud by a relatively small group of people: Voting is the linchpin of democracy. And democracy demands transparency, not trust. Yet, there is no real transparency to the way Americans vote today. While our politicians are required to vote publicly and openly, we citizens are held to a different standard - a lower standard. We vote remotely, privately and anonymously by machine, absentee, early, and secret ballot. It's an invitation to massive and undetectable vote fraud. Things weren't always this way. BEFORE the Civil War, voting was a completely transparent process. It was only AFTER the Civil War, as the right to vote expanded to African Americans, that the voting process itself began to recede from public view and meaningful oversight. It started with absentee voting in the 1870’s, secret ballots in the 1880’s, and voting machines in the 1890’s. Today in America, 30% of all voting is by absentee or early, 95% of all votes are machine-processed, and 100% of all ballots are secret and anonymous. For the sake of convenience and 'alleged' voter protection, Congress has destroyed the transparency, verifiability, and integrity of America’s voting process. Making matters worse, our public voting system has been privatized and outsourced to a handful of domestic, foreign, and multi-national corporations, most of whom have close ties to the right wing of the Republican Party. Just two companies, ES&S and Diebold, started by two brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich, electronically process (using touchscreen machines or optical scanners), 80% of all votes. Their employees are in a perfect position to rig elections nation-wide. And evidence is mounting that elections in America have been computer programmed to prefer conservative candidates of both political parties. In America, less than 1% of votes are hand-counted-paper-ballots at the polls on Election Day. Neither government-controlled audits nor official recounts (both can occur days or even weeks after the election) provide sufficient transparency to detect widespread election fraud by voting machines companies and/or election officials. Moreover, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ), under the 38-year reign of Craig C. Donsanto, refuses to seriously investigate or prosecute electronic vote fraud. Can't we detect vote fraud through exit polls? The major news networks refuse to report on vote fraud and may be implicated in it. Exit polling is conducted by one organization, currently called the National Election Pool (NEP), that is hired by the major news networks and the Associated Press. Since they first started "projecting" election night winners in 1964, at the same time computerized ballot scanners came into use, the major news networks have never provided any 'hard' evidence that they actually conducted any exit polls, at all. In other words, the major news corporations broadcast their own pre-election surveys based on anonymous sources, collect vote totals on Election Day in a manner they refuse to disclose, and back-up those results with their own exit polls based on more anonymous sources. The late authors of the book, VoteScam: The Stealing of America, James M. Collier and Kenneth E. Collier, concluded that some of the major news networks, including the polling organization that they hire for election night reporting, have been complicit in vote fraud. Under the U.S. Constitution and case law, qualified citizens have two constitutional rights: 1) to vote, and 2) to have their votes counted properly. For that right to be enforced by federal and state authorities, the voting process must be observable. What to do? We all should contact Congress and our state authorities to demand Paper Ballots & Hand Counts On Election Day, only. But, more important, recognize that the "secret ballot" is a big open door to vote fraud. Don't be a sitting duck. Conduct "Citizen Audits" at the polls on Election Day or audit voters after the election. Ask voters to go public with their votes. Ask voters to sign up and be counted. Since 2005, at least two candidates and several groups of volunteers in Florida, California, Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have conducted Citizen Audits. What is a Citizen Audit and why is it necessary? It's an effort by candidates and/or citizens groups to verify election results by asking citizens to sign affidavits stating for which candidates they voted. BEFORE voters vote, Citizen Audit forms