DUers ROCK! Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Tuesday, 4/10/07

[Melissa G]

Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Tuesday, 4/10/07
WOO HOO!!! DUers Rock!

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John Gideon of VotersUnite Rocks EVERYDAY!:yourock:

There is an excellent article written By our own BELOVED BRAD of Bradblog Fame that is a Must Read about Amending Holt to exclude DRE's that came out on 3/21/07
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4299


There is an action item that he is requesting today about it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x470566

Our own Beloved emlev has also written a nice opinion article.:loveya:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/April/08/edit/stories/02edit.htm

I also have suspicions that James Q. Jacobs or someone who works with him may hang out around our forum because we sure get those posts pretty quick but those are unconfirmed suspicions. Although for the record, James Q. Jacobs Also ROCKS!:yourock:
http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html

Much more below....



All members welcome and encouraged to participate.



Please post Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News on this thread.

If you can:
1. Post stories and announcements you find on the web.


2. Post stories using the new Spring 2006 Edition of "Election Fraud and Reform News Directory" listed here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x407240

3. Re-post stories and announcements you find on DU, providing a link to the original thread with thanks to the Original Poster, too.


4. Start a discussion thread by re-posting a story you see on this thread.




Please "Recommend" for the Greatest Page (it's the link just below).

[Melissa G]

1. Amending the Holt Election Reform Bill to Ban DRE Touch-Screen Voting Systems

BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 3/21/2007 1:51AM
Brad Friedman (BRAD BLOG) v. Ralph Neas (PFAW) on Amending the Holt Election Reform Bill to Ban DRE Touch-Screen Voting Systems
As Heard on 'Ring of Fire' with RFK Jr. & Mike Papantonio: I Support Banning DREs, Neas Opposes Such a Ban, and Speaks in Support of DREs
Papantonio: 'Brad, my bet is on you on this one' --- Audio & Transcripts Now Posted
The Saturday before last I was interviewed on Air America's Ring of Fire with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio concerning my call for the Election Reform Bill (HR811) by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) to be amended to include a full ban on Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems.

The interview was pre-taped, and an edited-for-time version was aired. The complete, unedited version of that 15 minute interview, along with a text-transcript is now posted here.

This past Saturday, Ralph Neas, the president of People for the American Way (PFAW), one of the groups supporting the Holt Bill as is, and fighting against a ban on DRE voting systems, was interviewed on Ring of Fire. I had been critical of PFAW's unwaivering support of the bill during my interview the week before (as I have been in many articles here and elsewhere), so Bobby Kennedy asked Neas, a number of times, to answer directly to some of my criticisms.

The audio of that interview as well as a text-transcript, is also now posted here.

Now before I get to a huge number of concerns about the Neas interview and what I see as the dangerous PFAW position, and not to stack the deck (but I will anyway), Papantonio concluded his interview with me as follows, which I then promised to quote on the blog, so here it is...
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4299

[Melissa G]

6. Another action Item

Here is me, Melissa G, begging for folks to take action to Amend holt to Ban DRE's.

Action Alert from PDA
http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=9406781&type=CO

Ask Congress to amend Holt Bill - HR 811


In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the poll tax to be unconstitutional.

The purchase of electronic voting machines is like the poll tax, but it requires that voters pay to be disenfranchised, rather than paying to vote.

Election after election, thousands of reports show that Direct Record Electronic (DRE, touch screen) voting machines are disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters across the country. Voters are confused over how to use them. They stand in line for hours because the machines are broken down, or they leave because they don't have time to wait. Poll workers, even with careful training, don't know how to help when something goes wrong, and something often does.

When all seems to go well, there is still serious doubt whether their votes are counted correctly. The fact is, sometimes they haven't been counted at all.

Study after study shows that adding a voter-verified paper trail to DREs simply adds more bells and whistles to a fundamentally flawed technology, requiring taxpayers to pay even more for their own disenfranchisement.

It's time for Congress to stop States from violating the civil rights of American voters. It's time for Congress to put a stop to the use of disenfranchising DREs.

Email your Representative and insist that they amend Representative Holt's bill, HR 811, to ban DREs from use in the United States and to require real paper ballots, marked by the voter or by a non-tabulating ballot-marking device, in every federal election.


