Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Saturday, May 13, 2006

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Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News

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1. Missouri Approves Voter ID

Posted on Sat, May. 13, 2006

Court challenge expected
Missouri approves voter ID

By TIM HOOVER
The Star’s Jefferson City correspondent

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri lawmakers finished the 2006 session Friday with a bitter partisan fight over passage of a bill requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls.

>snip

Republicans and Democrats acknowledged that the voter ID bill, which Republican Gov. Matt Blunt said he would sign, likely would end up in court.

“Certainly we expect our party and other interested parties to be ready to move forward with a lawsuit,” said Senate Minority Leader Maida Coleman, a St. Louis Democrat.

The Senate passed the voter identification bill on a 23-10 vote shortly before 2 a.m. Friday by bringing up the bill and then immediately shutting off debate, a parliamentary move rarely used in the Senate. The measure then went to the House, which took it up Friday for nearly two hours before shutting off debate and passing the bill on an 84-73 vote.

>more

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/14569094.htm

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13. Session ends in partisan rancor

A short piece on Friday's passage of the bill:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/6257CB2B25FA46E08625716D000F53D5?OpenDocument

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2. Used voting machines lack approval by the state

http://www.hendersonvillestarnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060513/NEWS0206/605130344

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3. Voting machines need certification

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060513/NEWS/605130341/1004

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4. Utah officials downplay security threat

http://www.kcpw.org/article/649

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5. States beef up security after report on weaknesses

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/8ORCZwLNt0AAQf/States-Beef-Up-E-Voting-Security-After-Report-on-Weaknesses.xhtml

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6. PA could face Election-gate 2006

http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=12930

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7. Court slows EFF efforts to address Ohio e-voting malfunctions

http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/15023/

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8. Diebold announces plans to change machines

http://www.webwereld.nl/articles/41140/backdoor-found-in-diebold-voting-machines.html

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9. US orders state to repay $536,000 in election funds

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-shelley13may13,1,1587031.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

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10. Warning: biased article but contains some new info

The above article is anti-Kevin Shelley as evidenced by journalistically inappropriate phrases like "resigned in disgrace"

It provides more detail on what expenditures were considered inappropriate but no one I know has ever seen the actual list of organizations or people that allegedly received payments.

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11. Small Communities Can't Afford Require Voting Technology

I-Team: Small communities can't afford required voting technology

Web Posted: 05/13/2006 01:34 AM CDT

Joe Conger
KENS 5 Eyewitness News

Lots of important issues are facing voters this Saturday, from school district elections to fire coverage for county residents. However, Saturday is also the first time taxpayers will shell out double, triple, even quadruple the cost to have an election.

>snip

The 2000 presidential election exposed many flaws in the election systems, and as a result, the Help America Vote Act, or HAVA, was signed into law. The law gives everyone the ability to cast a ballot in secret by privately using a relatively new technology.

Texas took the law and ran with it. State lawmakers mandated last year that not only federal elections, but every single election — right down to the local level — will comply with HAVA.

Texas counties received millions of dollars in federal grant money to purchase and operate these electronic voting machines, but the school districts and small towns who also have their own elections didn't receive anything. So how are the smaller areas going to comply? Some of the communities say lawmakers didn't think this one through.

>more

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA051206.elexcosts.KENS.37a1c52e.html

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12. Ohio-"Voting machines a winner in poll,but problems being probed "

http://www.cleveland.com/election/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1147509106181800.xml&coll=2

Saturday, May 13, 2006
Grant Segall
Plain Dealer Reporter

When the new machines worked, the voters loved them.

An exit poll shows this rare bit of good news from Black Tuesday - Cuyahoga County's sputtering May 2 primary.

"The voters were overwhelmingly satisfied with the system," Steven Hertzberg, project director of Election Science Institute, said Friday.

Still, an independent committee began Friday to investigate the primary's many problems, including missing memory cards, hours of delay in opening some polls and days of delay in counting absentee ballots by hand...

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20. from Steven Hertzberg's (ESI) bio:

Mr. Hertzberg spent the first several years of his career as a civilian within the US Department of Defense. While serving as a Project Manager and Test Director for highly visible military development programs, Mr. Hertzberg received the U.S. Army’s Civilian Special Act Award.

enough said.

http://www.hertzberg.org/

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14. Group: Save the Voting Rights Act

Group: Save the Voting Rights Act

By JENNIFER WILLIAMS , Daily Dispatch Writer

In August 2007 significant portions of the Voting Rights Act will expire, and several people are working away in Washington to make sure that does not happen. Few may remember, but lawsuits based on the Act affected Granville and Franklin counties in 1988, 1990 and as recently as 1997.

