Guest Blogged by John Gideon, of VotersUnite and VoteTrustUSA
The “DVN Top 5” is a feature in the weekly voting newsletter of VoteTrustUSA. The January 16 edition can be found here. The selection of what will be the “Top 5” for each week and where it goes on the list is all mine. The fact that you may disagree with my choices is great because it shows that you have been reading the DVN articles that I’ve posted throughout the week here on The BRAD BLOG!…
#5 – Vote-By-Mail Discussed in California and Tucson, Arizona – This week, as reported in the San Mateo County Times some Northern California counties were on the look-out for a ‘champion’ in the state legislature. The concerns over voting machines and whether any voting system will be ready for this year’s elections, on top of the success of the program in Oregon and Washington, has caused these counties to consider the change to all vote-by-mail.
According to the Arizona Daily Star the city of Tucson is also looking into Vote-by-Mail as a means of saving money and improving voter turnout.
#4 – Lawsuits Advance in Westmoreland and Bucks Co.s, Pennsylvania and New Mexico – The lawsuit in Westmoreland Co., PA has now been sent to state court to be heard, according to The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In the meantime, according to reports from the Associated Press advocates in Bucks County have filed two law suits to stop the replacement of lever machines in 24 PA counties.
In New Mexico a judge released the local elections officials from a lawsuit filed against them and the state. However, the suit is still active against the state and will now result in court action. John Boyd, the plaintiffs’ attorney told the New Mexican that last Wednesday’s rulings means the groups’ lawsuit to keep Sequoia AVC Edge touch-screen machines out of the state’s elections will probably go all the way to trial. “It means we will have the chance to prove that those machines are unreliable, and we believe we can do that,” he said.
#3 – The Maricopa County, Arizona election fraud investigation has ramped up this week – A state senate ethics panel cleared state Senator Harper of any wrong doing in the way computer expert Doug Jones was brought into the state to investigate the issue with the administration of the voting machines during the November 2004 elections. Meanwhile, as reported by The BRAD BLOG, the investigation continues into the handling of ballots in Maricopa County.
#2 – New, paper-based, low-tech voting ideas have to be big news. This week Yolo County, California
announced that they were going to use Vote-PAD as their means of providing the HAVA required accessibility for voters with disabilities. As reported by WiredNews this new product may “rock the disabled vote”. The Yolo County announcement will surely be only the beginning.
#1 – New legislation will take the state of Virginia a long way toward giving the voters in the state confidence that their vote is being correctly counted. As reported by VoteTrustUSA both HB 1243 and SB 424 would require that electronic voting machines be equipped to produce a paper record of each vote that can be verified by the voter and used in audits and recounts. They further mandate a 5% random post election manual audit of 5% of the voter-verified paper records. In the case of a discrepancy between the paper and electronic totals, the paper record shall take precedence in a recount unless the court finds clear and convincing evidence that there is reason to do otherwise.
VoteTrustUSA has joined Virginia Verified Voting and The New Electoral Reform Alliance for Virginia in an Action Alert encouraging Virginia voters to send an email to their legislators to urge them to pass this legislation.
{ed note: Disinfo related to Jeff Fisher removed. Please alert me anytime you happen to see such garbage posted here about him. Disinformation will NOT be tolerated here. Thank you.}
brad Friedman I read the posting referring to Jeff Fisher. I happen to know he has been working with several different congressman. i aam surprised you think of him as giving out disinformation??? Some neo cons must have influenced your opinion of him. Please contact me at my electionfraud2004 yahoo group website or email your telephone number.
sincerely yours,
Al Rogers
Al – I don’t think of him "as giving out disinformation". I think of *you* as giving out disinformation. Like posting at electionfraud2004 that folks should see BRAD BLOG for more info on Jeff Fisher working with Jimmy Carter and Clint Curtis.
All such notes which have been COPIED and PASTED to one article after another will be deleted. If you’d like to touch base with me to discuss any of this further, my email address is quite easy to find on every page.
I’d appreciate it if your comment stick to the topics posted. As well, long copy and pasted information from elsewhere is also against one of the very few rules we have for posting here.
Al please read your email and give me an answer.
Also don’t post this stuff everywhere if you aren’t going to provide evidence, because nobody will take it seriously.
Sorry.
Doug
I don’t want this to be a long story, but sifting through the abramoff snakes and ladders connections is at times too mind boggling to believe. What I would like to maybe provide some info that others with better abilities to do some further digging might be interested.
I am trying to follow voting fraud and this brings up links to legislation that was rammed thru by Ney and his other sordid links to the Ohio vote, etc, etc, etc.
No matter where these searches take me I consistently see a name come up, over and over again, it comes up with the huge "loan" to Bush for the recount, it comes up with Ney, and it comes up with Guam, and Delay, and Bush/Rove calling off Black’s investigation into Abramoff. The name is:
Greenberg Traurig LLP. One of the largest legal firms in the US.
Maybe after you see this newest link i found in a forum response on blackboxvote.org you can do some further digging:
http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsear...Systems%2C+Inc
:crazy:
Susan #7
That is a good find. Your link shows that Abramoff’s lawfirm was involved with Diebold.
Like you say, the network and intermingling would catch many in some wrong way if investigated. That lawfirm is a harbor for strange dealings and goings on.
I think what we are not hearing is so vast that it could not possibly be believed.
The truth at the moment is that ZERO republicans from congress have been charged. So you can bet that, like the Fitzgerald matter, behind the scenes great pressures are being brought to bear.
Department of "justice" leadership is composed of people who are political hacks and have been put in power positions over the career prosecutors, and they are holding back the show.
The truth is that it is the Department of Injustice. Now they are working on the full and final corruption of the judicial branch (link here), and the criminal neoCon element in congress is doing nothing.
Heya guys!
Our friend Clint Curtis is getting some press!
Clint Curtis, a familiar name to those who follow election-stealing allegations on the Internet, will get an official audience this week with the committee advising Palm Beach County on voting technology.
And holy crap, a Washington Post PAGE 1 expose on the Justice Department’s voting section.
We citizens have our work cut out for us. Keep fighting the fight, BradBlog.
"behind the scenes great pressures are being brought to bear."
There may be great pressures but we have far more power, investigations take time. No one gets charged with a crime right off the bat, Grand Juries have to sit through all the evidence, and they make the decision.
Doug
Forget everything else: DIEBOLD lies are at it again!!!
"We passed every test with 100% accuracy."
MORE CLASS ACTION SUITS AGAINST THEM AND ES&S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They need to be bankrupted for good. This out and out lying is the only threat, take up your arms and fight them to hell for your democracy.
Doug E.
Doug #9
You said "Grand Juries have to sit through all the evidence, and they make the decision" …
They make the decision based upon what the prosecutor gives them … unless they are saavy enough to know their own power.
In this day and age they are in general like children doing only what the prosecutor intimates.
So, as I said in the Plame case ("Fitz was compromised"), in this case it is all the more applicable because the Abramoff prosecutor is a Bush political hack, not an independent prosecutor like Fitz is.
I trust you can pick up on the differences in the two cases.
I am very interested this theme, with attention I will read following informations.