PDA makes it easy for you here!
http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=9406781&type=CO

[Melissa G]

2. PFAW is Misleading Americans on the Holt Election Reform Bill and My Position on It...

Here is an action item request from Brad.
DU discussion here...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x470566


BradBlog

PFAW is Misleading Americans on the Holt Election Reform Bill and My Position on It...


People for the American Way (PFAW) is Misleading Americans on the Holt Election Reform Bill and My Position on It
PFAW Website 'Democracy Campaign FAQ' Mischaracterizes my View on 'Paper Trails' and Dishonestly Represents a Host of Related Issues
AN OPEN LETTER DEMANDING RETRACTION AND CORRECTION ON THE FACTS ABOUT MY POSITION, ELECTION REFORM AND DANGEROUS DRE VOTING SYSTEMS...

I'm sorry to have to keep banging this drum. I truly am. But it must be done, as People for the American Way (PFAW) continues to not only mislead the public about the Holt Election Reform Bill (HR811) and dangerous, disenfranchising DRE touch-screen voting technology, but they are now apparently also misleading about my position on the issue, by name.

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PFAW's support of the Holt bill is currently the lynchpin, for Congress and a number of powerful organizations, concerning whether or not it will be passed as is, or whether much-needed amendments --- most notably, one that immediately bans the use of dangerous, disenfranchising, unverifiable DRE voting systems, with or without a so-called useless "paper trail" --- will move forward in Congress.


You can contact PFAW right here:
Email: [e-mail]
Telephone: [phone] or 800-326-7329


COMPLETE OPEN LETTER TO PFAW:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4383

[Melissa G]

3. Emily Levy: Voting process needs regulation

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/

Emily Levy: Voting process needs regulation

State and federal authorities should butt out of our elections for the convenience of local election officials, according to your editorial of March 28, "Confusion over 2008 election process" As I see it, elections are the foundation of our democracy and must be regulated where necessary to ensure they are fair, accurate, transparent and accessible. While the work of county election officials is extremely important and quite difficult, it cannot be prioritized over our democracy.

Gail Pellerin, Santa Cruz County clerk, and elections officials all over the country have been put in an impossible position: being charged with running fair, accurate, transparent and accessible elections while being forced to use voting systems that make this impossible to achieve. Only through additional state and federal action will they be relieved of this burden. Only through corrective legislation will protection of the machinery of democracy be achieved.

With the Help America Vote Act of 2002 HAVA, the U.S. made a huge mistake that has led counties throughout the country to switch to voting systems that are incapable of supplying the transparency and security needed for a democratic election. The bill your editorial refers to, H.R. 811, aims to repair the problems of HAVA but doesn't go far enough. Your editorial stated that the bill "would require a paper ballot as the official record of an election" This is misleading. H.R. 811 allows the use of direct-record electronic voting machines that produce placebo "voter verified paper audit trails," which the bill refers to as "'ballots,' but which are not what is counted on election night. Instead, electronic images are counted — images the voter will never see and that may not match either the paper or the screen image. These machines are currently part of Santa Cruz's election system.

Your editorial is correct that historically there has been fraud associated with paper ballot systems, but none with the scope that is easy to achieve with electronic ballot systems. A secure election system must have checks and balances, with a paper ballot for every vote cast being the ballot that is counted for initial results. With rigorous auditing at the precinct, these paper ballots can safely be counted by optical scan machines.

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/April/08/edit/stories/02edit.htm

[Melissa G]

4. 2004 Presidential Election Ohio - Kerry Votes Switched to Bush says James Q Jacobs

Another Excellent DUer stevenleser wrote this article and posted a DU thread here...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x273634





April 8, 2007 at 19:52:12

2004 Presidential Election Ohio - Kerry Votes Switched to Bush says James Q Jacobs

by Steven Leser
http://www.opednews.com


“Many votes were counted for the wrong candidate or ballot option, and a significant portion of the cross-voting resulted in Kerry votes tallied as Bush votes” alleges an article by James Q Jacobs on his site at http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html .


