Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News TUES 01/10 /2006--Fraud=Race Crime

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ELECTION FRAUD IS A RACE CRIME

Still, many black lawmakers were perplexed last year when their stories of voter disenfranchisement -- especially among African-Americans in the South during the Jim Crow era -- fell on deaf ears. Now, recent court decisions and a more educated public encourage them, said Sen. Vincent Fort, D-Atlanta. 01/09/2006 Atlanta Daily World

Literacy tests…spoiled ballots…closed/changed precincts…false announcements of election date changes…long lines…”election judge” challenges to the right to vote…trashing provisional ballots…VOTER ID Cards…machines in minority districts that switch votes…machines in minority districts that just don’t function…

This is the dirty “secret” of the entire election fraud phenomena…it’s directed at minority voters…


The Selma, Alabama Voting Rights March, 1965. Approaching the William J. Pettis Bridge.

Never forget the pursuit of Truth.
Only the deluded & complicit accept election results on blind faith.

Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News TUESDAY 01/10 /2006

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1. WI: Race Crimes Masquerade as “Vote Fraud” Prevention

I’d urge everyone to read this editorial. It brings forward the motivation for election fraud form the passage of the Voting Rights Act—the suppression of black voting, minority voting. Here is a perfect example. The Republicans start a false ”vote fraud” group, it targets Milwaukee as the epicenter of this problem, and then “law enforcement” produces some arrests. Well, they were few and far between (they tried to arrest a seminarian who was no more guilty than the lady discussed below. WHAT IS THEIR MOTIVATION—SCARE OFF BLACK VOTERS!!! Wake up folks – much of election fraud is a race crime. Remember “spoiled ballots” (now replaced by the more efficient voting machines. 1-2% votes lost by minority voters every presidential election. Who do you think that benefits?


http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/jan06/383332.asp

Election fraud witch hunt disillusions young voter

Last Updated: Jan. 7, 2006
Like many in her generation, Cynthia Alicea, now 23, was planning to sit out the 2004 presidential election. She was working at Little Caesars Pizza on Milwaukee's east side when fellow workers came in wearing the round "I Voted" stickers handed out at city polling sites.
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Things worked out, and she did vote - a mistake, she now says. She adds she's inclined not to vote ever again.

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The ordeal left its toll, though. She went through the humiliation of being questioned and booked - she was fingerprinted, and a mug shot was taken. She had to devote chunks of time to dealing with the charge. She lived with the fear of going to prison - up to five years, says the statute, which also specifies a fine of up to $10,000. And all for being a good citizen and voting.

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2. GA: More Race Crimes Afoot—GA Pushes Forward with Voter ID Card--$35.00!

GA: More Race Crimes Afoot—GA Pushes Forward with Voter ID Card--$35.00!
OK, Georgia Republicans. You can stop lying through your teeth right now. Just come out and say it – you do not want lack and poor people voting, Hispanics either. Why on earth would you charge $35.00 for a Voter ID card? The liars say, well if you can’t afford it, you can still get one. What a crime! These people have no shame, they never have. They just have one permanent agenda, white power; not any white power, just the type that includes the right type of white people with the right type of credentials. This is appalling. OH, PRESIDENT CARTER, WHERE ARE YOU?


http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15893699&BRD=1077&PAG=461&dept_id=237827&rfi=6

Black Lawmakers Vow to Repeal State's Voter ID Law

By:ERRIN HAINES, Associated Press Writer January 09, 2006

At the end of a losing battle in the final days of last year's legislative session, State Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan burst into a rendition of ``Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around,'' one of the anthems of the civil rights' movement. She did it to protest the Legislature's passage of a law requiring voters to show a state-issued photo ID at the polls. In the next session that will start Jan. 9, the 27-year-old black legislator says she will not be moved in the fight to turn back the measure. ``It's whatever it takes,'' said Morgan, D-Austell. ``I'm putting on the armor. Nothing they can do will fix the bill. It's a bad law and it needs to be repealed. We're not going backwards.''

