Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
A press release from the office of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) begins:
In the wake of a news report that the Election Assistance Commission altered its findings to overstate the pervasiveness of voter fraud, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) today asked the Senate Rules and Administration Committee to look into the matter. Menendez has written Committee Chairwoman Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), expressing his concern over the revelations and asking her to examine the process by which the EAC report was produced. Menendez maintains that the use of the EAC to advance a political agenda is a blow to the integrity of the electoral system and that an investigation into the motivations behind the panel’s report is warranted.
Links to that item, and all the other notable voting news stories today, follow below…
NAtional: Sen. Menendez Asks Committee To Examine Altered Voter Fraud Report LINK
NAtional: Sen. Menendez Asks Sen. Feinstein To Investigate The EAC LINK
NAtional: Feinstein and Durbin Seek Response from EAC Regarding Allegations of Altered or Delayed Studies LINK
NAtional: Sequoia WinEDS Does Not Comply With 2002 Voting System Standards LINK
NAtional: Pending Election Reform in Congress Doesn’t Give Citizens Right to Sue LINK
NAtional: Election officials predict chaos, protest reform bill LINK
NAtional: It’s a Good Thing PFAW Isn’t Supporting Anti-Smoking Legislation LINK
NAtional: Don’t trust online voting, speaker says
MIT prof keynoting Usenix is seriously underwhelmed LINK
NAtional: Tall Tale of Voter Fraud Unravels: Voting Rights & Election News LINK
CA: San Diego County – No. 2 hired for county voter office LINK
CA: San Diego County – Michael Vu Hired As County’s Assistant Registrar Of Voters LINK
CA: San Diego County — Boo Who Vu? LINK
CA: Nevada County Clerk working for City of Rio Vista LINK
FL: Pembroke Pines – Pines ponders mail-in voting
Pembroke Pines and state legislators are considering ways to allow mail-in voting for city offices. LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Stones Unturned: Gaps in the Investigation of Sarasota’s Disputed Congressional Election LINK
IL: Officials brace for slew of races LINK
MS: Harrison County – Sec. Of State, Party Leaders Weigh In On Touch Screen Voting LINK
MS: Harrison Co. decides to dump touch screen voting machines LINK
MS: Harrison County decides to return to paper ballots LINK
NJ: Polls still off-limits to disabled LINK
NJ: Ocean County – Voting machine critics urge use of paper method LINK
NY: Council eschews touch screen voting – Unanimously votes to replace lever voting machines with paper ballots LINK
PA: Court keeps alive lawsuit over Pa.’s electronic voting machines LINK
PA: Rare Court Victory for Opponents of Electronic Vote-Counting Machines with No Paper Trail LINK
PA: Press Release – Secretary Cortes Provides Facts Regarding Banfield Objection Ruling; Voting Systems Work Well in Pennsylvania LINK
**”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**
A press release from the office of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) begins:
Republican Election Fraud new
Your correct about Republican’s attempting to cloud their own massive fraud. From OpEd News:
OpEdNews
Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/article...n_thief_22.htm
April 8, 2007
“Commander ‘N Thief”- Explosive new documentary presents evidence of fraud in 2004 election
By Press Release
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.
Others 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.
The documentary also cites the absence of any comprehensive or sustained media investigation or coverage of the evidence of serious election-day problems and, with the notable exceptions of Greg Palast (BBC, Guardian/Observer) and Keith Olbermann (MSNBC), there has been no significant attention paid to this unsettling story in the national media.
Former U.S. Senator, Ambassador and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern provides a powerful closing statement for the documentary pointing to the need for citizen action to insure a transparent, accessible, easy-to-use and entirely verifiable voting system that will protect and preserve our democracy over the long future.
http://www.commander-n-thief.com/
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/n...?storyid=79939
75,000 Voter Registration Cards Found in Trash Bin in Atlanta
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ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has begun an investigation into who threw more than 75,000 Fulton County voter registration cards into a trash bin.
The cards contained a voter’s full name, address and Social Security number. The office says a random sampling showed many of the cards were for active voters.
In a statement, Secretary of State Karen Handel said the finding “represents a significant and serious breach of the personal information of Fulton County voters and an outrageous violation of the trust and integrity of Fulton County’s elections.”
After getting a call from a resident, officials with Handel’s office found more than 30 boxes of voter registration application cards, precinct cards and other documents Monday in a construction trash bin at Atlanta Technical College in southwest Atlanta.
Handel has called in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the county solicitor general’s office to investigate and says she will audit the county elections office.
Handel says she also has asked the County Commission to warn voters that their personal information may have been exposed.