Jacobs, a self described anthropologist and archeologist, analyzed the ballots in predominantly Democratic Cuyahoga county and suggests that the ballots were purposely designed so that errors that voters might make by voting in the wrong precinct resulted in extra votes for Bush. Jacobs concludes that these errors resulted in a 3.35% reduction in Kerry’s vote count and a corresponding 3.35% increase in Bush’s tally, a 6.7% swing that if true, would have cost Kerry Ohio and the Presidency.



To those not familiar with voting in Ohio, the above idea of getting a ballot for one precinct and casting it in another may not sound plausible, but as I wrote in my December 14, 2004 article below, “Ohio Recount: County Election Board Chair Disputes comments from spokesperson for Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell”, polling places were set up where one location served multiple precincts. As Jacobs correctly points out, enough of these precincts had a different order for Presidential candidates to cause a significant amount of ballots placed in the “wrong box” to affect the election. Since this was in Democratic Cuyahoga county where Kerry received nearly 2/3rds of the vote, the problem would be twice as likely to hurt Kerry as Bush.


Jacobs drives home his point with actual analysis of ballots in locations that served multiple precincts and rigorous application of statistical analysis. His statistics predict when placement of candidates on ballots cause accidental “cross-voting” and thus increases tallies for Bush or third party candidates and the vote tallies bear them out. Where ballots in one location have either Kerry or Badnarik in the same location depending on precinct, you see a 5 times increase in Badnarik’s vote over his average support in surrounding precincts.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_steven_l_070408_2004_presidential_el.htm

[Melissa G]

5. The 2004 Ohio Presidential Election: Cuyahoga County Analysis

This is the actual analysis link to the Jacob's paper. Below is from the preface...
http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html

The 2004 Ohio Presidential Election: Cuyahoga County Analysis
How Kerry Votes Were Switched to Bush Votes


Simply put, Ohio votes were NOT counted as cast. Many votes were miscounted, and Kerry votes were counted for Bush. Numerous questions have been raised about the fairness of the 2004 Presidential election in the United States of America (US). In this article I focus on one election issue, punch card cross-voting—how votes cast one way were counted other than as intended, as a vote for a different candidate or option. Punch card voting has been replaced and, with so many election issues, this most egregious of flaws—counting votes wrong—has seemingly been overshadowed by e-voting and reform concerns. I also focus on a particular region with one-tenth of the Ohio vote, Cuyahoga County, where recount crimes now detract from miscounting the vote. The 2004 recount also focused attention from cross-voting. Votes cast wrong recount wrong.

In 2000, the US post-election focus was on Florida, on fairness of punch card voting, on vote count accuracy, and on incomplete counting. In 2004, Ohio's failure to replace punch card voting with improved systems is just one of many issues raised with regard to the Ohio 2004 Presidential election. Other Ohio fairness, fraud, and irregularity issues include politization of process, voter registration fraud, voter suppression including racial discrimination, unfair voting machine distribution, the exit poll inaccuracy, electronic voting security, paperless e-voting, e-vote flipping, the high percentage of and unequal distribution of undervotes, uncounted provisional ballots, vote count secrecy, and recount crimes and irregularities.

On a separate page, I present a 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Results Summary and various Ohio data files. This article and the appendices combine, with additional material, earlier versions cited in academic references. The URLs for earlier files now redirect readers here. While no information is superceded, a new approach to presentation evolved with continued analysis and new findings.

Seven-eights of voters in heavily-Democratic Cuyahoga County, more than one of every eight
Ohio Kerry voters, could have voted at an adjacent precinct using the wrong ballot order.

http://jqjacobs.net/politics/ohio.html

[Melissa G]

7. Chronology of Cuyahoga County elections board events

Chronology of Cuyahoga County elections board events
Associated Press
Chronology of recent problems surrounding the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, elections board:

May 2006 - First attempt at electronic voting in primary election marked by poorly trained poll workers showing up late or not at all and misplaced memory cards that store votes. Improperly printed absentee ballots force thousands of ballots to be counted by hand, delaying results for days.

Nov. 7, 2006 - A judge orders 16 polling locations to remain open late, until 9 p.m., because of voting machine problems.