Thomas and other black lawmakers know they are in for a battle as Republicans stand determined to defend the law, which requires Georgia voters who don't have a driver's license or other state-issued forms of identification to buy a separate card for as much as $35 -- fee critics equate to an illegal poll tax on the poor, elderly and minorities.
The law eliminates the use of some other forms of identification to vote, including Social Security cards, birth certificates and utility bills. Supporters, including Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue, argued that the measure would help prevent fraud.

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Still, many black lawmakers were perplexed last year when their stories of voter disenfranchisement -- especially among African-Americans in the South during the Jim Crow era -- fell on deaf ears. Now, recent court decisions and a more educated public encourage them, said Sen. Vincent Fort, D-Atlanta.

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3. OH: Group Demands Noe and Abramoff Ohio Funding Disclosed

Drip, drip, drip. Ohio is the center of election fraud; Noe was the key fundraiser for the Ohio Republicans. Now add the magic name “Abramoff.” It’s just a matter of time until Abramoff is added to the roster of election fraud perpetrators.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060107/NEWS09/601070432

Bush asked to list sources of Noe, Abramoff gifts

By JAMES DREW and STEVE EDER
Blade Staff Writers

COLUMBUS - An activist group called on President Bush yesterday to disclose the sources of all campaign contributions collected by former Toledo-area coin dealer Tom Noe, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and other Bush "Pioneers" and "Rangers" convicted, indicted, or under investigation on corruption allegations.

"The President should not fall victim to the Nixonian tendency to keep bad things secret," said Ned Wigglesworth, analyst for TheRestofUs.org, a watchdog group based in California. "He owes it to himself and the American people to disclose this information so the public can take a closer look at the Pioneers."

In October, a federal grand jury in Toledo indicted Mr. Noe on charges he laundered donations into Mr. Bush's re-election campaign. He has pleaded not guilty. State officials have accused the former Maumee coin dealer of stealing at least $4 million from the rare-coin investment he managed for the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.

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4. WA: Link to Abramoff Election Contributions & WA Religious Foundation

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8F1EB0G3.html

It’s starting. How many links will there be between Abramoff and election contributions until we get to Abramoff’s relationship with voting machine manufacturers. See the story below on Mark Crispin Miller to understand the significance of this and other stories coming out about Abramoff’s ties to extremist religious groups.

Abramoff sent money through religious foundation, report says

01/09/2006

Associated Press

A Mercer Island religious foundation was used by lobbyist Jack Abramoff to try to influence a top aide to Republican congressional leader Tom DeLay.

The Seattle Times said that Rabbi Daniel Lapin confirmed that his foundation, Toward Tradition, took $50,000 from two Abramoff clients and used it to hire the aide's wife to organize a conference for the group. The Washington Post and other news outlets had previously reported on the foundation's role.

Lapin told the newspaper that he and his board did not know the money was part of Abramoff's scheme to influence Congress and, in particular, defeat bills to raise postal rates and ban online lotteries.

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5. Abramoff: Election Fraud—Mark Crispin Miller’s Blog is Rocking

NEWS FROM THE UNDERGROUND

Mark Crispin Miller’s Blog

DU gets a great boost from MCM and other stories of interest as well. This is a good spot to bookmark.
http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/

Abramoff money = election fraud

From Anonymous:

I was thrilled to see someone write about the Ney-HAVA connection. We need a journalist to pick up this story. Here is my synopsis of the events:

The real story behind Abramoff is that it is not simply about "influence peddling." It is in fact influence peddling to affect election outcomes.

In the equation of Abramoff Money Laundering the following holds true:

Input = Abramoff money
Output = Election fraud


Democratic Underground is on the job!

From Cindy:

I posted your challenge, to find out how much of Abramoff's money was used to steal Election 2004, in the Election Reform forum at DU.

There have been a number of good posts - you can check them out here

Summary of posts...

Diebold paid $287,500.00 in lobbyist fees over 2 years just for New York City

Abramoff, U.S. Attorney Acosta, and the Stolen Election

Bob Ney's former chief of staff David DiStefano received $50,000 in that
same time period as a lobbyist for Diebold (but not at Greenberg Traurig).

