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Ready or NOT for Election 2008? The State of the States On Voice of the Voters 7/23/08
By Mary Ann Gould (about the author)
For OpEdNews: Mary Ann Gould - Writer Is YOUR state prepared for November 2008? 8PM ET Wednesday, July 23 Part 1: grassroots activists from CT, TX, and VA give their view on election integrity in their states The Good: what progress is being made? The Bad: what is getting worse? The Unbelievable. PLEASE EMAIL YOUR NOMINATIONS FOR BEST AND WORST STATES and REASONS WHY TO votingintegrity@aol.com as well as add comments here on OpEdNews Featured Guests: Luther Weeks, CTVotersCount.org Sonia Santana, Texas Safe Voting Coalition Jeremy Epstein, Virginia Verified Voting Guest Bios: Luther Weeks Executive Director, CTVotersCount.org and Executive Director Connecticut Citizen Election Audit Coalition. Luther Weeks is a retired software engineer and computer scientist with Masters Degrees in computer science and business. He has been an active citizen-lobbyist in both the the Connecticut Legislature and U.S. Congress. Sonia Santana, Texas Safe Voting Coalition Sonia Santana has been involved with the Texas Safe Voting Coalition as a volunteer lobbyist for ACLU-TX for four years working on election protection. The main focus of that work has been aimed at getting verifiable election laws in the Texas Legislature for the past two sessions. Sonia is also a litigant in a lawsuit against the state of Texas and the Secretary of State over paperless electronic voting that has been in the Texas courts for over two years. Jeremy Epstein, Virginia Verifed Voting Jeremy Epstein runs the security group for a software company in Northern Virginia. He has served on two Virginia legislative panels, co-founded Virginia Verified Voting (a lobbying group for safer electronic voting), served as expert reviewer for the nationally recognized "Brennan Report", consulted to the Attorney General of Kentucky, and was the expert witness for voting technology in a case against the State of Maryland. He recently published an article in IEEE Computer on how electronic voting machines work. Jeremy has been involved in security research, development, and analysis for 20 years and is completing his Doctorate in Information Security from George Mason University. Voice of the Voters is hosted by Mary Ann Gould and Lori Rosolowsky with weekly news updates by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org. Stay tuned for the Rob Kall Show - 9 pm Eastern same station Call in 856-227-1360 questions/comments
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Help shine Spotlight on Problem (& good) States & practices
We need to hear from you. This is a critical election BUT if the reported results do not reflect voters actual choices and people are deprived of opportunity to vote, then we are not having a real election ... but selection... a further loss of our rights - actually of the first right from which all others derive and depend - OUR Vote, OUR right to be self-governing. We are at war right here in the USA to determine who will control this country- We the People or Special Moneyed Interests. We've lost a lot of ground but the powers that be still fear waking up the sleeping, anesthesized giant - the people. This is why the Vote is the front line - they need to take it away and we need to take it back There are many serious problems which cannot be addressed by November but if we shine a spotlight on the most critical, perhaps we can make some improvement as well as have closer monitoring - and wake up more Americans Let's hear your nominations for the Best and Worst states (counties) and why. What are the most important issues which could be improved by November? Make comments here plus email votingintegrity@aol.com After we run the series on various states, we will post best comments/analysis/recommendations, have writers on as guests if they wish plus announce the top states chosen as best/worst... and ask State Officials to come on live to discuss citizens issues As Lincoln noted "Elections belong to the people. It is their decision" Let's speak out and make it our decision - there's still time for some improvement. by Mary Ann Gould (75 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 21 comments) on Wednesday, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:57:42 AM  (0+)
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seeVote
There is only one system, to my knowledge, that would give the voter the assurance their vote was counted as they intended. This system not only gives that assurance, but also conducts an internal audit as it counts. Unfortunately, because of the security of this system it will not be approved by those elected. Check out the system for yourself at http://www.seeVote.com by Dennis Kaiser (21 articles, 0 quicklinks, 36 diaries, 785 comments [181 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:22:31 AM (0+)
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