Pukes expecting and training for crisis & conflict in elections.

[Senior citizen]

I just got this email. Look at the first set of classes listed in the agenda. How to manage crisis and conflict in elections? They're preparing for a voter revolt and training people to handle it. This is obscene!

From: Editor
Sent: Jun 19, 2005 8:30 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: URGENT!!! PLEASE WRITE OR FAX YOUR COUNTY SUPERVISORS. WARN THEM THAT THE PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF THIS TAXPAYER PAID --ELECTION CRISIS CONFERENCE IN BEV HILLS SPONSORED BY DIEBOLD, SEQUIOA, ES&S---THE SAME CROOKED CORPORATIONS THAT COOKED THE 2004 VOTES IN OHIO, NM etc...

ALSO,PLEASE CIRCULATE , ASAP.

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=87&Itemid=27
Guess Who's Going to Hollywood? PDF | Print | Email
By John Gideon, VotersUnite! and VoteTrustUSA
June 18, 2005

PLEASE send out to your lists and to others. Ask them to call their
counties and warn them that they are being watched.

YOUR CALL may be enough to discourage some from attending this
function. Am sending Washington Secretary of State and Attorney
General as well as my county auditor.

This summer county, state, and national elections officials will be
heading to Hollywood and Beverly Hills to enjoy four days of fun and
sun sponsored, in part, by their friends at Diebold, Sequoia and
ES&S.

Yes, that's right. Diebold is co-sponsoring the "Welcome Reception";
ES&S is co-sponsoring the "Graduation Luncheon and Awards Ceremony"
and Sequoia is co-sponsoring a Thursday evening dinner and dance.

This gathering is NOT a weekend or even a long weekend. This
gathering is done during the work week while those officials are
being paid by their counties or states, that is, the tax payer. So
while they are on the clock, being paid by us, they will be enjoying
the hospitality of the voting machine vendors who will be plying them
with misinformation and free meals, snacks, and drink.

The list of speakers at this event is stunning in its absurdity.
There is no one to speak the truth about voter verified paper
ballots. Instead our elections officials who attend will get to hear
from ousted Palm Beach Director of Elections Theresa LePore.
Attendees will get to hear about "Challenged Elections and Recounts"
from the King County, Washington Auditor whose county's elections
were woefully mismanaged in November.

Many states have made it illegal for any elected official or employee
to receive ANY gifts from vendors. Are any employees of your county
elections office, or your county elections director, going to attend
this corporate sponsored gathering? If you think they might, send
them an email asking. Let them know you think it's a conflict of
interest. Include their bosses, county commissioners, and/or state
elections directors, in the email so everyone knows what will be
going on. Let the media know that this event is a potential ethics
problem.

***Tentative SCHEDULE OF EVENTS***

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

8:00-9:00 Class Registration--(Separate Registration For Classes
Required)

9:00-4:30 Class #11­ History I Instructor: Steve Brown, Ph.D.
Class #12­History II Instructor: Robert Montjoy, Ph.D.
Class #14­Crisis Management in Voter Registration and Elections
Instructor: Keenan Grenell, Ph.D.
Class #18­Conflict Management in Voter Registration and Elections
Instructor: Christa Slaton, Ph.D.

12:00-1:30­Lunch (Students only)

Wednesday, August 10, 2005
8:00- 11:00­ Courses #11, #12, #14 and #18 Continued
1:00-5:00 Committee Meetings Others TBA
1:00-5:00 Educational Exhibit Area Open
3:00-4:00 Elections Legislative Committee
4:00-8:00 Registration Desk Open
6:00-7:30 Welcome Reception
Co-Sponsored by: Diebold Election Systems

Thursday, August 11, 2005
8:00-5:00 Registration Desk Open
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00-5:00 Educational Exhibit Area Open

9:00-9:30 Welcome/Announcements
*Conny McCormack,
Los Angeles County Registrar-Clerk-Recorder
*Doug Lewis, CERA,
Executive Director, The Election Center
*Ernest Hawkins,
CERA, Program Chair, The Election Center

9:30-10:30­ Help America Vote Act
Guidelines for Voting System Standards
*Commissioner Ray Martinez,
Election Assistance Commission (invited)
*Someone from NIST (TBA)

10:30-11:00­ Educational Exhibits/Break

11:00-12:00­ Election Assistance Commission
Discussion of Projects and Activities
*Commissioner Ray Martinez,
Election Assistance Commission (invited)

12:00-12:30­National Voter Registration and Elections News
*Dick Smolka, Publisher, Election Administration Reports

12:30-2:00­ No-host lunch

2:00-2:05 Ethical Dilemma Presentation
*Debra Blanton, CERA,
Chair Standards and Ethics, The Election Center

