HONESTY and his efforts to achieve election TRANSPARENCY and to protect from the voters of Leon County from having their votes stolen, changed and disappeared by these privately-controlled ELECTION THEFT MACHINES!
Diebold: CEO was Wally O'Dell, a Bush campaign chair and major fundraiser, who promised in writing to "deliver" Ohio's electoral votes to Bush/Cheney in 2004.
ES&S: A spinoff of Diebold (similar computer architecture--based on Windows!), initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which, among other things, touts the death penalty for homosexuals). Diebold and ES&S--which together 'tabulated' 80% of the nation's vote in 2004, using 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code--have an incestuous relationship. They are run by two brothers--Tod and Bob Urosevich.
Sequoia: Now employs former Republican California Sec of State Bill Jones and his chief aide Alfie Charles to push their voting systems--the people who, while in office, initially brought these election theft systems to California!
The CORRUPTION wrought by Tom Delay and Bob Ney, with the $4 billion "Help America Vote Act" boondoggle, is simply UNBELIEVABLE. We have 'bought and paid for' election officials across the nation. In fact, what they did--and in my opinion, set out to do--was to utterly destroy our election system with these boondoggle billions, lavish lobbying and 'revolving door' employment, to make our election system penetrable and hackable from the inside by Bushite operatives at the companies in question.
Ion Sancho stands apart--as incorruptible--much like Calif Sec of State Kevin Shelley--whom the Bushites destroyed. This is a similar campaign to destroy every last shred of integrity among election officials in the U.S. It is monopolistic. It violates anti-trust laws and RICO laws. It is a criminal conspiracy of the first order, aimed at the heart of our democracy.
But people are fighting back. See this morning's thread on Maryland! A victory for paper ballots!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x418263And see the Resources for American Revolution II, below!
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Two things to keep in mind for the 2006 elections:
1. The electronic fraud CAN be beaten by big turnout, in some cases. Tell people the truth, and ask them to HELP BEAT THE MACHINES! But we should primarily focus on EVIDENCE-GATHERING in 2006, not just for challenging the results, but for building the case against these privately-run electronic systems, to pursue the vital long term goal of getting rid of them and restoring TRANSPARENCY. See resources, below.
2. INDEPENDENT exit polls are desperately needed in '06. The war profiteering corporate news monopoly exit polls are not to be trusted. They are promising to fiddle the results again, and this time to not let anyone capture the real exit poll numbers (as happened in '04). Pressure the Democratic Party to fund independent exit polls in all Congressional elections! (It's the least they can do for us--after letting the Republicans destroy our right to vote!)
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Some resources for American Revolution II:
Breaking--just announced: www.VoterAction.org is suing the state of California and 18 Calif county registrars on behalf of 25 California voter/plaintiffs, on the illegal Diebold "re-certification".
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2180496www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.verfiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.votetrustusa.org (news of this great movement from around the country)
www.UScountvotes.org (statistical monitoring of '06 and '08 elections)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)
www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.bradblog.com (also great, and devoted to election reform)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)* :patriot: :applause: :patriot:
Sign the petition (Russ Holt, HR 550, great bill-has 169 sponsors).
http://www.rushholt.com/petition.htmlwww.votepa.us (well-organized local group of citizen activists in Pennsylvania, where important legal issues are at stake, including state's rights over election systems)
www.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
www.johnbonifaz.com (running for Massachusetts Sec of State on strong election reform and antiwar platform)
*Some tributes to TruthIsAll, who is very ill:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417007http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417231http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x675477Also of interest:
Bob Koehler (-- four recent election reform initiatives in Ohio, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet; the election theft machines and their masters are now dictating election policy!)
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk
Bob Koehler's latest: "Take this box and stuff it" (3/16/06)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col337.htmAmaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340
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Throw Diebold, ES&S and ALL election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!
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