Voting machine security at stake - CA - Diebold - help hero whistle blower

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Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:37:49 -0800 (PST)

Re: Voting machine security at stake - CA - Diebold - help

hero whistle blower

 

 

 

- Mark Hull-Richter <mhull wrote:

Well, well, well, look who just woke up to the problem

of EVSs and rigged elections. Finally.

Any bets on whether we get screwed by rigged voting

here in CA this year?

 

I went to a Move On meeting earlier this year because

they are considering helping with the 2006 House

election race in my district. I went to talk about

voting machines and verified voting saying how can you

truly hope to win with rigged elections/voting

machines. I was told that Move On would address this

after 06 but before 08. I said that was too late, that

it may already be too late and they should have taken

action about voting from the beginning.

At this time, CA is rigged via Diebold and I am

wondering if anything will be done to change that.

Speaking of CA, I sent a contribution yesterday. I

think letters of support as well as financial help are

appreciated.

*The Stephen Heller Legal Defense Fund

 

http://www.hellerlegaldefensefund.com

 

Hello everyone, this is Michele Gregory, Stephen

Heller's wife. Once again, Stephen and I thank you for

all of your help and support. Your encouragement and

kind words have been invaluable to us in this very

difficult and frightening time.

 

As you know, Stephen has been charged with some very

serious crimes for allegedly blowing the whistle on

Diebold Election Systems. He has pleaded innocent to

all charges. He needed the very best legal defense,

but criminal defense attorneys are very expensive. So

far, starting in August of 2004, we have covered

Stephen's legal bills with our personal savings and by

taking a second mortgage on our house. Our savings are

now gone, and our credit is strained.

 

And so, with the help of some friends, I have started

the Stephen Heller Legal Defense Fund and

corresponding website.

 

http://www.hellerlegaldefensefund.com

 

Please visit the site. It has details on Stephen's

case, news, press articles, blog posts, and

information about the defense fund, including detailed

information on how it is run and how you can donate,

should you wish to.

 

Whether or not you are able to donate, please pass the

website around to everyone you know. Stephen's lawyer

has said that public awareness of his situation will

be beneficial to his defense.

 

Thank you all for all you have done, are doing, and

will do. Stephen and I are in your debt; you have our

gratitude.

 

With love,

 

Michele Gregory, proud and loving wife of Stephen

Heller

 

* * * * *

 

Should you wish to donate with a check, please make

the check out to " The Stephen Heller Legal Defense

Fund " and mail it to:

 

The Stephen Heller Legal Defense Fund

c/o Michele D. Gregory, Fund Administrator

17216 Saticoy St., Box 234

Van Nuys, CA 91406-2103

 

The fund itself is a non-interest bearing, FDIC

insured checking account opened on March 7, 2006 at

the First Federal Bank of California, Encino branch.

Stephen's name is not on the account and he does not

have access to the money. Monies can only be used for

payments to Stephen's attorneys, and the account has

been set up after advice from attorneys and with full

transparency.

 

Stephen Heller was faced with the ethical dilemma from

hell. What do you do when a presidential primary is

just weeks away, and you are assigned a word

processing assignment that has you looking at evidence

that the secretary of state is being lied to by the

voting machine company counting millions of votes?

What do you do when those lies explode into thousands

of disenfranchised voters? Nothing?

 

In times like these, the citizenry depends on honesty

and courage like Stephen Heller has shown. If you want

citizens of courage like Heller successfully

threatened and ultimately silenced, do nothing. If you

believe that he went to the front lines for YOUR

rights, please give what you can.

 

 

 

 

http://www.hellerlegaldefensefund.com/

 

 

The Stephen Heller Legal Defense Fund

 

Hello, and welcome to the website for the Stephen Heller

Legal Defense Fund.

 

Stephen Heller is a whistleblower; he is alleged to have

seen and then exposed legal documents proving that

Diebold Election Systems, Inc., the country's leading

manufacturer of electronic voting machines and voting

machine software, was using illegal, uncertified software

in their California voting machines, thereby defrauding

the state of California, the taxpayers of California, and

disenfranchising the voters of California. On February

21, 2006, Stephen was charged in Los Angeles Superior

Court with 3 felonies: felony access to computer data,

commercial burglary and receiving stolen property. He

pleaded not guilty. This is an outrageous abuse of the

law and of power.

 

For more detailed information about this case and how to

donate, please click on any of the navigation buttons on

the left.