Re: Lawsuit to stop the transmission of votes over...More-- July 18, 2008
describing/selling his book re: his audit/analysis...More-- Saw Richard Hayes Phillips speak to 3 dozen last night...
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CALIFORNIA: I am looking for feedback as to whethe...More-- Subject: Has county announced result prematurely?
NORTH DAKOTA: 8:44pm CST 5 of 5 precincts reporti...More-- Subject: Unusual ballot totals
CONNECTICUT: Here is an editorial describing elect...More-- Subject: 2 out of 5 districts had voting machine issues for budget item
KENTUCKY: Our primary was almost 3 weeks ago and s...More-- Subject: Ron Paul voter told to switch machines
PENNSYLVANIA: Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia says th...More-- Subject: Will DREs (touch-screens) be a problem in the Pennsylvania primary?
CONNECTICUT: Here is a link to a report created by...More-- Subject: Report, and extra memory card copies
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WEST VIRGINIA: I have been following the canvaas a...More-- Subject: Serious problems in Wayne County!
KENTUCKY: I have been monitoring the reporting of ...More-- Subject: % precincts reported drops mid-stream, what does this mean?
I didn't notice the similarity at first - between ...More-- How about this name for a "county by county" citizens political birddog group?
Is this even an acceptable practice?
Video from...More-- How does one know for whom their vote was registered in a situation like this?
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7-22-08: Now online - Top 5 Things You Can Do to Protect Election 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Top 5 things you can do
1. Get involved………pg 5-8 2. Hook up with experienced groups………pg 9 Freedom of Information Tips………pg 10-11 3. Protect & defend – deceptive practices………pg 12-24 4. Protect & defend – voter lists………pg 25-37 5. VOTING MACHINES: Protect & defend – vote counts………pg 38-71
Permission to reprint, excerpt, and distribute granted. Complete, Concise Tool Kit booklet: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.pdf
HERE ARE SOME EXCERPTS:
#1 GET INVOLVED
In the end, this isn't about getting your favorite presidential candidate elected. This is about more permanent solutions: getting durable, ongoing citizen-based controls to oversee all elections. Elections ultimately control your daily life: your property rights, roads, the public safety, the justice system, and ultimately, the economy, your freedom, and your health...
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION TIPS
All states have open records laws. You have the right to see any document (with a limited number of exceptions). Part of every public official's job is providing public records. They know it, they're used to it, there's nothing confrontational about asking to see a record, people do it all the time. Here is a wonderful compendium of summarized public records laws for each state:
http://www.rcfp.org/ogg/index.php
Here is a useful site to generate professional-looking records requests:
http://www.splc.org/foiletter.asp
It helps to see examples. You can find hundreds of actual public records requests, including the documents provided in response to them and the occasional back-and-forth between requestor and public officials, by going to http://www.blackboxvoting.org. Use the search box at the top of the home page. Enter "records request" and it will find pages with examples for you.
7-13-08: Former voting machine exec looking to become America's next Vice President? Hardly anyone seems to remember this, but in 2004, a trial balloon went up suggesting that Democrat John Kerry team up with Republican John McCain as his running mate.
Mixing Democrats and Republicans on a presidential ticket is an appalling idea. The two power-parties already have a tight fisted grip on American politics. Such semi-mergers will eliminate or manipulate such diversity of choice as we have left.
This weekend, another such merger has been testing public opinion waters. Republican Chuck Hagel is reported by the Associated Press as saying he will consider the Vice President slot with Barack Obama. This particular suggestion traces back to Hagel himself; there is no evidence that Obama has suggested this. The rumors may actually originate from the Republican Party, or could even come from one of the Democratic rivals wanting to get on the ticket with Obama.
As for the idea itself, it's great, if you are in favor of moving to a one-party system and allowing a presidential ticket with ties to the nation's largest voting machine company. Hagel was CEO of one of the nation's most problematic voting machine companies, Election Systems & Software*, before he ran for office. His votes were counted by the company he had been running, while he still had up to $5 million in ownership in it. His campaign finance manager, Michael McCarthy, owned another huge chunk through the McCarthy Group investment firm.
*American Information Systems (AIS) changed its name to Election Systems & Software (ES&S) in 1997.
I liked having slightly more illusion about this great nation of ours than this current trial balloon permits. The uniparty concept is perilous.
There is no doubt that this is testing the waters -- by someone.... More
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THE BALLAD OF STEVE HELLER
Whistleblower prosecuted for revealing voting company lawbreaking
Steve did the only thing a man of his character could do - he
leaked the proof to someone who would know what it was and what to do
with it, Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org. His documents contributed to the decertification of the system, but he was punished..."
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