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6. Nation: Koehler Links Up Mark Crisipen Miller’s Robertson(Pat)-Fraud Tie

Koehler and Miller are our only above ground media on this issue, just about.

NEWS FROM THE UNDERGROUND

Mark Crispin Miller’s blog

http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/

Saturday, January 07, 2006
"Bad Faith: Media Silence and the Assault on Democracy"

http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/

By Robert C. Koehler

Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)
By Mark Crispin Miller, Basic Books, 363 pp., $24.95

In early 2004, Pat Robertson divined the outcome of the presidential election, then ten months away. "I think George Bush is going to win in a walk," he said on a broadcast of "The 700 Club." "I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004."

God - or at least the fervent, all-justifying, "Christian soldier" belief in God, and of course God's opposite, evil - is the real topic of Mark Crispin Miller's new book, Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them). The volume is a primer for the many appalled students of the last presidential election, which was won by the incumbent not exactly "in a walk," as Robertson predicted, but by a healthy enough margin that Bush could declare the next day, "America has spoken," and claim, as though he needed one, a mandate. It is a meticulously researched explication of the case that there was serious fraud in that election, both blatant (myriad dirty tricks) and invisible (manipulation of electronic voting), and as such takes its place along several other recent books that examine the topic in gory detail. What Miller's book does in addition is place election fraud - or election theft - in a psychological and religious context.

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7. FITRAKIS: Did the NSA Help Bush Hack the Vote

Just read the column. It’s circumstantial but very intriguing. Is there any means available to retain power that the * people would not use to retain power?

Did the NSA help Bush hack the vote?

January 9, 2006 Columns
Bob Fitrakis

January 9, 2006
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2006/1294

What are e-voting machines and central tabulators that pass the voting results over electronic networks from the internet to phone lines? No more than data easily spied on and tapped into. The Franklin County Board of Elections, for example, tells us that it was a “transmission error” in Gahanna Ward 1B, where 638 people cast votes and Bush, the Wonder Boy, received 4258 votes. It’s not magic, nor is it an accident or an act of God. If the vote total wasn’t so hugely illogical, no one would have caught it.

Bush and his cabal are notorious for collecting raw intelligence data and using it for their political gain. While many progressives accept the fact that our government manufactured an illegal war in Iraq and routinely violate human rights worldwide, many are reluctant to accept that they would spy on John Kerry and rig the election – which is very easy to do when the NSA does your bidding.

What part of the headline in the Columbus Dispatch: “Diebold vote machine can be hacked, test finds” don’t people understand? The electronic hacking and monitoring of votes by U.S. intelligence agencies has a long history, from mainframe computers in the 70s and 80s to DREs in the 80s and 90s. In face, W.’s father appears to be one of the first beneficiary of e-voting fraud with his victory of Bob Dole in the 1988 New Hampshire primary.

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8. IRAQ: 29 Killed in Suicide Bombing Protesting Delay of Commission Report

They can’t hold elections here. They can’t hold elections there. They can’t do anything without people suspecting or knowing about election fraud. What a testimony to the “beacon of democracy.” * is totally unacceptable.

Suicide Bombers Kill 29 Iraqis

Monday January 9, 2006 10:47 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5534518,00.html
By SAMEER N. YACOUB
Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Two suicide bombers disguised as police infiltrated the heavily fortified Interior Ministry compound in Baghdad and blew themselves up Monday during celebrations of National Police Day, killing 29 Iraqis.

The attackers died before getting near the U.S. ambassador and senior Iraqi officials at the festivities, but the blasts capped a particularly deadly week for American and Iraqi forces.

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The escalating violence after the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections - at least 498 Iraqis and 54 U.S. forces have been killed - came as Iraq's electoral commission again delayed releasing the results of the vote.

[MelissaB]

9. Reminder about election night last year

The smell in Ohio is putrid. I'm posting this for those who are new to the site because it relates to this thread by sabra and this thread by Botany and this thread by Wilms and probably about 10 others, but I just got home and am trying to read the "greatest" page to catch up.

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Warren Co. defends lockdown decision
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FBI denies warning officials of any special threat

By Erica Solvig and Dan Horn
Enquirer staff writers


LEBANON - Warren County officials, facing scrutiny of their decision to lock down the administration building on election night, say they were responding to a terrorist threat that ranked a "10" on a scale of 1 to 10.

The information, which Commissioner Pat South said was previously deemed confidential, is coming out a week after the public was barred from viewing the Warren County vote count. The Ohio Secretary of State's office doesn't know of any other county in the state to impose such a restriction.

County officials initially said they feared that having reporters and photographers present could interfere with the ballot counting. They subsequently cited homeland security concerns.

Now, they say an FBI agent told them that Warren County ranked a "10" on a terrorism scale. However, state and federal homeland security officials said Tuesday they were unaware of any specific threat against the county.

County officials locked down the administration building on Justice Drive after the polls there had closed. Officials say having both a polling place and the board of elections in one location increased security concerns.

"It wasn't international terrorism that we were in fear of; it was more domestic terrorism," South said Tuesday. "I much prefer sitting here today telling you why we did implement security rather than why we didn't."

County board of elections officials had compiled a list of people who were approved for after-hours access, but that list didn't include reporters.

It also didn't include an approved ballot-count watcher.

"I was denied admission myself," said Jeff Ruppert, the Warren County counsel for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. "I had to present credentials."


More: http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/11/10/loc_warrenvote10.html

Discussion: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x92944

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10. Co. Voting officials want timely count

Voting officials want timely count

Boulder County plans to give potential vendors time limit for ballot equipment

By Brad Turner
The Daily Times-Call

BOULDER — Election officials will demand that Boulder County’s new voting equipment be able to tally election results substantially faster than the machines used in the sloppy November 2004 contest, elections coordinator Josh Liss said Thursday.

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Several commentators unsuccessfully lobbied the elections office to require that vendors make their software coding available to the public so voters can be confident the system is not prone to fraud.

“The more eyes on the source code, the better,” Boulder software developer Nick Jancewicz wrote.

But asking for vendors to share their proprietary source code would scare off most potential manufacturers and could make the county’s equipment more vulnerable to fraud, Liss said.

“It’s a double-edged sword,” he said. “For the source code to voting systems to be open completely, not only to review but to changes, opens the door for someone to manipulate the code.”

Dozens of letters asked officials to count future elections by hand.

“Hand counting is cheap, fast, accurate, auditable and owned by the people,” Seth Henry of Longmont wrote. “Sometimes the traditional way is best.”

The county has no plans to count more than 100,000 expected votes by hand this November.

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Rest of story--

http://www.longmontfyi.com/Local-Story.asp?id=5565

[Wilms]

11. FL: Latest episode of elections circus

Latest episode of elections circus

Philip Busey
Davie

Posted January 9 2006

Corporate sponsorship of Broward polling places is the latest distraction from the purpose of elections.

According to Buddy Nevins, a corporation might have employees staff a polling place. Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes indicated that employees could wear their corporate T-shirts.

The employees would donate their $130 to $200 per day to the United Way. Saving no money for the elections office, this would help United Way. But what about the voters?

At some polling places, voters must already wind their way through new cars on sale to reach the voting machines.

It is thus unconscionable to force the voters through a further intrusion of advertising by privatized elections workers. This will reduce voter confidence.

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/letters/sfl-br855jan09,0,347472.story?coll=sfla-news-letters


Discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x408411

[Wilms]

12. ACTION ALERT! RED ALERT IN OHIO! - Ohio House Bill 3 To Be Voted On

January 8, 2006

ACTION ALERT! RED ALERT IN OHIO!

Ohio House Bill 3 To Be Voted on This Week

by Marji Mendelsohn and Janice Weiss, co-founders WeUnite.org

Below is info re an Ohio House Bill to be voted on most probably this week . . .it's unbelievable.

The more publicized parts of Ohio HB3 will henceforth require voter ID and we all know what that means. But what has not received publicity - and for this I fault the Ohio state reps - is HUGE:

1. The cost of ordering a recount will quintuple - going from $10 to $50 PER PRECINCT - making it virtually unaffordable

2. Electronic machines will be exempted from recounts by random sampling, even in close, disputed elections. In the 2005 election, 41 additional Ohio counties (of 88) were switched to Diebold touchscreen machine

3. HB3 will make it virtually impossible for any challenge to be mounted involving any votes cast or counted on electronic machines or tabulators -- meaning virtually every vote cast in Ohio.

Marji Mendelsohn and Janice Weiss, co-founders, WeUnite.org

From the Daily Digest of Democracy for Cincinnati:

It is highly likely the so-called "election reform" bill, HB 3, will be addressed by a state House and Senate conference this week AND voted in both houses. There may not be any opportunity for public testimony. It would be a good week to contact you state legislators. Congressweb appears to be an easy way to do that. http://congressweb.com

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In testimony at the hearings, it was only supported by the secretary of state.

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_marji_me_060108_action_alert_21__red_a.htm


Discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x408373

[Wilms]

13. Mark Crispin Miller: Censorship at NPR

News From Underground

Monday, January 09, 2006

Censorship at NPR

Posted by MCM

The following comes from Josh Mitteldorf. He's an election reform activist in Philadelphia, who tried to buy ad-time on WHYY-FM, the local NPR affiliate, to help sell Fooled Again. As you'll see from his account, the station first okayed the deal, and then, after having read the copy, arbitrarily refused to run the ads.

As Philadelphia goes, so goes NPR from coast to coast. Although I've been on many NPR shows several times over the years, none of them will have me on to talk about this book. For instance, "The Connection," a national show broadcast from Boston, had had me on two or three times before this book came out. This time, the show's producer just refused outright to have me come back on--even after the show's host, Jack Beatty, tried to get her to relent. (Jack is an old friend of mine.)

So let's be clear what this is all about. It's not because the book's "not new" (it came out just two months ago), or because I didn't do a good job as a guest on "The Connection" (after all, they'd asked me back), that I can't get on NPR to talk about this book. (I can't get on any PBS shows, either.) It's because the subjects of election fraud and the dire need for electoral reform are now
officially verboten on what we still call "public radio."

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http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2006/01/censorship-at-npr.html


Discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x408441#408483

[Wilms]

14. Movie Release: "Electile Dysfunction"

Videos on Election Justice



"Electile Dysfunction" is an overview of the myriad of problems with the US 2004 Presidental election -- from electronic voting machines, disenfranchisement of voters, fraud, to exit poll manipulation, and the right to have our votes counted with an emphasis on the role electronic voting machines. Beginning with historical interviews in 2003 from people in the street, celebrities and experts, background information on electronic voting machines, the storyline moves to the role the media plays, felon purge lists as a means to disenfranchise voters, a stolen election in Alabama 2002, and then on to irregularities in Florida and Ohio, in the November 2004 election.

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http://www.solarbus.org/store/election.shtml#ed


Discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x408405

[Wilms]

15. '96 Paper Ballots = Buchanan Wins, Computer States meant Dole "Landslides"

FROM THE votefraud.org ARCHIVES

Paper Ballots = Buchanan Wins
Computer States meant Dole "Landslides"

by Doug & Jinnie Voorhees, Mooresville, Indiana

July - November, 1996

Where neighbors met in caucuses for the 1996 GOP Presidential Primaries, or where paper ballots were hand-counted in the precincts, Patrick Buchanan did well, or won.

Where computers "counted" the votes, Buchanan always "lost" badly. After Arizona, Dole "won" every contest in overwhelming "landslides", often as high as 81% to 19%.

In the first caucus in Alaska on Feb 6, 1996, Buchanan overwhelmed Sen. Gramm 4 to 1, and Sen. Dole 2 to 1.

