"Today Is D-Day for Electronic Voting Machines" -- listen LIVE -- "This is Hell"

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This Week's Hell: Saturday, August 4th, 2007

This Saturday's live broadcast begins at 9 AM (central), on WNUR 89.3 FM Evanston/Chicago. We will also be broadcast live online via WNUR's web site (http://www.wnur.org) under the heading, "Listen Online."

Our guests on Saturday's program include:

* Michael Schwartz is professor of sociology and faculty director of the Undergraduate College of Global Studies at Stony Brook University. His books include "Radical Protest and Social Structure" and "Social Policy and The Conservative Agenda." This week, Michael posted "Benchmarking Iraq for Disaster" at TomDispatch.com. Michael was last on This is Hell back in September 2006.

* Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review and author of "Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue," (Monthly Review Press). Former economics professor at University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown, Stephen will also discuss his new book as part of the Open University of the Left speakers series at 4 PM in the In These Times offices, 2040 North Milwaukee, on the second floor.
For more information, visit http://www.openuniversityoftheleft.org/

* investigative journalist James Ridgeway wrote for the Village Voice from the mid-1970's till April of last year following the purchase of the Voice by New Times Media. Since then, he has headed the Washington bureau of Mother Jones. In The July/August 2007 edition, Jim wrote, "In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma City Bombing."

* economist Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (http://www.cepr.net). Dean is the author of "The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer" (http://www.conservativenannystate.org). Dean writes the blog, "Beat the Press," which analyzes the media's coverage of economic issues. You can find it at the American Prospect's web site. This week, Dean wrote the truthout.org piece, "Midsummer Market Meltdown: Is the End Near?" This is Dean's first appearance since March 2006 on This is Hell.

* Steven Rosenfeld is a senior fellow at Alternet.org and co-author with past this is Hell guest Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis of "What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election" (The New Press). Steven has been writing lately on ongoing electoral system problems including, "Today Is D-Day for Electronic Voting Machines," "In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing," "Are Voter Registration Drives Being Put Out of Business?," "Bush Government to Poor Voters: We Don't Want You to Vote" and "Will Electronic Voting Reform Create New Ways to Steal Elections?"


And our irregular correspondents will be:

* Drew Youngren finally gives his Summer Swedish travelogue and ...
* Jeff Dorchen will deliver a Moment of Truth


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1. Steven Rosenfeld will be on at app 1pm EDT

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2. "In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma City Bombing."

James Ridgeway is next up.

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3. CA SoS Bowen Announces PAPER VOTING == NO MORE DRE's = ONLY One Touch-Screen Per Polling Place

CA SoS Bowen Announces PAPER VOTING == NO MORE DRE's = ONLY One Touch-Screen Per Polling Place
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1512564

The Black Box Wall of invisible vote counting just came down!

Make your State's SoS follow suit. Contact them now.

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Debra Bowen Announces DRE (Touch-Screen) Machines to be Used Only One Per Polling Place

BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 8/4/2007 12:13AM
PAPER BALLOTS FOR CALIFORNIA! - SECRETARY OF STATE ANNOUNCES DE-CERTIFICATION/RE-CERTIFICATION PLANS FOR E-VOTING SYSTEMS
Debra Bowen Announces DRE (Touch-Screen) Machines to be Used Only One Per Polling Place for Disabled Voters with 100% Manual Count of Paper Trails
Dramatic Late Night Press Conference Held at 11:45pm in Sacramento...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4914

Blogged by Brad Friedman from Plano, TX, with help from Emily Levy of VelvetRevolution.us and Tom Courbat of SAVE R VOTE...

In a dramatic late-night press conference, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified, and then recertified with conditions, all but one voting system used in the state. Her decisions, following her unprecedented, independent "Top-to-Bottom Review" of all certified electronic voting systems, came just under the wire to meet state requirements for changes in voting system certification.

Bowen announced that she will be disallowing the use of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems made by the Diebold and Sequoia companies on Election Day, but for one DRE machine per polling place which may be used for disabled voters. The paper trails from votes cast on DREs manufactured by those two companies must be 100% manually counted after Election Day. DREs made by Hart-Intercivic are used in only one California county and will be allowed for use pending security upgrades.

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