Defend Your Votes!!! Calls and FAXes needed by Nov 28 and beyond

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Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:04:19 -0800 (PST)

Defend Your Votes!!! Calls and FAXes needed by Nov 28 and beyond

 

 

 

As many of you know, they are stealing our votes...

 

We have a great chance to prove the shoddiness of the Diebold

electronic voting machines! This will affect the reliability of

elections nationwide.

If we can stop California from certifying Diebold, we can use that as

a precedent everywhere else! We also need to make ALL of our

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 California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson know that we WILL

NOT ALLOW him to fraudulently certify Diebold machines, that we are

OUTRAGED that he is undermining our democracy.

 

McPherson was appointed by Schwarzenegger to replace Democrat Kevin

Shelley. (SOS 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. THAT'S YOUR VOTE.

 

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? PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY.

 

Bruce McPherson, the Schwarzenegger-installed Secretary of State of

California, is required by California law to conduct a public hearing

before certifying any voting system for use in California.

 

That " public " hearing was held on Nov 21, and our multiple calls and

emails pressured him into scheduling a test of the Diebold electronic

voting machines.

 

This test will be done by our very own Bev Harris of

blackboxvoting.org on November 30!!!

 

However, McPherson intends to control the test platform and results by

allowing the vendor to decide which specific machine and software will

be used for the test. Since such a machine and its software may differ

from the ones actually used during elections, this will nullify the

credibility of the test!

 

In addition, there's this from the CALIFORNIA ELECTION PROTECTION

NETWORK- a non-partisan organization of over 25 groups across

California dedicated to election integrity:

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There will be a closed meeting this week in Sacramento, to be held at

the Hyatt Regency on November 27-28. [ See,

http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_vst_summit.htm ] Its stated

agenda is to discuss the conditions of certification and " best

practices. " Some of the invited officials are known to be those who

have openly flouted election code and zealously supported relaxed

election integrity standards. Yet, on balance, no one was invited from

our steering committee, despite the fact that we are a non-partisan

organization of over 25 groups across California dedicated to election

integrity. We have been tipped off by an election insider that we will

are blacklisted from participating in this summit. While we would like

to believe that it is a misunderstanding only time will tell. In the

meantime, we do have rejection letters from Bruce McDannold of

McPherson's office stating that we cannot attend, but that we may rest

assured that our views will be represented. We wonder how Bruce

 

McDannold can make that assurance? After reviewing the summit's

agenda, we know that there are three attendees, computer scientists,

who share our concerns. But they speak from a computer expert

perspective – not ours.

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PLEASE DO YOUR PART TO RID US OF THESE VOTE-STEALING MACHINES!!!

 

1. Please call the office of the California Secretary of State Bruce

McPherson and tell them that unless the testing group is allowed to do

their own choosing of the test machine on the day of testing, that

test will be tainted and useless in proving anything. On the day of

testing, the testing group should be given a list of all the storage

locations and which precincts they are from. Such voting machines must

be the ones used during the last election. And the list should include

a written statement to that effect, signed by the Secretary of State

or by an Elections Official. On the day of the test, the testing group

should then be allowed to physically go to the site of their choice,

and pick out any of the machines stored at that site and proceed with

their tests, without interruption. Also, mention that you know that

the Nov 27-28 election summit does not include the CALIFORNIA ELECTION

PROTECTION NETWORK nor anyone from the blackboxvoting organization and

therefore does not instill any confidence in the deliberations.

 

( If you do not live in California and they ask you for your address,

just tell them this test will affect your votes also and the test must

be done credibly for everyone's benefit and that we are all watching

nationwide. ) Call Bruce McDannold (who many already know as the sole

public contact with Secretary of State's Office since Bruce McPherson

was installed). Bruce McDannold phone : 916- 657-2166

Bruce McPherson, Secretary of State 916-653-6814 (main menu, press 6,

then 3 )

 

2. If you live in California, follow up your phone call with a letter

to the Secretary of State and pressure him in writing for a credible

test on November 30 and also pressure him to decertify all electronic

voting machines.

 

Here is a form to send a letter to the CA SOS and to your CA State

Assembly and CA Senate members: http://www.usalone.com/diebold2.htm

 

( If you do not live in California, write to your own SOS and pressure

him to decertify all electronic voting machines. )

http://www.nass.org/sos/2004roster.html

 

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 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 riddeled 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

 

Link to the 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 & filen\

ame=d05956.txt & directory=/diskb/wais/data/gao

 

3. Then compose a similar letter and increase the power of your voice.

Send your letter to your representatives at ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT

describing why these machines and all other electronic voting machines

are fraudulent and must not be allowed to count any of our votes.

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 start an immediate public

inquiry into the failures of these vote-counting machines and get them

taken out of our elections. In fact you should ask that your State sue

these vendors for creating invalid results in many precincts and they

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 other means.

 

For election results to be credible, ballot counting must be done by

hand in public at the polls!!!

(In brief: DO NOT TAKE YOUR EYE OFF YOUR BALLOT!)

