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ChiciB1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-22-07 09:34 PM
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FLORIDA! District 13 Update... Got This Email & I Hope It Gets Read!!!
FLORIDA! District 13 Update... Got This Email & I Hope It Gets Read!!!
While I was in D.C. for the March, I stayed a couple of days longer and decided to visit the Senate. I went to Bill Nelson's office to get some passes and was told the Senate wasn't in session, but it was. They asked me where I was from so I simply said Katherine Harris. I told them how disgusted I was about our still "undecided" or "unfinished" election and even though Nelson wasn't there, his office said outright... "Well, it's not over yet!" That surprised me because I didn't really think Nelson cared or even knew it was still going on, but guess I was wrong. THEY TOLD ME IT WASN'T OVER!! So, here is more info on the 2nd Katherine Harris by name of Kathy Dent and their underhanded means of operating!! And yes, I went to Buchanan's office to get a pass to the House, but didn't go there.


They Knew Something Was Wrong!

Finally, the truth is starting to come out.

We just discovered that Kathy Dent, the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections knew two months before the election that the electronic voting machines were flawed. In a letter dated August 15th, ES&S, the company that manufactures the voting machines, warned the supervisor's office of an "issue" with the voting machines. The letter indicated that its voting machines, deployed all across the country, were showing "slow response times" and required a patch in order to correct the problem. But ES&S never sent the patch, and Kathy Dent never asked for it. She just ignored the warning and used the faulty machines anyway.

This is why our fight is so important! Widespread machine malfunction caused thousands of votes to go unrecorded and undeniably affected the outcome of the election. The collective will of the voters in Florida's 13th District was not heard on Election Day and the only reasonable solution is to have a new election.

Will you help us fight for a re-vote by contributing $500, $50, or even $10 right now? Please give whatever you can. I need your help!

ES&S not only sent a letter to Kathy Dent, they also sent a warning poster, which they suggested be posted at every polling place. The poster was intended to notify voters of the possibility of delayed screen responses. For some reason, however, Kathy Dent decided that voters didn't need to be warned about the potential for machine error.

What is perhaps most outrageous in all of this, though, is that Kathy Dent withheld this letter from discovery requests made by our legal team in order to cover up the fact that her office knew of a potential problem before the election. We only learned of the existence of the letter after it was posted on an activist group's election reform website.

This is our chance to fight for the re-vote the voters of Florida 13 deserve.
Please make a contribution. I can't do this without you.

This fight is far from over. We still have a case pending in the Florida courts and our case in Congress has yet to get started. But now we have proof that something was wrong with the voting machines. We need your support to correct this injustice. Please join the fight!

Thank you for your support!


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