Nov. 29, 2006 - County commissioners say they will consider getting rid of touch-screen voting machines and put in a new system over concerns that the machines will be unable to handle the presidential election in 2008.

February 6 - Director Michael Vu resigns saying the board wanted new leadership for the 2008 election. Assistant director Gwendolyn Dillingham also resigns.

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/17056895.htm

[Melissa G]

8. U.S. Attorney Purge: And Now the GOP's Milwaukee 'Voter Fraud' Connection

More amazing Brad!




U.S. Attorney Purge: And Now the GOP's Milwaukee 'Voter Fraud' Connection...
Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is doing some good digging into the Milwaukee connection to the phony "voter fraud" claims used to help push U.S. Attorneys out of their job in the Bush Administration's political purge/disassembly of the now-ironically named Department of Justice.

We've covered various elements of the invidious and baseless GOP "voter fraud" scheme in New Mexico (see here, here, here and here, for just a few examples) and touched on Washington State as well. But Bice jumps in with new details on the same scam in Milwaukee which have now led to an official Congressional letter of inquiry on the matter sent today to Gonzalez from Senators Leahy, Schumer, Kohl, Feingold, Feinstein and Whitehouse.

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For weeks, it was unclear who whined to the White House last year that not enough voter fraud cases were being prosecuted in Milwaukee.

Now we know.

The state Republican Party went straight to the top in its efforts to make voter fraud an issue in Wisconsin.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4386

[Melissa G]

9. Hart InterCivic snags former BuildForge CEO

Hart InterCivic snags former BuildForge CEO

Austin Business Journal - 10:58 AM CDT Monday, April 9, 2007

Hart InterCivic announced that Gregg Burt has been named president and CEO.

He started leading the company today, and has also taken a seat on the board of Hart InterCivic, a records-management company known best for making electronic voting machines.

"Gregg has the experience to lead Hart through market evolution and customer growth, investor relations and capital management, and mergers and acquisitions," says David Hart, founder and chairman of Hart InterCivic.

Burt comes to Hart InterCivic after serving as president and CEO of BuildForge, an Austin company sold to IBM last year. At BuildForge, Burt arranged funding, built the team and grew the company 15 fold before merging it into IBM, according to Hart InterCivic.

http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2007/04/09/daily3.html

[Melissa G]

10. FL State Senate reveals election-reform plan

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070410/NEWS01/304100014/1075

State Senate reveals election-reform plan
By Jim Ash
news-press.com Tallahassee bureau
Originally posted on April 10, 2007

TALLAHASSEE — The Senate unveiled its election-reform plan today, a $28 million proposal that would meet Gov. Charlie Crist's demand to get rid of most touch-screen voting in Florida.

But Secretary of State Kurt Browning expressed serious concerns about where the Senate would get the money, dipping into a $91 million federal Help America Vote Act fund that is supposed to go toward maintaining a statewide voter registration list for the next eight years.

"In a word, I'm concerned," Browning said after leaving the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee, where the proposal was discussed. "If the Legislature wants to do it this way, then I suppose that's their prerogative."

But he warned that Florida could end up losing the federal dollars.

The money would be used to buy optical scan voting equipment to replace touch-screen machines that are used in 15 counties and that critics say are unreliable because they leave no paper trails for a recount.

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070410/NEWS01/304100014/1075

[Melissa G]

11. Election Mishaps Lead to Board Upheaval

edited for better link



Election mishaps lead to board upheaval in key Ohio county
JOE MILICIA
Associated Press
CLEVELAND - Ohio's elections chief decided she'd seen enough when two elections workers were sentenced to prison for rigging a 2004 presidential election recount to avoid extra work.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat on the job for less than three months, told all four elections board members in the state's most populous county to resign. Three stepped down. The chairman, who also leads the state GOP, refuses to quit, the latest in long line of election headlines in the county, from delayed voting results to polls opening late.

At stake is the accuracy of vote counting in heavily Democratic Cuyahoga County in the state that won President Bush a second term in a close race in 2004.