and information can be distributed by citizen groups and/or candidates' campaign volunteers in the following ways: online, door-to-door literature drops, mail-outs (although some candidates have complained that the Post Office did not deliver their literature), newspaper ads, and at the polls on Election Day. Forms should also be available at campaign headquarters and other locations. Take into consideration absentee and early voting when determining when to begin distribution. ONLY AFTER voters vote, should the online and signed forms be collected at the polls by volunteers, at the candidates' campaign headquarters, or through the mail, if necessary. Audit forms should include at least the voter's name, address, and for whom they voted. Forms can also include a complaint section. The precincts to be covered by an audit should be as much of a surprise as possible in order to have the best chance to detect fraud. You don't need 100% participation. You can use the results to conduct a comparative analysis with official results. Keep in mind, this effort is a work-in-progress as we learn from our experiences. For more information on sample affidavits and information, check out the websites listed below. Lynn Landes (TheLandesReport.com) first introduced the idea of a Citizen Audit in her January 2005 article, Plan B: Organize Parallel Elections & Signed Ballots. "Something similar to a Citizen Audit was put into practice after a 2004 election in North Carolina. The Republican candidate for North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner, Steven Troxler, gathered more than 1400 affidavits from voters in precincts where voting machines malfunctioned and lost votes. Lynn is the first, if not the only, opinion journalist who is making a case for a return to total transparency in official elections. She calls it, Open Voting. Clint Curtis (ClintCurtis.com) from Florida’s 24th Congressional District, was the first democratic candidate to conduct a Citizen Audit. He discovered that the official election results of November 2006 differed from his audit in every precinct canvassed an average of 16%! Clint is requested the U.S. Congress to investigate, but was turned down. "External verification allows the people to ensure the accuracy of their democracy." says Curtis. Ellen H. Brodsky (BrowardElectionReform.org) a former election clerk whistleblower and current Exec. Dir. Broward Election Reform Coalition, was the first to do so in Florida. “Sarasota was a typical Broward election waiting to happen as we discovered through our Parallel Election. Between 12-14% of all electronic ballots in Coconut Creek did not include the popular Commissioner Race. Our PE Ballot “no votes” statistically matched the Precinct Under votes, proving beyond a doubt that the “under votes” were a result of faulty programming, ballot definition, error, or a crappy voting system. Not the voter deciding not to vote!” Judy Alter (ProtectCaliforniaBallots.org) Director of Protect California Ballots, has conducted more Citizen Audits than anyone else. “After consulting with Ellen Brodsky, I began conducting Parallel Elections in San Diego, July 2005. That first time involved 6 poll sites with 13 precincts and 23 volunteers from 7 counties in CA. We called for a recount as a result of the differences between our results and the official ones but the results were inconclusive. Since that time we have conducted “Citizens’ Written Exit Polls” in four more elections. In Nov. 2006 at 12 Los Angeles poll sites-24 precincts, 92 volunteers got over 2500 voters, 44% of the total, to participate. At one site, 77% of the voters participated. Again we paid for a recount because our results showed significant differences from the official results.” Jo Anne Karasek (www.ProtectOhioVotes.org) is the State Coordinator and drafter of the Ohio Hand Counted Paper Ballot Constitutional Initiative. "I was the first in Ohio to lead a parallel election [Citizen Count], in 2005. I had realized that verified parallel ballots could be used as strong evidence of "past recollection recorded" in contests of elections in Ohio when the reported vote count was materially incorrect. In the parallel election I led, the precinct we monitored, very unexpectedly, had the highest vote in the county for the candidate who questionably lost in the Special U.S. Representative election." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:
WOULD YOU TRUST THIS MAN WITH YOUR VOTE?
