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October 14, 2007 at 08:50:35

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Take a Look: Prof. Steven Freeman's Presentation On Stolen US Elections

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Here's a video crash course on election fraud for those of you who are waking up to the fact of election fraud but can't find anything in the mainstream press. (Link to video below)

Professor Steven Freeman of the University of Pennsylvania, author of Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?, spoke before the National Latino Congreso in Los Angeles last week and laid it all out quite clearly and succinctly.

A few highlights of his talk:

"You and we are in the process of losing the right to vote, and along with it, all our other rights."

"Elections can be stolen, have been stolen, and will continue to be stolen."

Programmers can now change literally millions of votes by simply changing two lines (out of millions of lines of code). They can instruct the program to delete those two lines afterwards without leaving a trace.

When you vote on a computerized election machine, your vote enters the machine and no one knows where it goes or what happens to it. The software is proprietary, meaning it is secret. The voting process cannot be independently observed by citizens nor can it be meaningfully monitored by anyone.

When our country is compared to other democracies by the yardstick laid out in the Copenhagen Agreement of 1990, we fall embarrassingly short. Criteria such as equality, fairness, secret ballot and transparency were evaluated. If we examine the first criterion - equality - we will see that we ranked 139th. This is based on numerous factors, among them: no representation in the District of Columbia, the fact that Hispanics are three times as likely nationwide to have their votes spoiled (and 80 times more likely in New Mexico). The rest of the picture isn't any better.

"If you care about anything, you have to care about voting." Without the ability to remove our public servants from office, they have no need to be accountable and the foundation of our democratic system is a sham.

Freeman calls our elections nothing but political theatre - with no bearing on reality.

His recommendations:

1. Be skeptical, be smart

2. Learn the facts: election fraud and election theft are not merely hypothetical, as some would have you believe. This election system is designed for fraud. How else would you explain that Diebold, a major manufacturer of ATM banking machines opposed the notion of printed records and forgot how to make them.

My suggestion: Go beyond the mainstream press to get the real story. Read BradBlog, BlackBoxVoting.org, OpEdNews or many other of the good alternative news sources.

3. Fight back: Watch this video, begin to ask questions, share it with your friends. Spread the word. Look further into the issue of election fraud and what has happened to our elections. Bring yourself up to speed on the subject. Get mad. Get active.

http://www.hotpotatomash.com/2007/10/video-exclusi-1.html

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. We aim to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Electronic (computerized) voting systems are simply antithetical to democratic principles.

CER set up a lending library to achieve the widespread distribution of the DVD Invisible Ballots: A temptation for electronic vote fraud. Within eighteen months, the project had distributed over 3200 copies across the country and beyond. CER now concentrates on group showings, OpEd pieces, articles, reviews, interviews, discussion sessions, networking, conferences, anything that promotes awareness of this critical problem. Joan has been Election Integrity Editor for OpEdNews since December, 2005.

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Politically, I lean Libertarian. When discussing issues, I will slam Dems and/or Republicans.

Now, when it comes to really irritating me, just make an unfounded charge; I will call out whomever makes the charge if there are no facts to back it up! Another version of this is when I see something that is just plainly silly/ridiculous.

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steve scheetzPolitically, I lean Libertarian. When discussing issues, I will slam Dems and/or Republicans.

Now, when it comes to really irritating me, just make an unfounded charge; I will call out whomever makes the charge if there are no facts to back it up! Another version of this is when I see something that is just plainly silly/ridiculous.

An example could be something stated which could be very easily disproved. Another example, and I see this frequently: Rather tha...

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This one is fascinating...

The Dibold voting machines were brought in because of complaints after the Florida 2000 LOSS by Al Gore. There were punch card ballots being used in a couple of counties and those counties had people who were unable to use said ballots.. This is odd, because nowhere else, in the United States, where they are widely used, was there any mention of other problems, just Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties of Florida.

So the race was on to find a new way to vote. A “bipartisan” effort to find a new way to vote that somehow is more corruptible than the punch card ballot, and only cost BILLIONS for us to realize this! Bear in mind that Republicans and Democrats came up with this option… Money was taken by thieves and given to their corporate interests. Meanwhile, we were left with a corruptible electoral system? Well while we discuss voter fraud and election stealing, let me ask another question….

TOLEN FROM WHOM??? The Corrupt Republican Politician bent on serving the corporate interests? or the Corrupt Democrat Politician bent on serving the corporate interests?

While we all ponder voter fraud and stolen elections, and replacing machines that we spent “B”illions to purchase, in order to make our elections more secure, I am thinking that we should be more interested in the lock down corporate America has on the election process.. It does not matter who wins among repubs or dems… the corporate interests always get what they want. We only need look at the republican and democrat candidates for the office of the preznitcy..

Hillary and Rudy…

Ciao, CZ

by steve scheetz (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 586 comments) on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 9:41:01 AM

Eliot Gould , 52, is currently active in New Mexico's political scene. A native of Chicago,and active in Chicago politics,Gould studied the Presidency at Center for the Study of the Presidency, with extensive writings upon Lincoln and Wilson.
Eliot GouldEliot Gould , 52, is currently active in New Mexico's political scene. A native of Chicago,and active in Chicago politics,Gould studied the Presidency at Center for the Study of the Presidency, with extensive writings upon Lincoln and Wilson.

