Hot off the press! 41 Episodes of Lou Dobbs slamming E-voting, on DVD for "free"

[garybeck]

VOLUME 2 of the Lou Dobbs collection is finally done!

Volume 1 covers 21 episodes from 6/20 to 9/15.
Volume 2 covers 20 episodes from 9/20 to 10/30.


Volume 2 has some really GREAT STUFF on it, including:

• The Princeton hack, demonstrated at Congressional hearings
  
• Interviews with DeForest Sories of the EAC; Lawrence Norden, Brennan Institution; Susan Pynchon, Florida Fair Elections Coalition; Warren and Joan from VoteTrustUSA; lots more
  
• States withholding payments to manufacturers
  
• We Count 2006 Conference in Ohio
  
• Lack of testing on machines
  
• Many good Lou Dobbs "rants" on e-voting (my personal favorite part)
  

We're asking for a $4 donation to cover the materials and shipping. Or it goes out free with orders over $10 in our store (remember to ask for it when you order). Then, once you get your copy, make more copies and share them! This is a great way to let people know there really is a problem with our election system, because it's on "mainstream" media.

Be the Media! Copy and share this DVD! A blank DVD costs less than a dollar, but it can enlighten hundreds of people to what may be the most important issue in our country!

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Check out this AMAZING table of contents for both DVDs:

CNN's Lou Dobbs: Democracy at Risk
DVD Volume 1


6-20-06
100% of Georgia is voting on Diebold machines.
John Fortuin--Defenders of Democracy- "I've had twenty years of computer programming, and the standards used in financial sector are missing in voting machines."
Conflict of interest -- Georgia Gov. candidate is certifying voting machines.
Donna Rice, Georgians for Verified Voting.

6-26-06
Lack of security for voting machines.
Patti Newton, former San Diego Poll Worker, about taking home voting machines.
Susan Pynchon, Florida Fair Elections Coalition

6-27-06
Larry Norden, Brennan Center Task Force: "All three voting systems have significant security, reliabilty and vulnerabilities which pose a real danger to integrity of national and state elections."
Rep. Tom David, R-VA

6-29-06
Machines easy to hack, infect with virus, etc. Brad Friedman, bradblog.com and Avi Rubin, Johns Hopkins University.

7-11-06
Government can't protect vulnerable machines: hasn't set standards yet. Existing standards are voluntary. "Acceptable Fairlure Rate" too high. Michael Waldman, Brennan Ctr for Justice: Deforest Soaries, Frmr Chrmn, Election Assistance Comm.: Johon Washburn, votetrustusa.


7-12-06
One in every 11 machines may break down on Election Day. Less reliable than ATMs.
John Washburn VoteTrustUSA
Rep. Jerrold Nadler
Paul Degregorio, Chrmn Election Assistance Comm.

7-21-06
Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ)
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R)
"Standards not likely to be fully enforceable until 2010, and that's only in states that choose to adopt them." Boehlert
"Experts testify that virtually every electronic voting study has proven that a voter verified paper trail is the only way to make sure a vote is recorded accurately." Kitty Pilgrim

7-25-06
Sequoia sold to Smartmatic, a Venezuelan company. Vulnerable to hacking. Treasury Dept. in contact with company & "taking it very seriously".
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
Dan Wallach, Rice University.

7-26-06
Half of the states are requiring a paper trail. Maryland Governor got a requirement for paper trail, had money in the budget, but was defeated by the state senate.
Linda Lamone, excuses for not requiring a paper trail.

7-27-06
More than half of the voters in Nov. will be voting on electronic machines. An election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio on May 2, using machines, was an "unmitigated disaster."
Rep. Stephanie Jones Cards left in machines not counted.
Judge Ronald Adrine Some absentee ballots couldn't be scanned.

7-31-06
Massive programming error in Pottawattamie County, Iowa on June 6, 2006 resulted in the wrong candidate almost winning. The machines miscounted the entire ballot.
Laren Knauss, Pottawattamie County Supervisor
John Washburn, VoteTrustUSA

8-9-06
Diebold defends against charges of hacking.
Marty Kaplan on Huffington Post explains how it can be hacked.

8-14-06
E-Voting Machine Parts on sale on Ebay. Of interest to watchdog groups and hackers.
Warren Stewart, VOTETRUSTUSA
Alan Dechert, Open Voting Foundation--"Number of ways to rig the vote. No tamper seals."

8-15-06
28 states have mandatory rules for paper record. 22 states "holding out". Activists are banding together and suing.
Lowell Finley Voter Action
Garland Favorito, VoterGA.org

8-21-06
Aviel Rubin, author, Johns Hopkins University
--No way voters can verify votes are recorded correctly.
-- No way to count votes in a publicly viewable fashion.
-- Meaningful recounts impossible.
-- Machines must be trusted not to fail.
-- Diebold machines had gross design and programming errors.
--Cannot determine quality of vendors machines because their code is
proprietory.