meet Shawn Southworth
17. But, wouldn't it take a vast number of people to rig an election? Not with today's technology. One programmer working at either ES&S or Diebold could write code that could manipulate votes across the country. If a voting machine has computer components, it can be rigged or accessed through the firmware, software, wireless, modem, telephone, and simple electricity. Main tabulating computers can be rigged in a similar fashion. Lever voting machine are also easily rigged, although it would be more labor intensive. Still, anyone with the keys to the county warehouse where the machines are stored could rig the machines. Labels can be switched, gears shaved, odometers preset, or printouts preprinted. 18. Can't we detect vote fraud through exit polls? Exit polling is conducted by one organization that is hired by the major news networks and the Associated Press. Since they first started "projecting" election night winners in 1964, the major news networks have never provided any 'hard' evidence that they actually conducted any exit polls, at all. The late authors of the book, VoteScam: The Stealing of America, concluded that some of the major news networks, including the polling organization that they hire for election night reporting, have been complicit in vote fraud. see: exit polls 19. If someone wins by a large enough margin, isn't that a sign that the election wasn't rigged? No. It only stands to reason that if someone is going to rig an election, it will be done by a sufficient number of votes to avoid triggering a recount. Otherwise, this could happen: In August of 2002, in Clay county Kansas, Jerry Mayo lost a close race for county commissioner, garnering 48% of the vote, but a hand recount revealed May won by a landslide, earning 76% of the vote. http://www.ecotalk.org/BevHarrisBook2.pdf (page 45) 20. Aren't you just a conspiracy theorist? No. In the words of Greg Palast, "I'm a conspiracy expert." Election officials have outsourced and privatized a uniquely public function. Corporations have gained near total control over the process of voting. Corporations also control the process of reporting exit polls. Both processes are completely non-transparent.
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2008 Jul 18: GOP cyber-security expert suggests Diebold tampered with 2002 election rawstory.com/news/2008/ 2007 Oct 2: READ! National Clean Elections lawsuit by Bob Schulz. Also see Landes Affidavit May 8: House Administration Committee, chaired by Democrat Robert Brady of Philadelphia, unanimously dismissed Clint Curtis and several other requests for an investigation of his election! SEE: http://www.opednews.com/ & http://www.bradblog.com/ May 7: The French election has been plagued by election fraud – bogus polling data, false exit polls, and electronic voting machine and machine counting irregularities were hallmarks of the first presidential election round. http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk May 7: Violent protests
against the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France ended
early Monday after hundreds of people were arrested, hundreds of cars
gutted, and hundreds of windows smashed in several cities across France. April 26, 2007: ARTICLE & VIDEO! -- Clint Curtis is proving that Citizen Audits are the only way to verify or challenge election results. He has collected affidavits in several precincts in Florida's 24th Congressional District and discovered that instead of losing by 16%, he actually won by 12-24%. see: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4460 UPDATE-- May 8th: House Administration Committee dismissed Clint Curtis and several other requests for an investigation of his election. SEE: http://www.opednews.com/articles & http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4522 Feb 7: Senator Feinstein to hold e-voting hearing. A brief 4-day notice was given - http://www.yubanet / 9:15 am, Rm 301, Russell Senate Office Bldg., 1st and Constitution Ave, NE 20510 Jan 24: Do new Ohio recount prosecutions indicate unraveling of 2004 election theft cover-up? FreePress Jan 24: Two election workers in Ohio's most populous county were convicted Wednesday of illegally rigging the 2004 presidential election recount so they could avoid a more thorough review of the votes. AP Jan 15: Two Florida Congressional Candidates have filed to contest election results Congress Seats Two Clear “Losers” Scoop 2006 Nov 17: Election results skewed nationwide in favor of Republicans by 4 percent, 3 million votes. Nov 15: It looks like Clint Curtis will audit his election. Good. The more the merrier. Nov 15: Brad Blog says many candidates not conceding! Great. DNC considering challenging election results in at least 6 races.