Louisiana, set up by Gramm people to try and insure an early Gramm victory, limited the voting sites to only 42 locations in the whole state! Voting machines were used so, strictly speaking, the accuracy of the published results could not be verified. But Buchanan sentiment was so obvious in the long lines waiting to vote at most of the 42 sites, that it would have been extremely risky for the establishment Republicans to publish results showing Gramm the victor. Buchanan won 2 to 1.

Next came the Iowa Caucuses, which like Alaska, saw neighbors voting and counting ballots on the spot. Even according to the Voter News Service partially falsified results, Buchanan came in a close 2nd, allegedly losing to Dole 26% to 23%.

snip

http://www.votefraud.org/Archive/Write/page1.htm


Discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x408477

[Wilms]

16. CITIZEN FILES FOIA Lawsuit to VIEW BALLOTS AND ELECTION MATERIALS

Wasn't aware of this one.



JUNE 29, 2005

CITIZEN FILES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT LAWSUIT AGAINST THE DUPAGE COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSION TO VIEW BALLOTS AND ELECTION MATERIALS

ELMHURST: Glendale Heights citizen advocate Mr. Scott Kibort, represented by the Citizen Advocacy Center, has filed a lawsuit against the DuPage County Election Commission based on a denial of a Freedom of Information Act request to inspect public documents.

Mr. Kibort made a Freedom of Information Act request May 6, 2005 to inspect a series of election materials and records related to the April 5, 2005 Glendale Heights, Illinois Consolidated Election. Mr. Kibort specifically asked to inspect:

· All Ballots.

· All Absentee Ballot applications.

* Original Voters Registration cards for all ballot voters.
* Original Voters Registration cards for all absentee ballot voters.
* Poll Signature cards from all Precincts in the election.
* Ballot box tapes.
* Records of Election Judge Calls to Election Commission.

The Election Commission denied his right to inspect public documents by stating that the documents were exempt under the Freedom of Information Act. The Election Commission further stated that the Illinois Election Code does not permit access to the ballots, absentee ballots, or other items requested.

Mr. Kibort stated, “The Election Commission’s stance to deny access just encourages the bad to be bad without fear of retribution. They insinuate that the legislature gives them total authority without oversight. I say they are wrong and I hope Judge Popejoy will let them know the judicial branch has the power to correct their misguided ideas of law.”

Ms. Terry Pastika, Citizen Advocacy Center Executive Director and community lawyer stated, “Citizens have learned from the last two Presidential elections, that election systems across the board are far from flawless. Voter confidence that their vote will be accurately counted has been questioned nationwide. Election audits, such as what Mr. Kibort is attempting to conduct, are necessary to ensure the integrity of elections. Denying Mr. Kibort the capacity to perform such an audit calls into question the integrity of elections and adversely impacts the democratic process.”

Mr. Kibort has asked the Court to rule that the DuPage County Election Commission violated the Illinois Freedom of Information Act by failing to make public records available for inspection and to compel the Commission to immediately release the election material requested by Mr. Kibort for inspection.

The petition can be viewed on the Citizen Advocacy Center’s website at www.citizenadvocacycenter.org.

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http://www.citizenadvocacycenter.org/DuPage%20County%20Election%20Commission%20Press%20Release.htm


Complaint

http://www.citizenadvocacycenter.org/Freedom%20of%20Information%20Act%20Complaint%20Against%20DuPage%20County%20Election%20Commission.htm


Discussion on this related thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x408466#408523

[Wilms]

17. NY: Needs not met: New voting machines miss mark, disability advocate says

Monday, January 09, 2006

Needs not met: New voting machines miss mark, disability advocate says

By MIKE MASLANIK

Finger Lakes Times

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Thursday’s demonstration, organized by the Monroe County Board of Elections, gave voters an opportunity to try machines made by Danaher Industrial Controls, Liberty Election Systems, Election Systems and Software (ES&S) and Sequoia Voting Systems. Voters were encouraged to fill out surveys grading the machines, which election officials will take into consideration as the state board finalizes its criteria.