Voting rights advocate and director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights Anita Earls said in a phone interview with the Dispatch on Thursday that Sections 2 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act are paramount. According to Earls, Section 2 of the act allows individual voters to file suit if they believe their voting rights have been denied. Section 5 requires that changes affecting the voting process be approved by a court.

“However, Section 2 isn't as effective (compared to Section 5) because you have to wait until the action takes place before you file suit,” Earls explained during the interview. Section 2 is permanent and will not expire. Section 5's expiration date is quickly approaching. Earls says Section 5 is essential to the fair treatment of minority voters.

Since 1982 there have been 45 objections under Section 5 filed in North Carolina, some of them against the state, some against counties.

>more


http://www.hendersondispatch.com/articles/2006/05/13/news/news03.txt

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15. Book Review: Hostile Takeover - Sirota

Comments On David Sirota's
New Book: Hostile Takeover

By Stephen Lendman

12 May, 2006
Countercurrents.org

I'd like to begin my commentary on David Sirota's important new book Hostile Takeover with my strong endorsement of his fine work. Everyone should read it to learn what's really going on around us that affects us all in the most important ways I know and which most people at best only vaguely understand on many if not most of the major issues. Those who read it will learn in stunning and graphic detail how large corporations in league with government at all levels serving their interests and not ours are destroying the democratic pillars of our society. The result now evident when we know the facts David presents is a great irreversible harm to the great majority unless we can collectively act in time to reverse the destructive path and economically downward trajectory we're now on - all planned and implemented by our elected officials in service to their generous corporate benefactors. In his important book, David lucidly explains the problem in detail and gives us an action plan to fight back.

Introduction

When I first heard about David's new book, I was very eager to read it. I had to be as earlier I wrote and got published a long article by the same title. David's approach and mine covered some of the same ground but differed as well including the subtitles we chose. My approach was to concentrate on the economic consequences of corporate size and dominance to ordinary people. David did the same, but as was clear from his subtitle, he did it by documenting in powerful detail "how big money and corruption" control the political process for their own gain. He also goes further to show how we can fight back to regain the essential rights we've lost. I covered some of that myself in an earlier article I wrote called Democracy in America - It's Spelled C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N. It's posted on my blog site - sjlendman.blogspot.com. In his book, David gives more than just an account of how our government was bought. He presents the evidence in "handbook" form, exposing the lies and myths politicians and corportions tell us, and gives us an action plan to fight back and win.

David and I both know that corporations exist for one purpose only - to make a profit. I explained in my writing that corporate law mandates that publicly owned corporations serve only the interests of their shareholders and do it by working to maximize the value of their equity holdings by increasing sales and profits. They have to do this and don't have a choice. Should they do otherwise, the companies would likely face legal consequences and their top executives dismissal. But David explains that in a democratic society, government is supposed to serve the people and act as a counterweight to unrestrained corporate power which left on its own could destroy society. At times in the past, our elected government actually passed laws and did that, if imperfectly. But that was then, and this is now - a brave new world order. It's one with giant corporations literally running amuck in charge of everything: writing the laws, making the rules, deciding who governs and how and who serves on our courts. Tey even have to sign off on it before the nation goes to war. Those wars have nothing to do with national security threats (we've had none since WW II), making the world safe for democracy or deposing tyrants. I've explained this in other writing also on my blog site including exposing the sham of the so-called "war on terror" which is nothing more than a bogus scare tactic to get the public to go along with bad policy. That policy includes waging war, although they're only fought as a last resort when less extreme methods don't work.

Why resort to war? They're fought to control markets, vital resources like oil and cheap labor to help those same corporations make more profits. In that kind of world, there's nothing to stop them from operating as legalized private tyrannies (with their own armies we pay for through taxes) exploiting us (and the planet) for their gain and doing it as another author explained in his book called The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Those who can pay can play, and those who can't have no say and don't get their way. Money not only talks, it rules the world.

>the rest of the long review, chapter by chapter

http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman120506.htm

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16. IN: Hagen Files For a Recount in Noble Judge Race

Posted on Sat, May. 13, 2006


Hagen files for recount in Noble judge race

By Kara Hull
The Journal Gazette

With certified election results putting him just four votes behind the winner in the race for Noble Superior I Court judge, Albion attorney Steve Hagen filed for a recount Friday.

>snip

Noble Circuit Court Judge David Laur will appoint a three-person recount committee – one Republican, one Democrat and one person, possibly from the Clerk’s office, who is familiar with the ballot-counting machines – to tackle the project, said Candice Myers, Noble County Clerk and secretary of the county’s election board.

