Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Tuesday 6/14/05

[MelissaB]

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:hi: All previous daily threads are available here: http://www.independentmediasource.com/DU_archives/du_2004erd_el_ref_fr_thr_calenders.htm

[MelissaB]

1. WA: Seattle election chief to leave post

Seattle election chief to leave post

Associated Press


SEATTLE - The election superintendent of King County is leaving his post following the court challenge of November's tight election for governor that revealed problems with the voting process in the state's most populous county.

Bill Huennekens will step down effective July 11, the county said Tuesday. He's been reassigned to supervise the implementation of federal rules that require handicapped-accessible balloting equipment at county polling sites.

Huennekens did not immediately return a call seeking comment Tuesday.

Republicans who challenged Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire's slim victory in court focused their attention on Seattle-centered King County, a Democratic stronghold. Republican Dino Rossi's challenge was dismissed last week.


More: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/nation/11894487.htm

[MelissaB]

2. AccuPoll Receives Certification for Electronic Voting System in Kentucky

AccuPoll Receives Certification for Electronic Voting System in Kentucky

Company Makes Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail -- VVPAT -- Available to Jurisdictions in State
Distribution Source : ArriveNet

Date : Tuesday - June 14, 2005


TUSTIN, CA -- (ArriveNet - Jun 14, 2005) -- AccuPoll, Inc. (OCTBB:ACUP), a developer of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems, today announced the receipt of certification for its voting system in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As a result, the company becomes the only vendor certified by the Kentucky State Board of Elections to provide an electronic voting system featuring a voter verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) that has been qualified under the more stringent 2002 FEC Voting System Standards.

"This is a significant event, as the Kentucky State Board of Elections has announced that all voting systems purchased with Help America Vote Act federal funds must be certified to the 2002 FEC Voting System Standards," said Frank Wiebe, President of AccuPoll. "The Commonwealth of Kentucky has already received $40 million in federal funds under the Help America Vote Act."

AccuPoll designed their DRE voting system from the outset to feature a VVPAT, which allows voters to verify "via an immediately printed paper audit trail" that their vote was accurately recorded at the time it is cast. As a result, AccuPoll's VVPAT system fully empowers voters to independently ensure that their vote is correct at the time it is cast, allowing for an accurate recount and audit capability should the need arise.

Before voting systems can be sold in their jurisdictions, most states require that voting systems be qualified under rigorous federal voting system standards and then undergo a certification process in their state.


More: http://press.arrivenet.com/pol/article.php/653392.html

[MelissaB]

3. CO: Election Woes Reconsidered

CO: Election Woes Reconsidered

by ohwillek2004


Officials in both Denver and Boulder are taking a hard look at how recent elections have been conducted.

In Denver, controversy over a whistleblowers' claim of retaliatory firing and other complaints has led to a push to oust the director of the city's election commission, Karon Hatchett. City Councilwoman Rosemary Rodriguez and Colorado Common Cause are even considering a proposal to eliminate the election commission all together . Every other county in Colorado has its clerk and recorder handle elections, but in other counties in Colorado that person is a partisan elected official, while in Denver the clerk and recorder is a non-partisan appointed official. Denver mailed its absentee ballots late causing many problems and was also home to a disproportionate share of election complaints in the state.

Meanwhile a Boulder committee has reported on why it took three days with brand new voting machines to get votes counted last November. The sales representative for the machines now said that it would have taken 22 hours to count the votes even under ideal circumstances, even though he had told the county that the votes could be counted by 3 a.m. after the election before the machines were sold. A Republican vote watcher in the county delays counting by 8 more hours by raising unfounded claims about vote counting accuracy according to Richard Lyons, the chair of the committee, who said:

The representative of the Republican Party apparently misunderstood the purpose of the test and tried everything he could to cause the system to fail.

New federal legislation governing elections and a suit by Ralph Nader over ballot access were also fingered.


More: http://www.polstate.com/archives/007076.html

[MelissaB]

4. same info here:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_2800773

[MelissaB]

5. Bush Greeted by Angry Protesters; Democrats Told to Get a Spine

Bush Greeted by Angry Protesters; Democrats Told to Get a Spine
by Rady Ananda

June 13, 2005

Columbus, OH. Close to 75 protesters gathered by 10 AM on East 17th Avenue on June 9, within the Ohio Exposition Center complex, to send a message to President Bush and the Ohio Democratic Party.

Bush’s motorcade arrived around 10:50 am and was greeted with angry shouts and signs to repeal the Patriot Act, bring our troops home from Iraq, reject electronic voting machines and to fully investigate the $215 million diverted from the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation fund into Republican campaign coffers. “I think the George Bush campaign raised a lot of illegal money in Ohio,” US Rep. Sherrod Brown said. “That puts the election in some question,” as reported at http://www.ohiohonestelections.org/

Just before noon, as the motorcade of SUV limos exited the Ohio Highway Patrol Academy, and drove slowly past the demonstration, a secret service agent, riding shotgun, raised his machine gun for all to see through an open window.

Six or seven vehicles openly aimed cameras at protesters as they slowly drove past. The motorcade passengers smirked and pointed microphones at protesters, who chanted slogans and shouted obscenities.


More: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/15/2005/1316

[AuntiBush]

6. Machine Guns Pointed at Protestors? What a Disgrace! Disgusting!

Disgraceful! The Worse President, ever... along w/his coherts & protectors. The latter are the worse, Anti-Americans to display as such.