Saturday, September 12, 2009
FATALLY FLAWED, The Movie
Labels: Democratic Party, Fatally flawed, pima county election, RTA ballots, RTA Tucson
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
RTA Election Handcount Underway
The big question is, are they even the same ballots? Bev Harris analyzes the issues and outlines them here. According to the Arizona Daily Star: "Attorney General Terry Goddard's office is counting the ballots as part of his criminal investigation into allegations the votes were flipped to show the opposite of voters' wishes.
Each and every ballot is being counted, though the count is going slower than expected, Goddard said Tuesday. Initially, his office thought the counters could get through 16 boxes of ballots per day, but on Monday they completed just five boxes, he said. Goddard is bringing in more people to count the ballots, and now hopes to reach a 12-box daily average.
Most of the 105 boxes moved from secured storage in Pima County to the Maricopa County Elections Division probably contain ballots, said Anne Hilby, spokeswoman for Goddard. The rest likely contain other election-related materials, she said."
The problem here is: 1) Terry Goddard hasn't exactly been a proponent of election integrity as he repeatedly refused to do his job in investigating allegations of fraud, (even after receiving a signed affidavit) and even went so far as to say he had no authority and 2) Chain of custody has been broken - why move the ballots from a secured location in Pima to Maricopa under insecure, nontransparent circumstances, having a private meeting with the judge to seize them, and then counting them in the county with the worst election integrity issues instead of where the process could be more transparent and tightly controlled? It makes it pretty easy to switch out ballots. This count will resolve NOTHING, regardless of the outcome, because the process is as insecure as when the Pima Elections Department had Access hooked up to the election machines giving easy access to flip the votes. It is easy to suspect this is all just another pivot, smoke and mirrors tactic to make the public think their elections are secure as election fraud will continue in Arizona. Of course Goddard knows this, but keeping the public in the dark is what they do best. Labels: Arizona elections, AuditAZ, election fraud, election integrity, pima county election, RTA ballots, RTA Tucson
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Thursday, March 05, 2009
Join Us for Monday's Preview of Fatally Flawed
When : Monday, March 9th at 7pm Where: University of Arizona's Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Building (North East Corner of Speedway & Mountain, Free Parking on the East side of the building) Free & Open to the Public Fatally Flawed, a newly-produced local documentary that chronicles the legal challenge to the May 2006 Pima County election which created the Regional Transportation Authority and generated a lawsuit resulting in the largest release of election data in US history, will be previewed for the public Monday, March 9, 2009 @ 7 pm. An alliance of the Tucson Chapter of Democracy for America and Voices of Opposition will host the presentation on Monday, 7 pm, at the University of Arizona's Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) building on the northeast corner of Speedway and Mountain. Free to the public. The issues involving the apparent lack of integrity of the electoral process in Pima County and Arizona and the almost three-year-old challenge to release of the RTA election ballots for a hand count remain headline news to this day. While Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has indicated that the recount process is not over, questions remain over the whereabouts of the ballots and the procedure to be used to count them. In addition to the screening, principal investigators of the election will be on hand to provide insight on the current issues related to the controversy. Recently, members of the local Democratic Party's Election Integrity Committee offered individual opinions on the matter. “The Democratic Party [and all other political parties] has a statutory right and a critical role in our state system to track and see what’s going on with our elections,” said Attorney Bill Risner, who is involved with the legal investigation into the validity of the May 2006 Regional Transportation Authority Election. "Elections and election processes should not be secret, and when they are it's a strong sign of either outright fraud or an agency fearful of having its own incompetence exposed,” insisted Jim March, board member of Blackboxvoting.org and local election investigator. “True security always lies in openness.” Michael Duniho, former election inspector in Maryland and computer analyst concluded, "It seems clear that our system of 'one-man, one-vote' only works if a large number of people monitor the election, to be sure it is honest." From the words of those who controlled the election and others who have investigated the election, Fatally Flawed makes the case that: 1. Acts of omission and commission occurred before, during and after the May 2006 election by entrusted officials, constituting the charges of election fraud. 2. To date, government officials at the local and state levels have acted to thwart the resolution of these accusations of a rigged election. 3. Only a prompt, fair, and transparent hand counting of the May 2005 ballots will remove the cloud over the creation of the RTA. For further information, call 520-622-6419
For a list of future Monday Night events, check www.voicesofopposition.comLabels: dfa Tucson, election fraud, election integrity, RTA, RTA Tucson, stolen election
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Urgent: Appear in Court Tomorrow to Help Count the Votes!
