Paul Lehto, fresh from his Cleveland We Count speech, tried to enlighten Columbus' machine-loving crowd thru his unparalleled ability to distill complicated concepts into simple talking points. The No Sleepover campaign will surely be put to bed after he clarified, "With remote access to our voting machines, physical security doesn't really matter." Bev Harris has evidence that machines can be remotely accessed from outside the state. I wonder, and even outside the U.S.? Lynn Landes, among others, deems electronic voting systems "a threat to our national security." Harris and Landes both attended Cleveland's We Count.
Twelve drummers happily banged for two-hours during Drumming for Democracy, led by Professor Wahru Cleveland. Eight drummers attended only this portion of Seize the Polls, but all of them left with election flyers after a brief overview by circle organizer and author.
A variety of tactics has been proposed for the midterm elections. The Parallel Elections training at We Count garnered a half dozen new volunteers, but none at Seize the Polls. Detractors worry that PEs will draw volunteers away from their more mainstream election day actions. Proponents point out that the PE booth offers a base for all "election protection" activities on Election Day, and models how honest elections are run. "The primary purpose of a parallel election is to ascertain how a precinct voted." http://tinyurl.com/hrnox
Mainstream organizations, normally involved only in Get-Out-The-Vote campaigns, also included instructions on what to do if the machines fail. Call 1-866-OURVOTE. Alternative strategies were aired at all three of Ohio's events, and everyone generally agreed that all efforts to engage more citizens in our election process will heighten accountability, or at the very least will expose citizens to the lack of transparency and countability of our ballots.
S W A R M 2006
See What Activism Really Means
Swarming the election process from as many different angles as possible will shine a light on how our elections are conducted. Accountability leads to accuracy. Read suggested projects below:
See http://www.thelandesreport.com/ParallelElections.htm for concepts and practical tips on how citizens can run their own Parallel Election of a hand-counted paper ballot system.
Volunteer videographers are sought to follow precinct memory cards to the County Board of Elections, and for other surveillance, on November 7th. Contact Melissa Giraud melissagiraud@yahoo.com.
Black Box Voting's Tool Kit is a Declaration of Independence for Citizens and can be downloaded at: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.pdf BBV wants to make the 2006 election the biggest citizen evidence gathering action ever. "Propagate your information far and wide -send it to 5 or 7 different places," Harris advised.
Brad Friedman of www.BradBlog.com is offering a $250,000 reward for information that results in an overturning of a congressional election and a conviction of the person(s) responsible for the fraud. Whistleblowers should provide documents, tape recordings, and admissions. Send to tips@velvetrevolution.us.
Kathy Dopp wants citizens to upload detailed precinct level data at the National Election Data Archive. See http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvData/US/How2CollectData.pdf
Legal remedies are also being pursued. Ohio attorneys recently saved the 04 ballots from destruction. At least 20 different people, so far, have collected information, photographed ballots, and organized or analyzed the material. In the Free Press Autumn 06 issue, a few are named as "Freep Heroes." J Click on the www.FreePress.org button, Special Election Coverage, for updates.
Ohio attorneys also just filed a complaint for a Special Master of elections, to remove power-blinded Blackwell from his inappropriate oversight while running for office. Cliff Arnebeck demanded paper ballots for 06 for any voter who wants to use them, and seeks to overturn voter ID portions of recently-passed House Bill 3.
Attorney Paul Lehto (who spoke at Cleveland's We Count and Columbus' Seize the Polls conferences) is waging battle for election transparency in San Diego, in California's 50th District, in the now infamous Bilbray-Busby race where Congress seized control of the election process. The case is on appeal.
Twelve drummers happily banged for two-hours during Drumming for Democracy, led by Professor Wahru Cleveland. Eight drummers attended only this portion of Seize the Polls, but all of them left with election flyers after a brief overview by circle organizer and author.
A variety of tactics has been proposed for the midterm elections. The Parallel Elections training at We Count garnered a half dozen new volunteers, but none at Seize the Polls. Detractors worry that PEs will draw volunteers away from their more mainstream election day actions. Proponents point out that the PE booth offers a base for all "election protection" activities on Election Day, and models how honest elections are run. "The primary purpose of a parallel election is to ascertain how a precinct voted." http://tinyurl.com/hrnox
Mainstream organizations, normally involved only in Get-Out-The-Vote campaigns, also included instructions on what to do if the machines fail. Call 1-866-OURVOTE. Alternative strategies were aired at all three of Ohio's events, and everyone generally agreed that all efforts to engage more citizens in our election process will heighten accountability, or at the very least will expose citizens to the lack of transparency and countability of our ballots.
See What Activism Really Means
Swarming the election process from as many different angles as possible will shine a light on how our elections are conducted. Accountability leads to accuracy. Read suggested projects below:
See http://www.thelandesreport.com/ParallelElections.htm for concepts and practical tips on how citizens can run their own Parallel Election of a hand-counted paper ballot system.
Volunteer videographers are sought to follow precinct memory cards to the County Board of Elections, and for other surveillance, on November 7th. Contact Melissa Giraud melissagiraud@yahoo.com.
Black Box Voting's Tool Kit is a Declaration of Independence for Citizens and can be downloaded at: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.pdf BBV wants to make the 2006 election the biggest citizen evidence gathering action ever. "Propagate your information far and wide -send it to 5 or 7 different places," Harris advised.
Brad Friedman of www.BradBlog.com is offering a $250,000 reward for information that results in an overturning of a congressional election and a conviction of the person(s) responsible for the fraud. Whistleblowers should provide documents, tape recordings, and admissions. Send to tips@velvetrevolution.us.
Kathy Dopp wants citizens to upload detailed precinct level data at the National Election Data Archive. See http://www.uscountvotes.org/ucvData/US/How2CollectData.pdf
Legal remedies are also being pursued. Ohio attorneys recently saved the 04 ballots from destruction. At least 20 different people, so far, have collected information, photographed ballots, and organized or analyzed the material. In the Free Press Autumn 06 issue, a few are named as "Freep Heroes." J Click on the www.FreePress.org button, Special Election Coverage, for updates.
Ohio attorneys also just filed a complaint for a Special Master of elections, to remove power-blinded Blackwell from his inappropriate oversight while running for office. Cliff Arnebeck demanded paper ballots for 06 for any voter who wants to use them, and seeks to overturn voter ID portions of recently-passed House Bill 3.
Attorney Paul Lehto (who spoke at Cleveland's We Count and Columbus' Seize the Polls conferences) is waging battle for election transparency in San Diego, in California's 50th District, in the now infamous Bilbray-Busby race where Congress seized control of the election process. The case is on appeal.
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