8-22-06
Testing the machines in Pinealas County, Florida, the results were not satisfactory.
Linda McGeehan, League of Women Voters
David Dill, verifiedvoting.org
Bill Bucolo, Voting Integrity Alliance

8-24-06
Different standards on the machines in different states. California decertified machines; Maryland tried to require a paper trail, but it was rejected by the state senate.
Debra Bowen, CA State Senate
Prof. Dan Wallach, Rice University

9-1-06
Preserving 2004 paper ballots in Ohio.
Cliff Areneback, Voting Rights Attorney
Proposed Federal Standards
Rep. Rush Holt
Tracy Warren, Election Science Institute

9-4-06
Major problems with the machines, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Steve Hertzberg, Election Science Institute
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones

9-13-06
Maryland's primary a "debacle".
Shelley Fudge, TrueVoteMD
"Wasted all this money on machines that can't do a transparent recount. It's pretty embarrassing", Kevin Zeese, Maryland Senate Candidate
Avi Rubin

9-15-06
Princeton University scientists say election integrity cannot be guaranteed with the E-Voting machines.
Edward Felton, Princeton
Activists in CO suing. Paul Hultin, Wheeler Trigg Kennedy


CNN's Lou Dobbs: Democracy at Risk
DVD Volume 2

20-Sep
E-voting systems end up costing 100 times original estimate. Poll: only 13% are very confident their vote will count in coming election.
Guests: Lawrence Norden, Brennan Center

21-Sep
Maryland Governor wants to scap E-voting machines.
Guests: Avi Ruben, Johns Hopkins University

22-Sep
Across the country there are efforts to decertify the machines. California, New Mexico, have given up on paperless voting systems. Judge rules Colorado Sec. Of State violated the law.
Guests: Paul Hultin, Attorney for Colorado voters; Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich

25-Sep
Many state governments are finally awakening to the threat that e-voting machines pose to upcoming elections. Judge rules Colorado Sec. Of State violated the law, did not test machines as required.
Guests: Paul Hultin, Attorney for Colorado voters

26-Sep
Congressman Robert Wexler takes e-voting to the Supreme Court.
Guests: Congressman Robert Wexler

27-Sep
Emergency legislation proposed to demand paper ballot backups for all voters on election day.
Guests: Lawrence Norden, Brennan Institution

28-Sep
Congressional hearings on the problems of E-voting. Experts testify the machines are vulernable to tampering, outright fraud, and political manipulation, and that they're uncertain millions of votes will be counted on election day. Experts demonstrate to Congress how to hack a machine in one minute.

2-Oct
We Count 2006 Conference in Ohio.
Guests: Bev Harris, Bob Fitrakis

4-Oct
Public outcry over e-voting machines. Lausuits and investigations into e-voting.
Guests: Michael Vu, Cuyahoga Cty. Board of Elections.

5-Oct
Election officials are witholding payments to the manufacturers
Guests: Peter Silvestri, Cook County Commissioner; Wendy Noren, Boone County Clerk

6-Oct
Suffolk county, NY rejects e-voting machines

10-Oct
Officials expecting problems in the coming election. Evidence of problems in Florida's recent Primary election. Newspaper requests records and finds them missing. Both sides preparing for legal fights after coming election.
Guests: Susan Pynchon, Florida Fair Elections Coalition


19-Oct
Princeton University demonstrates how easy it is to hack a Diebold machine to steal the election. New poll shows 66% believe the voting machines will be used to alter election results.
Guests: Ed Felten, Princeton University

20-Oct
mad scramble to hire technicians to troubleshoot voting machines on election day

23-Oct
upcoming elections, problems anticipated
Guests: DeForest Sories
Ray Martinez, EAC

24-Oct
lack of properly trained staff will lead to confusion on election day. Ten states are on election watch for potential problems. ESS fined $750,000. Massive problems with new electronic pollbooks and people have found when they go to vote, they're not on the list.
Guests: Joan Krawitz, VoteTrustUSA
Doug Chapin, Electionline.org

25-Oct
efforts to find and train the 2 million workers needed for electronic voting machines are failing. Maryland's disasterous primary, pollworkers had no idea how to use the machines.

26-Oct
laboratory that tests voting machines is hired and paid by companies who make them. Election Assistance Commission holds hearings 12 days before election asking voting machine companies to reassure the election will work. Voters are demanding to know why the entire process is so secret.
Guests: Warren Stewart, VoteTrustUSA

27-Oct
vote flipping already seen in early voting. Electronic registration systems are inaccurate and unreliable. Central tabulators have malfunctioned.
Guests: Lawrence Norden, Brennan Institution

30-Oct
Investigation into the sale of a voting machine company (Sequoia) to a Venezuelan corporation.

[kster]

1. K&R...... Thank you. Garybeck

for all that you do for the movement. :thumbsup:

[EFerrari]

2. K&R

[barb162]

3. Lou is too cool; I have watched several of his shows slamming

the e-voting.

[babylonsister]

4. Not free but cheap enough-shipping charges, and hopefully no

commercials. Sounds like a good investment to share.

[garybeck]

6. yup, no commercials.

that's why it took me a month to put this thing together. lots of editing :)

[livvy]

5. Very cool....It's a perfect excuse to do a little shopping at your site!

Ooops...I forgot to mention it with my order. I'll send you a pm.
livvy