Attend Hearing: 10AM Wednesday, January 14th
Pima County Superior Court 110 West Congress, 6th Floor
Judge Charles Harrington Court room- 4th floor, room 472.
Your Presence In Court Will Help Pima County Democratic Party Attorney Bill Risner Make the Case That the RTA Ballots Must Be Preserved.
Let the Judge know it matters to you that your votes will be counted transparently!
The fate of the RTA Ballots may be determined at this hearing!
This case IS about the obligation of public oversight of elections central to maintaining a Constitutional Democracy.
The Pima County Democratic Party position is that the Court does possess the legal and constitutional power to weigh the evidence brought forward by the Democratic Party that tampering did occur in the May 2006 RTA election and to order that the ballots be recounted under strict court supervision as the ONLY method that would confirm proof of election fraud.
This case is NOT about a frivolous election challenge that the law requires to be filed within 5 days of election certification. The Pima County Treasurer filed this case to ask the Court to resolve the issue whether the County Treasurer must continue to preserve the ballots or have the ballots destroyed according to the law after 22 months.
The case IS about upholding the rights of Arizonans to have ballots counted transparently!
The Democratic Party filed Freedom of Information Act requests (FOIA) that uncovered evidence pointing to electronic election manipulation. Detection of evidence concealed in election data generated by computers requires lengthy forensic analysis that could not have be done in time to satisfy the narrow constraints of existing election law. Much of the evidence surfaced as a result of the Pima County Democratic Party vs. the Board of Supervisors public information lawsuit. The purpose is to persuade the Court to exercise its power to protect voters’ rights.
The facts show that the intent of free, fair and transparent elections guaranteed by the Arizona Constitution are jeopardized by electronic elections when votes are counted secretly. Electronic elections require transparency and accountability precisely because it is so easy to manipulate and cover up evidence. The Court could be persuaded that current law prohibits a judicial remedy, therefore the Court has no power to intervene in what amounts to an election contest. Such a ruling would ignore the larger threat to democracy itself posed by computerized elections and set a damaging precedent that will undermine the rights of all Arizona citizens.
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Labels: Bill Risner, court hearing, pima county election, Pima lawsuit, RTA ballots, RTA Tucson
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Friday, August 15, 2008
Tucson Citizen & Tucson Weekly still get it wrong
AuditAZ Co-Founder and election integrity activist, John Brakey, sent a letter to activists regarding the Tucson Citizen and Tucson Weekly's misconstruing the facts of the Pima Democratic Party's lawsuit against the Board of Supervisors for the election databases. Below is part of the letter regarding the legal decision and background:
"In its endorsement of Sharon Bronson, the Tucson Citizen misconstrued the facts. Therefore, misled its readers when it did not provide context for the Board’s expensive yearlong opposition to releasing electronic computer databases. The Tucson Weekly followed with its own endorsement of Bronson without providing context. The judge ruled that electronic databases were public records because the county was unable to prove its burden that releasing the records was a security risk. Indeed, it is true as Donna Branch-Gilby affirmed, that Bronson made a motion on January 8, 2008 not to appeal the Judge’s first order to release only two databases. However, the larger context of all of the motions made at the January 8 meeting clearly proves that Bronson’s maneuver was intended to block the release of all other databases, including the RTA, that the Democratic party had asked for. The judge’s order allowed for future release of more databases beyond the two. Bronson’s claim that that she made the motion not to appeal does not tell the story that she was the one who cited “legal impediments” to obstruct the release of the databases. The Fact is the Board of Supervisors is also the Board of Elections. The key to honest elections lies here in Pima County with them, not with the appointed County Manager who has known since 1996 about the Diebold election system backdoor. Here is a video link to what really happened at the Jan 8th BOS meeting (20 minutes). It is not like what Bronson has said. http://www.sweetremedy.tv/pages/forcedagenda.html
The Clip comes from an upcoming Documentary Called "Forced Agenda: How the Growth Industry Subverts Democracy" Bronson and Valadez, for over two years, fought us over the issues of transparency in elections and never voted with us until “yuppie riot”. On Jan 8th, I knew the only way we could win was to get Supervisor Ann Day (R) with us by putting Richard Elias (D) on the spot. Richard never voted with us unless we lost. I knew this, and got people to contact Ann Day. What put us over the top with Ann Day was Dr Tom Ryan meeting with her, and was able to finally convince her. Bronson on the morning of the 8th called me and tried to play me by saying to me "you won, let’s work together again.” Then at the meeting, Bronson tries to release just the two databases the judge initially ordered, which would have been useless for the purposes of analysis. To find a flip you have to have a flop. You can't do one with out the other. If anyone should get credit for pushing the Jan 8th vote over the top it was Ann Day. The video link shows the clear position of Bronson and her obstruction to transparency.