Digging in his heels, elections board Chairman Robert Bennett accuses Brunner of trying to help the Democrats in next year's presidential election.


http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/17056013.htm

[Melissa G]

12. Florida governor breaks ranks on felon voting rights

Opinion
Florida governor breaks ranks on felon voting rights

By DeWayne Wickham
Tue Apr 10, 7:10 AM ET



A great sea change in American politics, the kind of enlightened leadership that could end the intransigence of the ideological left and right, may have just occurred.
If you missed this political tsunami, that could be because its epicenter was in Tallahassee, Fla., not the District of Columbia. It was foisted upon us by a guy named Charlie Crist, not Barack Obama(news, bio, voting record).


Obama, a Democratic senator, is the darling of those who are looking to the current field of presidential candidates to produce someone who can end this nation's political self-flagellation. But it is Crist, Florida's Republican governor, who is leading the way toward this promised land.


Last week, Crist pushed through a change to that state's practice of denying former felons the right to vote, serve on juries and obtain state-issued licenses. After some compromising, he got two of his three colleagues on the board of executive clemency to approve a new policy that allows most felons to automatically regain these rights after serving their sentence and paying court-ordered restitution. Convicted murderers, sexual predators and people classified as violent career criminals still will have to undergo a protracted process before they can vote again.
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When Crist took office earlier this year, Florida was one of three states (including Kentucky and Virginia) that did not automatically restore an ex-felon's voting rights. In pushing through the change, Crist broke with Bill McCollum, his Republican attorney general, and Jeb Bush, his GOP predecessor in the statehouse. And some say that by restoring the voting rights of ex-felons, who are disproportionately black and poor, Crist increases the number of Democrats in a state in which the outcome of elections is often razor-thin.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20070410/cm_usatoday/floridagovernorbreaksranksonfelonvotingrights

[Melissa G]

13. TX Voting machine transport an issue

Voting machine transport an issue

By Bill Hankins
The Paris News

Published April 8, 2007

Lamar County commissioners take up the issue of delivery and pickup of election equipment when they meet at 9 a.m. Monday.

Commissioners have voiced their objections to the task that has fallen to them for several years, and have suggested the county hire a private mover to perform the service.

In the court’s decision Monday will be the pickup and delivery for the May 12 special election called by the state on a constitutional amendment. That amendment would authorize the legislature to provide for a reduction of the limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for public school purposes on the residence homesteads of the elderly or disabled to reflect any reduction in the rate of those taxes for the 2006 and 2007 tax years.

http://web.theparisnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=7035f72f65c13dae

[Melissa G]

14. Canada- Council nixes using voting machines for election

Council nixes using voting machines for election
Deciding factor cost, not accuracy

By Don Patterson
Tuesday April 10, 2007

High River voters will continue to mark their ‘X’ for mayors and councillors with a paper ballot.
Town council opposed a proposal to use voting machines for this fall’s municipal election at its March 26 regular meeting.
Mayor Les Rempel said it’s not a matter where accuracy was at question. Instead, he explained, it would cost less to manually count ballots.
“We thought it wasn’t worth the effort to consider it,” he said. “At the size of town we’re at, it just doesn’t make sense to pursue it.”

He said it still costs less to manually count the ballots.
The proposal was for the Town to lease equipment for the upcoming election.
According to information provided by the Town, the machines would cut nearly two hours off the count time when using paper ballots.
However, the total bill for the election would have been $8,500 more if voting machines were used.
Administration recommended against using the machines.
Town manager Ken Mundy said the cost savings of paper ballots outweighed the time saved using the machines.
“It’s no question it’s quicker, but the issue is what value you put on it,” he said

http://www.highrivertimes.com/News/299253.html

[Melissa G]

15. Maryland Passes Paper Ballot Bill: 'A Victory for Democracy'

Around the States




Maryland Passes Paper Ballot Bill: 'A Victory for Democracy'
By TrueVoteMD
April 10, 2007
In the closing hours of the 2007 legislative session, a four year effort to require paper ballots for Maryland's voting system passed the House and the Senate unanimously. The bill, SB 392/HB18, requires a voter-verified paper trail to be implemented in 2010.

