I ask you as the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee to please reconsider your opposition to giving this bill a hearing. There is no good reason not to hold hearings so that these necessary reforms can be openly discussed.
Its not about right or left. Its about right and wrong. The more you harden your opposition, the better reason voters will have to question why you are on the wrong side of what is a civic, not a partisan issue. Arizona voters are no longer willing to take on faith election results that cannot be verified when they know that computerized voting machine memory cards have
hidden prohibited interpreted code that gives instructions to the machine print out and report false totals that in some cases have been greater than the number of registered voters. The Washington Post reported the results of a test in Leon County, Florida that showed that vote totals reported by an optical scan machine, were altered by a test hack that flipped totals in the opposite direction in a mock election. True vote totals could only be verified by a hand count of the paper ballots.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/ar2006012101051_pf.html
In the face of this evidence and tests which led to decertification of
Diebold TSx machines in California and other states, how can you not be interested in shielding Arizonas voters? The right to vote and have that vote count as cast is at the bedrock of the American system of republican government. And you must stand accountable for doing everything you can to protect our sacred trust, the secret ballot, by which we the people judge our elected representatives.
Our election system, once owned and operated by the people is now controlled and managed by a trio of elite vendors who have ingratiated themselves with our local election officials who look upon them as family and depend upon them for advice and service. When election results are in doubt, these officials are put on the defensive, and have no recourse, but to ask us to trust that they are doing their jobs well and reporting the accurate vote count. SB 1557 establishes a system of verification. Verification not trust
should be the gold standard for American democratic elections. Without a system of verification, everyone loses. People question the motives, competence and professionalism of elected officials and election administrators that allow chaos and contention, instead of accuracy, performance, integrity and transparency. With secret administration, back-room deals, and no public verification, we no longer have free elections.
This bill includes features by which a consensus of experts agree fair
elections can be assured. It provides proven standards and by which
elections can be audited through mandatory random manual recount of 5% of the precincts to check election results, and makes any hand count the official count, a measure that is necessary to identify voting machine malfunctions or possible tampering. In the event of a close election, the bill allows a candidate to initiate a manual recount when the margin between the top two candidates is less than 5% of their combined vote total.
It also requires open source software , and additional election system testing by independent qualified experts not associated with a vendor.
By blocking or trying to kill this bill, you evade the truth and stand in
favor of questionable elections and against the will of the people and a majority of your colleagues in the Arizona Senate.
Please let the hearing go forward and let the people speak.
Respectfully,
Sandra Spangler
Co-founder
AUDIT AZ
Arizonans United for Democracy Integrity and Transparency in Elections
A non-partisan election reform organization
-----------------
Please email or fax and call
Senator Huppenthal,
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee
and urge him to schedule SB 1557 to be
heard on the February 13th agenda.
602-926-5261 phone
602-417-3157 fax
email: jhuppenthal@azleg.gov
If you have the time, please call or fax the other
members of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
since they seem to be uncommitted and urge
them to support SB 1557:
Marilyn Jarrett (R), District 19
602-926-5288 phone
602-417-3161 fax
email: mjarrett@azleg.gov
Dean Martin (R), District 6
602-926-5284 phone
602-417-3163 fax
email: dmartin@azleg.gov
Ron Gould (R), District 3
602-926-4138 phone
602-417-3165 fax
email: rgould@azleg.gov
MORE FROM SANDRA SPANGLER ABOUT WHAT IS BEING DONE:
We met in Phoenix on Tuesday with the legal team from California, New Mexico and Washington to see what we can do about blocking these DRE voting machines.
It looks promising. They will work with a team of lawyers from a large Phoenix firm.
But we need to ***raise money***. They have contacts and will let us know what we can do to help. Contributions will be tax deductible.
--------------------------
Its not about right or left. Its about right and wrong. The more you harden your opposition, the better reason voters will have to question why you are on the wrong side of what is a civic, not a partisan issue. Arizona voters are no longer willing to take on faith election results that cannot be verified when they know that computerized voting machine memory cards have
hidden prohibited interpreted code that gives instructions to the machine print out and report false totals that in some cases have been greater than the number of registered voters. The Washington Post reported the results of a test in Leon County, Florida that showed that vote totals reported by an optical scan machine, were altered by a test hack that flipped totals in the opposite direction in a mock election. True vote totals could only be verified by a hand count of the paper ballots.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/ar2006012101051_pf.html
In the face of this evidence and tests which led to decertification of
Diebold TSx machines in California and other states, how can you not be interested in shielding Arizonas voters? The right to vote and have that vote count as cast is at the bedrock of the American system of republican government. And you must stand accountable for doing everything you can to protect our sacred trust, the secret ballot, by which we the people judge our elected representatives.
Our election system, once owned and operated by the people is now controlled and managed by a trio of elite vendors who have ingratiated themselves with our local election officials who look upon them as family and depend upon them for advice and service. When election results are in doubt, these officials are put on the defensive, and have no recourse, but to ask us to trust that they are doing their jobs well and reporting the accurate vote count. SB 1557 establishes a system of verification. Verification not trust
should be the gold standard for American democratic elections. Without a system of verification, everyone loses. People question the motives, competence and professionalism of elected officials and election administrators that allow chaos and contention, instead of accuracy, performance, integrity and transparency. With secret administration, back-room deals, and no public verification, we no longer have free elections.
elections can be assured. It provides proven standards and by which
elections can be audited through mandatory random manual recount of 5% of the precincts to check election results, and makes any hand count the official count, a measure that is necessary to identify voting machine malfunctions or possible tampering. In the event of a close election, the bill allows a candidate to initiate a manual recount when the margin between the top two candidates is less than 5% of their combined vote total.
It also requires open source software , and additional election system testing by independent qualified experts not associated with a vendor.
By blocking or trying to kill this bill, you evade the truth and stand in
favor of questionable elections and against the will of the people and a majority of your colleagues in the Arizona Senate.
Please let the hearing go forward and let the people speak.
Respectfully,
Sandra Spangler
Co-founder
AUDIT AZ
Arizonans United for Democracy Integrity and Transparency in Elections
A non-partisan election reform organization
-----------------
Please email or fax and call
Senator Huppenthal,
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee
and urge him to schedule SB 1557 to be
heard on the February 13th agenda.
602-926-5261 phone
602-417-3157 fax
email: jhuppenthal@azleg.gov
If you have the time, please call or fax the other
members of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
since they seem to be uncommitted and urge
them to support SB 1557:
Marilyn Jarrett (R), District 19
602-926-5288 phone
602-417-3161 fax
email: mjarrett@azleg.gov
Dean Martin (R), District 6
602-926-5284 phone
602-417-3163 fax
email: dmartin@azleg.gov
Ron Gould (R), District 3
602-926-4138 phone
602-417-3165 fax
email: rgould@azleg.gov
MORE FROM SANDRA SPANGLER ABOUT WHAT IS BEING DONE:
We met in Phoenix on Tuesday with the legal team from California, New Mexico and Washington to see what we can do about blocking these DRE voting machines.
It looks promising. They will work with a team of lawyers from a large Phoenix firm.
But we need to ***raise money***. They have contacts and will let us know what we can do to help. Contributions will be tax deductible.
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