SAVE OUR ELECTIONS! As many of you know, they are stealing our votes... http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1383 We need to make ALL of our fellow voters and representatives aware of the fraudulent machines and fraudulent 2004 Election. All Americans who care about the sanctity of their vote must not allow these unscrupulous officials to get away with throwing our votes away. Let your Secretary of State and your state Board of Elections members know that we WILL NOT ALLOW them to fraudulently certify Diebold and other fraudulent electronic machines, that we are OUTRAGED that they are undermining our democracy. Let them know that law suits will dog them until they throw out these machines from our elections.
Here in California, someone slimed our democratically-elected Secretary of State Kevin Shelley after he decertified Diebold voting machines http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190 and they witch-hunted him until he resigned. Bruce McPherson was then appointed by Schwarzenegger to replace Democrat Kevin Shelley. (Shelley has since been exonerated of all the allegations. But meanwhile, those who would steal our votes got away with replacing him.) Folks, if they can't win legally, they WILL steal the votes they need. This is a Republican coup, and they are counting on YOU, and ME to do NOTHING. Is it worth FIVE MINUTES OF YOUR TIME to send a FAX, and make a call? Once you get started, please contact as many layers of the government as you can. Bruce McPherson, the Schwarzenegger-installed Secretary of State of California, is ignoring the law and voters' concerns as he has just re-certified the Diebold voting machines despite the fact that they do not meet the requirements in election law for such machines.This is not the first time he has tried to ignore the law and voters' demands. He appears to be hell-bent to deny us the voters an honest election. The attempt of ignorant or partisan elections officials nationwide to sidestep the will of the people and to steal our votes is an affront to us all. If they do not throw out the fraudulent and disastrously imperfect electronic voting machines, they should be prosecuted for perpetrating this fraud on all American citizens. There is no further proof needed than that the GAO (Government Accountability Office) has finished investigation of the failures of these machines during the 2004 Election and has unambiguously stated in its report that these machines are shoddy, poorly designed, full of software errors, penetrable through multiple avenues, and easily compromised. If after reading this report your Secretary of State and your lawmakers do not throw these machines out of all elections, they should be prosecuted for knowingly imposing upon State citizens a voting system riddled with insecurities, bugs, and multiple avenues for election fraud. Here is a link to that story: http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=viewstory&cat=2&id=11529 and another article: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1529 Send your demands to your elected officials, along with the following links: 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in America: http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=2004121115234497 GAO report: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf Alternate printout of the GAO report: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/useftp.cgi?IPaddress=162.140.64.21&filename=d05956.txt&directory=/diskb/wais/data/gao For election results to be credible, we must have paper ballots, hand-counted in public at the polls!!! (In brief: DO NOT TAKE YOUR EYE OFF YOUR BALLOT!) Hand-Counting in Canada: http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachines-LegalVoting.htm Contrary to usual talking points from some election officials, electronic voting machines are NOT mandatory. Send them the following manual. Mythbreakers manual for HAVA compliance: http://www.votersunite.org/MB2.pdf Sample Paper-Ballot Legislation: http://www.studycaliforniaballots.org/Documents/PBHCVoting%20Initiative.doc Please do your part to rid us of these vote-stealing machines! If you contact all of the suggested levels of representatives, you may want to start a log sheet to keep track of whom you have contacted, since the list will get long. 1. Call, email, FAX your Secretary of State: Contacts to your Secretary of State: http://www.nass.org/sos/2004roster.html Point out that these machines and all other electronic voting machines are fraudulent and must not be allowed to count any of our votes. Note that if they allow these machines into our future elections, they are laying themselves out for unending lawsuits, since the GAO has agreed that these machines are buggy, unreliable, insecure, and open to hacking which leaves them with no leg to stand on. Since many of these people will be altogether ignorant on this issue, please be sure to send them the links that have the goods on these machines. Then urge/threaten/cajole that you will not stand for your votes to be stolen any longer and you demand that they stop their use and that they then start an immediate public inquiry into the failures of these vote-counting machines. In fact you should ask that your State sue these vendors for creating invalid results in many precincts and such vendors should re-imburse the citizens for mishandling of our votes. Electronic voting machines can be used at best in the future to generate paper ballots for counting by hand. Save your letter for re-use to other representatives and civil servants: 2. Call, email and FAX your Elections officials and Board of Elections with the same information and demands. Find County Election Officials: http://www.nass.org/electioninfo/state_contacts.htm Contact your election officials: www.vote-smart.org/voter_county_election_offices.php Contact your State Election Directors: http://www.nased.org/membership.htm 3. Call, email and FAX your representatives at all levels of government with the information and your demands: Contact your State Attorney General: http://www.naag.org/ag/full_ag_table.php Contact your State Governor: http://www.firstgov.gov/Contact/Governors.shtml Contact your Mayor: http://www.usmayors.org/USCM/cgi-bin/database_search4.asp Contacts to your State legislators: http://www.ncsl.org/public/leglinks.cfm Contact your County representatives: http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=/cffiles/counties/usamap.cfm Contacts to more state, county, city officials: http://www.firstgov.gov/Agencies/Local_Government/Cities.shtml Contact the officers of the National Association of Counties: http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Staff&Template=/cffiles/naco/nacostaff.cfm Contacts to your U.S. Senators: http://www.senate.gov Contacts to your U.S. Congressman: http://www.house.gov Email addresses for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email the U.S. Conference of Mayors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email the National League of Cities: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email the National Civic League: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact your local and national media, 5 at a time: http://mygov.governmentguide.com/mygov/dbq/media/ More information for your Letters to the Editor. What's wrong with Diebold: 1. Bad for Business: Diebold hired felons with records for embezzlement and computer fraud--to write their software: http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html 2. Highly partisan and biased management: CEO Wally O'Dell bragged to the Ohio GOP leadership that he would bring the vote home for them in the 2004 Presidential election: http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html 3. Faulty Product: A recent test demonstrated a failure rate in excess of a staggering 20% http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1417 4. Poor Performance: Reports of dramatic discrepancies with polls continue to pour in-leading to repeated accusations of election rigging, including the Ohio election earlier this year: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/the-staggeringly-impossib_b_10589.html 5. Highly secretive: http://www.votefraud.org/how_a_private_company_counts_our_votes.htm Please forward this message to all concerned citizens and post on your blogs Extra credit: Print, xerox, distribute widely any article you choose from the links in this message. Whenever you attend a meeting, hand these out to fellow citizens. A good one is http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=2004121115234497 ================================================== "The election's over. We won. It's all over but the counting, and we'll take care of the counting." Rep. Peter King (R-NY) at White House function, 2003 Florida Leon County Election Supervisor Ion Sancho: Vendors are like family." --------------------------------- Celebrate Earth Day everyday! Discover 10 things you can do to help slow climate change. Yahoo! Earth Day --------------------------------- Celebrate Earth Day everyday! Discover 10 things you can do to help slow climate change. Yahoo! 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