Did the fraudsters take a substantial vacation?

[helderheid]

Hello Everyone,

We have one year to pass legislation to fix our voting systems in time to prevent vote tampering and fraud prior to the November 2008 election.

The National Election Data Archive is a 501(c)(3) so we cannot do lobbying, so it is up to other groups to implement legislative measures that are based on the new methods we derived for ensuring election outcome integrity.

At least for high profile US Congressional races, election fraudsters may have taken a short substantial vacation due to all the heat provided by recent mainstream media coverage of voting system security flaws and the plethora of election activists in numerous states who (unbeknownest to most Americans):

1. checked the precinct vote counts to ensure no tampering occurred at the central county tabulators, and

2. conducted public exit polls in a few key places, and

3. were poised to use open records requests to obtain detailed data for forensic election analysis, and

4. arranged systems for voters to report problems, and

5. provided methods for citizens to evaluate the transparency of their election process.

The majority of state legislative races had little public scrutiny, no opinion polls, and state legislators control election laws in every state. The media consortium kept all exit polling data secret this year, adjusting the exit poll data to within one tenth of one percent of the official election results prior to releasing it - so we have no exit poll data to detect suspicious election outcomes any longer.

Right now, there are several key races, one in Ohio and two in Florida with highly suspicious vote counts that are currently being investigated, contested, and protested and there is no reason to have confidence in election results in races without opinion polls that could be used to guage the likelihood of the outcome.

Unaudited U.S. election results obtained from secretly counted invisible e-ballots provide no confidence. US election systems are set up to commit the perfect crime, leaving no evidence.

If someone robs a bank, they are not put in charge of the bank afterwards. However, the winners of rigged elections are afterwards put in charge of securing the system, and winners tend to believe that a system which elected them must be adequate.

If we don't fix our election systems within the next year, election fraud could return with a vengeance in November 2008, and never provide us with another opportunity to right it.

To Moderize and Repair US Election Systems, we need:

1. sufficient manual independent audits of electronic vote counts
See http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/ElectionIntegrityAudit.pdf and
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/VoteCountAudit-UT.pdf

2. routine release of detailed vote counts and detailed election records to allow for independent forensic statistical analysis to detect the patterns that miscounts, machine malfunctions, and fraud create, See
http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/election_officials/ElectionArchive_advice.pdf and see this report that showed that 10% of the votes overall disagreed between the voter verifiable and the electronic records of vote counts: http://bocc.cuyahogacounty.us/GSC/pdf/esi_cuyahoga_final.pdf
or this summary of Election Forensics http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/WeCount2.pdf

and

3. public exit poll data.
See http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit-Poll-Analysis.pdf

We must push for reforms within the next year that make U.S. election outcomes transparently verifiably accurate because experts agree that we have possibly the worst election systems in U.S. history still.


The experts agree: http://utahcountvotes.org/docs/WhatdotheExpertsSay.pdf


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Kathy Dopp
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[orpupilofnature57]

1. I'm doing something everyday until 2008 to help ,so Shrub can never happen again.

[JeffR]

2. K & R. They may not have stolen this one

but to leave the current election system in place would be insane.

No voter, not even a Republican, should have to wonder whether her or his vote was counted.

The time for action is NOW.

[liberalla]

15. We were lucky - the turnout was huge.

They were stealing votes; they just didn't steal ENOUGH.

They didn't adjust for the huge trend (running) away from Republicans. They didn't steal enough votes to compensate for the Dem's gains. We were lucky.

It would be foolish not to continue aggressively pursuing election reform. We can't stop now!

[helderheid]

17. We most certainly can't - the WORST thing that could happen is

complacency on our part and on the Dem party's part!

[zreosumgame]

21. it mainly shows how immature their tech is

so far it could only operate in secrecy with deliberate efforts to supress anymention in the MSM so it was relegated to the 'conspiracy tin-foil hat' dust-bin. This time the scrutiny was just to much for it to be effective. all the same efforts were trotted out. Incessant phone banks, reaching out to mis-lead voters on everything from where to vote, when to vote and claiming if you tried to vote you (a Black/Hispanic/Asian person of course) would be arrested. But this time they were recorded and debunked not only on-line, but also ON THE AIR! That was the thing that won, having it on the TV and radio, on every channel it was talked about.

Sunshine won it for progessives.

[helderheid]

3. thanks guys - please remember to recommend.

I appreiciate it!!

[orpupilofnature57]

4. No ,Thank you

[Raine]

5. Done!

:thumbsup:

[lonestarnot]

19. done again!

[helderheid]

20. thanks!

:hi:

[happydreams]

6. K&R. I'm keeping a file on this stuff.

[bonito]

7. K&R n/t

[mirandapriestly]

8. They could have and they would have but they didn't.

I wonder why? Maybe because there was so much talk and awareness of it or the results would have been too obvious? I feel slightly uneasy about it...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. k/r

[Straight Shooter]

10. You are a relentless patriot. K&R

:patriot:

[drm604]

11. K&R

:kick:

[dailykoff]

12. Yep. If we let up on the voting machines, we're done for.

They've already gotten everything they wanted, including a packed Supreme Court, tax cuts galore, Halliburton welfare galore, Patriot Act and everything else except SS "reform," so they could afford to let this one slide. This is probably what the last four elections have actually looked like.

[eridani]

13. They didn't go on vacation--the turnout was high enough--

--to cancel out cheating in most places. In the aftermath, though, I'm reallzing that we shouldn't be selling ourselves short. We are far more visible now, and our numbers and aggressive activism seems to have had some preventative effect. That some Repubs who lost are now wondering about the machines is a huge opportunity that we should not pass up--remember Land Shark's survey.

[helderheid]

14. I think that and a combo of the news reports coming out did the trick

[In Truth We Trust]

16. K&R Hand Counted Paper Ballots NOW! This is the ONLY acceptable method for a true Democracy.

[kiteinthewind]

22. Ditto and K&R!

:kick:

[helderheid]

18. Please help me keep this on page 1 - it would be easy to get complacent now

[helderheid]

23. :)

[Hugin]

24. A good old fashioned kick...

Gotta do something to keep the blood in my brain with this tight tin-foil hat on...

:tinfoilhat: