Sunday, January 15, 2012
Occupy Elections with C.A.R.E.
Dear Citizens Against Rigged Elections:
PLEASE, be in court with us, we need a big presence to show that this is a critical case and “we the people” are paying attention and we expect the judge to do the same.Tuesday, January 17, 2012- 11:00 AM
Judge Kyle Bryson’s Courtroom, Fifth Floor,Pima Superior Court: 110 W. Congress, Tucson, AZ
JUST FILED: Link to the Initial Disclosure Statement of Facts by Attorney Bill Risner on how bad the situation really is: http://tinyurl.com/LPFiling
Since 2006 we’ve won 3 major cases[1] so far revealing how the process in Pima County works despite the county spending over a million dollars to block public records access. We filed this case several years ago to actually fix the problems found in the public records cases. More on this case here: “When A Court Is Presented With Evidence That Election Results May Have Been Tampered With, Does The Court Have Equitable Jurisdiction To Fashion Prospective Relief To Protect The Purity Of Future Election Results?”[2]
This particular case went into a coma about two years ago when Judge Harrington said that he couldn't order fixes to the election process no matter how obvious or severe the problems are.[3], [4] Well now the appeals and state SUPREME court said “not so fast” – we do have a right to ask a court to reform a broken election system regardless of what loopholes remain in state law. And that means GAME ON, before a new local judge.
Longer term, we're going to prove that election databases have been destroyed, election laws have been violated, our votes have been hacked and the voting systems we use are a tragic mess from both a technical and procedural standpoint. We're going to ask the court to order reforms that could serve as a model for the whole country when it come to the dangers of electronic voting.
By our estimate the Pima County Board of Supervisors has spent more than $1.3 million on BS defenses fighting “We the People” over core issues relating to the foundation of our democracy. And if you’re reading this and saying “well, what about the hand count done by the Arizona Attorney General Goddard?” please read Significant Discrepancies in Comparison of RTA hand count Results by AZ AG,[6] a report by Ellen Theisen of Voters Unite.org.
I ask you, when does the cover-up become another crime?
John Brakey, co-founder of AUDIT-AZ (Americans United for Democracy, Integrity, and Transparency in Elections, Arizona) My sites with Arizona Election Integrity News Audit-AZ2 and SEEKING JUSTICE and Fatally Flawed The Movie
Labels: Arizona elections, election fraud, stolen election, tucson elections
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The Pima County Election Fraud Case Heads to a Jury Trial
For immediate release: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Contacts: John R. Brakey 520-578-5678 AUDITAZ@cox.net, Bill Risner 520-622-7495,
bill@risnerandgraham.com Jim March 916-370-0347 email: 1.jim.march@gmail.com LIVE FREE OR DIEBOLD: The Pima County Election Fraud Case Heads to a Jury Trial When: Thursday January 12th, 2:30 pm Where: Armory Park Senior Center 220 S. 5th Avenue, 220 S. 5th Avenue, Tucson AZ (map) Tucson, AZ: Since our saga began over five years ago, more and more people across America are becoming aware of the serious security flaws in computerized voting systems. They are systems designed to cheat, and they are everywhere. As the political scene heats up with the Presidential election, all eyes will be on Tucson as ground zero for exposing these flaws in open court and proposing reasonable checks and balances in the system. We must protect the purity of elections and public confidence in election results — a cornerstone of our democracy. That’s what this case is ultimately about.
BACKGROUND: AUDIT-AZ, the Pima County Libertarian Party and other interested citizens of multiple parties for years have been investigating election processes in Pima County. In previous actions, the Democratic Party took the lead in winning public records lawsuits and revealing the extent of the problems, including poor security practices on "designed to cheat" systems, election results that consistently did not add up, missing or falsified paper, and election officials and staff who continuously flout the law.
The Democratic and Libertarian Parties jointly filed suit years ago to ask a court to order reforms to the process. One local judge decided that his court was unable to do so no matter how obvious the problems might be. After that, the Democratic Party dropped out. The Libertarian Party did not: They appealed and won. Pima County appealed that decision to the AZ Supreme Court and lost. The courts have now ruled that if it can be proven that elections are being handled poorly, a local judge can indeed order Pima County to institute reforms.
IT’S GAME TIME: So after years of effort, we are “game on.” We plan to prove wide-ranging abuses of basic election security in Pima County Arizona and to obtain court-mandated improvements in the election process that could serve as a national model for how to do electronic voting properly and securely.
We have connected the dots into a 10-point quick summary of the fact pattern in this gripping saga of power and deceit. And we propose a remedy that is easy, inexpensive and doable. Let us share that and more with you. We promise a very interesting time.
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You may have to sit through one short ad first, after that we're on. Labels: Arizona elections, election fraud, stolen election, tucson elections
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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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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Press Conference TODAY
What: PRESS CONFERENCE When: Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:30 pm promptly Where: Valdez Main Library Downtown, Downstairs meeting room Larry Bahill, Pima County Elections Director from 1981 to 1993, will brief the press on how an Election Department should be run and will comment on current problems. The current Election Director, Brad Nelson, has falsely blamed the delay of election results on a supposed Democratic Party demand to avoid the use of electronic transmission of results from precincts to the central count facility. Mr. Bahill will describe how his department produced early results without modems. He will also discuss the need for election observers to ensure election transparency and the need for thorough documentation of chain of custody tracking of ballots. Mr. Nelson instigated the false arrest of John Brakey at the hand-count audit session on the 6th of September because Mr. Brakey was asking questions about incorrect, broken, and missing security seals on ballot bags, and Mr. Nelson is on record as saying that he himself has done nothing to document or trace security seal problems – thus rendering the legally required, essential random audit of the computer’s vote count nearly useless. In addition to Mr. Bahill, other speakers will include Brad Roach (candidate for County Attorney), Donna Branch-Gilby (candidate for Board of Supervisors), Richard Harding (retired senior employee of the Pima County Election Department), David Euchner Esq (chair of the Pima County Libertarian Party), and Bill Risner (Pima County Democratic Party Attorney who won a landmark lawsuit against Pima County about election transparency). This non-partisan Press Conference is supported by Democratic Party, Libertarian Party, Independents, and notable Republicans (not the party) a growing number of elected officials and others involved in the elections process, including: - Bill Risner, Esq.,
- Jim March, Computer Expert, BBV,
- Randy Graf,
- Donna Branch-Gilby,
- Jeff Rogers Esq (Vice-Chair of Pima County Democratic Party),
- David J. Euchner Esq (Chair of Pima County Libertarian Party),
- Professor Ted Downing, (Chair of State ADP-EIC),
- John Kromko,
- J. M “Mike” Hayes,
- Mickey Duniho,
- Richard Harding (retired employee Pima Co Election Dept),
- Noel Day (former employee Pima Co Election Dept), and many more.
TOPIC: Examining Pima County’s Flimsy Excuses for Posting Late Election Results The Pima County Election Department attributes the delay in releasing the vote tallies on a timely fashion on the Pima county Democratic Party. Fact is, it was Pima County’s own decision not to use phone modems; due to security concerns of possible hacking the central tabulator through the phone modem to precinct at end of day phone connection. Then, Pima County Election Department then blames the Democratic Party for the slow results. In point of fact, Pima County disconnected the modems. Facts are when Larry Bahill was the election director he had to run and load 250,000 plus punch cards and had 100% of the precincts reported by 1AM! Therefore, Pima County's other excuse that it takes a long time to load 400 memory cards just doesn't stand up. Undoubtedly, questions will come up about the illegal arrest of John Brakey. Bill Risner will address this. Larry Bahill will address that it was totally uncalled for and unprofessional for Brad Nelson to have Mr. Brakey arrested. Details at the Press Conference. Your participation counts in this Citizen Voter action to help shine the light of integrity and transparency on the games being played by the Pima County Election Department. Additionally the next morning at 9AM, please be at the Pima County Board of Sups meeting for the canvas. We will recommend the canvas is NOT certified until proper protocols and validation are the election is completed. We see many problems that must be addressed.
The Pima County Election Transparency Project Contact: John Brakey 520-578-5678 Cell 520 250 2360
Labels: Brad Nelson, election fraud, election reform, John Brakey, Pima County Board of Supervisors, pima county election, stolen election
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
"If I Did It: Confessions of the Hacker and How I rigged a $2 Billion RTA Election":
Who is willing to take a polygraph? • Short report: What we believe happened in the May 16, 2006, Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) bond election in Pima County, Arizona • Video clip on how we believe it was done and the equipment used then see this short video. From HBO’s Hacking Democracy: The Pima county way and the special equipment needed to Rig the RTA Pima Election Department purchased a Cropscanner Card Reader programmer Confession is good for the soul. A press report last week quoted Bryan Crane as saying he had to look up on a map where the Boondocks Bar was located. However he got there, he was seen that evening by another available witness who knows Mr. Crane. Mr. Osmolski related his conversation with Mr. Crane to four separate people at the bar that evening. After watching these two short video clips you can understand what guilt does and why Bryan Crane confessed to Zbgniew Osmolski: • Video clip Attorney Bill Risner deposing 'the hacker' Bryan Crane 2/27/07. A very nervous, guilt ridden Pima county election Diebold/GEMS computer operator. • Video clip from the Pima County AZ court trial testimony of Bryan Crane. Bill Risner on redirect takes Crane apart over the slip of the finger on the computer mouse, bull manure story. -John Brakey Labels: Arizona election law, Bill Risner, Board of Supervisors, Bryan Crane, election fraud, election integrity, RTA, stolen election
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
We're too sexy for our flag...