2:05-3:30 Professional Practices Presentations ?and the winner is??
*Janis Womack, CERA,
Best Practices Chair, The Election Center

3:30-4:00 Educational Exhibits/Break

4:00-4:30 Voter Registration and Elections Legislation
*Beverly Kaufman, CERA
*Ron Chaney
Co Chairs, The Election Center's Legislative Committee

4:30-5:30 Educational Exhibits

7:00-10:00­ Dinner/dance
Co-Sponsored by: Sequoia Voting Systems

Friday, August 12, 2005
8:00-3:00 Registration Desk Open
8:00-12:00­Educational Exhibit Area Open
8:30-9:00 ­Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:15­Concurrent Discussion Groups
Breakout #1­Ethical Dilemma Discussion
*Debra Blanton, CERA, Chair Standards and Ethics,
The Election Center
Breakout #2­Election Reform Task Report
*Kevin Kennedy, CERA, Executive Director,
Wisconsin Board of Elections
Breakout #3­Vote Centers
*Scott Doyle, Larimer County Clerk and Recorder
Breakout #4­Challenged Elections and Recounts
*Dean Logan, CERA, King County Elections Director

10:15-10:45­Educational Exhibits/Break
10:45-12:30­Concurrent Discussion Groups
Breakout #1­State Certification Programs
*Tom Wilkey, Former Executive Director, New York State
Board of Elections
Breakout #2­ Provisional Ballots
*Keith Cunningham, Allen County Director of Elections
Breakout #3­Early (Advance) Voting
*Kathy Rogers, CERA, Georgia Director of Elections
Breakout #4­ Outreach
*Theresa LePore, Former Palm Beach Supervisor of
Elections

12:30-2:30 ­ Graduation Luncheon and Awards Ceremony
Sponsored by: ES &S

2:30-4:45 Concurrent Discussion Groups
Breakout #1­ Using Statewide Voter Data Bases
*Brian Mouty, Colorado HAVA Project Manager
Breakout #2­ How to Become a Certified Elections
Registration Administrator (CERA)
*TBA
Breakout #3­Voter Registration ?Bounty Hunters?
*Patricia Hollarn,
CERA, Okaloosa County Supervisor of Elections
Breakout #4­ Providing for Independent Voting for Blind Voters
and those with Disabilities
*Jill Lavine, CERA, Sacramento County Registrar of Voters

[Senior citizen]

1. Kicking my own thread. This is important folks! n/t

:kick:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. So the pukes don't want fair elections?

What else is new? 

[Senior citizen]

3. What is new is that they expect a voter revolt

and are training voting officials in how to "manage" it.

They seem to believe that we lack the power to prevent elections officials from buying and using voting machines that can be easily rigged and do not permit recounts (they may be correct--I know we're trying, but I don't know of any actual successes), and that people all over the country are likely to revolt at both attempts at voter suppression and attempts to force us to participate once more in a rigged election.

Just imagine that you are illegally removed from the voting rolls, and when you go down to the registrar's office to complain, the registrar, already trained in how to "manage" any "crisis" in voter registration, refuses to add you to the rolls, and if you insist, calls upon the law enforcement officials who are already there and waiting, to escort you from the premises, and, if necessary arrest you for trespassing, threatening a public official, or some similar charge.

Or, if you are not removed from the polls, when you go to vote you are told that you cannot have a paper ballot (or if you can, it will be scanned by a rigged optical scanning machine), and if you protest, the people running the polls will already have been trained in how to handle such an election "conflict," and the same thing will happen as in the above paragraph.

What is new is that in the last election most people weren't aware of all the vote-rigging going on, but enough people are aware of it now that the pukes are expecting and training for a voter revolt.

[Senior citizen]

4. And what is worse is that while they know what they've done

and what they're doing, and what a natural response to it from an educated citizenry would be, and are already preparing for it, from the lack of responses to this thread, I have to wonder if we have that educated citizenry.

Actually, I know of numerous individuals and groups who are educating everyone they can possibly reach, but most elections officials are nonresponsive and there's a lot of apathy to overcome. The people most educated about the situation have given up on the electoral process a long time ago, and those just learning the extent of the problem are not likely to be in any position to try to do anything about it.

California got rid of the Secretary of State who decertifed Diebold machines and replaced him with somebody who is nonresponsive to voters. The State panel that oversees voting procedures has so far been unresponsive to a coordinated campaign to keep them from continuing easily-rigged election procedures. As for the Gropenator Governor, I wouldn't be surprised if he turned up to keynote this convention himself--he's that bad and that corrupt. Nobody will ever know if he was even actually elected or if he benefitted from the shenanigans of companies like Diebold and ES&S.

As for ethics commissions, I suspect that many state ethics commissions are like the Congressional ethics group that refuses to do anything about Tom DeLay. Am I overreacting? Is this really old news and unimportant?