Half way through the video, please pay special attention to Huckleberry and Deputy County Attorney Straub celebrate when they thought they had successfully fooled the crowd into accepting one database for the Primary, and one for the General Election of 2006. However, their little celebration was premature. At the break Richard Elias tried to clear the room, before the rest of the speakers had been heard from. As the meeting starts again the "yuppie revolt" erupted to help clinch the victory. We won the vote to release all the databases by 5 to 0, including the RTA databases, thanks to Ann Day (just like I said would happen if we had her vote). We have the rest of the video from J.T. with Sound and Fury, that we could mine for more details. So friends, what do we do? Change Can’t Wait. Hope, Peace and Democracy. John John Brakey, co-founder of AUDIT-AZ (Americans United for Democracy, Integrity, and Transparency in Elections, Arizona) & Co-Coordinator Investigations for Election Defense Alliance. "
Labels: Donna Branch-Gilby, election fraud, election integrity, Pima County Board of Supervisors, pima county election, Pima lawsuit, Ramon Valadez, Robert Robuck, RTA, RTA Tucson, Sharon Bronson
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
Prevent the Appeal
URGENT
CALL PIMA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
520-740-8126
ATTEND BOS MEETING
Tuesday June 3, 2008 9AM
130 W. Congress St., Hearing Room, 1st Fl.
On Tuesday the Pima County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to decide in secret session with County attorneys whether to APPEAL Judge Miller’s decision to grant the Pima County Democratic Party electronic election databases going back to 1998.
Demand ACCOUNTABILITY! Call the BOS on Monday to tell them “NO” The Board has already spent too much the public’s money arguing against releasing public records. The County’s “delusional defense” did not stand up in court. View the videos posted at http://arizona.typepad.com/blog/election_integrity/index.html
Ann Day, District 1
(520) 740-2738
Ramón Valadez, District 2
(520) 740-8126
Sharon Bronson, District 3
(520) 740-8051
Ray Carroll, District 4
(520) 740-8094
Richard Elías, Chairman, District 5
(520) 740-8126
For More Details about Tuesday’s meeting read Tucson Citizen article below
County to discuss ruling to release vote databases
tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/86871.php
GARRY DUFFY
Tucson Citizen
Pima County officials may decide Tuesday whether to appeal a Superior Court judge's ruling last week ordering the release of electronic vote databases to the Pima County Democratic Party.
The Board of Supervisors will meet with county attorneys in secret session to discuss the issue. Part of the discussion will be a ruling by Superior Court Judge Michael Miller awarding $228,000 for legal fees to attorneys representing the Democrats because they were successful in the legal dispute involving the databases.
Supervisors also will consider a motion by board Chairman Richard Elías to create a sister city relationship between the county and Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, to improve commerce and relations between the two communities.
Elías said residents of both communities regularly interact culturally and in business.
Pima County residents vacation on beaches in the Mazatlan area, while residents from that city come to Tucson and contribute to the local economy.
http://www.pima.gov/cob/e-agenda/06032008/06032008Ad.pdf
ADDENDUM
Pima County Board of Supervisors’ Meeting
130 W. Congress St., Hearing Room, 1st Fl.
June 3, 2008 9:00 a.m.
. . . EXECUTIVE SESSIONS
Public discussion and action may occur on the executive session items listed below during the regularly scheduled meeting.
D. Pursuant to A.R.S. §38-431.03(A)(3) and (4), for legal advice and direction regarding the Democratic Party of Pima County v. Pima County Board of Supervisors, Pima County Superior Court Cause No. C20072073.
Labels: Ann Day, Arizona elections, AuditAZ, Pima County Board of Supervisors, pima county election, Pima lawsuit, Ramon Valadez, RTA Tucson, Sharon Bronson
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