Why Aren't Stolen Elections A Grassroots
Concern?
One of the things we find very disconcerting is how much attention is focused on throwing money to candidates in the elections, registering people to vote, getting out the vote, etc., but so little focus is on making sure that vote counts. Why is that? Is it because of how complex our system is, how unsexy election integrity is, that there are no "rock stars" or soundbite internet stars of the election integrity movement? Whatever the reason, you would think after the number of indictments, admissions, testimonies, etc. regarding election tampering--as well as statements under oath and passed polygraphs from people like Clint Curtis--that the activists and public at large would start to take this issue more seriously.
I hear complaints all the time about the 2000 and 2004 presidential election. If you recall, both years in the presidential election there was obvious fraud in Ohio and Florida because more people came out to vote in precincts than were even registered. Watching the results coming in live and comparing it to the Secretary of State's registered voter numbers, one could immediately see a huge fraud issue.
In Arizona, we have made ground-breaking progress that has ramifications for the rest of the country, yet trying to get the story out and connect the dots for people not only in the larger metro areas and Phoenix, but across the country is overwhelmingly difficult. I met so many wonderful activists at Netroots Nation this past week, yet when I started to talk about stolen elections, disenfranchisement, etc., the conversations quickly were diverted by disinterested activists who would rather make fun of McCain's latest geography gaffe or discuss Obama's hope meme than actually DO something to make sure our votes count. I didn't meet activists who actually knew of the group or groups in their states that have election integrity groups, with the exception of those already working with such groups like Election Defense Alliance. I can't tell you how discouraging that was.
We have a serious shortage both in the number of activists working on this issue in their states, and of funding. How do we get people involved? Activists will go to movies on the issue, like the Stealing America movie that was playing at NN. Yet what do they do when they leave the room? Do they sign up to be poll workers, find out of there is a local E.I. group in their state, donate to such a group, or just complain then move on?
Granted this was a bloggers' convention and bloggers are generally more talk than action oriented, but I even noticed this problem at true activist conventions. Would posting half naked men and women get people's attention enough to at least read some of the issues we are dealing with? It is frustrating.
I remember during the New Hampshire primaries this year how a number of prominent blogs on the left skewered anyone that suggested that there was fraud going on, even though statistical analysis showed the likelihood was favoring fraud and ballot boxes going home is always a serious breach of chain of custody. At the movie Uncounted that we sponsored here in Tucson, I met a man who was responsible for doing some analysis on the New Hampshire primaries which showed counties using Diebold went for Hillary and counties using the paper method breaking for Obama. Physicist David Griscom, one of our colleagues in the election integrity battle, wrote an excellent article on OpEd news regarding the same issue.
The prominent democratic bloggers, however, didn't want to hear about it because it involved two democrats, so the "bad guys" would be of their own party. There is the tendency for the conservatives to think only Democrats steal elections and Democrats to think only Republicans do when the reality is it is a nonpartisan issue and election fraud is less about party than control, corporate control, of our electoral processes.
Since the citizen win last month of the release of past database records from the Pima County elections going back to 1998, a witness has signed an affidavit stating that an elections official, Brian Crane, admitted the RTA election was flipped at the behest of his boss. The local media has already started a character assassination against the witness. Nonetheless, we will continue to pursue this fight. Attorney General Terry Goddard (D) was an obstructionist in the first investigation or rather the NON investigation and the citizens of the great state of Arizona deserve better. We deserve to have transparent, fair and fraud-free elections. Pima County Democratic Party attorney Bill Risner has mounted a great deal of evidence and wrote a letter to Attorney General Terry Goddard requesting a real investigation and that the ballots are not destroyed.
Labels: Arizona elections, Bill Risner, Bradblog, election defense alliance, election fraud, pima county election, Pima lawsuit, stealing america, stolen election
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Lecture, Discussion, & Book Signing - Friday, Feb. 23rd
Lecture, Discussion, & Book Signing with "Project Censored" Award Winning Author
"Was the 2004 presidential election stolen?
Exit polls, election fraud and the official count”
Watch an interview with Steven on KPBS about stolen elections.
“Freeman and Bleifuss document the final proof of the most monumental theft in American history”--ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
Freeman and Bleifuss shape the raw data into an image of all that the Founders warned us against.” --U.S. Representative JOHN CONYERS JR.
Friday, February 23 2007
6:30-9pm
Plumbers and Steamfitters Union Hall
2475 East Water Street
Suggested Contribution $10
Benefits Election Integrity Committee, Pima County Democratic Party
Co-Hosts:
Pima County Democratic Party
Antigone Books, 411 North 4th Avenue
UPDATE: We learned Election Integrity activist, attorney Paul Lehto will be joining Steven.
Labels: author, election fraud, John Conyers Jr, Project Censored, Robert Kennedy Jr, Steve Freeman, stolen election
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