Discrepancies Mean an Imperative to Change before 2008

The signature requirements of Party and independent candidates for New Mexico's 2008 elections still contains a “variable formula” (as published in the New Mexico Candidate Guide for 2008 elections). It can only be concluded that the election scheme, including a variable formula for signature requirements and the statutes adhering and preserving party approval do not comport to the standard of the Constitutional election of Federal officials. As to numbers required for the United States Senate candidates, Republican hopefuls would be required to file 1062 party signatures. Their Democratic counter-parts would be required to file 2162 signatures based upon a higher Democratic Party turn-out in 2006 primaries. An independent candidate, however, would be required to file 16,775 to qualify for the same office. As a one of 1,062 is more than one of 2,162 and both are more than one of 16,775, by axiom “one person, one vote”( Westbury v. Sanders, a landmark US Supreme Court case from 1963) . The Court held that "as nearly as practicable one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's." The signature value of the petitioners who affix their signatures is not equal to the extent it is diminished. Thus, the signatories and the candidates are denied equal protection. Taken together with other statutes, there is a provable disparaging effect. For example, candidate for the Senate seat have in the past been “bounced from the ballot” based upon a requirement that candidate’s of “major” party also required to obtain a pre-primaryparty convention approval of 20 percent. This is weeks after the signatures pass through a legal challenge period. The difference may be slight. As applied to “free and proper election in every phase”, and as a working order election scheme for statewide offices, such may be enacted; but as applied to the United States Senate seat ( or the House of Representatives), it cannot be. The advancing of this process is not a device of Administrative control over elections to assure only “only serious candidates” ballot access. The elections of the United States Senate are specific under Amendment XVII of the Constitution: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. New Mexico does not require it legislative candidates to submit to any pre-primary approval by a party or special interest. Not long after the ratification of Amendment XVII, it was held that the qualifications requisite for voting for a Senator, the right to vote for the office was not derived from State constitutions and statutes, but the Constitution itself. States were given the discretion to set reasonable methods to establish voting qualifications .But the method selected needed to act “neutrally” amongst the candidates and without an abridgement or discrimination. When extended, “the right to vote” is a right to seek public office withoutonerous qualifications. The Federal standard is a discernable number of the population as to be duly represented and a quantum of the vote may be a discernable minority-- and not differences which results of a scheme of two magnitudes or a breach of the State’s neutrality in the conduct of elections. Ballot access for any candidacy is a vital part of the election process. Candidates whose name does not appear upon the ballots cast or requiring a “write-in candidacy” are practically foreclosed from obtaining election in a statewide election. Taken in the totality of circumstances, the statutory scheme of New Mexico has several restrictions or “trap-doors for candidates” which have been employed in previous campaigns for the Senate. These are, contrary to the explicit Amendment which provides for ballot position and popular election in the same manner as the most numerous branch of the Legislature. While the Amendment does not require “perfect symmetry” in the provision of the election to the members of Congress ( US v Ala) ,the Amendment for does require that the established voting qualification do not transgress the Federal Constitution ( US V.La.). And New Mexico’s scheme is askew. It is an imperative that these and other disparities in the election code be corrected as the dates of the 2008 elections approach, and not afterwards if indeed we are to enjoy free and proper elections in every phase of the ballot process.

by Eliot Gould (11 articles, 0 quicklinks, 21 diaries, 102 comments) on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 9:48:43 AM

DAVIDJGREGORY.COM He graduated from Castleton State College, Castleton Vermont, in 1977, with a B.A. in Sociology and has taught school in the social sciences and is currently working for a Central Florida Property Appraiser's office. He recently ran for the Florida State House of Representatives, District 43, in a Special Election that was held in June 2007, as an independent. He currently has a son serving in Iraq and a grandson about to deploy for a second tour of duty in Iraq.
David JohnDAVIDJGREGORY.COM He graduated from Castleton State College, Castleton Vermont, in 1977, with a B.A. in Sociology and has taught school in the social sciences and is currently working for a Central Florida Property Appraiser's office. He recently ran for the Florida State House of Representatives, District 43, in a Special Election that was held in June 2007, as an independent. He currently has a son serving in Iraq and a grandson about to deploy for a second tour of duty in Iraq.

CORRECT URL FOR VIDEO

http://www.hotpotatomash.com/2007/10/video-exclusi-1.html

by David John (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 3:17:54 PM

Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. We aim to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Electronic (computerized) voting systems are simply antithetical to democratic principles.CER set up a lending library to achieve the widespread distribution of the DVD Invisible Ballots: A temptation...

to see more of bio, click on member name
Joan BrunwasserJoan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. We aim to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Electronic (computerized) voting systems are simply antithetical to democratic principles.CER set up a lending library to achieve the widespread distribution of the DVD Invisible Ballots: A temptation...

to see more of bio, click on member name

thank you david!

thank you so much for the correction.

now it is my hope that everyone will sit down and watch the video and send in some comments and send the video around.

joan

by Joan Brunwasser (138 articles, 3418 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 597 comments) on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 4:59:06 PM

I stress again... STOLEN FROM WHOM????

"If Iran does not comply with its own commitments and the will of the international community, all options must remain on the table," - - Hillary Clinton, Foreign Affairs Magazine...

by steve scheetz (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 586 comments) on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 8:29:16 PM