A local representative of MicroVote, the machines used in this election, could also be added to the committee, Myers said.

>snip

The recount will not mean that all ballots cast in the county will be hand counted, said Brian Black, chairman of the Noble County Election Board.

While all absentee and the three provisional ballots cast will likely be counted by hand, the MicroVote machines will still be used to tally all other votes, he said.

>more

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/14569665.htm

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17. KY: Officials Statewide Prepare Frantically

Posted on Sat, May. 13, 2006


Election Day screen test
OFFICIALS STATEWIDE PREPARE FRANTICALLY
By Jennifer Hewlett
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER

Apprehensive about using a new voting machine during Kentucky's primary election on Tuesday?

Consider the plight of the state's 120 county clerks and other election officials. Many, if not most, of them have been working harder to get ready for this election than any other, mainly because of a new federal law designed ostensibly to make voting easier for all voters and to make vote counts as accurate as possible.

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Election results in many counties will probably be available later than usual because election officials will be counting votes from two types of voting machines. Also, no one knows for sure whether voters will take longer to cast their ballots due to unfamiliarity with the new machines.

>snip

To make elections run more smoothly, Fayette County officials not only have obtained a disabled-accessible electronic eSlate voting machine for each of the county's 251 precincts, they have replaced all of the county's old electronic voting machines with new eSlates.

>more

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/politics/14570134.htm

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18. IN: Candidate Opposed to Recount Method (hand count)

Candidate opposed to recount method
Front-runner: Hand count more likely to turn up errors
By Pam Tharp
Correspondent

LIBERTY, Ind. -- At first, Republican sheriff candidate Terry Cornett wasn't worried about a recount of his 13-vote primary victory over fellow Republican Barry Boggs.

Cornett, though, changed his mind Friday and filed a petition opposing the recount. Boggs asked for recount of all 10 precincts on Monday. In his petition, Cornett said he originally thought votes in the recount would be counted as they were in the general election -- by the scanners and the computers.

A hand count, which Boggs has requested, would have a greater error rate than the new machines the county bought, Cornett said.

"I believe Mr. Boggs is trying to circumvent the process by demanding a manual (hand count) of the ballots to gain entry to office," Cornett said.

>more

http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060513/NEWS01/605130304/1008

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19. CA: Democratic Candidates Share More Than Ideals

Posted on Sat, May. 13, 2006

Democratic candidates share more than ideals
By Ken McLaughlin
KNIGHT RIDDER

Both Democratic candidates fighting for the chance to depose California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson are progressive, pro-choice women senators now being forced out of office by term limits.

>snip

Plus, the business of elections isn't as ho-hum as it used to be. Since the debacle in Florida in the 2000 presidential race -- when hanging chads and butterfly ballots became the grist of late-night comedians -- the way in which Americans cast their ballots has gone under the microscope.

The effort to replace the old-fashioned computer punch-card systems with new technology has generated its own set of problems. Computer scientists worry that the new touch-screen machines are vulnerable to hackers and vote tampering.

And it's the job of the secretary of state to approve any new voting technology.

>more

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/14571415.htm

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21. NJ: Clean Elections: Don't Go Halfway

Clean elections: Don't go halfway
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 05/13/06

The citizens committee studying New Jersey's "Clean Elections" program offered recommendations this week that should encourage more candidates to qualify for public funding of campaigns. But its proposed contribution thresholds are still too high. And its suggestion that the experiment be extended tfrom two to six of the 40 legislative districts is too timid, given the pressing need for campaign finance reform.

Getting "Clean Elections" right is vital to good-government efforts to use public financing to remove special-interest money from politics. The experiment failed miserably last year in the two designated districts. Qualifying thresholds were too high, paperwork was too cumbersome and candidates were given inadequate time to collect contributions.

The Citizens' Clean Election Commission addressed several of these problems in a report released Monday. A key change would reduce the number of qualifying contributions from 1,500 (1,000 in $5 donations and 500 in $30 donations) to 800 donations of $10. Those figures are still too high. Assemblywoman Amy H. Handlin, R-Monmouth, who fell short of qualifying in the 13th District last year, has suggested 420 contributions of $5 each. That's still twice as many as Arizona, the model for "Clean Elections," requires of legislative candidates.

The commission wisely suggested the program be extended to the primary elections. That's a change that would give party outsiders a better shot at the nomination, which too often is controlled by the county party leadership. With the primary included, the commission recommended the time period to collect donations run eight full months, from Jan. 1 through Aug. 31. That should be long enough.

