2008 Election Series Premiere - 10 dates in February

[kster]

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2008 Election Series Premiere - 10 DATES IN FEBRUARY

Present or Speaking: Dr. Steve Freeman, Univ of PA, Paul R Lehto, Election Attorney, Atty Ken Simpkins
Are We a Democracy? Vote Counting in the United States
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Featured Speakers

Dr. Steven Freeman
"Mass Scale Election Fraud in Recent U.S. Federal Elections"
University of Pennsylvania
Author of Book: "Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?"
http://www.AppliedResearch.us/sf /

Attorney Paul Lehto
"Legal and Political Standards for Verifying Democracy"
http://www.votersunite.org/info/lehtolawsuit.asp

Attorney Ken Simpkins

"San Diego County Elections: Case In Point"
http://www.nosleepovers.org/Ken's.htm


Election fraud cases in San Diego and elsewhere paint a disturbing picture of an emerging post-democratic America. Mass scale election fraud in recent U.S. federal elections is a nonpartisan issue whose time has come. This session will explore the values and standards of democracy and democratic elections (with many references to the Founders and the democratic theories they adopted) which are the basis for rules and definitions that determine whether or not we live in a democracy.

SNIP...Even if the paper trails, deceptively called ballots under Holt II, were to be implemented, every indication is that while people do pay close attention to their input into touch screens, they miss a great many errors in the printed out portion and do not anally and religiously catch more than a minority of errors. THE RESULT IS THE GOLD STANDARD FOR VOTER VERIFIED FRAUD where the machines "mistakes or fraud" are adopted by the voter and become seemingly unquestionable.... It's a nightmare of false confidence covering for fraud.



The election integrity bills floating around congress are basically deals with the devil of various forms like this: If you allow US, the US Congress to continue to have our re-elections counted in 100% electronic trade secrecy such that nobody really knows election results, we will grant YOU, the public, a "right" to have a miniscule "audit" a week or two after the election so you can FEEL GOOD about the secrecy of your elections and that the public has been denied all effective oversight of the elections for federal office. To that end, in exchange for 100% secret vote counting, we will have government agents we appoint "audit" 3% or so of the paper you fill out, and if the paper differs in those precincts the paper will prevail in 3% of the precincts.



Of course these 3% audits are the functional equivalent of a partial recount -- which is what was called unconstitutional when Gore asked for it in 2000. No doubt the Supreme Court would have no difficulty helping a republican again in much the same way, striking down these paper trail recounts.

SNIP..The key activists most knowledgeable about this do not agree with MoveON's unqualified endorsement and do not understand why moveon doesn't talk to us. But anyway here are some of the essential amendments, and there are others emerging. Without these and other amendments, we OPPOSE the Holt bill, as well as all of the other congressional bills that don't address or solve the problems.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_press_re_070217_2008_election_series.htm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=184x11169

[Skink]

1. Paper reciepts in all elections should be scanned and matched...

to the computerized results. This is how restaraunts do it. They match ticket reciepts from the kitchen to the waitstaff carbons ensuring everything was paid into the register.

[Stevepol]

2. Great lineup. K&R!

[kster]

3. "ARE WE A DEMOCRACY?" Vote Counting in the United States

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=184x11169