As this SoCal election swindle was originally going down, Velvet Revolution emailed and asked for LTTE's. I typed in what came to mind at the moment, and emailed through VR.
I later got a call from the editor of our local paper, The Independence, Missouri
Examiner, asking if I written an email that had come to them. When he read the first sentence, I recognized it, and it was published on July, 11.
This is the link, the entire text is at the bottom.
http://examiner.net/stories/071106/ope_071106027.shtmlSo, in case this can help in any way, here is the letter.
Phil
PS. my email is changed, galloglas@sbcglobal.net
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Story last updated at 10:57 AM on Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Letter Electronic voting machines are suspect
Philip Lindsey
Independence
To the editor:
All votes cast must be counted by methods that can be validated by each voter, namely, by their five human senses: sound, sight, taste, feel, smell.
The latter three are poor human methods for tallying votes, but sound ("ayes!" and "nays") and sight (hand-counted paper ballots) are quite sufficient, provided there is no lapse in the chain of custody, keeping the hand-cast ballots within sight of the press and the public at all times until the final tabulation.
That satisfies the mandate for "transparent elections," no? So why are we spending money enriching voting machine vendors at the cost of the republic? Are we so obsessed with time that we cannot spare the hours to spare our democracy from a corporate theft?
It has come to my attention that the Busby-Bilbray special election in California on June 6 was conducted on Diebold voting machines. Many if not all of which were left unsecured in the homes, cars and offices of poll workers in the weeks prior to the election. Diebold touchscreen and optical scan machines have been proven by California's own secretary of state to be unreliable in the field and vulnerable to hacking in unsecure environments. I do not have confidence in the close outcome of the election.
I am hereby demanding that all of the paper ballots from the Diebold optical scan machines and the paper trails from the DRE machines and any other absentee and early voting ballots be hand counted and audited, with proper oversight, as soon as possible. I ask that the results of the election not be certified until this hand recount is completed.
Voters must have confidence in the outcome of elections or else the security of our elections and our democracy will be undermined.
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