Going with the flow, we asked to be allowed to go to the Voting Forum only open to Congress and their staff where vendors displayed their newest and greatest Voting Machines. After Ms Willoughby escorted us through the gauntlet of vendors, Clint took the opportunity to explain the ways in which each machine could be hacked. Many had “toilet paper rolls” attached directly to the tabulator machine that can be heated up and thus erased, rolled back, blacked out and rewritten; others were connected to the Internet or phone line – always a safe and secure places to transmit information...(wink, wink, nudge, nudge.)
Adam Abrogi, Counsel Committee on Rules and Administration for Diane Feinstein, was very interested in our data and ways in which Clint saw that the bills could actually make it through the Senate.
Later that day we went to a hearing on Election Reform. The panel gave a wide range of perspectives from “all is great don’t touch anything” from the SOE of Georgia ( just ask Max Cleland how he felt about the way the Georgia voting machines tallied in 02…..) to Matt Zimmerman of The Election Frontier Foundation who wants complete transparency of elections. We were glad that we had spoken with many of the Congressional offices that were present at the hearing so that they knew the reality of the hard evidence of Walking for Democracy and Clint’s computer programmer’s perspective of what is needed to protect our vote.
Friday, Lauren and I had a great time sitting three rows behind Valarie Plame at the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing held by Congressman Henry Waxman. He lived up to his reputation as “Bull Dog Waxman”. We had fun at lunch with Wayne Madsen, www.WayneMadsenReport.com , who was instrumental to getting Clint’s story out there and in the BLOGS. Amazing how Clint has gone from conspiracy theorist to mainstream thanks to everyone’s hard work and dedication from BLOGGING to Walking to contributing.
Clint and I will be returning to Washington for final meetings on the Hill and to go to the PDA Grassroots Leadership Conference this weekend to ready for the launch of Clint Curtis for Congress Campaign 2008 .
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