Forward from RhinoBlog:
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Rhino here: I'm forwarding an important request from Mimi Kennedy of PDA (Progressive Democrats of America) asking that we take a quick action to stop election fraud.
I did it. It. It took me 3 minutes. Just go to:
http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=VTUSA&hotissue=4For more info, check out the Daily Kos entries at:
Say No to Prohibited Software in Voting Machines!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/30/171814/27#9-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dear Friends,
I'm sending this because catching Diebold is the first important step in stopping the steal of elections '06 and '08 and on into the future.
See below. You can sign some great letters to the Election Assistance Commission asking the current Diebold machines all over the country to be DE-CERTIFIED and put OUT OF SERVICE! They currently control a whopping percentage of the vote - something like 40.
Fraud capacity is an equal-opportunity temptation. Today Republicans cheat.
Tomorrow it could be Democrats. Anyone who fixes elections stinks. It's outrageous that the installation of capacity to let them do it wholesale got this far. But such are the times we live in. Installation of technological fraud capacity, and its use, went under the radar. All major media, now that the books on the subject of how the technology created stolen elections are in the book stores, concur that "glitches" all happening in favor of the same candidate in every instance are a statistical impossibility. But that was November 2004, so the election was probably, gulp, decided by technologically added-and-subtracted tallies. Stolen.
Diebold has been the major culprit in the "glitches"t. People woke up.
They're being stopped. But the EAC - Election Assistance (!) Commission, created by HAVA --Help America Vote Act, which actually has been the engine for installing touch-screen computers everywhere ( what? Stealth from the Bush Administration?)-- needs to know that we've woken up, and Democrats and Republicans want a real democracy and fair fights in our elections.
I have learned from two years' activism that nothing disturbs officials more than an onslaught of e-mails on a subject they thought no-one among the general public was paying attention to. Have at it. This is one step in the process that won't work without your participation. Blast widely.
Thanks, Mimi Kennedy, Progressive Democrats of America
http://www.pdamerica.org 1) PLEASE SIGN TODAY: As election integrity activists, we of all people must be certain to sign this important VoteTrustUSA petition, which I'm submitting here in the DailyKos diary only because it's easier to keep the links live.
Please distribute this to ALL your lists.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/30/171814/27#9