Urgent Alert! Need help from NC'linians in these Counties/Verified Voting

[KoKo]

If you live in one of the counties below your help is needed next Saturday, May 21st at the North Carolina Democratic Party District Meetings. Help is needed in contacting anyone in your District to man a booth with literature to urge your representatives to vote "Yes" on NC House Bills H223 and S238 which require a "Verified, Auditable Paper Ballot." These bills are up for vote in the next month and it's urgent we get the Board of Elections Officials in your County to support these bills.

These are the NC Counties identified as having the largest number faulty, paperless trail DRE/Touch Screen or Punch Card Machines that have been mandated by HAVA act to be replaced in the next twelve months. These counties also have the highest population of eligible voters and thats why it's most important that purchase of more paperless trail DRE machines in these counties be stopped.

These are the counties that are "non-compliant" with HAVA even though they already have the DRE, we are trying to make sure that the New Machines which replace them will have verified, auditable paper trails:

Buncombe, Cabarrus, Cartaret, Catawba, Davidson, Gaston, Guilford, Mecklenherg, Onslow, Pitt, Union, Wataqua, Wilson.

If anyone has contact with your Elections Officials in any of these counties but can't make the May 21st meeting and still wants to help please PM me for the information. Just calling or meeting with your local Elections Officials or your local Democratic Party Officers about supporting these Bills would be a huge help.

For more information about this please go to this link:

http://www.ncvoter.net /

For information on where your NC Dem District Meeting will be held please go to great link which has all the info:

Attend Your District Convention in May
Submitted by NCDP on Mon, 05/09/2005 - 3:21pm.

Get involved in the Democratic Party at the local level--Attend your Congressional District Convention.

All Conventions are Saturday, May 21 (except the 7th District, which is Saturday, May 14)


Find out which Congressional District you live in here

http://www.ncdp.org/districtconventions

[leftchick]

1. I live in Guilford...

Our local deomocratic party refuses to acknowledge this issue. In addition George Gilbert is a very good (and highly paid I am sure) stooge for the Election Center and refuses to admit that there is an issue here. It is a very tough road to how here in Guilford county.
Tell me what I should do given these circumstances.

:(

[KoKo]

2. The Guilford Challenge .....

George Gilbert is a legendary problem (as is his connection to the Election Center)and has been bad mouthing VVPB even in the NC Legislature. Three quick suggestions...go to http://www.ncvoter.net/ get your Rep and Senator's contact info to complain that the ES&E machines that George likes cost 5 times more than OptiScans(you need 5 DREs in a precinct where a single OptiScan can serve 1200-1400 voters) and the cannot be audited so a Carteret "lost vote" could occur. So you want them to support SB 238 and HB 233. Then send the same note to the Board of Elections members(Dems and Pugs). Lastly, email your Party Vice Chairs and threaten to come to District meeting where several proposals supporting the VVPB bills are likely to be made. I will try to find out idf there is anyone open minded in the Dem group
Good luck and Thanks
Koko's Hubby

[leftchick]

3. I worked with the Guilford County Democratic party all last year

pre-election. They refused to hear my crys about potential problems with the DREs. They actually believe Gilbert is 'non-partisan'.
:banghead: It is absolutely maddening to the point where I have refused to help out the Democratic party locally until they open their eyes.

Thank you so much for your suggestions and I will certainly do my part KoKo.

peace and VVPB for all!
lc

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

4. Guilford voting machines are not disabled accessible

Key point to open the deaf ears in Guilford-
They have to replace their voting machines anyway because they
cannot be upgraded to meet the HAVA 2006 disability standards, i.e they cannot be fitted with headphones for the blind.

Here is some more about that, and for all about George Gilbert and Guilford County BOE, plus tons of proof he told three different media outlets three different things see http://www.ncvoter.net/guilford.html

Facts about Guilford County voting machines:

They do not meet disability standards for the Help America Vote Act of 2006.

Permanent loss of votes on Guilford County Machines documented.

Failure of voting machine company to communicate serious limitations with software causing it to not count votes.

Same machines which were used in Craven County NC changed votes before the voters eyes..

Voting Machine Companies ties to bribery of election officials.

Known instances of ES&S instructing employees to lie to election officials.

Current machines more costly to purchase and operate, than paper ballot optical scan machines used in 48 NC Counties

NC Study shows that paperless machines have significantly higher undervote rates than paper ballot optical scan machines