 

Here's 2 links about shoddy electronic voting machines and our

fraudulent elections:

GAO report: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf

 

20 Amazing Facts: http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html

Ask them to watch this online video: http://www.votergate.tv

 

Here's info re election experts and witnesses: (They should click on

all their links) http://www.summit.oregonvrc.org/

 

Contacts to your U.S. Senators: http://www.senate.gov

Contacts to your U.S. Congressman: http://www.house.gov

 

Contacts to your State legislators:

http://www.ncsl.org/public/leglinks.cfm

 

Contacts to your Secretary of State:

http://www.nass.org/sos/2004roster.html

 

Contact your State Governor:

http://www.firstgov.gov/Contact/Governors.shtml

 

Contact your Mayor:

http://www.usmayors.org/USCM/cgi-bin/database_search4.asp

 

Contact the U.S. Conference of Mayors: info

 

Contact the National League of Cities: info

Contact the National Civic League: ncl, ncldc

 

Contact your County representatives:

http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County & Template=/cffiles/countie\

s/usamap.cfm

 

Contact the officers of the National Association of Counties:

http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Staff & Template=/cffiles/naco/nacostaff.\

cfm

 

Contacts to more state, county, city officials:

http://www.firstgov.gov/Agencies/Local_Government/Cities.shtml

 

Find County Election Officials:

http://www.nass.org/electioninfo/state_contacts.htm

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4. Then please write a letter to the editor of your local paper. If in

California, describe the attempts by the installed SOS to silence the

voice and the vote of the citizens of California, and also mention

their lack of coverage of the GAO report on electronic voting machines.

 

Non-California folks can write about the GAO report and the Amazing Facts:

 

GAO report: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf

20 Amazing Facts: http://nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html

Find your local and national media here. Send to 5 at a time:

http://mygov.governmentguide.com/mygov/dbq/media/

 

More information for future letters. Create 1 letter per week and send

to all the media:

What's wrong with Diebold:

 

1. Bad for Business: Diebold hired felons with records for

embezzlement and computer fraud--to write their software.

[see, http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html ]

 

2. Bad leadership skills: When their CEO Wally O'Dell bragged to the

Ohio GOP leadership that he would bring the vote home for them in the

2004 Presidential election

[see, 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%)

[see, 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 month.

[see,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/the-staggeringly-impossib_b_10589.ht\

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]

 

5. Then another action alert for Californians:

ACTION ALERT FROM CALIFORNIA FOR DEMOCRACY - November 21, 2005

STOP THE CERTIFICATION OF DIEBOLD

E-VOTING MACHINES IN CALIFORNIA

 

Secretary of State Bruce McPherson will soon be making a critical

decision as to whether or not to certify Diebold voting systems for

use within California, and we believe that he SHOULD NOT certify them.

 

There is great concern that the Secretary of State is rushing forward

to certify these systems, and we urge you to put a brake on this

process immediately.

 

We stopped Diebold's certification in June, we have to do it again now

Deadline to submit your comments is Nov. 28

 

Please FAX your comments to the SoS at : FAX: 653-3214

They ignore and delete E-Mails - So Please Fax as this the most

effective presentation. Also call Bruce McDannold (who many already

know as the sole public contact with Secretary of State's Office since

Bruce McPherson was installed as Secretary of State by Arnold

Schwarzenegger). Bruce McDannold phone : 916- 657.2166

 

You can copy the letter below, append your name and address to it, or

compose one of your own, print it out and FAX it in.

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BRUCE McPHERSON

Secretary of State

1500 11 th Street

Sacramento, Calif. 95814

 

 

DENY CERTIFICATION TO ALL DIEBOLD SYSTEMS

 

 

As a California citizen, I must hereby request that certification

status be denied to Diebold based on the following criteria.

Certification of Diebold will inevitably lead to the erosion of the

Sanctity of the Vote.

The Diebold systems are non-compliant and do not qualify for

certification and use in California.

 

1. SoS is in violation of Section 505 of the Systems Procedures - as

the VSPP no longer exists, a system cannot be approved by a

non-existent VSPP.

 

2. Failure of the Diebold AVVPAT to be compliant with the State Jan.

21, 2005 AVVPAT Standards, in violation of SB1438, and not suitable

for use as an AVVPAT-The Diebold AVVPAT fails all readability

standards, cannot be read by people with less than perfect eyesight,

is thermal paper, and has no guarantee as being able to maintain its

integrity as a valid recount paper ballot of record over the Federally

mandated 22 month retention period. Further, the configuration of the

excess paper roll exceeding the storage capacity of the storage

canister is a blueprint for polling site and storage problems.

 

3. Internet connectivity and compliance to AB1636 - The Remote Access

feature of the GEMS is not adequately controlled.

 

4. Fails to comply with the April 30, 2004 Decertification orders and

cannot permit a meaningful recount.

The proprietary closed source code complexity, secrecy and protection

status of the software of the Diebold system precludes and prevents

any meaningful legal thorough forensic analysis and recount of any

election run on Diebold equipment. There have been many numerous

litigation filings against Diebold, and the discovery process for

forensic examination of Diebold software is nothing but an extension

of the basic recount procedure. Examination of the Diebold software

has been prevented by the proprietary closed source code shroud of

secrecy. The proprietary closed source code status has been used to

prevent this detailed examination, and thus prevents a meaningful

recount. Such denial of the public's right to have a clear and

transparent voting process is antithetical to the very foundation of

American Democracy.

 

5. Failure of the SoS to address and acknowledge the documented

accounts of detailed and extensive

examination of malicious software programs and problems and massive

security vulnerabilities in Diebold equipment, such as the Compuware

report, the GAO report, and the Black Box Voting accounts.

 

6. Application of Election Code 19214.5 barring Diebold from doing

business in California, do to their sale of uncertified software and

equipment.

 

add your name and address, and sign it:

 

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Please forward to all concerned citizens.

Save this email and revisit your elected officials with more letters

about the fraudulent electronic voting machines and the fraudulent

2004 election.