VOTING PROBLEMS ON ELECTION DAY 2006:
http://www.votersunite.org Sep: Cong. Kucinich introduces paper ballot/hand count/no machine bill for 2008 presidential election HB 6200 Aug 24: An Exit Strategy for Electronic Voting by Bruce O'Dell (A good article except Bruce defends the secret ballot, which actually constitutes a double standard - elected officials vote openly and know their vote counts, whereas we vote secretly and have no idea.) Aug 23: Zogby Poll - Americans Concerned About Election Transparency and Security Aug 21: DNC encourages use of Internet voting for Democratic primaries - unbelievable! Feb 17: Maryland's Republican Governor Issues Blow to Diebold http://www.bradblog.com/
2005 Sep 15: Diebold insider spills... "In exclusive stunning admissions to The BRAD BLOG some 11 months after the 2004 Presidential Election, a "Diebold Insider" is now finally speaking out for the first time about the alarming security flaws within Diebold, Inc's electronic voting systems, software and machinery. The source is acknowledging that the company's "upper management" -- as well as "top government officials" -- were keenly aware of the "undocumented backdoor" in Diebold's main "GEM Central Tabulator" software well prior to the 2004 election. A branch of the Federal Government even posted a security warning on the Internet." http://www.bradblog.com Aug: Parallel Election in San Diego leads to recount request! http://rawstory.com (Activists should have asked for new elections - paper ballots hand count only...recounts occur after election officials have had days if not weeks to tamper with ballots.) "The Citizens Audit Parallel Election (CAPE) asked voters exiting polls to vote again and sign a log book attesting to the accuracy of their second vote. Sealed parallel election ballots were counted at KGTV's studio with a TV camera crew filming the counting process.Nearly 50 percent of all voters participated in the parallel election, which included five polling places representing 11 precincts. The sample included more conservative than liberal precincts, with participation as high among Republicans as among Democrats. The tandem election results showed what most feel to be startling results. "There is a shift of four percent of the vote, consistently," Joe Prizzi, (engineer and physicist,) reported at a press conference held by CAPE in front of City Hall. Frye received 50.2 percent of the votes cast in the parallel election - enough for an outright victory if those results reflect the outcome citywide. CAPE also found that the official count added approximately 2 percent to each of Frye's two Republican opponents, Jerry Sanders and Steve Francis." Join the PARALLEL ELECTION PROJECT! Jun 17: Sheila Green strikes again! "Concerned voting citizens have petitioned the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to re-examine the Danaher voting system which was associated with election failures in Berks and other counties in the May 2005 primary election." http://www.prweb.com/ (Sheila and other PA activists already got Unilect de-certified) Jun 8: Catherine Harris to run for U.S. Senate in Florida http://www.orlandosentinel.com (I wonder which Republican corporation will count the votes?) Jun 1: From Bev Harris --OPTICAL SCAN MACHINES HACKED IN FLORIDA: http://www.bbvforums.org Jun 1: Feds OK paper ballots for Tuesday's city vote http://www.mysanantonio.com "Vacek, who chose the paper ballot system because that method, at about $350,000, will cost the city roughly half the electronic system's cost." May 31: "Eternal Vigilance & Protecting Our Elections: Why America Must Say NO! - Right Now -To Electronic Voting, Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3, by Sharona Mere. May 20: The New Diebold Printers"The printing on the ballot is so small that when the voter looks at the record to verify it, they are looking through a magnifying piece of plastic." Author of this article misses the point in the end. There is no way to stop machines from creating havoc. May 7: Row After Columnist's Article On Stolen 2004 Election Apr 28: Is the NIST Technical Guidelines Development Committee Working for You, the Voter? By John Gideon Apr 27: The Baker-Carter Commission failed to even mention the Republican ownership of America's voting technology - This is another complete fraud, courtesy the scions of the Dems and GOP - http://www.american.edu/ia/cfer/ Apr 24: Carter Gets It – But Will His Electoral Commission? by Kevin Zeese and Linda Schade http://www.freepress.org ...Does Carter get it? Apr 22: Republican Chairman (Soaries) of Voting Reform Panel Resigns or http://www.bradblog.com Apr 14: Questions surface regarding legitimacy of Baker-Carter election reform commission - Apr 12: more on Lehto's lawsuit -- SEATTLE, April 12 — An electronic voting machine maker is battling a voter rights advocate in Washington state who wants to force the company to reveal the machines' software blueprint. Apr 8: KING COUNTY, WA --From Attorney Paul Lehto -- "Our lawsuit against the restructuring of our voting system in favor of secret unverifiable voting has been filed in King County Superior Court on Thursday April 7. (My attorney is Randy Gordon of Bellevue, WA) You can read a brief article about it and download a copy of the lawsuit here: http://washblog.typepad.com/ ..you can also download the lawsuit at www.votersunite.org." also see: http://www.votersunite.org/ Apr 8: HARRISBURG, PA --