>more

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060513/OPINION/605130348/1029

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22. CA: City To Review Campaign Financing

Article Launched: 5/13/2006 12:00 AM
City to review campaign financing
At request of activist, Santa Clarita council will re-examine laws
BY JUDY O'ROURKE, Staff Writer
LA Daily News
SANTA CLARITA - Spurred by a request from a community activist months ago, the City Council will review campaign financing laws next month to see if reform is needed.

The proposal to explore public campaign financing will be added to the mix.

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The nonprofit California Clean Money Campaign proposes providing qualified candidates with money deemed adequate to run their campaigns, in exchange for candidates promising to reject other contributions. Additional money would be available - up to a cap - if the "clean money" candidates are being outspent by privately funded candidates.

On the state level, Assembly Bill 583, the California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act, garnered a 47-31 vote in the assembly in January. The measure is being considered by the state Senate.

"We need to have the option of a clean money campaign here so the peoples' voice is heard," Lutness said Friday. "We can't patch this issue; half measures will not avail us. We've got to have a drastic reform - the system is all set up to favor large corporate interests."

>more

http://www.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_3817250

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23. MA: John Bonifaz, candidate for Secretary of State, qualifies for ballot!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x427521

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24. PA: Editorial - Day of Decision

Day of decision

By Bill Steigerwald
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Saturday, May 13, 2006

Everybody's watching Tuesday's primary elections to see if the bipartisan tsunami of reform set in motion by the Legislature's thwarted pay-grab last summer is going to sweep away any incumbent state House and Senate members. Most eyes are on the challenges to the veteran party leaders who orchestrated or abetted the salary-jacking. For some savvy pre-election analysis, I called Tim Potts, the founder of Democracy Rising PA (DemocracyRisingPA.com) and one of the state's most effective, most respected reformers:

# Q: Are there any late-breaking surprises or news flashes that are going to have an impact on the primary?

#

A: Two things, actually. One is the reports of the incredible amounts of money that the leadership candidates have amassed for their campaigns -- (Bob) Jubelirer, (Chip) Brightbill and (Mike) Veon. When someone is raising over $700,000 for a House seat, it raises real questions about the integrity of our campaign finance system. It also raises real questions about the judgment of the people who would raise and spend that much money on a state House seat. Jubelirer is raising and spending the most. He's raised over $1 million.

# Q: So that means he's in a real race with John Eichelberger.

A: He's in a real race, yeah. It's remarkable this year that we actually are having primary elections, instead of primary coronations, which is what they usually are. You look back two years ago, out of 193 House incumbents seeking re-election, only 15 had opponents in both the primary and general election. This year it is a hundred and something.

>more questions and answers

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/steigerwald/s_453653.html

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25. Daily Voting News-May 12 List of Articles and Links

Daily Voting News - May 12, 2006
By John Gideon, VotersUnite.Org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
May 12, 2006

Please note that I have segregated out all of the articles that discuss the Diebold security issue from the rest of the articles. Today the corporate national media finally woke-up and began to do their job. Wall Street Journal, New York Times, United Press International, and Associated Press all reported on the Diebold security 'chasm' and, as it turns out, other voting news items. In the face of this reporting and quotes from renowned computer scientists and experts in security, Georgia, Maryland and Utah have spoken out that there isn't any problem as far as they are concerned or that it is just a minimal issue. They are aping the line from Diebold who must be looking at the beginning of the collapse of their house of cards. And from Florida we learn that Diebold has shipped TSx machines that are not state certified to 5 counties. The state is covering for them. Three primaries next Tuesday; Oregon, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.

# National: Diebold - Voting machine security flaws uncovered LINK
# National: Diebold - Diebold voting systems critically flawed LINK
# National: Diebold - New Fears of Security Risks in Electronic Voting Systems LINK
# National: Diebold - Reversing Course on Electronic Voting LINK
# National: Diebold - Wall Street Journal Covers E-Voting Train Wreck LINK
# National: Diebold - NY Times on New Diebold Touch-Screen Security Disaster! LINK

>many more stories and links

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=2&Itemid=1032

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26. Top Lobbyist Receives $600,000 Severence Pay

Article Launched: 5/13/2006 12:00 AM
Top lobbyist receives $600,000 severance pay
By Lisa Friedman, From our Washington Bureau
Long Beach Press Telegram
WASHINGTON — Congressional watchdogs on Friday blasted a $600,000 severance payment that a lobbying shop with ties to Rep. Jerry Lewis made to one of its partners days before he assumed a top slot with Lewis on the House Appropriations Committee.

