The House plans a joint hearing on voting standards and the Dems

[truckin]

pick Linda Lamone, the Diebold advocate from Maryland, to testify? What is wrong with our party? Are they really this clueless on this issue or is there another reason for such a strange move? If anyone has a good explanation about this I would love to hear it.

[rumpel]

1. Source of info, please

:)

[truckin]

2. This was emailed to me by a voting activist in Maryland.

The hearing is supposed to be taking place on Wednesday of next week so we will soon know if this information is correct.

[PeterPan]

3. It's a joint hearing of the House Administration and Science Committees

The subject of the hearing is the Voting System Standards. The panel delivery testimony is:

Linda Lamone, MD Election Director (chosen by the minority staff of House Admin, all others chosen by majority staff)
Mary Kiffmeyer, MN SoS
Donetta Davidson, EAC
John Groh, ES&S and ITAA
David Wagner, CA VSTAAB and ACCURATE
Bill Jeffrey, NIST

[Bill Bored]

4. LINK please? nt

[demodonkey]

6. Link here:

http://www.house.gov/science/committeeinfo/schedule.htm

People within travel distance of D.C. -- be there or be square. This is important.

[Wilms]

5. .

[truckin]

7. Now that Lamone has testified does anyone have a good

explanation of why she was selected by the House Democrats to speak at this hearing? They get one speaker to choose and Lamone is the pick? This is mind boggling.

[Bill Bored]

10. The Dems are either dead from the neck up,

or they are learning from Karl Rove! By using one of their failures on this issue, they get Republicans to come out for paper trails AND audits!

This may have been the strategy in PA too. Scare the Pukes into supporting the paper by putting a Blue State election at risk with paperless e-voting. They sure did a great job if that was their intention, but I doubt they are so clever! I think it's a good gamble though, don't you?

[truckin]

11. That thought did cross my mind and based on Lamone's

testimony, if they really did plan this strategy, it worked like a charm. However I too am doubtful that they are this clever but who knows, maybe we are starting to learn form the likes of Rove.

[EFerrari]

8. Is there an update on this? We don't have CSPAN 3 here.

:(

[truckin]

12. Here is a link to a summary of the hearing:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1672042

[garybeck]

9. Linda Malone is in the Election Rights Hall of Shame

she has no place testifying

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=435991

hear how she earned her place in the Hall:

http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/06/07/05.php#10784