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http://www.fltimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=38&SubSectionID=121&ArticleID=10691


A lot of commentary in the article...have a look.

[Wilms]

18. AZ LTTE: Brewer protesters only a tiny group (Diebolt?)

Brewer protesters only a tiny group

Jan. 10, 2006 12:00 AM

I, too, attended the Jan Brewer press conference last week, but I did not see, as the headline read Friday, "Activists upstaging Jan Brewer at re-election announcement."

I saw a tiny group of radical protesters who trotted out all the familiar slogans of the left. One protester said complaints about the Diebolt voting machine was not a "partisan issue" but a "civic issue." If that were indeed the case, why were all of us who were there subjected to shouts of "All Republicans are thieves and liars," and the old tired mantras of "Bush stole the election," "the Ohio secretary of state stole the election," and "Diebolt is a Republican company and they are responsible for fraud and stolen elections," etc.

The rights of the demonstrators were protected; however, my right as a citizen to assemble in a public place without harassment, and to hear the candidate of my choice, was denied.

- Leona Johnston, Fountain Hills

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0110tuelets102.html

[Wilms]

19. CT: Electronic voting decision correct

01/06/2006 04:34:05 AM

Electronic voting decision correct

Hoping to use those fancy new electronic voting machines for the 2006 state elections here in Connecticut? Don't hold your breath.

Readers may have been disappointed at the news Wednesday from Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal that the state will no longer seek to fulfill a federal mandate to use the new, electronic voting machines this year.

Given the circumstances, Bysiewicz and Blumenthal made the right decision, however.

The few proposed electronic kiosks that had been suggested by the state of Connecticut earlier in the year were greeted with a whole mess of complaints — from long lines to susceptibility of fraud to difficulty of use for handicapped voters.

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http://www.connpost.com/editorials/ci_3376766

[Wilms]

20. The Soon-to-be-Indicted Bob Ney of Ohio's Connection To Electoral Fraud

The Soon-to-be-Indicted Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio's Connection To Electoral Fraud

The Dots Connect Between Abramoff, Ohio 2004 Election Smokescreen and Ney's Former Staffer Revealed to be on Diebold's Payroll While Working for White House Law Firm

All the While as HAVA -- America's 'Election Reform' Bill -- is Used for Political Payoff in the Bargain...

by Brad

1/10/2006

There's been a great deal of speculation over the last several days, particularly in the light of Jack Abramoff's recent guilty pleas, concerning the connection of Congressman Bob Ney (R-OH) to Election Fraud in Ohio, and indeed, vis a vis his stewardship and authoring of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) back in 2001 and 2002. The heavy-handed tactics he has taken since then in order to keep the flawed act from being changed in any way over the years, along with the great lengths he's gone to in order to keep the nation's eyes off of massive electile dysfunction in Ohio and elsewhere since 2004 may finally soon get the attention it all properly deserves.

Both Abramoff and his partner Michael Scanlon have directly informed prosecutors of Ney's alleged wrong doing in regard to money and gifts given to Ney in apparent exchange for support on various legislation and even personal business deals. Ney, who chairs the important U.S. House Administration Committee, has been fingered, and now subpoenaed, in regard to accepting illegal trips, gratuities and other apparent quid pro quo deals with Abramoff's former firms, partners, friends and groups who had paid both him and Scanlon as lobbyists.

His direct connection to the HAVA Election Reform bill passed in the wake of the 2000 Florida Election Debacle and his various extraordinary efforts to specifically block amendments to the bill and to smokescreen attempted investigations into his home state's conduct during the 2004 Election Debacle, has been less widely reported. Until now.

While Common Cause quietly reported in December of 2004 that Diebold -- the much-beleagured-of-late American Voting Machine company -- paid as much as $275,000 to Abramoff's firm, Greenberg Traurig for lobbying work, The BRAD BLOG has now found additional details that begin to shed new light on Ney's personal connections to Diebold lobbyists.

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http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002261.htm


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