Redlands native Jeff Shockey lobbied Congress on behalf of dozens of San Bernardino and Riverside county agencies in his six years with Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White. Shockey quickly rose to partner, and before leaving in 2005 to become Lewis' deputy staff director, he earned $1.5 million, making him one of Washington's top lobbyists.

Considering Shockey's salary and stake in the firm, several ethicists said they do not consider a $600,000 severance payment excessive. At the same time, a multi-million dollar going-away present from a firm with interests before the committee to an aide with his hands on Congress' purse strings troubled many watchdogs.

"I think it stinks," said Michael Surrusco, director of Common Cause's ethics campaign.

>more

http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_3817028

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27. Court Slows EFF Efforts to Address Ohio E-Voting Malfunctions

May 12, 2006
Court Slows EFF Efforts to Address Ohio E-voting Malfunctions

Decision Delays Inquiry Into State's History of Voting Machine Problems

San Francisco - The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that a critical lawsuit aimed at improving the security and integrity of Ohio's voting technology will be put on hold indefinitely. The ruling halts case proceedings until the appeal of the government's motion to dismiss is decided and seriously jeopardizes the chances that critical procedural improvements will be in place by the time voters enter polling places in November.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) had intervened in this lawsuit, originally brought by the League of Women Voters of Ohio, in the fall of 2005 on behalf of voter Jeanne White. White's case focuses on the issues surrounding electronic voting and seeks to increase the security and accuracy of Ohio's e-voting technology, as well as to dramatically improve state and local procedures that leave the integrity of the state's e-voting equipment in doubt.

Ohio's closely watched and widely criticized election of 2004 exposed a wide range of problems, complaints, and irregularities in its voting technologies. Among other things, voters reported unacceptably long lines, inadequately trained pollworkers, and voting machines that failed to record their votes correctly. Similar problems were reported in the 2005 elections and in the May 2, 2006, primary, including a chaotic election in Cuyahoga County where election officials have launched a formal investigation. Ohio, however, has no requirements that counties keep formal track of such problems, much less report them to state officials or to the public.

"We had hoped the appellate court would follow the trial court's lead and let the case progress," said EFF Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman "Without this expedited schedule, the case won't be able to marshal changes to Ohio's voting systems before this November's elections. The state owes it to its citizens to ensure that the problems of the past are identified and won't be repeated. It has, so far, failed to do so."

>one more paragraph and link to more on the Ohio suit

http://www.eff.org/news/

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28. Kickin for a great ERD, thanks Livvy

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29. MA: "WE, THE PEOPLE, INC." ??? -- How Can We Overturn Corporate Takeover..

"WE, THE PEOPLE, INC." ??? -- How Can We Overturn Corporate Takeover of our Cities, Towns and Elections?

TIME: 7:30 p.m.
DATE: Wednesday, May 17th
PLACE: Unitarian Universalist Society of Northampton and Florence, 220 Main Street, Northampton.
Hosted by Shays 2: Western MA Committee on Corporations & Democracy www.shays2.org

Kickoff speaker, John Bonifaz, founder of the National Voting Rights Institute - www.nvri.org - opposing corporate-provided voting machines that lack paper trails or access to computer codes for accountability.

He is a candidate for Mass Secretary of State - www.johnbonifaz.com - an office from which he can protect the integrity of our election procedures (he needs 15% of the delegates at the MA Democratic Convention early next month in order to insure a place on the primary ballot in September).

He will be the first in a series of Shays 2-sponsored speakers on local control in the face of corporate instrusion.

Bonifaz will offer ways we can work to overturn undue corporate influence in our region. An open discussion will follow.

He will discuss:

• how each state can oppose electronic voting machines with no paper trails or access codes that can steal our elections. Bonifaz is leading the fight in the courts for a full recount in Ohio of all of the votes cast for President in the 2004 general election where voting machines with no paper trail were involved.

• an initiative to protect local control by keeping multinational corporate funds out of our elections, the "Measure T" referendum in Arcata, Humboldt County, CA where elections are slated for June 6th.

• his involvement in landmark cases against Texaco Oil Co. in Ecuador and Unical Oil and Gas Co. in Burma for human rights abuses – and the Amnesty International report calling for International accountability for corporations for human rights crimes.

• his constitutional challenge to President George W. Bush's authority to wage war against Iraq absent a congressional declaration of war or equivalent action,

• how we can fight Supreme Court decisions about corporate money equaling free speech.

Join us! JOIN OUR ACTION COMMITTEES!

We are part of a nation-wide movement to build real democracy in America. Explore how growing corporate "rights" undermine our Constitutional rights and democracy … and how we can resist together, advancing our diverse issues as activists and citizens.