Is it democracy when private interests count 80% of our votes in secret?
Restoring democracy means restoring citizen oversight and checks and balances to our elections. Today, only hand counted, paper ballot elections pass the tests for democratic elections.
(1) Election Data Services, 2006 Voting Equipment Study, http://www.electiondataservices.com/EDSInc_VEStudy2006.pdf.
(2) Help America Vote Act of 2002 Public Law 107-252, http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm
(3) Voting Rights Act, Public Law 89-110, http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/voting_rights_1965.htm.
(4) NH Department of State, New Hampshire Election Procedure Manual 2006-2007, http://www.sos.nh.gov/FINAL%20EPM%208-30-2006.pdf.
(5) Democracy for New Hampshire, "We're Counting the Votes Video: Lyndeborough, NH 2004 Part I & II", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxZ0jCoH2BQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95GRMhotMOQ, November 2004.
(6) Think Progress, "If You Don't Know About the K Street Project, You Don't Know Jack", January 13, 2006.
(7) Marshall, Joshua, "Three Years Later, GOP Can't Shake Taint of '02 Tactics," The Hill, , October 20, 2005 and Cohen, Adam, "A Small Time Crime with Hints of Big Time Connections Lights up the Internet," New York Times, April 17, 2006.
(8) Rolling Stone, "Editorial, A Call for Investigation,"June 1, 2006.
(9) BlackBoxVoting.ORG, "The Road to Boondoggle was Paved with Good Intentions,"January 30, 2007.
(10) Cornell University, Supreme Court Collection, George W. Bush, et al., petitioners v. Albert Gore, Jr., et al., http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-949.ZPC.html.
(11)Tobi, Nancy, "The EAC Certification Ponzi Scheme"October 3, 2006.
(12) Tobi, Nancy, "The Gifts of HAVA to American Democracy: Time to Ask for a Refund", October, 2005.
(13)Wolf, Richard, USA Today, "Legal Voters Thrown off Rolls,"January 2, 2008.
(14)Fitrakis, Bob and Wasserman, Harvey, What Happened in Ohio, New Press, October, 2006.