The computerized
UniLect voting system, under fire in Mercer County because some of
the machines malfunctioned and wiped out votes in November, has been
decertified by the state, meaning county election bureaus can no
longer use it. Apr 8: AUGUSTA,Maine -- Human hands still count paper ballots in 80 percent of Maine communities on election night. And despite a national movement toward computerized voting machines... The state will introduce at least one computerized voting machine into each polling place in Maine by 2006 to comply with a federal requirement - WRONG! There is no such requirement. see - ecotalk.org http://www.mainetoday.com Mar 20: Teresa Heinz Kerry- Hacking the "Mother Machine"? by Thom Hartmann - Her husband didn't notice this before the election??? Mar 19: Good News! Zimbabwe Supreme Court Denies 3.5 Million Zimbabweans Abroad From Voting Mar 19: INDIA - Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha and her party, AIADMK, have called for discontinuing EVMs (electronic voting machines) and want a return to the paper ballot system - good! Mar 19: Justice Dept. files reverse-discrimination suit in Noxubee County - contrary to popular belief, whites can also be discriminated against. Mar 19: UK- Voting fraud proceedings dropped. Absentee (postal) voting fraud alleged. Mar 19: Official expresses fears about voting by Mexicans abroad - Mexico just began allowing absentee voting - not a good idea. Mar 18: Ukraine Says Missiles Smuggled to Iran - Some say that this is payback to the West for engineering Viktor Yushchenko's election win - http://english.aljazeera. Also see - DNC Meddling in the Ukraine Elections Mar 17: The California Secretary of State's Office announced Wednesday that it will investigate why City Clerk Frank Martinez changed the software on the voting system used in Los Angeles' mayoral primary without state approval Mar 10: The Iraq elections were a farce. http://www.uruknet.info/?p=10304 On April 8-10, 2005, a Tennessee
grassroots organization, Gathering To Mar 9: NOT TRUE! Midland County TX receives grant to meet election law "Passed in 2002, HAVA is a federal law that requires all voting precincts to have a minimum of one electronic voting machine by January 2006." HAVA does no such thing! See - http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachines-TechnicalIssues&Standards.htm Mar 1: JohnGideon,
VotersUnite Feb 24: Some of Gov. Bush's ideas for election reform are good: permanently ending runoff primaries and making early voting easier - I don't think so! Feb 23: Mexico's lower house approves voting for Mexicans living abroad - they're taking the wrong direction Feb 23: Early balloting in two cities light - Good, let's keep it that way! Feb 22: Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ.), the Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee and thus a Member of the Senate leadership, has issued a paper entitled "Putting an End to Voter Fraud" - He says Congress should examine the extent to which early and absentee voting increases the likelihood of fraudulent votes being cast, but doesn't mention the VOTING MACHINES that Republicans control. Feb 13: BAGHDAD (AFP) - The final results of Iraq's general elections were due to be announced, two weeks! Feb 11: Carter ends silence, praises Iraqi voting - He's wrong. It took several days to declare the winners which means meaningful oversight was completely compromised - see above. Feb 11: Abbas never won a popular mandate Feb 10: Early voting loses allure for many city elections in Palm Beach County - the article cites costs, but the real issue is lack of effective oversight. you might as well call in you vote for all the security early voting provides. Feb 10: Saudis begin voting in country’s first nationwide elections - the big question is how were the ballots counted and published - locally in front of observers or at central counting centers? Feb 10: Voting machinesmust include a verifiable paper trail and audit capability in time for the 2006 elections, according to a bill introduced this week in Congress. Audits are not the same as counting every vote. |
