Lawsuit filed in Snohomish County WA !!!

[garybeck]

This is great news!

http://www.votersunite.org/info/LehtovSequoiaVoting4-7-05.pdf

GO LANDSHARK!

[Melissa G]

1. Nominated! Floaty hearts for Landshark!

Check out lines 8-16 for those who can copy from pdf's :loveya::loveya::loveya:

[Terre]

5. Between Lines 8 -16

1.3 This case implicates questions concerning the proper balance to be struck

between a free people and their government, recognizing the inherent tension between

appropriate delegation of regulatory and administrative functions respecting the conduct of

elections by the people to the agencies of their government, on the one hand, and the

danger that lack of transparent, accurate, and verifiable elections could undermine

accountability and lead to rule by self-perpetuating incumbents with the resulting damage to

our democracy, on the other.

[Melissa G]

6. Thanks Terre! n/t

[Terre]

7. De nada

Melissa, and you can do it yourself as well:

Within the PDF file you'll see the "hand" icon up top. To the right of that is the "magnifying glass", and to the right of that is a BIG T with an adjacent box. Click on that BIG T, highlight your text, copy and paste.

You may have to re-format it later, but it sure beats having to type the whole thing by hand.

[Chi]

20. Very sorry if you already know this.....

Heya M
But if you click on the 'T' in the PDF task bar,
you should be able to copy as you normally do.

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Landshark smells blood....

Too cool. I hope it works.

[kster]

3. What do ya think 7 day kick is

is in order.GO LANDSHARK, GO DU, GO GO GO

[satya]

4. YEE-HAW!!! Landshark rocks!!! n/t

[Land Shark]

8. Our local "MSM" caves, and will publish Friday!

www.heraldnet.com Olympia reporter/political reporter Jerry Cornfield

Our lawsuit against the restructuring of our voting system in favor of secret unverifiable voting has been filed in King County Superior Court on Thursday April 7. (My attorney is Randy Gordon of Bellevue, WA) You can also read a brief blog article about it and download a copy of the lawsuit here: http://washblog.typepad.com/

My co-plaintiff Jack Wells is a veteran of WWII, and descendent of one of the early state legislators in WA state as well as the descendent of a Revolutionary War soldier.

You might say I “ran into” this Sequoia contract when trying to obtain additional information to supplement the Lehto/Hoffman study on irregularities in the Nov. 2004 election in Snohomish County, which has quite a bit of evidence, but our Auditor stated the only smoking gun he would accept as a clear problem would be evidence that a ballot was not counted as cast. Problem: unless you invade the secrecy of the ballot and track voters and videotape their pressing on the machine, that evidence is impossible to obtain because it doesn't exist.

Not one to chase after wild gooses that don't even exist for too long, and realizing that everyone has a point at which they sober up and start to take things seriously, I sued (i.e. "launched a land shark" of my own)

We’re seeking to void the purchase contract for Sequoia DREs and return the money (around $5 million) to Snohomish County government taxpayers.

The various claims are basically all different way or reasons to reach this same result, but the claims include violations of the constitutional underpinnings of the strongest public policies in the state of Washington, like that of the Open Meetings Act quoted here:

“The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created."

Certainly, it’s “good for the people to know” whether the power they are transferring from themselves to the government, as well as the tax money, is being legitimately transferred or not.

Even if it weren’t for the requirement of checks and balances, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to trust any person or government to investigate itself, test itself, count the votes in secret itself, and blow the whistle on itself (unless it absolutely has to).

But the worst kind of secret vote counting system is the kind that does work, or seems to work, *perfectly*, because in that case then people tend to let it slip by and an easily corruptible form of voting becomes the new institution.

This is not about hypothetical concerns about accuracy, both because there’s lots of evidence, but also because there’s nothing “hypothetical” about the fact that an entirely new system of nontraditional nontransparent and non-democratic elections ALREADY HAS BEEN SET UP. Thus, this new system has to be checked and balanced now before it gets the authority of “tradition” behind it.

I’m just glad the Founders didn’t have people running around saying “conspiracy theory” when they were discussing checks and balances, if you know what I mean.

The Lehto/Hoffman Study: www.votersunite.org/info/SnohomishElectionFraudInvestigation.pdf

A very simple one page summary of the study in the form of a press release is here: http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction/mediaSnohomishCounty.htm

[Carolab]

9. You have my total respect.

Nominating.

[Liberty Belle]

13. Kick! Nominating. Congratulations and good luck.

[Land Shark]

10. Did somebody say "Bite Me"????

Insert shark picture again here, from main post above.

: )

[rigel99]

11. HATS OFF TO LANDSHARK

for a job extremely well done...

A great big THANK-YOU From the folks at countpaperballots.com

let's do this in all 50 states!! let's GO!

see ya in Nashville...

[Bill Bored]

12. Evidence of ballot not counted as cast?

A. Does it have to be in your jurisdiction?

B. Does it have to be against the same vendor or can it be against one of a CLASS of such vendors or machines?

C. Look at New Mexico! Might be able to dig up something there. Same vendor.

D. Otherwsie there's the ES&S case in WI in which no one who voted Straight Party had their votes counted. Hundreds were lost.

At least they're not saying it has to "effect the outcome of the election!"

Good luck!

[Wilms]

14. :) n/t

[Land Shark]

15. Here's the link to the local daily "MSM" coverage

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/05/04/08/100loc_voting001.cfm

paragraph 3 must be a typo, saying the reps and dems are shielding information when it should be Sequoia and Snohomish County that are doing that. I'll start this as a thread by itself so people can see at least a little media out there.

[EFerrari]

16. This is AMAZING! Go get 'em. They count on passivity.

Disappoint them real good. :hi:

[liberalla]

17. This indeed is great news and very exciting!

Good luck and good work!
You have many people pulling for you!

Thank you so much for your efforts!

[lonestarnot]

18. Wooohhooo and so not over it!

[Chi]

19. Go Landshark Go 8) Nominated

And thanks Gary for posting it.

[understandinglife]

21. Nominated. Thank you. (nt)

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[satya]

22. Kick. n/t

[cyberpj]

23. Kicked and nominated -- THANK YOU FOR YOUR PERSISTENCE!

Keep us informed so we can spread the info.

DON'T GIVE UP!

[Vadem]

24. Hallelujah! Thank you Landshark!......

Maybe this suit will be the one to finally break out all the "proprietary and secrecy" vote tabulation methods into the bright sunshine forever!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Land Shark]

25. TODAY FRIDAY: MSM COVERAGE

Main public radio station KUOW
KOMO AM 1000 large talk station
Seattle Post-Intelligencer inquiry for future
WIRED magazine inquiry for future article
Published article in Everett Herald daily (linked above)

[garybeck]

27. how about Court TV? .... :)

just like the OJ trial

[adolfo]

26. Kick their ass!!!!

:woohoo:

[Coexist]

28. Kick from the sharks in Florida