Kyl's Lead cut in half in Arizona for re-election. We might win this one!

[NMDemDist2]

We wanted to let you know about some exciting campaign news. A new independent poll released this week shows that in the last few months Jim Pederson has cut Jon Kyl's lead in half.

The poll conducted by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU shows that Jim trails Kyl by just 11 points - 42-31, with 27 percent undecided. Three months ago, an ASU poll indicated Kyl had a lead of 22 points.

Clearly, Kyl knows he's vulnerable. Every day, Arizona voters are learning about the Kyl record as lap-dog-in-chief for the Bush Administration.

The ASU poll comes on the heels of last week's Survey USA poll, which showed that 42 percent of Arizonans disapprove of the job Kyl is doing, while just 45 percent approve.

Kyl has spent 20 years in Washington as a bitter partisan, who looks out for special interests before the people of this state. But this November, Arizonans will have a chance to make a change and elect Jim Pederson.

http://www.pederson2006.com/index.asp

[Shilohtd16]

1. sorry for changing the subject

but who is the president of the arizona state senate?

[Sal316]

5. Ken Bennett.

The guy who's kids 'broomsticked' a bunch of campers and are gunna get off.

[Shilohtd16]

7. exactly,

the man is a disgrace to my religion and I am gonna call his office and give him a piece of my mind.

[WI_DEM]

2. To win back the Senate we have to pick up seats like this that

are not front and center on the radar like Ohio, Mo, and PA. This is a great opportunity. If an incumbent is under 50% and he is well below--then it's doable.

[saltpoint]

3. Sounds pretty good. Nobody I know would miss Kyl much.

Go, Pederson.

[liberalpragmatist]

4. Too bad TIME declared him one of the "ten best" senators

Like he's not going to hammer that into voters' heads with his ad campaign. Let's hope for a good Peterson campaign and a Democratic wave.

[WI_DEM]

6. What I find funny is that when somebody posts an '08 post

you get a dozen or so people who come on and say, "Hey, you can't talk about '08--let's concentrate on '06!" and yet when somebody, like you posts about an important '06 Senate race, nobody hardly posts and it gets bumped down.

Funny, huh?

[MissMarple]

8. Long term and short term planning....both are important.

But I do think it is a tad premature to settle on '08 candidates. Speculating about it, sure, beginning to look hard at certain candidates, of course. Let's just don't forget that '06, this year, is as, if not more important. We need every step forward we can make. That's why I like Howard Dean, he's using a Wellstone approach.

I think bickering about '06 vs '08 is beside the point. ;)

[NMDemDist2]

9. ROFL

:shrug:

what can ya do?

[Peace Patriot]

10. Go, Jim Pederson! And get your program together for...

1. Monitoring the vote count, electronic voting machines and election officials' behavior in every precinct.

2. Independent exit polls.

3. Lawyers ready to challenge suspicious results.

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SOME RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN REVOLUTION II:

Hopeful signs - latest news:

California voters sue the state over Diebold:
www.VoterAction.org is suing the state of California and 18 Calif county registrars on behalf of 25 California voter/plaintiffs, on the illegal Diebold "certification" by Schwarzenegger appointee Bruce McPherson.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2180496
Seven of these counties just promised the judge they would use PAPER BALLOTS, and were dismissed from this lawsuit 4/27/06).
http://kcbs.com/pages/29285.php
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2249205

Maryland rejects Diebold:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x418263

Florida - anti-trust accusations against Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, re: heroic Florida election official Ion Sancho:
(FLA AG subpoenas the companies)
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,110192,00.html
http://www.tbo.com/news/politics/MGBKSY8W8LE.html
(info & discussion)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2183630

Utah county clerk fights back!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x419226

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More resources for American Revolution II:

www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.UScountvotes.org (statistical monitoring of '06 and '08 elections--they need donations)


(Activist sites with links to state activist groups or info)
www.votetrustusa.org (news of this great movement from around the country)
www.votersunited.org (good general info, and state links)
www.verifiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)

www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.bradblog.com (also great, and devoted to election reform)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)* :patriot: :applause: :patriot:
www.votepa.us (well-organized local group of citizen activists in Pennsylvania, where important legal issues are at stake, including state's rights over election systems)
Provisions of the PA lawsuit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x423739

The Voter Confidence Resolution
http://tinyurl.com/rlnr2 (“We Do Not Consent”)
http://guvwurld.blogspot.com (GuvWurld blog main page)
http://tinyurl.com/amryg (Voter Confidence Resolution

www.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
www.johnbonifaz.com (running for Massachusetts Sec of State on strong election reform and antiwar platform)

*Some tributes to TruthIsAll, who is very ill:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417231
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x675477

Congressional bills:

Russ Holt's HR 550 requires a real paper ballot, bans secret software in "voting machines", and has more than 170 co-sponsors, but the audit required is too weak, it promotes electronic voting and centralized power, and the secret software might be permitted to continue in the central tabulators (the bill is not clear). To sign the HR 550 petition: http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html
At lot of discussion at DU of the loopholes/pitfalls in HR 550:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x422926
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x421136
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=422967&mesg_id=422967
(Note: Senate Bill-SB 330 and House-HR704 simply require a "voter verified paper audit trail" (VVPAT), which may be best for the moment.)


Also of interest:

Michael Collins (Autorank)'s searing election reform article for New Zealand's Scoop.com
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x971363

Bob Koehler (-- four recent election reform initiatives in Ohio, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet; the election theft machines and their masters are now dictating election policy! Title: "Poll Shock" 11/24/05)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col321.htm

Bob Koehler's latest: "Trust us: Take this box and stuff it" (3/16/06)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col337.htm
More Koehler:
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk


Amaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and ALL election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!

:think: :patriot: :woohoo: :patriot: :think:

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"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it." --Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

[lies and propaganda]

11. Just said today I need my Pederson and Mitchell signs.

I think its quite feasible, and im really excited about it.

[0007]

12. I certainly hope so!