Ready or NOT for Election 2008? The State of the States On Voice of the Voters 7/23/08

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ELECTION OUTLOOK 2008: "State of the states" report

Is YOUR state prepared for November 2008?

Will reported results match voter intent and include all legitimate voters?

8PM ET Wednesday, July 23

Voice of the Voters begins a series of reports on election readiness in various states.

Part 1: grassroots activists from CT, TX, and VA give their view on election integrity in their states

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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
Connecticut Citizen Election Audit Coalition

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

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