"This is a victory for democracy in Maryland. Thousands of voters who worked to make this a reality are celebrating tonight," said Shazia Anwar, Director of TrueVoteMD.org the election watchdog group that spearheaded efforts for a paper ballot. "We crossed a major hurdle tonight, now we have to make sure the bill is fully implemented."

Last week it looked there was no chance a bill would pass in 2007, but consistent citizen pressure -- emails, phone calls and voter visits -- let the Senate leadership know this was an issue of utmost importance to Maryland voters. "We're very pleased elected officials in both Houses decided this was the year to put in place a voter verified paper record that could used independent audits and meaningful recounts" said Anwar.


"TrueVoteMD.org was founded four years ago in order to create elections that voters in Maryland could trust," said Linda Schade, founder of TrueVoteMD. "I'm pleased that we've made significant progress tonight."
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2369&Itemid=113

[Melissa G]

16. Electronic voting machines dumped

Electronic voting machines dumped

Local Posted on Tue, Apr. 10, 2007
Electronic voting machines dumped
By RYAN LaFONTAINE
[e-mail]

HARRISON COUNTY --The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Monday to revert back to the old paper ballot voting methods here, dumping the new electronic voting machines after just a few elections.

"We've had a lot of problems with the machines... the costs, I was real concerned about the problems we had last time and it was going to cost us a lot," said Harrison County Circuit Clerk Gayle Parker, who recommended scrapping the high-tech machines after problems during the November elections.

Dozens of Mississippi counties reported problems with the new machines. Poll workers had trouble getting the machines to work. Some complained of problems with batteries and others had difficulty loading print canisters.

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The county has 44 old scanners that would need to be upgraded, but the cost should be far less than the cost of buying 100 new electronic machines, Parker said. The county plans to include one electronic machine at each voting precinct for disabled voters.

http://www.sunherald.com/201/story/27649.html

[Melissa G]

17. "Commander 'N Thief"- Explosive new documentary presents evidence of fraud in 2004 election

Thanks to kster for the post and the DU discussion here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=470487&mesg_id=470487

Original message
"Commander 'N Thief"- Explosive new documentary presents evidence of fraud in 2004 election


April 8, 2007 at 15:26:57

Explosive New Documentary Presents Evidence of Fraud in 2004 Ohio Presidential Election

Investigative journalist Greg Palast, author of the current best-selling Armed Madhouse and of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, introduces the documentary and also provides staggering information in the body of the film about the RNC's purposeful and targeted strategies for disenfranchising millions of minority voters across the United States, including African-American soldiers serving in Iraq

appearing include Congressman John Conyers, Jr.; attorneys Cliff Arnebeck, John Bonifaz, Robert Fitrakis, Joseph Geller, Peter Peckarsky and Susan Truitt; President/CEO of Common Cause Chellie Pingree; computer science expert Professor Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins and Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., the leading public-advocacy investigator of voting fraud in the 2004 Ohio presidential election; statistical expert Professor Steven Freeman, Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania; consumer advocate against electronic voting Bev Harris; Franklin County, Ohio Director of Elections Matthew Damschroeder; and Ohio poll workers, concerned citizens, and community activists.

In addition to the RNC's nationwide campaign to disenfranchise American citizens from targeted minority groups, several other clearly fraudulent activities are identified: 3,600,780 votes were cast for president but never counted; in Ohio, forensic evidence has been uncovered of ballot switching in selected rural precincts and of double punched ballots used to invalidate legitimate votes in specific urban precincts; and there is strong statistical evidence that as many as five million votes nationally were shifted, subtracting five million votes from Kerry and adding five million votes to Bush to produce a swing of up to ten million votes in the officially reported result.

The outcome of this series of sickening schemes is that the wrong candidate was sworn in as President of the United States. The evidence presented in this documentary, "Commander 'N Thief," should be seen as a warning that our democracy is now in peril and that ordinary citizens must act quickly and forcefully to restore honesty, transparency and verifiability to the American electoral system.



http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_press_re_070408__22commander__n_thief_22.htm

[bleever]

18. Melissa G rocks!

Just had to point that out, too.

[Melissa G]

19. Did I mention how much I love you , Bleever?

:loveya::yourock:

[BeFree]

20. Indeed. BeFree