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Thursday, June 22, 2006
Voters and Victories
Trying to ensure election integrity is long, hard-fought battle with too few victories. Today, we can happily report several strides voters' rights activists have made.
SB1557 passed the House 51-0 (9 not voting), then passed the Senate 25-3 (2 not voting). You may want to ask Ken Bennett, Toni Hellon, and Carolyn S. Allen why they were the only 3 who voted "no" on protecting our voting rights.
Representative Ted Downing was first and foremost in getting traction behind this bill, which originated with him as Primary Sponsor. Representative Downing worked with two incredibly hard working election intergrity activists, Tom Ryan and John Brakey. They have led the effort in Arizona to make sure every vote counts, sparked in part by a Republican primary in which one Republican candidate lost under very questionable circumstances. We would like to thank each of these men for their incredible leadership and dedication on behalf of all Arizona voters.
Additionally, we would like to praise and thank Senator Karen Johnson for sponsoring the bill in the Senate and serving as an instrumental leader in helping this bill move from committee to a passing vote, working with Pima County Elections department as well as the other legislators to make this legislation a reality.
The bill has been described by Maricopa County Election director Karen Osborn as “one of the most significant election reforms bills in decades”.
VoteTrustUSA has an article on the bill with a bit of history on why Democrats and Republicans in the legislature both feel this is an important issue.
The other victory, is in the added media attention these serious issues are getting. Lou Dobbs, Rolling Stone, Newsweek and several other news organizations are now writing about the issue. Blake Morlock wrote an interesting piece in the Arizona Daily Star regarding the Diebold TSX voting machines Pima County will be getting...unless Pima County Supervisors Ann Day, Sharon Bronson, and Ramon Valadez get enough public outcry to get them to change their votes.
Tucson hosted an Election Integrity Teach-in recently, to an audience of about 100 citizens. Jim March from Black Box Voting showed all in attendance how easy it was to hack the system and flip votes.
Beyond the fact the machines are so unreliable and easy to hack, why any board that is supposed to represent the Arizona residents' best interests would contract for over $2 million with a company that has been sued by its own investors is beyond comprehension.
Do they like throwing our money away and destroying the accuracy of our vote? No, more likely it was pressure from the Secretary of State's office, Diebold lobbyist threats and the Pima County Attorneys office advisement, that led to this incredibly poor decision. Keep contacting Ann Day, Sharon Bronson, and Ramon Valadez regarding their "yes" votes and the impact it wil have on clean, secure elections.
Don't forget to contact Governor Janet Napolitano and ask her to sign the bill SB1557 into law ASAP in time for the September 12th primaries.
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Saturday, June 10, 2006
Two important actions to take NOW!
Will your vote be counted?
Not unless we take action!
1) Please attend a special meeting on 6.15.2006, 2475 E Water St Tucson, AZ at 6 pm.
Election Integrity speakers will discuss the serious issues in Diebold, which has just been approved for purchase by the Pima Board of Supervisors. Elias and Carroll voted "no" (please thank them) but Bronson, Valdez and Day voted "yes" to purchase hackable machines that have had serious flaws as reported all over the country, are expensive to maintain, and leave no durable papertrail to audit. Additionally, phone or email the Board members above who voted "yes" and ask for a reconsideration.
2) Contact your state senators and urge them to pass SB1557
This bill would provide Arizona with election safe-guards. Click here to learn more.
Lawsuit attempts to keep DREs out of Arizona
A group of Arizona voters have filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction against Sec. of State Jan Brewer and 12 County Recorders to halt the purchase of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) touch-screen voting systems in the state made by both Diebold, Inc. and Sequoia Voting Systems. These voting systems have numerous security and reliability problems and do not adequately accommodate the disabled voters they are intended to serve. A hearing has been scheduled for June 26, 2006. Go here for more info on the lawsuit and problems associated with these machines.
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Thursday, June 08, 2006
Corporations and Voter Integrity
Conflict of Interest: Corporate Control of Elections
The Elections Center Leads Industry Attack on Computer Scientists
Promotes Insecure DRE machines at Public’s Expense
Must read point-by-point summary for voters, election integrity auditors, election officials, legislators and the media researched by AUDITAZ co-founder Sandra Spangler
This summary, exposes a secret network that used its power to lobby Congress through ties to Jack Abramoff to influence the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and obstruct all reform amendments that would mandate voter verification mechanisms. Read the full summary here.
The summary is a roadmap that outlines how the U.S. Election system has become corrupted and now functions on behalf of the financial interest of vendors and denies access to the public. Once people understand what really happens behind the scenes, they will become empowered to challenge the pseudo authority of an industry that has taken advantage of public funding to increase profits and thwart fair voting and accessible voting systems for the disabled. When the people awaken to the reality that elections officials must be able to prove the accuracy of elections, they will demand accountability—voting systems that require random manual audits and durable paper ballots. We the people must fight corporate control and restore public oversight, transparency and integrity to American elections.
Even though Diebold has been thoroughly discredited now in the mainstream press with the discovery of indisputable security holes that threaten national security, the company continues to act as if it has the power to remain unscathed. Diebold relies on its carefully cultivated influence with revolving door former office holders and regulators who align with the company or even form private certifying companies to offer services to states to ensure certification of machines revealed to be engineered to make tampering undetectable. Current National Association of Elections Directors (NASED) President Linda Lamone recently hired a firm headed by Paul Craft, former head of Florida’s certification agency, to “independently test” in order to approve Diebold paperless voting. Craft also served on the National Association of Standards (NIST) Technical Guidelines Development Committee and intervened on behalf of vendors to water down guidelines in violation of an EAC charter that prohibits conflict of interest in decision-making. The Elections Center operated by R. Doug Lewis, trains and professionalizes private associations of election officials in order to train state and local election officials to administer elections, and promote the sale of paperless touch-screen DRE machines on behalf of profit-seeking vendors competing for 3.8 billion in HAVA money. The Elections Center uses elections officials they have trained to promote electronic voting, marginalize and demonize computer expert critics and election officials who tell the truth about the massive security holes found in Diebold TSx and optical scan voting systems.
Additionally, The National Association of Counties endorsed alternatives to DRE voting that were known to the Board of Supervisors in Pima County when they chose to vote in favor of Diebold, at the objections of AuditAZ and Pima County concerned voters. The Pima County Board of Supervisors must here from more citizens on why this was such a harmful decisions to the voters of Tucson.
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Thursday, June 01, 2006
Are you going to let your VOTE BE STOLEN?
"According to computer scientists, this security flaw is so egregious and makes it so easy to compromise voting machines that they won't even give us the details, for fear of giving hackers all the tools needed to crash the machines or manipulate results." If you didn't catch the story on NPR, you should download it and have a listen NYTimes Wall street Journal!!
Will Your Vote Count in 2006?
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