Reply #38: Taking a deep breath and entering a whirlwind

[RedEagle]

That's what Bev did. Think she didn't know what some would say? I've talked to Jim March and getting Bev on board wasn't easy.

What EVERYONE is missing is that kudos go to attorney Lowell Finley for making this work such that the only thing under wraps was the existance of the case. Jim and Bev have continued on, not held back one bit.

If Qui Tam means keeping your mouth shut until the case is settled or keeping shut up about it forever, then this would have been a no-go from the start. Qui Tam is a means for corporations to buy off silence, use the system to settle for money and shut whistleblowers up.

That's not happening here. And if Bev and Jim have pledged money, IF they get any, and they don't contribute to Black Box Voting, I'm quite sure they'd never hear the end of it.

What's happening is that a brilliant lawyer, Lowell Finley, is directing the proceedings.

Counties in California who have been attempting to sue the Secretary of State to keep their paperless machines, if they have Diebold, are going to have to think twice about what they are doing, if compensation becomes available to get them out of their ill-thought-out purchasing decisions.

Diebold and the NFB have been caught hand in hand. That argument is about to get left in the dust.

This movement is not going to scare voters off. Getting auditability back into the voting system will have quite the opposite effect, it will encourage people to vote because they will have some assurance their votes will count- as they intended.

And for those of us who work behind the scenes, we appreciate Bev's efforts and the fact that she is the person in the public on this issue. That makes her a lightening rod for all kinds of things. If she just gets compensated for what this effort has cost her, that's the least she is due.

It's one thing to get attention on a forum. It's quite another to be the one handling national exposure on it. Most of us don't have to face that.

And I like the idea that Lowell, Bev, and Jim turned the Qui Tam issue on it's ear and made it work in a way that was beneficial to the cause by not stopping what they do, how they do it, or what they say about it.

I appreciate Bev and Jim's guts in seeing this through.

I applaud Lowell for his tenacity and dedication to the cause. We are going to owe this man a great debt of gratitude.