National Summit to Save Our Elections: A Call to Rescue Our Democracy

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The big conference in Portland Oregon is entering its second day. Here is the schedule for today, Saturday 10/1, with a link for listening to the broadcasts.


Location: First Unitarian Church -- 1011 SW 12th Ave. (12th & Main), Portland

Saturday, October 1, 2005 (2nd day of conference)

8:30 - 10:45 AM Conference Plenary Begins

Welcome Remarks - Congressman Earl Blumenauer, OR-3rd District

Corporate Ownership of Our Elections: The Threat to Our Democracy
Presenter: Thom Hartmann

Panel Discussion: Moderator: Thom Hartmann

Panelists: John Gideon, Nancy Price, and Matt Pascarella

11:00 AM -12:30 PM (3 concurrent sessions)

Digital Voting Systems for Dummies-- Presenters: Kip Humphrey and Clint Curtis

Think Patriotically, Act Locally -- and NOW -- Presenter: Bernie Ellis

Building the New Generation Voting Rights Movement: A Two-Front Strategy
Presenters: Alyssa Macy, Patrick Barrett, and Nell Greenberg

2:00 - 3:15 PM - Begins with a Keynote Speech by David Cobb

Lessons Learned from the 2004 Presidential Election & the Ohio Recount -- David Cobb

The Carter-Baker Commission, Voter ID, and How Ordinary Citizens Can Make a Difference -- Brad Friedman

Voter-Owned Elections -- Jo Ann Bowman

3:30 - 5:00 PM -- 3 part Panel Presentation: Verifying Election Results

Mandatory Election Audit Proposal for the State of Oregon
-- Nancy Matela and Dr. Jerry Adams, Oregon Voter Rights Coalition

Parallel Elections -- Judy Alter

Exit Polls -- Thom Hartmann

Wrap Up: What Have We Learned? Where to from Here? -- Thom Hartmann and Paul Lehto

7:00 PM Evening Program

Election Reform for the Long Term: Engaging the Next Generation of Activists -- Jefferson Smith

Democracy Revival -- Paul Lehto et al

Musical Entertainment -- Entertainer: Michael Olmstead

Most of the morning and afternoon sessions are expected be streaming on KPFTX at http://www.kpftx.org/pls/kpftx8098.pls
and The Saturday BradShow will be broadcasting some of it beginning at 4 PM. (all times are PDT)

People have been able to get the show easily on their PCs using RealPlayer. So my problems getting it must have been Mac specific. But I could get it by launching QuickTime and pasting the url in it and skipping my browser.

http://www.kpftx.org may work best for some.

Here is the home page for the Summit Conference where more information is available -- bios of the participants and full descriptions of the workshops and plenery sessions and such. http://summit.oregonvrc.org

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1. Congressman Earl Blumenhauer was absolutely terrific! Next, Hartmann

Congressman Earl Blumenhauer was absolutely terrific!

Thom Hartmann is next.